Education
Candidate for PhD in History,
Bristol University, 2008-2011.
Supervisor: Professor Robert Bickers
Thesis title: ‘‘Liquidating’ Britain
in China; Ten Years of
Chinese Nationalism and the End of the British Presence in China (1945-55).’
MPhil Modern Chinese Studies with Distinction, St Cross College, Oxford
University, 2006 - 2008
Supervisor: Doctor Rana Mitter
Dissertation title: ‘The Chinese Maritime Customs and the
Chinese Civil War; The End of the Customs.’
MA Colonialism in History with Distinction, Bristol
University, 2006
Supervisor: Professor Robert Bickers
Dissertation title: ‘The British Community in Beijing (1920-1937).’
BA History with First Class Honours, Bristol
University, 2005
Supervisor: Professor Robert Bickers
Thesis title: ‘Andrew Condron; The Only British Prisoner of
War to Refuse Repatriation at the End of the Korean War.’
Funding Awards
2006 Awarded BICC Five Year Studentship for MPhil
Modern Chinese Studies at Oxford University and PhD study at Bristol University
2006 Awarded three years PhD funding from AHRC
(Declined)
2006 Awarded three years PhD funding from Bristol University (Declined)
Research Interests
Jonathan’s research focuses on the foreign, especially
British, presence in China
in the first half of the 20th Century. His current research is
an examination of the demise of the British presence in China through a
decade of Chinese nationalism and anti-imperialism, 1945-55. His previous research has focused on other
aspects of the British experience in China, including; the collapse of the
foreign-dominated Chinese Maritime Customs Service in 1949; the foreign
community in Beijing in the 1920s and 1930s; and a biographical account of
Korean War POW ‘defector’ Andrew Condron’s decision to remain with his captors
in early Communist China rather than return to his native
Scotland.
Publications
‘欧洲；政治上的误解多过同情,’
南部周刊，南京大屠杀在西方，12月，14日，第178期。
Conference
Papers
‘The End of ‘Britain in China;’
Reassessing the Ejection of British Interests by the CCP,’ China Postgraduate Network Conference, April 2009.
‘The Chinese Maritime Customs and the Chinese Civil War; The End of
the Customs,’ China Postgraduate Network Re-launch Conference, March 2008.
‘The British Community in Beijing
(1920-1937),’ Britain in China Workshop, University of Bristol, February 2007.