Researching Modern Chinese History
BICC/AHRC Workshop
Burwalls Conference Centre
University of Bristol
3-4 February 2007
3rd February, The Chinese Maritime Customs, history and resources
Session 1: Papers, 11-12.30
Chair, Dr Jeremy Taylor (Sheffield)
Catherine Ladds (Bristol)
‘Youthful, likely men, able to read, write and count’: Joining the Foreign Staff of the Chinese Customs Service, 1854-1927’
Felix Böcking (Cambridge)
'Guomindang Tariff Policy Reconsidered--Some Aspects of the Nationalist Take-Over of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service 1927-1937'
Session 2: Research proposals & research in progress, 1.30-2.15
Chair, Professor Robert Bickers (Bristol)
Stacie Kent (Chicago)
"Forging Free Trade in China: building transparency, equivalence and calculability."
John Liem (Bristol)
‘The Customs Shanghai River Police’
Session 3: Papers
Chair Dr Rana Mitter (Oxford), 2.15-3.45
Dr Chen Yu (ARI, National University of Singapore)
"Conflicts and Compromises in Housing Foreigners on China's Soil: A Glimpse at Xiamen Maritime Customs' Residence on Gulangyu (1862~1949)"
Dr Weipin Tsai (Bristol)
‘Revisiting the Chinese Maritime Customs: new light from the No. 2 archives - the Chinese Native Customs’.
Session 4: Research proposals & research in progress, 4.00-4.45
Chair, Professor Robert Bickers (Bristol)
Ben White (Oxford)
'The Staff Investigation Committee and the place of foreigners in the Customs after World War Two'
Chih-yun Chang (Bristol)
‘Chinese staff in the Maritime Customs, 1908-1957’
Session 5: Dr Richard O’Leary (Queen’s University, Belfast) 4.45
‘Archives relating to the Chinese Customs at Queen’s University, Belfast’
Discussion: Professor Niu Dayong and Dr Rana Mitter,
‘Current research and historiography in China’
4th February, Shanghai and elsewhere
Session 6: Research in progress, 9.30-11
Chair, Dr Federica Ferlanti (Venezia)
Jon Howlett (BICC: Oxford, Bristol)
'The British Community in Beijing 1920-1937'
Isabella Jackson (BICC: Oxford, Bristol)
‘The Sikh police in Shanghai’
Toby Lincoln (Oxford)
‘Changes in Time and Space: aspects of material culture in rural and urban Jiangsu’
Session 7: Research in progress, 11.15-12.45
Chair, Professor Niu Dayong牛大勇(Peking University)
Jocelyn Chatterton (SOAS)
“Protestant Medical Missionaries during the War of Resistance, 1937 – 1945 -- archival work in progress”
Jim Williams (Bristol)
'Corruption in the Chinese Maritime Customs Service’
Dr Jolan Yi (Cambridge)
"Xu Tian-xiao 徐天嘯and His Shenzhou Nüzi Xinshi神州女子新史"
Session 8a: Archives and resources, 2-3.30
Jamie Carstairs (Bristol)
‘Historical photographs of China’
Zhu Rong朱榕 (Shanghai Municipal Archives)
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