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LADDS, Catherine 李嘉鈴博士
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Associate Director, Modern History Research Centre
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PhD, University of Bristol,
MA, BA University of York. |
Tel: (852) 3411 6430
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Email: cladds@hkbu.edu.hk |
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RESEARCH FOCUS |
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Social, Cultural, and Political History of Colonialism;
The Chinese treaty ports;
The British Empire in Asia;
History of Expatriate and Settler Communities. |
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CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS |
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‘Children of Empire: The History of Eurasians in China, Hong Kong, and Britain, c. 1830-1960,’ supported by an ECS grant. |
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‘Marginal People in Liminal Places: Non-Elite Europeans in Colonial-Era East Asian Port Cities,’ supported by a GRF grant. |
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS |
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A. BOOKS |
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Empire Careers: Working for the Chinese Customs Service, 1854-1949. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. |
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B. ARTICLES AND ESSAYS |
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‘Charles Mason, the “King of China”: British Imperial Adventuring in the Late Nineteenth Century.’ Historical Research. 90:249 (August 2017), 567-590. |
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‘Foreign Communities in the Treaty Ports: The Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-2’ and ‘Foreign Communities in China, 1930-48: War, Revolution, and the Western Retreat from China.’ Introduction to Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1948. Marlborough: Adam Matthew Digital, 2013-2014. |
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‘“Youthful, likely men, who can read, write and count”: Joining the foreign staff of the Chinese Customs Service, 1854-1927.’ The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. 36:2 (2008), 227-242. |
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‘“The Life Career of us all”: Britons and Germans in the Chinese Customs Service, 1854-1917.’ Berliner China-Hefte: Chinese History and Society. 33 (2008), 34-53. |
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C. CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES |
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‘Eurasians in treaty-port China: Journeys across racial and imperial frontiers,’ in Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters in Asia and the Pacific, edited by Jacqueline Leckie, Angela McCarthy, Angela Wanhalla. Abingdon: Routledge, 2016. 19-35. |
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‘Imperial Ambitions: Russians, Britons, and the Politics of Nationality in the Chinese Customs Service, 1890-1937,’ in Russia and its Northeast Asian Neighbors: China, Japan, and Korea, 1858-1945, edited by Kimitaka Matsuzato. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016. 33-48. |
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‘ePortfolios and History Teaching: Supporting the Development of Information Literacy and Research Skills,’ in Tushar Chaudhuri and Beatrice Cabau (eds)., Implementing Student e-Portfolios in Higher Education: A Transdisciplinary Perspective (Springer, 2017). |
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D. SHORTER WORKS |
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‘China and Treaty Port Imperialism,’ in The Encyclopedia of Empire, edited by John MacKenzie. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. |
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‘A Customs officer in the treaty port world: R.F.C. Hedgeland’s photographs.’ International Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter. 44 (Feb 2008). |
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‘The World of the Chinese Maritime Customs.’ In Robert Bickers, Catherine Ladds, Jamie Carstairs and Yee Wah Foo, Picturing China 1870-1950: Photographs from British Collections. Bristol: Chinese Maritime Customs Project Occasional Papers, No. 1, 2007. |
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