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Britain and China, pasts, presents, and futures, from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first
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British Inter-university China Centre
Britain and China, pasts, presents and futures, from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first
University of Bristol, 24th-26th August 2011
For nearly a century China’s relationship with Britain and its empire was politically its most important, setting the agenda, for good and for ill, for its relations with other powers. Chinese and Britons encountered each other in the Chinese treaty ports like Shanghai or Tianjin, in the colony of Hong Kong, in port cities across the British empire, in rural Australia and urban Canada, and in London’s Limehouse. They encountered each other on battlefields and in brothels, in chapels and in clinics, in factories and on steamships. Very large numbers of Britons visited or worked in China sometimes for very long periods, some for several generations. Major British trading firms and financial institutions which emerged in the nineteenth century still play key roles today in East Asia. And Chinese students came to British universities. Chinese Merchants lived and traded in British empire cities. British Chinese fortunes helped reshape the Scottish landscape as opium traders returned and bought estates. Chinese-Australian entrepreneurs and others reshaped Chinese cities. The legacies of this complex set of relationships, overshadowed as the twentieth century progressed by China’s relations with Japan, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., have nonetheless been long lasting.
Convened by the British Inter-university China Centre This conference will assess that relationship and its legacy today. It will explore the diplomatic and politic relationship between the British and Chinese states, but is concerned equally centrally with the encounters over two centuries between Britons and Chinese, and between British and Chinese culture. It will also explore the current and potential future course of Sino-British relations, and the place of this history within that. And more than ever before, many thousands of Chinese and British nationals live in each others’ countries, fashioning a new set of relationships between the two cultures and societies. Academic interest in the wide history of such Sino-British encounters has been growing over the last decade. This conference will bring together this new and developing scholarship, and map out new agendas for understanding the often brittle relationship between Britons and Chinese.
Please see the provisional programme below. The programme is subject to final confirmation.
Britain and China: Past, present and future’: Provisional programme, 25th July 2011
Venue: Faculty of Arts, University of Bristol, 3-5 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TB
Please note that there will be no conference activity on 23rd August. The lecture, reception and informal dinner previously planned for this date will not take place.
Wednesday 24th August
9.00 Registration and welcome
9.30 Panel 1: Canton and the British
John Carroll, Hong Kong University, ‘The British and Pre‐Opium War Canton’
Songchuan Chen, University of Bristol, ‘Canton in the British Maritime Public Sphere, 1827‐1842’
Shunhong Zhang, CASS, Institute of World History, ‘British perceptions of China and the Opium War’
11.00 Break
11.20 Panel 2: Chinese Labour and British Empire
Rachel Bright, London School of Economics, ‘The “yellow stain” upon “Britain’s honour” and Chinese Empowerment, 1904‐6’
Ben Mountford, University of Oxford, ‘The Open Door Swings Both Ways: The Chinese Question in Australia as an Imperial Problem.’
Paul Bailey, University of Durham, ‘Chinese Labour Corps’
12.50 Lunch
2.00 Keynote 1: Robert Bickers, University of Bristol
3.00 Break
3.30 Parallel sessions 1:
Panel 3a: Wartime and after
Tom Buchanan, University of Oxford, ‘“Shanghai‐Madrid Axis”? Comparing British responses to the conflicts in Spain and China, 1936‐1939’
Sherman Lai, University of Oxford, ‘Nationalistic Enthusiasm versus Imperialist Sophistication: Britain in Chiang Kai‐shek’s Perspective’
Lily Chang, University of Oxford, ‘The Legal Construction of Childhood: Adjudicating Juvenile Offenders in Wartime China, 1931‐1945’
Tehyun Ma, University of Oxford, ‘Rethinking China: the British influence on transnational welfare’
Panel 3b: Conflicting Stories: Narrating Anglo‐Chinese Contact through War and Witness
Elizabeth Chang, University of Missouri, ‘Writing the British Empire on the Imperial Frontier’
Ross Forman, University of Warwick, ‘China Sent Reeling: The Boxer Rebellion, Early Film, and British Imperialism, 1900‐1910’
Jacqueline Young, University of Glasgow, ‘Seeing Ghosts: Putnam Weale and the 1911 Republican Revolution’
Ann Witchard, University of Westminster, ‘Lao She, London and China’s Literary Revolution’
5.45 Keynote 2: Hans van de Ven, University of Cambridge
6.45 Reception
8.00 Conference dinner
Thursday 25th August
8.30 Coffee
9.00‐10.30 Panel 4: Britain, Empire, China
Koji Hirata, Stanford University, ‘The Sino‐British Relations in Railway Construction: the Modernising State, Foreign Interests and Local Elites, 1905‐1911’
Isabella Jackson, University of Bristol, '"Good Fences Make Good Neighbours": Expansion and Defence in the International Settlement at Shanghai'
Jeremy Taylor, University of Sheffield, 'Commercial Hokkien Entertainment in British Southeast Asia, 1948-1963'
10.30 Break
11.00 Parallel sessions 2
Panel 5a: Cultural relations
Sarah Cheang, University of the Arts, London, ‘Bodies, Fashion, China and Britain, 1890‐1930’
Michelle Huang, University of Hong Kong. Anglo‐Chinese Cultural Exchanges: The Connection between Chinese Artists and British Curators in the 1920s and 1930s ‘
Diana Yeh, Keele University, ‘Entangled Identities: Britain, China and the Politics of Performing Chineseness in Britain, 1930s–1950s’
Panel 5b: Britain, China, and the Cold war
David Devereux, Canisius College, ‘Taming the Tiger: British perceptions of the Chinese Threat to East Asia, 1949‐65’
Beverley Hooper, University of Sheffield, ‘Cold War lives: The British diplomatic community under Mao’
Jon Howlett, University of Bristol, ‘Radicalism Restrained; the Chinese Communist Party and the end of the British presence in Shanghai 1949‐1956’
12.30 Lunch
1.30 Keynote 3 Chen Qianping, Nanjing University
3.00‐4.30 Panel 6: Late colonial Hong Kong
Tai‐lok Lui, University of Hong Kong, ‘Mind the Gap: Managing Political Inclusion in Hong Kong in the 1970s’
Tak‐wing Ngo, University of Macau/Erasmus University, ‘Rotterdam, The Fabrication of Hong Kong’s Politico‐Industrial Elite in the 1970s’
Ray Yep, City University of Hong Kong, ‘Tackling Corruption: The Turbulent Days for ICAC in the 1970s’
4.30 Round table
Friday 26th August
9.30 ‘Visualising China’ project presentation and Q & A
10.30 Coffee
11.00 Roundtable: China and Britain today: Diplomacy and politics
Jointly organised by BICC & Royal Institute of International Affairs
Chair: Dr Kerry Brown, Head of the Asia Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House
Nick Dean, Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Su Hsing Loh, Fudan University, and Associate Fellow of the Asia Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House
Peter Wood, Independent China Strategy consultant
Rod Wye, Associate Fellow, RIIA, formerly FCO
Zhu Hong, Director of the Institute of European Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
12.50 Lunch
2.00 Roundtable: China and Britain today: Mutual understandings
Chair: Professor Rana Mitter, University of Oxford
Jasper Becker, writer and journalist
Duncan Hewitt, Newsweek
Professor Frank Pieke, Professor of Chinese Studies, Leiden University, and former Director, BICC
4.00 End
British Inter-university China Centre
Britain and China, pasts, presents and futures, from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first
University of Bristol, 24th-26th August 2011
For nearly a century China’s relationship with Britain and its empire was politically its most important, setting the agenda, for good and for ill, for its relations with other powers. Chinese and Britons encountered each other in the Chinese treaty ports like Shanghai or Tianjin, in the colony of Hong Kong, in port cities across the British empire, in rural Australia and urban Canada, and in London’s Limehouse. They encountered each other on battlefields and in brothels, in chapels and in clinics, in factories and on steamships. Very large numbers of Britons visited or worked in China sometimes for very long periods, some for several generations. Major British trading firms and financial institutions which emerged in the nineteenth century still play key roles today in East Asia. And Chinese students came to British universities. Chinese Merchants lived and traded in British empire cities. British Chinese fortunes helped reshape the Scottish landscape as opium traders returned and bought estates. Chinese-Australian entrepreneurs and others reshaped Chinese cities. The legacies of this complex set of relationships, overshadowed as the twentieth century progressed by China’s relations with Japan, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., have nonetheless been long lasting.
Convened by the British Inter-university China Centre This conference will assess that relationship and its legacy today. It will explore the diplomatic and politic relationship between the British and Chinese states, but is concerned equally centrally with the encounters over two centuries between Britons and Chinese, and between British and Chinese culture. It will also explore the current and potential future course of Sino-British relations, and the place of this history within that. And more than ever before, many thousands of Chinese and British nationals live in each others’ countries, fashioning a new set of relationships between the two cultures and societies. Academic interest in the wide history of such Sino-British encounters has been growing over the last decade. This conference will bring together this new and developing scholarship, and map out new agendas for understanding the often brittle relationship between Britons and Chinese.
Please see the provisional programme below. The programme is subject to final confirmation.
Britain and China: Past, present and future’: Provisional programme, 25th July 2011
Venue: Faculty of Arts, University of Bristol, 3-5 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TB
Please note that there will be no conference activity on 23rd August. The lecture, reception and informal dinner previously planned for this date will not take place.
Wednesday 24th August
9.00 Registration and welcome
9.30 Panel 1: Canton and the British
John Carroll, Hong Kong University, ‘The British and Pre‐Opium War Canton’
Songchuan Chen, University of Bristol, ‘Canton in the British Maritime Public Sphere, 1827‐1842’
Shunhong Zhang, CASS, Institute of World History, ‘British perceptions of China and the Opium War’
11.00 Break
11.20 Panel 2: Chinese Labour and British Empire
Rachel Bright, London School of Economics, ‘The “yellow stain” upon “Britain’s honour” and Chinese Empowerment, 1904‐6’
Ben Mountford, University of Oxford, ‘The Open Door Swings Both Ways: The Chinese Question in Australia as an Imperial Problem.’
Paul Bailey, University of Durham, ‘Chinese Labour Corps’
12.50 Lunch
2.00 Keynote 1: Robert Bickers, University of Bristol
3.00 Break
3.30 Parallel sessions 1:
Panel 3a: Wartime and after
Tom Buchanan, University of Oxford, ‘“Shanghai‐Madrid Axis”? Comparing British responses to the conflicts in Spain and China, 1936‐1939’
Sherman Lai, University of Oxford, ‘Nationalistic Enthusiasm versus Imperialist Sophistication: Britain in Chiang Kai‐shek’s Perspective’
Lily Chang, University of Oxford, ‘The Legal Construction of Childhood: Adjudicating Juvenile Offenders in Wartime China, 1931‐1945’
Tehyun Ma, University of Oxford, ‘Rethinking China: the British influence on transnational welfare’
Panel 3b: Conflicting Stories: Narrating Anglo‐Chinese Contact through War and Witness
Elizabeth Chang, University of Missouri, ‘Writing the British Empire on the Imperial Frontier’
Ross Forman, University of Warwick, ‘China Sent Reeling: The Boxer Rebellion, Early Film, and British Imperialism, 1900‐1910’
Jacqueline Young, University of Glasgow, ‘Seeing Ghosts: Putnam Weale and the 1911 Republican Revolution’
Ann Witchard, University of Westminster, ‘Lao She, London and China’s Literary Revolution’
5.45 Keynote 2: Hans van de Ven, University of Cambridge
6.45 Reception
8.00 Conference dinner
Thursday 25th August
8.30 Coffee
9.00‐10.30 Panel 4: Britain, Empire, China
Koji Hirata, Stanford University, ‘The Sino‐British Relations in Railway Construction: the Modernising State, Foreign Interests and Local Elites, 1905‐1911’
Isabella Jackson, University of Bristol, '"Good Fences Make Good Neighbours": Expansion and Defence in the International Settlement at Shanghai'
Jeremy Taylor, University of Sheffield, 'Commercial Hokkien Entertainment in British Southeast Asia, 1948-1963'
10.30 Break
11.00 Parallel sessions 2
Panel 5a: Cultural relations
Sarah Cheang, University of the Arts, London, ‘Bodies, Fashion, China and Britain, 1890‐1930’
Michelle Huang, University of Hong Kong. Anglo‐Chinese Cultural Exchanges: The Connection between Chinese Artists and British Curators in the 1920s and 1930s ‘
Diana Yeh, Keele University, ‘Entangled Identities: Britain, China and the Politics of Performing Chineseness in Britain, 1930s–1950s’
Panel 5b: Britain, China, and the Cold war
David Devereux, Canisius College, ‘Taming the Tiger: British perceptions of the Chinese Threat to East Asia, 1949‐65’
Beverley Hooper, University of Sheffield, ‘Cold War lives: The British diplomatic community under Mao’
Jon Howlett, University of Bristol, ‘Radicalism Restrained; the Chinese Communist Party and the end of the British presence in Shanghai 1949‐1956’
12.30 Lunch
1.30 Keynote 3 Chen Qianping, Nanjing University
3.00‐4.30 Panel 6: Late colonial Hong Kong
Tai‐lok Lui, University of Hong Kong, ‘Mind the Gap: Managing Political Inclusion in Hong Kong in the 1970s’
Tak‐wing Ngo, University of Macau/Erasmus University, ‘Rotterdam, The Fabrication of Hong Kong’s Politico‐Industrial Elite in the 1970s’
Ray Yep, City University of Hong Kong, ‘Tackling Corruption: The Turbulent Days for ICAC in the 1970s’
4.30 Round table
Friday 26th August
9.30 ‘Visualising China’ project presentation and Q & A
10.30 Coffee
11.00 Roundtable: China and Britain today: Diplomacy and politics
Jointly organised by BICC & Royal Institute of International Affairs
Chair: Dr Kerry Brown, Head of the Asia Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House
Nick Dean, Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Su Hsing Loh, Fudan University, and Associate Fellow of the Asia Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House
Peter Wood, Independent China Strategy consultant
Rod Wye, Associate Fellow, RIIA, formerly FCO
Zhu Hong, Director of the Institute of European Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
12.50 Lunch
2.00 Roundtable: China and Britain today: Mutual understandings
Chair: Professor Rana Mitter, University of Oxford
Jasper Becker, writer and journalist
Duncan Hewitt, Newsweek
Professor Frank Pieke, Professor of Chinese Studies, Leiden University, and former Director, BICC
4.00 End
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