Treaty port China and its legacies, 1842-1999

这个项目调查了“条约港”世界，即1842年中英南京条约后在中国建立的外国居住地网络，大部分在1943年后拆除，但以香港和澳门的形式幸存下来。这项研究将基于中国仍在开放的新档案，但也可以在国际上获得，整理它们以完成一本书，“中国的国际化”。这项工作将位于，并将有助于，发展辩论重新审视身份和社区的问题，在英国和其他帝国的正式和非正式的世界，以及殖民主义的历史地理。它还将参与围绕中国国际化的辩论，中国的经验仍然经常被不加批判地认为是一个世纪的“民族融合”，以及今天中国对这个世界主义过去的模糊态度。

This project surveys the 'treaty port' world, the network of outposts of foreign residence established in China in the aftermath of the 1842 Sino-British treaty of Nanjing, mostly dismantled after 1943, but surviving down to the 1990s in the shape of the territories of Hong Kong and Macao. The research will be based on the new archives still opening up in China, but also available internationally, collating them to complete a book, 'The Internationalisaiton of China'. The work will be located in, and will contribute to, developing debates revisiting questions of identity and community in the formal and informal world of British and other empire, and historical geographies of colonialism. It will also engage with debates surrounding the internationalisation of China, China's experience of what is still often conceived of uncritically as a century of 'national humiliation', and ambiguous attitudes in China today towards this cosmopolitan past.