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Authored Books

2010

Professor Frank Dikötter published Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, with Bloomsbury and Walker Books

Professor Xu Guoqi published Fusions of Civilizations: Chinese laborers in France during the Great War and their role in China's search for Internationalization (Harvard University Press, 2010)

2009
Dr. Mark Frost published Singapore: A Biography with Hong Kong University Press and Singapore Didier Millet Press


Journal Articles

2010
Dr, Bert Becker, "Coastal Shipping in East Asia in the Nineteenth Century", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Hong Kong Branch, vol. 50, 2010, pp. 245-302.

Dr. Marie-Paule Ha, "Double Trouble: Doing Gender in Hong Kong" in Comparatively Queer: Interrogating Identities Across Time and Cultures. Eds. Jarrod Hayes, Margaret Higonnet, and William Spurlin, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 131-152.

Dr. Priscilla Roberts, “Commentary in “Forum: Mao, Khrushchev, and China’s Split with the USSR: Perspectives on The Sino-Soviet Split.”  Journal of Cold War Studies 12:1 (Winter 2010), pp. 120-128.

2009
Professor John Carroll, "A National Custom: Debating Female Servitude in Late Nineteenth-Century Hong Kong," Modern Asian Studies 43.6 (November 2009), pp. 1463-93.

Dr. Charles Schencking, "The Catastrophe One Confronted in Post Earthquake Japan: Tokyo as a Devastated War and Occupation Zone, 1923." Japanese Studies 29:1 (May 2009).


Edited Books


Chapters in Edited Volumes

2010
Dr. Peter Cunich, 'The Brothers of Syon, 1420-1695', in E. A. Jones & Alexandra Walsham (eds.), Syon Abbey and its Books: Reading, Writing and Religion, c.1400-1700 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2010), pp. 39-81.

2009
Professor John Carroll, "A Historical Perspective: The 1967 Riots and the Strike-Boycott of 1925-1926," in Ray Yep and Robert Bickers, eds., May Days in Hong Kong: The 1967 Riots (Hong Kong University Press, 2009), pp. 69-86.

Dr. Peter Cunich, 'Y.M.C.A. Chaplains and the Chinese Labourers on the Western Front', 1917-18', in Zhang Jianguo (ed.), Chinese Labourers and the First World War (Weihai: Shandong University Press, 2009), pp. 155-177.

Professor Frank Dikötter, 'Objects and agency: Material culture and modernity in China' in Karen Harvey (ed.), History and material culture, (London: Routledge, 2009), pp. 158-172.

Dr. Mark Frost, "That great ocean of idealism: the Tagore circle and the idea of Asia, 1900-1920," in Indian Ocean Studies: cultural, social and political perspectives , ed. Ashraf Jamal & Shanty Moorthy (New York: Routledge, 2009)

Dr. Mark Frost, "To Durban via Singapore and other colonial port-cities: an historical journey across the Indian Ocean in search of cosmopolitanism, 1869-1919," in Eyes across the water: Navigating the Indian Ocean , ed. Pamila Gupta, Isabel Hofmeyr, Michael Pearson (New Delhi: Penguin, 2009)

Dr. Mark Frost, "The making of the Singapore History Gallery: Some personal reflections," in The Past in the Present: Histories in the Making (Singapore: National Heritage Board, 2009).

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