GNCS Special Issue Launch Event Recording

In April, the SGNCS held a virtual launch of 'Symbiotic Empires: Britain and East Asia in the Long Nineteenth Century', a special issue of Global Nineteenth-Century Studies. Chaired by Klaudia Lee (City University of Hong Kong), this event included some of the contributors who discussed their work in conversation with Ross Forman (University of Warwick) and John Gilmore (University of Warwick).

Special issue contributors:

Britain and East Asia in the Long Nineteenth Century

Di Cotofan Wu and Aaron Eames

Beyond Imperial Narratives: The Silk Scroll Portrait of Queen Victoria in the Context of the Sino-British Opium Wars (1839–1860)

Di Cotofan Wu

‘Old Blue Mania’: Chinese Blue-and-White Porcelains in the Aesthetic ‘House Beautiful’ c. 1860-1900 – Cosmopolitanism and Appropriation

Anne Anderson

The Orient Seen Through Imperialist Eyes: British Landscape Imagery of Korea in the 1880s-1910s

Jess Jiyun Son

Banzai for Oscar Wilde: Hiroshi Hirai’s Letters to Robert Harborough Sherard

Aaron Eames

Pirating the Archive: Timothy Mo’s Opium History, Oceanic Orientalism, and Print Cargo at Sea    

Caitlin Vandertop

A recording of the event is now available:

https://cityu.zoom.us/clips/share/AbZBMI9eSm6kpdwfO-FU9w