For more information on my PhD studies see:
Plus a list of my publications (with PDFs or web-links to those which have been published) can be found here:
I also share my research via: Academia
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These are some blog posts which focus on my research and related areas of interest:
On China:
The First British Embassy to China, 1793-1794 - Part I
British Artistic Impressions of Qing Dynasty China - Part II
Boxer Rebels & British Diplomats - Peking 1900
China - Between Revolutions
China & The Great War
May 4th - Star Wars & China
Red Fort at Tamsui
On Tibet:
Sex & Death - Tantric Buddhism in Tibet
1904 - Tibet's Marriage with Modernity
Finding Krishna in Tibet - Perceval Landon
Botanical Beginnings in the Sino-Tibetan Boderlands
Language & Landscape in West China & Tibet
Hyperbole Most Florid - Reginald Farrer & William Purdom
Exploring the Land of the Blue Poppy - Frank Kingdon-Ward & Tibet
Salween - Black River of Tibet: Ronald Kaulback & John Hanbury-Tracy
Frank Ludlow & George Sherriff's "Botanical Endeavours"
Betrayal in the High Himalaya - Sikkim & Tibet
Himalaya - The Heart of Eurasia
On Empire:
Confronting the Imperialist Elephant in the Room
Picturing the Past in Colonial Asia
Captain Tripe's Early Photographs of India & Burma
Peter Hopkirk - Historian of 'The Great Game'
Pomp & Circumstance - Struggling with Empire
'Other Everests' - A New Research Network
Sino-Tibetan Research Trip 2010:
Part I - China & Tibet - Through Western Eyes
Part II - Retracing Old Shanghai
Part III - From Shanghai to Kangding
Part IV - Kangding - Then & Now
Part V - The Tibetan Gompas of Old Tachienlu
Part VI - Butter Lamps & Modern Thangka
Part VII - Last Stands at Luding
Part VIII - Rinchen Lhamo - A Woman of Kham
Part IX - In Search of "Ci Ma Tang" (次馬堂)
Part X - Reflections on Travel & Research
Tangents & Diversions:
In Search of the "Hamilla Mitchell"
Unexpected Encounters with the Past
Cold Case - Kowloon-Canton Railway
Inside the Foreign Office
M.I.A. - Second World War Japanese 'Hold Outs'
Sino-Tibetan Research Trip 2010:
Part I - China & Tibet - Through Western Eyes
Part II - Retracing Old Shanghai
Part III - From Shanghai to Kangding
Part IV - Kangding - Then & Now
Part V - The Tibetan Gompas of Old Tachienlu
Part VI - Butter Lamps & Modern Thangka
Part VII - Last Stands at Luding
Part VIII - Rinchen Lhamo - A Woman of Kham
Part IX - In Search of "Ci Ma Tang" (次馬堂)
Part X - Reflections on Travel & Research
Tangents & Diversions:
In Search of the "Hamilla Mitchell"
Unexpected Encounters with the Past
Cold Case - Kowloon-Canton Railway
Inside the Foreign Office
M.I.A. - Second World War Japanese 'Hold Outs'
Onoda's War
Time's River - Reflections on a Research Trip
Following in E. H. Wilson's Footsteps - Yakushima
Time's River - Reflections on a Research Trip
Following in E. H. Wilson's Footsteps - Yakushima
Commentary:
Questioning the Future - As A Historical Paradox
Remembrance ...
The Sacred & The Profane
'Colonial Loot' & Modern Museums
Exiting the Impasse
Literary Excursions:
Book Reviews:
A Historical Atlas of Tibet, by Karl E. Ryavec (LSE Review of Books, 2015)
Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life, by Jie Li (LSE Review of Books, 2015)
The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China, edited by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom (LSE Review of Books, 2016)
The Age of Islands: In Search of New and Disappearing Islands, by Alastair Bonnett (Global Maritime History, 2020)
Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya, by Lachlan Fleetwood (The Alpine Journal, 2022) - also here
A Historical Atlas of Tibet, by Karl E. Ryavec (LSE Review of Books, 2015)
Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life, by Jie Li (LSE Review of Books, 2015)
The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China, edited by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom (LSE Review of Books, 2016)
The Age of Islands: In Search of New and Disappearing Islands, by Alastair Bonnett (Global Maritime History, 2020)
Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya, by Lachlan Fleetwood (The Alpine Journal, 2022) - also here
The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions, by Adam Kuper (LSE Review of Books, 2023)
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I have contributed to the Engaging Race Project (2020-2022), led by Dr Amy Matthewson, SOAS, University of London. I am also a part of the Other Everests Research Network (2021-2024), led by Dr Jonathan Westaway (University of Central Lancashire) & Dr Paul Gilchrist (University of Brighton).