Catherine LADDS 李嘉鈴 (Early Career Fellow)
Fields of Study:
Social, Cultural, and Political History of Colonialism; The Chinese treaty ports; The British Empire in Asia; History of Expatriate and Settler Communities
Profile:
Christine Ladds is Associate Professor at the Department of History and Associate Director at the Modern History Research Centre at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Ladds received her PhD in history from the University of Bristol. She works on the history of colonialism in Asia, with a particular focus on how China was incorporated into broader imperial networks. Her book, Empire Careers: Working for the Chinese Customs Service, is published by Manchester University Press and received the HKAH’s inaugural First Book Prize in 2015.
Current research projects:
‘Children of Empire: The History of Eurasians in China, Hong Kong, and Britain, c. 1830-1960,’ supported by an ECS grant.
‘Marginal People in Liminal Places: Non-Elite Europeans in Colonial-Era East Asian Port Cities,’ supported by a GRF grant.
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