Because my son has been interested in hockey for some years now, I have found myself wondering what the history of hockey looks like in China. Today hockey culture in China is highly elitist, largely restricted to extremely well-to-do families in metropolitan cities such as Shanghai and Beijing, in part because of the cost in training, equipment, and travel for games.  When did hockey first come to China, and how was it played? Besides the connection with my son, there was a

Where students chose to place their characters for the first generation on Padlet From 2018 to 2025, I taught a survey course on Modern China with a semester-long assignment with a fictive "family history" component. The assignment was designed to bring to life for students how history was experienced from a local and bottom-up perspective. At the beginning of the semester, each student draws an identity card which assigns a social/ethnic class (peasantry, gentry, merchants,

Originally published October 23, 2020 on Visualizing China https://hpchina.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2020/10/23/visualizing-qing-diplomats-in-the-west/