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Tag Archives: Lockdown project

Looking for Chan Ching Yau

Posted on 8 July 2020 by robertbickers

Over on Historians at Bristol I’ve posted a short note on my search for the University of Bristol’s first Chinese graduate. It took me to Paris, New York, Beijing, and back to Bristol, or, to be precise, Horfield.

Looking for Chan Ching Yau: the first Chinese undergraduate at Bristol

Posted in China in Britain, Elsewhere on the net, Out of China, Shanghai / Tagged Chinese history, Lockdown project

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