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Seminars

16th June 2021: Chinese women in medicine and music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Dr Sarah Hellawell / June 2, 2021

Wednesday, 16th June 2021 at 4pm (UK) Join us for this exciting double-bill on Chinese women and their roles in medicine and music in the early twentieth century. ‘Space, Gender, and Medicine: Chinese Female Doctors in the Late Qing and…

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Women’s History Month: Women in 19th century colonial Hong Kong.

WHN / March 3, 2011

The colonial authorities of nineteenth century Hong Kong believed that the vast majority of the Chinese women residing in the colony were prostitutes.  For example, in 1878 Charles May, a member of the colonial government, testified to an inquiry into…

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The Women’s History Network is a national association and charity for the promotion of women’s history and the encouragement of everyone interested in women’s history. Following our establishment in 1991 we have grown year by year and today we are a UK national charity with members including working historians, researchers, independent scholars, teachers, librarians, and many other individuals both within academia and beyond. Indeed, the network reaches out to anyone...

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