cnathankwan@um.edu.mo
Tel
(853) 8822 8912
Office
E21-2033
Consultation Hours
Mondays and Tuesdays
14:00 – 15:00
C. Nathan KWAN
關正衍
Education
- Ph.D, History (HKU) and War Studies (KCL), University of Hong Kong and King’s College London (2020)
- AM, Regional Studies – East Asia, Harvard University (2015)
- B.S., Psychology and B.A., Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin (2013)
Research Interests
- International relations of the Canton Delta
- Maritime history
- European empires in Asia
- Late imperial China
- Piracy in the South China Sea
- Co-Director, Problem of Piracy Network
- ‘”Putting down a common enemy”: Piracy and occasional interstate power in South China during the mid-nineteenth century’, International Journal of Maritime History 32, no. 3 (2020), 697-712.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0843871420944629 - ‘In the Business of Piracy: Entrepreneurial Women among Chinese Pirates in the Mid-Nineteenth Century’, in Female Entrepreneurs in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Global Perspective, eds. Catherine Bishop and Jennifer Aston (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2020), 195-218.
- ‘”Barbarian Ships Sail Freely about the Seas”: Qing Reactions to the British Suppression of Piracy in South China, 1841-1856’, Asian Review of World Histories 8 (2020), 83-102.
https://brill.com/view/journals/arwh/8/1/article-p83_6.xml