Dr ISABELLA JACKSON
Helen Bruce Lectureship
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+44 (0)1224 273676
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isabella.jackson@abdn.ac.uk
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Room 102, Crombie Annexe
Helen Bruce Lectureship
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Biography
I studied for a BA and MA in History at the University of Bristol, an MPhil in Modern Chinese Studies at the University of Oxford, and a PhD in History back at Bristol. My PhD Dissertation, 'Managing Shanghai: the International Settlement Administration and the Development of the City, 1900-1943' was awarded the Faculty of Arts Research Prize. I am currently working this up into a monograph.
I taught at the Institute for Chinese Studies at the University of Oxford as Departmental Lecturer in Modern Chinese Politics and Society from September 2011 to August 2012, after which I moved to Aberdeen to take up my current post.
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Research Interests
I research the modern history of China and the global and regional networks that shaped the treaty ports, which were opened to foreign traders by force, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I have focused in particular on the International Settlement at the heart of Shanghai, looking at the international form of colonialism in practice there and how it functioned on the ground in the form of the Shanghai Municipal Council; the interconnections between China and the British World, especially India, through my work on the Sikh policemen who worked in the Settlement; the evolving Chinese perspectives on and representations of the foreign presence in Shanghai, demonstrating the ways in which political authorities appropriate the past to serve conflicting aims; and social reform in late Qing and early Republican China.
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Current Research
- Managing Shanghai: The International Settlement administration and the development of the city, 1900-1943
- Child Slavery in the Twentieth Century: Mui Tsai and the significance of a humanitarian controversy in and beyond China
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Teaching Responsibilities
HI 4105 Special Subject: Roaring Shanghai: 'The Paris of the East' in the 1920s
HI 354R: Communists, Capitalists and Colonialists: Republican China, 1911-1949
Undergraduate Dissertation supervision
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External Responsibilities
Director, BICC Chinese Urban Studies Network (Funded by the AHRC)
Council member, British Association for Chinese Studies
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Admin Responsibilities
Library representative for the Department of History
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Publications
Contributions to Journals
Articles
- Jackson, I. (2012). 'The Raj on Nanjing Road: Sikh Policemen in Treaty-Port Shanghai'. Modern Asian Studies, vol 46, no. 6, pp. 1672-1704.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings
Chapters
- Jackson, IE. 'Boundaries, Borders and Barricades: The Defence of the Shanghai International Settlement'. R Bickers & J Howlett (eds), in: Britain and China 1840-1970: Empire, Finance and War. Routledge.
Books and Reports
Books
- Jackson, IE. & Bickers, R. (eds) 'Treaty Ports in Modern China: Law, Land and Power'. Routledge.
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