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Bake, Bid, and Faire: The Victorian Folk Funeral on the Formosan Treaty Ports (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alsford, N. (2013, June). Bake, Bid, and Faire: The Victorian Folk Funeral on the Formosan Treaty Ports. Paper presented at 海港城市文化座談會, haigang chengshi wenhua zuotanhui [Symposium of Ports Culture], National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan

‘Thou Therefore Endure Hardness’: The Presbyterian Church of England (PCE) collections at SOAS and the establishment of a maritime medical mission in southern Taiwan (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alsford, N. (2013, June). ‘Thou Therefore Endure Hardness’: The Presbyterian Church of England (PCE) collections at SOAS and the establishment of a maritime medical mission in southern Taiwan. Paper presented at Reassessing Archives for East Asian Maritime History Symposium, The Institute for Taiwan History, Academia Sinica

A Fanzailou by the River Tamsui: One house many occupants (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alsford, N. (2013, May). A Fanzailou by the River Tamsui: One house many occupants. Paper presented at Tenth Annual Conference of the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS), University of Lyon

Imaging National Landscape: Yushan, modern myth and identity in post-war Taiwan (2012)
Book Chapter
Chang, B.-Y. (2012). Imaging National Landscape: Yushan, modern myth and identity in post-war Taiwan. In B.-Y. Chang, & H. Klöter (Eds.), Imaging and Imagining Taiwan: Identity representation and cultural politics (149-169). Harrassowitz Verlag . Wiesbaden

The chapter examines the construction of a national landscape and the invention of a mythical origin for the islanders. As part of Taiwan’s nation-building project, a campaign was launched in 2001 to popularise Yushan (the highest mountain in East As... Read More about Imaging National Landscape: Yushan, modern myth and identity in post-war Taiwan.

Imaging and Imagining Taiwan: Identity representation and cultural politics (2012)
Book
Chang, B.-Y., Klöter, H., Liao, H.-H. S., Morris, A., Birtwistle, A., Liu, J. C.-H., & Lee, A. (2012). B.-Y. Chang, & H. Klöter (Eds.). Imaging and Imagining Taiwan: Identity representation and cultural politics. Harrassowitz

Since the 1990s the issue of identity has been one of the most prominent and hotly-debated topics in Taiwan Studies. A rich corpus of literature has been produced in various fields in the attempt to address this problematic issue, examining questions... Read More about Imaging and Imagining Taiwan: Identity representation and cultural politics.

Religious dissent and the Aikin-Barbauld circle, 1740-1860 (2012)
Book
Inkster, I., & James, F. (Eds.). (2012). Religious dissent and the Aikin-Barbauld circle, 1740-1860. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511919282

Recent criticism is now fully appreciating the nuanced and complex contribution made by Dissenters to the culture and ideas of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Britain. This is the first sustained study of a Dissenting family - the Aikins -... Read More about Religious dissent and the Aikin-Barbauld circle, 1740-1860.