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Project Team and Associates

• Robert Bickers (Robert.Bickers@bristol.ac.uk), Project Director (Bristol), researching the British concession.
• Jamie Carstairs (Jamie.Carstairs@bristol.ac.uk) is a photographer working with the Project team, and developing the Virtual Tianjin initiative.  He digitally re-photographs old photographs and adds metadata.
• Songchuan Chen's (Songchuan.Chen@bristol.ac.uk) main research topic concerns the strategies adopted by successive Chinese administrations in Tianjin to manage the threat posed by the foreign zones. He is also interested in how Chinese individuals and groups used the concession zones in Tianjin to their own advantage, and as a place of asylum from civil unrest. He is responsible for the Chinese Tianjin and Japanese Concession
• Professor Nicola Cooper (N.Cooper@swansea.ac.uk), Project Director (Swansea), is a cultural historian who has worked on colonialism and postcolonialism, and war and conflict. Her work has engaged principally with French imperial ideologies, and more specifically with the areas of Indochina and Algeria. She has a particular interest in the military. In terms of the current project, she is responsible for the French and Belgian concessions, to determine congruences and divergences in colonial and concession practice.
• Alan Crawford (Alan.Crawford@bristol.ac.uk) is a Postgraduate Research Student at the University of Bristol. He is researching a doctoral thesis on the Russian concession in Tianjin and the Russian presence in the city up to the end of the Second World War.
• Aglaia De Angeli (Aglaia.deAngeli@bristol.ac.uk)  works on the Italian and French Concessions in Tianjin. She is an historian of the Republic of China and mainly specializes in social and law history. She is now lecturer in Chinese history at Newcastle University.
• Cord Eberspächer (Cord.Eberspaecher@bristol.ac.uk) is responsible for the German side of the project. His major task is to work on a biography of Gustav Detring, director of customs in Tianjin and Li Hongzhang's most important foreign adviser. He is also researching the history of the German concession from 1895-1917. He recently took a post Directing the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf Confucius Institute.
• Chris Manias (Chris.Manias@bristol.ac.uk) works on the comparative and transnational history of modern science.  For the project, he is researching the activities of European and North American scientists in northern China in the 1890-1930 period, with a particular focus on palaeontology and palaeoanthropology.
• Professor Maurizio Marinelli (Maurizio.Marinelli@bristol.ac.uk) specialises in the study of contemporary China's intellectual and urban history. He is preparing a book on the history of the former Italian concession in Tianjin, and has recently taken up the directorship of the China Research Centre at the University of Technology Sydney.