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The ‘Occupied Lens’ in Wartime China: Portrait Photography in the Service of Chinese ‘Collaboration’, 1939–1945 (2019)
Journal Article
Taylor, J. E. (2019). The ‘Occupied Lens’ in Wartime China: Portrait Photography in the Service of Chinese ‘Collaboration’, 1939–1945. History of Photography, 43(3), 284-307. https://doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2019.1662604

This paper explores the importance of portrait photography to the wartime collaborationist regime of Wang Jingwei, which governed parts of Japanese-occupied China from 1940 to 1945. It demonstrates how, for a combination of practical, political and c... Read More about The ‘Occupied Lens’ in Wartime China: Portrait Photography in the Service of Chinese ‘Collaboration’, 1939–1945.

"Not a particularly happy expression": "Malayanization" and the China threat in Britain's late-colonial Southeast Asian territories (2019)
Journal Article
Taylor, J. E. (2019). "Not a particularly happy expression": "Malayanization" and the China threat in Britain's late-colonial Southeast Asian territories. Journal of Asian Studies, 78(4), 789-808. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911819000561

Drawing on archival sources in Britain, Singapore, Malaysia, and the United States, this article explores late-colonial anxieties about the influence of Chinese nationalism in Malaya (and especially among students in Chinese-medium schools) in the le... Read More about "Not a particularly happy expression": "Malayanization" and the China threat in Britain's late-colonial Southeast Asian territories.