A recent guest post for Visualising China, putting Asian women’s labour back in the frame through a reading of two 1920s photographs from the Hedgeland Collection at SOAS…

This photograph was taken in 1969 by Pinoy US army medic Benedicto Kayampat Villaverde, then stationed in Vietnam, and forms part of the personal archive of photographs my geographer brother Wesley and I discuss in our article for the June 2021 issue of the Journal of Asian American Studies…

Ethical and methodological questions are a structuring preoccupation of my scholarship. I offered some preliminary thoughts in a short talk given as part of a series of Family History workshops organized by Birkbeck historian Julia Laite…

In this, the first of two collaboratively-written articles, Wesley Attewell and I stage a conversation about our experiences researching everyday histories of encounter between Asian and Asian diasporic subjects during the Pacific and Vietnam Wars.

When I was conducting archival research for Archives of Intimacy, I collected hundreds of school photographs, mostly from Hong Kong, as well as a few precious examples from London and Liverpool. This essay was a first attempt to think through what makes such photographs so compelling in their utter banality and overfamiliarity…

Even though it’s been several years since I last worked closely with the album of photographs amassed by Chinese American teenager Frank Jue between 1915 and 1919, I still find it astonishing to contemplate…