Lu Yan Associate Professor of History, COLA, travels to London

Professor Lu Yan traveled to London and Oxford to continue her research plan for her book on social activism during late colonial rule in British Hong Kong.In the early summer of 2012, I spent two weeks in London and Oxford to collect materials for my book project on social activism and late colonial rule in British Hong Kong. The trip was the second half of a research plan abroad, which included three weeks in Hong Kong during the summer of 2011. Both trips were very rewarding—I was able to get both sides of the story and to have a feel of the places where the many individuals in my story had once lived and worked