时间：2025年7月17日 15:00—16:30
地点：清华大学人文楼B206
主题：China Bound: Writing the history of a British Company in the Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong, 1860s—1980s
主讲人：Robert Bickers (University of Bristol)
主持人：刘骁（清华大学科学史系）
讲座摘要：
Now known as the Swire Group 太古集团, the British firm John Swire & Sons began operating in Liverpool in 1816, and in China from 1867. This talk introduces the history of the firm, and its activities, and explores why researching the history of a business over most of two centuries was a productive and stimulating exercise for me as a historian of Britain-China relations.
主讲人简介：
罗伯特·毕可思，英国历史学家，英国国家学术院院士，英国布里斯托大学历史学教授、香港史研究中心共同主任。他毕业于英国伦敦大学亚非学院，并曾在牛津大学和剑桥大学从事博士后研究。他是一位研究中国近代史、英国殖民史的学者，有六部历史著作问世，其中包括获奖的《帝国造就了我》（2003年）和最近出版的《太古传：商业帝国200年》。
Robert Bickers, Fellow of the British Academy, is a Professor of History at the University of Bristol. He studied in London, and held postdoctoral fellowships at Oxford and Cambridge. He is the author of six books, including the prize winning Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai (2003), and most recently China Bound: John Swire & Sons, and its World, 1816-1980 (2020). A scholar of modern history, he is currently preparing a global history of Hong Kong and its peoples, and co-directs the Hong Kong History Centre at the University of Bristol.
