About Me

I am an historian interested in Sino-British relations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I have broad research interests that include epistemologies, race relations, representation, comics studies, and visual and material cultures with particular focus on China in the British imagination. I hold a PhD in History from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and am a founding member of Asia Collections Network (ACN), a global platform for those with specialist knowledge of and involvement in collections of the arts and artefacts of Asia. I am Assistant Professor of History at the University of Birmingham.

If you would like to discuss collaborative projects, please get in touch by email: a.matthewson@bham.ac.uk