07/14/2026
New book and interview from Director Nadine Attewell!
In her new book, "Archives of Intimacy: Racial Mixing and Chinese Lives in the Colonial Port City, 1905–1949," Nadine Attewell illuminates the once forgotten histories of vibrant multiracial communities that flourished in London, Liverpool, and Hong Kong in the early twentieth century.
To understand what life and survival was like for people of mixed Chinese descent in three British-controlled port cities linked by global trade and migration, Attewell, an Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies and Simon Fraser University Global Asia Program, examined diverse sources ranging from archival photographs to family histories to intelligence records.
We asked Attewell to tell us about the research behind "Archives of Intimacy," the stories readers can discover within its pages, and how this research connects to her teaching.
Read the interview at our website: https://www.sfu.ca/gsws/news-events/news/2026/attewell-archives.html
