Mr Niki Alsford
BSc (hons), MA (NCCU)
Overview
Centre of Taiwan Studies
Research Assistant in Taiwan Studies
- Name:
- Mr Niki Alsford
- Email address:
- na29@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4525
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 267
- Thesis title:
- The Banka Petition: Anglo-Japanese relations and the cession of Formosa in 1895
- Year of Study:
- Year of Entry:2011-2012
Internal Supervisors
Teaching
Research
Taiwan maritime history; The prehistory of Taiwan; The history of Taiwan Indigenous Peoples; The anthropology of Taiwan's maritime culture; The maritime economic and spatial development of Taiwan; British maritime trade in Asia and the Pacific; Necrogeographic GIS mapping; Cross-strait relations.
Publications
Authored Books
Alsford, Niki (2010) The Witnessed Account of British Resident John Dodd at Tamsui. Taipei: SMC Publishing Inc.
Book Chapters
Alsford, Niki (2012) 'The Tea of Taiwan: Contemporary Adaptation.' In: Blundell, David, (ed.), Taiwan Since Martial Law: Society, Culture, Economy, Politics. Taipei & Berkeley: NTU Press, and UC Berkeley Press, pp. 263-297.
Alsford, Niki 'The Forgotten ‘Little White House’: The British Customs Residence in Tamsui.' In: Hughes, Bronwyn, (ed.), The British Empire and Visual Culture. Melbourne: University of Melbourne Press. (Forthcoming)
Alsford, Niki 'Voices of the Grave: Digital Necrogeography of Treaty Port Cemeteries in Taiwan.' In: Streiter, Oliver and Arrigo, Linda Gail, (eds.), Documenting and Research Gravesites in Taiwan. Taipei: National Taipei Medical University. (Forthcoming)
Articles
Alsford, Niki (2009) 'Remembering Claude Levi Strauss.' Asia-Pacific Newsletter, 1 (3). pp. 16-18.
Conference or Workshop Items
Alsford, Niki (2012) A Room with a View: The structuration of the British treaty port community and the modernisation of Tamsui between 1860 and 1895. In: Ninth Annual Conference of the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS), 18-21 June 2012, The University of Southern Denmark in Sonderborg. (Unpublished)
Alsford, Niki (2011) Voices of the Grave: Digital Necrogeography of Treaty Port Cemeteries in Taiwan. In: First Workshop on Documenting and Researching Gravesites in Taiwan, 1 March, 2011, Taipei Medical University. (Submitted)
Alsford, Niki (2010) The Forgotten Little White House: A Retrospective View of the British Customs House in Tamsui. In: North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA), 18-20 June, 2010, University of California, Berkeley. (Submitted)
Alsford, Niki (2010) India’s Role in Taiwan’s Economic Future. In: North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA), 18-20 June, 2010, University of California, Berkeley. (Submitted)
Alsford, Niki (2009) Constructing ‘Modern Tradition’ Within Contemporary Taiwanese Society. In: SEAA & TSAE Annual Conference, 2-5 July, 2009, Academia Sinica, Taipei. (Unpublished)
Alsford, Niki (2009) The Forgotten ‘Little White House’: A Preservation View of the British Customs House in Tamsui. In: British Empire and Visual Culture, 1850-1950, 1-2 October, 2009, The University of Melbourne, Australia. (Submitted)
Alsford, Niki (2009) Voices of the Grave: Digital Necrogeography of Treaty Port Cemeteries on the Qing Dynasty Coastal Trade, 1800-1900. In: PNC Annual Conference, 2-8 October, 2009, Academia Sinica, Taipei. (Submitted)
Alsford, Niki (2009) British History in Taiwan from the 17th Century to Present. In: British History in Taiwan, British Trade and Cultural Office, Taipei . (Unpublished)
Theses
Alsford, Niki (2010) Victorians in Taiwan: the cause, course, and consequence of British diaspora on the Formosan treaty ports, 1858-1895. Masters dissertation, National Chengchi University.
