Dalton Rawcliffe
Biographic Data
| ID | 6464443 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dalton Rawcliffe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dalton |
| FAMILY NAME | Rawcliffe |
| SIGNATURE | RAWCLIFFE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-8704-5533 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Cultural Revolution and Britain’s Hong Kong Crisis, 1967
This article reinterprets the 1967 Hong Kong Leftist Riots as a Cold War imperial crisis shaped by Cultural Revolution fragmentation within the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Britain’s efforts to maintain its strategic credibility in Asia amid East-of-Suez retrenchment. Drawing on newly integrated British, Hong Kong, and PRC-related archival sources, it argues that the escalation of the riots emerged not from a coherent revolutionary strate…
Managing Migration and Empire's End
This article examines how Britain, Canada, and Australia managed the political and moral challenges of Hong Kong's impending 1997 handover through migration policy. Drawing on archival sources and recent scholarship, it situates Hong Kong's emigration debates within the broader contexts of decolonization and evolving Commonwealth relations. As Britain negotiated the Sino-British Joint Declaration and faced mounting anxiety among Hong Kong's popul…
The “special relationship,” and the overseas Chinese
From the 1950s to the 1970s, Britain’s strategic role in the Cold War in East and Southeast Asia shaped the post-WWII contours and ramifications of what Winston Churchill famously dubbed the Anglo-American ‘special relationship’. Through its clandestine Information Research Department (IRD), Britain targeted anti-communist propaganda, focusing on neutral nations and the overseas Chinese communities. The IRD assessed communist influence among emig…
The Opium Business
Cold War Diplomatic Surveillance
Containment and Engagement
A successful transnational cold war intervention? Revisiting the Heung Yee Kuk’s “goodwill” tour of Britain’s Chinatowns, 1967–1970
Most ethnic Chinese living and working in Britain in the late 1960s were from Hong Kong’s New Territories. Many of these British migrants blamed the Hong Kong government for importing cheap foodstuffs and driving farmers off the land to build new infrastructural projects. In 1967, Hong Kong experienced a wave of social and political unrest commonly referred to as the 1967 Leftist Riots. The unrest spread to parts of Britain's Chinatown, where a l…
Julia Lovell, Maoism
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
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Julia Lovell, Maoism
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
A successful transnational cold war intervention? Revisiting the Heung Yee Kuk’s “goodwill” tour of Britain’s Chinatowns, 1967–1970
Most ethnic Chinese living and working in Britain in the late 1960s were from Hong Kong’s New Territories. Many of these British migrants blamed the Hong Kong government for importing cheap foodstuffs and driving farmers off the land to build new infrastructural projects. In 1967, Hong Kong experienced a wave of social and political unrest commonly referred to as the 1967 Leftist Riots. The unrest spread to parts of Britain's Chinatown, where a l…
The “special relationship,” and the overseas Chinese
From the 1950s to the 1970s, Britain’s strategic role in the Cold War in East and Southeast Asia shaped the post-WWII contours and ramifications of what Winston Churchill famously dubbed the Anglo-American ‘special relationship’. Through its clandestine Information Research Department (IRD), Britain targeted anti-communist propaganda, focusing on neutral nations and the overseas Chinese communities. The IRD assessed communist influence among emig…
The Opium Business
Cold War Diplomatic Surveillance
Containment and Engagement
The Cultural Revolution and Britain’s Hong Kong Crisis, 1967
This article reinterprets the 1967 Hong Kong Leftist Riots as a Cold War imperial crisis shaped by Cultural Revolution fragmentation within the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Britain’s efforts to maintain its strategic credibility in Asia amid East-of-Suez retrenchment. Drawing on newly integrated British, Hong Kong, and PRC-related archival sources, it argues that the escalation of the riots emerged not from a coherent revolutionary strate…
Managing Migration and Empire's End
This article examines how Britain, Canada, and Australia managed the political and moral challenges of Hong Kong's impending 1997 handover through migration policy. Drawing on archival sources and recent scholarship, it situates Hong Kong's emigration debates within the broader contexts of decolonization and evolving Commonwealth relations. As Britain negotiated the Sino-British Joint Declaration and faced mounting anxiety among Hong Kong's popul…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (4 works) · Cold war (4 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (4 works) · China (3 works) · Economic history (3 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (3 works) · Law (3 works)