Sinologist, Traveller, Governor, Spy: The Lives and Legacies of Sir Cecil Clementi, 17th Governor of Hong Kong

Sir Cecil Clementi (金文泰) (1875-1947) arguably was the most scholarly and gifted of all Hong Kong’s 28 colonial governors. As a young official he quickly mastered Chinese and in 1904 published a scholarly translation of Zhang Ziyong’s （招子庸）(1786-1847）Cantonese Love Songs (粵謳), the laments of south China’s ‘flowerboat’ girls. He was also a tireless traveller and spy, undertaking an epic journey across China from Kashgar to Kowloon.

Transfer of Status Presentations

*Gabrielle Davies*, ‘Building the New Wales?: National Identities and the Politics of Post-war Reconstruction in Second World War Wales’

*Thomas Wang*, ‘Vitalizing the Heritage: Tradition and Conservatism in Cold War Britain, 1944-1990’

*Carys Howell*, ‘The 1956 Hungarian Refugee Crisis: Local, National and International Responses, 1956-1960’

Hallelujah Lulie Wondimu

I am a doctoral candidate interested in nationalism, democratization and security. My DPhil project explores the nexus between nationalism and citizenship in the Horn of Africa. I am researching how nationalist movements negotiate citizenship in multinational states, and what shapes and changes their conception of nationhood, statehood and self-determination. The research builds on my study as a MSc student in Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) specializing on nationalism and democratization.

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