SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

Alsford, Niki (2010) The Witnessed Account of British Resident John Dodd at Tamsui. Taipei: SMC Publishing Inc.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Alsford, Niki and Rubinstein, Murray A, eds. (2017) Chronicling Formosa: Setting the Foundations for the Presbyterian Mission, 1865-1876. Taipei: Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines.

Book Chapters

Sung, Cholong (2021) 'Creating Our Culture Together: the Contemporary Audience for Traditional Korean Music.' In: Lim, Sojin and Alsford, Niki, (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Contemporary South Korea. London: Routledge.

Fell, Dafydd and Lim, Sojin (2021) 'East Asian Area Studies Teaching Programmes in the United Kingdom: A Comparative Case Study of Korean Studies at the University of Central Lancashire and Taiwan Studies at SOAS, University of London.' In: Jacobs, Bruce, Alsford, Niki and Lim, Sojin, (eds.), Assessing the Landscape of Taiwan and Korean Studies in Comparison. Leiden: Brill, pp. 159-181. (Brill Series in Taiwan Studies)

Alsford, Niki (2012) '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 (2012) 'The Tea of Taiwan: Contemporary Adaptation.' In: Blundell, David, (ed.), Taiwan Since Martial Law: Society, Culture, Economy, Politics. Taipei and Berkeley: NTU Press, and UC Berkeley Press, pp. 263-297.

Journal Article

Fuehrer, Bernhard and Alsford, Niki (2017) 'Carstairs Douglas (1830–1877) and his Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy (1873).' Journal of Translation Studies《翻譯學報》(New Series), 1 (1). pp. 137-182.

Alsford, Niki and Talbot, Michael (2013) 'More than a Helping Hand: The practice and rhetoric of Chinese foreign and economic policy in Africa.' Strategic Vision: for Taiwan Security, 2 (8). pp. 12-18.

Alsford, Niki (2009) 'Remembering Claude Levi Strauss.' Asia-Pacific Newsletter, 1 (3). pp. 16-18.

Conference or Workshop Items

Alsford, Niki (2013) Bake, Bid, and Faire: The Victorian Folk Funeral on the Formosan Treaty Ports. In: 海港城市文化座談會, haigang chengshi wenhua zuotanhui [Symposium of Ports Culture], 14 June 2013, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan. (Unpublished)

Alsford, Niki and Fuehrer, Bernhard (2013) Carstairs Douglas (1830-1877) and his Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy (1873). In: Sinologists as Translators in the 17-19th Centuries: Archives and Context, 19-22 June, 2013, SOAS, the University of London. (Unpublished)

Alsford, Niki (2013) A Fanzailou by the River Tamsui: One house many occupants. In: Tenth Annual Conference of the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS), 3-5 May 2013, University of Lyon. (Unpublished)

Alsford, Niki (2013) A House by the River Tamsui: An account of the people who had resided there. In: Social History Society Annual Conference, 25-27 March 2013, University of Leeds. (Unpublished)

Alsford, Niki (2013) The Presbyterian Church of England’s Archives at the School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of London. In: 台灣基督長老會150年史, jidu zhanglao ziaohui 150 nianshi [The 150 Year History of the Taiwan Presbyterian Church, Taiwan], 15 July, 2013, The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Taiwan, Taipei. (Unpublished)

Alsford, Niki (2013) ‘Thou Therefore Endure Hardness’: The Presbyterian Church of England (PCE) collections at SOAS and the establishment of a maritime medical mission in southern Taiwan. In: Reassessing Archives for East Asian Maritime History Symposium, 11 June, 2013, The Institute for Taiwan History, Academia Sinica. (Unpublished)

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. (Unpublished)

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. (Unpublished)

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. (Unpublished)

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)

Alsford, Niki (2009) Constructing ‘Modern Tradition’ Within Contemporary Taiwanese Society. In: SEAA and 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. (Unpublished)

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. (Unpublished)

Book Reviews

Alsford, Niki (2013) 'Review of Douglas Fix and John Shufelt(eds.), Charles Le Gendre: Notes of Travel in Formosa. Tainan: National Museum of Taiwan History, 2012.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 76 (1). pp. 170-172.

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.

Other

Alsford, Niki (2013) 'N Korea an Opportunity for Taiwan?' Taipei Times .