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Dr Ron Po publishes new article
Dr Ron Po kicks off the new year with a new article in the International Journal of Maritime History: “Saving souls from the depths: The Society for Rescuing the Drowning (Zhengnitang) in Late Imperial China.”
It is open access and available HERE
The piece examines how organised life-saving along rivers in the nineteenth-century Qing Empire grew out of moral practice, local philanthropy, and everyday encounters with maritime danger, and considers how such Chinese initiatives can be situated within broader global approaches to maritime rescue at the time.