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LINKS TO BOOK REVIEWS AND PODCASTS

STAR TALK 
Architectural photographer searches for familial history.

 

ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY BEIJING BRANCH
Talk on Trading Places
November 2022.

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HONG KONG HERITAGE, RTHK Radio 3

Presented by Annmarie Evans and broadcast on 7 August 2022.

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PHOTO EXHIBITION AT A PRIVATE CLUB

This exhibition held at a private club in Hong Kong ran from March through August 2022.

 

ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA

A photo essay published by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong.

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TRAVELLING THROUGH CHINA’S OLD TREATY PORTS

A book review from Dutch weblog CHINA2025.NL.

 

INTERVIEW WITH PHOTOGRAPHER MARTIN BAILEY

PART 1  | PART 2
This is a truly fascinating conversation made especially so by the fact that Nick and his family are a part of the history that he shares in wonderful detail throughout this conversation.

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ASIAN REVIEW OF BOOKS

Well over a thousand miles on foot.

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LIFE THROUGH A LENS

Hong Kong photographer Nicholas Kitto is on a remarkable journey to record China’s ‘treaty port’ architecture, while at the same time uncovering his family’s colonial past.

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TRADING PLACES: 12 YEARS AND 2,748,010 STEPS LATER

A presentation to the Royal Asiatic Society (Hong Kong Branch).

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SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST MAGAZINE

When the West went East: photos of China’s treaty ports.

 

VISUALISING CHINA
Nicholas Kitto describes the project which culminated in the recent publication of his book.

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THE PUBLISHER’S WEBSITE

A few words from Blacksmith Books.

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Nick outside the Tientsin Country Club, immediately after locating it in December 1997.

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Ice-skating on the Tientsin Country Club’s small lake in around 1930. Nick’s father is somewhere amongst those on the ice.

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