Jon Howlett

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Senior Lecturer in Chinese and Colonial History at the University of York. Research and teaching website: jonhowlett.com

Picture of a match day programme for England vs Portugal at the Empire Stadium, Wembley
A picture of Sporting CP hard man Joachim Pacheco on the pitch in green and white
Black and white photo of Rocha in the green and white stripes of Sporting CP.
The badge of Sporting Clube de Macau - a green oval with the initial SCM at the top and a lion rampant below.
A picture of a Daily Mail article titled 'England must watch 'the China Greaves'
On the left is a yellow and blue advert for the 1958 Sweden World Cup and on the right is a black and white picture of Augusto Rocha.
A hand-drawn image of a worker and a peasant riding a plane past a cartoon sun which is trying to grab them above a bank of red clouds.
A Chinese man on a rocket labelled 'China' overtakes an American man with a cowboy hat on a horse and British 'John Bull' caricature on an ox.
A man dressed in Russian-style clothing rides a red rocket labelled 'CCCP' towards a group of traditional Chinese deities standing on a cloud.
A large red arrow points upwards from left to right, showing production increases. Plane wings are attached to it reading 'more, quicker, better, more economical'.
Chinese workers and peasants stride across large waves out at sea. One drives a tractor. In the back there is a man who looks like Mao on a rocket reading a Little Red Book.
A chauffeur pulls a red car up in front of the offices of China Reconstructs. Li leans out of the window waving a red cross on a white flag.
Song Qingling flies above the newspaper offices in a jet aeroplane shaped like a dove of peace, waving an olive branch
Two happy cartoon chefs emerge from a kitchen with steaming bowls of noodles
Newspaper workers produce cultural content for the magazine. One is making paper cuts, another calligraphy.
A woman on the left composes a song while two serious-faced comrades report on agricultural output and production increases
A magazine cover in cartoon style with newspaper workers busily producing their next edition.
Nine marshals are pictured in a large group. The marshals wear blue uniforms and appear heroic but poised. The horses are brightly coloured and appear in wild postures.
Marshal Ye Jianying's horse is a brown with a white diamond on its forehead. Ye looks into the distance.
Marshal He Long wears a blue military uniform and rides a grey horse. The Great Wall of China is in the background and the horse walks through fields of orange flowers.
Marshal Nie Rongzhen in a blue military uniform on a large brown horse. There are flowers in the foreground and a rainbow in the background.
General He Long in a blue military uniform riding a powerful dappled grey horse against a background of orange flowers. The Great Wall of China stretches into the distance in the background.
Matthew Hurst presenting a keynote speech in front of a powerpoint presentation reading Hong Kong Colonial Government Migrated Archives at Hanslope Park