{"id":42167,"date":"2026-04-06T15:16:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=42167"},"modified":"2026-04-06T15:16:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:16:34","slug":"extraordinary-tale-of-chinese-british-collaboration-revealed-in-new-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=42167","title":{"rendered":"Extraordinary tale of Chinese-British collaboration revealed in new exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/04\/03\/138caf36-8e94-42bc-a612-6cc65950e637_c399f6d8.jpg?itok=aadsv_1d&amp;v=1775204833\" \/><br \/>Winnie Wong, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, was on holiday in the summer of 2019 when she received the kind of call historians dream of.<br \/>\n\u201cI started screaming,\u201d Wong says, laughing. \u201cMy family was like, \u2018What?\u2019\u201d<br \/>\nOn the line was fellow historian Jordan Goodman, who had just visited the Canterbury Cathedral Archives &amp; Library in England. There, he had discovered a trove of documents belonging to John Bradby Blake, an English botanist who worked for the East India Company in&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/arts\/article\/3348746\/extraordinary-tale-chinese-british-collaboration-revealed-new-exhibition?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnie Wong, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, was on holiday in the summer of 2019 when she received the kind of call&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[19810,10346,5730,1789,779,5161],"class_list":["post-42167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-chinesebritish","tag-collaboration","tag-exhibition","tag-extraordinary","tag-revealed","tag-tale","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}