HIST7100 史學著作研討會：檔案與民間文獻
（只適用於哲學博士課程學生）

This seminar examines Chinese archives and local documents from the Ming-Qing period to the present. We will analyze and critically discuss meanings and usage of source materials such as imperial edicts, proclamations, business contracts, genealogies, inscriptions, family accounts and correspondences. This seminar is divided into three cycles according to students’ own research themes and needs. The first cycle will discuss students’ research frameworks, geographical settings as well as archives and documents that are fundamental to individual research. The second cycle will investigate special type of documents (i.e.: genealogy, inscriptions, Taoist texts, vernacular literature) and discuss how they are read in the context of a particular social environment. The third cycle, using an integrated approach, will connect source materials with particular research area (i.e.: a rural community, a business firm).

To be able to read these texts, written in classical or vernacular Chinese, students wishing to enroll in this seminar are required to have high level of competency in both written and spoken Chinese. All students are required to (1) write a research proposal, (2) prepare reading and annotated notes and (3) present and read first hand source materials for each cycle.

Students are expected to prepare and read documents before attending class.

Students enroll in the seminar are expected to submit their initial PhD or MPhil thesis topic and proposal to the instructor two days prior to the first class (September 7, 2020).

(Tentative Schedule)

Week 1: General introduction (research proposal due 17:00, Sept. 7)

Weeks 2-5 (reading documents submitted every Sunday @ or before 23:59)
Cycle 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 1-4

Weeks 6-9 (reading documents submitted every Sunday @ or before 23:59)
Cycle 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 2-4

Weeks 10-13 (reading documents submitted every Sunday @ or before 23:59)
Cycle 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, 3-4

Topics and readings for 2020-21:

Documents and archives relating to participant students’ dissertation

Readings: (individual readings list, to be confirmed)

請注意大學有關學術著作誠信的政策和規則，及適用於犯規事例的紀律指引和程序。詳情可瀏覽網址：http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/。

學生遞交作業時，必須連同已簽署的聲明一併提交，表示他們知道有關政策、規則、指引及程序。

• 如屬小組習作，則所有組員均須簽署聲明；所有組員（不論有否簽署聲明及不論有否直接或間接撰寫有問題的內容）均須負上集體責任及受到懲處。
• 如作業以電腦製作、內容以文字為主，並經由大學「維誠」系統 (VeriGuide) 提交者，學生將作業的電子檔案上載到系統後，便會獲得收據，收據上已列明有關聲明。

未有夾附簽署妥當的聲明的作業，老師將不予批閱。

學生只須提交作業的最終版本。

學生將作業或作業的一部份用於超過一個用途（例如：同時符合兩科的要求）而沒有作出聲明會被視為未有聲明重覆使用作業。學生重覆使用其著作的措辭或某一、二句句子很常見，並可以接受，惟重覆使用全部內容則構成問題。在任何情況下，須先獲得相關老師同意方可提交作業。