Department News
Briefing Session for Summer Internship Programme 2016
The Department of History has been organising the Summer Internship Programme for its students since 2000. For the current year, 15 partner organisations in Hong Kong, the Mainland and Taiwan, which include government departments, publishers and museums, offer over 30 intern positions to History full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students (including the MA Programme in Comparative and Public History). The application deadline is 14 March 2016. Please visit https://www.history.cuhk.edu.hk/intern_application.html or attend the following briefing session to learn more about this programme.
For reservation, please email your name, SID and enrolled programme to history@cuhk.edu.hk (Subject: Summer Internship Programme 2016), or call Miss Tsang at 3943 7117.
Personalia
Our welcome to Prof. François GIPOULOUX. Prof. GIPOULOUX is visiting the Department between 22 February and 20 March 2016 to have academic exchange with faculty members and students. He will deliver a Public Lecture on History and Business in China 2015–16 titled “Trading Networks, Economic Institutions and Capitalism in China’s Longue Durée Perspective” on 29 February 2016.
Prof. GIPOULOUX received his Doctorate from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences) in 1981 and its Habilitation à diriger des recherches in 1997. He teaches at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and is the Emeritus Research Director, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, France). He is a specialist in Chinese economics with a professional experience in China, Hong Kong and Japan of almost 20 years.
Miss WONG Lai Ming, Mavis, will leave on 1 March 2016. We would like to extend our appreciation to Mavis for her contributions to the Graduate Division of the Department of History.
Academic Activities
Recapping the Public Lectures on History and Business in China 2015–16 “Between Financial-Economic Security and National Health: Discourse on Native Opium in Late Qing China, 1833–1905” delivered by Prof. LIN Man-houng of Academia Sinica at the Hong Kong Central Library on 23 February 2016
Throughout the period of 1833–1905, financial-economic security overrode national health as the main concern of late Qing discourse on native opium. Prof. LIN started the lecture on how these two obsessions were woven in their narration based upon scholar-officials, Westerners, and some common people’s discussion of native opium.
Recapping the lecture on “Responses to Challenges of Climate Disasters: A Comparison of Hong Kong’s and Taiwan’s Most Severe Typhoons” delivered by Prof. LIU Ts’ui-jung of Academia Sinica and Prof. HO Pui Yin on 24 February 2016
Co-organised by the Department of History and the Leung Po Chuen Research Centre for Hong Kong History and Humanities, the lecture on “Responses to Challenges of Climate Disasters: A Comparison of Hong Kong’s and Taiwan’s Most Severe Typhoons” was held on 24 February 2016. Prof. LIU and Prof. HO shared their professional knowledge and discussed how humans responded to the challenges of climate disasters with a comparison of Hong Kong’s and Taiwan’s most severe typhoons. Prof. HSIUNG Peng-chen, Director of the Research Institute for the Humanities, acted as the moderator.
Upcoming Events
Public Lectures on History and Business in China 2015-16
Four distinguished scholars will give lectures on history and business in China and related topics at the Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, Hong Kong Central Library, 66 Causeway Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong in February and March 2016.
| Date : | 29 February 2016 (Monday) |
| Time : | 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm |
| Topic : | Trading Networks, Economic Institutions and Capitalism in China’s Longue Durée Perspective |
| Speaker : | Prof. François GIPOULOUX Emeritus Research Director, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, France) |
| Moderator : | Prof. David FAURE Director, Centre for Comparative and Public History, Department of History; Director, CUHK-SYSU Centre for Historical Anthropology; Wei Lun Research Professor of History, Department of History, CUHK |
| Language : | English |
| Date : | 1 March 2016 (Tuesday) |
| Time : | 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm |
| Topic: | 秦半兩到人民幣—中國貨幣史巡禮 |
| Speaker : | Prof. CHEUNG Sui Wai Director, Research Centre for Ming-Qing Studies, Research Institute for the Humanities; Associate Professor, Department of History, CUHK |
| Moderator : | Prof. CHOI Chi Cheung Professor and Department Vice Chair, Department of History, CUHK |
| Language : | Cantonese |
| Date : | 3 March 2016 (Thursday) |
| Time : | 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm |
| Topic: | Making Money in South China: Ho Amei’s Tianhua Mining Co. (founded 1884) |
| Speaker : | Prof. SINN Yuk Yee, Elizabeth Honorary Professor, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the University of Hong Kong |
| Moderator : | Prof. YIP Hon Ming Professor and Department Chair, Department of History, CUHK |
| Language : | Cantonese |
Admission is free; reservation is required. To reserve a seat, please
– Register online at www.history.cuhk.edu.hk/Event/2016_HBC/
– Call 3943 7119 / 3943 8541
For more information, please visit
www.history.cuhk.edu.hk/Event/2016_HBC / or www.hkpl.gov.hk
Organisers: Department of History, CUHK; Centre for Comparative and Public History, Department of History, CUHK; MA Programme in Comparative and Public History, Department of History, CUHK; Hong Kong Public Libraries, Leisure and Cultural Services Department
| Date : | 1 March 2016 (Tuesday) |
| Time : | 9:00am–6:30pm |
| Venue: | Activity Room, 2/F, Art Museum East Wing, CUHK |
| Language: | Putonghua |
| Enquiry: | 3943 7371 |
Organisers: Centre for Chinese Archaeology and Art, Institute of Chinese Studies, CUHK; CASS-CUHK Chinese Archaeology Joint Research Base; Department of History, CUHK
For teachers and students who have information to share with the Department,
please email your articles in both Chinese and English to chanfiona@cuhk.edu.hk by 4:00pm every Tuesday.