Academic Activities
Recapping interactions with Prof. LIU Ts’ui-jung of Academia Sinica on 25 February 2016
The Department invited Prof. LIU to meet with faculty members and students. Participants greatly enjoyed their interactions with Prof. LIU.
Recapping the lecture on “Responses to Challenges of Climate Disasters: A Comparison of Hong Kong’s and Taiwan’s Most Severe Droughts” delivered by Prof. LIU Ts’ui-jung of Academia Sinica and Prof. HO Pui Yin on 26 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 Droughts” was held on 26 February 2016 at the Lecture Theatre of Shaw College. 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 droughts. Prof. YIP Hon Ming, Chair of the Department of History, acted as the moderator.
Recapping the Public Lectures on History and Business in China 2015–16 “Trading Networks, Economic Institutions and Capitalism in China’s Longue Durée Perspective” delivered by Prof. François GIPOULOUX of National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, France) at the Hong Kong Central Library on 29 February 2016
Prof. François GIPOULOUX demonstrated the links between the operating practices of Chinese regional trading groups, China’s endogenous financial institutions, and the mind-set of wealthy merchants in order to explore why China, despite impressive growth, was not genuinely interested in a capitalist type of economic development during the critical period of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Recapping the Public Lectures on History and Business in China 2015–16 “秦半兩到人民幣—中國貨幣史巡禮” delivered by Prof. CHEUNG Sui Wai at the Hong Kong Central Library on 1 March 2016
Upcoming Events
| Date : | 11 March 2016 (Friday) |
| Time : | 10:30am–12:00noon |
| Venue: | Room 101, 1/F, Fung King Hey Building, CUHK |
| Topic: | Remapping the Body and Leisure Space: Politics of Swimming and Sea-bathing in 20th Century China |
| Speaker: | Prof. POON Shuk Wah Department of History, Lingnan University |
| Language: | English |
| Enquiry: | 3943 7117 |
| Date : | 11 March 2016 (Friday) |
| Time : | 2:45pm–4:15pm |
| Venue: | Room 101, 1/F, Fung King Hey Building, CUHK |
| Topic: | Revolution at the Canteen: Food and Labor Politics in Industrial China, 1910s–1950s |
| Speaker: | Prof. LEE Seung Joon Department of History, National University of Singapore |
| Language: | English |
| Enquiry: | 3943 7117 |
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