Recapping the CUHK Orientation Day for Undergraduate Admissions on 21 October 2017

The exhibition booth of the Department of History was located at the G/F of Esther Lee Building. The Department arranged four academic counselling sessions and two chat room sessions on that day. The occasion offered a great opportunity for secondary students, teachers and parents to understand more about CUHK and the Department of History, as well as obtain the latest information on the Department’s BA programme such as admission criteria, the curriculum, learning experience and university life. The whole floor was filled with participants eagerly seeking information.

Recapping the academic seminar “Hong Kong’s Colonial Governance and the Chinese Community’s Response to Sanitation Policies (Late 19th to Early 20th Century)” conducted by Prof. HO Pui Yin on 27 October 2017

Prof. HO Pui Yin began with the planning of Victoria City, and the differences between Chinese and Westerners, especially the ideas of public health and hygiene. The limitations of city planning and public health policies, such as water supply and sewage treatment, finally led to the outbreak of the bubonic plague in 1894. She reviewed government actions following the outbreak of the plague and analysed the responses of the Chinese community, pointing out the people’s discontent with measures such as the abolition of Chinese medicine, the adoption of Western surgery and the demolition of the plague-infected district. These reflected that the planning of public health policies was a key to the contest between tradition and modernity. The government had to use urban planning to change the daily-life patterns of citizens and administrative measures to regulate public health. In conclusion, Prof. HO emphasised that when studying public health and medical policies, more focus should be placed on the feelings and responses of people instead of developments in medicine.

Yu Ying-shih Lecture in History 2017

To enhance academic and cultural exchange, Chung Chi College, New Asia College and the Department of History of the University joined hands in 2007 to establish the “Yu Ying-shih Lecture in History”. This year, Professor CHEN Jo-shui, Distinguished Professor of History and NTU Chair Professor of National Taiwan University has been invited as the guest speaker of the following two public lectures:

This lecture will be conducted in Putonghua. For reservation, please email to koeyleung@cuhk.edu.hk

This lecture will be conducted in Putonghua and is jointly organised by the Committee on Yu Ying-shih Lecture in History, CUHK and the Hong Kong Museum of History.

No reservation is needed. For enquiry, please call 3943 1585/ 3943 7611.

Academic Seminar

Academic Seminar

Public Lectures on History 2017-18

With the theme of Modern Times of China, two distinguished scholars will give lectures at the Lecture Theatre, G/F, Hong Kong Central Library, 66 Causeway Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong in November 2017.

Admission is free; reservation is required.
– For online registration and more information, please visit www.history.cuhk.edu.hk/Event/2017_PLH
– Call at 3943 7119 / 3943 8541

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

CALL FOR PAPERS:
Confronting Predicament: The Mentality and Patterns of Behavior of Chinese Intellectuals in the Second Millennium 25-26 May 2018

About this Workshop
The workshop focuses on the mental and social reactions of Chinese intellectuals in great periods of transformation during imperial and modern China. It attempts to provide early-career historians, social scientists, and researchers from different fields a chance to share findings on the cutting-edge theme of the history of Chinese intellectuals. The workshop is also open to research students and the learned public. Papers of relevance to the following four themes are welcomed:

Important Dates

Organisers: Department of History, CUHK; Faculty of Arts, CUHK; Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University; Webster University

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.