Department News
Congratulations to WU Sin Yan and WONG Pok Hon, awardees of the Hong Kong Youth Historian Award Scholarship Scheme
The Department’s undergraduate Year 1 students, WU Sin Yan and WONG Pok Hon were each awarded a prize under the 6th Hong Kong Youth Historian Award Scholarship Scheme and the 8th Chinese Historical Studies Essay Competition for Hong Kong Secondary School Students, jointly organised by the HKU Master of Arts in Chinese Historical Studies Alumni Association, Education Convergence and Sing Tao Daily.
Sin Yan and Pok Hon were interviewed by Sing Tao Daily and shared their views about Chinese History learning.
Briefing Session for Summer Internship Programme 2018
The Department of History has organised 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 9 March 2018. Please visit https://www.history.cuhk.edu.hk/intern_application.html or attend the following briefing session to learn more about this programme.
| Date: | 28 February 2018 (Wednesday) |
| Time: | 1:00pm–2:00pm |
| Venue: | Room 101, 1/F, Fung King Hey Building, CUHK |
For enquiry, please call Miss Tsang at 3943 7117.
Academic Activities
Recapping the talk “Looking at Animals in Hong Kong: From Circus Shows to Zoos” of the Lectures Series on “Comparative and Public History: In Search of Popular Culture in Hong Kong” delivered by Prof. POON Shuk Wah at the Hong Kong Museum of History on 27 January 2018
Prof. POON Shuk Wah gave a public talk and shared with an audience of 100 on the development of circus shows and zoos in Hong Kong and investigated the relationship between humans and animals. There were keen discussions and sharing on well-known circus shows and zoos in Hong Kong among the audience.
活動備忘
Public Lectures on History and Business in China 2017–18
Public Lectures on History and Business in China 2017–18 will be held in March 2018. Professor Geoffrey G. JONES, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History of Harvard Business School and Faculty Chair of the School’s Business History Initiative, has been invited as the guest speaker to deliver two public lectures.
| Date : | 1 March 2018 (Thursday) |
| Time : | 5:00pm–6:30pm |
| Venue : | Cho Yiu Conference Hall G/F, University Administrative Building The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Moderator : | Prof. David FAURE Wei Lun Research Professor of History The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Date : | 2 March 2018 (Friday) |
| Time : | 7:00pm–8:30pm |
| Venue : | Lecture Theatre G/F, Hong Kong Central Library 66 Causeway Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong |
| Moderator: | Prof. LEUNG Yuen Sang Dean, Faculty of Arts The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Lectures will be conducted in English.
Admission is free; reservation is required. To reserve a seat, please
– Register online at www.history.cuhk.edu.hk/Event/2018_HBC/
– Call at 3943 8541
For more information, please visit www.history.cuhk.edu.hk/Event/2018_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
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.