Academic Activities
Recapping the academic seminar “State and Environment in China’s First Empire: A Political Ecology of Qin” conducted by Dr. Brian LANDER on 20 January 2016
Dr. Brian LANDER of Harvard University Centre for the Environment was invited by the Department to present a lecture to faculty members and students.
The state-strengthening reforms of the Warring States period created China’s first centralised bureaucracies, for the first time giving governments the power to affect the ecology of large regions. In the talk, Dr. LANDER employed newly excavated administrative texts to analyse the role the Qin state played in the environment of its empire during the reign of its First Emperor (246-210 BCE). These documents showed that Qin kept detailed records of land, people and natural resources, and was remarkably effective in mobilising surplus production and labor.
Upcoming Events
Lecture Series on “The Safeguarding of the Cultural Heritage in Guangdong and Hong Kong”
The lecture series is co-organised by the MA Programme in Comparative and Public History, Department of History, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Museum of History. The following lectures will be held on Saturdays in January and February 2016 at the Lecture Hall, G/F, Hong Kong Museum of History:
| Date : | 13 February 2016 (Saturday) |
| Time : | 3:00pm – 5:00pm |
| Topic: | Recycling Heritage: The Relationship between Villagers and the Government in Safeguarding of the Cultural Heritage |
| Speaker : | Prof. LIU Zhiwei Professor, Department of History, Sun Yat-sen University |
| Language : | Cantonese |
No reservation is needed. Seats are available on a first-come-first-served basis. For enquiry, please call 3943 8659.
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 : | 23 February 2016 (Tuesday) |
| Time : | 7:00pm – 8:30pm |
| Topic : | Between Financial-Economic Security and National Health: Discourse on Native Opium in Late Qing China, 1833–1905 |
| Speaker : | Prof. LIN Man-houng Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica |
| Moderator : | Prof. CHIU Peng-sheng Professor, Department of History, CUHK |
| Language : | Putonghua |
| 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
Lecture Series on “Responses to Challenges of Climate Disasters: A Comparison of Hong Kong’s and Taiwan’s Most Severe Natural Disasters”
Prof. LIU Ts’ui-jung, Academician of the Academia Sinica, has been invited by the Department and the Leung Po Chuen Research Centre for Hong Kong History and Humanities to give the following two lectures:
| Date : | 24 February 2016 (Wednesday) |
| Time : | 5:00pm – 6:30pm |
| Venue: | Room 104, Y.C. Liang Hall, CUHK |
| Topic : | Responses to Challenges of Climate Disasters: A Comparison of Hong Kong’s and Taiwan’s Most Severe Typhoons |
| Speakers : | Prof. LIU Ts’ui-jung Academician, Academia Sinica Prof. HO Pui Yin Professor and Department Vice Chair, Department of History; Director, Leung Po Chuen Research Centre for Hong Kong History and Humanities, CUHK |
| Moderator: | Prof. HSIUNG Ping-chen Professor of History, Department of History; Director, Research Institute for the Humanities, CUHK |
| Date : | 26 February 2016 (Friday) |
| Time : | 11:30am – 1:00pm |
| Venue: | Lecture Theatre, Shaw College, CUHK |
| Topic: | Responses to Challenges of Climate Disasters: A Comparison of Hong Kong’s and Taiwan’s Most Severe Droughts |
| Speakers : | Prof. LIU Ts’ui-jung Academician, Academia Sinica Prof. HO Pui Yin Professor and Department Vice Chair, Department of History; Director, Leung Po Chuen Research Centre for Hong Kong History and Humanities, CUHK |
| Moderator : | Prof. YIP Hon-ming Professor and Department Chair, Department of History, CUHK |
The lectures will be conducted in Putonghua. For enquiries, please call at 3943 7117 or 3943 5796.
Organiser: Department of History, CUHK
Co-organiser: Leung Po Chuen Research Centre for Hong Kong History and Humanities, Research Institute for the Humanities, CUHK
The next newsletter will be released on 15 February 2016.
Greetings from the Department of History.
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