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Students who wish to change their course enrolment for Term 2 are reminded to do so via the CUSIS during the following specified add/drop periods:

Postgraduate programmes: Between 10am on 8 January 2018 and 5:30pm on 22 January 2018.

 


Academic Activities

Recapping the “Workshops for the Final-Year RPg Students 2017–18” held on 12 January 2018

The Division of History organised the “Workshops for the Final-Year RPg Students”, offering an interactive sharing and exchange platform for the Department’s research postgraduate students to exchange and discuss their research findings. Prof. POO Mu-chou, Division Head, gave opening remarks to the Department’s research postgraduate students and visiting scholars.

 


Recapping the talk “Gamble and Gambling Farmers in Late Qing Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau” of the Lectures Series on “Comparative and Public History: In Search of Popular Culture in Hong Kong” delivered by Prof. HO Hon Wai of Academia Sinica at the Hong Kong Museum of History on 13 January 2018

Prof. HO Hon Wai gave a public talk and shared with an audience of over 150. The talk introduced several prevalent gambling items and their development in late imperial China. It also investigated the relationship between gambling merchants and officials.

 


Upcoming Events

Lecture Series on Comparative and Public History: In Search of Popular Culture in 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 2018 at the Lecture Hall, G/F, Hong Kong Museum of History:

27 January 2018 (Saturday)
Third Lecture
Date : 27 January 2018 (Saturday)
Time : 3:00pm–5:00pm
Topic : Looking at Animals in Hong Kong: From Circus Shows to Zoos
Speaker : Prof. POON Shuk Wah

The lectures will be conducted in Cantonese. No reservation is needed. Seats are available on a first-come-first-served basis. For enquiry, please call 3943 8659.

 


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.

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