Department News
Briefing Session for Summer Internship Programme 2016
The Department of History has been organising 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 14 March 2016. Please visit https://www.history.cuhk.edu.hk/intern_application.html or attend the following briefing session to learn more about this programme.
For reservation, please email your name, SID and enrolled programme to history@cuhk.edu.hk (Subject: Summer Internship Programme 2016), or call Miss Tsang at 3943 7117.
Academic Activities
Recapping the public lecture “Harmonious but Different: The Interaction in Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage between Hong Kong and the Mainland” delivered by Prof. CHAU Hing Wah at the Hong Kong Museum of History on 30 January 2016
Prof. CHAU delivered a public lecture and shared with the audience the equal effectiveness of protecting local intangible cultural heritage in Hong Kong and the Mainland under different policy approaches.
Upcoming Events
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
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.