Academic Activities
Recapping the Summer Workshop for “Historical Anthropology of the Chinese City” held in Shanghai
The first Summer Workshop for “Historical Anthropology of the Chinese City” was held on 14 July to 19 July 2018 in Shanghai. This workshop was jointly organised by the CUHK-SYSU Centre for Historical Anthropology, Department of History of East China Normal University and the Center for Local History and Memory. Prof. David FAURE and Prof. HE Xi, faculty members of CUHK’s Department of History were invited to act as advisors and deliver talks to the participants. Ms. HUANG Xinyu (MPhil) and Ms. ZHU Gehui (MA), together with 20 postgraduate students from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau, participated in the workshop.
The workshop took the form of lectures and field visits. The lectures covered a broad range of subjects relevant to Chinese urban history, including the use of maps, ideas of urban planning in Shanghai, urban villages, the working class, the historical example of Foshan, social groups and vested interests in Republican Shanghai, the idea of “civil society”, sight and sound in Guangzhou, and the use of local documents in urban history research. Besides our faculty members, Prof. FENG Xiaocai (East China Normal University), Prof. Helen SIU (Yale University), Prof. WANG Di (University of Macau), Prof. CHING May Bo (City University of Hong Kong), Prof. ZHANG Letian (Fudan University), Prof. ZHONG Chong (Shanghai Normal University) and Prof. LIU Gang (Tongji University) were also invited to act as advisors and share their views on Chinese urban history. The participating students were required to identify their future research subjects based on their academic interests and some of them were given subsidies to remain in Shanghai for a month to carry out oral history work.
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Recapping the Academic Seminar “On the 16th-Century Korea War” conducted by Prof. PUK Wing Kin on 28 September 2018
Prof. PUK Wing Kin reviewed research on the Wanli Korea War (16th-century Japanese invasions of Korea). Prof. PUK was initially interested in the details of the war. But he shifted his focus to the negotiations between the three countries and the factional conflict in the Beijing Court during the war period once he started reading the archives. Through a review of this research experience, Prof. PUK discussed with the students how to revise research projects based on collected historical materials.
Upcoming Events
Academic Seminar
| Date : | 12 October 2018 (Friday) |
| Time : | 4:30pm–6:15pm |
| Venue : | Room 302, 3/F, Lee Shau Kee Building, CUHK |
| Topic : | To Kill or Not to Kill? Oxen and Beef-eating in Modern China |
| Speaker : | Prof. POON Shuk Wah |
| Language : | Putonghua |
| Enquiry : | 3943 8541 |
Public Lecture by CUHK-CCK Foundation Asia-Pacific Centre for Chinese Studies Visiting Scholar 2018
Professor CHOW Kai-wing, Department of History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has been invited as the guest speaker to deliver two public lectures.
| Date : | 19 October 2018 (Friday) |
| Time : | 4:30pm–6:00pm (Tea Reception starts at 4:00pm) |
| Venue : | Activities Room, 2/F, Art Museum East Wing Institute of Chinese Studies, CUHK |
| Topic : | Public Culture of the Mercantile Literati in Qing China |
| Date : | 24 October 2018 (Wednesday) |
| Time : | 4:30pm–6:00pm (Tea Reception starts at 4:00pm) |
| Venue : | Activities Room, 2/F, Art Museum East Wing Institute of Chinese Studies, CUHK |
| Topic : | Nature as Art: Commerce and Garden Culture in Late Imperial China |
Lectures will be conducted in English.
Reservation is required. To reserve a seat, please register online at
https://goo.gl/forms/eke2fyTWrJf0LlJp2
For enquiry, please call at 3943 6548 / email to apc.cckf@cuhk.edu.hk
Organisers: Institute of Chinese Studies, CUHK; Centre for Chinese History, Department of History, CUHK; CUHK–Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Asia-Pacific Centre for Chinese Studies
Academic Seminar
| Date : | 26 October 2018 (Friday) |
| Time : | 4:30pm–6:15pm |
| Venue : | Room 302, 3/F, Lee Shau Kee Building, CUHK |
| Topic : | 從瀏河鎮到上海，18到19世紀海港的轉移 |
| Speaker : | Prof. David FAURE |
| Language : | Putonghua |
| Enquiry : | 3943 8541 |
Public Lectures on History 2018-19
The second lecture of Public Lectures on History 2018-19 will be held in November 2018. Professor YIP Hon Ming, Adjunct Professor of History Department, CUHK, has been invited as the guest speaker to deliver a public lecture.
| Date : | 15 November 2018 (Thursday) |
| Time : | 7:00pm–8:30pm |
| Venue : | Lecture Theatre, G/F, Hong Kong Central Library 66 Causeway Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong |
| Topic : | The Legacy of Mao Zedong |
| Speaker : | Prof. YIP Hon Ming Adjunct Professor, Department of History, CUHK |
| Moderator : | Prof. HO Pui Yin Vice Chair and Professor Department of History, CUHK |
| Language : | Cantonese |
Admission is free; reservation is required.
– For online registration and more information, please visit www.history.cuhk.edu.hk/Event/2018_PLH
– Call at 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
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