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:

Undergraduate programme: Between 8:30pm on 16 January 2017 and 8:30pm on 22 January 2017
Postgraduate programmes: Between 10am on 9 January 2017 and 5:30pm on 23 January 2017

Application for the Leung Hung Kee Scholarships for Distinguished History Undergraduate Students to Undertake Research Work

Leung Hung Kee Scholarships for Distinguished History Undergraduate Students to Undertake Research Work are now open for application. The application deadline is 15 March 2017. Late or incomplete applications will NOT be considered. For details of the Scholarships and the application form, please download at: https://www.history.cuhk.edu.hk/internal/ug/Leung_Hung_Kee_Scholarships_for_Hist_Ugs_to_Undertake_Research_Work_1617.pdf

Should you have any questions, please call at 3943 7117 or email to vickitsang@arts.cuhk.edu.hk.

New Book Release by our Alumnus Dr. ZHU Lishuang

Recapping the talk The Floating “Territory”: Hong Kong Urban Immigrants’ Temples and Festivals after World War II of the Talk Series on “Temples, Charities and Social Control” under the Colonial Hong Kong delivered by Dr. LUI Wing Sing at the Hong Kong Museum of History on 7 January 2017

Hong Kong has been an open immigrant society since its establishment as a maritime port. Ethnic groups from different provinces and different dialects brought along various distinctive culture of their own and implanted such distinctiveness in Hong Kong where they integrated and at the same time established their own social identity. Such cultural experience is inevitably closely related to the ethnic groups’ daily activities and historical past.

Dr. LUI gave a public talk and shared with an audience of over 120. The talk attempted to understand the life experiences of Hong Kong’s early residents, their affiliation with their homeland and the development of invented social and cultural mechanisms though an investigation of the establishment, development of the Hong Kong Urban Immigrants’ Temples and Festivals after World War II.

Lecture and Symposium on “Law and Social Control in Comparison: Ancient China, Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece”

Prof. Anthony BARBIERI-LOW, Professor of Early Chinese History at the University of California at Santa Barbara has been invited as the guest speaker of the following lecture and symposium:

The lecture and symposium will be conducted in English. For seat reservation and enquiry, please call at 3943 5963 or email to yitao.kong@gmail.com.

Organiser: Centre for the Comparative Study of Antiquity, Research Institute for the Humanities, CUHK
Co-organiser: Centre for Chinese History, Department of History, CUHK
Sponsors: Taiwan Research Centre, Research Institute for the Humanities, CUHK;
                  Buddha Light Vihara Humanist Humanities Project

Talk Series on "Temples, Charities and Social Control under the Colonial Hong Kong"

The talk 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 2017 at the Lecture Hall, G/F, Hong Kong Museum of History:

The talk will be conducted in Cantonese. No reservation is needed. Seats are available on a first-come-first-served basis. For enquiry, please call 3943 7169.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Southeast Asia in Evolution: Trans-Pacific Agency and the City, c. 1850–1941

The period between the mid-nineteenth century and the onset of World War Two bore witness to major economic, political, environmental, and cultural developments in Southeast (SE) Asia. Broadly referred to the region’s modernisation phase much of this evolution was fuelled not just by colonialism or revolution but by the region’s shifting relationship with nations in the Americas, principally the United States (US). Notably, much of this advancement transpired within urban locales: towns and cities bore witness to many changes in their built form, and to how life was being lived within them.

This conference accordingly invites papers that engage with the theme of SE Asian-US connectivity between the mid-1800s and 1941. What, how, and why these developments came about within urban places are to be discussed in the context of the event. Particularly welcome are contributions that investigate the effect of American culture, economics, and politics upon Southeast Asian’s ‘progress’. Contributions that explore American Exceptionalism and imperialism, American civilisation and changing mores and customs in SE Asia, transportation, city designing, governance, industry, plus social and religious issues as well as the Asian grasp of modernity itself are encouraged. Papers with a cross-disciplinary and comparative approach are also welcome.

Abstracts of up to 250 words, along with paper title, name, affiliation, and contact details should be submitted on or before the deadline of Friday, 27 January 2017. For papers accepted by scholars based outside of Hong Kong SAR, financial assistance to cover accommodation and airport pick-up costs will be available. For additional information, or to submit a paper proposal, please contact Prof. Ian MORLEY, Department of History, The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
email: ianmorley@arts.cuhk.edu.hk.

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.