Welcome Back!

Hope you all had a wonderful summer and wish you a successful academic year ahead!

Our warmest welcome to all new students of the Department of History!

 

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Congratulations to Prof. HE Xi on Receiving the CUHK Research Excellence Awards 2021-22

Congratulations to Prof. HE Xi on receiving the CUHK Research Excellence Awards 2021-22 in recognition of her remarkable accomplishments in research. Her selected research outputs are given below.

• HE, X. (2020). Lineage and Community in China, 1100-1500: Genealogical Innovation in Jiangxi. The Historical Anthropology of Chinese Society Series. London: Routledge. 240 pp.
• HE, X. (2017). The Last of the Li: Ritual Texts and Shifting Ethnicities in Hainan. Asian Ethnicity, 18(2), 236-249.
• HE, X. (2018). From the Li People to the Li Ethnicity: A Reflection of the Ethnography in the Five-Finger Mountains of Hainan Island. Journal of Peking University (Philosophy & Social Sciences), 55(5), 150-160.

 

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Congratulations to our Teaching Staff Awarded Research Funds

Our Department continued to succeed in the recent funding exercises of RGC General Research Fund 2022-23 and RGC Early Career Scheme 2022-23. We would like to extend our congratulations to our distinguished teaching staff members who were successful in securing the grants. 

 
RGC General Research Fund 2022-23

Prof. CHEUNG Hiu Yu Jack	Nexus of Memory: The Colophon Phenomenon in the Early Twelfth Century [Details …]
Prof. James MORTON	Law and Orthodoxy: Legal Scholarship in the Byzantine Church c. 1050-1204 [Details …]
Prof. TSE Wai Kit Wicky	The “Free-floating Elements” in Early Imperial China —The Illicit Mobility of the Runaway Population and Bureaucratic Responses [Details …]

RGC Early Career Scheme 2022-23

Prof. LUK Chi Hung Gary

British Colonialism and the Making of Littoral Society: The Chinese Waterborne Population and Watercraft in the Colonial Archive of Hong Kong, 1841–1898 [Details …]

 

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Course Enrolments

Students who wish to change their 2022-23 First Term course enrolments are reminded to do so via the CUSIS during the following specified add/drop periods:

Undergraduate programme: Between 8:30pm on 13 September 2022 and 8:30pm on 19 September 2022

Postgraduate programmes: Between 10am on 5 September 2022 and 5:30pm on 19 September 2022

 

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Honouring the Retirement of Professor LEUNG Yuen Sang

Prof. LEUNG Yuen Sang retired at the end of July 2022.

Prof. LEUNG graduated from Chung Chi College of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. After received his Bachelor and MPhil. Degrees in History, he continued his studies in the United States. He has taught in Singapore and United States before returning to his alma mater in 1992. Prof. LEUNG has served as the Chair Professor and Head of Department of History, Head of Chung Chi College, Dean of Faculty of Arts, Chair of Research Institute of the Humanities, Director of Research Centre for Contemporary Chinese Culture and Institute of Chinese Studies, and has been awarded the title of Emeritus Professor.

Prof. LEUNG is the founder of M.A. Programme in Comparative and Public History, the first-of-its-kind programme to promote Public History in Hong Kong and China. The Programme was established in 2004 and is one of the most popular Taught Postgraduate Programmes in CUHK.

The Department would like to extend its appreciation to Prof. LEUNG for his contributions to the Department, CUHK and academia.

 

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Reappointments

Prof. CHEUNG Hiu Yu Jack and Prof. LAM Weng Cheong have been reappointed as Associate Professor with effect from 1 August 2022 and 3 August 2022 respectively.

 

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New Appointment

We extend our welcome to Dr. CHEN Wenyan, who joined the Department of History as Lecturer on 1 August 2022.

Dr. CHEN gained her Bachelor and Master Degrees from Sun Yat-sen University, and received her Ph.D. in History from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr. CHEN will teach HIST5011B Perspectives in Comparative and Public History; and GESC2150 Reconstruction of Hong Kong History and Social Development in Term 1; HIST2010 Oral History: Methods and Practices; and UGED2233G Women and Children in Chinese History in Term 2; and UGEA2230G Introduction to Transformation in Chinese History in Summer Term.

 

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Recapping the World History Seminar “Acculturation and Authority in the Roman and Han Empires” conducted by Prof. Carlos NOREÑA on 14 April 2022

Prof. Carlos NOREÑA from the Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, was invited by the Centre for Comparative and Public History to deliver a lecture entitled “Acculturation and Authority in the Roman and Han Empires” on 14 April 2022. Prof. NOREÑA has unearthed some surprising insights on the diffusion and replication of metropolitan cultures and their interaction with local cultures in the Roman and Han Empires through his research. Situating cultural production within the institutions of imperial power, he found an inverse relationship between political centralism and cultural production in the Han empire but a positive relationship in the case of the Roman empire. A comparative case study of monarchist rituals in both empires shows that there were critical differences in how religious authority was represented. In Rome, imperial sacrifices were performed in open forums. In contrast, sacrifices were performed secretly in early China. This dichotomy points towards a larger question of acculturation in the Roman empire. Prof. NOREÑA observes that acculturation generated basic vocabulary through which political power and religious authority were consolidated. As the case study in both empires shows, acculturation facilitated the legitimation of respective political authority, albeit to different degrees and forms depending on the content of the particular local norm.

 

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Recapping the World History Seminar “West African and World History: A New Perspective” conducted by Prof. Toby GREEN on 21 April 2022

Prof. Toby GREEN from the Department of History, King’s College London, was invited by the Centre for Comparative and Public History to deliver a lecture entitled “West African and World History: A New Perspective” on 21 April 2022. Prof. GREEN explored the Western African contribution to global history. European textual sources point to the history of trade, slavery and relations between African and European kingdoms. However, oral or symbolic West African sources point beyond the trans-Atlantic slave trade and shed light on West African kingdoms such as Benin, Kongo and Mali in the precolonial. Existing historical works on the Atlantic world and early modern globalisation had paid less attention to the role of West Africa in the creation of modern societies. Focusing on the rise of capitalism in the period between 17th century to the early 19th century, Prof. GREEN showed that West Africa plays a fundamental role in the exchange of currencies and the production of surplus which fuels the rise of the industrial revolution. West African History therefore contributes to a deeper understanding of the world histories and legacies of global capitalism and the age of revolution in the light of the changing global relationships.

 

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Recapping the Orientation Workshop for Research Postgraduate Students 2022-23 conducted on 9 August 2022

The Orientation Workshop for Research Postgraduate Students was conducted on 9 August 2022. The workshop was hosted by Prof. PUK Wing Kin, Head of Graduate Division, with the welcome notes delivered by Prof. CHEUNG Sui Wai, Department Chairman. It provided an overview of the Department and programme features to postgraduate students. Miss Emily CHEUNG, Assistant Lecturer, then gave a briefing on the duty of teaching assistants in the Department.

 

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World History Seminar (2022-23)

 

Organisers: Centre for Comparative and Public History, Department of History, CUHK
Enquiry: 3943 8541

 

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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 Monday.