Dr. SIU Kam Wah gave a history database reference tool workshop and an undergraduate programme admission talk to 29 students and a teacher of Higher Diploma Program (Applied History Studies) of the School of Continuing and Professional Studies, CUHK, at the University Library on 24 September 2019.

 

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Dr. SIU Kam Wah offered an academic talk on “Urban Life and Culture in Song China as Seen from the Painting Along the River during the Qingming Festival” and an undergraduate programme admission talk to more than two hundred students and teachers at St. Paul’s Co-educational College on 8 October 2019.

 

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Recapping the Academic Seminar “田野經驗如何與歷史文獻結合” conducted by Prof. HE Xi on 11 October 2019

Prof. HE Xi elaborated on how to combine fieldwork experience with history materials in research in three aspects. First, in the fieldwork, we need to concentrate on what writing materials do not tell us. Prof. HE articulated the “danger” of writings, such as missing the description of people’s daily life in ancient literatures. Researchers are required to fill in the missing pieces by doing fieldwork, questioning the processes and then tracing back to the old time. Second, we should pay attention to how the standardisation of literature affects the recorded content. Prof. HE summarised the “minimal tradition” presented in Ouyang Xiu’s genealogy and explained how ceremonies of the nobility spread to the common people. Third, we have to learn how to interpret literature in a fieldwork approach, which requires solid fieldwork experience, detailed literature review and vivid imagination. By continuously deepening the understanding of fieldwork and literature, the stories that we tell will be more enriching and interesting, and be restored closer to the historical scene.

 

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Information Seminar for the M.A. Programme in Comparative and Public History cum Public Lecture

Orgainser: M.A. Programme in Comparative and Public History, Department of History, CUHK

Enquiry: 3943 8659

 

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Workshops for the Final-Year RPg Students 2019-20

For enquiry, please call 3943 7448.

 

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升學分享會2019-20

 

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Yu Ying-shih Lecture in History 2019

To enhance academic and cultural exchange, Chung Chi College, New Asia College and the Department of History of the University joined hands in 2007 to establish the “Yu Ying-shih Lecture in History”. This year, Professor HE Jun, Distinguished Professor and Doctoral Advisor, School of Philosophy, Fudan University, has been invited as the guest speaker of the following two public lectures:

For enquiry, please call 3943 1585/3943 7611.

 

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Public Lectures on History 2019-20

With One Hundred Years of the May Fourth Movement as the theme, two distinguished scholars will deliver lectures in November 2019.

Admission is free; reservation is required.
– For online registration and more information, please visit www.history.cuhk.edu.hk/Event/2019_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

 

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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 Tuesday.