UGEC2944 The Peoples of Hong Kong in History

Being one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the World, Hong Kong encompasses people of different racial, ethnic and social backgrounds, that attributes to Hong Kong’s hybridity and diversity. This course introduces students to the history of Hong Kong by looking closely at the many varied peoples in Hong Kong. Hong Kong, the gateway to China and a former British colony with dominant Chinese population, how the life, experience and identity of different races, ethnicities and classes differs? What roles did they play in the rise of Hong Kong from a fishing village to a global hub for opportunity? How did their different stories together turn Hong Kong into a cultural melting pot? This course is relevant to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly in the area of SDG#8 Decent Work and Economic Growth, SDG#10 Reducing Inequalities and SDG#11 Sustainable Cities and Communities.

(1) Introduction and The Early Inhabitants of Hong Kong
(2) The Villagers and Village Life in Rural Hong Kong
(3) The Taipans: British Traders and the Opium War
(4) Comprador: The Chinese Merchant Elite
(5) The Other Europeans in Colonial Hong Kong: The Portuguese and the “Poor White”
(6) The Jewish Diaspora in Hong Kong
(7) Minority Within Minorities: The Parsees in Hong Kong
(8) Between the Two Worlds: Eurasians in Hong Kong
(9) Post-war Hong Kong: Emigrant Entrepreneurs
(10) “Long Live the Factory Girls”: Factory Girls in Post-war Hong Kong
(11) The Rebellious Generation: Students in the 1970s
(12) “Hongkongers” and “New Immigrants”
(13) Conclusion

30% Quiz
70% Final Paper

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With each assignment, students will be required to submit a signed declaration that they are aware of these policies, regulations, guidelines and procedures.

• In the case of group projects, all members of the group should be asked to sign the declaration, each of whom is responsible and liable to disciplinary actions, irrespective of whether he/she has signed the declaration and whether he/she has contributed, directly or indirectly, to the problematic contents.
• For assignments in the form of a computer-generated document that is principally text-based and submitted via VeriGuide, the statement, in the form of a receipt, will be issued by the system upon students’ uploading of the soft copy of the assignment.

Assignments without the properly signed declaration will not be graded by teachers.

Only the final version of the assignment should be submitted via VeriGuide.

The submission of a piece of work, or a part of a piece of work, for more than one purpose (e.g. to satisfy the requirements in two different courses) without declaration to this effect shall be regarded as having committed undeclared multiple submissions. It is common and acceptable to reuse a turn of phrase or a sentence or two from one’s own work; but wholesale reuse is problematic. In any case, agreement from the course teacher(s) concerned should be obtained prior to the submission of the piece of work.