This is a mandatory course designed for the first year research postgraduate students of the History Department. The goal is to prepare the students with a wide-range knowledge of modern historiography. This course is conducted in the form of a small group seminar. Students will engage in presentations and intensive group discussion.
Lecture 01 (2025.09.04) Introduction (Surviving the academia)
Lecture 02 (2025.09.11) Reading, thinking, writing (I)
Lecture 03 (2025.09.18) Reading, thinking, writing (II)
Lecture 04 (2025.09.25) Reading, thinking, writing (III)
Lecture 05 (2025.10.02)
– 特邀演講:歐陽哲生,〈作為中國抗戰大使的胡適形象〉。Guest Lecture: Ouyang Zhesheng, “Zuowei zhongguo kangzhan dashi de Hu Shi [The image of Hu Shi as the Chinese Ambassador during the War against Japanese Invasion.”
* Presentation and discussion Every Rpg will have to present for 20 minutes on a single historical document highly relevant to her/his research proposal. This document needs to be submitted to the course instructor at least one week before her/his presentation for distribution to all Rpgs.
Lecture 06 (2025.10.09): Presentation/Discussion
– Round 1: Student 01 will present for 20 minutes, followed by group discussion for 25 minutes
– Round 2: Student 02 will present for 20 minutes, followed by group discussion for 25 minutes
Lecture 07 (2025.10.16): Presentation/Discussion
– Round 1: Student 03 will present for 20 minutes, followed by group discussion for 25 minutes
– Round 2: Student 04 will present for 20 minutes, followed by group discussion for 25 minutes
Lecture 08 (2025.10.23): Presentation/Discussion
– Round 1: Student 05 will present for 20 minutes, followed by group discussion for 25 minutes
– Round 2: Student 06 will present for 20 minutes, followed by group discussion for 25 minutes
Lecture 09 (2025.10.30): Presentation/Discussion
– Round 1: Student 07 will present for 20 minutes, followed by group discussion for 25 minutes
– Round 2: Student 08 will present for 20 minutes, followed by group discussion for 25 minutes
Lecture 10 (2025.11.06): Presentation/Discussion
– Round 1: Student 10 will present for 20 minutes, followed by group discussion for 25 minutes
– Round 2: Student 11 will present for 20 minutes, followed by group discussion for 25 minutes
Lecture 11 (2025.11.13): Presentation/Discussion
– Round 1: Student 12 will present for 20 minutes, followed by group discussion for 25 minutes
– Round 2: Student 13 will present for 20 minutes, followed by group discussion for 25 minutes
Lecture 12 (2025.11.20): Presentation/Discussion
– Round 1: Student 14 will present for 20 minutes, followed by group discussion for 25 minutes
Lecture 13 (2025.11.27): Conclusion
Class Performance: 10%
Semester Paper: 90%
– An academic paper, title and content up to your own design. Please avoid repeating your research proposals 100%. Instead, focus on historical archives, build your arguments on concrete historical archives.
– Minimum word length: 6,000 English words or Chinese characters. Footnotes are also included as part of the word length. Bibliography is not counted as part of the word length, but you should provide a bibliography anyway.
– Citation format: Note and Bibliography
– Chicago Style https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html
– 《中央研究院歷史語言研究所集刊》格式https://www11.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/storage/cloud1/%E9%9B%86%E5%88%8A%E6%92%B0%E7%A8%BF%E9%A0%88%E7%9F%A5_20250101%E6%9B%B4%E6%96%B0.pdf
– To be submitted, IN MSWORD FILE FORMAT, on or before 2025.12.04 Thursday 23:59:59 to the Veriguide. Delay of submission by one day will lead to deduction of 20 marks, and so on and so forth.
請注意大學有關學術著作誠信的政策和規則,及適用於犯規事例的紀律指引和程序。詳情可瀏覽網址:http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/。
學生遞交作業時,必須連同已簽署的聲明一併提交,表示他們知道有關政策、規則、指引及程序。
未有夾附簽署妥當的聲明的作業,老師將不予批閱。
學生只須提交作業的最終版本。
學生將作業或作業的一部份用於超過一個用途(例如:同時符合兩科的要求)而沒有作出聲明會被視為未有聲明重覆使用作業。學生重覆使用其著作的措辭或某一、二句句子很常見,並可以接受,惟重覆使用全部內容則構成問題。在任何情況下,須先獲得相關老師同意方可提交作業。