HIST6010 Graduate Seminar on Historiography
[Required course of MPhil Programme]

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*   Presentation and discussion Every Rpg will have to present for 20 minutes on a single historical document highly relevant to her/his research proposal.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.

Attention is drawn to University policy and regulations on honesty in academic work, and to the disciplinary guidelines and procedures applicable to breaches of such policy and regulations. Details may be found at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/.

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.