Lecture TimeWednesday 2:30pm - 4:15pm
VenueWMY 407
LanguageEnglish
Lecturer LUK Chi Hung Gary
Teaching Assistant Zhu Gehui (1155098610@link.cuhk.edu.hk)
This course explores Hong Kong from the mid-nineteenth to the early twenty-first century from global historical perspectives. To contextualize modern Hong Kong within the history of the world, the course will first introduce some of the key concepts, frameworks, and issues in the rapidly emerging field of global history, and then examine the ways in which Hong Kong’s politics, economy, society, and culture have been connected and integrated to Asian regions, Euro-America, and many other parts of the world for the past 180 years. Chronologically and thematically organized, the lectures revolve around the theme that Hong Kong history is important, if not essential, for us to understand and rethink various aspects of global developments within different temporal-spatial frameworks such as merchant capitalism, transpacific Chinese passages, the Cold War, and postwar Sino-US relations. The course is multidisciplinary; students will read readings on Hong Kong and global history in the fields of history, international relations, politics, economics, anthropology, literature, and cultural studies.
Take-home exam (35%)
Tutorials (40%)
Article review (15%)
Class participation (10%)
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