HIST7010 Graduate Seminar on Historiography
[Required course of PhD 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. Each student is required to do two presentations, one on an article of his or her own choice from the Journal of Asian Studies, Comparative Studies in Society and History, or Modern Asian Studies (2015-2024), the other on three different reviews of a book also of his or her own choice. Presentations and discussion will focus on research methodologies, approaches, and issues related to historiography. Presenters are expected to give a presentation of about 30 minutes and lead the discussion. The presentation schedule will be determined on 6 September 2024 in class. At the end of the semester, students are required to submit a review article of a minimum of three studies (including the article chosen for the presentation).

– From Lecture 06 onwards, each lecture will be co-hosted by two students. They should write either a research paper or a single book review (but not a state-of-the-field survey). They should email no less than 3,000 English words or 5,000 Chinese characters to Hou Menglun the TA one week before the lecture at the latest.

– Please follow the “Note and bibliography” format of the Chicago Styles https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html in the writings.

– In the case of single book reviews, students should choose research works published within the last three years, and help solicit the e-copies such as pdf for the tutor.

– The TA will then send the two works and the books-to-be-reviewed to all members of the course one week before the lecture at the latest.

Lecture 01 (2024.09.06): Blown away by Typhoon Yagi

Lecture 02 (2024.09.13): Introduction

Lecture 03 (2024.09.20): Sharing of two budding scholars……

Lecture 04 (2024.09.27): Special Lecture: 黃克武，歷史的真實與虛無：當代中國有關「歷史虛無主義」的辯論

Lecture 05 (2024.10.04): Special Lecture: 黃克武，1950-60年代港台自由主義興衰：以《自由人》與《自由中國》為例

2024.10.11 is Public Holiday (Chung Yeung Festival). No Class!

Lecture 06 (2024.10.18): Presentation/Discussion

– Round 1: Cheung Kit Yee to present for 10 minutes, followed by comments for 20 minutes by Shu Yue and group discussion for 15 minutes

– Round 2: Shu Yue to present for 10 minutes, followed by comments for 20 minutes by Cheung Kit Yee and group discussion for 15 minutes

– They should email no less than 3,000 English words or 5,000 Chinese characters to Hou Menglun the TA on or before 2024.10.11.

Lecture 07 (2024.10.25): Presentation/Discussion

– Round 1: Xu Yijie to present for 10 minutes, followed by comments for 20 minutes by Lei Min and group discussion for 15 minutes

– Round 2: Lei Min to present for 10 minutes, followed by comments for 20 minutes by Xu Yijie and group discussion for 15 minutes

– They should email no less than 3,000 English words or 5,000 Chinese characters to Hou Menglun the TA on or before 2024.10.18.

Lecture 08 (2024.11.01): Presentation/Discussion

– Round 1: Xu Suxia to present for 10 minutes, followed by comments for 20 minutes by Xiao Bingyi and group discussion for 15 minutes

– Round 2: Xiao Bingyi to present for 10 minutes, followed by comments for 20 minutes by Xu Suxia and group discussion for 15 minutes

– They should email no less than 3,000 English words or 5,000 Chinese characters to Hou Menglun the TA on or before 2024.10.25.

Lecture 09 (2024.11.08): Presentation/Discussion

– Round 1: Isaac Waterhouse to present for 10 minutes, followed by comments for 20 minutes by Chen Junlin and group discussion for 15 minutes

– Round 2: Chen Junlin to present for 10 minutes, followed by comments for 20 minutes by Isaac Waterhouse and group discussion for 15 minutes

– They should email no less than 3,000 English words or 5,000 Chinese characters to Hou Menglun the TA on or before 2024.11.01.

Lecture 10 (2024.11.15): Presentation/Discussion

– Round 1: Tu Junfeng to present for 10 minutes, followed by comments for 20 minutes by Yang Siyuan and group discussion for 15 minutes

– Round 2: Yang Siyuan to present for 10 minutes, followed by comments for 20 minutes by Tu Junfeng and group discussion for 15 minutes

– They should email no less than 3,000 English words or 5,000 Chinese characters to Hou Menglun the TA on or before 2024.11.08.

Lecture 11 (2024.11.22): Presentation/Discussion

– Round 1: Lam Hoi Sing to present for 10 minutes, followed by comments for 20 minutes by Wong Kin Lok and group discussion for 15 minutes

– Round 2: Wong Kin Lok to present for 10 minutes, followed by comments for 20 minutes by Lam Hoi Sing and group discussion for 15 minutes

– They should email no less than 3,000 English words or 5,000 Chinese characters to Hou Menglun the TA on or before 2024.11.15.

Lecture 12 (2024.11.29): Presentation/Discussion

– Round 1: Cheng Kui Wa to present for 10 minutes, followed by comments for 20 minutes by Student B and group discussion for 15 minutes

– They should email no less than 3,000 English words or 5,000 Chinese characters to Hou Menglun the TA on or before 2024.11.22.

Class Performance:     10%

Semester Paper:          90%

– A semester paper could be either a research paper or a single book review but not a state-of-the-field survey (minimum 6,000 words in English or 10,000 characters in Chinese, including footnotes but excluding bibliography).

– Citation format: Note and Bibliography, Chicago Style https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html 

– To be submitted on or before 2024.12.02 Monday 23:59:59 to the Veriguide.

• Journal of Asian Studies
  https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-asian-studies/all-issues

• Comparative Studies in Society and History
  https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/comparative-studies-in-society-and-history

• Modern Asian Studies
  https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies

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.