HIST2501 Hong Kong History in the Field
(not for History Major Undergraduate students)
(not for students who have taken HIST2500 and/or HIST2701)

This course introduces the history of Hong Kong through its “fields.” It examines how various field sites such as temples, archives, museums, historical trails, and renovated historical buildings could be used to understand the history of different places, events, and people in Hong Kong from the ancient period to the present. After a brief introduction to the historical development of Hong Kong, the course discusses aspects of rural and urban Hong Kong history before and after the coming of the British in 1841. The second section of the course explains different “fields” in Hong Kong and the diversity of local communities and cultures. To help students understand Hong Kong, the course provides much chance for students to pursue field studies in different local areas.

1. Hong Kong History and Its Fields: An Introduction
2. Archaeological Sites of Hong Kong
3. Rural History of Hong Kong: The New Territories
4. Piracy, Forts and Cannons in Hong Kong
5. Remnants of Hong Kong’s Victoria City
6. Hong Kong under Japanese Occupation: Oral History and Commemorative Sites
7. History Writing Workshop
8. Museum
9. Historical Archives
10. Historical Buildings and Revitalization
11. Intangible Cultural Heritage
12. Maritime Heritage
13. Non-Chinese Communities in Hong Kong

• Field trips (to Tai Po on February 15, 2025, and the promenade of Victoria Harbour on March 22, 2025)
• Field reports (30%)
• Presentation (30%)
• Term paper (40%)

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See the course outline.

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.