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.

【To be revised】

Lecture 01 (2025.09.04)

Lecture 02 (2025.09.11)

Lecture 03 (2025.09.18): Sharing of two budding scholars……

Lecture 04 (2025.09.25)

Lecture 05 (2025.10.02)

Lecture 06 (2025.10.09)

Lecture 07 (2025.10.16)

Lecture 08 (2025.10.23)

Lecture 09 (2025.10.30)

Lecture 10 (2025.11.06)

Lecture 11 (2025.11.13)

Lecture 12 (2025.11.20)

Lecture 13 (2025.11.27)

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 here.

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
• 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. 
• Students are fully aware that their work may be investigated by AI content detection software to determine originality.
• Students are fully aware of the AI approach(es) adopted in the course. In the case where some AI tools are allowed, students have made proper acknowledgment and citations as instructed by the course teacher.

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.

The copyright of the teaching materials, including lecture notes, assignments and examination questions etc., produced by staff members/ teachers of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) belongs to CUHK. Students may download the teaching materials produced by the staff members/ teachers from the Learning Management Systems, e.g. Blackboard adopted by CUHK for their own educational use, but shall not distribute/ share/ copy the materials to a third-party without seeking prior permission from the staff members/ teachers concerned.