Recapping the “Meeting with Zhejiang University Delegation of Morningside Scholars Program” on 21 February 2024

On 21 February 2024, a group of outstanding students and teachers of the Zhejiang University Morningside Cultural China Scholars Program came to CUHK for a study visit. Prof. CHEUNG Sui Wai, the Chairman was delighted to meet with the delegation and gave a talk. During the talk, students gained an understanding of the geographic history of CUHK and our Department. Students were also benefited from the sharing by Prof. CHEUNG on research methodologies.

Recapping the World History Seminar “Writing Acts: The Power of Writing in the Ancien Régime” on 22 February 2024

Prof. Giora STERNBERG, Ellis-Barnard Fellow and Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Oxford, was invited by the Centre for Comparative and Public History to deliver a lecture entitled “Writing Acts: The Power of Writing in the Ancien Régime” on 22 February 2024. This talk served as a preview of the speaker’s forthcoming monograph, introducing “writing acts” as a conceptual framework for studying the power of writing in early modern Europe. He emphasized the importance of the writing medium to writing acts by pinpointing the former’s properties such as materiality and temporality. Prof. STERNBERG then examined the different stages in the documentary life-course of writing products in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and discussed the spectra of writers and actors that shaped the practices of writing acts during that period. Using ceremonial records and protestations from Ancien Régime France (c. 1650-1789) as paradigmatic genres, he illustrated how writing acts were deployed on the social and political agenda in the early modern period.

Recapping the New Book Talk “Betting on the Civil Service Examinations: The Lottery in Late Qing China” on 23 February 2024

The New Book Talk “Betting on the Civil Service Examinations: The Lottery in Late Qing China” was held on 23 February 2024.

Prof. En LI of University of Texas at Dallas reconstructed the inner mechanisms of lottery (weixing) in the southern province of Guangdong from weixing-related examination scandals in 1885 to nearly 100 participants.

Public Lectures on History and Business in China 2023-24

Public Lectures on History and Business in China 2023-24 will be held in March 2024. Professor François GIPOULOUX, Director of Research (Emeritus) of the National Center for Scientific Research, has been invited as the guest speaker to deliver two public lectures.

Lectures will be conducted in English.

Admission is free; reservation is required. To reserve a seat, please
– Register online at www.history.cuhk.edu.hk/2024_HBC
– Call at 3943 8541

For more information, please visit www.history.cuhk.edu.hk/2024_HBC or www.hkpl.gov.hk

Organisers: Department of History, CUHK; Centre for Comparative and Public History, Department of History, CUHK; M.A. Programme in Comparative and Public History, Department of History, CUHK; Hong Kong Public Libraries, Leisure and Cultural Services Department

Sponsor: Eminence History Department Fund, CUHK

Lecture Series on Historical Research

Organiser: M.A. Programme in Comparative and Public History, Department of History, CUHK
Enquiry: 3943 8659

World History Seminar (2023-24)

Organisers: Centre for Comparative and Public History, Department of History, CUHK
Enquiry: 3943 8541

Academic Seminar

Organiser: M.A. Programme in Comparative and Public History, Department of History, CUHK
Enquiry: 3943 7448

For teachers and students who have information to share with the Department, please email your articles in both Chinese and English to chanfiona@cuhk.edu.hk by 4:00pm every Monday.