Department News
Research Postgraduate History Students Named CUHK Data Champions 2025
Two of our MPhil students, Ms. Mar Lorence Ticao (Year 2) and Mr. Lam Hoi Sing (Year 1), have been selected as Data Champions in 2025. This university-wide initiative promotes best practices in Research Data Management (RDM). This year, 16 postgraduate students and staff from eight faculties have been appointed as ambassadors for responsible data stewardship within their disciplines.
Effective data management plays a vital role in organizing, preserving, and sharing research materials. Our RPg students’ appointments reflect the increasing recognition of RDM in the humanities and the Faculty of Arts’ commitment to fostering data literacy. As Data Champions, they will advise peers on research data practices, promote good data management principles, and serve as a bridge between faculty researchers and the CUHK Library’s support services.
The Inauguration Ceremony took place on 13 March 2025 during the Data Excellence Week 2025 (10-14 March 2025) at CUHK Library, which featured workshops, lectures, and panel discussions on RDM.
Congratulations to our Data Champions! We look forward to seeing more of their contributions in enhancing research data practices within the Faculty of Arts and the wider research community.
Photo credit: CUHK Library
Academic Activities
Recapping the World History Seminar “The Emperor’s Maze: The Western Garden in Yuanming Yua” on 10 March 2025
Prof. Andrew Hui from the Yale-NUS College in Singapore was invited by the Department of History to give a talk entitled “The Emperor’s Maze: The Western Garden in Yuanming Yuan” on 10 March 2025. Prof. Hui has proposed a conceptual model of the maze as embodying the harmony of opposites in both Western and Chinese cosmologies. In Chinese aesthetics, this is expressed through the maze-like character Shou and the concept of Wan (swastika), both of which serve as insignia of identity and authority, and embodying a cosmological vision of interconnected multiplicity. In the European tradition, the labyrinth, with its twists and deceptive pathways, has long stood as an epistemic and spiritual metaphor for confusion, disorientation and revelation. By reconstructing and comparing the two orders of the maze in detail between China and the West from ancient Egypt to the Renaissance, Prof. Hui argued that the Jesuit-designed Wanhuazhen (Formation of Ten Thousand Flowers) in the Qing Imperial Garden, Yuanming Yuan, formed a physical embodiment of the entanglement between these two orders of cosmology, where the Jesuits attempted to harmonize Western metaphysical thought with Chinese cosmology.
Upcoming Events
Academic Seminar
| Date: | 25 March 2025 (Tuesday) |
| Time: | 4:30pm-6:00pm |
| Venue: | LT6, Yasumoto International Academic Park, CUHK (YIA LT6) |
| Speakers: | Prof. LU Fang-sang Republic of China History and Culture Society . Prof. CHEN Hongmin Research Center for Chiang Kai-shek and Modern China, Zhejiang University |
| Language: | Putonghua |
Organizer: Centre for Chinese History, Department of History, CUHK
Enquiry: 3943 8541
International Symposium
| Date & Time: | 26 March 2025 (Wednesday), 9:00am-4:15pm 27 March 2025 (Thursday), 10:00am-12:15pm |
| Venue: | Room 101, Fung King Hey Building, CUHK (KHB 101) |
| Language: | Putonghua |
Organizers: Centre for Chinese History, Department of History, CUHK; New Asia Institute of Advanced Chinese Studies
Enquiry: 3943 8541
New Book Talk
| Date: | 26 March 2025 (Wednesday) |
| Time: | 6:30pm-8:00pm |
| Venue: | Study Room, G/F, University Library, CUHK |
| Speaker: | Prof. CHEN Yixin Department of History, University of North Carolina Wilmington |
| Panelist: | Prof. CAO Shuji Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong |
| Moderator: | Prof. PUK Wing Kin Department of History, CUHK |
| Language: | Putonghua |
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Organizers: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press; Department of History, CUHK; The Chinese University of Hong Kong Library
Enquiry: 3943 9800
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.
