Department News
Call for Applications – M.Phil. & Ph.D. Programmes
The Department of History invites applications for its M.Phil. and Ph.D. Programmes for the 2026-27 intake.
Application Deadline: 1 December 2025
For further information on the admission requirements and application procedures, click on the programme profiles listed below.
►M.Phil. Programme in History
►Ph.D. Programme in History
Upcoming Events
Online Information Session for MPhil & PhD in History
| Date: | 14 November 2025 (Friday) |
| Time: | 5:00pm |
| Venue: | Conducted online via ZOOM |
| Language: | English & Putonghua |
Please click here for online registration.
For enquiries, please call at 3943 8541.
Yu Ying-shih Lecture in History 2025/26
To enhance academic and cultural exchange, Chung Chi College, New Asia College and the Department of History of the University joined hands in 2007 to establish the “Yu Ying-shih Lecture in History”. This year, Professor WANG Ming-ke, Guest Chair Professor of History at Peking University, and Academician of Academia Sinica, has been invited as the guest speaker of the following two public lectures:
| Date: | 15 November 2025 (Saturday) |
| Time: | 3:00pm |
| Venue: | Lecture Hall, G/F, Hong Kong Museum of History |
| Moderator: | Prof. LAM Weng Cheong Department of History, CUHK |
| Remarks: | 139 seats, allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Audience will be admitted 15 minutes before the lecture starts. |
| Date: | 17 November 2025 (Monday) |
| Time: | 4:00pm |
| Venue: | Cho Yiu Hall, G/F, University Administration Building, CUHK |
| Moderator: | Prof. HE Xi Department of History, CUHK |
All lectures will be conducted in Putonghua. Participation in person or online via ZOOM is welcome.
For registration, please complete the online registration form.
For enquiries, please call at 3943 7609.
Workshops for the Final-Year RPg Students 2025-26
Session 1: 9:15am-1:00pm
| Presenter | Topic | Language |
| CHEUNG Kit Yee | 比較考古學視野下的南方史前再思考——沅水流域與環珠江口社會複雜化 | Putonghua |
| ZHU Lizhen | 流動島嶼：清至民國長江口沙洲的開發與治理 | Putonghua |
| HOU Menglun | 塋域、軍功與喪葬：金元時代山東中部宗譜碑再研究 | Putonghua |
| CHENG Kui Wa | 拘儒所憂：秦至西漢時期的言說觀念嬗變 | Putonghua |
| SHU Yue | 地下的「戰爭」：漢代墓葬中的戰爭圖像 | Putonghua |
| YANG Siyuan | 嘉禮吉禮之間：南朝齊永明釋奠議 | Putonghua |
| YANG Yunfei | 地方志、正史與宋明之間汪伯彥形象的定型 | Putonghua |
Session 2: 2:15pm-5:45pm
| Presenter | Topic | Language |
| HUANG Xiadong | Tropical Synchronicity: The Creole Fruits in 19th-Century Mauritius and South China | English |
| PEI Xiaoshan | 駝峰上的武備：清朝巡幸用駝制度探析 | Putonghua |
| WATERHOUSE Isaac Joseph | The Development of Institutional Buddhism in 20th Century Hong Kong | English |
| LAM Hoi Sing | Public Space, Disturbance and Decolonization in British Hong Kong and Portuguese Macau after 1966 | English |
| WONG Kin Lok | Between Vernacular and Official Memory: The Volunteer Corps and War Commemoration in Postwar Hong Kong | English |
| REBONG Ma. Donna Solis | Enabling Citizenship?: The Role of Disability and Mental Health Management during the American Colonial Period (1898-1935) | English |
For enquiry, please call 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.
