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.  Through a series of lectures by invited professors (including potential supervisors of new students), the students could have the chance to learn and appreciate various approaches to the study of history.  

At the lectures, the invited professors will share with students their research experience and present their research projects or findings in class focusing on research methodologies, approaches, and issues related to historiography, i.e., the writing of history based on the critical use of sources, the selection of particulars from the sources and the synthesis of particulars that will demonstrate the author’s historian’s crafts, other techniques of inquiry and investigation, or writing skills. If available, a list of readings, which may or may not be the speaker’s own works, can be provided by the professor to support the lecture.

The lecture may last about 60 minutes. The enrolled students are required to attend all classes. After the lecture, students may ask questions or present their comments on the lecture as well as the readings. Each student should give oral feedback on at least 5 lectures. By the end of the term, each student should turn in three critical reports on three selected topics among the lectures (average 5 pages each in Chinese or English). In addition, they are to submit revised thesis project proposals which are polished from the ones submitted when they applied for admission to the postgraduate programme. It is expected that the revisions are improved works inspirited by this course.

Assignments

1.Three critical reports on three selected topics among the lectures (average 5 pages each in Chinese or English)

 2. Revised thesis project proposal

Assessment

 1.Attendance and Class participation        30%

 2.Written reports                                    40%

 3.Revised thesis project proposal             30%

Readings（To be updated）

Week 2:

Michael Flower, Herodotus and Persia. Published by Cambridge University Press:The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus, in 2006:274-289.

Herodotus, The Histories, (Book One, Book Seven, Book Eight and Book Nine) Translated by Aubrey De Selincourt, Revised with Introduction and Notes by John Marincola.

Thucydides, The War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians,  edited and translated by Jeremy Mynott. Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (March 28, 2013)

Thomas R. Martin, Herodotus and Sima Qian: The First Great Historians of Greece and China. Bedford/St. Martin’s; First Edition edition (September 8, 2009)

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War. Translated by Rex Warner.

Xenophon, The Expedition of Cyrus. Translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press.

Week 3

1)      David Taylor. Ginseng, the Divine Root. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books Chapel Hill, 2006.

2)      蒋竹山：〈非参不治，服必万全：清代江南的人参药用与补药文化〉,中国社会历史评论8 (2007)

3)      蒋竹山：〈清代的人参书写与分类方式的转向：从博物学到商品指南〉,《华中师范大学学报（人文社会科学版）》2 (2008)

Week 5: 

(1)  Edward Said, Orientalism (New York : Vintage Books, 1979, c1978).

(2)  Sheridan Prasso, The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, and our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient (New York: Public Affairs, 2005).

(3)  Yunte Huang黄运特, Charlie Chan : the Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History (New York : W. W. Norton, c2010). 也可参考黄运特访问录：http://www.guancha.cn/Huang-Yunte/2014_04_12_219291.shtml

Week 6

David Faure,The Structure of Chinese Rural Society, Lineage and Village in the Eastern New Territories of Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Week 7:

J. A. Hobson, Imperialism: A Study. First published in 1902, second edition in 1905, third entirely revised and reset edition in 1938, reprinted by London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. in 1954.

D. K. Fieldhouse, Colonialism, 1870-1945: an Introduction, 1976, Republished by London: The Macmillan Press Ltd., in 1981, reprinted in 1983. 

Romesh Dutt, The Economic History of India under Early British Rule: From the Rise of the British Power in 1757 to the Accession of Queen Victoria in 1837, Volume I, Great Britain: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1902.

Abhijit Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer, “Colonial Land Tenure, Electoral Competition, and Public Goods in India,” in Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson (ed.), Natural Emperiments of History, Cambridge, Massachusettes: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010. 

Michael Palmer, “The Surface-Subsoil Form of Divided Ownership in Late Imperial China: Some Examples from the New Territories of Hong Kong, Modern Asian Studies 21, no. 1 (1987): 1-119.

The Civil Code of Japan, translated by W. J. Sebald, Japan: J. L. Thompson & Co. (Retail) Limited; London: Butterworth & Co., Bell Yard, Temple Bar, 1934. 

Wilhelm Rohl (ed.), History of Law in Japan since 1868, Leiden: Brill, 2005.

Week 9:

蔡志祥、韦锦新编 (2014), 《延续与变迁:香港社区建醮传统的民族志》香港: 香港中文大学出版社.

蔡志祥(2010)   “2010年神户华侨普度胜会的考察: 一些初步的感想” 《日华》第58号，21-24。

Choi  Chi-cheung (1988)”The Chinese ‘Yue lan’ ghost festival in Japan: a Kobe case study, Aug.31-Sept.4, 1982″ Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society vol.24 (1984 issue): 230-263.

Week 10

何佩然: 《筑景思城: 香港建造业发展史 》上篇, 第一至第三章, 页79-126.

罗香林: 〈香港早期之打石史蹟及其与香港建设之关系〉《食货月刊》1971年12月, 卷一, 第九期

Carl Smith, “The Emergence of a Chinese Elite in Hong Kong”, Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of Royal Asiatic Society, 1971, vol 11.

Week11

1.邓聪、王方：〈二里头牙璋(VM3:4)在南中国的波及〉，纪念二里头遗址发现55周年学术研讨会发表论文，2014年10月。(attachment: TC Paper 1.pdf)
2.邓聪、栾丰实、王强：〈东亚最早的牙璋──山东龙山式牙璋初论〉，《玉润东方：大汶口──龙山良渚玉器文化展》，北京：文物出版社，2014年。(attachment: TC Paper 2.pdf)
3.邓聪(编)：《南中国及邻近地区古文化研究》，香港：中文大学出版社，1994年。

4.许宏：《最早的中国》，北京：科学出版社，2009年。

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