HIST4500GL 香港史专题研究：Global Historical Perspectives on Modern Hong Kong

This course explores Hong Kong from the mid-nineteenth to the early twenty-first century from global historical perspectives. To contextualize modern Hong Kong within the history of the world, the course will first introduce some of the key concepts, frameworks, and issues in the rapidly emerging field of global history, and then examine the ways in which Hong Kong have been politically, economically, socially, and culturally connected and integrated to other Asian regions, Europe, North America, and many other parts of the world for the past 182 years. Chronologically and thematically organized, the lectures revolve around the theme that Hong Kong history is important, if not essential, for us to understand and rethink various aspects of global developments within different temporal-spatial frameworks such as merchant capitalism, transpacific Chinese passages, the Cold War, and postwar Sino-US relations. The course is multidisciplinary; students will read widely on Hong Kong and the globe in the disciplines of history, international relations, politics, economics, anthropology, literature, and cultural studies.

1. Global History: Key Concepts, Frameworks, and Issues

2. Hong Kong in the British Empire

3. Western Capital and Capitalists in Early Colonial Hong Kong

4. Hong Kong: A Chinese Trade Hub in the Pacific Rim before WWII

5. Hong Kong: An “In-between Place” of Transoceanic Chinese Migration

6. History Writing Workshop; Hong Kong in the Second World War

7. The Global Cold War in Hong Kong

8. British Decolonization and Culture, 1941-1997

9. Linchpin of Postwar Sino-US Relations

10. Industrial Metropolis and Global Financial Center in the Twentieth Century

11. Non-British, Non-Chinese Communities

12. Hong Kong and the Diasporic Chinese Cinema

13. Postwar Hong Kong Communities Overseas: Past and Present

Take-home exam (40%)

Tutorials (40%)

Article review (15%)

Class participation (5%)

See Blackboard.

See the course outline.

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學生遞交作業時，必須連同已簽署的聲明一併提交，表示他們知道有關政策、規則、指引及程序。

• 如屬小組習作，則所有組員均須簽署聲明；所有組員（不論有否簽署聲明及不論有否直接或間接撰寫有問題的內容）均須負上集體責任及受到懲處。
• 如作業以電腦製作、內容以文字為主，並經由大學「維誠」系統 (VeriGuide) 提交者，學生將作業的電子檔案上載到系統後，便會獲得收據，收據上已列明有關聲明。

未有夾附簽署妥當的聲明的作業，老師將不予批閱。

學生只須提交作業的最終版本。

學生將作業或作業的一部份用於超過一個用途（例如：同時符合兩科的要求）而沒有作出聲明會被視為未有聲明重覆使用作業。學生重覆使用其著作的措辭或某一、二句句子很常見，並可以接受，惟重覆使用全部內容則構成問題。在任何情況下，須先獲得相關老師同意方可提交作業。