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HIST1700 公眾史學導論:理論與實踐

2023-2024年度 第一學期

時間星期三 15:30 - 18:15

地點新亞書院人文館213室 (NAH 213)

語言英語

課程講師 潘淑華 (swpoon@cuhk.edu.hk)

課程簡介

The field of public history has been expanding so rapidly since its inception in the 1970s that even public historians find it difficult to agree on a precise definition for public history. This course adopts a broad definition, which seeks to understand public history as a discipline in which historians practice history with a public audience in mind, and as a medium through which the general public acquire a sense of the past. Major topics examined in this course include museums, heritage, films, public monuments and tourism, etc. Local and global examples are used.

Learning Outcomes

After taking this course, students will be able to

  1. understand the roles history and historians play in various public settings in Hong Kong and in other countries.
  2. analyze the popular use of history in everyday life.
  3. gain awareness of the ethical concerns within the discipline of public history.
課程大綱
  1. Public History: A Changing Discipline
  2. Bridging the Gap between Historians and the Public
  3. Popular Uses of History
  4. Presenting the Past: Museums
  5. Power Politics of World Heritage
  6. Changing Definitions of Heritage: From Tangible to Intangible
  7. Marketing History and Heritage: A Local Perspective
  8. Marketing History and Heritage: A Global Perspective
  9. History and the Mass Media
  10. Projecting History in Public Space: Monuments and Power
  11. Public History and Collective Memory
  12. Gender and Public History
  13. Conclusion: The Future of Public History
課程評核及作業
  • Class participation: 10%
  • Tutorial Participation and Discussion: 15% [Oct. 18, 25, Nov. 1]
  • Group Project Presentation: 10% [Nov. 22, 29]
  • Group Project: 35% (8,000-12,000 words in English, including footnotes and references)
  • Individual essay: 30% (2,000-2,500 words in English, including footnotes and references)
導修

Oct. 18: Marketing History and Heritage: A Global Perspective
Oct. 25: Public History and Collective Memory
Nov. 1: Gender and Public History
Nov. 22: Group Project Presentation
Nov. 29: Group Project Presentation

參考書目

1. Public History: A Changing Discipline

  • Cauvin, Thomas. Public History: A Textbook of Practice (New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016), Ch. 1, “Introduction.”
  • Kelley, Robert. “Public History: Its Origins, Nature, and Prospects.” Public Historian1 (Fall 1978), pp. 16-28.

2. Bridging the Gap between Historians and the Public

  • Woods, Thomas A. “Museums and the Public: Doing History Together.” Journal of American History (Dec. 1995): 1111-1115.
  • Thompson, Paul. The Voice of the Past: Oral History (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 309-323 (A Life-Story Interview Guide).

3. Popular Uses of History

  • Cauvin, Thomas. Public History: A Textbook of Practice (New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016), Ch. 3, “Collecting and Preserving People’s Stories. Oral History, Family History, and Everyday Life.”
  • Rosenzweig, Roy and David Thelen. The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), pp. 15-36

4. Presenting the Past: Museums

  • Carroll, John M. “Displaying the Past to Serve the Present: Museums and Heritage Preservation in Post-Colonial Hong Kong.” Twentieth-Century China 31 (2005), pp. 76-103.
  • Kohn, Richard H. “History and the Culture Wars: The Case of the Smithsonian Institution’s Enola Gay Exhibition.” The Journal of American History, Vol. 82, No. 3 (Dec. 1995), pp. 1036-1063.

 5. Power Politics of World Heritage

  • Logan, William. “States, Governance and the Politics of Culture: World Heritage in Asia.” In Routledge Handbook of Heritage in Asia (Oxon, Routledge, 2012), pp. 113-128.
  • Wray, Ian. “Lessons from a Sorry World Heritage Saga.” Town & Country Planning (November/ December 2021), pp. 396-402.

6. Changing Definitions of Heritage: From Tangible to Intangible

  • Liu, Tik-sang, ed. Intangible Cultural Heritage and Local Communities in East Asia (Hong Kong: South China Research Center, HKUST, 2011).
  • Smith, Laurajane. Uses of Heritage (London & New York, Routledge, 2006), pp. 11-43.

7. Marketing History and Heritage: A Local Perspective

  • Cheung, Sidney C. H. “Remembering through Space: The Politics of Heritage in Hong Kong.” International Journal of Heritage Studies, 9:1 (Mar 2003), pp. 7-26.
  • Henderson, Joan. “Heritage, Identity and Tourism in Hong Kong.” International Journal of Heritage Studies, 7: 3 (2001), 219-235.

8. Marketing History and Heritage: A Global Perspective (Tutorial 1)

  • Figal, Gerald. Beachheads: War, Peace, and Tourism in Postwar Okinawa (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012), pp. 25-49 (Ch. 1, Tours among the Ruins), pp. 51-86 (Ch. 2, The Touristification of Sacred Places).

9. History and the Mass Media

  • White, Geoffrey M. “Disney’s Pearl Harbor: National Memory at the Movies.” The Public Historian 24, no. 4 (2002), pp. 97 – 115.
  • Davis, Natalie Zemon. “Movie or Monograph? A Historian/Filmmaker’s Perspective.” The Public Historian, vol. 25, no. 3 (2003), pp. 45-48.

10. Projecting History in Public Space: Monuments and Power

  • Goldman, Natasha. “Israeli Holocaust Memorial Strategies at Yad Vashem: From Silence to Recognition.” Art Journal (Summer 2006), pp. 102–22.
  • Hung, Chang-tai. “The Monument to the People’s Heroes.” In Mao’s New World: Political Culture in the Early People’s Republic (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2011), pp. 235-255.

11. Public History and Collective Memory (Tutorial 2)

  • Hung, Chang-tai. “Oil Paintings and History.” In Mao’s New World: Political Culture in the Early People’s Republic, 127-151.
  • Schudson, Micheal. “Dynamics of Distortion in Collective Memory.” In Memory Distortion: How Minds, Brains, and Societies Reconstruct the Past, edited by Daniel L. Schacter (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995), pp. 346-364.
  • Yoshida, Takashi. The Making of the “Rape of Nanking”: History and Memory in Japan, China, and the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 129-164.

12. Gender and Public History (Tutorial 3)

  • Kwon, Vicki Sung-yeon. “The Sonyŏsang Phenomenon: Nationalism and Feminism Surrounding the “Comfort Women” Statue.” Korean Studies, Vol. 43 (2019), pp. 6-39.
  • DeWitt, Lindsey E. “World Cultural Heritage and Women’s Exclusion from Sacred Sites in Japan.” Sacred Heritage in Japan, edited by Aike P. Rots and Mark Teeuwen (Oxon: Routledge, 2020), pp. 65-86.
  • Smith, Laurajane. “Heritage, Gender and Identity.” In Brian Graham and Peter Howard, eds. The Ashgate Research Companion to Heritage and Identity (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), pp. 159-178.

 13. Conclusion: The Future of Public History

  • Hamilton, Paula & James B. Gardner. “The Past and Future of Public History: Developments and Challenges.” In Paula Hamilton and James B. Gardner, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Public History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 1-22.
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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。
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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。

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