Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series

This paper examines the transregional thinking that conceptualized the British imperial interests and expansion in Asia from the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 to the Opium War or “First China War” (1840–1842).

The rich have always fascinated, sometimes in problematic ways. Medieval thinkers feared that the super-rich would act ‘as gods among men’;

Today the term fengshui, which literally means “wind and water,” is recognized around the world. Yet few know exactly what it means,

The Silk Road is not merely a geographical or sociohistorical route but also, to a considerable extent, a catalyst for historical ups and downs ...

During the Second World War the Nazis wiped out the world of Jewish scholarship centred in Talmudic academies or ‘Yeshivot’ in Europe ...

Islam arrived in China during the 7th century as a foreign religion. Yet, once the first Muslims settled permanently there, Islamic religious and cultural traditions were gradually influenced by the norms of Chinese culture and society...

This talk briefly introduces HKU's ongoing archaeological fieldwork in the South Caucasian country of Armenia ...

1970s Hong Kong is usually remembered as a period of optimism, progress, and constructive reinvention ...

In the Second World War, the Chinese Nationalist government mobilized more than 4,000 Chinese college students as interpreters for the American and British Allied forces in the China-Burma-India theater ...

Ancient Mesopotamia is widely known for giving rise to some of the earliest and most enduring and influential urban civilisations in the world ...

On the eve of the Communist Revolution in 1949, a large number of Chinese intellectuals fled the Chinese mainland, never to return ...

To a lively cast of international players that shaped Manchuria during the early twentieth century ...

Religion in the twenty-first century is alive and well across the world, despite its apparent decline in North America and parts of Europe ...

This lecture examines the ecological footprint of big data and its implications for the future directions of the digital humanities ...