ABSTRACTWhy were there no extradition treaties between China and most Western countries historically? Jenny Huangfu Day traces how the fugitive rendition clauses in the Opium War treaties evolved into informal […]
ABSTRACTUniversities are the Hadron Colliders of ideas – places where ideas are distilled, expressed, critiqued and reformulated. That commitment to critical but attentive listening to other viewpoints has a major […]
Language: English MH 201 or Via Zoom ihss@hku.hk Registration
Title: NATURE MATTERS: WHY BELIEF COUNTS FOR TREE FROGSSpeaker: Peter Harris (Co-Founder, A Rocha)Date/Time: 5 March 2025 (Wed) , 7:00pm – 8:30pmVenue: Rayson Huang Theatre, HKULanguage: EnglishEnquiry: (Email) faithful@hku.hkRegister […]
Title: Cultivating diversity at the onset of agriculture: insights from the Yangtze valley in the 10th millennium BPSpeaker: Dr. Ting An (Associate Professor, Department of Art and Archaeology, Zhejiang University)Date/Time: March […]
Title: 納稅人” 研究：中國天主教史一個被忽視的維度 The Taxpayer: A Neglected Dimension of Chinese Catholic HistorySpeaker: 康志杰教授 Prof. KANG ZhijieDate/Time: February 28, 2025 (Fri) 11:00 – 12:00 HKTVenue: Room 201, 2/F, May Hall, The […]
Title: Adventurers or Scientists? Historical Episodes from the Archaeological Exploration of the Middle EastSpeaker: Dr. Elvan Cobb (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University)Date/Time: February 21, 2025 (Friday) […]
GOD and AI: WHO’s in CONTROL Professor Ruth OkedijiJeremiah Smith Jr. ProfessorHarvard Law SchoolDate: 12 February 2025 (Wed)Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pmVenue: Rayson Huang Theatre, HKURegister: https://hku.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2mMDG3fxDaFH1pIDetails: https://faith.hku.hk/event/god-and-aiAbstractArtificial Intelligence (AI) will […]
Capitalism is a remarkable system which has re-invented itself throughout history. It has proved capable of co-existing with entirely different political and economic contexts.
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The transition from mobile foraging societies to settled agricultural communities is a critical period in human history.
Urban inhabitants have long had an emotional attachment to the cities they live in. This expresses itself through daily life, culture, and heritage. This talk highlights some of the ways in which urban populations in China have reflected on their emotional attachment to the city.
The symposium brings together a group of urban and planning historians and urban studies
scholars from Asia and
A century after the establishment of the Palace Museum in 1925,
This roundtable provides a space to present and discuss your PhD topics. You will each be asked to do a short presentation (10 minutes) on either the main themes of your thesis as a whole, a chapter or section, or an article that you might be thinking of submitting.
The Silk Road is not merely a geographical or sociohistorical route but also, to a considerable extent, a catalyst for historical ups and downs ...
Cities are seen as humanity’s greatest inventions. As political, socio-economic, and cultural centres, they are demonstrations of human ingenuity, power, and capacity to manipulate resources and the environment ...
Cities are seen as humanity’s greatest inventions. As political, socio-economic, and cultural centres, they are demonstrations of human ingenuity, power, and capacity to manipulate resources and the environment ...
Cities are seen as humanity’s greatest inventions. As political, socio-economic, and cultural centres, they are demonstrations of human ingenuity, power, and capacity to manipulate resources and the environment ...
What does it mean to be British? To answer this, Multiracial Britishness takes us to an underexplored site of Britishness – the former British colony of Hong Kong ...
Cities are seen as humanity’s greatest inventions. As political, socio-economic, and cultural centres, they are demonstrations of human ingenuity, power, and capacity to manipulate resources and the environment ...
ABSTRACT This talk tells the story of Dragon Lady Traders, a US-based company established by Veronica Yhap in the early 1970s that imported clothing from China. Yhap’s experiences highlight the […]
This is an event organized by the CRF Project “Making Modernity in East Asia: ...
In May 1877, the British government of the Straits Settlements set up the Chinese Protectorate ...
