BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//IHSS - ECPv6.17.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:IHSS X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ihss.hku.hk X-WR-CALDESC:Events for IHSS REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Hong_Kong BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0800 TZOFFSETTO:+0800 TZNAME:HKT DTSTART:20140101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141202T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141202T130000 DTSTAMP:20261109T224751 CREATED:20240801T014133Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102928Z UID:88546-1417521600-1417525200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Kinship and Inequality in China: Big Data for a Big Topic DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Room CPD-1.21\, Central Podium Level\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n December 9\, 2015 4:30 pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: akwan@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n \n Professor Christian Daniels will discuss the relationship of Dr. Needham’s concepts of the universality of modern science and civilisation to post 1980s approaches that emphasize the production of knowledge related to science and technology in social and political contexts. He will then discuss how homogenisation in our global age is eroding the old concept of civilisation since Dr. Needham wrote Science and Civilisation in China. Professor Daniels will cite examples from his own and others’ research on pre-modern China and Southeast Asia to illustrate how the notion of technologists working to solve similar problems in different cultural contexts diminishes the significance of the civilization content of technological solutions\, and to suggest what we can learn by rethinking the broad issue of how technology has changed history. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Daniels was born in the Fiji Islands. He received his secondary school education in Sydney\, Australia\, B.A (1st Class Hon.) from the Australian National University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1992. While in Japan\, he interspersed with trips to the Needham Research Institute in 1982 and 1984 to research and collaborated with Dr. Joseph Needham in Vol. 6\, Pt. 3\, Agro – Industries in the Science and Civilisation in China series which was published in 1996. Professor Daniels’s intimate knowledge of sugar cane technology was influenced by his father\, who was a genetic scientist breeding sugarcane clones. His principal expertise has been in the history of East Asian technology transfer and cultural interaction with mainland South East Asia\, with focus in China and Japan in particular. He served as a full tenured professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 國立亞非語言文化研究所\, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外國語大學 from 1996 to 2014. During this period\, he was actively engaged in\, among others\, organizing and managing joint research projects funded by the Japanese government and private foundations\, including many field trips to Yunnan and Sichuan. He has published extensively in Japanese\, Chinese and English\, the most recent of which is the Special Issue: Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia which he guest edited for Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 2\, No. 1\, April 2013). His other major books include Life and Technology in Yunnan 雲南の生活と技術(1994) [In Japanese]\, Archaeology and Folklore in Sichuan 四川の考古と民俗(1999) [In Japanese] \, The Material Culture of Yunnan: Technology of Everyday life 雲南物質文化-生活技術卷(2000) [In Chinese]\, Old Forestry Contracts of the Miao in Guizhou\, 1736 – 1950 貴洲苗族林業契約文書匯編(一七三六—一九五0年) (2005) [In Chinese and Japanese]\, Stone Inscriptions Concerning the Environment and the Minority Peoples of Yunnan 中国雲南少数民族生態関連碑文集(2008)[In Chinese and Japanese]\, Old Documents Concerning the Minority Peoples Of Western Yunnan: 1557 – 1943 雲南西部少數民族古文書集(2011)\, and Ming and Qing Stelae from Menghua (Weishan)\, Western Yunnan 明清滇西蒙化碑刻(2015) [In Chinese]. He is now a tenured professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n East Asian History of Science Foundation Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Science The School of Humanities and Social Science\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/kinship-and-inequality-in-china-big-data-for-a-big-topic/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141129T150000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141129T170000 DTSTAMP:20261109T224751 CREATED:20240801T174154Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102929Z UID:88561-1417273200-1417280400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Family Business in Crisis: Ways and Cases DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Room CPD-1.21\, Central Podium Level\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n December 9\, 2015 4:30 pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: akwan@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Professor Christian Daniels will discuss the relationship of Dr. Needham’s concepts of the universality of modern science and civilisation to post 1980s approaches that emphasize the production of knowledge related to science and technology in social and political contexts. He will then discuss how homogenisation in our global age is eroding the old concept of civilisation since Dr. Needham wrote Science and Civilisation in China. Professor Daniels will cite examples from his own and others’ research on pre-modern China and Southeast Asia to illustrate how the notion of technologists working to solve similar problems in different cultural contexts diminishes the significance of the civilization content of technological solutions\, and to suggest what we can learn by rethinking the broad issue of how technology has changed history. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Daniels was born in the Fiji Islands. He received his secondary school education in Sydney\, Australia\, B.A (1st Class Hon.) from the Australian National University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1992. While in Japan\, he interspersed with trips to the Needham Research Institute in 1982 and 1984 to research and collaborated with Dr. Joseph Needham in Vol. 6\, Pt. 3\, Agro – Industries in the Science and Civilisation in China series which was published in 1996. Professor Daniels’s intimate knowledge of sugar cane technology was influenced by his father\, who was a genetic scientist breeding sugarcane clones. His principal expertise has been in the history of East Asian technology transfer and cultural interaction with mainland South East Asia\, with focus in China and Japan in particular. He served as a full tenured professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 國立亞非語言文化研究所\, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外國語大學 from 1996 to 2014. During this period\, he was actively engaged in\, among others\, organizing and managing joint research projects funded by the Japanese government and private foundations\, including many field trips to Yunnan and Sichuan. He has published extensively in Japanese\, Chinese and English\, the most recent of which is the Special Issue: Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia which he guest edited for Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 2\, No. 1\, April 2013). His other major books include Life and Technology in Yunnan 雲南の生活と技術(1994) [In Japanese]\, Archaeology and Folklore in Sichuan 四川の考古と民俗(1999) [In Japanese] \, The Material Culture of Yunnan: Technology of Everyday life 雲南物質文化-生活技術卷(2000) [In Chinese]\, Old Forestry Contracts of the Miao in Guizhou\, 1736 – 1950 貴洲苗族林業契約文書匯編(一七三六—一九五0年) (2005) [In Chinese and Japanese]\, Stone Inscriptions Concerning the Environment and the Minority Peoples of Yunnan 中国雲南少数民族生態関連碑文集(2008)[In Chinese and Japanese]\, Old Documents Concerning the Minority Peoples Of Western Yunnan: 1557 – 1943 雲南西部少數民族古文書集(2011)\, and Ming and Qing Stelae from Menghua (Weishan)\, Western Yunnan 明清滇西蒙化碑刻(2015) [In Chinese]. He is now a tenured professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n East Asian History of Science Foundation Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Science The School of Humanities and Social Science\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/family-business-in-crisis-ways-and-cases-3/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141126T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141126T160000 DTSTAMP:20261109T224751 CREATED:20240801T173705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102929Z UID:88553-1417017600-1417017600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Reincarnation in Africa DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Room CPD-1.21\, Central Podium Level\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n December 9\, 2015 4:30 pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: akwan@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Professor Christian Daniels will discuss the relationship of Dr. Needham’s concepts of the universality of modern science and civilisation to post 1980s approaches that emphasize the production of knowledge related to science and technology in social and political contexts. He will then discuss how homogenisation in our global age is eroding the old concept of civilisation since Dr. Needham wrote Science and Civilisation in China. Professor Daniels will cite examples from his own and others’ research on pre-modern China and Southeast Asia to illustrate how the notion of technologists working to solve similar problems in different cultural contexts diminishes the significance of the civilization content of technological solutions\, and to suggest what we can learn by rethinking the broad issue of how technology has changed history. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Daniels was born in the Fiji Islands. He received his secondary school education in Sydney\, Australia\, B.A (1st Class Hon.) from the Australian National University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1992. While in Japan\, he interspersed with trips to the Needham Research Institute in 1982 and 1984 to research and collaborated with Dr. Joseph Needham in Vol. 6\, Pt. 3\, Agro – Industries in the Science and Civilisation in China series which was published in 1996. Professor Daniels’s intimate knowledge of sugar cane technology was influenced by his father\, who was a genetic scientist breeding sugarcane clones. His principal expertise has been in the history of East Asian technology transfer and cultural interaction with mainland South East Asia\, with focus in China and Japan in particular. He served as a full tenured professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 國立亞非語言文化研究所\, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外國語大學 from 1996 to 2014. During this period\, he was actively engaged in\, among others\, organizing and managing joint research projects funded by the Japanese government and private foundations\, including many field trips to Yunnan and Sichuan. He has published extensively in Japanese\, Chinese and English\, the most recent of which is the Special Issue: Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia which he guest edited for Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 2\, No. 1\, April 2013). His other major books include Life and Technology in Yunnan 雲南の生活と技術(1994) [In Japanese]\, Archaeology and Folklore in Sichuan 四川の考古と民俗(1999) [In Japanese] \, The Material Culture of Yunnan: Technology of Everyday life 雲南物質文化-生活技術卷(2000) [In Chinese]\, Old Forestry Contracts of the Miao in Guizhou\, 1736 – 1950 貴洲苗族林業契約文書匯編(一七三六—一九五0年) (2005) [In Chinese and Japanese]\, Stone Inscriptions Concerning the Environment and the Minority Peoples of Yunnan 中国雲南少数民族生態関連碑文集(2008)[In Chinese and Japanese]\, Old Documents Concerning the Minority Peoples Of Western Yunnan: 1557 – 1943 雲南西部少數民族古文書集(2011)\, and Ming and Qing Stelae from Menghua (Weishan)\, Western Yunnan 明清滇西蒙化碑刻(2015) [In Chinese]. He is now a tenured professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n East Asian History of Science Foundation Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Science The School of Humanities and Social Science\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/reincarnation-in-africa/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141125T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141125T130000 DTSTAMP:20261109T224751 CREATED:20240801T174530Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102929Z UID:88567-1416916800-1416920400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Can Capitalist Farms Compete with Family Farms? The Role of Technology in Facilitating the Agrarian Change in Shrimp Aquaculture in South China DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Room CPD-1.21\, Central Podium Level\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n December 9\, 2015 4:30 pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: akwan@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Professor Christian Daniels will discuss the relationship of Dr. Needham’s concepts of the universality of modern science and civilisation to post 1980s approaches that emphasize the production of knowledge related to science and technology in social and political contexts. He will then discuss how homogenisation in our global age is eroding the old concept of civilisation since Dr. Needham wrote Science and Civilisation in China. Professor Daniels will cite examples from his own and others’ research on pre-modern China and Southeast Asia to illustrate how the notion of technologists working to solve similar problems in different cultural contexts diminishes the significance of the civilization content of technological solutions\, and to suggest what we can learn by rethinking the broad issue of how technology has changed history. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Daniels was born in the Fiji Islands. He received his secondary school education in Sydney\, Australia\, B.A (1st Class Hon.) from the Australian National University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1992. While in Japan\, he interspersed with trips to the Needham Research Institute in 1982 and 1984 to research and collaborated with Dr. Joseph Needham in Vol. 6\, Pt. 3\, Agro – Industries in the Science and Civilisation in China series which was published in 1996. Professor Daniels’s intimate knowledge of sugar cane technology was influenced by his father\, who was a genetic scientist breeding sugarcane clones. His principal expertise has been in the history of East Asian technology transfer and cultural interaction with mainland South East Asia\, with focus in China and Japan in particular. He served as a full tenured professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 國立亞非語言文化研究所\, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外國語大學 from 1996 to 2014. During this period\, he was actively engaged in\, among others\, organizing and managing joint research projects funded by the Japanese government and private foundations\, including many field trips to Yunnan and Sichuan. He has published extensively in Japanese\, Chinese and English\, the most recent of which is the Special Issue: Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia which he guest edited for Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 2\, No. 1\, April 2013). His other major books include Life and Technology in Yunnan 雲南の生活と技術(1994) [In Japanese]\, Archaeology and Folklore in Sichuan 四川の考古と民俗(1999) [In Japanese] \, The Material Culture of Yunnan: Technology of Everyday life 雲南物質文化-生活技術卷(2000) [In Chinese]\, Old Forestry Contracts of the Miao in Guizhou\, 1736 – 1950 貴洲苗族林業契約文書匯編(一七三六—一九五0年) (2005) [In Chinese and Japanese]\, Stone Inscriptions Concerning the Environment and the Minority Peoples of Yunnan 中国雲南少数民族生態関連碑文集(2008)[In Chinese and Japanese]\, Old Documents Concerning the Minority Peoples Of Western Yunnan: 1557 – 1943 雲南西部少數民族古文書集(2011)\, and Ming and Qing Stelae from Menghua (Weishan)\, Western Yunnan 明清滇西蒙化碑刻(2015) [In Chinese]. He is now a tenured professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n East Asian History of Science Foundation Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Science The School of Humanities and Social Science\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/can-capitalist-farms-compete-with-family-farms-the-role-of-technology-in-facilitating-the-agrarian-change-in-shrimp-aquaculture-in-south-china/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141120T140000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141120T140000 DTSTAMP:20261109T224751 CREATED:20240801T174939Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102930Z UID:88573-1416492000-1416492000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The Way to Learning (問學之道) DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Room CPD-1.21\, Central Podium Level\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n December 9\, 2015 4:30 pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: akwan@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Professor Christian Daniels will discuss the relationship of Dr. Needham’s concepts of the universality of modern science and civilisation to post 1980s approaches that emphasize the production of knowledge related to science and technology in social and political contexts. He will then discuss how homogenisation in our global age is eroding the old concept of civilisation since Dr. Needham wrote Science and Civilisation in China. Professor Daniels will cite examples from his own and others’ research on pre-modern China and Southeast Asia to illustrate how the notion of technologists working to solve similar problems in different cultural contexts diminishes the significance of the civilization content of technological solutions\, and to suggest what we can learn by rethinking the broad issue of how technology has changed history. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Daniels was born in the Fiji Islands. He received his secondary school education in Sydney\, Australia\, B.A (1st Class Hon.) from the Australian National University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1992. While in Japan\, he interspersed with trips to the Needham Research Institute in 1982 and 1984 to research and collaborated with Dr. Joseph Needham in Vol. 6\, Pt. 3\, Agro – Industries in the Science and Civilisation in China series which was published in 1996. Professor Daniels’s intimate knowledge of sugar cane technology was influenced by his father\, who was a genetic scientist breeding sugarcane clones. His principal expertise has been in the history of East Asian technology transfer and cultural interaction with mainland South East Asia\, with focus in China and Japan in particular. He served as a full tenured professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 國立亞非語言文化研究所\, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外國語大學 from 1996 to 2014. During this period\, he was actively engaged in\, among others\, organizing and managing joint research projects funded by the Japanese government and private foundations\, including many field trips to Yunnan and Sichuan. He has published extensively in Japanese\, Chinese and English\, the most recent of which is the Special Issue: Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia which he guest edited for Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 2\, No. 1\, April 2013). His other major books include Life and Technology in Yunnan 雲南の生活と技術(1994) [In Japanese]\, Archaeology and Folklore in Sichuan 四川の考古と民俗(1999) [In Japanese] \, The Material Culture of Yunnan: Technology of Everyday life 雲南物質文化-生活技術卷(2000) [In Chinese]\, Old Forestry Contracts of the Miao in Guizhou\, 1736 – 1950 貴洲苗族林業契約文書匯編(一七三六—一九五0年) (2005) [In Chinese and Japanese]\, Stone Inscriptions Concerning the Environment and the Minority Peoples of Yunnan 中国雲南少数民族生態関連碑文集(2008)[In Chinese and Japanese]\, Old Documents Concerning the Minority Peoples Of Western Yunnan: 1557 – 1943 雲南西部少數民族古文書集(2011)\, and Ming and Qing Stelae from Menghua (Weishan)\, Western Yunnan 明清滇西蒙化碑刻(2015) [In Chinese]. He is now a tenured professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n East Asian History of Science Foundation Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Science The School of Humanities and Social Science\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-way-to-learning-%e5%95%8f%e5%ad%b8%e4%b9%8b%e9%81%93/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141119T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141119T163000 DTSTAMP:20261109T224751 CREATED:20240801T180313Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102930Z UID:88594-1416414600-1416414600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Contributions of Émmanuel-Édouard Chavannes towards Chinese Traditional Historiography and the Transformation of European Sinology (沙畹對中國傳統史學轉型和歐洲漢學轉型的貢獻) DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Room CPD-1.21\, Central Podium Level\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n December 9\, 2015 4:30 pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: akwan@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Professor Christian Daniels will discuss the relationship of Dr. Needham’s concepts of the universality of modern science and civilisation to post 1980s approaches that emphasize the production of knowledge related to science and technology in social and political contexts. He will then discuss how homogenisation in our global age is eroding the old concept of civilisation since Dr. Needham wrote Science and Civilisation in China. Professor Daniels will cite examples from his own and others’ research on pre-modern China and Southeast Asia to illustrate how the notion of technologists working to solve similar problems in different cultural contexts diminishes the significance of the civilization content of technological solutions\, and to suggest what we can learn by rethinking the broad issue of how technology has changed history. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Daniels was born in the Fiji Islands. He received his secondary school education in Sydney\, Australia\, B.A (1st Class Hon.) from the Australian National University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1992. While in Japan\, he interspersed with trips to the Needham Research Institute in 1982 and 1984 to research and collaborated with Dr. Joseph Needham in Vol. 6\, Pt. 3\, Agro – Industries in the Science and Civilisation in China series which was published in 1996. Professor Daniels’s intimate knowledge of sugar cane technology was influenced by his father\, who was a genetic scientist breeding sugarcane clones. His principal expertise has been in the history of East Asian technology transfer and cultural interaction with mainland South East Asia\, with focus in China and Japan in particular. He served as a full tenured professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 國立亞非語言文化研究所\, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外國語大學 from 1996 to 2014. During this period\, he was actively engaged in\, among others\, organizing and managing joint research projects funded by the Japanese government and private foundations\, including many field trips to Yunnan and Sichuan. He has published extensively in Japanese\, Chinese and English\, the most recent of which is the Special Issue: Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia which he guest edited for Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 2\, No. 1\, April 2013). His other major books include Life and Technology in Yunnan 雲南の生活と技術(1994) [In Japanese]\, Archaeology and Folklore in Sichuan 四川の考古と民俗(1999) [In Japanese] \, The Material Culture of Yunnan: Technology of Everyday life 雲南物質文化-生活技術卷(2000) [In Chinese]\, Old Forestry Contracts of the Miao in Guizhou\, 1736 – 1950 貴洲苗族林業契約文書匯編(一七三六—一九五0年) (2005) [In Chinese and Japanese]\, Stone Inscriptions Concerning the Environment and the Minority Peoples of Yunnan 中国雲南少数民族生態関連碑文集(2008)[In Chinese and Japanese]\, Old Documents Concerning the Minority Peoples Of Western Yunnan: 1557 – 1943 雲南西部少數民族古文書集(2011)\, and Ming and Qing Stelae from Menghua (Weishan)\, Western Yunnan 明清滇西蒙化碑刻(2015) [In Chinese]. He is now a tenured professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n East Asian History of Science Foundation Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Science The School of Humanities and Social Science\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/contributions-of-emmanuel-edouard-chavannes-towards-chinese-traditional-historiography-and-the-transformation-of-european-sinology-%e6%b2%99%e7%95%b9%e5%b0%8d%e4%b8%ad%e5%9c%8b%e5%82%b3%e7%b5%b1/ LOCATION:Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141118T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141118T163000 DTSTAMP:20261109T224751 CREATED:20240801T182303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102931Z UID:88601-1416328200-1416328200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Frontier and Ethnicity (邊疆與族群) DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Room CPD-1.21\, Central Podium Level\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n December 9\, 2015 4:30 pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: akwan@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Professor Christian Daniels will discuss the relationship of Dr. Needham’s concepts of the universality of modern science and civilisation to post 1980s approaches that emphasize the production of knowledge related to science and technology in social and political contexts. He will then discuss how homogenisation in our global age is eroding the old concept of civilisation since Dr. Needham wrote Science and Civilisation in China. Professor Daniels will cite examples from his own and others’ research on pre-modern China and Southeast Asia to illustrate how the notion of technologists working to solve similar problems in different cultural contexts diminishes the significance of the civilization content of technological solutions\, and to suggest what we can learn by rethinking the broad issue of how technology has changed history. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Daniels was born in the Fiji Islands. He received his secondary school education in Sydney\, Australia\, B.A (1st Class Hon.) from the Australian National University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1992. While in Japan\, he interspersed with trips to the Needham Research Institute in 1982 and 1984 to research and collaborated with Dr. Joseph Needham in Vol. 6\, Pt. 3\, Agro – Industries in the Science and Civilisation in China series which was published in 1996. Professor Daniels’s intimate knowledge of sugar cane technology was influenced by his father\, who was a genetic scientist breeding sugarcane clones. His principal expertise has been in the history of East Asian technology transfer and cultural interaction with mainland South East Asia\, with focus in China and Japan in particular. He served as a full tenured professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 國立亞非語言文化研究所\, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外國語大學 from 1996 to 2014. During this period\, he was actively engaged in\, among others\, organizing and managing joint research projects funded by the Japanese government and private foundations\, including many field trips to Yunnan and Sichuan. He has published extensively in Japanese\, Chinese and English\, the most recent of which is the Special Issue: Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia which he guest edited for Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 2\, No. 1\, April 2013). His other major books include Life and Technology in Yunnan 雲南の生活と技術(1994) [In Japanese]\, Archaeology and Folklore in Sichuan 四川の考古と民俗(1999) [In Japanese] \, The Material Culture of Yunnan: Technology of Everyday life 雲南物質文化-生活技術卷(2000) [In Chinese]\, Old Forestry Contracts of the Miao in Guizhou\, 1736 – 1950 貴洲苗族林業契約文書匯編(一七三六—一九五0年) (2005) [In Chinese and Japanese]\, Stone Inscriptions Concerning the Environment and the Minority Peoples of Yunnan 中国雲南少数民族生態関連碑文集(2008)[In Chinese and Japanese]\, Old Documents Concerning the Minority Peoples Of Western Yunnan: 1557 – 1943 雲南西部少數民族古文書集(2011)\, and Ming and Qing Stelae from Menghua (Weishan)\, Western Yunnan 明清滇西蒙化碑刻(2015) [In Chinese]. He is now a tenured professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n East Asian History of Science Foundation Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Science The School of Humanities and Social Science\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/frontier-and-ethnicity-%e9%82%8a%e7%96%86%e8%88%87%e6%97%8f%e7%be%a4/ LOCATION:Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141118T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141118T130000 DTSTAMP:20261109T224751 CREATED:20240801T175543Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102930Z UID:88584-1416312000-1416315600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Friends like these? China Regional Organizations and Intervention DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Room CPD-1.21\, Central Podium Level\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n December 9\, 2015 4:30 pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: akwan@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Professor Christian Daniels will discuss the relationship of Dr. Needham’s concepts of the universality of modern science and civilisation to post 1980s approaches that emphasize the production of knowledge related to science and technology in social and political contexts. He will then discuss how homogenisation in our global age is eroding the old concept of civilisation since Dr. Needham wrote Science and Civilisation in China. Professor Daniels will cite examples from his own and others’ research on pre-modern China and Southeast Asia to illustrate how the notion of technologists working to solve similar problems in different cultural contexts diminishes the significance of the civilization content of technological solutions\, and to suggest what we can learn by rethinking the broad issue of how technology has changed history. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Daniels was born in the Fiji Islands. He received his secondary school education in Sydney\, Australia\, B.A (1st Class Hon.) from the Australian National University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1992. While in Japan\, he interspersed with trips to the Needham Research Institute in 1982 and 1984 to research and collaborated with Dr. Joseph Needham in Vol. 6\, Pt. 3\, Agro – Industries in the Science and Civilisation in China series which was published in 1996. Professor Daniels’s intimate knowledge of sugar cane technology was influenced by his father\, who was a genetic scientist breeding sugarcane clones. His principal expertise has been in the history of East Asian technology transfer and cultural interaction with mainland South East Asia\, with focus in China and Japan in particular. He served as a full tenured professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 國立亞非語言文化研究所\, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外國語大學 from 1996 to 2014. During this period\, he was actively engaged in\, among others\, organizing and managing joint research projects funded by the Japanese government and private foundations\, including many field trips to Yunnan and Sichuan. He has published extensively in Japanese\, Chinese and English\, the most recent of which is the Special Issue: Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia which he guest edited for Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 2\, No. 1\, April 2013). His other major books include Life and Technology in Yunnan 雲南の生活と技術(1994) [In Japanese]\, Archaeology and Folklore in Sichuan 四川の考古と民俗(1999) [In Japanese] \, The Material Culture of Yunnan: Technology of Everyday life 雲南物質文化-生活技術卷(2000) [In Chinese]\, Old Forestry Contracts of the Miao in Guizhou\, 1736 – 1950 貴洲苗族林業契約文書匯編(一七三六—一九五0年) (2005) [In Chinese and Japanese]\, Stone Inscriptions Concerning the Environment and the Minority Peoples of Yunnan 中国雲南少数民族生態関連碑文集(2008)[In Chinese and Japanese]\, Old Documents Concerning the Minority Peoples Of Western Yunnan: 1557 – 1943 雲南西部少數民族古文書集(2011)\, and Ming and Qing Stelae from Menghua (Weishan)\, Western Yunnan 明清滇西蒙化碑刻(2015) [In Chinese]. He is now a tenured professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n East Asian History of Science Foundation Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Science The School of Humanities and Social Science\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/friends-like-these-china-regional-organizations-and-intervention/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141112T123000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141112T140000 DTSTAMP:20261109T224751 CREATED:20240801T183840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102931Z UID:88612-1415795400-1415800800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Between Competing Empires: Overseas Chinese and the Making of Nationality DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Room CPD-1.21\, Central Podium Level\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n December 9\, 2015 4:30 pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: akwan@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Professor Christian Daniels will discuss the relationship of Dr. Needham’s concepts of the universality of modern science and civilisation to post 1980s approaches that emphasize the production of knowledge related to science and technology in social and political contexts. He will then discuss how homogenisation in our global age is eroding the old concept of civilisation since Dr. Needham wrote Science and Civilisation in China. Professor Daniels will cite examples from his own and others’ research on pre-modern China and Southeast Asia to illustrate how the notion of technologists working to solve similar problems in different cultural contexts diminishes the significance of the civilization content of technological solutions\, and to suggest what we can learn by rethinking the broad issue of how technology has changed history. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Daniels was born in the Fiji Islands. He received his secondary school education in Sydney\, Australia\, B.A (1st Class Hon.) from the Australian National University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1992. While in Japan\, he interspersed with trips to the Needham Research Institute in 1982 and 1984 to research and collaborated with Dr. Joseph Needham in Vol. 6\, Pt. 3\, Agro – Industries in the Science and Civilisation in China series which was published in 1996. Professor Daniels’s intimate knowledge of sugar cane technology was influenced by his father\, who was a genetic scientist breeding sugarcane clones. His principal expertise has been in the history of East Asian technology transfer and cultural interaction with mainland South East Asia\, with focus in China and Japan in particular. He served as a full tenured professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 國立亞非語言文化研究所\, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外國語大學 from 1996 to 2014. During this period\, he was actively engaged in\, among others\, organizing and managing joint research projects funded by the Japanese government and private foundations\, including many field trips to Yunnan and Sichuan. He has published extensively in Japanese\, Chinese and English\, the most recent of which is the Special Issue: Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia which he guest edited for Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 2\, No. 1\, April 2013). His other major books include Life and Technology in Yunnan 雲南の生活と技術(1994) [In Japanese]\, Archaeology and Folklore in Sichuan 四川の考古と民俗(1999) [In Japanese] \, The Material Culture of Yunnan: Technology of Everyday life 雲南物質文化-生活技術卷(2000) [In Chinese]\, Old Forestry Contracts of the Miao in Guizhou\, 1736 – 1950 貴洲苗族林業契約文書匯編(一七三六—一九五0年) (2005) [In Chinese and Japanese]\, Stone Inscriptions Concerning the Environment and the Minority Peoples of Yunnan 中国雲南少数民族生態関連碑文集(2008)[In Chinese and Japanese]\, Old Documents Concerning the Minority Peoples Of Western Yunnan: 1557 – 1943 雲南西部少數民族古文書集(2011)\, and Ming and Qing Stelae from Menghua (Weishan)\, Western Yunnan 明清滇西蒙化碑刻(2015) [In Chinese]. He is now a tenured professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n East Asian History of Science Foundation Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Science The School of Humanities and Social Science\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/between-competing-empires-overseas-chinese-and-the-making-of-nationality/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20141108 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20141110 DTSTAMP:20261109T224751 CREATED:20240801T184414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102931Z UID:88621-1415404800-1415577599@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Text and Context: Redemptive Societies and New Religious Movements in Modern and Contemporary China and Southeast Asia DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Room CPD-1.21\, Central Podium Level\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n December 9\, 2015 4:30 pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: akwan@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Professor Christian Daniels will discuss the relationship of Dr. Needham’s concepts of the universality of modern science and civilisation to post 1980s approaches that emphasize the production of knowledge related to science and technology in social and political contexts. He will then discuss how homogenisation in our global age is eroding the old concept of civilisation since Dr. Needham wrote Science and Civilisation in China. Professor Daniels will cite examples from his own and others’ research on pre-modern China and Southeast Asia to illustrate how the notion of technologists working to solve similar problems in different cultural contexts diminishes the significance of the civilization content of technological solutions\, and to suggest what we can learn by rethinking the broad issue of how technology has changed history. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Daniels was born in the Fiji Islands. He received his secondary school education in Sydney\, Australia\, B.A (1st Class Hon.) from the Australian National University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1992. While in Japan\, he interspersed with trips to the Needham Research Institute in 1982 and 1984 to research and collaborated with Dr. Joseph Needham in Vol. 6\, Pt. 3\, Agro – Industries in the Science and Civilisation in China series which was published in 1996. Professor Daniels’s intimate knowledge of sugar cane technology was influenced by his father\, who was a genetic scientist breeding sugarcane clones. His principal expertise has been in the history of East Asian technology transfer and cultural interaction with mainland South East Asia\, with focus in China and Japan in particular. He served as a full tenured professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 國立亞非語言文化研究所\, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外國語大學 from 1996 to 2014. During this period\, he was actively engaged in\, among others\, organizing and managing joint research projects funded by the Japanese government and private foundations\, including many field trips to Yunnan and Sichuan. He has published extensively in Japanese\, Chinese and English\, the most recent of which is the Special Issue: Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia which he guest edited for Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 2\, No. 1\, April 2013). His other major books include Life and Technology in Yunnan 雲南の生活と技術(1994) [In Japanese]\, Archaeology and Folklore in Sichuan 四川の考古と民俗(1999) [In Japanese] \, The Material Culture of Yunnan: Technology of Everyday life 雲南物質文化-生活技術卷(2000) [In Chinese]\, Old Forestry Contracts of the Miao in Guizhou\, 1736 – 1950 貴洲苗族林業契約文書匯編(一七三六—一九五0年) (2005) [In Chinese and Japanese]\, Stone Inscriptions Concerning the Environment and the Minority Peoples of Yunnan 中国雲南少数民族生態関連碑文集(2008)[In Chinese and Japanese]\, Old Documents Concerning the Minority Peoples Of Western Yunnan: 1557 – 1943 雲南西部少數民族古文書集(2011)\, and Ming and Qing Stelae from Menghua (Weishan)\, Western Yunnan 明清滇西蒙化碑刻(2015) [In Chinese]. He is now a tenured professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n East Asian History of Science Foundation Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Science The School of Humanities and Social Science\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/text-and-context-redemptive-societies-and-new-religious-movements-in-modern-and-contemporary-china-and-southeast-asia/ CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141107T183000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141107T183000 DTSTAMP:20261109T224751 CREATED:20240801T184941Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102932Z UID:88632-1415385000-1415385000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Is the Concept of Secularism Relevant to China? DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Room CPD-1.21\, Central Podium Level\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n December 9\, 2015 4:30 pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: akwan@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Professor Christian Daniels will discuss the relationship of Dr. Needham’s concepts of the universality of modern science and civilisation to post 1980s approaches that emphasize the production of knowledge related to science and technology in social and political contexts. He will then discuss how homogenisation in our global age is eroding the old concept of civilisation since Dr. Needham wrote Science and Civilisation in China. Professor Daniels will cite examples from his own and others’ research on pre-modern China and Southeast Asia to illustrate how the notion of technologists working to solve similar problems in different cultural contexts diminishes the significance of the civilization content of technological solutions\, and to suggest what we can learn by rethinking the broad issue of how technology has changed history. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Daniels was born in the Fiji Islands. He received his secondary school education in Sydney\, Australia\, B.A (1st Class Hon.) from the Australian National University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1992. While in Japan\, he interspersed with trips to the Needham Research Institute in 1982 and 1984 to research and collaborated with Dr. Joseph Needham in Vol. 6\, Pt. 3\, Agro – Industries in the Science and Civilisation in China series which was published in 1996. Professor Daniels’s intimate knowledge of sugar cane technology was influenced by his father\, who was a genetic scientist breeding sugarcane clones. His principal expertise has been in the history of East Asian technology transfer and cultural interaction with mainland South East Asia\, with focus in China and Japan in particular. He served as a full tenured professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 國立亞非語言文化研究所\, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外國語大學 from 1996 to 2014. During this period\, he was actively engaged in\, among others\, organizing and managing joint research projects funded by the Japanese government and private foundations\, including many field trips to Yunnan and Sichuan. He has published extensively in Japanese\, Chinese and English\, the most recent of which is the Special Issue: Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia which he guest edited for Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 2\, No. 1\, April 2013). His other major books include Life and Technology in Yunnan 雲南の生活と技術(1994) [In Japanese]\, Archaeology and Folklore in Sichuan 四川の考古と民俗(1999) [In Japanese] \, The Material Culture of Yunnan: Technology of Everyday life 雲南物質文化-生活技術卷(2000) [In Chinese]\, Old Forestry Contracts of the Miao in Guizhou\, 1736 – 1950 貴洲苗族林業契約文書匯編(一七三六—一九五0年) (2005) [In Chinese and Japanese]\, Stone Inscriptions Concerning the Environment and the Minority Peoples of Yunnan 中国雲南少数民族生態関連碑文集(2008)[In Chinese and Japanese]\, Old Documents Concerning the Minority Peoples Of Western Yunnan: 1557 – 1943 雲南西部少數民族古文書集(2011)\, and Ming and Qing Stelae from Menghua (Weishan)\, Western Yunnan 明清滇西蒙化碑刻(2015) [In Chinese]. He is now a tenured professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n East Asian History of Science Foundation Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Science The School of Humanities and Social Science\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/is-the-concept-of-secularism-relevant-to-china/ LOCATION:Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141104T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141104T130000 DTSTAMP:20261109T224751 CREATED:20240801T185740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102932Z UID:88649-1415102400-1415106000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Private Art during China’s Cultural Revolution DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Room CPD-1.21\, Central Podium Level\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n December 9\, 2015 4:30 pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: akwan@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Professor Christian Daniels will discuss the relationship of Dr. Needham’s concepts of the universality of modern science and civilisation to post 1980s approaches that emphasize the production of knowledge related to science and technology in social and political contexts. He will then discuss how homogenisation in our global age is eroding the old concept of civilisation since Dr. Needham wrote Science and Civilisation in China. Professor Daniels will cite examples from his own and others’ research on pre-modern China and Southeast Asia to illustrate how the notion of technologists working to solve similar problems in different cultural contexts diminishes the significance of the civilization content of technological solutions\, and to suggest what we can learn by rethinking the broad issue of how technology has changed history. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Daniels was born in the Fiji Islands. He received his secondary school education in Sydney\, Australia\, B.A (1st Class Hon.) from the Australian National University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1992. While in Japan\, he interspersed with trips to the Needham Research Institute in 1982 and 1984 to research and collaborated with Dr. Joseph Needham in Vol. 6\, Pt. 3\, Agro – Industries in the Science and Civilisation in China series which was published in 1996. Professor Daniels’s intimate knowledge of sugar cane technology was influenced by his father\, who was a genetic scientist breeding sugarcane clones. His principal expertise has been in the history of East Asian technology transfer and cultural interaction with mainland South East Asia\, with focus in China and Japan in particular. He served as a full tenured professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 國立亞非語言文化研究所\, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外國語大學 from 1996 to 2014. During this period\, he was actively engaged in\, among others\, organizing and managing joint research projects funded by the Japanese government and private foundations\, including many field trips to Yunnan and Sichuan. He has published extensively in Japanese\, Chinese and English\, the most recent of which is the Special Issue: Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia which he guest edited for Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 2\, No. 1\, April 2013). His other major books include Life and Technology in Yunnan 雲南の生活と技術(1994) [In Japanese]\, Archaeology and Folklore in Sichuan 四川の考古と民俗(1999) [In Japanese] \, The Material Culture of Yunnan: Technology of Everyday life 雲南物質文化-生活技術卷(2000) [In Chinese]\, Old Forestry Contracts of the Miao in Guizhou\, 1736 – 1950 貴洲苗族林業契約文書匯編(一七三六—一九五0年) (2005) [In Chinese and Japanese]\, Stone Inscriptions Concerning the Environment and the Minority Peoples of Yunnan 中国雲南少数民族生態関連碑文集(2008)[In Chinese and Japanese]\, Old Documents Concerning the Minority Peoples Of Western Yunnan: 1557 – 1943 雲南西部少數民族古文書集(2011)\, and Ming and Qing Stelae from Menghua (Weishan)\, Western Yunnan 明清滇西蒙化碑刻(2015) [In Chinese]. He is now a tenured professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n East Asian History of Science Foundation Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Science The School of Humanities and Social Science\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/private-art-during-chinas-cultural-revolution/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141031T150000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141031T163000 DTSTAMP:20261109T224751 CREATED:20240801T190115Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102932Z UID:88655-1414767600-1414773000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Zomia\, Scott and Tribal Peoples: A Critical Consideration of the History as Choice Argument DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Room CPD-1.21\, Central Podium Level\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n December 9\, 2015 4:30 pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: akwan@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Professor Christian Daniels will discuss the relationship of Dr. Needham’s concepts of the universality of modern science and civilisation to post 1980s approaches that emphasize the production of knowledge related to science and technology in social and political contexts. He will then discuss how homogenisation in our global age is eroding the old concept of civilisation since Dr. Needham wrote Science and Civilisation in China. Professor Daniels will cite examples from his own and others’ research on pre-modern China and Southeast Asia to illustrate how the notion of technologists working to solve similar problems in different cultural contexts diminishes the significance of the civilization content of technological solutions\, and to suggest what we can learn by rethinking the broad issue of how technology has changed history. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Daniels was born in the Fiji Islands. He received his secondary school education in Sydney\, Australia\, B.A (1st Class Hon.) from the Australian National University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1992. While in Japan\, he interspersed with trips to the Needham Research Institute in 1982 and 1984 to research and collaborated with Dr. Joseph Needham in Vol. 6\, Pt. 3\, Agro – Industries in the Science and Civilisation in China series which was published in 1996. Professor Daniels’s intimate knowledge of sugar cane technology was influenced by his father\, who was a genetic scientist breeding sugarcane clones. His principal expertise has been in the history of East Asian technology transfer and cultural interaction with mainland South East Asia\, with focus in China and Japan in particular. He served as a full tenured professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 國立亞非語言文化研究所\, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外國語大學 from 1996 to 2014. During this period\, he was actively engaged in\, among others\, organizing and managing joint research projects funded by the Japanese government and private foundations\, including many field trips to Yunnan and Sichuan. He has published extensively in Japanese\, Chinese and English\, the most recent of which is the Special Issue: Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia which he guest edited for Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 2\, No. 1\, April 2013). His other major books include Life and Technology in Yunnan 雲南の生活と技術(1994) [In Japanese]\, Archaeology and Folklore in Sichuan 四川の考古と民俗(1999) [In Japanese] \, The Material Culture of Yunnan: Technology of Everyday life 雲南物質文化-生活技術卷(2000) [In Chinese]\, Old Forestry Contracts of the Miao in Guizhou\, 1736 – 1950 貴洲苗族林業契約文書匯編(一七三六—一九五0年) (2005) [In Chinese and Japanese]\, Stone Inscriptions Concerning the Environment and the Minority Peoples of Yunnan 中国雲南少数民族生態関連碑文集(2008)[In Chinese and Japanese]\, Old Documents Concerning the Minority Peoples Of Western Yunnan: 1557 – 1943 雲南西部少數民族古文書集(2011)\, and Ming and Qing Stelae from Menghua (Weishan)\, Western Yunnan 明清滇西蒙化碑刻(2015) [In Chinese]. He is now a tenured professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n East Asian History of Science Foundation Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Science The School of Humanities and Social Science\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/zomia-scott-and-tribal-peoples-a-critical-consideration-of-the-history-as-choice-argument/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141024T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141024T163000 DTSTAMP:20261109T224751 CREATED:20240801T194727Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102933Z UID:88664-1414168200-1414168200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The Rising Gap between Haves and Have-Nots in Hong Kong DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Room CPD-1.21\, Central Podium Level\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n December 9\, 2015 4:30 pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: akwan@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Professor Christian Daniels will discuss the relationship of Dr. Needham’s concepts of the universality of modern science and civilisation to post 1980s approaches that emphasize the production of knowledge related to science and technology in social and political contexts. He will then discuss how homogenisation in our global age is eroding the old concept of civilisation since Dr. Needham wrote Science and Civilisation in China. Professor Daniels will cite examples from his own and others’ research on pre-modern China and Southeast Asia to illustrate how the notion of technologists working to solve similar problems in different cultural contexts diminishes the significance of the civilization content of technological solutions\, and to suggest what we can learn by rethinking the broad issue of how technology has changed history. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Daniels was born in the Fiji Islands. He received his secondary school education in Sydney\, Australia\, B.A (1st Class Hon.) from the Australian National University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1992. While in Japan\, he interspersed with trips to the Needham Research Institute in 1982 and 1984 to research and collaborated with Dr. Joseph Needham in Vol. 6\, Pt. 3\, Agro – Industries in the Science and Civilisation in China series which was published in 1996. Professor Daniels’s intimate knowledge of sugar cane technology was influenced by his father\, who was a genetic scientist breeding sugarcane clones. His principal expertise has been in the history of East Asian technology transfer and cultural interaction with mainland South East Asia\, with focus in China and Japan in particular. He served as a full tenured professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 國立亞非語言文化研究所\, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外國語大學 from 1996 to 2014. During this period\, he was actively engaged in\, among others\, organizing and managing joint research projects funded by the Japanese government and private foundations\, including many field trips to Yunnan and Sichuan. He has published extensively in Japanese\, Chinese and English\, the most recent of which is the Special Issue: Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia which he guest edited for Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 2\, No. 1\, April 2013). His other major books include Life and Technology in Yunnan 雲南の生活と技術(1994) [In Japanese]\, Archaeology and Folklore in Sichuan 四川の考古と民俗(1999) [In Japanese] \, The Material Culture of Yunnan: Technology of Everyday life 雲南物質文化-生活技術卷(2000) [In Chinese]\, Old Forestry Contracts of the Miao in Guizhou\, 1736 – 1950 貴洲苗族林業契約文書匯編(一七三六—一九五0年) (2005) [In Chinese and Japanese]\, Stone Inscriptions Concerning the Environment and the Minority Peoples of Yunnan 中国雲南少数民族生態関連碑文集(2008)[In Chinese and Japanese]\, Old Documents Concerning the Minority Peoples Of Western Yunnan: 1557 – 1943 雲南西部少數民族古文書集(2011)\, and Ming and Qing Stelae from Menghua (Weishan)\, Western Yunnan 明清滇西蒙化碑刻(2015) [In Chinese]. He is now a tenured professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n East Asian History of Science Foundation Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Science The School of Humanities and Social Science\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-rising-gap-between-haves-and-have-nots-in-hong-kong/ LOCATION:Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141021T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141021T130000 DTSTAMP:20261109T224751 CREATED:20240801T213801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102933Z UID:88677-1413892800-1413896400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Learning Not to Labor: Vocational Education\, Migrant Youth\, and Future Making in Shanghai DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Room CPD-1.21\, Central Podium Level\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n December 9\, 2015 4:30 pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: akwan@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Professor Christian Daniels will discuss the relationship of Dr. Needham’s concepts of the universality of modern science and civilisation to post 1980s approaches that emphasize the production of knowledge related to science and technology in social and political contexts. He will then discuss how homogenisation in our global age is eroding the old concept of civilisation since Dr. Needham wrote Science and Civilisation in China. Professor Daniels will cite examples from his own and others’ research on pre-modern China and Southeast Asia to illustrate how the notion of technologists working to solve similar problems in different cultural contexts diminishes the significance of the civilization content of technological solutions\, and to suggest what we can learn by rethinking the broad issue of how technology has changed history. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Daniels was born in the Fiji Islands. He received his secondary school education in Sydney\, Australia\, B.A (1st Class Hon.) from the Australian National University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1992. While in Japan\, he interspersed with trips to the Needham Research Institute in 1982 and 1984 to research and collaborated with Dr. Joseph Needham in Vol. 6\, Pt. 3\, Agro – Industries in the Science and Civilisation in China series which was published in 1996. Professor Daniels’s intimate knowledge of sugar cane technology was influenced by his father\, who was a genetic scientist breeding sugarcane clones. His principal expertise has been in the history of East Asian technology transfer and cultural interaction with mainland South East Asia\, with focus in China and Japan in particular. He served as a full tenured professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 國立亞非語言文化研究所\, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外國語大學 from 1996 to 2014. During this period\, he was actively engaged in\, among others\, organizing and managing joint research projects funded by the Japanese government and private foundations\, including many field trips to Yunnan and Sichuan. He has published extensively in Japanese\, Chinese and English\, the most recent of which is the Special Issue: Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia which he guest edited for Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 2\, No. 1\, April 2013). His other major books include Life and Technology in Yunnan 雲南の生活と技術(1994) [In Japanese]\, Archaeology and Folklore in Sichuan 四川の考古と民俗(1999) [In Japanese] \, The Material Culture of Yunnan: Technology of Everyday life 雲南物質文化-生活技術卷(2000) [In Chinese]\, Old Forestry Contracts of the Miao in Guizhou\, 1736 – 1950 貴洲苗族林業契約文書匯編(一七三六—一九五0年) (2005) [In Chinese and Japanese]\, Stone Inscriptions Concerning the Environment and the Minority Peoples of Yunnan 中国雲南少数民族生態関連碑文集(2008)[In Chinese and Japanese]\, Old Documents Concerning the Minority Peoples Of Western Yunnan: 1557 – 1943 雲南西部少數民族古文書集(2011)\, and Ming and Qing Stelae from Menghua (Weishan)\, Western Yunnan 明清滇西蒙化碑刻(2015) [In Chinese]. He is now a tenured professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n East Asian History of Science Foundation Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Science The School of Humanities and Social Science\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/learning-not-to-labor-vocational-education-migrant-youth-and-future-making-in-shanghai/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20140926T173000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20140926T190000 DTSTAMP:20261109T224752 CREATED:20240801T214337Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102933Z UID:88684-1411752600-1411758000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Harvest (麥子) & My Himalayan Vulture (我的高山兀鷲) DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Room CPD-1.21\, Central Podium Level\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n December 9\, 2015 4:30 pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: akwan@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Professor Christian Daniels will discuss the relationship of Dr. Needham’s concepts of the universality of modern science and civilisation to post 1980s approaches that emphasize the production of knowledge related to science and technology in social and political contexts. He will then discuss how homogenisation in our global age is eroding the old concept of civilisation since Dr. Needham wrote Science and Civilisation in China. Professor Daniels will cite examples from his own and others’ research on pre-modern China and Southeast Asia to illustrate how the notion of technologists working to solve similar problems in different cultural contexts diminishes the significance of the civilization content of technological solutions\, and to suggest what we can learn by rethinking the broad issue of how technology has changed history. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Daniels was born in the Fiji Islands. He received his secondary school education in Sydney\, Australia\, B.A (1st Class Hon.) from the Australian National University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1992. While in Japan\, he interspersed with trips to the Needham Research Institute in 1982 and 1984 to research and collaborated with Dr. Joseph Needham in Vol. 6\, Pt. 3\, Agro – Industries in the Science and Civilisation in China series which was published in 1996. Professor Daniels’s intimate knowledge of sugar cane technology was influenced by his father\, who was a genetic scientist breeding sugarcane clones. His principal expertise has been in the history of East Asian technology transfer and cultural interaction with mainland South East Asia\, with focus in China and Japan in particular. He served as a full tenured professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 國立亞非語言文化研究所\, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外國語大學 from 1996 to 2014. During this period\, he was actively engaged in\, among others\, organizing and managing joint research projects funded by the Japanese government and private foundations\, including many field trips to Yunnan and Sichuan. He has published extensively in Japanese\, Chinese and English\, the most recent of which is the Special Issue: Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia which he guest edited for Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 2\, No. 1\, April 2013). His other major books include Life and Technology in Yunnan 雲南の生活と技術(1994) [In Japanese]\, Archaeology and Folklore in Sichuan 四川の考古と民俗(1999) [In Japanese] \, The Material Culture of Yunnan: Technology of Everyday life 雲南物質文化-生活技術卷(2000) [In Chinese]\, Old Forestry Contracts of the Miao in Guizhou\, 1736 – 1950 貴洲苗族林業契約文書匯編(一七三六—一九五0年) (2005) [In Chinese and Japanese]\, Stone Inscriptions Concerning the Environment and the Minority Peoples of Yunnan 中国雲南少数民族生態関連碑文集(2008)[In Chinese and Japanese]\, Old Documents Concerning the Minority Peoples Of Western Yunnan: 1557 – 1943 雲南西部少數民族古文書集(2011)\, and Ming and Qing Stelae from Menghua (Weishan)\, Western Yunnan 明清滇西蒙化碑刻(2015) [In Chinese]. He is now a tenured professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n East Asian History of Science Foundation Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Science The School of Humanities and Social Science\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/harvest-%e9%ba%a5%e5%ad%90-my-himalayan-vulture-%e6%88%91%e7%9a%84%e9%ab%98%e5%b1%b1%e5%85%80%e9%b7%b2/ LOCATION:T5\, Meng Wah Complex\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20140923T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20140923T130000 DTSTAMP:20261109T224752 CREATED:20240801T214918Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102934Z UID:88693-1411473600-1411477200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Shampoo in China: Development\, Consumerism\, and Modernity DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Room CPD-1.21\, Central Podium Level\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n December 9\, 2015 4:30 pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: akwan@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Professor Christian Daniels will discuss the relationship of Dr. Needham’s concepts of the universality of modern science and civilisation to post 1980s approaches that emphasize the production of knowledge related to science and technology in social and political contexts. He will then discuss how homogenisation in our global age is eroding the old concept of civilisation since Dr. Needham wrote Science and Civilisation in China. Professor Daniels will cite examples from his own and others’ research on pre-modern China and Southeast Asia to illustrate how the notion of technologists working to solve similar problems in different cultural contexts diminishes the significance of the civilization content of technological solutions\, and to suggest what we can learn by rethinking the broad issue of how technology has changed history. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Daniels was born in the Fiji Islands. He received his secondary school education in Sydney\, Australia\, B.A (1st Class Hon.) from the Australian National University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1992. While in Japan\, he interspersed with trips to the Needham Research Institute in 1982 and 1984 to research and collaborated with Dr. Joseph Needham in Vol. 6\, Pt. 3\, Agro – Industries in the Science and Civilisation in China series which was published in 1996. Professor Daniels’s intimate knowledge of sugar cane technology was influenced by his father\, who was a genetic scientist breeding sugarcane clones. His principal expertise has been in the history of East Asian technology transfer and cultural interaction with mainland South East Asia\, with focus in China and Japan in particular. He served as a full tenured professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 國立亞非語言文化研究所\, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外國語大學 from 1996 to 2014. During this period\, he was actively engaged in\, among others\, organizing and managing joint research projects funded by the Japanese government and private foundations\, including many field trips to Yunnan and Sichuan. He has published extensively in Japanese\, Chinese and English\, the most recent of which is the Special Issue: Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia which he guest edited for Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 2\, No. 1\, April 2013). His other major books include Life and Technology in Yunnan 雲南の生活と技術(1994) [In Japanese]\, Archaeology and Folklore in Sichuan 四川の考古と民俗(1999) [In Japanese] \, The Material Culture of Yunnan: Technology of Everyday life 雲南物質文化-生活技術卷(2000) [In Chinese]\, Old Forestry Contracts of the Miao in Guizhou\, 1736 – 1950 貴洲苗族林業契約文書匯編(一七三六—一九五0年) (2005) [In Chinese and Japanese]\, Stone Inscriptions Concerning the Environment and the Minority Peoples of Yunnan 中国雲南少数民族生態関連碑文集(2008)[In Chinese and Japanese]\, Old Documents Concerning the Minority Peoples Of Western Yunnan: 1557 – 1943 雲南西部少數民族古文書集(2011)\, and Ming and Qing Stelae from Menghua (Weishan)\, Western Yunnan 明清滇西蒙化碑刻(2015) [In Chinese]. He is now a tenured professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n East Asian History of Science Foundation Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Science The School of Humanities and Social Science\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/shampoo-in-china-development-consumerism-and-modernity/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20140918T183000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20140918T183000 DTSTAMP:20261109T224752 CREATED:20240801T215227Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102935Z UID:88699-1411065000-1411065000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The Jade Emperor: Sovereign Power\, Celestial Bureaucracy\, and the Political Theology of the Masses in China DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Room CPD-1.21\, Central Podium Level\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n December 9\, 2015 4:30 pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: akwan@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Professor Christian Daniels will discuss the relationship of Dr. Needham’s concepts of the universality of modern science and civilisation to post 1980s approaches that emphasize the production of knowledge related to science and technology in social and political contexts. He will then discuss how homogenisation in our global age is eroding the old concept of civilisation since Dr. Needham wrote Science and Civilisation in China. Professor Daniels will cite examples from his own and others’ research on pre-modern China and Southeast Asia to illustrate how the notion of technologists working to solve similar problems in different cultural contexts diminishes the significance of the civilization content of technological solutions\, and to suggest what we can learn by rethinking the broad issue of how technology has changed history. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Daniels was born in the Fiji Islands. He received his secondary school education in Sydney\, Australia\, B.A (1st Class Hon.) from the Australian National University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1992. While in Japan\, he interspersed with trips to the Needham Research Institute in 1982 and 1984 to research and collaborated with Dr. Joseph Needham in Vol. 6\, Pt. 3\, Agro – Industries in the Science and Civilisation in China series which was published in 1996. Professor Daniels’s intimate knowledge of sugar cane technology was influenced by his father\, who was a genetic scientist breeding sugarcane clones. His principal expertise has been in the history of East Asian technology transfer and cultural interaction with mainland South East Asia\, with focus in China and Japan in particular. He served as a full tenured professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 國立亞非語言文化研究所\, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外國語大學 from 1996 to 2014. During this period\, he was actively engaged in\, among others\, organizing and managing joint research projects funded by the Japanese government and private foundations\, including many field trips to Yunnan and Sichuan. He has published extensively in Japanese\, Chinese and English\, the most recent of which is the Special Issue: Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia which he guest edited for Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 2\, No. 1\, April 2013). His other major books include Life and Technology in Yunnan 雲南の生活と技術(1994) [In Japanese]\, Archaeology and Folklore in Sichuan 四川の考古と民俗(1999) [In Japanese] \, The Material Culture of Yunnan: Technology of Everyday life 雲南物質文化-生活技術卷(2000) [In Chinese]\, Old Forestry Contracts of the Miao in Guizhou\, 1736 – 1950 貴洲苗族林業契約文書匯編(一七三六—一九五0年) (2005) [In Chinese and Japanese]\, Stone Inscriptions Concerning the Environment and the Minority Peoples of Yunnan 中国雲南少数民族生態関連碑文集(2008)[In Chinese and Japanese]\, Old Documents Concerning the Minority Peoples Of Western Yunnan: 1557 – 1943 雲南西部少數民族古文書集(2011)\, and Ming and Qing Stelae from Menghua (Weishan)\, Western Yunnan 明清滇西蒙化碑刻(2015) [In Chinese]. He is now a tenured professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n East Asian History of Science Foundation Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Science The School of Humanities and Social Science\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-jade-emperor-sovereign-power-celestial-bureaucracy-and-the-political-theology-of-the-masses-in-china/ LOCATION:Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20140916T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20140916T160000 DTSTAMP:20261109T224752 CREATED:20240801T215913Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102935Z UID:88708-1410883200-1410883200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Comparing Indian and Chinese Philosophy and Religion: Reflection and Prospectus DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Room CPD-1.21\, Central Podium Level\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n December 9\, 2015 4:30 pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: akwan@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Professor Christian Daniels will discuss the relationship of Dr. Needham’s concepts of the universality of modern science and civilisation to post 1980s approaches that emphasize the production of knowledge related to science and technology in social and political contexts. He will then discuss how homogenisation in our global age is eroding the old concept of civilisation since Dr. Needham wrote Science and Civilisation in China. Professor Daniels will cite examples from his own and others’ research on pre-modern China and Southeast Asia to illustrate how the notion of technologists working to solve similar problems in different cultural contexts diminishes the significance of the civilization content of technological solutions\, and to suggest what we can learn by rethinking the broad issue of how technology has changed history. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Daniels was born in the Fiji Islands. He received his secondary school education in Sydney\, Australia\, B.A (1st Class Hon.) from the Australian National University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1992. While in Japan\, he interspersed with trips to the Needham Research Institute in 1982 and 1984 to research and collaborated with Dr. Joseph Needham in Vol. 6\, Pt. 3\, Agro – Industries in the Science and Civilisation in China series which was published in 1996. Professor Daniels’s intimate knowledge of sugar cane technology was influenced by his father\, who was a genetic scientist breeding sugarcane clones. His principal expertise has been in the history of East Asian technology transfer and cultural interaction with mainland South East Asia\, with focus in China and Japan in particular. He served as a full tenured professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 國立亞非語言文化研究所\, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外國語大學 from 1996 to 2014. During this period\, he was actively engaged in\, among others\, organizing and managing joint research projects funded by the Japanese government and private foundations\, including many field trips to Yunnan and Sichuan. He has published extensively in Japanese\, Chinese and English\, the most recent of which is the Special Issue: Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia which he guest edited for Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 2\, No. 1\, April 2013). His other major books include Life and Technology in Yunnan 雲南の生活と技術(1994) [In Japanese]\, Archaeology and Folklore in Sichuan 四川の考古と民俗(1999) [In Japanese] \, The Material Culture of Yunnan: Technology of Everyday life 雲南物質文化-生活技術卷(2000) [In Chinese]\, Old Forestry Contracts of the Miao in Guizhou\, 1736 – 1950 貴洲苗族林業契約文書匯編(一七三六—一九五0年) (2005) [In Chinese and Japanese]\, Stone Inscriptions Concerning the Environment and the Minority Peoples of Yunnan 中国雲南少数民族生態関連碑文集(2008)[In Chinese and Japanese]\, Old Documents Concerning the Minority Peoples Of Western Yunnan: 1557 – 1943 雲南西部少數民族古文書集(2011)\, and Ming and Qing Stelae from Menghua (Weishan)\, Western Yunnan 明清滇西蒙化碑刻(2015) [In Chinese]. He is now a tenured professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n East Asian History of Science Foundation Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Science The School of Humanities and Social Science\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/comparing-indian-and-chinese-philosophy-and-religion-reflection-and-prospectus/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20140911T183000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20140911T183000 DTSTAMP:20261109T224752 CREATED:20240801T220501Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102935Z UID:88721-1410460200-1410460200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Perspectives on the History of a Chinese Conglomerate: Weiqiao Pioneering Group\, Ltd. DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Room CPD-1.21\, Central Podium Level\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n December 9\, 2015 4:30 pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: akwan@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Professor Christian Daniels will discuss the relationship of Dr. Needham’s concepts of the universality of modern science and civilisation to post 1980s approaches that emphasize the production of knowledge related to science and technology in social and political contexts. He will then discuss how homogenisation in our global age is eroding the old concept of civilisation since Dr. Needham wrote Science and Civilisation in China. Professor Daniels will cite examples from his own and others’ research on pre-modern China and Southeast Asia to illustrate how the notion of technologists working to solve similar problems in different cultural contexts diminishes the significance of the civilization content of technological solutions\, and to suggest what we can learn by rethinking the broad issue of how technology has changed history. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Daniels was born in the Fiji Islands. He received his secondary school education in Sydney\, Australia\, B.A (1st Class Hon.) from the Australian National University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1992. While in Japan\, he interspersed with trips to the Needham Research Institute in 1982 and 1984 to research and collaborated with Dr. Joseph Needham in Vol. 6\, Pt. 3\, Agro – Industries in the Science and Civilisation in China series which was published in 1996. Professor Daniels’s intimate knowledge of sugar cane technology was influenced by his father\, who was a genetic scientist breeding sugarcane clones. His principal expertise has been in the history of East Asian technology transfer and cultural interaction with mainland South East Asia\, with focus in China and Japan in particular. He served as a full tenured professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 國立亞非語言文化研究所\, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外國語大學 from 1996 to 2014. During this period\, he was actively engaged in\, among others\, organizing and managing joint research projects funded by the Japanese government and private foundations\, including many field trips to Yunnan and Sichuan. He has published extensively in Japanese\, Chinese and English\, the most recent of which is the Special Issue: Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia which he guest edited for Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 2\, No. 1\, April 2013). His other major books include Life and Technology in Yunnan 雲南の生活と技術(1994) [In Japanese]\, Archaeology and Folklore in Sichuan 四川の考古と民俗(1999) [In Japanese] \, The Material Culture of Yunnan: Technology of Everyday life 雲南物質文化-生活技術卷(2000) [In Chinese]\, Old Forestry Contracts of the Miao in Guizhou\, 1736 – 1950 貴洲苗族林業契約文書匯編(一七三六—一九五0年) (2005) [In Chinese and Japanese]\, Stone Inscriptions Concerning the Environment and the Minority Peoples of Yunnan 中国雲南少数民族生態関連碑文集(2008)[In Chinese and Japanese]\, Old Documents Concerning the Minority Peoples Of Western Yunnan: 1557 – 1943 雲南西部少數民族古文書集(2011)\, and Ming and Qing Stelae from Menghua (Weishan)\, Western Yunnan 明清滇西蒙化碑刻(2015) [In Chinese]. He is now a tenured professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n East Asian History of Science Foundation Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Science The School of Humanities and Social Science\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/perspectives-on-the-history-of-a-chinese-conglomerate-weiqiao-pioneering-group-ltd/ LOCATION:Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20140910T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20140910T160000 DTSTAMP:20261109T224752 CREATED:20240801T221030Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102936Z UID:88730-1410364800-1410364800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Urbanization and Transformations of Family and Gender in Shandong DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Room CPD-1.21\, Central Podium Level\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n December 9\, 2015 4:30 pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: akwan@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Professor Christian Daniels will discuss the relationship of Dr. Needham’s concepts of the universality of modern science and civilisation to post 1980s approaches that emphasize the production of knowledge related to science and technology in social and political contexts. He will then discuss how homogenisation in our global age is eroding the old concept of civilisation since Dr. Needham wrote Science and Civilisation in China. Professor Daniels will cite examples from his own and others’ research on pre-modern China and Southeast Asia to illustrate how the notion of technologists working to solve similar problems in different cultural contexts diminishes the significance of the civilization content of technological solutions\, and to suggest what we can learn by rethinking the broad issue of how technology has changed history. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Daniels was born in the Fiji Islands. He received his secondary school education in Sydney\, Australia\, B.A (1st Class Hon.) from the Australian National University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1992. While in Japan\, he interspersed with trips to the Needham Research Institute in 1982 and 1984 to research and collaborated with Dr. Joseph Needham in Vol. 6\, Pt. 3\, Agro – Industries in the Science and Civilisation in China series which was published in 1996. Professor Daniels’s intimate knowledge of sugar cane technology was influenced by his father\, who was a genetic scientist breeding sugarcane clones. His principal expertise has been in the history of East Asian technology transfer and cultural interaction with mainland South East Asia\, with focus in China and Japan in particular. He served as a full tenured professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 國立亞非語言文化研究所\, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外國語大學 from 1996 to 2014. During this period\, he was actively engaged in\, among others\, organizing and managing joint research projects funded by the Japanese government and private foundations\, including many field trips to Yunnan and Sichuan. He has published extensively in Japanese\, Chinese and English\, the most recent of which is the Special Issue: Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia which he guest edited for Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 2\, No. 1\, April 2013). His other major books include Life and Technology in Yunnan 雲南の生活と技術(1994) [In Japanese]\, Archaeology and Folklore in Sichuan 四川の考古と民俗(1999) [In Japanese] \, The Material Culture of Yunnan: Technology of Everyday life 雲南物質文化-生活技術卷(2000) [In Chinese]\, Old Forestry Contracts of the Miao in Guizhou\, 1736 – 1950 貴洲苗族林業契約文書匯編(一七三六—一九五0年) (2005) [In Chinese and Japanese]\, Stone Inscriptions Concerning the Environment and the Minority Peoples of Yunnan 中国雲南少数民族生態関連碑文集(2008)[In Chinese and Japanese]\, Old Documents Concerning the Minority Peoples Of Western Yunnan: 1557 – 1943 雲南西部少數民族古文書集(2011)\, and Ming and Qing Stelae from Menghua (Weishan)\, Western Yunnan 明清滇西蒙化碑刻(2015) [In Chinese]. He is now a tenured professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n East Asian History of Science Foundation Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Science The School of Humanities and Social Science\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/urbanization-and-transformations-of-family-and-gender-in-shandong/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140818 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140825 DTSTAMP:20261109T224752 CREATED:20240801T221441Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102936Z UID:88736-1408320000-1408924799@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Inter-Asian Urbanity: Connections and Comparisons (Hong Kong) DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Room CPD-1.21\, Central Podium Level\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n December 9\, 2015 4:30 pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: akwan@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Professor Christian Daniels will discuss the relationship of Dr. Needham’s concepts of the universality of modern science and civilisation to post 1980s approaches that emphasize the production of knowledge related to science and technology in social and political contexts. He will then discuss how homogenisation in our global age is eroding the old concept of civilisation since Dr. Needham wrote Science and Civilisation in China. Professor Daniels will cite examples from his own and others’ research on pre-modern China and Southeast Asia to illustrate how the notion of technologists working to solve similar problems in different cultural contexts diminishes the significance of the civilization content of technological solutions\, and to suggest what we can learn by rethinking the broad issue of how technology has changed history. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Daniels was born in the Fiji Islands. He received his secondary school education in Sydney\, Australia\, B.A (1st Class Hon.) from the Australian National University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1992. While in Japan\, he interspersed with trips to the Needham Research Institute in 1982 and 1984 to research and collaborated with Dr. Joseph Needham in Vol. 6\, Pt. 3\, Agro – Industries in the Science and Civilisation in China series which was published in 1996. Professor Daniels’s intimate knowledge of sugar cane technology was influenced by his father\, who was a genetic scientist breeding sugarcane clones. His principal expertise has been in the history of East Asian technology transfer and cultural interaction with mainland South East Asia\, with focus in China and Japan in particular. He served as a full tenured professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 國立亞非語言文化研究所\, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外國語大學 from 1996 to 2014. During this period\, he was actively engaged in\, among others\, organizing and managing joint research projects funded by the Japanese government and private foundations\, including many field trips to Yunnan and Sichuan. He has published extensively in Japanese\, Chinese and English\, the most recent of which is the Special Issue: Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia which he guest edited for Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 2\, No. 1\, April 2013). His other major books include Life and Technology in Yunnan 雲南の生活と技術(1994) [In Japanese]\, Archaeology and Folklore in Sichuan 四川の考古と民俗(1999) [In Japanese] \, The Material Culture of Yunnan: Technology of Everyday life 雲南物質文化-生活技術卷(2000) [In Chinese]\, Old Forestry Contracts of the Miao in Guizhou\, 1736 – 1950 貴洲苗族林業契約文書匯編(一七三六—一九五0年) (2005) [In Chinese and Japanese]\, Stone Inscriptions Concerning the Environment and the Minority Peoples of Yunnan 中国雲南少数民族生態関連碑文集(2008)[In Chinese and Japanese]\, Old Documents Concerning the Minority Peoples Of Western Yunnan: 1557 – 1943 雲南西部少數民族古文書集(2011)\, and Ming and Qing Stelae from Menghua (Weishan)\, Western Yunnan 明清滇西蒙化碑刻(2015) [In Chinese]. He is now a tenured professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n East Asian History of Science Foundation Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Science The School of Humanities and Social Science\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/inter-asian-urbanity-connections-and-comparisons-hong-kong/ LOCATION:The University of Hong Kong\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140717 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140729 DTSTAMP:20261109T224752 CREATED:20240801T222058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102936Z UID:88752-1405555200-1406591999@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The 11th Advanced Summer Training Workshop on Historical Anthropology DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Room CPD-1.21\, Central Podium Level\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n December 9\, 2015 4:30 pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: akwan@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Professor Christian Daniels will discuss the relationship of Dr. Needham’s concepts of the universality of modern science and civilisation to post 1980s approaches that emphasize the production of knowledge related to science and technology in social and political contexts. He will then discuss how homogenisation in our global age is eroding the old concept of civilisation since Dr. Needham wrote Science and Civilisation in China. Professor Daniels will cite examples from his own and others’ research on pre-modern China and Southeast Asia to illustrate how the notion of technologists working to solve similar problems in different cultural contexts diminishes the significance of the civilization content of technological solutions\, and to suggest what we can learn by rethinking the broad issue of how technology has changed history. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Daniels was born in the Fiji Islands. He received his secondary school education in Sydney\, Australia\, B.A (1st Class Hon.) from the Australian National University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1992. While in Japan\, he interspersed with trips to the Needham Research Institute in 1982 and 1984 to research and collaborated with Dr. Joseph Needham in Vol. 6\, Pt. 3\, Agro – Industries in the Science and Civilisation in China series which was published in 1996. Professor Daniels’s intimate knowledge of sugar cane technology was influenced by his father\, who was a genetic scientist breeding sugarcane clones. His principal expertise has been in the history of East Asian technology transfer and cultural interaction with mainland South East Asia\, with focus in China and Japan in particular. He served as a full tenured professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 國立亞非語言文化研究所\, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外國語大學 from 1996 to 2014. During this period\, he was actively engaged in\, among others\, organizing and managing joint research projects funded by the Japanese government and private foundations\, including many field trips to Yunnan and Sichuan. He has published extensively in Japanese\, Chinese and English\, the most recent of which is the Special Issue: Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia which he guest edited for Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 2\, No. 1\, April 2013). His other major books include Life and Technology in Yunnan 雲南の生活と技術(1994) [In Japanese]\, Archaeology and Folklore in Sichuan 四川の考古と民俗(1999) [In Japanese] \, The Material Culture of Yunnan: Technology of Everyday life 雲南物質文化-生活技術卷(2000) [In Chinese]\, Old Forestry Contracts of the Miao in Guizhou\, 1736 – 1950 貴洲苗族林業契約文書匯編(一七三六—一九五0年) (2005) [In Chinese and Japanese]\, Stone Inscriptions Concerning the Environment and the Minority Peoples of Yunnan 中国雲南少数民族生態関連碑文集(2008)[In Chinese and Japanese]\, Old Documents Concerning the Minority Peoples Of Western Yunnan: 1557 – 1943 雲南西部少數民族古文書集(2011)\, and Ming and Qing Stelae from Menghua (Weishan)\, Western Yunnan 明清滇西蒙化碑刻(2015) [In Chinese]. He is now a tenured professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n East Asian History of Science Foundation Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Science The School of Humanities and Social Science\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-11th-advanced-summer-training-workshop-on-historical-anthropology/ LOCATION:Singapore and Malaysia\, Singapore CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140609 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140613 DTSTAMP:20261109T224752 CREATED:20240801T222651Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102937Z UID:88765-1402272000-1402617599@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Ecologies of Urbanism in Asia II: Cities\, Towns\, and the Places of Nature DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Room CPD-1.21\, Central Podium Level\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n December 9\, 2015 4:30 pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: akwan@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Professor Christian Daniels will discuss the relationship of Dr. Needham’s concepts of the universality of modern science and civilisation to post 1980s approaches that emphasize the production of knowledge related to science and technology in social and political contexts. He will then discuss how homogenisation in our global age is eroding the old concept of civilisation since Dr. Needham wrote Science and Civilisation in China. Professor Daniels will cite examples from his own and others’ research on pre-modern China and Southeast Asia to illustrate how the notion of technologists working to solve similar problems in different cultural contexts diminishes the significance of the civilization content of technological solutions\, and to suggest what we can learn by rethinking the broad issue of how technology has changed history. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Daniels was born in the Fiji Islands. He received his secondary school education in Sydney\, Australia\, B.A (1st Class Hon.) from the Australian National University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1992. While in Japan\, he interspersed with trips to the Needham Research Institute in 1982 and 1984 to research and collaborated with Dr. Joseph Needham in Vol. 6\, Pt. 3\, Agro – Industries in the Science and Civilisation in China series which was published in 1996. Professor Daniels’s intimate knowledge of sugar cane technology was influenced by his father\, who was a genetic scientist breeding sugarcane clones. His principal expertise has been in the history of East Asian technology transfer and cultural interaction with mainland South East Asia\, with focus in China and Japan in particular. He served as a full tenured professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 國立亞非語言文化研究所\, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外國語大學 from 1996 to 2014. During this period\, he was actively engaged in\, among others\, organizing and managing joint research projects funded by the Japanese government and private foundations\, including many field trips to Yunnan and Sichuan. He has published extensively in Japanese\, Chinese and English\, the most recent of which is the Special Issue: Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia which he guest edited for Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 2\, No. 1\, April 2013). His other major books include Life and Technology in Yunnan 雲南の生活と技術(1994) [In Japanese]\, Archaeology and Folklore in Sichuan 四川の考古と民俗(1999) [In Japanese] \, The Material Culture of Yunnan: Technology of Everyday life 雲南物質文化-生活技術卷(2000) [In Chinese]\, Old Forestry Contracts of the Miao in Guizhou\, 1736 – 1950 貴洲苗族林業契約文書匯編(一七三六—一九五0年) (2005) [In Chinese and Japanese]\, Stone Inscriptions Concerning the Environment and the Minority Peoples of Yunnan 中国雲南少数民族生態関連碑文集(2008)[In Chinese and Japanese]\, Old Documents Concerning the Minority Peoples Of Western Yunnan: 1557 – 1943 雲南西部少數民族古文書集(2011)\, and Ming and Qing Stelae from Menghua (Weishan)\, Western Yunnan 明清滇西蒙化碑刻(2015) [In Chinese]. He is now a tenured professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n East Asian History of Science Foundation Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Science The School of Humanities and Social Science\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/ecologies-of-urbanism-in-asia-ii-cities-towns-and-the-places-of-nature/ LOCATION:Kong Siu Lung Lounge\, Robert Black College\, The University of Hong Kong\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20140605T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20140605T160000 DTSTAMP:20261109T224752 CREATED:20240801T223354Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102937Z UID:88783-1401984000-1401984000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:“Now Everyone Can Fly”: Emerging Infrastructures of Low-Cost Aviation in the Contemporary Southeast Asian City DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Room CPD-1.21\, Central Podium Level\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n December 9\, 2015 4:30 pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: akwan@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Professor Christian Daniels will discuss the relationship of Dr. Needham’s concepts of the universality of modern science and civilisation to post 1980s approaches that emphasize the production of knowledge related to science and technology in social and political contexts. He will then discuss how homogenisation in our global age is eroding the old concept of civilisation since Dr. Needham wrote Science and Civilisation in China. Professor Daniels will cite examples from his own and others’ research on pre-modern China and Southeast Asia to illustrate how the notion of technologists working to solve similar problems in different cultural contexts diminishes the significance of the civilization content of technological solutions\, and to suggest what we can learn by rethinking the broad issue of how technology has changed history. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Daniels was born in the Fiji Islands. He received his secondary school education in Sydney\, Australia\, B.A (1st Class Hon.) from the Australian National University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1992. While in Japan\, he interspersed with trips to the Needham Research Institute in 1982 and 1984 to research and collaborated with Dr. Joseph Needham in Vol. 6\, Pt. 3\, Agro – Industries in the Science and Civilisation in China series which was published in 1996. Professor Daniels’s intimate knowledge of sugar cane technology was influenced by his father\, who was a genetic scientist breeding sugarcane clones. His principal expertise has been in the history of East Asian technology transfer and cultural interaction with mainland South East Asia\, with focus in China and Japan in particular. He served as a full tenured professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 國立亞非語言文化研究所\, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外國語大學 from 1996 to 2014. During this period\, he was actively engaged in\, among others\, organizing and managing joint research projects funded by the Japanese government and private foundations\, including many field trips to Yunnan and Sichuan. He has published extensively in Japanese\, Chinese and English\, the most recent of which is the Special Issue: Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia which he guest edited for Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 2\, No. 1\, April 2013). His other major books include Life and Technology in Yunnan 雲南の生活と技術(1994) [In Japanese]\, Archaeology and Folklore in Sichuan 四川の考古と民俗(1999) [In Japanese] \, The Material Culture of Yunnan: Technology of Everyday life 雲南物質文化-生活技術卷(2000) [In Chinese]\, Old Forestry Contracts of the Miao in Guizhou\, 1736 – 1950 貴洲苗族林業契約文書匯編(一七三六—一九五0年) (2005) [In Chinese and Japanese]\, Stone Inscriptions Concerning the Environment and the Minority Peoples of Yunnan 中国雲南少数民族生態関連碑文集(2008)[In Chinese and Japanese]\, Old Documents Concerning the Minority Peoples Of Western Yunnan: 1557 – 1943 雲南西部少數民族古文書集(2011)\, and Ming and Qing Stelae from Menghua (Weishan)\, Western Yunnan 明清滇西蒙化碑刻(2015) [In Chinese]. He is now a tenured professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n East Asian History of Science Foundation Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Science The School of Humanities and Social Science\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/now-everyone-can-fly-emerging-infrastructures-of-low-cost-aviation-in-the-contemporary-southeast-asian-city/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20140526T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20140526T163000 DTSTAMP:20261109T224752 CREATED:20240801T223816Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102833Z UID:88790-1401121800-1401121800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The Body Anatomic and the Body Politic in Modern China DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Room CPD-1.21\, Central Podium Level\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n December 9\, 2015 4:30 pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: akwan@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Professor Christian Daniels will discuss the relationship of Dr. Needham’s concepts of the universality of modern science and civilisation to post 1980s approaches that emphasize the production of knowledge related to science and technology in social and political contexts. He will then discuss how homogenisation in our global age is eroding the old concept of civilisation since Dr. Needham wrote Science and Civilisation in China. Professor Daniels will cite examples from his own and others’ research on pre-modern China and Southeast Asia to illustrate how the notion of technologists working to solve similar problems in different cultural contexts diminishes the significance of the civilization content of technological solutions\, and to suggest what we can learn by rethinking the broad issue of how technology has changed history. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Daniels was born in the Fiji Islands. He received his secondary school education in Sydney\, Australia\, B.A (1st Class Hon.) from the Australian National University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1992. While in Japan\, he interspersed with trips to the Needham Research Institute in 1982 and 1984 to research and collaborated with Dr. Joseph Needham in Vol. 6\, Pt. 3\, Agro – Industries in the Science and Civilisation in China series which was published in 1996. Professor Daniels’s intimate knowledge of sugar cane technology was influenced by his father\, who was a genetic scientist breeding sugarcane clones. His principal expertise has been in the history of East Asian technology transfer and cultural interaction with mainland South East Asia\, with focus in China and Japan in particular. He served as a full tenured professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 國立亞非語言文化研究所\, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外國語大學 from 1996 to 2014. During this period\, he was actively engaged in\, among others\, organizing and managing joint research projects funded by the Japanese government and private foundations\, including many field trips to Yunnan and Sichuan. He has published extensively in Japanese\, Chinese and English\, the most recent of which is the Special Issue: Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia which he guest edited for Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 2\, No. 1\, April 2013). His other major books include Life and Technology in Yunnan 雲南の生活と技術(1994) [In Japanese]\, Archaeology and Folklore in Sichuan 四川の考古と民俗(1999) [In Japanese] \, The Material Culture of Yunnan: Technology of Everyday life 雲南物質文化-生活技術卷(2000) [In Chinese]\, Old Forestry Contracts of the Miao in Guizhou\, 1736 – 1950 貴洲苗族林業契約文書匯編(一七三六—一九五0年) (2005) [In Chinese and Japanese]\, Stone Inscriptions Concerning the Environment and the Minority Peoples of Yunnan 中国雲南少数民族生態関連碑文集(2008)[In Chinese and Japanese]\, Old Documents Concerning the Minority Peoples Of Western Yunnan: 1557 – 1943 雲南西部少數民族古文書集(2011)\, and Ming and Qing Stelae from Menghua (Weishan)\, Western Yunnan 明清滇西蒙化碑刻(2015) [In Chinese]. He is now a tenured professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n East Asian History of Science Foundation Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Science The School of Humanities and Social Science\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-body-anatomic-and-the-body-politic-in-modern-china/ LOCATION:T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS,IHSS Public Lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20140521T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20140521T163000 DTSTAMP:20261109T224752 CREATED:20240801T231715Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102938Z UID:88800-1400689800-1400689800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:New Networks of Knowledge: How to Achieve Benefits for the Individual and Society at Large DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Room CPD-1.21\, Central Podium Level\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n December 9\, 2015 4:30 pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: akwan@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Professor Christian Daniels will discuss the relationship of Dr. Needham’s concepts of the universality of modern science and civilisation to post 1980s approaches that emphasize the production of knowledge related to science and technology in social and political contexts. He will then discuss how homogenisation in our global age is eroding the old concept of civilisation since Dr. Needham wrote Science and Civilisation in China. Professor Daniels will cite examples from his own and others’ research on pre-modern China and Southeast Asia to illustrate how the notion of technologists working to solve similar problems in different cultural contexts diminishes the significance of the civilization content of technological solutions\, and to suggest what we can learn by rethinking the broad issue of how technology has changed history. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Daniels was born in the Fiji Islands. He received his secondary school education in Sydney\, Australia\, B.A (1st Class Hon.) from the Australian National University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1992. While in Japan\, he interspersed with trips to the Needham Research Institute in 1982 and 1984 to research and collaborated with Dr. Joseph Needham in Vol. 6\, Pt. 3\, Agro – Industries in the Science and Civilisation in China series which was published in 1996. Professor Daniels’s intimate knowledge of sugar cane technology was influenced by his father\, who was a genetic scientist breeding sugarcane clones. His principal expertise has been in the history of East Asian technology transfer and cultural interaction with mainland South East Asia\, with focus in China and Japan in particular. He served as a full tenured professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 國立亞非語言文化研究所\, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外國語大學 from 1996 to 2014. During this period\, he was actively engaged in\, among others\, organizing and managing joint research projects funded by the Japanese government and private foundations\, including many field trips to Yunnan and Sichuan. He has published extensively in Japanese\, Chinese and English\, the most recent of which is the Special Issue: Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia which he guest edited for Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 2\, No. 1\, April 2013). His other major books include Life and Technology in Yunnan 雲南の生活と技術(1994) [In Japanese]\, Archaeology and Folklore in Sichuan 四川の考古と民俗(1999) [In Japanese] \, The Material Culture of Yunnan: Technology of Everyday life 雲南物質文化-生活技術卷(2000) [In Chinese]\, Old Forestry Contracts of the Miao in Guizhou\, 1736 – 1950 貴洲苗族林業契約文書匯編(一七三六—一九五0年) (2005) [In Chinese and Japanese]\, Stone Inscriptions Concerning the Environment and the Minority Peoples of Yunnan 中国雲南少数民族生態関連碑文集(2008)[In Chinese and Japanese]\, Old Documents Concerning the Minority Peoples Of Western Yunnan: 1557 – 1943 雲南西部少數民族古文書集(2011)\, and Ming and Qing Stelae from Menghua (Weishan)\, Western Yunnan 明清滇西蒙化碑刻(2015) [In Chinese]. He is now a tenured professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n East Asian History of Science Foundation Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Science The School of Humanities and Social Science\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/new-networks-of-knowledge-how-to-achieve-benefits-for-the-individual-and-society-at-large/ LOCATION:T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20140520T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20140520T163000 DTSTAMP:20261109T224752 CREATED:20240801T232228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102938Z UID:88809-1400603400-1400603400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The Role of the European Research Council (ERC) in Funding Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences Domain in Europe DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Room CPD-1.21\, Central Podium Level\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n December 9\, 2015 4:30 pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: akwan@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Professor Christian Daniels will discuss the relationship of Dr. Needham’s concepts of the universality of modern science and civilisation to post 1980s approaches that emphasize the production of knowledge related to science and technology in social and political contexts. He will then discuss how homogenisation in our global age is eroding the old concept of civilisation since Dr. Needham wrote Science and Civilisation in China. Professor Daniels will cite examples from his own and others’ research on pre-modern China and Southeast Asia to illustrate how the notion of technologists working to solve similar problems in different cultural contexts diminishes the significance of the civilization content of technological solutions\, and to suggest what we can learn by rethinking the broad issue of how technology has changed history. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Daniels was born in the Fiji Islands. He received his secondary school education in Sydney\, Australia\, B.A (1st Class Hon.) from the Australian National University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1992. While in Japan\, he interspersed with trips to the Needham Research Institute in 1982 and 1984 to research and collaborated with Dr. Joseph Needham in Vol. 6\, Pt. 3\, Agro – Industries in the Science and Civilisation in China series which was published in 1996. Professor Daniels’s intimate knowledge of sugar cane technology was influenced by his father\, who was a genetic scientist breeding sugarcane clones. His principal expertise has been in the history of East Asian technology transfer and cultural interaction with mainland South East Asia\, with focus in China and Japan in particular. He served as a full tenured professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 國立亞非語言文化研究所\, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外國語大學 from 1996 to 2014. During this period\, he was actively engaged in\, among others\, organizing and managing joint research projects funded by the Japanese government and private foundations\, including many field trips to Yunnan and Sichuan. He has published extensively in Japanese\, Chinese and English\, the most recent of which is the Special Issue: Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia which he guest edited for Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 2\, No. 1\, April 2013). His other major books include Life and Technology in Yunnan 雲南の生活と技術(1994) [In Japanese]\, Archaeology and Folklore in Sichuan 四川の考古と民俗(1999) [In Japanese] \, The Material Culture of Yunnan: Technology of Everyday life 雲南物質文化-生活技術卷(2000) [In Chinese]\, Old Forestry Contracts of the Miao in Guizhou\, 1736 – 1950 貴洲苗族林業契約文書匯編(一七三六—一九五0年) (2005) [In Chinese and Japanese]\, Stone Inscriptions Concerning the Environment and the Minority Peoples of Yunnan 中国雲南少数民族生態関連碑文集(2008)[In Chinese and Japanese]\, Old Documents Concerning the Minority Peoples Of Western Yunnan: 1557 – 1943 雲南西部少數民族古文書集(2011)\, and Ming and Qing Stelae from Menghua (Weishan)\, Western Yunnan 明清滇西蒙化碑刻(2015) [In Chinese]. He is now a tenured professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n East Asian History of Science Foundation Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Science The School of Humanities and Social Science\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-role-of-the-european-research-council-erc-in-funding-research-in-the-humanities-and-social-sciences-domain-in-europe/ LOCATION:T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20140520T093000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20140520T120000 DTSTAMP:20261109T224752 CREATED:20240802T000944Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102939Z UID:88827-1400578200-1400587200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:From the Old Zhuang Character Script: Migrants’ Passage\, Migration of Ethnic Groups\, Chieftain-regime\, Practitioners of Popular Religion in the Guangxi Region of Ming-Qing Period (從古壯文本來看廣西明清代移民走廊、民族遷徙、土司政權、民間宗教執行者) DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Room CPD-1.21\, Central Podium Level\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n December 9\, 2015 4:30 pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: akwan@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Professor Christian Daniels will discuss the relationship of Dr. Needham’s concepts of the universality of modern science and civilisation to post 1980s approaches that emphasize the production of knowledge related to science and technology in social and political contexts. He will then discuss how homogenisation in our global age is eroding the old concept of civilisation since Dr. Needham wrote Science and Civilisation in China. Professor Daniels will cite examples from his own and others’ research on pre-modern China and Southeast Asia to illustrate how the notion of technologists working to solve similar problems in different cultural contexts diminishes the significance of the civilization content of technological solutions\, and to suggest what we can learn by rethinking the broad issue of how technology has changed history. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Daniels was born in the Fiji Islands. He received his secondary school education in Sydney\, Australia\, B.A (1st Class Hon.) from the Australian National University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1992. While in Japan\, he interspersed with trips to the Needham Research Institute in 1982 and 1984 to research and collaborated with Dr. Joseph Needham in Vol. 6\, Pt. 3\, Agro – Industries in the Science and Civilisation in China series which was published in 1996. Professor Daniels’s intimate knowledge of sugar cane technology was influenced by his father\, who was a genetic scientist breeding sugarcane clones. His principal expertise has been in the history of East Asian technology transfer and cultural interaction with mainland South East Asia\, with focus in China and Japan in particular. He served as a full tenured professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 國立亞非語言文化研究所\, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外國語大學 from 1996 to 2014. During this period\, he was actively engaged in\, among others\, organizing and managing joint research projects funded by the Japanese government and private foundations\, including many field trips to Yunnan and Sichuan. He has published extensively in Japanese\, Chinese and English\, the most recent of which is the Special Issue: Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia which he guest edited for Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 2\, No. 1\, April 2013). His other major books include Life and Technology in Yunnan 雲南の生活と技術(1994) [In Japanese]\, Archaeology and Folklore in Sichuan 四川の考古と民俗(1999) [In Japanese] \, The Material Culture of Yunnan: Technology of Everyday life 雲南物質文化-生活技術卷(2000) [In Chinese]\, Old Forestry Contracts of the Miao in Guizhou\, 1736 – 1950 貴洲苗族林業契約文書匯編(一七三六—一九五0年) (2005) [In Chinese and Japanese]\, Stone Inscriptions Concerning the Environment and the Minority Peoples of Yunnan 中国雲南少数民族生態関連碑文集(2008)[In Chinese and Japanese]\, Old Documents Concerning the Minority Peoples Of Western Yunnan: 1557 – 1943 雲南西部少數民族古文書集(2011)\, and Ming and Qing Stelae from Menghua (Weishan)\, Western Yunnan 明清滇西蒙化碑刻(2015) [In Chinese]. He is now a tenured professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n East Asian History of Science Foundation Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Science The School of Humanities and Social Science\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/from-the-old-zhuang-character-script-migrants-passage-migration-of-ethnic-groups-chieftain-regime-practitioners-of-popular-religion-in-the-guangxi-region-of-ming-qing-period-%e5%be%9e/ LOCATION:Multimedia Room\, 3/F\, Yongfang Hall CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20140519T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20140519T183000 DTSTAMP:20261109T224752 CREATED:20240801T235251Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102938Z UID:88819-1400517000-1400524200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:A Study on the Cult of Nong Zhigao among the Zhuang Ethnic Group in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands (中越邊境壯族人群的儂智高崇拜之研究) DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Room CPD-1.21\, Central Podium Level\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n December 9\, 2015 4:30 pm\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: akwan@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Professor Christian Daniels will discuss the relationship of Dr. Needham’s concepts of the universality of modern science and civilisation to post 1980s approaches that emphasize the production of knowledge related to science and technology in social and political contexts. He will then discuss how homogenisation in our global age is eroding the old concept of civilisation since Dr. Needham wrote Science and Civilisation in China. Professor Daniels will cite examples from his own and others’ research on pre-modern China and Southeast Asia to illustrate how the notion of technologists working to solve similar problems in different cultural contexts diminishes the significance of the civilization content of technological solutions\, and to suggest what we can learn by rethinking the broad issue of how technology has changed history. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Daniels was born in the Fiji Islands. He received his secondary school education in Sydney\, Australia\, B.A (1st Class Hon.) from the Australian National University\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1992. While in Japan\, he interspersed with trips to the Needham Research Institute in 1982 and 1984 to research and collaborated with Dr. Joseph Needham in Vol. 6\, Pt. 3\, Agro – Industries in the Science and Civilisation in China series which was published in 1996. Professor Daniels’s intimate knowledge of sugar cane technology was influenced by his father\, who was a genetic scientist breeding sugarcane clones. His principal expertise has been in the history of East Asian technology transfer and cultural interaction with mainland South East Asia\, with focus in China and Japan in particular. He served as a full tenured professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 國立亞非語言文化研究所\, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外國語大學 from 1996 to 2014. During this period\, he was actively engaged in\, among others\, organizing and managing joint research projects funded by the Japanese government and private foundations\, including many field trips to Yunnan and Sichuan. He has published extensively in Japanese\, Chinese and English\, the most recent of which is the Special Issue: Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia which he guest edited for Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 2\, No. 1\, April 2013). His other major books include Life and Technology in Yunnan 雲南の生活と技術(1994) [In Japanese]\, Archaeology and Folklore in Sichuan 四川の考古と民俗(1999) [In Japanese] \, The Material Culture of Yunnan: Technology of Everyday life 雲南物質文化-生活技術卷(2000) [In Chinese]\, Old Forestry Contracts of the Miao in Guizhou\, 1736 – 1950 貴洲苗族林業契約文書匯編(一七三六—一九五0年) (2005) [In Chinese and Japanese]\, Stone Inscriptions Concerning the Environment and the Minority Peoples of Yunnan 中国雲南少数民族生態関連碑文集(2008)[In Chinese and Japanese]\, Old Documents Concerning the Minority Peoples Of Western Yunnan: 1557 – 1943 雲南西部少數民族古文書集(2011)\, and Ming and Qing Stelae from Menghua (Weishan)\, Western Yunnan 明清滇西蒙化碑刻(2015) [In Chinese]. He is now a tenured professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n East Asian History of Science Foundation Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Science The School of Humanities and Social Science\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/a-study-on-the-cult-of-nong-zhigao-among-the-zhuang-ethnic-group-in-the-sino-vietnamese-borderlands-%e4%b8%ad%e8%b6%8a%e9%82%8a%e5%a2%83%e5%a3%af%e6%97%8f%e4%ba%ba%e7%be%a4%e7%9a%84%e5%84%82%e6%99%ba/ LOCATION:Multimedia Room\, 3/F\, Yongfang Hall CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR