Cities are seen as humanity’s greatest inventions. As political, socio-economic, and cultural centres, they are demonstrations of human ingenuity, power, and capacity to manipulate resources and the environment ...
This talk briefly introduces HKU's ongoing archaeological fieldwork in the South Caucasian country of Armenia ...
Islam arrived in China during the 7th century as a foreign religion. Yet, once the first Muslims settled permanently there, Islamic religious and cultural traditions were gradually influenced by the norms of Chinese culture and society...
In the late second millennium BC, the socio-political landscape of early China underwent a major rupture when the Zhou and their coalition of highland allies conquered the Late Shang state (ca. 1250-1046 BC) at Anyang ...
As a portable wealth, gold was highly valued by mobile pastoralists for its monetary and aesthetic values in ancient Eurasia ...
How the interaction between resources and society shaped the social world is an important anthropological concern ...
During the Second World War the Nazis wiped out the world of Jewish scholarship centred in Talmudic academies or ‘Yeshivot’ in Europe ...
The Silk Road is not merely a geographical or sociohistorical route but also, to a considerable extent, a catalyst for historical ups and downs ...
The Silk Road is not merely a geographical or sociohistorical route but also, to a considerable extent, a catalyst for historical ups and downs ...
Today the term fengshui, which literally means “wind and water,” is recognized around the world. Yet few know exactly what it means,
This roundtable provides a space to present and discuss your PhD topics. You will each be asked to do a short presentation (10 minutes) on either the main themes of your thesis as a whole, a chapter or section, or an article that you might be thinking of submitting.
A century after the establishment of the Palace Museum in 1925,
The symposium brings together a group of urban and planning historians and urban studies
scholars from Asia and
The rich have always fascinated, sometimes in problematic ways. Medieval thinkers feared that the super-rich would act ‘as gods among men’;
Urban inhabitants have long had an emotional attachment to the cities they live in. This expresses itself through daily life, culture, and heritage. This talk highlights some of the ways in which urban populations in China have reflected on their emotional attachment to the city.
The transition from mobile foraging societies to settled agricultural communities is a critical period in human history.
This paper examines the transregional thinking that conceptualized the British imperial interests and expansion in Asia from the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 to the Opium War or “First China War” (1840–1842).
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Capitalism is a remarkable system which has re-invented itself throughout history. It has proved capable of co-existing with entirely different political and economic contexts.
Capitalism is a remarkable system which has re-invented itself throughout history. It has proved capable of co-existing with entirely different political and economic contexts.
Capitalism is a remarkable system which has re-invented itself throughout history. It has proved capable of co-existing with entirely different political and economic contexts.
GOD and AI: WHO’s in CONTROL Professor Ruth OkedijiJeremiah Smith Jr. ProfessorHarvard Law SchoolDate: 12 February 2025 (Wed)Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pmVenue: Rayson Huang Theatre, HKURegister: https://hku.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2mMDG3fxDaFH1pIDetails: https://faith.hku.hk/event/god-and-aiAbstractArtificial Intelligence (AI) will increasingly outperform human beings in a growing number and variety of routine and complex tasks. And yet, intelligence alone may not be adequate for a […]
Title: Adventurers or Scientists? Historical Episodes from the Archaeological Exploration of the Middle EastSpeaker: Dr. Elvan Cobb (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University)Date/Time: February 21, 2025 (Friday) 14:30-15:30 (HKT)Language: EnglishVenue: Room 201, May Hall, HKU & ZoomEnquiry: (Email) ihss@hku.hkRegister Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_A3a8uo4fSKa0rOnpzYm7OQ#/registrationAbstractThe railway engineer who convinced a pair of empires to let him […]
Title: 納稅人” 研究：中國天主教史一個被忽視的維度 The Taxpayer: A Neglected Dimension of Chinese Catholic HistorySpeaker: 康志杰教授 Prof. KANG ZhijieDate/Time: February 28, 2025 (Fri) 11:00 – 12:00 HKTVenue: Room 201, 2/F, May Hall, The University of Hong KongLanguage: Mandarin ChineseEnquiry: (Email) faithful@hku.hkRegister Now: https://hku.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_07XPvwvJv1XDM8KAbstract天主教是制度型宗教中最為嚴格的一個類型，過往的相關研究多偏重宗教傳播，經濟活動則被忽略。將天主教的身份定位于“納稅人”並進行分析討論，對於廓清宗教與國家，宗教與族群之間的複雜關係，理解傳統的中國財政體制變化，解析棘手的政教關係，具有重要的價值與意義。Catholicism is the strictest type of institutional religion. Previous studies have mostly focused on religious transmission, […]
