This presentation gives context to an award winning urban revitalization project in Bangkok along the Ong Ang Canal ...
ABSTRACT Postwar Hong Kong experienced some of the fastest economic growth in the developing world. What has received less recognition, however, is that productivity was just as exceptional, outpaced only by Japan. Scholars have focused on the former phenomenon through comparative advantage and low-cost labor but overlooked the latter, thereby conflating growth with development. Drawing […]
In this talk Dr. Xiaoxuan Wang will present preliminary ideas and findings from his ongoing project ...
Recent scholarship of pre-modern empires likes to portray pre-modern empires as being tolerant of diversities and differences ...
Adam Smith 300 is a timely opportunity to renew the global interest in Adam Smith and to bring his ideas and legacy into contemporary debates around the world ...
“Bollywood” and “Broadway” are examples of creative districts with strong brand equity ...
Tragedy is said to be universal in the sense that human beings everywhere know what it might mean to suffer ...
In May 1877, the British government of the Straits Settlements set up the Chinese Protectorate ...
This is an event organized by the CRF Project “Making Modernity in East Asia: ...
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This paper examines the rise of canned evaporated milk and its subsequent impact on the ecologies during the postwar Philippines ...
ABSTRACT This talk tells the story of Dragon Lady Traders, a US-based company established by Veronica Yhap in the early 1970s that imported clothing from China. Yhap’s experiences highlight the challenges and contingencies of US-China trade relations after 20 years of Cold War isolation. But they also reveal the importance of both the textile industry […]
Hong Kong Media and Asia's Cold War is the first systematic study of Hong Kong's cultural Cold War ...
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 lecture examines the ecological footprint of big data and its implications for the future directions of the digital humanities ...
Religion in the twenty-first century is alive and well across the world, despite its apparent decline in North America and parts of Europe ...
To a lively cast of international players that shaped Manchuria during the early twentieth century ...
On the eve of the Communist Revolution in 1949, a large number of Chinese intellectuals fled the Chinese mainland, never to return ...
Ancient Mesopotamia is widely known for giving rise to some of the earliest and most enduring and influential urban civilisations in the world ...
What does it mean to be British? To answer this, Multiracial Britishness takes us to an underexplored site of Britishness – the former British colony of Hong Kong ...
Cities are seen as humanity’s greatest inventions. As political, socio-economic, and cultural centres, they are demonstrations of human ingenuity, power, and capacity to manipulate resources and the environment ...
In the Second World War, the Chinese Nationalist government mobilized more than 4,000 Chinese college students as interpreters for the American and British Allied forces in the China-Burma-India theater ...
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 ...
1970s Hong Kong is usually remembered as a period of optimism, progress, and constructive reinvention ...
