BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//IHSS - ECPv6.17.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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:20180101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20190123T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20190123T173000 DTSTAMP:20261101T210655 CREATED:20240724T222550Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102411Z UID:86372-1548259200-1548264600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:A Chinese Cultural Essence? DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n May 26\, 2014 4:30 pm (Refreshments 4:00 pm)\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@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 Beginning with its loss to Japan in 1895\, a series of humiliating losses for Qing China led Chinese elites to fundamentally question the Neo-Confucian political economy that used imperial theory and ritual to tie nature and the people through the body of the emperor. While much has been written about how reformers and revolutionaries re-imagined the relationship between subject and ruler in a modern state\, no scholarship has yet investigated the parallel changes in conceptualizations of the body politic and the body anatomic in modern China. In this presentation\, I will explore how a group of Japanese-educated physicians\, exemplified by physician-politician Tang Erhe\, sought to remake China through anatomy. In the early twentieth century\, anatomy was not merely a basic science for medical students and biologists\, it was an expansive discipline that sought to understand health and disease\, life and death\, origin and destiny\, of all forms of life from the smallest cell to the human\, individually and collectively. From cytology (microscopic study of cells)\, through histology (microscopic study of sliced\, stained tissues)\, through gross anatomy (basic medical study of the human body)\, through comparative anatomy (study of all forms of life\, basis of biology)\, to physical anthropology (study of the origins of humans\, present variation\, and racial future) — anatomical science promised nothing less than the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems through the accumulation of quantifiable data about life. Imperial cosmology was directly tied to Chinese concepts of the body\, and the challenges of the twentieth century appeared to demand a replacement of both. This process was begun in the new Republic through a series of mundane\, but far-reaching\, legal\, linguistic and institutional processes\, demonstrating that intellectual history of modern China cannot be written separately from the history of science and medicine. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n David Luesink received his PhD degree from The University of British Columbia. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh as Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian History\, he was a Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Western Medicine in China\, Indiana University-Purdue University\, USA. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/a-chinese-cultural-essence/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:Others END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20190108T113000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20190108T113000 DTSTAMP:20261101T210655 CREATED:20240724T223100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102411Z UID:86380-1546947000-1546947000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:A Path Twice Traveled: My Journey as a Historian of China DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n May 26\, 2014 4:30 pm (Refreshments 4:00 pm)\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@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 Beginning with its loss to Japan in 1895\, a series of humiliating losses for Qing China led Chinese elites to fundamentally question the Neo-Confucian political economy that used imperial theory and ritual to tie nature and the people through the body of the emperor. While much has been written about how reformers and revolutionaries re-imagined the relationship between subject and ruler in a modern state\, no scholarship has yet investigated the parallel changes in conceptualizations of the body politic and the body anatomic in modern China. In this presentation\, I will explore how a group of Japanese-educated physicians\, exemplified by physician-politician Tang Erhe\, sought to remake China through anatomy. In the early twentieth century\, anatomy was not merely a basic science for medical students and biologists\, it was an expansive discipline that sought to understand health and disease\, life and death\, origin and destiny\, of all forms of life from the smallest cell to the human\, individually and collectively. From cytology (microscopic study of cells)\, through histology (microscopic study of sliced\, stained tissues)\, through gross anatomy (basic medical study of the human body)\, through comparative anatomy (study of all forms of life\, basis of biology)\, to physical anthropology (study of the origins of humans\, present variation\, and racial future) — anatomical science promised nothing less than the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems through the accumulation of quantifiable data about life. Imperial cosmology was directly tied to Chinese concepts of the body\, and the challenges of the twentieth century appeared to demand a replacement of both. This process was begun in the new Republic through a series of mundane\, but far-reaching\, legal\, linguistic and institutional processes\, demonstrating that intellectual history of modern China cannot be written separately from the history of science and medicine. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n David Luesink received his PhD degree from The University of British Columbia. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh as Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian History\, he was a Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Western Medicine in China\, Indiana University-Purdue University\, USA. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/a-path-twice-traveled-my-journey-as-a-historian-of-china/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20190104T140000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20190104T173000 DTSTAMP:20261101T210655 CREATED:20240724T223629Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102412Z UID:86394-1546610400-1546623000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The Political Economy of China-Hong Kong Relations during the Trade War DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n May 26\, 2014 4:30 pm (Refreshments 4:00 pm)\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@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 Beginning with its loss to Japan in 1895\, a series of humiliating losses for Qing China led Chinese elites to fundamentally question the Neo-Confucian political economy that used imperial theory and ritual to tie nature and the people through the body of the emperor. While much has been written about how reformers and revolutionaries re-imagined the relationship between subject and ruler in a modern state\, no scholarship has yet investigated the parallel changes in conceptualizations of the body politic and the body anatomic in modern China. In this presentation\, I will explore how a group of Japanese-educated physicians\, exemplified by physician-politician Tang Erhe\, sought to remake China through anatomy. In the early twentieth century\, anatomy was not merely a basic science for medical students and biologists\, it was an expansive discipline that sought to understand health and disease\, life and death\, origin and destiny\, of all forms of life from the smallest cell to the human\, individually and collectively. From cytology (microscopic study of cells)\, through histology (microscopic study of sliced\, stained tissues)\, through gross anatomy (basic medical study of the human body)\, through comparative anatomy (study of all forms of life\, basis of biology)\, to physical anthropology (study of the origins of humans\, present variation\, and racial future) — anatomical science promised nothing less than the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems through the accumulation of quantifiable data about life. Imperial cosmology was directly tied to Chinese concepts of the body\, and the challenges of the twentieth century appeared to demand a replacement of both. This process was begun in the new Republic through a series of mundane\, but far-reaching\, legal\, linguistic and institutional processes\, demonstrating that intellectual history of modern China cannot be written separately from the history of science and medicine. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n David Luesink received his PhD degree from The University of British Columbia. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh as Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian History\, he was a Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Western Medicine in China\, Indiana University-Purdue University\, USA. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-political-economy-of-china-hong-kong-relations-during-the-trade-war/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181212 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181215 DTSTAMP:20261101T210655 CREATED:20240724T224650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102412Z UID:86410-1544572800-1544831999@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Transport Infrastructure & The Making of Modern East Asia DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n May 26\, 2014 4:30 pm (Refreshments 4:00 pm)\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@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 Beginning with its loss to Japan in 1895\, a series of humiliating losses for Qing China led Chinese elites to fundamentally question the Neo-Confucian political economy that used imperial theory and ritual to tie nature and the people through the body of the emperor. While much has been written about how reformers and revolutionaries re-imagined the relationship between subject and ruler in a modern state\, no scholarship has yet investigated the parallel changes in conceptualizations of the body politic and the body anatomic in modern China. In this presentation\, I will explore how a group of Japanese-educated physicians\, exemplified by physician-politician Tang Erhe\, sought to remake China through anatomy. In the early twentieth century\, anatomy was not merely a basic science for medical students and biologists\, it was an expansive discipline that sought to understand health and disease\, life and death\, origin and destiny\, of all forms of life from the smallest cell to the human\, individually and collectively. From cytology (microscopic study of cells)\, through histology (microscopic study of sliced\, stained tissues)\, through gross anatomy (basic medical study of the human body)\, through comparative anatomy (study of all forms of life\, basis of biology)\, to physical anthropology (study of the origins of humans\, present variation\, and racial future) — anatomical science promised nothing less than the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems through the accumulation of quantifiable data about life. Imperial cosmology was directly tied to Chinese concepts of the body\, and the challenges of the twentieth century appeared to demand a replacement of both. This process was begun in the new Republic through a series of mundane\, but far-reaching\, legal\, linguistic and institutional processes\, demonstrating that intellectual history of modern China cannot be written separately from the history of science and medicine. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n David Luesink received his PhD degree from The University of British Columbia. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh as Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian History\, he was a Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Western Medicine in China\, Indiana University-Purdue University\, USA. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/transport-infrastructure-the-making-of-modern-east-asia/ CATEGORIES:Others ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/mmea-sub-project-workshop-20181212-1920x1080-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20181210T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20181210T180000 DTSTAMP:20261101T210655 CREATED:20240724T225118Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102412Z UID:86420-1544459400-1544464800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Hormones\, Hospitals\, and the Green Revolution: Thinking about Scientific Innovation and Health Care Models Using Mexico as the Pivot DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n May 26\, 2014 4:30 pm (Refreshments 4:00 pm)\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@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 Beginning with its loss to Japan in 1895\, a series of humiliating losses for Qing China led Chinese elites to fundamentally question the Neo-Confucian political economy that used imperial theory and ritual to tie nature and the people through the body of the emperor. While much has been written about how reformers and revolutionaries re-imagined the relationship between subject and ruler in a modern state\, no scholarship has yet investigated the parallel changes in conceptualizations of the body politic and the body anatomic in modern China. In this presentation\, I will explore how a group of Japanese-educated physicians\, exemplified by physician-politician Tang Erhe\, sought to remake China through anatomy. In the early twentieth century\, anatomy was not merely a basic science for medical students and biologists\, it was an expansive discipline that sought to understand health and disease\, life and death\, origin and destiny\, of all forms of life from the smallest cell to the human\, individually and collectively. From cytology (microscopic study of cells)\, through histology (microscopic study of sliced\, stained tissues)\, through gross anatomy (basic medical study of the human body)\, through comparative anatomy (study of all forms of life\, basis of biology)\, to physical anthropology (study of the origins of humans\, present variation\, and racial future) — anatomical science promised nothing less than the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems through the accumulation of quantifiable data about life. Imperial cosmology was directly tied to Chinese concepts of the body\, and the challenges of the twentieth century appeared to demand a replacement of both. This process was begun in the new Republic through a series of mundane\, but far-reaching\, legal\, linguistic and institutional processes\, demonstrating that intellectual history of modern China cannot be written separately from the history of science and medicine. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n David Luesink received his PhD degree from The University of British Columbia. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh as Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian History\, he was a Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Western Medicine in China\, Indiana University-Purdue University\, USA. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/hormones-hospitals-and-the-green-revolution-thinking-about-scientific-innovation-and-health-care-models-using-mexico-as-the-pivot/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:Others ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/mmea-lecture-by-professor-gabriela-soto-laveaga-20181210-1920x1080-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181210 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181212 DTSTAMP:20261101T210655 CREATED:20240724T225815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102412Z UID:86428-1544400000-1544572799@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:MMEA Second Plenary Conference DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n May 26\, 2014 4:30 pm (Refreshments 4:00 pm)\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@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 Beginning with its loss to Japan in 1895\, a series of humiliating losses for Qing China led Chinese elites to fundamentally question the Neo-Confucian political economy that used imperial theory and ritual to tie nature and the people through the body of the emperor. While much has been written about how reformers and revolutionaries re-imagined the relationship between subject and ruler in a modern state\, no scholarship has yet investigated the parallel changes in conceptualizations of the body politic and the body anatomic in modern China. In this presentation\, I will explore how a group of Japanese-educated physicians\, exemplified by physician-politician Tang Erhe\, sought to remake China through anatomy. In the early twentieth century\, anatomy was not merely a basic science for medical students and biologists\, it was an expansive discipline that sought to understand health and disease\, life and death\, origin and destiny\, of all forms of life from the smallest cell to the human\, individually and collectively. From cytology (microscopic study of cells)\, through histology (microscopic study of sliced\, stained tissues)\, through gross anatomy (basic medical study of the human body)\, through comparative anatomy (study of all forms of life\, basis of biology)\, to physical anthropology (study of the origins of humans\, present variation\, and racial future) — anatomical science promised nothing less than the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems through the accumulation of quantifiable data about life. Imperial cosmology was directly tied to Chinese concepts of the body\, and the challenges of the twentieth century appeared to demand a replacement of both. This process was begun in the new Republic through a series of mundane\, but far-reaching\, legal\, linguistic and institutional processes\, demonstrating that intellectual history of modern China cannot be written separately from the history of science and medicine. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n David Luesink received his PhD degree from The University of British Columbia. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh as Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian History\, he was a Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Western Medicine in China\, Indiana University-Purdue University\, USA. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/mmea-second-plenary-conference/ CATEGORIES:Others ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/second-plenary-conference-20181210-1920x1080-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20181204T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20181204T130000 DTSTAMP:20261101T210655 CREATED:20240724T230706Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102413Z UID:86459-1543924800-1543928400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The Domestic Lives of Village Videos: Making Sense of the World through Grassroots Media in Southwest China DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n May 26\, 2014 4:30 pm (Refreshments 4:00 pm)\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@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 Beginning with its loss to Japan in 1895\, a series of humiliating losses for Qing China led Chinese elites to fundamentally question the Neo-Confucian political economy that used imperial theory and ritual to tie nature and the people through the body of the emperor. While much has been written about how reformers and revolutionaries re-imagined the relationship between subject and ruler in a modern state\, no scholarship has yet investigated the parallel changes in conceptualizations of the body politic and the body anatomic in modern China. In this presentation\, I will explore how a group of Japanese-educated physicians\, exemplified by physician-politician Tang Erhe\, sought to remake China through anatomy. In the early twentieth century\, anatomy was not merely a basic science for medical students and biologists\, it was an expansive discipline that sought to understand health and disease\, life and death\, origin and destiny\, of all forms of life from the smallest cell to the human\, individually and collectively. From cytology (microscopic study of cells)\, through histology (microscopic study of sliced\, stained tissues)\, through gross anatomy (basic medical study of the human body)\, through comparative anatomy (study of all forms of life\, basis of biology)\, to physical anthropology (study of the origins of humans\, present variation\, and racial future) — anatomical science promised nothing less than the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems through the accumulation of quantifiable data about life. Imperial cosmology was directly tied to Chinese concepts of the body\, and the challenges of the twentieth century appeared to demand a replacement of both. This process was begun in the new Republic through a series of mundane\, but far-reaching\, legal\, linguistic and institutional processes\, demonstrating that intellectual history of modern China cannot be written separately from the history of science and medicine. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n David Luesink received his PhD degree from The University of British Columbia. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh as Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian History\, he was a Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Western Medicine in China\, Indiana University-Purdue University\, USA. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-domestic-lives-of-village-videos-making-sense-of-the-world-through-grassroots-media-in-southwest-china/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20181127T143000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20181127T143000 DTSTAMP:20261101T210655 CREATED:20240724T231137Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102413Z UID:86466-1543329000-1543329000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Gold and Silver: German Bankers and the Financial Internationalisation of China\, 1885 – 1919 DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n May 26\, 2014 4:30 pm (Refreshments 4:00 pm)\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@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 Beginning with its loss to Japan in 1895\, a series of humiliating losses for Qing China led Chinese elites to fundamentally question the Neo-Confucian political economy that used imperial theory and ritual to tie nature and the people through the body of the emperor. While much has been written about how reformers and revolutionaries re-imagined the relationship between subject and ruler in a modern state\, no scholarship has yet investigated the parallel changes in conceptualizations of the body politic and the body anatomic in modern China. In this presentation\, I will explore how a group of Japanese-educated physicians\, exemplified by physician-politician Tang Erhe\, sought to remake China through anatomy. In the early twentieth century\, anatomy was not merely a basic science for medical students and biologists\, it was an expansive discipline that sought to understand health and disease\, life and death\, origin and destiny\, of all forms of life from the smallest cell to the human\, individually and collectively. From cytology (microscopic study of cells)\, through histology (microscopic study of sliced\, stained tissues)\, through gross anatomy (basic medical study of the human body)\, through comparative anatomy (study of all forms of life\, basis of biology)\, to physical anthropology (study of the origins of humans\, present variation\, and racial future) — anatomical science promised nothing less than the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems through the accumulation of quantifiable data about life. Imperial cosmology was directly tied to Chinese concepts of the body\, and the challenges of the twentieth century appeared to demand a replacement of both. This process was begun in the new Republic through a series of mundane\, but far-reaching\, legal\, linguistic and institutional processes\, demonstrating that intellectual history of modern China cannot be written separately from the history of science and medicine. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n David Luesink received his PhD degree from The University of British Columbia. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh as Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian History\, he was a Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Western Medicine in China\, Indiana University-Purdue University\, USA. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/gold-and-silver-german-bankers-and-the-financial-internationalisation-of-china-1885-1919/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS,IHSS Public Lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20181127T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20181127T130000 DTSTAMP:20261101T210655 CREATED:20240724T231537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102413Z UID:86472-1543320000-1543323600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Empires\, Capital\, and Time: The Politics of the Past in Early China DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n May 26\, 2014 4:30 pm (Refreshments 4:00 pm)\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@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 Beginning with its loss to Japan in 1895\, a series of humiliating losses for Qing China led Chinese elites to fundamentally question the Neo-Confucian political economy that used imperial theory and ritual to tie nature and the people through the body of the emperor. While much has been written about how reformers and revolutionaries re-imagined the relationship between subject and ruler in a modern state\, no scholarship has yet investigated the parallel changes in conceptualizations of the body politic and the body anatomic in modern China. In this presentation\, I will explore how a group of Japanese-educated physicians\, exemplified by physician-politician Tang Erhe\, sought to remake China through anatomy. In the early twentieth century\, anatomy was not merely a basic science for medical students and biologists\, it was an expansive discipline that sought to understand health and disease\, life and death\, origin and destiny\, of all forms of life from the smallest cell to the human\, individually and collectively. From cytology (microscopic study of cells)\, through histology (microscopic study of sliced\, stained tissues)\, through gross anatomy (basic medical study of the human body)\, through comparative anatomy (study of all forms of life\, basis of biology)\, to physical anthropology (study of the origins of humans\, present variation\, and racial future) — anatomical science promised nothing less than the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems through the accumulation of quantifiable data about life. Imperial cosmology was directly tied to Chinese concepts of the body\, and the challenges of the twentieth century appeared to demand a replacement of both. This process was begun in the new Republic through a series of mundane\, but far-reaching\, legal\, linguistic and institutional processes\, demonstrating that intellectual history of modern China cannot be written separately from the history of science and medicine. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n David Luesink received his PhD degree from The University of British Columbia. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh as Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian History\, he was a Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Western Medicine in China\, Indiana University-Purdue University\, USA. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/empires-capital-and-time-the-politics-of-the-past-in-early-china/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20181114T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20181114T163000 DTSTAMP:20261101T210655 CREATED:20240724T232129Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102414Z UID:86479-1542213000-1542213000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:從全球史看近世中國的興衰 DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n May 26\, 2014 4:30 pm (Refreshments 4:00 pm)\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@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 Beginning with its loss to Japan in 1895\, a series of humiliating losses for Qing China led Chinese elites to fundamentally question the Neo-Confucian political economy that used imperial theory and ritual to tie nature and the people through the body of the emperor. While much has been written about how reformers and revolutionaries re-imagined the relationship between subject and ruler in a modern state\, no scholarship has yet investigated the parallel changes in conceptualizations of the body politic and the body anatomic in modern China. In this presentation\, I will explore how a group of Japanese-educated physicians\, exemplified by physician-politician Tang Erhe\, sought to remake China through anatomy. In the early twentieth century\, anatomy was not merely a basic science for medical students and biologists\, it was an expansive discipline that sought to understand health and disease\, life and death\, origin and destiny\, of all forms of life from the smallest cell to the human\, individually and collectively. From cytology (microscopic study of cells)\, through histology (microscopic study of sliced\, stained tissues)\, through gross anatomy (basic medical study of the human body)\, through comparative anatomy (study of all forms of life\, basis of biology)\, to physical anthropology (study of the origins of humans\, present variation\, and racial future) — anatomical science promised nothing less than the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems through the accumulation of quantifiable data about life. Imperial cosmology was directly tied to Chinese concepts of the body\, and the challenges of the twentieth century appeared to demand a replacement of both. This process was begun in the new Republic through a series of mundane\, but far-reaching\, legal\, linguistic and institutional processes\, demonstrating that intellectual history of modern China cannot be written separately from the history of science and medicine. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n David Luesink received his PhD degree from The University of British Columbia. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh as Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian History\, he was a Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Western Medicine in China\, Indiana University-Purdue University\, USA. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/%e5%be%9e%e5%85%a8%e7%90%83%e5%8f%b2%e7%9c%8b%e8%bf%91%e4%b8%96%e4%b8%ad%e5%9c%8b%e7%9a%84%e8%88%88%e8%a1%b0/ LOCATION:Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/forum-by-professor-gangwu-wang-20181114-1920x1080-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20181113T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20181113T130000 DTSTAMP:20261101T210655 CREATED:20240724T234849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102414Z UID:86535-1542110400-1542114000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Making Their Presence Felt: Photographic Mediums and the Rise of a Mass Audience DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n May 26\, 2014 4:30 pm (Refreshments 4:00 pm)\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@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 Beginning with its loss to Japan in 1895\, a series of humiliating losses for Qing China led Chinese elites to fundamentally question the Neo-Confucian political economy that used imperial theory and ritual to tie nature and the people through the body of the emperor. While much has been written about how reformers and revolutionaries re-imagined the relationship between subject and ruler in a modern state\, no scholarship has yet investigated the parallel changes in conceptualizations of the body politic and the body anatomic in modern China. In this presentation\, I will explore how a group of Japanese-educated physicians\, exemplified by physician-politician Tang Erhe\, sought to remake China through anatomy. In the early twentieth century\, anatomy was not merely a basic science for medical students and biologists\, it was an expansive discipline that sought to understand health and disease\, life and death\, origin and destiny\, of all forms of life from the smallest cell to the human\, individually and collectively. From cytology (microscopic study of cells)\, through histology (microscopic study of sliced\, stained tissues)\, through gross anatomy (basic medical study of the human body)\, through comparative anatomy (study of all forms of life\, basis of biology)\, to physical anthropology (study of the origins of humans\, present variation\, and racial future) — anatomical science promised nothing less than the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems through the accumulation of quantifiable data about life. Imperial cosmology was directly tied to Chinese concepts of the body\, and the challenges of the twentieth century appeared to demand a replacement of both. This process was begun in the new Republic through a series of mundane\, but far-reaching\, legal\, linguistic and institutional processes\, demonstrating that intellectual history of modern China cannot be written separately from the history of science and medicine. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n David Luesink received his PhD degree from The University of British Columbia. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh as Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian History\, he was a Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Western Medicine in China\, Indiana University-Purdue University\, USA. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/making-their-presence-felt-photographic-mediums-and-the-rise-of-a-mass-audience/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20181112T170000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20181112T170000 DTSTAMP:20261101T210655 CREATED:20240724T234131Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102414Z UID:86507-1542042000-1542042000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:China’s South: Changing Perspectives DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n May 26\, 2014 4:30 pm (Refreshments 4:00 pm)\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@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 Beginning with its loss to Japan in 1895\, a series of humiliating losses for Qing China led Chinese elites to fundamentally question the Neo-Confucian political economy that used imperial theory and ritual to tie nature and the people through the body of the emperor. While much has been written about how reformers and revolutionaries re-imagined the relationship between subject and ruler in a modern state\, no scholarship has yet investigated the parallel changes in conceptualizations of the body politic and the body anatomic in modern China. In this presentation\, I will explore how a group of Japanese-educated physicians\, exemplified by physician-politician Tang Erhe\, sought to remake China through anatomy. In the early twentieth century\, anatomy was not merely a basic science for medical students and biologists\, it was an expansive discipline that sought to understand health and disease\, life and death\, origin and destiny\, of all forms of life from the smallest cell to the human\, individually and collectively. From cytology (microscopic study of cells)\, through histology (microscopic study of sliced\, stained tissues)\, through gross anatomy (basic medical study of the human body)\, through comparative anatomy (study of all forms of life\, basis of biology)\, to physical anthropology (study of the origins of humans\, present variation\, and racial future) — anatomical science promised nothing less than the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems through the accumulation of quantifiable data about life. Imperial cosmology was directly tied to Chinese concepts of the body\, and the challenges of the twentieth century appeared to demand a replacement of both. This process was begun in the new Republic through a series of mundane\, but far-reaching\, legal\, linguistic and institutional processes\, demonstrating that intellectual history of modern China cannot be written separately from the history of science and medicine. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n David Luesink received his PhD degree from The University of British Columbia. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh as Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian History\, he was a Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Western Medicine in China\, Indiana University-Purdue University\, USA. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/chinas-south-changing-perspectives/ CATEGORIES:IHSS ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/lecture-by-professor-gangwu-wang-20181112-1920x1080-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20181025T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20181025T130000 DTSTAMP:20261101T210655 CREATED:20240724T235703Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102415Z UID:86542-1540468800-1540472400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Dynamic of Memory and Religious Nationalism in a Sino-Vietnamese Border Town DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n May 26\, 2014 4:30 pm (Refreshments 4:00 pm)\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@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 Beginning with its loss to Japan in 1895\, a series of humiliating losses for Qing China led Chinese elites to fundamentally question the Neo-Confucian political economy that used imperial theory and ritual to tie nature and the people through the body of the emperor. While much has been written about how reformers and revolutionaries re-imagined the relationship between subject and ruler in a modern state\, no scholarship has yet investigated the parallel changes in conceptualizations of the body politic and the body anatomic in modern China. In this presentation\, I will explore how a group of Japanese-educated physicians\, exemplified by physician-politician Tang Erhe\, sought to remake China through anatomy. In the early twentieth century\, anatomy was not merely a basic science for medical students and biologists\, it was an expansive discipline that sought to understand health and disease\, life and death\, origin and destiny\, of all forms of life from the smallest cell to the human\, individually and collectively. From cytology (microscopic study of cells)\, through histology (microscopic study of sliced\, stained tissues)\, through gross anatomy (basic medical study of the human body)\, through comparative anatomy (study of all forms of life\, basis of biology)\, to physical anthropology (study of the origins of humans\, present variation\, and racial future) — anatomical science promised nothing less than the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems through the accumulation of quantifiable data about life. Imperial cosmology was directly tied to Chinese concepts of the body\, and the challenges of the twentieth century appeared to demand a replacement of both. This process was begun in the new Republic through a series of mundane\, but far-reaching\, legal\, linguistic and institutional processes\, demonstrating that intellectual history of modern China cannot be written separately from the history of science and medicine. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n David Luesink received his PhD degree from The University of British Columbia. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh as Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian History\, he was a Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Western Medicine in China\, Indiana University-Purdue University\, USA. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/dynamic-of-memory-and-religious-nationalism-in-a-sino-vietnamese-border-town/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:Others END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20181024T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20181024T180000 DTSTAMP:20261101T210655 CREATED:20240725T000805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102415Z UID:86549-1540398600-1540404000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Nationalism and Religion in India and China DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n May 26\, 2014 4:30 pm (Refreshments 4:00 pm)\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@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 Beginning with its loss to Japan in 1895\, a series of humiliating losses for Qing China led Chinese elites to fundamentally question the Neo-Confucian political economy that used imperial theory and ritual to tie nature and the people through the body of the emperor. While much has been written about how reformers and revolutionaries re-imagined the relationship between subject and ruler in a modern state\, no scholarship has yet investigated the parallel changes in conceptualizations of the body politic and the body anatomic in modern China. In this presentation\, I will explore how a group of Japanese-educated physicians\, exemplified by physician-politician Tang Erhe\, sought to remake China through anatomy. In the early twentieth century\, anatomy was not merely a basic science for medical students and biologists\, it was an expansive discipline that sought to understand health and disease\, life and death\, origin and destiny\, of all forms of life from the smallest cell to the human\, individually and collectively. From cytology (microscopic study of cells)\, through histology (microscopic study of sliced\, stained tissues)\, through gross anatomy (basic medical study of the human body)\, through comparative anatomy (study of all forms of life\, basis of biology)\, to physical anthropology (study of the origins of humans\, present variation\, and racial future) — anatomical science promised nothing less than the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems through the accumulation of quantifiable data about life. Imperial cosmology was directly tied to Chinese concepts of the body\, and the challenges of the twentieth century appeared to demand a replacement of both. This process was begun in the new Republic through a series of mundane\, but far-reaching\, legal\, linguistic and institutional processes\, demonstrating that intellectual history of modern China cannot be written separately from the history of science and medicine. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n David Luesink received his PhD degree from The University of British Columbia. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh as Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian History\, he was a Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Western Medicine in China\, Indiana University-Purdue University\, USA. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/nationalism-and-religion-in-india-and-china/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:Others ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/srs-lecture-by-professor-peter-van-der-veer-20181024-1920x1080-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20181023T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20181023T130000 DTSTAMP:20261101T210655 CREATED:20240725T002051Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102415Z UID:86570-1540296000-1540299600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Ocean Objects: “Chinese” Shells in a Global Context DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n May 26\, 2014 4:30 pm (Refreshments 4:00 pm)\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@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 Beginning with its loss to Japan in 1895\, a series of humiliating losses for Qing China led Chinese elites to fundamentally question the Neo-Confucian political economy that used imperial theory and ritual to tie nature and the people through the body of the emperor. While much has been written about how reformers and revolutionaries re-imagined the relationship between subject and ruler in a modern state\, no scholarship has yet investigated the parallel changes in conceptualizations of the body politic and the body anatomic in modern China. In this presentation\, I will explore how a group of Japanese-educated physicians\, exemplified by physician-politician Tang Erhe\, sought to remake China through anatomy. In the early twentieth century\, anatomy was not merely a basic science for medical students and biologists\, it was an expansive discipline that sought to understand health and disease\, life and death\, origin and destiny\, of all forms of life from the smallest cell to the human\, individually and collectively. From cytology (microscopic study of cells)\, through histology (microscopic study of sliced\, stained tissues)\, through gross anatomy (basic medical study of the human body)\, through comparative anatomy (study of all forms of life\, basis of biology)\, to physical anthropology (study of the origins of humans\, present variation\, and racial future) — anatomical science promised nothing less than the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems through the accumulation of quantifiable data about life. Imperial cosmology was directly tied to Chinese concepts of the body\, and the challenges of the twentieth century appeared to demand a replacement of both. This process was begun in the new Republic through a series of mundane\, but far-reaching\, legal\, linguistic and institutional processes\, demonstrating that intellectual history of modern China cannot be written separately from the history of science and medicine. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n David Luesink received his PhD degree from The University of British Columbia. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh as Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian History\, he was a Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Western Medicine in China\, Indiana University-Purdue University\, USA. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/ocean-objects-chinese-shells-in-a-global-context/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180918T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180918T130000 DTSTAMP:20261101T210655 CREATED:20240725T002927Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102416Z UID:86584-1537272000-1537275600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Local Gods and Trans-local Rituals: The Role of Daoism for “Popular Religion” in Hunan DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n May 26\, 2014 4:30 pm (Refreshments 4:00 pm)\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@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 Beginning with its loss to Japan in 1895\, a series of humiliating losses for Qing China led Chinese elites to fundamentally question the Neo-Confucian political economy that used imperial theory and ritual to tie nature and the people through the body of the emperor. While much has been written about how reformers and revolutionaries re-imagined the relationship between subject and ruler in a modern state\, no scholarship has yet investigated the parallel changes in conceptualizations of the body politic and the body anatomic in modern China. In this presentation\, I will explore how a group of Japanese-educated physicians\, exemplified by physician-politician Tang Erhe\, sought to remake China through anatomy. In the early twentieth century\, anatomy was not merely a basic science for medical students and biologists\, it was an expansive discipline that sought to understand health and disease\, life and death\, origin and destiny\, of all forms of life from the smallest cell to the human\, individually and collectively. From cytology (microscopic study of cells)\, through histology (microscopic study of sliced\, stained tissues)\, through gross anatomy (basic medical study of the human body)\, through comparative anatomy (study of all forms of life\, basis of biology)\, to physical anthropology (study of the origins of humans\, present variation\, and racial future) — anatomical science promised nothing less than the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems through the accumulation of quantifiable data about life. Imperial cosmology was directly tied to Chinese concepts of the body\, and the challenges of the twentieth century appeared to demand a replacement of both. This process was begun in the new Republic through a series of mundane\, but far-reaching\, legal\, linguistic and institutional processes\, demonstrating that intellectual history of modern China cannot be written separately from the history of science and medicine. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n David Luesink received his PhD degree from The University of British Columbia. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh as Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian History\, he was a Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Western Medicine in China\, Indiana University-Purdue University\, USA. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/local-gods-and-trans-local-rituals-the-role-of-daoism-for-popular-religion-in-hunan/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180911T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180911T130000 DTSTAMP:20261101T210655 CREATED:20240725T002513Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102416Z UID:86577-1536667200-1536670800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Hong Kong Identity Through Youth and Student Cultural Revolution Discourse DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n May 26\, 2014 4:30 pm (Refreshments 4:00 pm)\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@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 Beginning with its loss to Japan in 1895\, a series of humiliating losses for Qing China led Chinese elites to fundamentally question the Neo-Confucian political economy that used imperial theory and ritual to tie nature and the people through the body of the emperor. While much has been written about how reformers and revolutionaries re-imagined the relationship between subject and ruler in a modern state\, no scholarship has yet investigated the parallel changes in conceptualizations of the body politic and the body anatomic in modern China. In this presentation\, I will explore how a group of Japanese-educated physicians\, exemplified by physician-politician Tang Erhe\, sought to remake China through anatomy. In the early twentieth century\, anatomy was not merely a basic science for medical students and biologists\, it was an expansive discipline that sought to understand health and disease\, life and death\, origin and destiny\, of all forms of life from the smallest cell to the human\, individually and collectively. From cytology (microscopic study of cells)\, through histology (microscopic study of sliced\, stained tissues)\, through gross anatomy (basic medical study of the human body)\, through comparative anatomy (study of all forms of life\, basis of biology)\, to physical anthropology (study of the origins of humans\, present variation\, and racial future) — anatomical science promised nothing less than the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems through the accumulation of quantifiable data about life. Imperial cosmology was directly tied to Chinese concepts of the body\, and the challenges of the twentieth century appeared to demand a replacement of both. This process was begun in the new Republic through a series of mundane\, but far-reaching\, legal\, linguistic and institutional processes\, demonstrating that intellectual history of modern China cannot be written separately from the history of science and medicine. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n David Luesink received his PhD degree from The University of British Columbia. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh as Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian History\, he was a Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Western Medicine in China\, Indiana University-Purdue University\, USA. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/hong-kong-identity-through-youth-and-student-cultural-revolution-discourse/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180910T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180910T183000 DTSTAMP:20261101T210655 CREATED:20240725T003254Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102416Z UID:86591-1536597000-1536604200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The Chinese Pursuit of Happiness: Meaning\, Morality\, and Everyday Life DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n May 26\, 2014 4:30 pm (Refreshments 4:00 pm)\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@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 Beginning with its loss to Japan in 1895\, a series of humiliating losses for Qing China led Chinese elites to fundamentally question the Neo-Confucian political economy that used imperial theory and ritual to tie nature and the people through the body of the emperor. While much has been written about how reformers and revolutionaries re-imagined the relationship between subject and ruler in a modern state\, no scholarship has yet investigated the parallel changes in conceptualizations of the body politic and the body anatomic in modern China. In this presentation\, I will explore how a group of Japanese-educated physicians\, exemplified by physician-politician Tang Erhe\, sought to remake China through anatomy. In the early twentieth century\, anatomy was not merely a basic science for medical students and biologists\, it was an expansive discipline that sought to understand health and disease\, life and death\, origin and destiny\, of all forms of life from the smallest cell to the human\, individually and collectively. From cytology (microscopic study of cells)\, through histology (microscopic study of sliced\, stained tissues)\, through gross anatomy (basic medical study of the human body)\, through comparative anatomy (study of all forms of life\, basis of biology)\, to physical anthropology (study of the origins of humans\, present variation\, and racial future) — anatomical science promised nothing less than the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems through the accumulation of quantifiable data about life. Imperial cosmology was directly tied to Chinese concepts of the body\, and the challenges of the twentieth century appeared to demand a replacement of both. This process was begun in the new Republic through a series of mundane\, but far-reaching\, legal\, linguistic and institutional processes\, demonstrating that intellectual history of modern China cannot be written separately from the history of science and medicine. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n David Luesink received his PhD degree from The University of British Columbia. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh as Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian History\, he was a Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Western Medicine in China\, Indiana University-Purdue University\, USA. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-chinese-pursuit-of-happiness-meaning-morality-and-everyday-life/ LOCATION:Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:Others END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180905T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180905T173000 DTSTAMP:20261101T210655 CREATED:20240725T003616Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102417Z UID:86598-1536163200-1536168600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Culinary Colonialism and the Frontiers of Russian Food Cultures DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n May 26\, 2014 4:30 pm (Refreshments 4:00 pm)\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@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 Beginning with its loss to Japan in 1895\, a series of humiliating losses for Qing China led Chinese elites to fundamentally question the Neo-Confucian political economy that used imperial theory and ritual to tie nature and the people through the body of the emperor. While much has been written about how reformers and revolutionaries re-imagined the relationship between subject and ruler in a modern state\, no scholarship has yet investigated the parallel changes in conceptualizations of the body politic and the body anatomic in modern China. In this presentation\, I will explore how a group of Japanese-educated physicians\, exemplified by physician-politician Tang Erhe\, sought to remake China through anatomy. In the early twentieth century\, anatomy was not merely a basic science for medical students and biologists\, it was an expansive discipline that sought to understand health and disease\, life and death\, origin and destiny\, of all forms of life from the smallest cell to the human\, individually and collectively. From cytology (microscopic study of cells)\, through histology (microscopic study of sliced\, stained tissues)\, through gross anatomy (basic medical study of the human body)\, through comparative anatomy (study of all forms of life\, basis of biology)\, to physical anthropology (study of the origins of humans\, present variation\, and racial future) — anatomical science promised nothing less than the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems through the accumulation of quantifiable data about life. Imperial cosmology was directly tied to Chinese concepts of the body\, and the challenges of the twentieth century appeared to demand a replacement of both. This process was begun in the new Republic through a series of mundane\, but far-reaching\, legal\, linguistic and institutional processes\, demonstrating that intellectual history of modern China cannot be written separately from the history of science and medicine. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n David Luesink received his PhD degree from The University of British Columbia. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh as Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian History\, he was a Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Western Medicine in China\, Indiana University-Purdue University\, USA. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/culinary-colonialism-and-the-frontiers-of-russian-food-cultures/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:Others ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/mmea-lecture-by-professor-melissa-l-caldwell-20180507-1920x1080-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180827 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180829 DTSTAMP:20261101T210655 CREATED:20240725T004204Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102417Z UID:86606-1535328000-1535500799@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Instruments\, Meteorological Forecasting and Everyday Technology in China\, Hong Kong and Japan\, 1870 – 1950 DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n May 26\, 2014 4:30 pm (Refreshments 4:00 pm)\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@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 Beginning with its loss to Japan in 1895\, a series of humiliating losses for Qing China led Chinese elites to fundamentally question the Neo-Confucian political economy that used imperial theory and ritual to tie nature and the people through the body of the emperor. While much has been written about how reformers and revolutionaries re-imagined the relationship between subject and ruler in a modern state\, no scholarship has yet investigated the parallel changes in conceptualizations of the body politic and the body anatomic in modern China. In this presentation\, I will explore how a group of Japanese-educated physicians\, exemplified by physician-politician Tang Erhe\, sought to remake China through anatomy. In the early twentieth century\, anatomy was not merely a basic science for medical students and biologists\, it was an expansive discipline that sought to understand health and disease\, life and death\, origin and destiny\, of all forms of life from the smallest cell to the human\, individually and collectively. From cytology (microscopic study of cells)\, through histology (microscopic study of sliced\, stained tissues)\, through gross anatomy (basic medical study of the human body)\, through comparative anatomy (study of all forms of life\, basis of biology)\, to physical anthropology (study of the origins of humans\, present variation\, and racial future) — anatomical science promised nothing less than the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems through the accumulation of quantifiable data about life. Imperial cosmology was directly tied to Chinese concepts of the body\, and the challenges of the twentieth century appeared to demand a replacement of both. This process was begun in the new Republic through a series of mundane\, but far-reaching\, legal\, linguistic and institutional processes\, demonstrating that intellectual history of modern China cannot be written separately from the history of science and medicine. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n David Luesink received his PhD degree from The University of British Columbia. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh as Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian History\, he was a Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Western Medicine in China\, Indiana University-Purdue University\, USA. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/instruments-meteorological-forecasting-and-everyday-technology-in-china-hong-kong-and-japan-1870-1950/ LOCATION:Multi-purpose room\, G/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:Others ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/mmea-sub-project-workshop-20180827-1920x1080-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180623 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180625 DTSTAMP:20261101T210655 CREATED:20240725T004939Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102417Z UID:86627-1529712000-1529884799@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Sociotechnical Systems of Pharmacotherapy in Modern East Asia\, 1800 – 2020 DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n May 26\, 2014 4:30 pm (Refreshments 4:00 pm)\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@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 Beginning with its loss to Japan in 1895\, a series of humiliating losses for Qing China led Chinese elites to fundamentally question the Neo-Confucian political economy that used imperial theory and ritual to tie nature and the people through the body of the emperor. While much has been written about how reformers and revolutionaries re-imagined the relationship between subject and ruler in a modern state\, no scholarship has yet investigated the parallel changes in conceptualizations of the body politic and the body anatomic in modern China. In this presentation\, I will explore how a group of Japanese-educated physicians\, exemplified by physician-politician Tang Erhe\, sought to remake China through anatomy. In the early twentieth century\, anatomy was not merely a basic science for medical students and biologists\, it was an expansive discipline that sought to understand health and disease\, life and death\, origin and destiny\, of all forms of life from the smallest cell to the human\, individually and collectively. From cytology (microscopic study of cells)\, through histology (microscopic study of sliced\, stained tissues)\, through gross anatomy (basic medical study of the human body)\, through comparative anatomy (study of all forms of life\, basis of biology)\, to physical anthropology (study of the origins of humans\, present variation\, and racial future) — anatomical science promised nothing less than the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems through the accumulation of quantifiable data about life. Imperial cosmology was directly tied to Chinese concepts of the body\, and the challenges of the twentieth century appeared to demand a replacement of both. This process was begun in the new Republic through a series of mundane\, but far-reaching\, legal\, linguistic and institutional processes\, demonstrating that intellectual history of modern China cannot be written separately from the history of science and medicine. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n David Luesink received his PhD degree from The University of British Columbia. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh as Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian History\, he was a Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Western Medicine in China\, Indiana University-Purdue University\, USA. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/sociotechnical-systems-of-pharmacotherapy-in-modern-east-asia-1800-2020/ LOCATION:CPD-4.17\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:Others ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/mmea-sub-project-workshop-20180623-1920x1080-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180614 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180617 DTSTAMP:20261101T210655 CREATED:20240725T005528Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102418Z UID:86640-1528934400-1529193599@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Ecologies of Urbanism in Asia III: Death and Life Nature in Asian Cities DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n May 26\, 2014 4:30 pm (Refreshments 4:00 pm)\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@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 Beginning with its loss to Japan in 1895\, a series of humiliating losses for Qing China led Chinese elites to fundamentally question the Neo-Confucian political economy that used imperial theory and ritual to tie nature and the people through the body of the emperor. While much has been written about how reformers and revolutionaries re-imagined the relationship between subject and ruler in a modern state\, no scholarship has yet investigated the parallel changes in conceptualizations of the body politic and the body anatomic in modern China. In this presentation\, I will explore how a group of Japanese-educated physicians\, exemplified by physician-politician Tang Erhe\, sought to remake China through anatomy. In the early twentieth century\, anatomy was not merely a basic science for medical students and biologists\, it was an expansive discipline that sought to understand health and disease\, life and death\, origin and destiny\, of all forms of life from the smallest cell to the human\, individually and collectively. From cytology (microscopic study of cells)\, through histology (microscopic study of sliced\, stained tissues)\, through gross anatomy (basic medical study of the human body)\, through comparative anatomy (study of all forms of life\, basis of biology)\, to physical anthropology (study of the origins of humans\, present variation\, and racial future) — anatomical science promised nothing less than the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems through the accumulation of quantifiable data about life. Imperial cosmology was directly tied to Chinese concepts of the body\, and the challenges of the twentieth century appeared to demand a replacement of both. This process was begun in the new Republic through a series of mundane\, but far-reaching\, legal\, linguistic and institutional processes\, demonstrating that intellectual history of modern China cannot be written separately from the history of science and medicine. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n David Luesink received his PhD degree from The University of British Columbia. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh as Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian History\, he was a Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Western Medicine in China\, Indiana University-Purdue University\, USA. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/ecologies-of-urbanism-in-asia-iii-death-and-life-nature-in-asian-cities/ LOCATION:Multi-purpose room\, G/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/workshop-on-the-death-and-life-nature-in-asian-cities-1920x1080-20180614.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180609T093000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180609T130000 DTSTAMP:20261101T210655 CREATED:20240725T010349Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102418Z UID:86671-1528536600-1528549200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Project Citizens Forum: What Makes Hong Kong Special? DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n May 26\, 2014 4:30 pm (Refreshments 4:00 pm)\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@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 Beginning with its loss to Japan in 1895\, a series of humiliating losses for Qing China led Chinese elites to fundamentally question the Neo-Confucian political economy that used imperial theory and ritual to tie nature and the people through the body of the emperor. While much has been written about how reformers and revolutionaries re-imagined the relationship between subject and ruler in a modern state\, no scholarship has yet investigated the parallel changes in conceptualizations of the body politic and the body anatomic in modern China. In this presentation\, I will explore how a group of Japanese-educated physicians\, exemplified by physician-politician Tang Erhe\, sought to remake China through anatomy. In the early twentieth century\, anatomy was not merely a basic science for medical students and biologists\, it was an expansive discipline that sought to understand health and disease\, life and death\, origin and destiny\, of all forms of life from the smallest cell to the human\, individually and collectively. From cytology (microscopic study of cells)\, through histology (microscopic study of sliced\, stained tissues)\, through gross anatomy (basic medical study of the human body)\, through comparative anatomy (study of all forms of life\, basis of biology)\, to physical anthropology (study of the origins of humans\, present variation\, and racial future) — anatomical science promised nothing less than the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems through the accumulation of quantifiable data about life. Imperial cosmology was directly tied to Chinese concepts of the body\, and the challenges of the twentieth century appeared to demand a replacement of both. This process was begun in the new Republic through a series of mundane\, but far-reaching\, legal\, linguistic and institutional processes\, demonstrating that intellectual history of modern China cannot be written separately from the history of science and medicine. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n David Luesink received his PhD degree from The University of British Columbia. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh as Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian History\, he was a Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Western Medicine in China\, Indiana University-Purdue University\, USA. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/project-citizens-forum-what-makes-hong-kong-special/ LOCATION:Asia Society\, 9 Justice Road\, Admiralty\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/forum-on-what-makes-hong-kong-special-20180609-nrjxlldmt6aohspxox5pb6tz21iy0rsfu2dmv3gdh4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180605T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180605T180000 DTSTAMP:20261101T210655 CREATED:20240725T010958Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102418Z UID:86685-1528216200-1528221600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Ghosts in the Machine: Technology and Imperialism in Maritime Asia DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n May 26\, 2014 4:30 pm (Refreshments 4:00 pm)\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@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 Beginning with its loss to Japan in 1895\, a series of humiliating losses for Qing China led Chinese elites to fundamentally question the Neo-Confucian political economy that used imperial theory and ritual to tie nature and the people through the body of the emperor. While much has been written about how reformers and revolutionaries re-imagined the relationship between subject and ruler in a modern state\, no scholarship has yet investigated the parallel changes in conceptualizations of the body politic and the body anatomic in modern China. In this presentation\, I will explore how a group of Japanese-educated physicians\, exemplified by physician-politician Tang Erhe\, sought to remake China through anatomy. In the early twentieth century\, anatomy was not merely a basic science for medical students and biologists\, it was an expansive discipline that sought to understand health and disease\, life and death\, origin and destiny\, of all forms of life from the smallest cell to the human\, individually and collectively. From cytology (microscopic study of cells)\, through histology (microscopic study of sliced\, stained tissues)\, through gross anatomy (basic medical study of the human body)\, through comparative anatomy (study of all forms of life\, basis of biology)\, to physical anthropology (study of the origins of humans\, present variation\, and racial future) — anatomical science promised nothing less than the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems through the accumulation of quantifiable data about life. Imperial cosmology was directly tied to Chinese concepts of the body\, and the challenges of the twentieth century appeared to demand a replacement of both. This process was begun in the new Republic through a series of mundane\, but far-reaching\, legal\, linguistic and institutional processes\, demonstrating that intellectual history of modern China cannot be written separately from the history of science and medicine. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n David Luesink received his PhD degree from The University of British Columbia. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh as Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian History\, he was a Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Western Medicine in China\, Indiana University-Purdue University\, USA. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/ghosts-in-the-machine-technology-and-imperialism-in-maritime-asia/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/lecture-by-professor-eric-tagliacozzo-20180605-1920x1080-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180517 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180519 DTSTAMP:20261101T210655 CREATED:20240725T011656Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102419Z UID:86707-1526515200-1526687999@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Phones\, Drones\, and Disease: Epidemic Intelligence and the Future of Communication in East Asia DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n May 26\, 2014 4:30 pm (Refreshments 4:00 pm)\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@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 Beginning with its loss to Japan in 1895\, a series of humiliating losses for Qing China led Chinese elites to fundamentally question the Neo-Confucian political economy that used imperial theory and ritual to tie nature and the people through the body of the emperor. While much has been written about how reformers and revolutionaries re-imagined the relationship between subject and ruler in a modern state\, no scholarship has yet investigated the parallel changes in conceptualizations of the body politic and the body anatomic in modern China. In this presentation\, I will explore how a group of Japanese-educated physicians\, exemplified by physician-politician Tang Erhe\, sought to remake China through anatomy. In the early twentieth century\, anatomy was not merely a basic science for medical students and biologists\, it was an expansive discipline that sought to understand health and disease\, life and death\, origin and destiny\, of all forms of life from the smallest cell to the human\, individually and collectively. From cytology (microscopic study of cells)\, through histology (microscopic study of sliced\, stained tissues)\, through gross anatomy (basic medical study of the human body)\, through comparative anatomy (study of all forms of life\, basis of biology)\, to physical anthropology (study of the origins of humans\, present variation\, and racial future) — anatomical science promised nothing less than the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems through the accumulation of quantifiable data about life. Imperial cosmology was directly tied to Chinese concepts of the body\, and the challenges of the twentieth century appeared to demand a replacement of both. This process was begun in the new Republic through a series of mundane\, but far-reaching\, legal\, linguistic and institutional processes\, demonstrating that intellectual history of modern China cannot be written separately from the history of science and medicine. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n David Luesink received his PhD degree from The University of British Columbia. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh as Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian History\, he was a Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Western Medicine in China\, Indiana University-Purdue University\, USA. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/phones-drones-and-disease-epidemic-intelligence-and-the-future-of-communication-in-east-asia/ LOCATION:CPD 2.42\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:Others ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/mmea-sub-project-workshop-20180517-1920x1080-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180511 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180512 DTSTAMP:20261101T210655 CREATED:20240725T012749Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102419Z UID:86719-1525996800-1526083199@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Technological Innovations and Social Change: The History of Automation and the Future of Work in East Asia\, 1960s – 2010s (at HKUST) DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n May 26\, 2014 4:30 pm (Refreshments 4:00 pm)\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@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 Beginning with its loss to Japan in 1895\, a series of humiliating losses for Qing China led Chinese elites to fundamentally question the Neo-Confucian political economy that used imperial theory and ritual to tie nature and the people through the body of the emperor. While much has been written about how reformers and revolutionaries re-imagined the relationship between subject and ruler in a modern state\, no scholarship has yet investigated the parallel changes in conceptualizations of the body politic and the body anatomic in modern China. In this presentation\, I will explore how a group of Japanese-educated physicians\, exemplified by physician-politician Tang Erhe\, sought to remake China through anatomy. In the early twentieth century\, anatomy was not merely a basic science for medical students and biologists\, it was an expansive discipline that sought to understand health and disease\, life and death\, origin and destiny\, of all forms of life from the smallest cell to the human\, individually and collectively. From cytology (microscopic study of cells)\, through histology (microscopic study of sliced\, stained tissues)\, through gross anatomy (basic medical study of the human body)\, through comparative anatomy (study of all forms of life\, basis of biology)\, to physical anthropology (study of the origins of humans\, present variation\, and racial future) — anatomical science promised nothing less than the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems through the accumulation of quantifiable data about life. Imperial cosmology was directly tied to Chinese concepts of the body\, and the challenges of the twentieth century appeared to demand a replacement of both. This process was begun in the new Republic through a series of mundane\, but far-reaching\, legal\, linguistic and institutional processes\, demonstrating that intellectual history of modern China cannot be written separately from the history of science and medicine. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n David Luesink received his PhD degree from The University of British Columbia. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh as Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian History\, he was a Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Western Medicine in China\, Indiana University-Purdue University\, USA. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/technological-innovations-and-social-change-the-history-of-automation-and-the-future-of-work-in-east-asia-1960s-2010s-at-hkust/ LOCATION:Room 5504\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:Others ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/mmea-sub-project-workshop-20180511-1920x1080-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180507T170000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180507T183000 DTSTAMP:20261101T210655 CREATED:20240725T173319Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102420Z UID:86755-1525712400-1525717800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The Invention and Reinvention of Local Food in Japan DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n May 26\, 2014 4:30 pm (Refreshments 4:00 pm)\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@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 Beginning with its loss to Japan in 1895\, a series of humiliating losses for Qing China led Chinese elites to fundamentally question the Neo-Confucian political economy that used imperial theory and ritual to tie nature and the people through the body of the emperor. While much has been written about how reformers and revolutionaries re-imagined the relationship between subject and ruler in a modern state\, no scholarship has yet investigated the parallel changes in conceptualizations of the body politic and the body anatomic in modern China. In this presentation\, I will explore how a group of Japanese-educated physicians\, exemplified by physician-politician Tang Erhe\, sought to remake China through anatomy. In the early twentieth century\, anatomy was not merely a basic science for medical students and biologists\, it was an expansive discipline that sought to understand health and disease\, life and death\, origin and destiny\, of all forms of life from the smallest cell to the human\, individually and collectively. From cytology (microscopic study of cells)\, through histology (microscopic study of sliced\, stained tissues)\, through gross anatomy (basic medical study of the human body)\, through comparative anatomy (study of all forms of life\, basis of biology)\, to physical anthropology (study of the origins of humans\, present variation\, and racial future) — anatomical science promised nothing less than the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems through the accumulation of quantifiable data about life. Imperial cosmology was directly tied to Chinese concepts of the body\, and the challenges of the twentieth century appeared to demand a replacement of both. This process was begun in the new Republic through a series of mundane\, but far-reaching\, legal\, linguistic and institutional processes\, demonstrating that intellectual history of modern China cannot be written separately from the history of science and medicine. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n David Luesink received his PhD degree from The University of British Columbia. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh as Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian History\, he was a Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Western Medicine in China\, Indiana University-Purdue University\, USA. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-invention-and-reinvention-of-local-food-in-japan/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:Others ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/mmea-lecture-by-professor-eric-c-rath-20180507-1920x1080-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180507 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180512 DTSTAMP:20261101T210655 CREATED:20240725T013126Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102419Z UID:86727-1525651200-1526083199@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:“Food Technology” (Hong Kong and Taiwan) DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n May 26\, 2014 4:30 pm (Refreshments 4:00 pm)\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@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 Beginning with its loss to Japan in 1895\, a series of humiliating losses for Qing China led Chinese elites to fundamentally question the Neo-Confucian political economy that used imperial theory and ritual to tie nature and the people through the body of the emperor. While much has been written about how reformers and revolutionaries re-imagined the relationship between subject and ruler in a modern state\, no scholarship has yet investigated the parallel changes in conceptualizations of the body politic and the body anatomic in modern China. In this presentation\, I will explore how a group of Japanese-educated physicians\, exemplified by physician-politician Tang Erhe\, sought to remake China through anatomy. In the early twentieth century\, anatomy was not merely a basic science for medical students and biologists\, it was an expansive discipline that sought to understand health and disease\, life and death\, origin and destiny\, of all forms of life from the smallest cell to the human\, individually and collectively. From cytology (microscopic study of cells)\, through histology (microscopic study of sliced\, stained tissues)\, through gross anatomy (basic medical study of the human body)\, through comparative anatomy (study of all forms of life\, basis of biology)\, to physical anthropology (study of the origins of humans\, present variation\, and racial future) — anatomical science promised nothing less than the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems through the accumulation of quantifiable data about life. Imperial cosmology was directly tied to Chinese concepts of the body\, and the challenges of the twentieth century appeared to demand a replacement of both. This process was begun in the new Republic through a series of mundane\, but far-reaching\, legal\, linguistic and institutional processes\, demonstrating that intellectual history of modern China cannot be written separately from the history of science and medicine. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n David Luesink received his PhD degree from The University of British Columbia. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh as Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian History\, he was a Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Western Medicine in China\, Indiana University-Purdue University\, USA. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/food-technology-hong-kong-and-taiwan/ CATEGORIES:Others ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/mmea-sub-project-workshop-20180507-1920x1080-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180424T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180424T130000 DTSTAMP:20261101T210655 CREATED:20240725T173851Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102420Z UID:86772-1524571200-1524574800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Gratitude Betrayed and Forgotten: Pearl Harbor and America’s Humanitarian Moment with Japan in 1923 DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n May 26\, 2014 4:30 pm (Refreshments 4:00 pm)\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@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 Beginning with its loss to Japan in 1895\, a series of humiliating losses for Qing China led Chinese elites to fundamentally question the Neo-Confucian political economy that used imperial theory and ritual to tie nature and the people through the body of the emperor. While much has been written about how reformers and revolutionaries re-imagined the relationship between subject and ruler in a modern state\, no scholarship has yet investigated the parallel changes in conceptualizations of the body politic and the body anatomic in modern China. In this presentation\, I will explore how a group of Japanese-educated physicians\, exemplified by physician-politician Tang Erhe\, sought to remake China through anatomy. In the early twentieth century\, anatomy was not merely a basic science for medical students and biologists\, it was an expansive discipline that sought to understand health and disease\, life and death\, origin and destiny\, of all forms of life from the smallest cell to the human\, individually and collectively. From cytology (microscopic study of cells)\, through histology (microscopic study of sliced\, stained tissues)\, through gross anatomy (basic medical study of the human body)\, through comparative anatomy (study of all forms of life\, basis of biology)\, to physical anthropology (study of the origins of humans\, present variation\, and racial future) — anatomical science promised nothing less than the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems through the accumulation of quantifiable data about life. Imperial cosmology was directly tied to Chinese concepts of the body\, and the challenges of the twentieth century appeared to demand a replacement of both. This process was begun in the new Republic through a series of mundane\, but far-reaching\, legal\, linguistic and institutional processes\, demonstrating that intellectual history of modern China cannot be written separately from the history of science and medicine. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n David Luesink received his PhD degree from The University of British Columbia. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh as Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian History\, he was a Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Western Medicine in China\, Indiana University-Purdue University\, USA. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/gratitude-betrayed-and-forgotten-pearl-harbor-and-americas-humanitarian-moment-with-japan-in-1923/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180420T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20180420T133000 DTSTAMP:20261101T210655 CREATED:20240725T174358Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102420Z UID:86779-1524225600-1524231000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Daoist Patronage and Practices of Arts\, Literati Culture\, Local Politics and Society in Late Qing and Early Republican Nanyang DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n T7\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n May 26\, 2014 4:30 pm (Refreshments 4:00 pm)\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@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 Beginning with its loss to Japan in 1895\, a series of humiliating losses for Qing China led Chinese elites to fundamentally question the Neo-Confucian political economy that used imperial theory and ritual to tie nature and the people through the body of the emperor. While much has been written about how reformers and revolutionaries re-imagined the relationship between subject and ruler in a modern state\, no scholarship has yet investigated the parallel changes in conceptualizations of the body politic and the body anatomic in modern China. In this presentation\, I will explore how a group of Japanese-educated physicians\, exemplified by physician-politician Tang Erhe\, sought to remake China through anatomy. In the early twentieth century\, anatomy was not merely a basic science for medical students and biologists\, it was an expansive discipline that sought to understand health and disease\, life and death\, origin and destiny\, of all forms of life from the smallest cell to the human\, individually and collectively. From cytology (microscopic study of cells)\, through histology (microscopic study of sliced\, stained tissues)\, through gross anatomy (basic medical study of the human body)\, through comparative anatomy (study of all forms of life\, basis of biology)\, to physical anthropology (study of the origins of humans\, present variation\, and racial future) — anatomical science promised nothing less than the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems through the accumulation of quantifiable data about life. Imperial cosmology was directly tied to Chinese concepts of the body\, and the challenges of the twentieth century appeared to demand a replacement of both. This process was begun in the new Republic through a series of mundane\, but far-reaching\, legal\, linguistic and institutional processes\, demonstrating that intellectual history of modern China cannot be written separately from the history of science and medicine. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n David Luesink received his PhD degree from The University of British Columbia. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh as Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian History\, he was a Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Western Medicine in China\, Indiana University-Purdue University\, USA. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/daoist-patronage-and-practices-of-arts-literati-culture-local-politics-and-society-in-late-qing-and-early-republican-nanyang/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:Others END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR