Public Dialogue “The Future of Civilization: Where is Humanity going?”
Academic Conference Room, 11/F, Cheng Yu Tung Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUThe crisis of civilization has now become an urgent and severe reality ...
The crisis of civilization has now become an urgent and severe reality ...
In the Second World War, the Chinese Nationalist government mobilized more than 4,000 Chinese college students as interpreters for the American and British Allied forces in the China-Burma-India theater ...
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is an important pilot project of China’s Belt & Road Initiative. Within CPEC ...
Cities are seen as humanity’s greatest inventions. As political, socio-economic, and cultural centres, they are demonstrations of human ingenuity, power, and capacity to manipulate resources and the environment ...
What does it mean to be British? To answer this, Multiracial Britishness takes us to an underexplored site of Britishness – the former British colony of Hong Kong ...
Watch the replay to our admissions webinar that took place on Dec 18, 2023 ...
Ancient Mesopotamia is widely known for giving rise to some of the earliest and most enduring and influential urban civilisations in the world ...
Social conflict theory holds that democratization is most likely when an incumbent rural elite is challenged by a rising urban bourgeoisie ...
On the eve of the Communist Revolution in 1949, a large number of Chinese intellectuals fled the Chinese mainland, never to return ...
Though the On Tai was a landmark as the first Chinese-owned and operated insurance company in Hong Kong (and one of the very first in China) ...
The Wondrous Scripture of Original Deeds from the Cavern of Darkness (Dongxuan benxing miaojing 洞玄本行妙經) ...
This talk discusses the new opportunities presented by “popular sources” available to scholars of business and economic activity in Qing and Republican-era China ...
What determines the use of labor coercion? Mark Hup of Peking University studies the impact of trade on corvée labor – the payment of taxation in labor – in colonial Indonesia ...
To a lively cast of international players that shaped Manchuria during the early twentieth century ...
Religion in the twenty-first century is alive and well across the world, despite its apparent decline in North America and parts of Europe ...
Visit to the Hong Kong University Library: 11am-12pm ...
Visit to the Hong Kong University Library: 11am-12pm ...
In Singkawang, West Kalimantan the local Chinese Indonesian community is currently engaged in a major Chinese Religious revival in which inter-ethnic spirit-medium practices figure strongly ...
This lecture examines the ecological footprint of big data and its implications for the future directions of the digital humanities ...
Cities are seen as humanity’s greatest inventions. As political, socio-economic, and cultural centres, they are demonstrations of human ingenuity, power, and capacity to manipulate resources and the environment ...
Hong Kong Media and Asia's Cold War is the first systematic study of Hong Kong's cultural Cold War ...
When World War II ended Chiang Kai-shek seemed at the height of his power-the leader of Nationalist China ...
ABSTRACT This talk tells the story of Dragon Lady Traders, a US-based company established by Veronica Yhap in the early 1970s that imported clothing from China. Yhap’s experiences highlight the […]
Most conventional theories of state origin regard economic development as a catalyst for state formation ...
