HKHC Speaker’s Series, Dr. Stella Meng Wang, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Space and Everyday Lives of Children in Hong Kong: The Interwar Period
Speaker: Dr. Stella Meng Wang, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Date and Time: 8 May 2025, 1 – 2:30pm (UKT)
Venue: Zoom
Language: English

Online event. To attend, please register on Ticketpass.
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Zoom details:
https://bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93245766019?pwd=TCOsV8mthhPoSTS0dgu9WEQKsoymBU.1
Meeting ID: 932 4576 6019
Passcode: 616966

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This talk examines five transnational cultural movements in interwar Hong Kong: the garden city movement; the modern hygiene movement; nationalist sentiments; the Young Women’s Christian Association; and the Girl Guides. It highlights the new experiences transnational movements of ideas and practices created for children in a burgeoning urban culture that brought flourishing changes in residential architecture, neighborhood planning, school architecture, print culture, vocational education, and youth movements. Touching upon women’s activism in the fields of philanthropy, public health, and medicine, the talk exposes the imperial, professional, and transnational philanthropic networks European and Chinese females helped to build.

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Stella Meng Wang’s research uses transnational perspectives and approaches to examine history of education, history of migration, and history of women, health, and medicine, with specific references to Hong Kong. It addresses the critical intersection of transnational cultural movements and the history of women’s education, health, and medicine, with a broader contribution to the field of historical and contemporary inquiry into Chinese migration and diaspora studies.