【History Salon | 歷史沙龍】香港五百年海盜史之最終回
【歷史沙龍】香港五百年海盜史之最終回
講者：謝淏嵐
日期：2025年11月15日 （星期六）
時間：下午2:30至4:30
地點：Research Space, Arts Complex, 7 Woodland Road, University of Bristol, BS8 1TB
語言：廣東話
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備註：
– 實體活動。
– 請於Ticketpass報名，屆時會有少量港式茶點提供。
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我們或許很少把香港和海盜聯想在一起，頂多只會想到長洲的張保仔洞，或者有些朋友興許會記得1995年的東星號劫案。不過，因為地理位置的緣故，海盜已在香港附近出沒至少五百年之久，要到二戰之後才逐漸消弭。在香港，最後一波海盜活動高峰約自十九世紀末蒸氣輪船的普及而起，又於戰後四、五十年代海洋秩序逐漸恢復而終。這次我們一同游弋於香港海盜史的結局篇，窺探海盜性質和策略的流變、剖析香港社會的應對方式，然後見證最後一批海盜的收場⋯⋯和後續？
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謝淏嵐是都柏林聖三一大學博士研究生，主要關注香港海盜、海洋、鄉土及古代史，以至公共史學。
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【History Salon】The Last Episode of Hong Kong’s Long History of Piracy
Speaker: Dexter Tse
Date: 15 Nov 2025
Time: 2:30 – 4:30pm (UKT)
Venue: Research Space, Arts Complex, University of Bristol
Language: Cantonese
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Additional Information:
– In-person only.
– Please register on Ticketpass. A small amount of Hong Kong-style refreshments will be provided.
https://tktp.as/EDNHPQ
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We rarely associate piracy with Hong Kong, except when we visit the Cheung Po Tsai Cave in Cheung Chau, or when we are reminded of the Jetfoil Guia case in 1995. Given its geographical location, however, Hong Kong had always had pirates around in the past five hundred years or so, if not longer. Only in the post-war years do we see the (almost) complete demise of maritime piracy around Hong Kong. The last wave of piracy in Hong Kong began with the popularisation of steam navigation in the late 19th century, and ended with the restoration of maritime order in the 1940s and 50s. As we explore this final chapter of Hong Kong’s piracy, we will see how piracy’s nature and tactics evolved, how Hong Kong responded to it, and how it eventually came to an end — or did it?
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Dexter Tse is a PhD researcher at Trinity College Dublin. His research interests include Hong Kong’s history of piracy, maritime connections, rural livelihoods and pre-colonial society, as well as public history.
