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RESEARCHING MY HONG KONG FAMILY’S PAST: A FOURTEEN-YEAR QUEST, PART 2

RESEARCHING MY HONG KONG FAMILY’S PAST:
A FOURTEEN-YEAR QUEST
PART 2

by an anonymous contributor

With the burden of the family research now in my hands, I decided I would put an enquiry about our family on the Hong Kong


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‘All Roads Lead to Hong Kong: Paths to Becoming a Hong Kong Historian’ Roundtable Discussion

We are delighted to announce that, with HKU History Department, we will co-host a public roundtable entitled “All Roads Lead to Hong Kong: Paths to Becoming a Hong Kong Historian’ on the evening of June 5 at the University


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Guest writer: ‘Researching my Hong Kong family’s past: A fourteen-year quest’ [Part 1]

RESEARCHING MY HONG KONG FAMILY’S PAST:
A FOURTEEN-YEAR QUEST
(Part 1)

by an anonymous contributor

Vivian Kong has asked me to share my experience of researching my Hong Kong family’s past. As a graduate of Bristol University, I am more …


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HKHP Conference: Draft Programme and Registration

We are excited to announce that registration for our ‘“All Roads Lead to Hong Kong”: People, City, Empires’ conference is now open here. The conference will take place at the University of Hong Kong on 6-7 June. We welcome any …


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Introducing Stella Wang

This week our guest writer is Meng (Stella) Wang, PhD candidate at University of Sydney. Stella’s research interests lie in the history of childhood, particularly on children’s everyday life, their use of urban space, and the formation of their identity


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Introducing Tim Yung

Happy new year everyone! We are delighted to have Tim Yung as our first guest writer in 2019. A PhD candidate at the University of Hong Kong, Tim’s research concerns South China Anglican Identity in the early twentieth century. Here’s


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CFP: HKHP Postgraduate Workshop, ‘Hong Kong and Beyond: Mapping the City’s Networks’, January 2019.

Call for Papers
Hong Kong History Project Post-Graduate Workshop
University of Bristol, January 2019

‘Hong Kong and Beyond: Mapping the City’s Networks’

The Hong Kong History Project at the University of Bristol is pleased to announce its third Postgraduate Workshop, …


Introducing PGRs/ECRs

Introducing Vivien Chan

We are glad to have Vivien Chan as our contributor this week. Vivien is a design historian based in London. She is currently a PhD candidate on the Cultures of Occupation in Twentieth Century Asia Project at University of Nottingham,


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Introducing Shuang Wu

Our guest writer this week is Shuang Wu, PhD student at the University of Hong Kong and King’s College, London. Shuang’s research explores lives of Chinese mothers in colonial Hong Kong and the United Kingdom after the Second World


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[HKHP 2019 Conference CFP] “All Roads Lead to Hong Kong”: People, City, Empires

“All Roads Lead to Hong Kong”: People, City, Empires
Hong Kong History Project Conference

6-7 June 2019, University of Hong Kong

Keynote speaker: Henry Yu, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of British Columbia

Ellen Thorbecke, Hong Kong (Shanghai: Kelly


RESEARCHING MY HONG KONG FAMILY’S PAST:
A FOURTEEN-YEAR QUEST
PART 2

by an anonymous contributor

With the burden of the family research now in my hands, I decided I would put an enquiry about our family on the Hong Kong


We are delighted to announce that, with HKU History Department, we will co-host a public roundtable entitled “All Roads Lead to Hong Kong: Paths to Becoming a Hong Kong Historian’ on the evening of June 5 at the University


RESEARCHING MY HONG KONG FAMILY’S PAST:
A FOURTEEN-YEAR QUEST
(Part 1)

by an anonymous contributor

Vivian Kong has asked me to share my experience of researching my Hong Kong family’s past. As a graduate of Bristol University, I am more …


We are excited to announce that registration for our ‘“All Roads Lead to Hong Kong”: People, City, Empires’ conference is now open here. The conference will take place at the University of Hong Kong on 6-7 June. We welcome any …


This week our guest writer is Meng (Stella) Wang, PhD candidate at University of Sydney. Stella’s research interests lie in the history of childhood, particularly on children’s everyday life, their use of urban space, and the formation of their identity


Happy new year everyone! We are delighted to have Tim Yung as our first guest writer in 2019. A PhD candidate at the University of Hong Kong, Tim’s research concerns South China Anglican Identity in the early twentieth century. Here’s


Call for Papers
Hong Kong History Project Post-Graduate Workshop
University of Bristol, January 2019

‘Hong Kong and Beyond: Mapping the City’s Networks’

The Hong Kong History Project at the University of Bristol is pleased to announce its third Postgraduate Workshop, …


We are glad to have Vivien Chan as our contributor this week. Vivien is a design historian based in London. She is currently a PhD candidate on the Cultures of Occupation in Twentieth Century Asia Project at University of Nottingham,


Our guest writer this week is Shuang Wu, PhD student at the University of Hong Kong and King’s College, London. Shuang’s research explores lives of Chinese mothers in colonial Hong Kong and the United Kingdom after the Second World


“All Roads Lead to Hong Kong”: People, City, Empires
Hong Kong History Project Conference

6-7 June 2019, University of Hong Kong

Keynote speaker: Henry Yu, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of British Columbia

Ellen Thorbecke, Hong Kong (Shanghai: Kelly