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People Postgraduate Researchers

Alex Cheung

Seeking Home in the Colonial Port: Migration and Settlement of Chinese Workers in Hong Kong, c. 1900-1941

Alex Cheung’s research examines the daily life experience of working-class migrants in early twentieth-century Hong Kong when lower-class Chinese moved across Asian …


Alumni People

Dr. Kelvin Chan

Kelvin Chan is a historian of medicine and the British Empire, with a particular focus on colonial Hong Kong. His PhD research focuses on the history of psychiatry during the mid and late 20th centuries. It examines the transformation of …


Current staff People Postdoctoral Research Associates

Dr. Allan Pang

Allan Pang is a historian of Hong Kong, Chinese overseas, and Southeast Asia. His research engages with themes such as history education, popular culture, and decolonisation from a transregional perspective across East and Southeast Asia. He received his BA and …


Current staff Directors People

Prof. Ray Yep

Ray Kin-man Yep is a historian specialising in the political economy of China’s reforms, late colonial governance of Hong Kong and contentious politics. He has published in leading peer-reviewed journals and has authored multiple books on Hong Kong studies. Ray …


Current staff Directors People

Dr. Vivian Kong

Vivian Kong is Senior Lecturer in Modern Chinese History at the University of Bristol. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Vivian received her BA and MPhil from the University of Hong Kong, and completed her PhD at Bristol in 2019. …


Current staff Directors People

Prof. Robert Bickers

Robert Bickers is a historian of colonialism, in particular of the British Empire and its relations with China and the histories of Shanghai, Hong Kong, and modern Chinese history. He has authored eight books and countless articles on the British …


Early Career Scholars Network

Introducing Hoyee Tse

One of the Centre’s missions is to nurture a new generation of Hong Kong historians.

An Early Career Scholar Network was created under the Hong Kong History Centre in June 2023. It is intended to help create a community of


Quarterly Round-up

NEWS ROUND-UP: AUTUMN 2024

Welcome to our latest quarterly round up. The staff of the Hong Kong History Centre are based in the complex of converted Victorian-era villas on Woodland Road, just northwest of Bristol’s historic city centre. It’s where our various events are


Opportunities

【Call for Papers】 Emerging Paths in Hong Kong History: A Graduate Conference

【Call for Papers】
Emerging Paths in Hong Kong History: A Graduate Conference
The Hong Kong History Centre invites proposals for the upcoming graduate conference, Emerging Paths in Hong Kong History, to be held on 25-26 June 2025 at the


Early Career Scholars Network News

4th WORKSHOP OF EARLY CAREER SCHOLARS ON HONG KONG HISTORY

On 6th November 2024, we had our fourth meeting of Network of Early Career Scholars on Hong Kong History. An enjoyable afternoon with Ryan Iu (University of Bristol) exploring the Hong Kong Chinese and elite network within both local and …


Seeking Home in the Colonial Port: Migration and Settlement of Chinese Workers in Hong Kong, c. 1900-1941

Alex Cheung’s research examines the daily life experience of working-class migrants in early twentieth-century Hong Kong when lower-class Chinese moved across Asian …


Kelvin Chan is a historian of medicine and the British Empire, with a particular focus on colonial Hong Kong. His PhD research focuses on the history of psychiatry during the mid and late 20th centuries. It examines the transformation of …


Allan Pang is a historian of Hong Kong, Chinese overseas, and Southeast Asia. His research engages with themes such as history education, popular culture, and decolonisation from a transregional perspective across East and Southeast Asia. He received his BA and …


Ray Kin-man Yep is a historian specialising in the political economy of China’s reforms, late colonial governance of Hong Kong and contentious politics. He has published in leading peer-reviewed journals and has authored multiple books on Hong Kong studies. Ray …


Vivian Kong is Senior Lecturer in Modern Chinese History at the University of Bristol. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Vivian received her BA and MPhil from the University of Hong Kong, and completed her PhD at Bristol in 2019. …


Robert Bickers is a historian of colonialism, in particular of the British Empire and its relations with China and the histories of Shanghai, Hong Kong, and modern Chinese history. He has authored eight books and countless articles on the British …


One of the Centre’s missions is to nurture a new generation of Hong Kong historians.

An Early Career Scholar Network was created under the Hong Kong History Centre in June 2023. It is intended to help create a community of


Welcome to our latest quarterly round up. The staff of the Hong Kong History Centre are based in the complex of converted Victorian-era villas on Woodland Road, just northwest of Bristol’s historic city centre. It’s where our various events are


【Call for Papers】
Emerging Paths in Hong Kong History: A Graduate Conference
The Hong Kong History Centre invites proposals for the upcoming graduate conference, Emerging Paths in Hong Kong History, to be held on 25-26 June 2025 at the


On 6th November 2024, we had our fourth meeting of Network of Early Career Scholars on Hong Kong History. An enjoyable afternoon with Ryan Iu (University of Bristol) exploring the Hong Kong Chinese and elite network within both local and …