HKHC Speaker’s Series, Teaching Hong Kong History with New Primary Sources: A New Documentary History of Hong Kong, 1945-1997
HKHC Speaker’s Series, Panel Discussion
Teaching Hong Kong History with New Primary Sources: A New Documentary History of Hong Kong, 1945-1997
Speakers:
Dr. Florence Mok, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Dr. Adonis Li, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom
Dr Allan Pang, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Dr. Vivian Kong, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Date and Time: 10 Oct 2025, 3:30-5pm UKT
Venue: Research Space, Arts Complex, University of Bristol, BS8 1TB
Language: English
Hybrid event. To attend, please register on Ticketpass.
Zoom details
https://bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92164919232?pwd=YJf5KsbY4YQUc3aEG3e0EgOOMAEvaG.1
Meeting ID: 921 6491 9232
Passcode: 058594
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This roundtable uses the publication of a sourcebook collection, A New Documentary History of Hong Kong, 1945-1997 (Hong Kong University Press, 2025), as a starting point to discuss how we might use primary sources to teach Hong Kong history in higher education, and the challenges historians face in selecting appropriate material to teach Hong Kong history outside Hong Kong. Florence Mok of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore will kick off the discussion by sharing how and why she and Charles Fung, co-editors of the sourcebook, decided to draw together emerging scholars in the field to compile the sourcebook. Adonis Li of University of Lincoln will join Hong Kong History Centre’s Vivian Kong and Allan Pang to share how their own research and their experience in teaching Hong Kong History in Hong Kong and Britain informed their contributions to the sourcebook.
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Florence Mok is a Nanyang Assistant Professor of History at Nanyang Technological University. She is a historian of colonial Hong Kong and modern China, with an interest in environmental history, the Cold War and state-society relations. She is the author of Covert Colonialism: Governance, Surveillance and Political Culture in British Hong Kong, c. 1966-97 published by Manchester University Press (Studies in Imperialism series) in 2023 and the co-editor of A New Documentary of Hong Kong, 1945-1997, published by Hong Kong University Press in 2025.
Adonis M. Y. Li is Lecturer in East Asian History at the University of Lincoln. His research interests include Hong Kong history, urban history, and the history of Sino-British relations. His research has appeared in The International History Review and Urban History. His doctoral research, conducted at the University of Hong Kong, explored the history of the Kowloon-Canton Railway.
Allan Pang is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Hong Kong History Centre, University of Bristol. His research interests include the history of Hong Kong, Chinese overseas, and Southeast Asia. His PhD dissertation at the University of Cambridge examines Chinese history education in Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore in the second half of the twentieth century. His works have appeared in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, the Historical Journal, and Seventy Years of Cantopop (edited volume in Chinese).
Vivian Kong is senior lecturer in modern Chinese history and founding co-director of Hong Kong History Centre at the University of Bristol. A social historian of colonial Hong Kong, she is the author of Multiracial Britishness: Global Networks in Hong Kong 1910-45 (Cambridge University Press), and has published on migration, civil society, and press debates in interwar Hong Kong.
