On 17 May 2025 at 2:30 pm
On 23 May 2025 at 9:30 am
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.
【歷史沙龍】聯繫匯率前世今生
日期：2025年5月17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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時局變化莫測，香港人既因港幣與美元掛鉤而受益，亦時有受損。聯繫匯率制度確保了香港與全球經濟的持續聯繫，同時也使香港的金融狀況受到美國利率波動的影響。我們當初是怎麼做到這種安排的？為什麼 1997 年過去了幾十年，掛鉤匯率依然存在？本次演講探討了聯繫匯率制度的歷史起源、其在香港及其他地區的持續重要性，以及其對香港在全球金融中的作用的影響。
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王迪安，中國企業史權威，芝加哥大學經濟學學士、史丹佛大學工商管理學碩士、哈佛大學歷史系博士、特許金融分析師(CFA) 。現職香港大學香港人文社會研究所暨現代語言及文化學院教授及文學院副院長（本科生事務）。研究主要集中在人、貨、資金及資訊的流動，尤其對香港及大灣區/珠三角地區具興趣。其第一本著作 Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century: The House of Houqua and the Canton System研究 十九世紀初全球交流情況中的中國貿易。其新著Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub / 《香港振翅》探討香港如何轉變成為航空業樞紐，旨在敘述源於亞洲間及區域結構的全球化，以及全球網絡成形的過程。
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【History Salon】Why the peg? Then and now.
Date: 17 May 2025
Time: 2:30 – 4:30pm (UKT)
Venue: Research Sapce, Arts Complex, University of Bristol
Language: Cantonese
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Depending on the global environment, Hongkongers have both benefited from and suffered due to the Hong Kong dollar’s peg to the US dollar. While the peg ensures the city’s sustained connection with global economies, it also subjects Hong Kong’s financial landscape to fluctuations in US interest rates. How did we end up with this arrangement in the first place? Why is the peg still in place decades after 1997? This talk explores the historical origins of the peg, its continued importance in Hong Kong and beyond, and its implications for Hong Kong’s role in global finance.
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John D. Wong is a professor and an associate dean in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Hong Kong, John D. Wong’s research focuses on the flow of people, goods, capital and ideas. With a particular interest in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta/Greater Bay Area, he explores how such flows connected the region to the Chinese political center in the north as well as their maritime partners in the South China Sea and beyond.
Studying the China trade in the context of early-nineteenth-century global exchange, his first monograph—Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century: The House of Houqua and the Canton System—demonstrates how China trade partners sustained their economic exchange on a global scale long before Western imperialism ushered in the era of globalization in a Eurocentric modern world. In his recently published Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub, John explores the development of commercial aviation in Hong Kong as the city grew into a powerful economy after WWII. By not accepting Hong Kong’s development into a regional and global hub as preordained, this study aims to describe globalization and global networks in the making.
HKHC Speaker's Series, Dr. Jenny Huangfu Day, Skidmore College, United States
Transborder Fugitives, Extradition, and Political Crimes in Modern China
Speaker: Dr. Jenny Huangfu Day, Skidmore College, United States
Date and Time: 23 May 2025, 9:30 – 11am (UKT)
Venue: Microsoft Teams
Language: English
Online event. To attend, please register on Microsoft Teams.
https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/4312663a-6b62-4a79-a3ed-547b91f63f61@b2e47f30-cd7d-4a4e-a5da-b18cf1a4151b
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Why were there no extradition treaties between China and most Western countries historically? Jenny Huangfu Day traces how the fugitive rendition clauses in the Opium War treaties evolved into informal extradition practices and argues that China’s inability to secure reciprocal treaties was rooted in the legacy of extraterritoriality and semi-colonialism. Through an examination of a series of landmark but often overlooked extradition cases between China and foreign powers — especially between Canton and the colonial government of Hong Kong — she challenges the notion that “political crimes” in modern China emerged solely as a domestic legal construct, instead situating them in transborder legal and diplomatic processes open to interpretation and maneuvering by both state authorities and the broader transborder population.
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Jenny Huangfu Day is an associate professor of history and the Francis Tang ‘61 Chair of China Studies at Skidmore College. She is the author of Qing Travelers to the Far West: Diplomacy and the Information Order in Late Imperial China and a forthcoming book, Transborder Fugitives, Extradition, and Political Crimes in Modern China.
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