On 20 April 2024 at 2:30 pm
On 17 May 2024 at 12:00 am
【歷史沙龍】太古集團與香港
日期：2024年4月20日 （星期六）
時間：下午2:30至4:30
地點：布里斯托大學 | Arts Complex, 7 Woodland Road, University of Bristol, BS8 1TB
語言：英文
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太古集團於2020年慶祝在香港營運第一百五十年，但當年這個始創於利物浦、專營歐美貿易的小公司，何以會千里迢迢跑到香港，並且在此大展拳腳落地生根？畢可思教授會透過介紹他的新作，為我們解答以上問題。
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畢可思教授，香港史研究中心聯合總監。
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【History Salon】 Swire and Hong Kong
Date: 20 April 2024 (Saturday)
Time: 2:30 – 4:30pm
Venue: Arts Complex, 7 Woodland Road, University of Bristol, BS8 1TB
Language: English
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In 2020 the Swire Group marked its 150th anniversary of operating in Hong Kong. But why did this small company, originally established in Liverpool, and involved in the trade between Britain and North America, come to Hong Kong, and how did it grow and stay there. Robert Bickers will introduce his book about the company's history and discuss these questions.
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Prof. Robert Bickers, Co-Director, Hong Kong History Centre
HKHC Speaker's Series, Dr. Thomas M. Larkin, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada 
The China Firm: American Elites and the Making of British Colonial Society
Speaker: Dr. Thomas M. Larkin, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada
Date and Time: 3 May 2024, 3:30 – 5pm (UKT)
Venue: Research Space (1.H020), Arts Complex, University of Bristol
Language: English
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What roles did Americans play in the expanding global empires of the nineteenth century? Thomas M. Larkin examines the Hong Kong–based Augustine Heard & Company, the most prominent American trading firm in treaty-port China, to explore the ways American elites at once made and were made by British colonial society. Following the Heard brothers throughout their firm’s rise and decline, The China Firm reveals how nineteenth-century China’s American elite adapted to colonial culture, helped entrench social and racial hierarchies, and exploited the British imperial project for their own profit as they became increasingly invested in its political affairs and commercial networks.
Through the central narrative of Augustine Heard & Co., Larkin disentangles the ties that bound the United States to China and the British Empire in the nineteenth century. Drawing on a vast range of archival material from Hong Kong, China, Boston, and London, he weaves the local and the global together to trace how Americans gained acceptance into and contributed to the making of colonial societies and world-spanning empires. Uncovering the transimperial lives of these American traders and the complex ways extraimperial communities interacted with British colonialism, The China Firm makes a vital contribution to global histories of nineteenth-century Asia and provides an alternative narrative of British empire.
Thomas M. Larkin is Assistant Professor of Department of History at University of Prince Edward Island.
HKHC Speaker's Series, Dr. Adonis M. Y. Li, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom
Place, People, and Preservation: the old Kowloon railway terminus in Hong Kong
Speaker: Dr. Adonis M. Y. Li, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom
Date and Time: 17 May 2024, 2:30 – 4pm (UKT)
Venue: Research Space (1.H020), Arts Complex, University of Bristol
Language: English
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The Kowloon railway terminus in Tsim Sha Tsui was demolished in 1978. Today, only two traces of the old station remain in the city: six columns standing at the Urban Council Centenary Garden, and the now ‘Former Kowloon-Canton Railway Clock Tower’, still on the tip of the Kowloon peninsula. Adonis M. Y. Li explores attempts to preserve the station, in which a nascent civil society searched for help from local government, London officials, and even the Queen. He explores how Hong Kong people and officials in both London and Hong Kong thought about the relationship between place and people.
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.
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