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【歷史沙龍】香港與英聯邦,1949-1997 日期:2024年3月23日 (星期六) 時間:下午2:30至4點 地點:布里斯托大學 | Arts Complex, 7 Woodland Road, University of Bristol, BS8 1TB 語言:廣東話 —- 備註: – 請於Ticketpass報名,屆時會有少量港式茶點提供。 https://tktp.as/EDFXPP —- 香港在1997年前是英國殖民地,也因此曾是英聯邦的一部份。現代的英聯邦組織始自1949年,成員國除英國外,還有加拿大、澳洲、新加坡、印度等。但如果英聯邦不僅是一個組織,而是一個世界,這個看似陌生的名字,其實離香港不遠。 羅銳潛博士在三月份的香港歷史沙龍,將與我們剖析香港與英聯邦世界被忽略的關係。英聯邦如何塑造香港教育?誰在兩處之間旅居、遷移?香港經濟發展和英聯邦有何關係?香港歷史與世界之間千絲萬縷,英聯邦是不顯眼但重要的一環。 —- 羅銳潛博士,牛津大學現代中國及東亞史講師。 —- 【History Salon】Hong Kong and the Commonwealth, 1949-1997 Date: 23 March 2024 (Saturday) Time: 2:30 – 4pm Venue: Arts Complex, 7 Woodland Road, University of Bristol, BS8 1TB Language: Cantonese —- Additional Information: Please register on Ticketpass. A small amount of Hong Kong-style refreshments will be provided. https://tktp.as/EDFXPP —- Hong Kong, as a British colony until 1997, was part of the Commonwealth. The modern Commonwealth organisation began in 1949. Besides Britain, its member countries include Canada, Australia, Singapore and India, among others. But if the Commonwealth was not just an organisation but a world, this seemingly unfamiliar name might have been closer to Hong Kong than once thought. In the third Hong Kong History Salon, Dr Tommy Lo will discuss with us the overlooked links between Hong Kong and the Commonwealth world. How did it shape Hong Kong education? Who were sojourning and migrating between Hong Kong and the Commonwealth? And what did the Commonwealth have to do with the city’s remarkable economic growth? Numerous ties connected Hong Kong history with the world; those with the Commonwealth were unobvious but important. —- Dr Tommy Lo, Departmental Lecturer in Modern Chinese and East Asian History, University of Oxford
HKHC Speaker’s Series, Dr. Catherine S. Chan, Lingnan University Remembering the Canine Bloodbath: The Dark Side of Hong Kong’s Progressive Seventies Speaker: Dr. Catherine S. Chan, Lingnan University, Hong Kong Date and Time: 7 March 2024, 9 - 10:30am (UKT) / 5 - 6:30 (HKT) Venue: Online (Zoom) Language: English To attend, please register on Ticketpass. 1970s Hong Kong is usually remembered as a period of optimism, progress, and constructive reinvention. The MacLehose administration, the longest in the history of British Hong Kong, introduced a series of social reforms—free education, more housing projects, better social welfare, etc.—to regain local confidence following the social disturbances of 1966 and 1967. There was, however, a dark side to this narrative of ‘progress.’ The well-publicised ‘Hongkong Clean Campaign,’ which ran for years in hopes of improving the city’s sanitation, was more than a call to sweep the city’s streets and housing estates clean. It resulted in the irrational mass slaughter of thousands of dogs and the restructuring of human-canine relations, particularly with the lumping of domesticated, stray, and feral dogs under the shared categories of ‘nuisance’ and ‘undesirable.’ Delving into the anti-dog movement that emerged in the early twentieth century yet climaxed during the ‘Hongkong Clean Campaign,’ my study will uncover, from a more-than-human perspective, narratives of cruelty that helped underpin Hong Kong’s progressive seventies. Catherine Chan is Research Assistant Professor of History at Lingnan University. She is a social and urban historian of diaspora, heritage preservation issues, and human-animal relations in colonial and postcolonial Hong Kong, Macau, and Philippines. Chan has published extensively on the Macanese diaspora and is currently working on a book project concerning the more-than-human history of dogs in twentieth-century British Hong Kong.