The Covid-19 pandemic disrupted movement between Hong Kong and Macau on a scale unseen since the weeks immediately after the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in late 1941. During the war years, one of the institutions that enabled communications between …
Category: Historiography
Guest blog: Kwong Chi Man on the Battle of Hong Kong spatial history platform
Dr. Kwong Chi Man is an associate professor in the history department of Hong Kong Baptist University. He specializes in the military and naval history of modern East Asia, particularly from the Sino-Japanese War (1894–95) to the 1970s. He has …
Guest blog: Reynold Tsang, “Comment, Like, and Share!” – The Boom of Hong Kong’s History Pages. Part 2: Challenges and Opportunities
“Comment, Like, and Share!” – The Boom of Hong Kong’s History Pages
(Part 2: Challenges and Opportunities)
by
Reynold Tsang
(DPhil student, University of Oxford)
In mid-March 2021, a small “scandal” erupted in the public history circle of Hong Kong. …
Guest blog: Reynold Tsang, ‘“Comment, Like, and Share!” – The Boom of Hong Kong’s History Pages’
HKHP: In the past decade or so, Hong Kong witnessed a blossoming of social media pages on Hong Kong history (blogs, Facebook pages, Twitter accounts, Patreon pages – you name it). They provide much great content and help make Hong …
Andrew Hillier on Family and Memory in Old Hong Kong
We are pleased to have Dr. Andrew Hillier writing for us this week. After completing his PhD at the University of Bristol, Andrew is now an Honorary Research Associate at Bristol and regularly contributes to the University’s Historical Photographs of …
Vivian Kong on the Kowloon Residents Association and interwar Hong Kong’s civil society
Writing for our blog this week is our own Dr. Vivian Kong. Some of our readers may remember Vivian from when she was a PhD student with our Project. She finished her PhD thesis ‘Multiracial Britons: Britishness, Diasporas, and …
Researching my Hong Kong family’s past: A fourteen-year quest [Part 3]
RESEARCHING MY HONG KONG FAMILY’S PAST:
A FOURTEEN-YEAR QUEST
(Part 3)
by an anonymous contributor
One of my first stops in Hong Kong was St Michael’s Catholic Cemetery in Happy Valley, where my English grandfather had been buried in …
RESEARCHING MY HONG KONG FAMILY’S PAST: A FOURTEEN-YEAR QUEST, PART 2
RESEARCHING MY HONG KONG FAMILY’S PAST:
A FOURTEEN-YEAR QUEST
PART 2
by an anonymous contributor
With the burden of the family research now in my hands, I decided I would put an enquiry about our family on the Hong Kong …
Guest writer: ‘Researching my Hong Kong family’s past: A fourteen-year quest’ [Part 1]
RESEARCHING MY HONG KONG FAMILY’S PAST:
A FOURTEEN-YEAR QUEST
(Part 1)
by an anonymous contributor
Vivian Kong has asked me to share my experience of researching my Hong Kong family’s past. As a graduate of Bristol University, I am more …
Katon Lee looking for interviewees for HK suit culture, 1950s-80s
一則來自英國布里斯托大學歷史系博士候選人李啟雋(Katon Lee)有關口述訪問的信息:
您好!我正埋首於有關1950至80年代香港華人西裝文化的研究。如果您(或您的親朋好友)知道有關香港裁縫、裁縫商店的故事,或曾在港訂造西裝,我誠邀您與我分享您的寶貴故事。我現身處香港,可與您在港見面傾談,如不方便會面,亦可透過Skype以網上訪問。
如對我的研究有任何疑問,歡迎發電郵至katon.lee@bristol.ac.uk。期待您的分享和回覆!
This week we have a message from Katon Lee, history PhD student at the University of Bristol, seeking oral history interviewees for his research:
Hi all, I am currently doing a project …