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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 1923. The grave records were not on line, but I had the number of his grave and a photograph of the original. I understand that the cemetery register can now be found
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 Genealogical Forum https://www.genealogy.com/forum/regional/countries/topics/hongkong/ Within 24 hours I had a reply from a totally unknown, distant cousin. It turned out that our respective branches of the family had fallen out with each
We are delighted to announce that, with HKU History Department, we will co-host a public roundtable entitled “All Roads Lead to Hong Kong: Paths to Becoming a Hong Kong Historian’ on the evening of June 5 at the University of Hong Kong. Four historians at different stages of their careers will share with us their experience of establishing an academic career with a research focus on Hong Kong. After
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 than happy to contribute to the Hong Kong History Project. My BA was in modern languages and my later PhD was in French. Eventually, with two published books, including a critical
We are excited to announce that registration for our '“All Roads Lead to Hong Kong”: People, City, Empires' conference is now open here. The conference will take place at the University of Hong Kong on 6-7 June. We welcome any colleagues, students, and members of the public who are interested in Hong Kong history to join us at the conference. Conference fees for non-speakers are £50 for both days, or £25
This week our guest writer is Meng (Stella) Wang, PhD candidate at University of Sydney. Stella’s research interests lie in the history of childhood, particularly on children’s everyday life, their use of urban space, and the formation of their identity in their lived spaces. Stella has kindly accepted our invite to write a reflective piece on how she uses visual materials in her project. A Visual History of Colonial School
Call for Papers Hong Kong History Project Post-Graduate Workshop University of Bristol, January 2019 ‘Hong Kong and Beyond: Mapping the City’s Networks’ The Hong Kong History Project at the University of Bristol is pleased to announce its third Postgraduate Workshop, which will take place on January 14-15, 2019, and which provides an opportunity to network and the share ideas. We welcome proposals for participation from postgraduate students and early career
Our guest writer this week is Shuang Wu, PhD student at the University of Hong Kong and King's College, London. Shuang's research explores lives of Chinese mothers in colonial Hong Kong and the United Kingdom after the Second World War. Here she shares with us how stories told by her grandmother, an illiterate woman born in Shanghai and moved to Hong Kong in the 1950s, inspired her to conduct a
“All Roads Lead to Hong Kong": People, City, Empires Hong Kong History Project Conference 6-7 June 2019, University of Hong Kong Keynote speaker: Henry Yu, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of British Columbia [caption id="attachment_429" align="aligncenter" width="324"] Ellen Thorbecke, Hong Kong (Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, 1938).[/caption] Under the auspices of the ‘Hong Kong History Project’, the Departments of History at the University of Bristol and the University of Hong
Our guest writer this week is Chi Chi Huang, who recently finished her PhD at the University of Hong Kong. (Congrats Dr. Huang!) By incorporating archival research and the study of visual culture into her project, Chi Chi's research explores how British popular culture imagined Hong Kong in the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. Here's Chi Chi telling us how memories of her trips to Hong Kong as a kid