On 24 February 2025 at 3:30 pm
On 7 March 2025 at 3:30 pm
【歷史沙龍】大都會與江湖：戰後香港的文化空間 
日期：2025年2月15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：廣東話
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金庸（查良鏞，1924-2018）與劉以鬯（1918-2018）以小說創作聞名於世，他們的作品對華語世界的文學與電影皆舉足輕重。同樣重要卻不常被討論的，是這兩位大文豪於戰後香港作為新聞從業員的貢獻。查氏於 1953 年創辦的《明報》成為他與中國共產黨多年「筆戰」的戰場。1950 年代，時任《香港時報 • 淺水灣》、《星島日報 • 大會堂》等副刊主編的劉以鬯，更利用這些副刊宣揚香港的自由大都會形象，意圖與當時被視為經濟落後的中國大陸形成對比。甘詠雯將與大家一起探索這些於戰後香港創造、非常獨特的文化空間。
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甘詠雯博士，現任奧地利維也納大學東亞研究所助理教授。德國包浩斯建築博士，專研香港與台灣殖民時代建築及其後殖民轉變。研究興趣亦包括港台戰後文化與建築空間及東亞地區飲食文化。曾為於德國、台灣、香港、美國及日本從事教學及研究。
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【History Salon】 Metropolitan and Gongwu (river and lake): Cultural Space in Postwar Hong Kong
Date: 15 Feb 2024
Time: 2:30 – 4:30pm (UKT)
Venue: Research Space (1.H020), Arts Complex, University of Bristol
Language: Cantonese
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Jing Yong (Louis Cha, 1924-2018) and Liu Yichang (1918-2018) are renowned for their novels, which influenced the Sinophone world of literature and cinema. Equally remarkable was the two novelists’ simultaneous contribution to journalism in the early postwar period. Cha founded the pivotal newspaper Ming Pao Daily in 1953, which served as his ideological battlefield where he engaged in years of ‘pen-fights’ with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Liu, editor-in-chief of supplements such as the Hong Kong Times: Repulse Bay and the Sing Tao Daily: City Hall in the 1950s, instrumentalized these supplements to project the metropolitan image of the liberal colony of Hong Kong in contrast to what was perceived as the economically backward mainland of China. In the talk, Kam explores such fascinating cultural spaces that were created and accommodated in the postwar Hong Kong.
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Liza Wing Man Kam, Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies (Chinese Studies), University of Vienna.
Kam’s research interests include Hong Kong and Taiwan’s colonial architecture and the transmutation in their particular postcolonial settings, postwar cultural and urban spaces, and culinary cultures. She conducted her PhD research at the Bauhaus in Germany and have been teaching and researching in Germany, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the US and Japan.
Speaker's Series, Prof. David Clayton, University of York, United Kingdom
Hong Kong and Modern Global History: A Panel Discussion
Speaker: Prof. David Clayton, University of York, United Kingdom
Commentators: Prof. Robert Bickers, University of Bristol
Prof. Su Lin Lewis, University of Bristol
Prof. Simon Potter, University of Bristol
Date and Time: 24 February 2025, 3:30 – 5pm (UKT)
Venue: Research Space (1.H020), Arts Complex, University of Bristol
Language: English
Hybrid event. To attend, please register on Ticketpass.
Zoom details:
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Meeting ID: 964 1201 7600
Passcode: 277080
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The Hong Kong History Centre is excited to announce that Prof. David Clayton from the University of York will deliver a talk on his latest research, exploring Hong Kong’s place in modern global history. The talk will be followed by a panel discussion featuring historians from the University of Bristol.
Panel
Arguably, Hong Kong history’s is local history. Some of the best examples take the form of micro-histories shorn of master narratives. Historians of Hong Kong have focused on particular peoples, curious situations and unique happenings. But how do we connect our intriguing stories to the ‘big’ debates—including about the economic rise of the West and the ‘Rest’, world geo-strategic instability/stability, the spread of representative democracies/autocracies, the clash between local, national and cosmopolitan identities? This panel debates this problem of method.
To kick-start discussions, David Clayton draws his three-decade long effort to improve our understanding of Hong Kong’s economic history. He reflects on how his work has tackled near-universal questions about the role of markets and laws. The panel, featuring Robert Bickers, Su Lin Lewis, and Simon Potter, will offer comments and discuss the paper.
Paper abstract
As historians we tend to focus on particular people, curious situations and unique happenings. We write local history. Drawing on fifty years of international scholarship, this paper explores how historians of Hong Kong have also contributed to our collective understanding of the origins and effects of our current interconnectedness: modern global history. The paper divides into three parts. The first surveys how Hong Kong was slotted into debates about modernisation theory, an agenda that traced convergences and divergences in paths of development between the ‘East’ and the ‘West’. The second surveys how imperial historians placed Hong Kong within the patterns and puzzles of British decolonisation. The third examines transnational linkages into and out of Hong Kong, with a particular focus on flows of ideas, including across the Pacific. The purpose of this paper is to stimulate a discussion regarding the appropriate historical method with which to study the Hong Kong past. The presenter will also take this opportunity to revisit his contributions to Hong Kong history which, coincidently, date back to 1997.
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David Clayton is a Professor at the University of York. He published Imperialism Revisited in 1997 which included an exploration of British government policy towards Hong Kong during the early 1950s. He teaches the political, cultural, social, economic and environment histories of Hong Kong, 1945-1997, at York.
Robert Bickers is a Professor of History at the University of Bristol, and a Co-Director of the Hong Kong History Project. He specialises in the history of colonialism, and in particular of the British empire and its relations with China and the history of Shanghai, Hong Kong, and modern Chinese history. His most recent book is China Bound: John Swire & Sons and its World.
Su Lin Lewis is Professor in Global and Asian History at the University of Bristol. She specialises in the social history of cities, transnational activism, and decolonisation, with a focus on modern Southeast Asia. She published Cities in Motion: urban life and cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia 1920-1940.
Simon Potter is Professor of Modern History at the University of Bristol and works on global and imperial histories of the mass media. In 2022 he published a centenary history, This is the BBC, with Oxford University Press.
HKHC Speaker's Series, Dr. Liza Wing Man Kam, University of Vienna, Austria 
Learn to oppress: Intellectual trajectory in constructing the colonies in Hong Kong and Taiwan
Speaker: Dr. Liza Wing Man Kam, University of Vienna, Austria
Date and Time: 7 Mar 2025, 3:30 – 5pm (UKT)
Venue: Research Space, Arts Complex, University of Bristol
Language: English
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This presentation introduces components of Kam’s recent project, which aims to comprehend the cultural and intellectual exchange networks in and between Hong Kong and Taiwan. In her previous works, Kam contended that infrastructural and socialization frameworks work together to subtly and overtly exert control on the colonials’ bodies and minds. This presentation, however, focuses on Japan’s learning from British colonialism in Hong Kong to understand how the early form of control got in shape. Since the early colonial period, metropolitan London has played a significant role in shaping the spatial design and planning, law-making, and so on in Hong Kong. By the end of the Second World War, the majority of Hong Kong’s public architecture and planning were dictated by British colonial architects. However, Taiwan’s case is not as straightforward. In becoming a modern state, Japanese officials such as Ohara Shigechika, the head of the Office for Gaols (shugokushi) were sent to visit the Victoria Prison in Hong Kong in 1871 to learn about the construction of modern prisons during the Meiji Restoration. In 1872, Ishida Eikichi, the Superintendent of Police for Kanagawa Prefecture travelled to Hong Kong to research police systems (Umemori, 2002). The modernization of metropolitan Tokyo was significantly influenced by the colonial experience in Hong Kong. These ideas, which were tested in Tokyo, were subsequently exported to colonial Taiwan. During the early Japanese colonial era in Taiwan, it functioned as a laboratory for Japanese colonial architects such as Ide Kaoru (1879-1944) and Moriyama Matsunosuke (1869-1949). These architects were educated at the then Tokyo Imperial University (Tōkyō teikoku daigaku), where they were, in some ways, instructed by British architecture professors.
Still in its inaugural shape, the project explores the intellectual trajectories involved in the (re)making of the infrastructural and socialization frameworks established since the two respective colonial eras, while identifying the legacies that persist as physical and ideological control in the everyday.
Dr. Liza Wing Man Kam’s research interests include Hong Kong and Taiwan’s colonial architecture and the transmutation in their particular postcolonial settings, postwar cultural and urban spaces, and culinary cultures. She conducted her PhD research at the Bauhaus in Germany and have been teaching and researching in Germany, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the US and Japan.
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