中国跨国史国际研讨会

(研讨会议程只提供英文版本)

Day 1 - August 29, 2025 (Friday)

 

Morning Session

 

9:30 – 10:00 Registration

 

10:00 – 10:15 Opening Remarks by David Pomfret

 

10:30 – 11:40 Keynote Session 1

China’s Partners: Alliances, Alignments and Influence in China’s Transnational History

William C. Kirby (Harvard University)

 

 

Afternoon Session

 

13:50 – 15:10 Panel 1

 

Seeking Justice for All Sentient Beings: Lü Bicheng’s Feminist Vegetarianism

Du Chunmei (Lingnan University)

 

The Last Boat back to China: Xiao Qian and the Transnational Biography

Fan Xin (University of Cambridge / ShanghaiTech University)

 

15:20 – 17:20 Panel 2

 

Beyond the Perspectives of National and Transnational Histories: A Coevolutionary Approach to Researching and Writing History in the Age of Post-Globalisation

Billy K. L. So (University of Hong Kong)

Sufumi So (University of Hong Kong)

 

Fairbank and the Making of an International History of China

Paul Evans (University of British Columbia)

 

Cloud Computing 1.0

Shellen X. Wu (Lehigh University)

 

 

 

Day 2 - August 30, 2025 (Saturday)

 

Morning Session

 

9:30 – 10:00 Registration

 

10:00 – 11:10 Keynote Session 2

Hiatus of Power: The End of Empire and the Rise of the Nation State in Asia, 1945-1949

Hans van de Ven (University of Cambridge & Peking University)

 

11:10 – 13:10 Panel 3

 

Takasaki Tatsunosuke and the Politics of Early PRC-Japan Trade, 1949–1964

Koji Hirata (Monash University)

 

Legal Codes in Chosŏn, Qing, and Nguyễn States: A Preliminary Analysis of Early Modern Sinitic Law

Jaymin Kim (Rice University)

 

The Rise of Andong in the Political and Trade Networks in Northeast Asia, 1630s-1930s

Wang Yuanchong (University of Delaware)

 

 

 

Afternoon Session

 

14:15 – 15:25 Keynote Session 3

China as a Contested Object of Thought: European Vantage Points

Dominic Sachsenmaier (University of Göttingen)

 

15:40 – 17:40 Panel 4

Electrifying Consumers: Advertisements and the Promotion of Electricity in Republican Shanghai, 1912-1937

Ghassan Moazzin (University of Hong Kong)

 

Hong Kong Dollar: Mediating China’s Participation in Global Capitalism since the Nineteenth Century

John D. Wong (University of Hong Kong)

 

From Military-Industrial Complex to Global Supply Chain: A History of the

Electronics Industry in Shenzhen, China

Zhou Taomo (National University of Singapore)

 

 

 

Day 3 - August 31, 2025 (Sunday)

 

Morning Session

 

9:30 – 10:00 Registration

 

10:00 – 11:20 Panel 5

 

Constructing a Heavenly Realm: State, Buddhism, and Sino-Japanese Relations in the Yuan-Ming Transition

Li Yiwen (City University of Hong Kong)

 

Hakka Chinese in the Caribbean: Race, Religion, and Identity from the 1850s to 1940s

Li Ji (University of Hong Kong)

Qiu Zichan (University of Illinois Chicago)

 

11:20 – 12:40 Panel 6

 

An Early-Modern Broadcast: News of the Manchu Conquest of China in the Jesuit Annual Letters, 1644–1649

Yuval Givon (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

 

Ming Loyalists in Southern Vietnam: New Evidence and Interpretations

Hang Xing (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

 

12:40 – 13:00 Closing Remarks by Xu Guoqi

 

The Symposium is funded by the Faculty Conference Support Scheme, Faculty of Arts.