Date: April 27, 2026
Time: 10:00 – 18:00
Venue: 4.36, 4/F Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Camous, The University of Hong Kong
Program Rundown
9:45 – 10:00
Registration
10:00 – 10:20
Welcome Remarks
David POMFRET
(Dean, Faculty of Arts
The University of Hong Kong)
10:20 – 11:20
French-Recruited Chinese Interpreters and Labour Governance in France during and after the First World War, 1916–1919
CHEN Fan (Université Paris Cité)
11:20 – 12:20
Globality, Normalization, Dependency: Chinese Labor in the Russian Empire during the Rise of the State Capitalism, 1890s-1910s
Aleksei EPISHEV (University of Illinois Chicago)
12:20 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00
From Contract Workers to “Chinese Chekists”: Administrative Visuality, Racialization, and Political Legitimacy in Russia, 1915–1921
Julia GODART (Université du Québec à Montréal / Université Paris Cité)
15:00 – 16:00
Papers for the border: Chinese labourers and the materiality of the imperial regime in Russian Central Asia, 1890-1917
Malikabonui ZEHNI (University of Hong Kong)
16:00 – 16:15
Coffee Break
16:15 – 17:15
Chinese and The Ukrainian Revolution (1917-1921)
Anton KISTOL (Dmytro Yavornytsky National Historical Museum of Dnipro)
17:15 – 17:45
Roundtable Discussion
17:45 – 18:00
Closing Remarks
XU Guoqi
(David H Y Chang Professor in Chinese History
Founding Director, Institute of Transnational History of China
The University of Hong Kong)