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走近周恩来

  请按此处网上报名 (报名截止时间: 2026年5月20日下午5时) (活动将以普通话进行)   日期: 2026年5月22日 时间: 下午3时至5时 地点: 香港大学 百周年校园 赛马会教学楼3楼 CPD-3.28 (地点已更新)   主讲: 陈兼 教授 (康奈尔大学胡适荣誉讲席教授、纽约大学暨上海纽约大学全球体系杰出历史学教授) 主持: 徐国琦 教授 (香港大学历史系张学义基金教授(中国历史)、中国跨国史研究院创院院长)   简介: 长期以来,周恩来都被视作极其複杂难解的历史人物。中国近代史、中美关係史、国际冷战史专家陈兼,倾二十年之力,广泛搜集中、美、苏、英、日等多国珍贵档案,以前所未有的史料规模与密度,搭建起一部「里程碑式」的学术传记,呈现周恩来充满传奇与悖论的一生。   相片集  

Playing Heaven: Remapping Early Modern Neo-Confucian Worlds with AI

  本活动将以英语进行,以下活动资料只提供英文版本。   Inaugural Workshop Date: June 1, 2026 (Mon) Time: 11:00 – 17:00 Venue: Faculty Conference Room, 4.36 Run Run Shaw Tower, The University of Hong Kong   DH2026 Pre-Conference Date: July 28, 2026 (Tue) Time: 9:00 – 17:00 Daejeon Convention Center, Daejeon, South Korea   The “Playing Heaven” team cordially invites intellectual historians, specialists in early modern East Asia, and scholars in the digital humanities to attend the project launch events to be held at the University of Hong Kong on 1 June 2026 and at DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea on 28 July 2026. “Playing Heaven” is an inter-university collaboration based in Hong Kong and Singapore, and one of the inaugural recipients of the Schmidt Sciences Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) grant. The project seeks to rethink the intellectual and cultural history of early modern East Asia with the development of a domain-specific artificial intelligence system. Rather than treating philosophical schools

Forging the Third Pole: Permafrost Science and the Trans-Polar History of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, 1956–2006 (讲者: 哈佛大学Jason Chan先生)

  本活动将以英语进行,以下活动资料只提供英文版本。   Online Registration   Date:  April 28, 2026 Time:  4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. Venue: CPD-3.29, 3/F, The Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong   Piercing the “roof of the world”, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway is heralded in Chinese narratives as an engineering feat of the People’s Republic. Yet since Maoist China’s march to Lhasa, the plateau’s unforgiving high-altitude environment had stonewalled successive attempts to lay tracks to Tibet and harness its natural resources for socialist industrialization. Drawing on archival sources in the PRC and abroad, oral histories, and internal scientific publications, this talk traces how the railway’s construction from 1956 to 2006 forged a distinctive “mobilizational technocracy” in Maoist and post-Mao China. Far from relying on the mass labor and grassroots knowledge that powered infrastructure development elsewhere in the PRC, the regime marshaled scientific expertise from across the country to

研讨会 “Chinese Workers During the Great War”

  本活动将以英语进行,以下活动资料只提供英文版本。   Online registration    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 – 10:00Registration 10:00 – 10:20Welcome RemarksDavid POMFRET(Dean, Faculty of ArtsThe University of Hong Kong) 10:20 – 11:20French-Recruited Chinese Interpreters and Labour Governance in France during and after the First World War, 1916–1919CHEN Fan (Université Paris Cité) 11:20 – 12:20Globality, Normalization, Dependency: Chinese Labor in the Russian Empire during the Rise of the State Capitalism, 1890s-1910sAleksei EPISHEV (University of Illinois Chicago) 12:20 – 14:00Lunch Break 14:00 – 15:00From Contract Workers to “Chinese Chekists”: Administrative Visuality, Racialization, and Political Legitimacy in Russia, 1915–1921Julia GODART (Université du Québec à Montréal / Université Paris Cité) 15:00 – 16:00Papers for the border: Chinese labourers and the materiality of the imperial regime

圆桌研讨会 “Fairbank in China Now: Contemporary Academic and Policy Legacies”

  本活动将以英语进行,以下活动资料只提供英文版本。   Though he died 35 years ago, the Harvard historian John Fairbank remains alive through the influence of his ideas, students and image as a major figure in US-China relations. The workshop will survey the current state of interest in Fairbank in mainland China. Which of his ideas have resonance in contemporary scholarship? What debates does he engender? Beyond his iconic status, how is he valuable in managing an ever more complex interaction between the United State and China? Online Registration   Date: April 13, 2026Time: 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.Venue: Room 4.36, 4/F Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong   Program Rundown 12:45 – 13:00Registration 13:00 – 13:10Welcome Remarks by Xu Guoqi(David H Y Chang Professor in Chinese HistoryFounding Director, Institute of Transnational History of ChinaUniversity of Hong Kong) 13:10 – 13:20Introduction by Paul Evans(Professor Emeritus, School of Public Policy and Global AffairsUniversity of Briti

Paul Evans 教授讲座系列

主讲: Paul Evans 教授 (英属哥伦比亚大学公共政策与全球事务学院荣休教授) 第一场讲座 Fairbank the Historian: Four Phases and Four Principles in Understanding Modern China 日期: 2026年4月2日 时间: 上午11:15  – 下午12:45 地点: 香港大学百周年校园LG楼CPD-LG.09 请按此处网上报名 第二场讲座 How Have History and Historians Shaped US-China Relations?  Lessons from Fairbank’s Era for Our Own 日期: 2026年4月10日 时间: 下午2:30  – 下午4:00 地点: 香港大学百周年校园逸夫教学楼4.36室 请按此处网上报名   相片集

马敏教授讲座系列

主讲: 马敏教授华中师范大学中国近代史研究所资深教授 活动将以普通话进行 第一场讲座: 马士曼的圣经翻译及其中文事业——与马礼逊之比较日期: 2026年3月20日时间: 下午4:00 – 5:30地点: 香港大学百周年校园逸夫教学楼4.36室请按此处网上报名 第二场讲座: 晚清商会与中国早期市民社会的形成——比较历史视角日期: 2026年3月23日时间: 下午4:00 – 5:30地点: 香港大学梅堂地下演讲厅 (May Hall G.01)请按此处网上报名  第三场讲座: 博览会与中国近代物质文化变迁——以南洋劝业会与西湖博览会为中心日期: 2026年3月27日时间: 下午2:30 – 4:00地点: 香港大学百周年校园逸夫教学楼4.30室请按此处网上报名   相片集

《The Idea of China: A Contested History》新书发佈会

  请按此处网上报名 日期: 2026年3月30日时间: 下午2:30 – 4:30 地点: 香港大学百周年校园逸夫教学楼4楼4.36室 主讲徐国琦 教授香港大学历史系张学义基金教授 (中国历史)中国跨国史研究院创院院长 讨论嘉宾陈志武教授香港大学金融学讲座教授郑裕彤基金教授(金融学)量化历史研究中心主任香港人文社会研究所所长 主持沈海鹏教授香港大学协理副校长(教学 – 教学型研究生课程)港大经管学院副院长(EMBA & IMBA 课程)潘燊昌基金数据科学与创新教授商业分析与创新讲座教授 简介 (只提供英语版本) An acclaimed historian’s bold response to two simple, yet vexed, questions: What counts as China, and who counts as Chinese? China became a capitalist superpower by investing in globalization. Now that it has established its credentials—and emerged as a major US competitor—its leaders are looking within, focused on suppressing dissent and fostering cohesion. The result has been an increasingly nationalist cultural agenda, celebrating a Chinese identity steeped in the mystique of the Middle Kingdom and nostalgia for heroic twentieth-century resistance. Yet Chinese nationalism, like nationalism everywhere, is fraught. Few Westerners, and even fewer Chinese, recognize that the very idea of China is up for grabs. In t

《体育作为方法: 另一个角度看中国文明传统》新书发佈会

  日期: 2026年1月30日(星期五) 时间: 下午 2:30 – 4:30 地点: 香港大学梅堂地下演讲厅 (MH G.01) 讲者将根据需要使用普通话或英语发言。 主讲 徐国琦 教授 香港大学历史系张学义基金教授 (中国历史)中国跨国史研究院创院院长 讨论嘉宾 陈志武 教授 香港人文社会研究所所长量化历史研究中心主任 主持 李纪 教授 香港大学历史系副教授 简介 这并不是一本就体育谈体育的书,而是体育的文化史、文明史和文化交流史。它意欲借助体育来解读中国文明特性,揭示中外文明互鉴、交流,彰显中国与其他文明「共有」的历史、共同的旅程。   相片集

中国跨国史国际研讨会

中国跨国史国际研讨会 日期: 2025年8月29 – 31日 地點: 香港大学百周年校园逸夫教学楼4楼4.36室 (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 t