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Hong Kong History: Local, national, and global perspectives

Histoire intellectuelle de la Chine moderne et contemporaine

Hong Kong History: Local, national, and global perspectives

Séminaire de Sebastian Veg (EHESS, CRH, associé CECMC) dispensé à l’EHESS du 1er avril au 3 juin 2026.


Horaire

Le mercredi, de 9h30 à 12h30, du 1er avril au 3 juin 2026


Lieu

Campus Condorcet, Centre de colloques, salle 3.07
Place du Front populaire, 93300 Aubervilliers

En savoir plus : https://enseignements.ehess.fr/2025-2026/ue/246


Description

Hong Kong history was for a long time bifurcated between a colonial historiography that focused on the territory’s position within the British empire, and a nationalist historiography that emphasized its connections with China. Recent studies have questioned the neat divisions between local and global issues. The ongoing post-war refugee crisis was both related to Chinese politics and part of the incipient Cold War. The social movements of the 1960s expressed local anti-colonial feelings but were also part of the global protest movements of the 1960s. The question of Hong Kong’s future was determined by Deng’s reforms in China, but also global dynamics of decolonization. This seminar proposes to examine recent historical studies of colonial Hong Kong (1842-1997) while paying particular attention to the question of local, national, and global scales.
 
This research seminar will be held in English. It is designed mainly for graduate students with prior knowledge of Chinese history and politics.

Programme

1) Introduction: Hong Kong and Colonialism (1 April)

Readings:

  • Hung Ho-Fung, City on the Edge. Hong Kong under Chinese Rule, Cambridge UP, 202
  • Law Wing-sang, Collaborative colonial power: the making of the Hong Kong Chinese. Hong Kong: HKU Press, 2009.
  • Luk, Gary Chi-hung, ed., From a British to a Chinese colony? Hong Kong before and after the 1997 Handover. Berkeley, Institute of East Asian Studies, 2017.

2) The making of early colonial society  (8 April)

3) The 1911 generation and Chinese nationalism (15 April)

4) Occupation, Civil War, and Refugee Society (6 May) 

5) Social Movements in the post-war decades (13 May)

6) The State’s adaptive response and the rise of “Hongkonger identity” (20 May)

7) The question of Hong Kong’s future in the 1980s (27 May)

8) Decolonizing: from the Handover to the Anti-Extradition Movement  (3 June)

 


OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Monique Abud (16 mars 2026). Hong Kong History: Local, national, and global perspectives. Carnets du Centre Chine (CNRS/EHESS). Consulté le 14 avril 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/15vuy


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