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
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
