by admin | Nov 7, 2020
Erotic literature in traditional Chinese society is famously associated with The Plum in the Golden Vase, or Chin P’ing Mei, which explicitly details the sexual goings-on of a wealthy merchant with multiple wives and concubines. But merchants and scholars did not have...
by | May 3, 2020
Tourists can be a negative for environmental sustainability because they often travel by plane and indulge in extras that they may do more sparingly at home, such as taking long, hot showers every day. But one group of tourists may provide a model for sustainable...
by | May 3, 2020
The five-year programme marks the beginning of a collaborative research partnership between HKU and the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Republic of Armenia’s National Academy of Sciences, as well as multiple cross-faculty collaborations within...
by | Nov 7, 2019
A swimming pool might be a luxury add-on in some places, but in the village of Trung Dung in Vietnam, it was seen as a lifesaver. Several children had drowned in a dirty pond that was situated between the primary and secondary schools. A proper swimming pool with...
by | Nov 7, 2019
The history books tell us the facts about the arrival and activities of Western missionaries in China. But what did this mean to the ordinary peasants and missionaries at the time? For Dr Li Ji of the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the...
