When Foreign Governments Meddle in Elections

When Professor Dov Levin of the Department of Politics and Public Administration was embarking on his PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles in the early 2010s, he picked up a book from the library that would open a whole new field to him. The book concerned...

Storm in a Teacup?

The generally accepted image of the Boston Tea Party is of defiant colonists dumping crates of tea belonging to the East India Company into Boston Harbour in protest at British taxes on tea. Then they opposed the goods themselves, boycotting tea and British products,...

Insights on Indigenous Ainu

Professor Edwin Michielsen, who joined HKU’s School of Modern Languages and Cultures as an Assistant Professor specialising in modern Japanese literature in July 2022, was given opportunities last year when he received two fellowships to further his research project...

A Guide to Tourism in Hong Kong

Hong Kong as a travel destination has been many things to many people over the decades. For Western visitors in the 1930s, it was a beach and recreation stop on a round-the-world voyage by sea. After the Second World War, its ‘oriental-ness’ and Chinese culture...

Skin and Bones

When Dr Michael BC Rivera was 13 years old, he was captivated by the American television show Bones, about a forensic anthropologist who uses her skills to solve mysteries. Dr Rivera wanted to do the same thing, but in Hong Kong, where he grew up, there were no...