by admin | Nov 18, 2021
Myanmar’s tumultuous history has not only been a major research focus for Professor Ian Holliday, it has impacted him personally. When the country began to open up just over a decade ago, he was Dean of Social Sciences at HKU. Given the significance of the changes at...
by admin | Nov 18, 2021
Museums tell a story as much by what they omit as what they contain. The National Museum of American History includes displays of all aspects of the country’s past and welcomes about three million visitors a year. But two key groups – African Americans and Native...
by admin | Nov 18, 2021
“Chronology is our mental scaffolding for organising historical reasoning. It provides us with a strong sense of the continuity and incidences of time in order to understand historical causality,” says the introductory page of the Hong Kong Art Timeline, a project put...
by admin | May 13, 2021
The discovery of a friendship between Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and Chinese poet Ai Qing in the 1950s became the starting point of research by Dr Bárbara Fernández Melleda, Assistant Professor in Latin American Studies at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures,...
by admin | May 12, 2021
More than 200 military relics from World War II (WWII) are scattered around Hong Kong, including gun batteries, pillboxes (PBs), the air raid tunnels now housing the Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence at Shau Kei Wan, as well as fortifications along the Gin Drinker’s...
