by admin | Nov 8, 2020
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was a respected biologist, who divided the earth into six continental bio-realms. The divide between the animal suites on Australasia and Asia, now known as Wallace’s Line, is especially notable with kangaroos, koalas and echidnas to...
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
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
When Mao Zedong died in 1976, there were outpourings of grief on the streets. But behind closed doors, the reaction was quite different. “There are plenty of oral interviews and memoirs of people who cried in public, then went back home and opened their very best...
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...
