Lessons from the Past

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...

Cults of Fear

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...

Catholics in China: A Survival Story

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...