University of Bristol
Hong Kong
History Project
Established in 2015, the project, hosted at the University of Bristol, and funded by the Hatton Trust, supports and encourages the study of the history of Hong Kong, broadly conceived and located within diverse fields, with a programme of support for PhD students, an academic network for new researchers, workshops, visiting speakers, and collaboration with students and researchers in Hong Kong and internationally. We have also launched an initiative to embed a strong Hong Kong strand in the long-running Historical Photographs of China project initiative at the University of Bristol.
In 2019-20 we launched a second five-year phase of the project, with a focus on growing the network of early career historians, supported by post-doctoral fellowships, and on developing an enhanced programme of public-facing activity in Britain and in Hong Kong. We are currently working on a series of Hong Kong history briefs, which aim to help the general public understand the historical origins of current socio-political crises in Hong Kong.
As well as our strong collaboration with colleagues in Hong Kong, including the Society for Hong Kong Studies, we are part of a loose network of interdisciplinary projects internationally with an overlapping focus, including the Hong Kong Studies Initiative at the University of British Columbia, and the Hong Kong Studies Association in Britain.
Hong Kong History Project Postgraduate/ECR Network
Since 2017, we also run a postgraduate and ECR group on Facebook (www.facebook.com/groups/hkhistoryproject/). It is an academic network for postgraduates and new scholars in Hong Kong history to connect with others working in the field, and to circulate information on developments in the field of Hong Kong history across the globe. We welcome anyone with an academic affiliation working on Hong Kong history related topics to join the network, and to share news on Hong Kong-related events, funding opportunities, training events, and job advertisements.
Upcoming Activities
Hong Kong in Global History' Virtual Workshop, May 2022 (TBC).
For the most updated event information, Please visits www.hkhistory.net
Members
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Professor Robert Bickers
Professor of History, University of Bristol
Works on modern China and its intersection with global, imperial and colonial history, Sino-British relations and history of Hong Kong and Shanghai.
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Dr. Vivian Kong
Lecturer in Modern Chinese History, University of Bristol
Research interests: civil society, identity politics, and global networks of colonial Hong Kong. Currently completing a book that explores the engagements that colonial Hong Kong’s multiracial population made with Britishness.
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Dr. Thomas Larkin
Augustine Heard Fellow, Department of History, University of Bristol
Historian of transimperial encounters in the long nineteenth century, specialising in Sino-American and Anglo-American contact in Hong Kong and China’s treaty ports. Thomas’s interests include empire, colonial society and culture, race, gender, and the critical application of global-microhistorical approaches to historical research and writing.
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Jason Chu
PhD candidate, Department of History, University of Bristol
Jason Chu researches Hong Kong's international relations, colonial relations with Britain, history education, and comics after 1945.
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Gemma O’Neill
PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Bristol
Gemma O'Neill is a PhD candidate researching decolonisation and the emergence of political consciousness in Hong Kong after 1945.
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Dr. Catherine S. Chan
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Macau
Works on the urban and social history of Asia, with a focus on diaspora, transimperial networks and heritage in Hong Kong, Macau and the Philippines.
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Dr. Katon Lee
Lecturer in History and Hong Kong Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University
Works on the colonial histories of Hong Kong and port cities in East Asia with a particular focus on Chinese society and its transnational networks of fashion, materiality and craftsmanship.