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Apply to Master of Family Wealth Management by Feb 29 (Rd 1)
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2024-02-01 18:36:55
Symposium on New Frontiers and Directions in Chinese History
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2023-06-23 20:08:01
Quantitative History Lecture by Professor Kaixiang Peng
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2023-05-24 09:25:41
Quantitative History Lecture - Pre-modern Growth, Industrialization and Biological Living Standards of Japan and Korea, 1840 - 2023
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2023-05-12 16:29:54
In this Quantitative History Lecture, Duol Kim of Myongji University will discuss his investigation of this problem, using data on the height of Koryo Deceased (=Hangryu Deceased, 行旅死亡者). Date/Time: May 18, 2023, 12:00 nn (HK time) Venue: Lecture Hall, G/F, May Hall, The University of Hong...
Quantitative History Lecture - Ideology & Economic Change: The Contrasting Paths to the Modern Economy in Late 19th Century China and Japan
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2023-04-24 13:08:57
In this Quantitative History Lecture, Debin Ma of the University of Oxford will present his paper which revisits the old thesis of the contrasting paths of modernization between Japan and China. Date/Time: April 28, 2023, 12:00 nn (HK time) Venue: Lecture Hall, G/F, May Hall, The University of Hong ...
Quantitative History Webinar - Ideas Mobilize People: The Diffusion of Communist Ideology in China by Ying Bai (CUHK)
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2023-04-24 12:40:53
Can ideas mobilize people into collective action? Ying Bai of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and his co-authors investigate this question by analyzing how exposure to Communist ideology shaped an individual's decision to join the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during its formative stage. Join us...
Quantitative History Webinar on The Uses (and Limitations) of Quantitative Prosopography for Tang and Song History
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2023-04-17 00:26:48
In this Quantitative History Webinar, Nicolas Tackett of UC Berkeley will describe important prosopographic databases available to Tang and Song historians, suggesting some of their uses and limitations. Nicolas Tackett will pay particular attention to what these databases reveal about the very diff...
NEW YORK TIMES OPINION GUEST ESSAY by Professor Zhiwu Chen | How China Keeps Putting Off Its 'Lehman Moment'
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2023-03-27 21:53:16
Similar to the SVB crisis, a little more than a year ago, China was also said to face its 'Lehman moment' with the collapse of Evergrande Group. In the latest article featured in the New York Times, Professor Zhiwu Chen pointed out that it was a fundamental mistake of applying pure market lo...
Quantitative History Webinar on An Evolutionary Approach to the History of Useful Knowledge by Professor Joel Mokyr (Northwestern)
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2023-03-27 21:03:28
How should we think about long-term economic progress? In this Quantitative History Webinar, Joel Mokyr of Northwestern University will present his argument that models inspired by Charles Darwin can help us understand the selection process that committed the most important agents in Europe to a cul...
Quantitative History Webinar
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2023-03-15 17:48:01
Join this Quantitative History Webinar and explore Joerg Baten's latest use of bioarchaeological sources to study very long-run economic history. This is the first study that explores the welfare effects of the rise of early states in the pre-Classical Middle East. Indeed, this region and period saw...
Quantitative History Webinar Series - Reform, Rails, and Rice: Political Railroads and Local Development in Thailand
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2023-03-06 15:50:49
How do external threats on state sovereignty benefit local development? Christopher Paik of New York University Abu Dhabi and his co-author look at Thailand's railroad projects in the late-19th and early 20th centuries as an example of a state's strategic response to colonial encroachment. Live on Z...
Quantitative History Webinar on Herding, Warfare, and a Culture of Honor: Global Evidence by Benjamin Enke (Harvard University)
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2022-12-05 14:24:51
Join us online as we explore how Benjamin Enke (Harvard University) and his co-authors examine the importance of norms of revenge and punishment in perpetuating global conflicts. Live on Zoom on December 8, 2022 10:00 Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore 11:00 Tokyo | 13:00 Sydney Previous Day 18:00 Los Ange...
Quantitative History Webinar
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2022-11-28 09:19:25
Cheng Yang of Renmin University of China assesses the long-run economic development of China, by constructing a new estimate of the male occupational structure during 1734–1898 by sector, sub-sector pattern, and region. Within agriculture, substantial regional differences in labour organisatio...
Quantitative History Webinar
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2022-11-16 09:46:51
The Areas of Excellence (AoE) project team member Cameron Campbell of HKUST will present empirical results from his analysis of the China Government Employee Dataset-Qing (CGED-Q) on the composition of Qing officialdom and the dynamics of official careers that support, complicate and contradict the ...
Quantitative History Webinar
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2022-10-23 20:24:29
How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese state
Drawing on more than a thousand years of Chinese history, Yuhua Wang of Harvard University will talk about his latest work The Rise and Fall of Imperial China, which highlights the role of elite social relations in influencing the trajectories o...
Quantitative History Webinar
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2022-10-17 16:25:28
Quantitative History Webinar on "Peony Bubble" by Weipeng Yuan
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2022-10-03 13:24:33
量化歷史網上講座 - 唐代中國是否出現過牡丹泡沫? "Peony Bubble" in the Tang Dynasty by Weipeng Yuan 投機與金融風潮對金融市場的發展影響深遠。十七世紀發生於歐洲的「荷蘭鬱金香狂熱」是世界史上的重要泡沫事件,一直倍受金融史...
Quantitative History Webinar - Strengthening State Capacity: Postal Reform and Innovation during the Gilded Age
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2022-09-28 11:49:17
Join us for this week's webinar on Strengthening State Capacity: Postal Reform and Innovation during the Gilded Age by Guo Xu Live on Zoom on Thursday, September 29, 2022 10:00 am Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore. Guo Xu (Berkeley Haas) and his co-author use newly digitized records from the U.S. Post...
Children at a Village School (村小的孩子)
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2019-03-05 10:15:47
Contemporary Chinese Documentary Series: Meet the Director (Mar 19) | Details: www.hkihss.hku.hk/events/film21
從全球史看近世中國的興衰
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2018-11-20 12:20:34
冼為堅傑出訪問教授席 (人文學科) 公開論壇 Sin Wai-Kin Distinguished Visiting Professorship in the Humanities Forum
China's South: Changing Perspectives
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2018-11-20 12:18:39
冼為堅傑出訪問教授席 (人文學科) 講座 Sin Wai-Kin Distinguished Visiting Professorship in the Humanities Lecture
Contemporary Chinese Documentary Series: Meet the Director 《雞蛋和石頭》(Mar 22)
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2018-03-08 17:11:32
Egg and Stone a HUANG Ji's film (Hunan dialect dialogue, Chinese & English subtitles) Free admission; first come, first served. Poster: www.hkihss.hku.hk/events/film19
Contemporary Chinese Documentary Series: Meet the Director (Nov 17)
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2017-11-03 17:47:46
Contemporary Chinese Documentary Series: Meet the Director (22 Mar)
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2017-02-22 12:11:12
Death by Design a Sue Williams's film (English dialogue, Chinese subtitles)
Date: 22 March 2017 (Wednesday)
Time: 18:00 Venue: Lecture Hall, G/F, May Hall, HKU
Moderator: Professor Chen Zhiwu Discussion with Director Sue Williams (in English)
Free admission. Seats are limited; first come, fi...
Contemporary Chinese Documentary Series: Meet the Director (17 Feb)
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2017-01-27 12:27:17
《影》崔誼作品(普通話對白,中、英文字幕) Of Shadows a CUI Yi's film (Putonghua dialogue, Chinese & English subtitles)
Contemporary Chinese Documentary Series: Meet the Director (Oct 20)
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2016-10-13 14:33:39
Date: 20 October 2016 (Thursday)
Time: 16:30 (16:00 - Reception; 16:30 - Film Screening; 17:30 - Discussion)
Venue: Lecture Hall, G/F, May Hall, HKU
Discussion: Director SHANG Ming (Video Call in Putonghua & English)
當代中國紀錄片系列:與導演面對面-《種植人生》Contemporary Chinese Documentary Series: Meet the Director (Sep 22)
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2016-08-26 16:59:49
影片講述都市白領老賈放棄城市生活,來到上海的崇明島,包下兩百多畝地,回歸田園,摒棄農藥化肥,以自然農法為種植理念。這吸引了一大批對農村田園生活有美好憧憬的城市仰慕者,同時吸引了妻子尚英與他一起來到農村...
Making Friends with Mr. Zhang
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2015-03-05 10:30:00
Contemporary Chinese Documentary Series: Meet the Director
Contemporary Chinese Documentary Series: Meet the Director
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2014-09-03 18:19:59
Contemporary Chinese Documentary Series: Meet the Director
Contemporary Chinese Documentary Series: Meeting the Director
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2013-11-01 11:39:00
Contemporary Chinese Documentary Series: Meeting the Director
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2013-09-19 15:25:14
Contemporary Chinese Documentary Series: Meeting the Director
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2013-02-26 12:00:08
Contemporary Chinese Documentary Series: Meeting the Director
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2012-11-07 15:22:07
International Conference on ‘The Making of “Asia”: Health and Gender’
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2012-02-23 14:43:05
A Public Lecture by Prof. Roel Sterckx on February 17, 2012
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2012-01-26 15:16:24
Contemporary Chinese Documentary Series: Meeting the Director "Meishi Street"
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2011-11-08 17:06:23
A Public Lecture by Prof. Ronnie Po-chia Hsia
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2011-11-02 10:19:12
Healing and Heritage: Sorting Out Ethnic Traditional Medicine in Southwest China
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2011-10-04 10:36:36
Contemporary Chinese Documentary Series: Meeting the Director "Come Home, Tian Xi" by Ai Xiaoming
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2011-09-30 12:14:07
Marriage in Cosmopolitan China - A Public Lecture by Professor Deborah S. Davis
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2011-06-22 13:51:09
The Great Reversal: The 'Rise of Japan' and the 'Fall of China' after 1895 as Historical Fables
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2011-05-24 11:28:22
中國歷史上大國的興衰 - A Public Lecture by Professor Hsu Cho-Yun
HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Uploaded on 2011-03-31 16:35:35
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