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  October 2009: Mrs. Satoko Handa wins Outstanding Research Postgraduate Student Award, 2007-8
  October 2009: Professor Chen Jian , Michael J. Zak Chair of the History of US China Relations at Cornell University, to join the Department as Visiting Research Professor from 2009-2013. Details of associated events to follow
  August 2009: Dr. Ryan Crewe, a recent graduate of Yale University's PhD programme, joins the Department as a Fellow of the 'Society of Scholars in the Humanities' in its inaugural year
  July 2009: Dr. Xu Guoqi, fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University (2008-9) and author of Olympic Dreams: China and Sports (Harvard University Press) joins the Department as Associate Professor in Modern Chinese History
  May 2009: Department's Research Postgraduate Students convene Symposium attended by postgraduates from Hong Kong's universities
  February 2009: Frank James, Professor of the History of Science at the Royal Institution, London, presents lunchtime lecture, "Science and Religion: The case of Michael Faraday,"
  December 2008: Dr. Priscilla Roberts conference, China and the World in Mao's Last Decade, 1966-1976, Council Chamber, Meng Wah Complex, 9-10 January 2009
  December 2008: Framing Histories in Medicine, Monday 15 December 2008, MB150, Main Building, School of Humanities. For more information follow this link
  December 2008: Miss Katherine Ko wins Outstanding Research Postgraduate Student Award, 2006-7
  December 2008: Dr. Bert Becker is awarded the '2008 Research Output Prize (Faculty of Arts)' for his biography on Georg Michaelis.
  October 2008: Charles Schencking to join the department in 2009 as Associate Professor in Japanese History
 

Spring 2008:
Professor Frank Dikötter publishes a new book, The Age of Openness: China before Mao, with Hong Kong University Press
 
March 2008: History Department organises Second Homecoming celebration
  January 2008: Dr. David Pomfret receives 'Outstanding Young Researcher' award
  March 2007: History Achieves 100% Rating in Research Assessment Exercise 2006 - becomes one of only three departments at HKU to achieve perfect score
  August 2007: New Book - Dr. John Carroll, A Concise History of Hong Kong
  July 2007: New Book - Dr. Priscilla Roberts (ed) Behind the Bamboo Curtain
  8 July 2007: Dr. Priscilla Roberts succeeds in RGC CERG exercise with project on 'Anglo-American Think Tanks and the Making of China Policy, 1940-1979'
  For the News Archive follow this link
  Department Prizes, Scholarships and Grants:

Chong Chi Kong Prize in History
Chong Chi Kong Prize in History
Evergreen Scholarships
Dr. John D. Young Memorial Scholarship
Peter Deli Fund for European Travel Grants
     
     
     
     
  Department Research Seminar Series 2009-2010
For more information on the series schedule for 2009-2010 and on how to present a paper follow this link, or contact the Seminar Series Convenor:
Dr. David M. Pomfret
17 September 2009:
James R. Fichter, (Lingnan University),
"The Case of the Essex: Readings of Piracy and Captivity in the Anglo-American Encounter with the Middle East" (abstract)
29 October 2009:
Patricia Chiu (University of Cambridge),
"From Protection to Modernization: Social Change and Girls' Schooling in
Hong Kong (1860s-1930s)" (abstract)
12 November 2009:
Paul Kua (University of Hong Kong),
"Scouting in Hong Kong, 1945-1967: Becoming a de-nationalized mass movement" (abstract)
  10 December 2009:
Sandra Wilson (Murdoch University) and Janet Borland (Murdoch University/University of Hong Kong)
"Symbols of Nationalism in 1920s Japan: Building Schools for the Future and Presenting a New Emperor."
(abstract to follow)