Episodes
In this week's episode, we will be talking about addressing climate change through the capital channel. Ben Meng, Executive Vice President and Chairman of Asia Pacific, Executive Sponsor of Sustainability at Franklin Templeton, will tell us what kind o...
Published 06/08/24
In this week's episode, we will talk about urban sustainability discourses in linguistics. Professor Paola Catenaccio from the University of Milan will tell us more on the discursively mediated nature of sustainability projects and argues for an enhanc...
Published 06/01/24
In this week's episode, we will talk about China’s cattle trade in the pre-1949 period. Professor Thomas DuBois from the Beijing Normal University in China will tell us how the history of the cattle industry that had no centralised accounts and no cle...
Published 05/25/24
In this week's episode, we will talk about how museum websites use their affordances to engage the younger generations in different educational activities. Professor Marina Bondi from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy will present to ...
Published 05/18/24
 In this week's episode, we will talk about the presence of Shijing poetry during the Warring States. A substantial number of Warring States and Western Han texts related to the Shijing have come to light in recent years, including philosophical treati...
Published 05/11/24
In this week's episode, we will talk about ancient Chinese historiography. Early Chinese historical writing differs from ancient Greek and Roman historiography in that it does not emphasise the voice of the historian. Instead, it prefers to keep the hi...
Published 05/04/24
 In this week's episode, we will talk about authorship in early China. In pre-imperial China, individual authorship was not valued as much as the collective roles involved in the creation and interpretation of texts. Professor Martin Kern from Princeto...
Published 04/27/24
In this week's episode, we will discusses the new opportunities presented by sources available to scholars of business and economic activity in Qing and Republican-era China. Dr. Matthew Lowenstein from Hoover Institution introduces us to some useful c...
Published 04/20/24
In this week's episode, we will have the Former Foreign Minister of Singapore George Yeo share his thoughts on China’s relationship with the world and the publication of his book the Musings Series One, Two, and Three. George Yeo was invited by the the...
Published 04/13/24
 In this week's episode, we will look into Hong Kong’s anti-dog movement that climaxed during the ‘Hong Kong Clean Campaign’. Professor Catherine Chan from Lingnan University sheds light on the darker side of Hong Kong’s progressive seventies when thou...
Published 04/06/24
In this week's episode, we will look into China’s post office. The make of it traces the origins and early development of the country’s modern postal system and goes beyond the bounds of institutional history to explore the political manoeuvrings, econ...
Published 03/30/24
 In this week's episode, we will look into Japan’s overland invasion of India in 1944. David Allison is a lawyer whose interest lies in the military history of Commonwealth forces in Asia from the Second World War to the present. He tells us how the me...
Published 03/23/24
In this week's episode, we will talk about China and the world economy. This year’s Two Sessions in Beijing provide an opportunity for us to refocus, re-evaluate, and re-envision China's economic trajectory and its relations with the world. The Univers...
Published 03/16/24
In this week's episode, we will talk about the history of Chinese and Americans through the lens of sports. Professor Guoqi Xu from The University of Hong Kong discusses why the period 1890 to 1920 was so important in both Chinese and American history,...
Published 03/09/24
In this week's episode, we will talk about Chinese women and business in twentieth-century China. Dr. Jackie Wang from The University of Hong Kong found out how the changing social norms of the era provided a fertile context for women to explore diffe...
Published 03/02/24
In this week's episode, we will look into the living standards of pre-modern Japanese and Korean societies. Professor Duol Kim from Myongji University uses data on the height of Koryo dceased individuals who died on the street or in institutions withou...
Published 02/24/24
In this week's episode, we’ll continue to look at the work of Yu Ying-shih. He is one of China’s most famous historians and is known for his mastery of sources for Chinese history and philosophy. Professor Michael Puett from Harvard University will tel...
Published 02/17/24
In this week's episode, we will look into the work of Yu Ying-shih. He is one of China’s most famous historians, and is known for his mastery of sources for Chinese history and philosophy, his ability to synthesise them on a wide range of topics, and f...
Published 02/10/24
In this week's episode, we’ll talk about what it means to be British in the former British colony of Hong Kong. Dr. Vivian Kong from the University of Bristol has written a book ‘Multiracial Britishness’ to trace the experiences of multiracial resident...
Published 02/03/24
In this week's episode, we’ll talk about the origins of Chinese civilization. Archaeological discoveries since 1921 have established that complex societies, as represented by densely-populated walled cities, first arose in North China instead of the s...
Published 01/27/24
In this week's episode, we’ll talk about Manchuria during the early twentieth century. With the help of a wealth of primary sources, family letters, and visual depictions of village scenes collected by a French Catholic missionary, Alfred Marie Caubriè...
Published 01/20/24
In this week's episode, we’ll learn about a book called The Dean of Shandong, written by Professor Daniel Bell, the Chair of Political Theory with the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong, and the former Dean of the School of Political Science...
Published 01/13/24
In this week's episode, we will talk about the first Chinese-owned and operated insurance company in Hong Kong - The On Tai Insurance Company. Even as the first to be incorporated as a limited joint-stock company under the Company Ordinance, it is unkn...
Published 01/06/24
In this week's episode, we will look into Chinese history from the archaeological perspective. Professor Zhiwu Chen, the Director of Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Chair and Cheng Yu-Tung Professor in Finance at HKU ...
Published 12/30/23