{"id":35,"date":"2019-07-19T14:35:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T21:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asiahist373\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2026-09-09T10:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:10:06","slug":"schedule","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asiahist373\/schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting with Week 2, students are expected to have completed all the required readings for the week <em><strong>before<\/strong><\/em> attending the weekly sessions. Items marked with an asterisk (*) are the <strong>primary sources<\/strong> of the week.<\/p>\n<h2>Week 1 (Sept. 9): Orientation<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>John M. Carroll, &#8220;Introduction: Hong Kong in History,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/go.exlibris.link\/Kw0TBTLn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>A Concise History of Hong Kong<\/em><\/a> (Lanham, MD: Rowman &amp; Littlefield, 2007), 1\u20137.<\/li>\n<li>Leo K. Shin, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/go.exlibris.link\/2nHjMBdb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The &#8216;National Question&#8217; and the Stories of Hong Kong<\/a>,&#8221; in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/go.exlibris.link\/rBS1NWCz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hong Kong Culture and Society in the New Millennium: Hong Kong as Method<\/a><\/em>, ed. Stephen Yiu-wai Chu (Singapore: Springer, 2017), 129\u201348.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asiahist373\/how-to-read-a-document\/\">How to Read a Document<\/a>&#8221; (T. Brook).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Focus:<\/strong> How has the story of Hong Kong been told?<\/p>\n<h2>Week 2 (Sept. 14\/16): Edge of Empire<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Carroll, &#8220;Early Colonial Hong Kong,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/go.exlibris.link\/Kw0TBTLn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Concise History of Hong Kong<\/em><\/a>, 9\u201332.<\/li>\n<li>*(?) James Hayes, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/hkjo.lib.hku.hk\/archive\/files\/3f6abacdcda4a0d8e373e6dc95529868.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hong Kong Island before 1841<\/a>,&#8221; <cite>Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society<\/cite> <a href=\"http:\/\/hkjo.lib.hku.hk\/exhibits\/show\/hkjo\/browseArticle?book=b27720780&amp;issue=440024\">24<\/a> (1984): 105\u2013142.<\/li>\n<li>*[Optional] Patrick H. Hase, <a href=\"https:\/\/go.exlibris.link\/cj7FCL3q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Custom, Land and Livelihood in Rural South China: The Traditional Land Law of Hong Kong\u2019s New Territories, 1750\u20131950<\/i><\/a> (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2013), 198\u2013206 (items 2 &amp; 3; also available under <a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.ubc.ca\/courses\/194649\/files?preview=47920743\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Files<\/a>\u00a0in Canvas).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Focus: <\/strong>How have the limited historical records shape our understanding of pre-colonial Hong Kong?<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"week3\"><\/a>Week 3 (Sept. 21\/23): Colonialism at Work<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Carroll, &#8220;State and Society,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/go.exlibris.link\/Kw0TBTLn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Concise History of Hong Kong<\/em><\/a>, 33\u201362.<\/li>\n<li>*WANG Tao (1828\u201397), &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cuhk.edu.hk\/rct\/pdf\/e_outputs\/b2930\/v29&amp;30P037.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My Sojourn in Hong Kong: Excerpts<\/a>&#8221; (after 1870), <cite>Renditions<\/cite> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuhk.edu.hk\/rct\/toc\/toc_b2930.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">29 &amp; 30<\/a> (Spring &amp; Autumn 1988), 37\u201341.<\/li>\n<li>*Documents I.c1 (&#8220;An increased Chinese community of great importance. . .&#8221;) and I.c2 (&#8220;Hong Kong in 1882. . .\u201d), in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/go.exlibris.link\/JD2Kb5FS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Documentary History of Hong Kong: Society<\/a><\/em>, ed. David Faure (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1997), 22 (introduction), 23\u201329, 29\u201333.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Focus:<\/strong> What were some of the characteristics of the early colonial society?<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"week4\"><\/a>Week 4 (Sept. 28): Currents of Change<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Carroll, &#8220;Colonialism and Nationalism,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/go.exlibris.link\/Kw0TBTLn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Concise History of Hong Kong<\/em><\/a>, 63\u201388.<\/li>\n<li>*Documents II.c1 (&#8220;In defense of the Chinese community&#8221;), II.c2 (&#8220;Political activism. . .&#8221;), and II.c3 (&#8220;A sense of complacence. . .&#8221;), in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/go.exlibris.link\/JD2Kb5FS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Documentary History of Hong Kong<\/a><\/em>, 85\u201386 (introduction), 86\u201388, 88\u2013110, 110\u2013116.<\/li>\n<li>*Sun Yat-sen, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuhk.edu.hk\/rct\/pdf\/e_outputs\/b2930\/v29&amp;30P042.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Address to the Students of Hong Kong University<\/a>,\u201d <cite>Renditions<\/cite> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuhk.edu.hk\/rct\/toc\/toc_b2930.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">29 &amp; 30<\/a>, 42\u201344.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Focus:<\/strong> What did the elite consider to be the roles of Hong Kong in the transformation of China?<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"week5\"><\/a>Week 5 (Oct. 5\/7): Society in Motion<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Carroll, &#8220;Interwar Years,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/go.exlibris.link\/Kw0TBTLn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Concise History of Hong Kong<\/em><\/a>, 89\u2013115.<\/li>\n<li>*Documents IV.c1 (&#8220;In defence of the <em>mui-tsai<\/em>. . .&#8221;), in <a href=\"https:\/\/go.exlibris.link\/JD2Kb5FS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Documentary History of Hong Kong<\/em><\/a>, 174\u201375 (introduction), 175\u2013180.<\/li>\n<li>*Janet Lim, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/go.exlibris.link\/Bhy4Gw4c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sold for Silver<\/a><\/em> (Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1958), 15\u201360.<\/li>\n<li>*Document IV.d2 (&#8220;Workers of Hong Kong in the 1930s&#8221;), in <a href=\"https:\/\/go.exlibris.link\/JD2Kb5FS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Documentary History of Hong Kong<\/em><\/a>, 183\u2013191.<\/li>\n<li>*Document III.9 (&#8220;Indian pioneers&#8221;), in <a href=\"https:\/\/go.exlibris.link\/JD2Kb5FS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Documentary History of Hong Kong<\/em><\/a>, 146\u2013148.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Focus:<\/strong> What were some of the sources of opportunities and tensions in Hong Kong society in the 1920s and 1930s?<\/p>\n<h2>Week 6 (Oct. 14): Fallen City<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Carroll, &#8220;War and Revolution&#8221; (up to &#8220;Rebuilding Hong Kong&#8221;), <a href=\"https:\/\/go.exlibris.link\/Kw0TBTLn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Concise History of Hong Kong<\/em><\/a>, 116\u2013129.<\/li>\n<li>*&#8221;The Second World War and the Japanese Occupation,&#8221; in <a href=\"https:\/\/go.exlibris.link\/JD2Kb5FS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Documentary History of Hong Kong<\/em><\/a>, 209\u2013232.<\/li>\n<li>[Recommended] KWONG Chi Man, <a href=\"https:\/\/digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk\/1941hkbattle\/en\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Battle of Hong Kong 1941: A Spatial History Project<\/em><\/a> (also: <a href=\"https:\/\/hksi.ubc.ca\/webcast-the-battle-of-hong-kong-in-1941\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video overview<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Focus:<\/strong> How did people negotiate their daily lives during the War?<\/p>\n<p><em>Draft of Newspaper Column <strong>due on Oct. 16<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Week 7 (Oct. 19\u201323): Midterm Checkup (No class)<\/h2>\n<p>No class this week. Students will sign up for individual meetings with the instructor.<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"week8\"><\/a>Week 8 (Oct. 26\/28): Cold War Harbor<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Carroll, &#8220;War and Revolution&#8221; (from &#8220;Rebuilding Hong Kong&#8221;) and &#8220;A New Hong Kong&#8221; (up to &#8220;The 1960s&#8221;), <a href=\"https:\/\/go.exlibris.link\/Kw0TBTLn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Concise History of Hong Kong<\/em><\/a>, 129\u2013139, 140\u2013148.<\/li>\n<li>*Elsie Tu, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/go.exlibris.link\/wxbP1Fjf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colonial Hong Kong in the Eyes of Elsie Tu<\/a><\/em> (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2003), 1\u201317, 35\u201356.<\/li>\n<li>*H. C. Ting, <em>Truth and Facts: Recollections of a Hong Kong Industrialist<\/em> ([Hong Kong]: [Kader Industrial Co.], [1974]), viii\u2013x, 76\u201394 (available under <a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.ubc.ca\/courses\/194649\/files?preview=47920746\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Files<\/a> in Canvas).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Focus:<\/strong> In what ways was Hong Kong reconfigured by the influx of immigrants?<\/p>\n<p><em>Newspaper column <strong>due on Oct. 30<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"week9\"><\/a>Week 9 (Nov. 2\/4): Roaring Sixties<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Carroll, &#8220;A New Hong Kong&#8221; (from &#8220;The 1960s&#8221;), <a href=\"https:\/\/go.exlibris.link\/Kw0TBTLn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Concise History of Hong Kong<\/em><\/a>, 148\u2013166.<\/li>\n<li>* &#8220;Editorial of the People\u2019s Daily on June 3, 1967,&#8221; in Gary Ka-wai Cheung, <a href=\"https:\/\/muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca\/book\/5654\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Hong Kong\u2019s Watershed: The 1967 Riots<\/em><\/a> (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009), 221\u2013222.<\/li>\n<li>*Sally Blyth and Ian Wotherspoon, &#8220;Tsang Yok Sing&#8221; and &#8220;Sir Jack Cater,&#8221;\u00a0 <em>Hong Kong Remembers<\/em> (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1996), 92\u2013101, 102\u2013112 (available under <a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.ubc.ca\/courses\/194649\/files?preview=47920734\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Files<\/a> in Canvas).<\/li>\n<li>*Documents Vl.c2 (&#8220;Hong Kong People should care about. . . .&#8221;), VI.c3 (&#8220;Hong Kong&#8217;s undergraduates begin to talk politics&#8221;), VI.c4 (Asking Councillor Elsie Elliott and the authorities to think thrice&#8221;), and VI.c5 (&#8220;Why we should boycott the Festival of Hong Kong&#8221;), in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/go.exlibris.link\/WsKkzCKH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Documentary History of Hong Kong: Government and Politics<\/a><\/em>, ed. Steve Tsang (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1995), 248\u2013253.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Focus:<\/strong> What contributed to a heightened sense of politics in the long 1960s?<\/p>\n<h2>Week 10 (Nov. 9\/11): Midterm Break (No class)<\/h2>\n<p><em>Annotated Bibliography checkpoint <strong>due on Nov. 13<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Week 11 (Nov. 16\/18): A Sense of Place<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Carroll, &#8220;Becoming Hong Kongese,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/go.exlibris.link\/Kw0TBTLn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Concise History of Hong Kong<\/em><\/a>, 167\u2013189.<\/li>\n<li>Leung Ping-kwan, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/go.exlibris.link\/xxQWD4wH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Urban Cinema and the Cultural Identity of Hong Kong<\/a>,&#8221; in <a href=\"https:\/\/go.exlibris.link\/F22597Nz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Cinema of Hong Kong<\/em><\/a>, ed. Poshek Fu and David Desser (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 227\u2013251.<\/li>\n<li>*Viewing:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/nomad.-1982.-uncut.-dvdrip.x-264.-ac-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nomad<\/a><\/em> \u70c8\u706b\u9752\u6625 (dir. Patrick Tam; 1982).<\/li>\n<li>[Optional] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lcsd.gov.hk\/fp\/documents\/2067203\/2244037\/100_Must_See_Booklet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">100 Must-See Hong Kong Movies<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Focus:<\/strong> What were some of the characteristics of the evolving Hong Kong identity?<\/p>\n<h2>Week 12 (Nov. 23\/25): Awaiting China<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Carroll, &#8220;The Countdown to 1997,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/go.exlibris.link\/Kw0TBTLn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Concise History of Hong Kong<\/em><\/a>, 190\u2013216.<\/li>\n<li>*Blyth and Wotherspoon, &#8220;Raymond Wu,&#8221; &#8220;Zunzi,&#8221; &#8220;Martin Lee,&#8221; &#8220;Rosa Mok and Isaac Leung,&#8221; and &#8220;Lo Tak Shing,&#8221; <em>Hong Kong Remembers<\/em>, 200\u2013208, 209\u2013216, 233\u2013243, 259\u2013267, 268\u2013275 (available under <a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.ubc.ca\/courses\/194649\/files?preview=47920725\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Files<\/a> in Canvas).<\/li>\n<li>*<a href=\"https:\/\/www.basiclaw.gov.hk\/en\/basiclaw\/chapter2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chapter 2<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basiclaw.gov.hk\/en\/basiclaw\/chapter4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chapter 4<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basiclaw.gov.hk\/en\/basiclaw\/annex1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Annex I<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.basiclaw.gov.hk\/en\/basiclawtext\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Basic Law of the HKSAR<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>[Recommended]: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/third_heaven\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Third Heaven<\/em><\/a> (dir. Georges Payrastre; 1998).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Focus:<\/strong> What do the different aspirations for Hong Kong tell us about the territory&#8217;s multiple identities?<\/p>\n<h2>Week 13 (Nov. 30\/Dec. 2): Dreams Deferred<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Tai-lok Lui, Stephen W. K. Chiu, and Ray Yep, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/go.exlibris.link\/WnbKrz8g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Introduction: The Long Transition<\/a>,\u201d in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/go.exlibris.link\/kfP52xpk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Hong Kong<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(London: Routledge, 2019), 1\u201328.<\/li>\n<li>*Joshua Wong, &#8220;Act I: Genesis,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/webcat.library.ubc.ca\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=10154774\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Unfree Speech<\/em><\/a> (New York: Penguin Books, 2020; available under <a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.ubc.ca\/courses\/194649\/files?preview=47920735\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Files<\/a> in Canvas).<\/li>\n<li>*Viewing: <a href=\"https:\/\/hksi.ubc.ca\/after-the-protest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">After the Protest: A Vancouver Archive of the Umbrella Movement<\/a>\u00a0(selections).<\/li>\n<li>*<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elegislation.gov.hk\/doc\/hk\/a302\/eng_translation_(a302)_en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Law of the People&#8217;s Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Focus:<\/strong> What were some of the sources of anxiety in post-colonial Hong Kong?<\/p>\n<p><em>Annotated Bibliography <strong>due on Dec. 4<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Week 14 (Dec. 7): Reorientation \/ Global Hong Kong<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Miu Chung Yan and Susanna Ng, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/go.exlibris.link\/wm5Wrvdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Four Waves of Hong Kong Immigrants to Canada: Is There an Emerging Diasporic Community?<\/a>\u201d in <a href=\"https:\/\/go.exlibris.link\/dV13Fzhy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Global Hong Kong: Post-2019 Migration and the New Hong Kong Diaspora<\/em><\/a>, ed. Yuk Wah Chan and Yvette To (London: Routledge, 2025), 91\u2013110.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Focus:<\/strong> How has Hong Kong evolved?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting with Week 2, students are expected to have completed all the required readings for the week before attending the weekly sessions. Items marked with an asterisk (*) are the primary sources of the week. 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