Conference Schedule and Panel Information

DAY 1: Friday 24 May 2019

08:00              Bus pickup from University MTR Station to EdUHK Campus

08:30-09:00    Registration (Outside D1-LP-03)

09:00-09:30    Welcome (D1-LP-03) – Dr. Jeffrey Clapp (Head of the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies) and Dr. Barry Crosbie

09:30-11:00    Keynote Address 1 – Dr. Donna Brunero (National University of Singapore) “From Model Junks to The Pirate Wind: Crafting Knowledge on the Asian Maritime World” (Chaired by Barry Crosbie)

11:00-11:30    Coffee Break (Outside D1-LP-03)

11:30-13:00    Parallel Panel 1

VENUE: D1-LP-03

Colonial Education, Schools & Curricula (Chaired by David Pomfret)

Chad Denton (Yonsei University), ‘A French Catholic Vision of Empire and Education: Prosper Fortuné Fouque and the Revue Française du Japon, 1892-1897’.

Ho Wai-Yip (Education University of Hong Kong), ‘From Württemberg to South China: Pietistic Origin, Basel Mission and the Hong Kong Kindergarten’.

Nicholas B. Miller (University of Lisbon), ‘Educational Careering across Imperial Transitions: American Pedagogists in Hawai‘i, Japan and the Philippines, 1870-1910’.

VENUE: D3-LP-07

Imperial Entanglements: Rivalries, Symbiosis, Exchange (Chaired by Alan Crawford)

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He Siwei (Sun-Yat Sen University), ‘When Colonialism Encounters Nationalism: Chinese Private Schools Rising from the Colonial Collaboration in Kouang-Tchéou-Wan’.

Taoyu Yang (University of California, Irvine), ‘The Tianjin Provisional Government, 1900-1902: Multi-Imperial Entanglement and the Transformation of Urban Space’.

Wu Ziqi (Chinese University of Hong Kong), ‘Chinese Intervention in French Kouang-Tchéou-Wan, 1921-1923’.

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13:00-14:00 LUNCH (Chinese Restaurant, Block 4 Podium Level, Tai Po Campus)

14:00-15:30    Parallel Panel 2

VENUE: D1-LP-03

Missionaries, Medicine & Colonial Encounters (Chaired by Chad Denton)

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David Kang (Education University of Hong Kong), ‘Sick Women of East Asia: The Introduction of Western Obstetrics to Canton and Hong Kong in the Nineteenth Century’.

John Zheng (Mississippi Valley State University), ‘Missionaries as Cultural Bridges: The Gutteries in Wuhan (1913-1928)’.

Jeremiah Jenne (The Beijing Center 北京中国学中心),‘The Tianjin Massacre: Sorcery, Violence, and Resistance on the China Coast, 1860-1870’.

VENUE: D3-LP-07

Colonial Governance, Policing & Imperial Rule (Chaired by Simon Potter)

Mark Hampton (Lingnan University), ‘The Uses of Monarchy in Late-Colonial Hong Kong, 1967-1997’.

Ho Ka-Ki, Lawrence (Education University of Hong Kong), ‘Policing in Hong Kong & Macau: Evolution from Colonial to China’s SAR Model’.

Calvin Chilong Lee (Education University of Hong Kong), ‘Hong Kong, An Almost Anglicised Society: A review of Sir John Pope Hennessy’s Cultural Integration Policy and its Heritage in the Early 20th Century’.

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15:30-16:00 Coffee Break (Outside D1-LP-03)

16:00-17:30 Panel 3

VENUE: D1-LP-03

Youth Culture, Colonial Associations & Everyday Life (Chaired by David Kang)

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David Pomfret (University of Hong Kong), ‘“A real live, peppy rendezvous”: Café Culture and the Problem of Young Colonials in Interwar Hong Kong

Barry Crosbie (Education University of Hong Kong), ‘Members Only: Private Clubs and Associational Life in Colonial Hong Kong’.

Hong Zhang (University of Central Florida), ‘Foreign Concessions and the Economic and Cultural Thriving of Tianjin in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries’.

18:00 Bus from EdUHK Campus to University MTR Station

DAY 2: Saturday 25 May 2019

08:30 Bus pickup from University MTR Station to EdUHK Campus

09:00-10:30    Parallel Panel 4

VENUE: D1-LP-07

Colonial Art, Aesthetics & Popular Culture (Chaired by Klaus Dittrich)

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Yue Yu (University of Lille and the École du Louvre), ‘The Glory of Imperial Japan: Promoting National Art Treasures at the Paris World Fair of 1900’.

Odila Schroeder (University of Nottingham), ‘Treasonous Repertoires: Performing Collaboration in Occupied Beijing (1937-1945)’.

Zuoyi Chen (Nanzan University), ‘Architecture and Urban Space in Japan’s former Colonial Capital Cities: A Comparative Study of Taipei and Changchun’.

VENUE: D1-LP-08

Land, Law & Imperial Borders (Chaired by Lawrence Ho)

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Fusheng Luo (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), ‘Land, Law, and the Development of the British Settlement on the Shamian Island in Guangzhou, 1860-1943’.

Alan Crawford (Shanghai Jiaotong University), ‘Prestige, Sovereignty, and Law: Anglo-Russian Property Disputes in Hankou and Tianjin, 1896-1903’.

Noriaki Hoshino (Hong Kong Baptist University), ‘Border Making, Border Crossing: Japanese Transpacific Migration and Imperial Formation’.

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break (Outside D1-LP-07)

11:00-13:00    Parallel Panel 5

VENUE: D1-LP-07

European Sojourners, Transnational Migration & Settlement (Chaired by Nicholas Miller)

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Klaus Dittrich (Education University of Hong Kong), ‘Making Poles in China: The Polish Independence Association in Tianjin, 1918-1920’.

Bert Becker (University of Hong Kong), ‘French Indochina and the Germans (c.1860-1914)

Anna Elisabeth Herren (The University of Zurich), ‘Newspapers as Spaces of Transnational Encounter and Exchange – A Case Study’.

VENUE: D1-LP-08

Colonial Knowledge & Circuits of Intellectual Exchange (Chaired by Donna Brunero)

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John Davidann (Hawai'i Pacific University), ‘The Limits of Westernization: American and East Asian Intellectuals Create Modernity, 1860-1960’.

Jonathon Kief (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), ‘The East Sea Circuit: Japanese Texts and Technical Knowledge in the Postcolonial Koreas, 1945-1950’.

Ricky Law (Carnegie Mellon University), ‘Imperialistic Linguistics: Chinese Lessons in Interwar and Wartime Japan’.

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13:00-14:30 Buffet Lunch (Outside D1-LP-07)

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14:30-16:00 Keynote Address 2

VENUE: D1-LP-07

Professor Simon J. Potter (University of Bristol) “Wireless Internationalism and Wireless Imperialism, 1922-1939” (Chaired by Mark Hampton)

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16:00-16:30 Coffee Break (Outside D1-LP-07)    

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16:30-17:00 Concluding Remarks (D1-LP-07)

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17:30 Bus from EdUHK Campus to University MTR Station

19:00 Optional Meal and Drinks Gathering: TBC