💛 We’re very happy to announce the upcoming ICHI Book Talk in November.
ICHI Book Talk: Covert Colonialism
🎤 Speaker: Dr. Florence Mok, Nanyang Assistant Professor of History, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
📅 Date: 20 November 2024 (Wednesday)
🕑 Time: 1400-1600
📌 Venue: HB7801
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About Covert Colonialism
This book fills the long-standing void in the existing scholarship by constructing an empirical study of colonial governance and political culture in Hong Kong from 1966 to 1997.Using under-exploited archival and unofficial data in London and Hong Kong, it overcomes the limitations in the existing literature which has been written mainly by political scientists and sociologists, and has been primarily theoretically driven. It addresses a highly contested and timely agenda, one in which colonial historians have made major interventions: the nature of colonial governance and autonomy of the colonial polity. This book focusing on colonialism and the Chinese society in Hong Kong in a pivotal period will generate meaningful discussions and heated debates on comparisons between ’colonialism’ in different space and time: between Hong Kong and other former British colonies; and between colonial and post-colonial Hong Kong.
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About the speaker:
Florence is a historian of colonial Hong Kong and modern China, with an interest in environmental history, the Cold War and state-society relations. She completed her PhD in History at the University of York in 2019. She is one of the founders of the Hong Kong Research Hub (HKRH) at NTU and an Executive Board member of the Society for Hong Kong Studies (SHKS). She has published peer-reviewed articles in well-respected interdisciplinary and historical journals; the China Information article won the Eduard B. Vermeer Best Article Prize in 2019 and ICAS Best Article Prize on Global Hong Kong Studies in 2021. She is also the Series Editor of the ’Cold War in Asia and Beyond’ book series in Amsterdam University Press.
Moderator: Dr. Tinakrit Sireerat, Department of History, Chiang Mai University
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Any enquires about the book you are welcome to contact Dr. Siu-hei Lai at siuhei.lai@cmu.ac.th
