If you want a general view of Modern Chinese History, you might like to consider my China: Empire to Nation. This course covers the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and outlines the end of the Qing dynasty, the emergence of China as a nation state, the emergence and development of communism, and the recent reforms leading up to 1989.

You might also be interested in Hong Kong History. Professor May-bo Ching lectures on the History of Hong Kong every Saturday morning in the first term. Professor Caroline Plüss lectures on Hong Kong's Ethnic Minorities: Indians, Jews, Muslims.

For more topical approaches to Chinese History, do look at Professor Frank Ching's Cross-Strait Relations in International and Historcial Perspectives (first term), and Sino-US Relations (second term); Professor Priscilla Chung's Palace Women and Court Politics in Imperial China (first term), and Ethnicity and Women under Alien Dynasties (second term); Professor Lee Pui-tak's Banking History of Modern China (first term), and Professor May-bo Ching's Topics in Material Culture: Guangzhou from the 18th to 20th Centuries (second term).

My department also offers a small selection of history courses outside the China context. Ms Yoko Miyakawa offers a course on Modern Japan since Meiji in the first term, and Nationalism in Japan in the second term. Professor Jerry Jordan lectures on the History of Singapore in the first term. Dr Amrita Shodhan teaches an Introduction to Modern Palestine and Isreal in the first term, and Imperialism and the British Identity in the second term.

All our courses carry three credits. A three-credit course requires tutorial attendance but I think you will find discussion around designated themes related to lectures rewarding.

Do let me or my office know if you have questions.

I wish you a fruitful time in Hong Kong.

David Faure
Professor and Chairman
Department of History, CUHK
13 July 2005