Faculty of Arts and Humanities | University of Macau

Staging Chinese Student Movement in post-colonial Singapore: Performing China, Socialism and Malayan Culture (1950s-1960s)
2020-11-06 13:00 - 14:30 (Asia/Macau) | E21-3118

Steppe Archaeology: Tracing the Remains of the Yuezhi 草原考古——尋找月氏人的遺跡
2020-11-13 15:30 (Asia/Macau) | E21-3118

周恩來與電影《李善子》
2020-11-18 15:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Macau) | E21-3118

Hand-written Literature and the Compilation of Eastern Daoist Canon 道教寫本文獻與《東方道藏》
2020-11-19 15:00 (Asia/Macau) | E21-3118

DHIST guest lecture: 商會與近代市民社會雛形的形成, 馬敏教授
2020-12-07 15:00 - 16:30 (Asia/Macau) | E21-3118
講座摘要:
近代商會組織與其它城市民間社團組織的集體互動、協作效應，導致了某種更複雜的社會自組織過程的發生，形成了所謂“在野市政權力網路”。其實質內涵，是城市行政權力部分由官方下移民間，構成國家權力機關之外的社會權力體系。這一權力體系儘管仍受官方的監督與控馭，但已多少具有相對獨立性和自治權，實際上是一種正在形成中的、職能尚不完善的“地方性民間自治社會”，換言之，也就是與近代早期西方類似的“市民社會”（Civil Society）的雛形。
有關近代商會組織與市民社會雛形的描述與認知，對我們理解今天中國的國家與社會關係具有某種提示性意義，並有助於進一步完善現代社會治理體系及其理論。

DHIST guest lecture: 時勢、觀念與歷史論述——“中國近代史”如何形成
2020-12-07 19:00 - 20:30 (Asia/Macau) | E21-3118
講座摘要:
關於中國近代史的論述最初是由西人進行的。1830年代，西人中的對華激進派為實現通過武力迫使中國開放的政治目標，進行早期中西關係史的建構。其政治論辯又導向對國際法與自然法、中西文明地位與價值的論述，多種因素導致了西人闡述鴉片戰爭史的方式。與此相聯繫，他們將相關論述延伸到對清代社會形態與中國歷史分期等問題的討論，並以進步史觀為依託，形成對中國歷史走向的認識，對晚清的歷史進行評論與書寫。在19世紀後期到20世紀早期的一系列著作中，上述論點與史觀逐漸沉澱為具有較長遠影響的早期中國近代史體系。

DHIST guest lecture: 淮安"漕運之都"的形成機制 以城市中心轉移為中心, 吳滔教授
2020-12-11 15:30 - 17:00 (Asia/Macau) | E21-G002

Personal Materials and Archives: Filmmakers of Shanghai in 1950s 私家材料與檔案紀事：上海電影人的 1950 年代
2021-03-10 15:30 - 17:00 (Asia/Macau) | E21-3118
Zhang Jishun, former secretary of the party of East China Normal University, is a prominent expert in modern history of Shanghai. She is currently a research fellow of Si-mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, ECNU. This lecture is a case study of micro-history and soul-history. In this lecture Prof. Zhang will demonstrate how an actress in Shanghai response to the cultural reform led by the new government in the 1950s. This is a good case to comprehend the interactions between political powers and individuals in the 1950s.
這是一項基于私人材料與官方檔案的微觀政治生態與個體心靈史研究。透過新四軍文藝兵出身的電影演員李明最初十年的從影經驗，將電影文本裏的電影人放回基層日常政治場域，考察革命新影人和舊明星應對 1950 年代都市文化改造的不同方式與生存策略。演員與党幹部的雙重角色使李明的自我身份認同遭遇挑戰，她的經驗提供了理解都市革命的另一條途徑：一個“自己人”眼中的黨、國家與領袖同舊明星的關係，“組織”對個人新職業的意義。

The Enemy-radio Listeners: Technology and Agency in Socialist China
2021-03-26 13:00 - 14:30 (Asia/Macau) | E21-3118
Socialist China was usually understood as a totalized society with strict control over the flow of information. In this talk, Dr. Wang Yu complicates the above understanding by exploring the popular practice of listening to foreign radio stations in the 1950s and 1960s China. He will bring into light this largely unknown group of radio users and answer the following questions: who were they, when, how, and why did they listen, and more importantly, how did they interact with the state as they process the information from the political power beyond state-borders? Wang suggests that the state’s failure to control the flow of information not only had to do with its technological limits but also was closely related to a few other geopolitical and social issues. This talk also invites the audience to rethink the limit of the state in the age of technological innovation and globalization.

The May Fourth Movement in the American Media: A New Perspective of China's Radical Era
2021-04-23 13:00 - 14:30 (Asia/Macau) | E21-3118
After the outbreak of the May Fourth Movement, the American media carried out continuous reports, providing a Western perspective on understanding the movement and important historical records of the US attitude towards the May Fourth Movement at that time. These reports not only revealed the process of this movement in detail but also, particularly important, they foresaw China ushering in a new era. As the American media and Americans in China clearly expressed their support for China on the Shandong issue, Japan began to spread rumors that the movement was directed by the United States behind the scenes, trying to transfer the responsibility for the anger of the Chinese people caused by its aggressive actions to the Americans. The root cause of the contradiction between the United States and Japan was that the United States wanted to stop Japan’s hegemony in China in order to facilitate the implementation of the open door policy in the Far East. Therefore, it had a very sharp contradiction with Japan’s ambition to seize Chinese territory.
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The Spatial Distribution of Chinese Manufacturing Industry in 1933: and A Discussion on the Spatial Process of Late-Developing Countries’ Modernization 1933年中國製造業區域布局研究—兼論後發大國工業化的空間進程
2021-04-28 15:30 - 17:00 (Asia/Macau) | E21-3118
A database based on A Survey Report of Chinese Industry by Liu Dajun and other statistics in 1930s has been constructed as the main source for this research. This database reveals that the geographic industrial distribution of China in 1933 demonstrated a trend “contiguous distribution in the east, scattered distribution in the west”. This trend was caused by the distinguishes of the eastern and western region in natural resources, transportation conditions and connections with external markets. Without support form a powerful state, the industrialization of modern China faced many obstacles, such as the shortage of market, spatial gap between the eastern region and the western region, vicious competition among different regions and the mismatch of natural resources and investment and professional human resources.
我們嘗試利用20世紀30年代的各種統計資料對劉大鈞的《中國工業調查報告》進行系統修正與完善，構建一個1933年中國製造工廠縣級信息數據庫。我們的分析結果顯示：經過20世紀前30年的較快發展，1933年的中國已經呈現出東部沿海製造工廠“連片發展”的趨勢，以及中西部省區接受東部産業轉移而形成的製造工廠“散點分布”的態勢，這與東中西部的資源禀賦、交通條件、進入國際國內市場的深度和廣度密切相關。但是，缺乏統一而强大的國家政權推動的中國工業化進程，仍然面臨著國內超大市場啓動乏力，東中西部空間隔閡、區域間的産業惡性競爭、農礦資源與資金人才市場配置不當等問題和困境，嚴重影響了中國工業化在全國範圍的擴散以及規模質量的提升。

On the comparison between the concept of "Dayitong", "Zhongguo" and "Tianxia" “大一統”與“中國”“天下”觀比較論綱
2021-05-04 14:00 - 16:00 (Asia/Macau) | E21-3118

The Floating People and the Stationary Order: The Formation of Traditional Social and Spatial Structure in the Greater Bay Area 流動的人與凝固的秩序——大灣區的傳統社會結構與空間格局的形成
2021-05-12 15:30 - 17:30 (Asia/Macau) | E21-3118
流動的人與凝固的秩序——大灣區的傳統社會結構與空間格局的形成
今天的大灣區，在古代是一個廣闊的海灣，海灣裏島嶼星羅棋布。在這個海灣裏生活著數以萬計的船居或島居的人群。宋代以後，海灣裏的島嶼周邊生長出由泥沙沉積形成的土地，隨著沖積土地的增長，以船爲生的島民也逐漸轉爲從事農耕的人口，在這些人口定居同時，明代以後，王朝秩序在灣區早期形成的社區聚落逐步確立，這些人口借助在王朝政治秩序下獲得的社會身份，逐步壟斷了灣區內新生長土地的開發和經營，形成了以民田-沙田分區的空間格局，民田區的大族與沙田區的疍民成爲身份上不可逾越的人群等級區分。在這樣的格局下，形成了大灣區獨特的社會結構。

The Floating People and the Stationary Order: The Formation of Traditional Social and Spatial Structure in the Greater Bay Area
During ancient time, most part of the area what now we call “the Greater Bay Area” were still under the sea. There were just many islands in this bay. Many people based on boats or islands lived in this big bay. After the Song dynasty, many lands brought by sedimentary sand (sand-lands) emerged around those islands. With the expansion of those new lands, many people living on boats became settled farmers. After the Ming dynasty, the political order in this area was constructed by the state. Relying on the state power, those settled farmers monopoly on the exploitation of the new emerging sand-lands. A dichotomy of farmlands and sand-lands became fixed. The distinguishment of the social hierarchy between the great clans living on farmlands and the Tanka people living on sand-lands emerged.

Dog Racing in Macau: Commodification, Gambling Culture, and the Place of Non-human Animals in the City
2021-09-24 13:00 - 14:30 (Asia/Macau) | E21-3118
Dog Racing in Macau: Commodification, Gambling Culture, and the Place of Non-human Animals in the City
For a few years in the 1930s and then for another fifty-five years since 1963, greyhound racing was one of the attractions that helped boost Macau’s repertoire as the Monte Carlo of the East, the Las Vegas of Asia, Asia’s sin city, and the gambling capital of the Far East. Albeit short-lived, the city’s pioneering canidrome positioned the Portuguese colony at the centre of a global trend. The reopening and expansion of the dog-racing business in the 1960s brought not only new economic opportunities, but also triggered a series of crimes linked to the killing and abuse of greyhounds. While both experiences unfolded in highly differing circumstances, the two dog-racing businesses rose to popularity amongst tourists and Chinese punters in southern China and then declined for a similar reason: the shifting of public attention to alternative, often more-innovative, spaces of entertainment and pleasure. Adopting the Marxist framework of commodification, this study explores the shaping of human-animal interaction in the context of a gambling city and calls for a reappraisal of the place of non-human animals in the city beyond the framework of capitalism.

同一賬，記兩簿：傳統時代晉商的複式簿記
2021-10-11 15:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Macau) | Zoom
最近幾年來，中國商業史的研究，從外史走向內史，即脫離以商路、商幫、市場、以及商人與政府的關係之類的議題，走向以商號會計制度與經營方式為主導研究。一大批傳統工商業帳本的面世，激發了學者的研究興趣。演講人利用正在整理出版過程的100冊清代山西食鹽零售商豐盛泰號帳本，以及40種清代至民國年間的當商帳本，首次揭示中國傳統工商業帳本採用的標準且完整的複式簿記。這一制度奠定了中國商業資本主義發展的基礎。
Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/94871261096

Historiography Lecture Series
2021-10-13 19:00 - 2021-10-22 22:00 (Asia/Macau)
Oct 13, East India Company by Prof. Joshua Ehrlich
Oct 15, East Asian Maritime History by Prof. Li Yiwen
Oct 20, Soviet History by Prof. Oscar Sanchez-Sibony
Oct 22, Mirrors of the Manchu Language (Qingwen Jian 清文鑒) by Dr. Mårten Söderblom Saarela

The Destruction of Everyday Writings in Early China
2021-11-05 13:00 - 14:00 (Asia/Macau) | E21-3118

關係視角、日常與歷史
2021-11-05 14:30 - 16:00 (Asia/Macau) | E22-3002

九鼎從入：古郟鄏陌及成周王都相關問題
2021-11-25 15:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Macau) | E21-3118

關于清代財政的畸形貨幣化問題
2021-12-01 15:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Macau) | E21-3118

航線與里程:文昌七洲洋與西沙七洲洋的地理位置
2021-12-09 13:00 - 14:30 (Asia/Macau) | E21-3118

Affiliating to a Communal Temple via the Statue of a Deity ---- Firecracker Societies in Macau, 1900-1966
2022-02-18 13:00 - 14:30 (Asia/Macau) | E21-3118

概念史的方法與蔣介石研究
2022-03-24 20:30 - 22:00 (Asia/Macau) | By Zoom

History Forum No.8: Ladrones: Macao during the South China Piracy Crisis, 1791-1810
2022-03-25 13:00 - 14:30 (Asia/Macau) | E21-3118

里耶秦簡行政文書研究例説
2022-04-06 10:00 - 11:30 (Asia/Macau) | E21-1021

譚其驤先生“積極開展歷史人文地理研究”一文精讀
2022-04-21 20:30 - 22:00 (Asia/Macau) | E21-2005

Coffee-tea with Professors
2022-04-27 17:00 - 18:00 (Asia/Macau)

A Campus of Gender Equity
2022-08-25 16:00 - 17:30 UTC | By Zoom

Conspicuous Consumption and Economic Reasoning in the “Inequality of Wealth” Chapter of Huan Kuan’s Discourses on Salt and Iron
2022-09-08 09:00 - 11:00 UTC | By Zoom

數位文史資料的搜索和使用方法
2022-09-30 20:30 - 22:00 UTC | ZOOM
