A hybrid conference held on 29 to 30 May 2021 jointly organised by CityU’s Department of Chinese and History (CAH) and the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences of Peking University (PKU) brought over 20 scholars from more than 10 institutions in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai and Macau together for intellectual discussions about the materialistic and emotional representations of modern ideologies.
The scholarly studies of western ideologies that introduced to Chinese society since the late Qing dynasty are abundant. The emergence of new medium and technologies, such as news media, telegraph, phonographic devices, photography etc, impacted the ways people from different eras expressed and disseminated ideologies. It formed the focal point of the conference.
Photo 1: Professor Ching May-bo, Head of CAH, shares her views during the discussion session.
In the opening remarks, Dr CUI Wendong, Assistant Professor at CAH and event convenor on the Hong Kong side, and Dr LU Yin, Associate Professor at PKU and event convenor on the Beijing side, said the conference was expected to foster in-depth exchange and equal conversations between scholars in Hong Kong and Mainland China around various ideological and cultural history topics. Eighteen scholars then took turns to present their studies that look into the topics from multiple perspectives. Discussants were assigned to provide fresh inputs. The fruitful event was concluded with a roundtable discussion and the closing remarks by Head of CAH Professor CHING May-bo.
The event was held with funding from the Beijing-Hong Kong University Alliance, one of the three university alliances of which the Mainland-Hong Kong University Alliances Fund 2021-22 comprised. The Fund, aiming to promote collaboration between Hong Kong and Mainland universities, is supported with the provisions from the Education Bureau and the University Grants Committee.
Cover photo: Participants from Hong Kong and Mainland China gathered at CityU and Peking University respectively to participate in the hybrid conference.
