Interdisciplinary colloquium: A Tale of Ten Cities: Sino-American Exchange in the Treaty Port Era, 1840-1950

A Tale of Ten Cities: Sino-American Exchange in the Treaty Port Era, 1840-1950

Date: 23-24 May, 2011
Time: 9:00 – 17:00

Venue: Room 809, 8/F, Council Chamber,
Meng Wah Complex, The University of Hong Kong

Program in Brief

Monday, May 23

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Session I. Welcoming Remarks & Introduction to the Colloquium

Opening Remarks:
Kam Louie, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, The University of Hong Kong
Kendall Johnson, Head of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, The University of Hong Kong
Glenn Shive, Executive Director of the Hong Kong-America Center

Presentations:
John Haddad, Fulbright Scholar, American Studies Program, The University of Hong Kong
Introduction to the Colloquium and its Themes

Robert Nield
President of The Royal Asiatic Society (Hong Kong Branch)
The Treaty Port - Not Quite a Colony

Session II. The Rise of Institutions: Science, Medicine, and Museums

Moderator: Glenn Shive
Hong Kong-America Center

Peter Buck
Professor, History of Science, Harvard University
Reorientation: American Science and Modern China after Thirty Years

Steven Conn
Professor of History and Director of the Public History Program at Ohio State University
How to Look at China: The Structure of Visual Experience in American Museums

Marjorie King
Associate Professor, Center for International Studies, Shantou University, China
The Social Service Department at the Rockefeller-sponsored Peking Union Medical College, 1920-1937

Stefani Pfeiffer
Ph.D. candidate, History Department, Rutgers University
The Administration of Modern Medicine: An American Healthcare Bureaucracy in China and its Social Effects

Session III. Language of the Physical: Spaces and Places

Moderator: Wayne Cristaudo
Division Head West Studies, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, The University of Hong Kong

Cole Roskam
Assistant Professor of Architectural History and Theory, Department of Architecture at The University of Hong Kong
Paper Title: "Permanency and a Fixed Purpose": Building an American Consulate in Shanghai, 1861 – 1937

John Haddad
Associate Professor of American Studies and Literature, Penn State Harrisburg
Fulbright Scholar, American Studies Program, Hong Kong University
From Shanghai to Philadelphia’s World’s Fair: America’s Dual Encounter with China in the Self-Strengthening Era

Elsha Yiu
Independent Scholar
Idealizing Space: America’s Opened Port of Swatow

Vincent Wai-kit Ho
Assistant Professor from the History Department of the University of Macau
An Observation on the American-related Historical Monuments in China during the Treaty Port Era

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