Tentaive Schedule and Itinterary 2011
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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

Tuesday, May 24

9:00 - 10:45 Session IV. Transforming the Trade: Merchants in the Treaty Port Era
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee and Tea
11:15 - 13:00 Session V. Consuls and Commissioners: The Evolving Role of U.S. Officials
13:00 - 14:30 Break for Lunch
14:30 - 16:15 Session VI. Writing for China, from China, about China

Expanded View:

Session IV. Transforming the Trade: Merchants in the Treaty Port Era

Moderator: Vincent Wai-kit Ho
Assistant Professor from the History Department of the University of Macau

John Wong
Ph.D. Candidate in History, Harvard University; Fulbright Scholar, Chinese University of Hong Kong
A Chinese ‘Swiss Account’ in 19th-Century America: The Enduring Ties between Houqua and his Sino-American Trading Partner

Sibing He
Guest Professor at the Center for the Study of Overseas Chinese Culture, Huaqiao University
Russell and Company in Shanghai, 1843-1891: U.S. Trade and Diplomacy in Treaty Port China

George Cautherley
Honorary Doctor of Business Administration
Augustine Heard & Co: An American Perspective on China Trade in the Early Treaty Port Era


Session V. Consuls and Commissioners: The Evolving Role of U.S. Officials

Moderator: Priscilla Roberts
Associate Professor of History, The University of Hong Kong

Eileen Scully
Professor of History, Bennington College
On Distinguishing Dirt from Diplomacy: American Consular Corruption Scandals in Late Qing China

Aili Li
Associate Professor, History Department, Sun Yat-sen University in Guanghzou
American Commissioners’ Contribution to Sino-American Intellectual Exchanges: A Study Based on the Experiences of E. B. Drew and H. B. Morse.

Qing Liu
Assistant Professor of History, Sun Yat-sen University
The Open Door Policy and the Shaping of the American Paternalistic Attitude toward China.


Session VI. Writing for China, from China, about China

Modertator: Karen Joe Laidler
Professor & Head, Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong

Kendall Johnson
Head of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, The University of Hong Kong
Samuel Wells Williams, Printer: Opening the Treaty Ports and Closing The
Chinese Repository

Selina Lai
Doctoral Student in American Studies, The University of Hong Kong
Lighting Out For the Chinese Territory: Mark Twain and 'Sivilization' in China

Louise Edwards
Professor of Modern China Studies, The University of Hong Kong
The 1930s Shanghai Girl’s American Dreams

Staci Ford
Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of History, The University of Hong Kong
“Deeply, almost domestically at home in the world”: Emily Hahn, Gendered Exceptionalisms, and US Journalists in China, 1930-1947

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