Books Published by Faculty Members

Jatinder MANN (Ed.), Citizenship in Transnational Perspective Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

(Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) 322 Pages.

ISBN: 9783319535289.

This edited collection explores citizenship in a transnational perspective, with a focus on Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. It adopts a multi-disciplinary approach and offers historical, legal, political, and sociological perspectives. The two overarching themes of the book are ethnicity and Indigeneity. The contributions in the collection come from widely respected international scholars who approach the subject of citizenship from a range of perspectives: some arguing for a post-citizenship world, others questioning the very concept itself, or its application to Indigenous nations.

Cindy Yik-yi CHU (Ed.), Foreign Missionaries and the Indigenization of the Chinese Catholic Church. 

(Hong Kong: Centre for Catholic Studies, CUHK, 2017). 177 pages. ISBN: 9789881403742.

This is a collection of essays on the Catholic Church in modern and contemporary China. It aims to show how the indigenization of the Chinese Catholic Church took place from different perspectives.

Foreign Catholic missionaries came to evangelize in China. At same time, the Roman Catholic Church encouraged foreign missionaries to build local churches and to cultivate well-educated local priests to shoulder important tasks. The popes talked about the equal status between foreign and Chinese priests.

Bettina DIETZ (ed.), Das System der Natur: Die kollaborative Wissenskultur der Botanik im 18. Jahrhundert (The system of nature. The collaborative knowledge culture of eighteenth-century botany).

(Böhlau: Cologne / Vienna 2017).

ISBN: 9783412507398.

This book investigates the participatory architecture of eighteenth-century botany and, as a consequence, its collaborative publication system and form of authorship. Due to the ever increasing and potentially infinite need for information of Linnaean botany, authors – Linnaeus himself but others as well - had to rely on aggregating information from a large number of contributors and readers in order to continuously complete and correct their works. Botany’s iterative publication mode relied on the principle of publishing early and often. As a result, books were co-produced in the framework of a collaborative publication system that shaped the botanical author as a ‘composite’.

黃文江、張雲開、陳智衡編註:《恆與變之間-1949年以來的中國基督教史論集》

(香港:建道神學院,2017年)。577頁。

ISBN:9789881421050。

本論文集以「1949年後的中國基督教」為題,彙集海內外學者共二十一篇學術論文,內容涵蓋「通論」、「政教關係」、「區域視野」、「教育」、「人物、思想研究」及「香港」六個領域,書寫基督教於學術、社會、教會內等等各種演變與抉擇。

書題《恆與變之間──1949年以來的中國基督教史論集》,其中「恆」與「變」述說基督教在宏觀歷史中的相遇,在這「之間」潛在不同的可能性,述說在時代洪流前作出的抉擇。

從本書綜述,以1949年中國大陸政權易轉後,闡述基督教在中國、香港、台灣三地社會不同土壤中的發展。面對風潮變革,迎向政治、社會、教育、學術等的轉變與挑戰。在政權交替與社會轉變的時代,基督教均處於抉擇前,藉著對過去回顧發掘當中的時代意義。

范永聰:《我們都是這樣看港漫長大的》

(香港:非凡出版,2017年)。

181頁。ISBN:9789888463084。

上世紀八十至九十年代,堪稱「港漫」的黃金時代──《龍虎門》、《醉拳》、《中華英雄》、《玉郎漫畫》、《怪異集》、《壽星仔》、《街頭霸王》,以至「牛仔」、「老夫子」和「麥嘜」等經典漫畫角色,百花齊放,大放異彩,滋潤不少讀者的心靈。

范永聰博士以自己從小到大閱讀「港漫」的心路歷程為書寫基礎,嘗試找回那些與「港漫」息息相關的回憶與情感。每篇文章以知名漫畫作品或漫畫家為主題,一起重溫該段時期香港漫畫界不同的重要作品,以至漫畫家們背後的故事或成功由來。

Chi-man KWONG (ed), War and Geopolitics in Interwar Manchuria: Zhang Zuolin Clique during the Northern Expedition.

(Leiden: Brill, 2017). 327 pages.

Using primary and secondary sources from China, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, this work revisits the wars during the period from international, political, military, and economic-financial perspectives. It sheds new light on Zhang Zuolin’s decision to fight against the Nationalists and the Communists and offers an alternative explanation to the Nationalists (temporary) victory by revealing the central importance of geopolitics in the civil wars in China during the interwar period.

鍾寶賢、趙雨樂、李澤恩編註:《香港要覽(外三種)》

(香港:三聯書店[香港]有限公司,2017年)。255頁。

本書為《東瀛遺珠:近代香港的日本人紀錄》叢書的第二冊,由《香港要覽》、《香港的工業》、《香港事情概要》、《香港的金融機關》四部份組成,內容主要為大正時代的日本人圍繞香港政治、經濟、軍事、金融等各方面的調查紀錄。

李建深編:《方圓天地:麥氏贈鏡》

(香港:香港中文大學文物館,2017年)。149頁。

K.K. Mark’s bronze mirrors range in date from the Warring States period to the Ming and Qing periods, and the majority of them date from the Song to the Qing. There are numerous challenges in the study of transmitted bronze mirrors, which have been collected either by individuals or by public or private institutes in China or elsewhere. Recently, archaeologically excavated bronzes have attracted much attention; on the other hand, new directions for research breakthroughs on transmitted bronzes are still being explored. Scholars interested in the study of Chinese ritual and music have ignored bronze mirrors because transmitted texts have not described mirrors as material symbols of the elite of Chinese civilizations. Bronzes of the Song-to-Qing period have been seen as representative of a period
of comprehensive decline. Thus, scholars have expressed little interest in studying these mirrors. Moreover, due to the flat and almost two-dimensional (2-D) structure of the mirrors, the manufacturing technologies of mirrors have been deemed simple and coarse. Breakthroughs in mirror studies await future discoveries. The collection of mirrors donated by K.K. Mark provides us with ample research materials. Study of this collection allows us to explore many aspects of the mirror industry and, specifically, issues concerning the design and production of the mirrors. By researching the collection, we can investigate the history of material cultures over this long period. In this essay, I would like to: 1, reference the study of object-based design and production techniques to explore potential future avenues of research for transmitted Chinese bronzes; 2, re-examine mirrors produced in a time of so-called “comprehensive decline” and explore their sophistication, rather than describe them as “degraded products of inferior quality”; and 3, investigate the manufacturing techniques of the Mark’s mirrors through multiple perspectives, instead of considering them as “simple and coarse.” By doing so, I will perhaps reveal a larger world reflected in these small mirrors.

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