History Salon: Hong Kong and the Commonwealth, 1949-1997 | 歷史沙龍：香港與英聯邦，1949-1997

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【History Salon】Hong Kong and the Commonwealth, 1949-1997

Date: 23 March 2024 (Saturday)
Time: 2:30 – 4pm
Venue: Arts Complex, 7 Woodland Road, University of Bristol, BS8 1TB
Language: Cantonese

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Hong Kong, as a British colony until 1997, was part of the Commonwealth. The modern Commonwealth organisation began in 1949. Besides Britain, its member countries include Canada, Australia, Singapore and India, among others. But if the Commonwealth was not just an organisation but a world, this seemingly unfamiliar name might have been closer to Hong Kong than once thought.

In the third Hong Kong History Salon, Dr Tommy Lo will discuss with us the overlooked links between Hong Kong and the Commonwealth world. How did it shape Hong Kong education? Who were sojourning and migrating between Hong Kong and the Commonwealth? And what did the Commonwealth have to do with the city’s remarkable economic growth? Numerous ties connected Hong Kong history with the world; those with the Commonwealth were unobvious but important.

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Dr Tommy Lo, Departmental Lecturer in Modern Chinese and East Asian History, University of Oxford

Period	23 Mar 2024
Held at	Department of History (Historical Studies)