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Vivian Kong
@viviankonghk.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Modern Chinese History at University of Bristol; Hong Kong History Centre Co-Director @hongkonghistory.bsky.social; Multiracial Britishness, migration, marginal subjects. Foodie.
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My book Multiracial Britishness: Global Networks in Hong Kong 1910-45 is out in paperback now 😁 It's now only £29.99 (and a further 20% off discount with the code HIST1525) at shorturl.at/15uJU . Really pleased that it received positive reviews on outlets eg H-Diplo, AHR & Journal of Social History!
We launched a new open access platform on historical photos of Hong Kong! hphkbristol.net.

You can use it to have some #hkhist fun, or for your family history project. If you want to start researching your family roots in Hong Kong, watch this space: a HK family history toolkit launching soon!
September 16, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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2/4 Come join us to mark the event! On 10 October at 11 am, our @viviankonghk.bsky.social will open the second 150 years of History at Bristol considering Rowley’s topic – ‘Why history is studied, and why it should form part of a liberal education’ in view of her own career and her current project
September 14, 2026 at 9:54 AM
Super late in posting this but so glad to see the Stanton album on HPC website! Fascinating photos - do check them out.
A new collection just went live! 96 photographs of Hong Kong and South China c.1890-94 from an album presented to Hong Kong Police Detective Inspector William Stanton Full collection here hpcbristol.net/collections/... Here's the police Tug of War team, possibly in 1891
September 16, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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It’s our birthday soon! On 10 October, at exactly 11 am. At that moment, 150 years ago, James Rowley, the Chair in History and Literature, began to present the first lecture on history at the new University College, Bristol, on its opening day, and so the first ever at the University of Bristol 1/4
September 14, 2026 at 9:52 AM
Thrilled to see this fine article on the Girl Guide movement in late colonial HK by Tracy Leung, @hongkonghistory.bsky.social PhD researcher, published by the Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
From ‘To Serve Hong Kong’ to ‘To be True to My Country’: The Girl Guide Movement in Late Colonial Hong Kong, 1950s–1997
Using unexamined Girl Guide publications, government papers and oral history testimonies, this article examines how the role of the Girl Guide movement changed throughout late colonial Hong Kong. I...
www.tandfonline.com
April 13, 2026 at 7:57 AM
Very excited about our summer school, and about Prof Hsu & @sulinlewis.bsky.social Prof Lewis's joining us on the teaching team of the summer school! Apply before 3 May 2026.
One month to go before registrations close.

Excited to announce the latest addition to the programme: Prof Madeline Y. Hsu (University of Maryland, College Park) and Prof Su Lin Lewis (Bristol) will join the teaching team for the Hong Kong History Summer School!

www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s...
April 13, 2026 at 7:52 AM
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Family History Workshop, Session 2
24 January 2026

Last Saturday we welcomed the second cohort of our family history workshop participants back to our campus again for a consultation workshop.
January 28, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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All four lessons of the first semester's "Hong Kong History Academy" are now available online, you can review all twelve sessions here.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gl_...

Next semester four lessons will be available in April. Please stay tuned!
February 4, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐳-𝐅𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐦𝐚: 𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐠’𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐮𝐫𝐧
Prof Tak-Wing Ngo

Hybrid event.

To attend, please register on Ticketpass.
tktp.as/ETNLIH
HKHC Speaker’s Series, Prof Tak-Wing Ngo, University of Macau
By Hong Kong History Centre
tktp.as
February 5, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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Just found my forthcoming book, 'The Drunkard in Victorian Fiction and Culture', on the Waterstones website! Pre-order it now or I should get a discount code nearer the time so e-mail me if you'd like that or if you'd like me to suggest you as a reviewer:
www.waterstones.com/book/the-dru...
The Drunkard in Victorian Fiction and Culture by Pam Lock | Waterstones
Buy The Drunkard in Victorian Fiction and Culture by Pam Lock from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
www.waterstones.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:58 PM
With support from @uobrishistory.bsky.social & @uobartsmatter.bsky.social, these Cantonese workshops form part of my new project to develop Chinese-language resources to support the global HK diaspora to research & preserve their family history. Feel really privileged to be able to do this work!
Family History Workshop, Session 2
24 January 2026

Last Saturday we welcomed the second cohort of our family history workshop participants back to our campus again for a consultation workshop.
February 5, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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'We understand Hong Kong as a subject providing a wide range of opportunities, as a city and a territory with a distinctive past that has never been more alive.'

Excellent write up on the @hongkonghistory.bsky.social in the latest @iias.bsky.social newsletter

For more pp.38-40 👉 brnw.ch/21wZEyV
February 4, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Reminder: deadline end of Jan!
𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔/𝟐𝟕

Two streams:
𝐚) 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬.
𝐛) 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 (𝐏𝐆𝐑) 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭.

Details:
www.hkhistory.net/2025/11/24/v...
January 13, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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Jan 2026 History Salon at Arts Complex, UoB.

Gary Cheung, veteran journalist and published author, will share on 'Reevaluating the Sino-British negotiation: Learning from declassified British records'.

Cantonese event.

Register:
tktp.as/EZIUSZ
December 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Last Saturday I had a very rewarding afternoon with a group of Hong Kongers, many of them travelling from outside Bristol, exploring how those of us with family roots in Hong Kong could research and preserve our family history!
2nd Family History Workshop
(6 Dec 2025)

Our co-Director Dr. Vivian Kong shared her research experience and offered a crash course on methodology of family history research to an engaging audience earlier today. More coming soon. Watch this space.
December 9, 2025 at 10:17 AM
We're launching a 3-week Hong Kong History Summer School in June-July 2026 for all of you interested in HK history! And you will have the opportunity to explore our Hong Kong collections too. Just how exciting is that? @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social #hongkonghistory
Join us for a three-weeks Hong Kong History Centre Accredited summer programmes in summer 2026!

More details please see:
www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s...
December 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Also open for application at @hongkonghistory.bsky.social at the moment is our Visiting Scholar Scheme for 2026/27, for colleagues/PGR students working on project(s) relating to the history of Hong Kong! #hkhist

@uobartsmatter.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social
𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔/𝟐𝟕

Two streams:
𝐚) 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬.
𝐛) 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 (𝐏𝐆𝐑) 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭.

Details:
www.hkhistory.net/2025/11/24/v...
December 8, 2025 at 8:49 AM
We have now announced TWO full PhD studentships at Bristol's Hong Kong History Centre @uobrishistory.bsky.social @uobartsmatter.bsky.social! Please spread the word to anyone you know who are working towards/have a Master's degree, and are interested in pursuing further research in HK history.
Hong Kong History Centre Studentship

𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Dept of Hist, University of Bristol
𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲: UK and International (including EU)
𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠: Tuition Fees and stipend
𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬: Sep 26 – Sep 30 (full-time)

Details:
www.hkhistory.net/2025/11/17/h...
December 8, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Thrilled to see this generous review by Benjamin Mountford on my book Multiracial Britishness, on my first day back at work after a long sick leave!
December 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
We are recruiting a Postdoc Research Associate (Oral History) at the Hong Kong History Centre at Bristol! Please feel free to circulate to any friends and colleagues, and/or get in touch if you're interested.
𝐉𝐨𝐛 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞: 𝐎𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲

Closing Date: 24 Sep 2025

The postholder will be a core member of this exciting initiative and will bring oral history experience and skills to the Centre.

Details:
tinyurl.com/HKHCRA
August 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Had a fun afternoon on Tues, speaking on a Cantonese panel w/ Doris, @adonismyli.bsky.social, Florence & Charles on our work on the New Documentary History of HK. The talk was hosted by Lion's Ink Book, which has done so much on the outreach of HK history to the public. Thank you Lion's Ink!
August 21, 2025 at 8:38 AM
My first podcast experience! Many thanks to Miranda & @NewBooksNetwork for inviting me to talk about my book Multiracial Britishness: Global Networks in Hong Kong, 1910-45 on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social.

Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6ZVI...

/Apple
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
Vivian Kong, "Multiracial Britishness: Global Networks in Hong Kong, 1910–45" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
New Books in History · Episode
open.spotify.com
June 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Had a wonderful afternoon on Saturday, where I led a family history workshop for HK community in Bristol with our PhD students. Means so much to me that we get to draw on our research methods to support our community to preserve their family history. @hongkonghistory.bsky.social
June 4, 2025 at 7:31 AM
What a fun Saturday afternoon we had with John, learning from his insights on the linked exchange rate system!
History Salon
17 May 2025

An insightful and engaging talk at our History Salon this afternoon by Prof John Wong of HKU on the history of Hong Kong’s linked exchange rate system. Thank you John for the wonderful talk!
May 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
It's tomorrow! Join us online at 9:30 UK Time tomorrow for Jenny's talk on transborder fugitives, extradition, and political crimes in modern China.
HKHC Speaker's Series, Dr. Jenny Huangfu Day

𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝑭𝒖𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔, 𝑬𝒙𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑷𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝑪𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒏 𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒂

23 May 2025, 9:30 – 11am (UKT)
On Microsoft Teams

Register:
tinyurl.com/58cwss87
May 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM