GHKS@UC: An Evening Chat with Historian John Carroll

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https://ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/register/XVI2LtoQQnKrWYzVfOX5EA

About the Event

Professor John Carroll, author of Edge of Empires: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong and A Concise History of Hong Kong, will reflect on his personal and professional journey as a leading historian of Hong Kong. He will share stories about the turning points that shaped his career and the challenges of writing Hong Kong’s history in changing times. He will also consider the broader significance of Hong Kong history today—how it has evolved as an academic field, and how it might develop in the future amid shifting political, cultural, and global contexts. Two other historians of Hong Kong, Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Angelina Chin, will join the conversation to explore the possibilities for reimagining  Hong Kong’s place in world history.

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About the Speakers

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John M. Carroll is Principal Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Hong Kong, where he teaches courses on the history of Hong Kong, the British Empire, museums, and tourism. He is the director of HKU’s new MA programme in Hong Kong history. Carroll has published three books on Hong Kong history, most recently The Hong Kong-China Nexus, and is currently writing on the history of Hong Kong tourism.

Angelina Chin is Professor of History at Pomona College. Her teaching and research interests revolve around the themes of colonialism, political movements, diaspora, feminism, sexuality, and disability in modern East Asia. Her research focuses on the social histories of marginal people, identities and citizenship, as well as transregional networks in Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and Japan. She is the author of Bound to Emancipate​_(2012) and Unsettling Exiles​_(2023).


 

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Jeffrey Wasserstrom is a Distinguished Professor of History at UC Irvine. Along with publishing in academic journals, he often writes for general interest periodicals. His most recent books are a pair of interrelated short ones published by Columbia Global Reports–Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink (2020) and The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia’s Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing (2025).