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Professor John Carroll

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Professor John Carroll
BA Oberlin; MA Iowa; PhD Harvard

Research Interests
Recent Publications
Editorships
Courses
Research Postgraduate Supervisions
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Research Interests

Modern Chinese History
Hong Kong History
Colonialism and Imperialism in Asia

Recent Publications

Books
A Concise History of Hong Kong (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007; Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2007).

Edge of Empires: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2005; paperback reprint, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2007).

Articles and Chapters in Edited Volumes
"Ten Years Later: 1997-2007 as History," in Kam Louie, ed., Hong Kong Culture: Word and Image (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010), 9-23.

"A National Custom: Debating Female Servitude in Late Nineteenth-Century Hong Kong," Modern Asian Studies 43.6 (November 2009): 1463-93.

"A Historical Perspective: The 1967 Riots and the Strike-Boycott of 1925-1926," in Ray Yep and Robert Bickers, eds., May Days in Hong Kong: The 1967 Riots (Hong Kong University Press, 2009), 69-86.

"Contested Colony: Hong Kong, the 1949 Revolution, and the 'Taiwan Problem'," in Critical Zone 3: A Forum of Chinese and Western Knowledge , ed. Douglas Kerr, Q. S. Tong, and Wang Shouren (Hong Kong University Press and Nanjing University Press, 2008), 75-93.

"Commemorating History in Colonial and Post-Colonial Hong Kong," in History and Memory: Present Reflections on the Past to Build Our Future (Macao: Macau Ricci Institute Studies, 2008), 227-50.

"Ho Kai: A Chinese Reformer in Colonial Hong Kong," in Kenneth J. Hammond and Kristin Stapleton, eds., The Human Tradition in Premodern China (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008), 55-72.

"Colonialism, Nationalism, and Difference: Reassessing the Role of Hong Kong in Modern Chinese History," Chinese Historical Review , 12.2 (Spring 2006): 92-104.

"Colonial Hong Kong as a Cultural-Historical Place," Modern Asian Studies , 40.2 (2006): 517-43.

"Displaying and Selling History: Museums and Heritage Preservation in Post-Colonial Hong Kong," Twentieth-Century China , 31.1 (November 2005): 76-103.

"Colonialism, Nationalism, and Identity in Pre-1949 Hong Kong," Journal of Oriental Studies 39.2 (September 2005): 18-36.

"G. B. Endacott and Hong Kong History," introduction to reprint of G. B. Endacott, A Biographical Sketch-book of Early Hong Kong (1963; Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2005), ix-xxvi.

"Chinese Collaboration in the Making of British Hong Kong," in Tak-Wing Ngo, ed., Hong Kong's History: State and Society Under Colonial Rule (London: Routledge, 1999), 13-29.

"Colonialism and Collaboration: Chinese Subjects and the Making of British Hong Kong," China Information 12 (1997): 12-35.

Editorships

English book review editor, Journal of Oriental Studies

Courses Taught

HIST1017 Modern Hong Kong
HIST2091 The British Empire
HIST2094 Museums and History
HIST3024 Writing Hong Kong history

Research Postgraduate Supervisions

Zardas Lee, "Film Censorship in Post-War Hong Kong" (MPhil)
Michael M. L. CHAN, "Between Red and White: Chinese Communist and Nationalist Movements in Hong Kong, 1945-1958" (MPhil, 2011)
HO Chi Yeung, Xyrus, "Public housing and Town Planning in Colonial Hong Kong, 1946-1983" (MPhil)
IP Kai Yu, Kelvin, "The Propaganda War: Leftists vs. Government in the Hong Kong 1967 Riots" (MPhil)
Gary Chi-hung LUK, "Collaboration and Conflict: Chinese Food Provisioners in Early Colonial Hong Kong" (MPhil, 2011)
William TAI Yuen, "Chinese Capitalism in Colonial Malaya" (PhD, 2010)
Carol C. L. TSANG, "Women's Medicine and Women's Diseases in Colonial Hong Kong" (PhD, 2011)
Sammy TSANG Shun Fai, "Border Control in Colonial Hong Kong, 1958-62" (MPhil, 2010)

Contact Details

Office: 1037
Tel: 3917 2866
e-mail: jcarroll@hkucc.hku.hk
HKU Scholars Hub: http://hub.hku.hk/rp/rp01188