KADOORIE INSTITUTE

Researcher : MacPherson KL

Project Title:

Planning central business districts in China and Hong Kong

Investigator(s):

 

Department:

Department of History

Source(s) of Funding:

Other Funding Scheme

Start Date:

08/2003

 

Abstract:

To examine historically the development of central business districts in China and Hong Kong as well as their transformation and future viability in the face of unprecedented urban growth and economic restructuring.

 

Project Title:

Shanghai's port development in historical perspective

Investigator(s):

 

Department:

Department of History

Source(s) of Funding:

Other Funding Scheme

Start Date:

11/2003

 

Abstract:

To examine historically the political, economic and natural factors that have impacted on port development, maintenance and design in Shanghai ove the past 200 years.

 

Project Title:

A history of public health in Asia and the Pacific

Investigator(s):

 

Department:

Department of History

Source(s) of Funding:

Other Funding Scheme

Start Date:

12/2003

 

Abstract:

To explore in different countries in Asia and the Pacific how disease patterns and health problems, and the collective responses to them, have been shaped over time by cultural, economic, social, political, demographic and environmental factors. If will show how the non-medical context is important in the history of human disease, as well as how significant disease is in the larger histories of the region.

 

Project Title:

Britons overseas: Hong Kong's colonial development, 1841-1997

Investigator(s):

 

Department:

Department of History

Source(s) of Funding:

Other Funding Scheme

Start Date:

05/2004

 

Abstract:

To examine the British community in Hong Kong from the perspectives of Empire and locality to analyse how this community maintained, redefined, extended and transformed its identity during Hong Kong's formative development.

 




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