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SUMMARY:A Water History of Hong Kong
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DESCRIPTION:This documentary adopts a traditional historical approach\, dr
 awing on published sources and archival manuscripts from both Hong Kong an
 d London. It explores five key themes: 1) water\, infrastructure\, and the
  environment\; 2) water and society\; 3) water\, culture\, and foodways\; 
 4) water usage and management and 5) water and industries. By weaving thes
 e strands together\, the documentary offers a timely and original contribu
 tion to the environmental\, political\, social\, and economic history of H
 ong Kong. It also resonates with global conversations on climate change\, 
 highlighting how past strategies were developed to cope with water crises 
 in a rapidly urbanising city with limited welfare provisions and a narrow 
 tax base-conditions still mirrored in many regions today. Through historic
 ising natural disasters and water emergencies\, the documentary deepens ac
 ademic discourse on environmental change and urbanisation\, while offering
  valuable lessons for contemporary challenges.\n\nDr Florence MOK is a Nan
 yang Assistant Professor of History at Nanyang Technological University. S
 he is a historian of colonial Hong Kong\, modern China and British colonia
 lism\, with an interest in environmental history\, the Cold War and state-
 society relations. She is the author of Covert Colonialism: Governance\, S
 urveillance and Political Culture in British Hong Kong\, c. 1966-97\, publ
 ished by Manchester University Press (Studies in Imperialism series) in 20
 23 and the co-editor of A New Documentary History of Hong Kong\, 1945-1997
 \, published by Hong Kong University Press in 2025.  \n\nDr Siu-hei LAI is
  Lecturer at Faculty of Humanities\, Chiang Mai University\, Thailand. He 
 is an anthropologist focusing on youth\, aspiration and Chinese migration 
 in Mainland Southeast Asia. He obtained his PhD in Anthropology at the Chi
 nese University of Hong Kong. His doctoral thesis examines how the young Y
 unnanese Chinese in the Thai-Burmese borderland pursue their aspirations b
 y migrating within and beyond the borderland. \n\nMr Sahil BHAGAT is a Res
 earch Associate in the History Department at Nanyang Technological Univers
 ity. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of St Andrews an
 d a joint master’s degree from Columbia University and the London School
  of Economics (LSE). His work pertains to the transnational labour and env
 ironmental histories of plantation-based communities in British Malaya and
  Singapore.
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LOCATION:Dickson Poon Building\, Oxford China Centre - Kin-ku Cheng Lectur
 e Theatre (lower ground floor)\, Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower groun
 d floor) Dickson Poon Building Canterbury Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX2 6LU 
 United Kingdom
SPEAKER:Dr Florence MOK (Nanyang Technological University)\, Dr Siu-hei LA
 I (Chiang Mai University)\, Mr Sahil BHAGAT (Nanyang Technological Univers
 ity)
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