​HistorySeminar Series AY2018-2019 | Beyond hegemony and sisterhood: transnational Tianzhou-Mazucult in the late 20th century and early 21st century EastAsia

By Dr Choi Chi-Cheung, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Chi-cheung Choi 蔡志祥 received his doctoral degree from the University of Tokyo. He is visiting professor at the History Department. He is professor of the History Department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Government's Museum expert advisor (Ethnography) and member of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) Advisory Committee. He has published on Chinese festivals and popular religion, family and lineage, and business history. His major publications include Jiao: Festival and Local Communities in Hong Kong (2000); "Rice, treaty ports and the Chaozhou Chinese Lianhao Associate companies: construction of a South China-Hong Kong-Southeast Asia commodity network 1850s-1930s" (2014), Continuity and change: ethnographies of the communal Jiao festivals in Hong Kong (2014) , Superstition discourse: Newspapers and transformation of customs in late Qing and early Republican South China (2013), and Ritual and Manuscripts: Jiao of the Orthodoxy Taoist sects in the New Territories of Hong Kong (2011).

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