Professor David Faure Chaired the Yu Ying-shih Lecture in History 2021/22

[May 2022 issue]

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1st Lecture 2nd Lecture Student report (Chinese)

The "Yu Ying-shih Lecture in History 2021/22", delivered by Professor David Faure, Emeritus Professor of the Department of History, CUHK, were held on 4 and 9 April 2022.

Jointly organized by the Chung Chi College and the New Asia College, and co-organized by the Department of History since 2007, the Yu Ying-shih Lecture in History invites an internationally renowned scholar in history every year to conduct lectures. The lectures this year were sponsored by the Austin-Eminence Charitable Foundation and coorganized with Hong Kong Museum of History. All lectures were held online due to the pandemic.

The first lecture "Company Law, Legal Standards of Accounting and the History of Business Enterprise in China: Viewpoints of Max Weber and Yu Ying-shih” was held on 4 April, and was moderated by Prof. Lau Kwok Ying, Emeritus Professor of the Department of Philosophy, CUHK and Senior College Tutor of the College. In this talk, Prof. Faure shared how the modern company law and legal standards of accounting changed the asset management method, and how these changes accelerated the commercial development in modern China.

The second lecture "The Ideal and Practice of Lineage: A Perspective from Historical Anthropology" was held on 9 April, and was moderated by Prof. Cheung Sui Wai, Chairman of the Department of History, CUHK. In this talk, Professor Faure shared the features and development of lineage since the Song dynasty, and the historical anthropology methods used in lineage researches.