Historian

Britain's influential socialist historian, Eric Hobsbawm, dies at 95

2 Oct 2012

Professor Eric Hobsbawm, the British historian and lifelong socialist, has died. He was 95.

Hobsbawm, who was president of Birkbeck College at the University of London, died of pneumonia in...

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A history of squelching historians

28 Jul 2011

You might think the life of a historian is boring, but certainly safe. Apart from a paper cut, how much danger can a historian ever face from his work?

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Discussion points

17 Jul 2011

The highlights

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Historian takes Chinese University post

29 Jan 2009

Chinese University yesterday announced the appointments of internationally known historian Hsiung Ping-chen as dean of arts, from July 2, and Wong Tak-jun as dean of business administration...

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A Very Short History of the World

23 Dec 2007

A Very Short History of the World

by Geoffrey Blainey

Penguin, HK$144

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A Backpack and a Bit of Luck - Stories of a Traveller with No Sense of Direction

1 Jul 2007

A Backpack and a Bit of Luck - Stories of a Traveller with No Sense of Direction

by Zhang Su Li

Marshall Cavendish, HK$99

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Opinion

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

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Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

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Great minds meld matters of fact and fiction

'As a fiction writer I'm in the business of writing lies that are believable, that will elevate the reader to consider some aspect of human nature,' historical novelist Kunal Basu told a 220-...

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Early Hong Kong Brothels

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