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Allan Pang

@allanpang.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Bristol. Historian. Research: Chinese overseas, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, history education, popular music, decolonisation.

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Allan Pang @allanpang.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
My special issue article on history education and decolonisation in Hong Kong: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @hongkonghistory.bsky.social
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Contesting Epistemological Territory: History Education and Decolonisation in Hong Kong | Itinerario | Cambridge Core
Contesting Epistemological Territory: History Education and Decolonisation in Hong Kong - Volume 50 Issue 1
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Allan Pang @allanpang.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The special issue: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Itinerario: Volume 50 - Institutions and Epistemologies of History Writing in the Age of Decolonisation | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - Itinerario - Volume 50 - Institutions and Epistemologies of History Writing in the Age of Decolonisation
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Allan Pang @allanpang.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The special issue is finally out! Thanks so much to @mihatsch.bsky.social and Casper Andersen for their insightful input throughout the process! It’s my pleasure to be part of this special issue.
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Casper Andersen and I are really excited that our special issue on history writing after independence has now been published. In the issue, we are looking at how institutional and epistemological factors impacted the process of history writing in the aftermath of independence. 🧵
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Allan Pang @allanpang.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
A fascinating article by Tracy Leung @hongkonghistory.bsky.social & @uobrishistory.bsky.social ! #hongkonghistory #hongkong
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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Allan T.F. Pang reviews 'Imagining Malaya: Peranakan Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Belonging at the End of Empire, 1945–1957', by Bernard Z. Keo academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
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Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
May 2026 History Salon at Arts Complex, UoB. Doris Chan, research associate at the Hong Kong History Centre, will share on 'Migration and British response in post-war Hong Kong'. Cantonese event. Register: tktp.as/EEFWBR
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Vivian Kong @viviankonghk.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Thrilled to see this fine article on the Girl Guide movement in late colonial HK by Tracy Leung, @hongkonghistory.bsky.social PhD researcher, published by the Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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From ‘To Serve Hong Kong’ to ‘To be True to My Country’: The Girl Guide Movement in Late Colonial Hong Kong, 1950s–1997
Using unexamined Girl Guide publications, government papers and oral history testimonies, this article examines how the role of the Girl Guide movement changed throughout late colonial Hong Kong. I...
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The third article of forthcoming our special issue is out now in FirstView. Check out Larissa Schulte Nordholt's "The Importance of Place and Materiality in the Decolonisation of African History through UNESCO’s General History of Africa (1962-1998)" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The Importance of Place and Materiality in the Decolonisation of African History through UNESCO’s General History of Africa (1962-1998) | Itinerario | Cambridge Core
The Importance of Place and Materiality in the Decolonisation of African History through UNESCO’s General History of Africa (1962-1998)
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Allan Pang on history school books in Hong Kong bsky.app/profile/alla...
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The introduction of our forthcoming special issue by Casper Andersen and me is now out: "Becoming Independent: Institutions and Epistemologies of History Writing in the Age of Decolonisation" www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Check the thread below for the articles as they are published.
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Becoming Independent: Institutions and Epistemologies of History Writing in the Age of Decolonisation | Itinerario | Cambridge Core
Becoming Independent: Institutions and Epistemologies of History Writing in the Age of Decolonisation
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Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
"Hong Kong History Academy" 8 lectures, each comprising 3 sessions. Lecture 2 Dogs' Welfares and Social Progress Dr Catherine S. Chan Session three: Modernization and Dogs’ rights youtu.be/rikYbcVQPpI
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Allan Pang @allanpang.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Just in time for Christmas: my newest article is now published in Itinerario! It examines the politics of history education and decolonisation in Hong Kong. This will be part of a special issue in 2026, guest-edited by @mihatsch.bsky.social and Casper Anderson. doi.org/10.1017/S016...
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Contesting Epistemological Territory: History Education and Decolonisation in Hong Kong | Itinerario | Cambridge Core
Contesting Epistemological Territory: History Education and Decolonisation in Hong Kong
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Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Our first video of the new series "Hong Kong History Academy" is out! 8 lectures, each comprising 3 sessions. Lecture 1: Swire and Hong Kong Prof. Robert Bickers Session one: Why did the British go to China? youtu.be/1gl_ecm9Tz0
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🙏 Thank you for everyone who came to the presentation in Bristol yesterday and especially @allanpang.bsky.social for taking these photos.
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Matthew Hurst @mrmhurst.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Thank you to all who attended our book talk about 𝘈 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘋𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘒𝘰𝘯𝘨, to our speakers Florence Mok, @adonismyli.bsky.social and @allanpang.bsky.social, and to David for support organising. More info: hkupress.hku.hk/New_Doc_Hist... (use 20CP2025 for 20% off until 21 May)
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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
📅 💬 Join us in Bristol: @mihatsch.bsky.social will speak at the History Department Research Seminar on May 13, 3:30 pm, LR8, Arts Complex, 21 Woodland Road, BS8 1TB, Clifton Campus. / @uobrishistory.bsky.social
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Allan Pang @allanpang.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
My review of the fascinating book by Muhammad Suhail! @iseas-singapore.bsky.social
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Matthew Hurst @mrmhurst.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
A few weeks until our 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝘈 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘋𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘒𝘰𝘯𝘨! Hear from co-editor Florence Mok and contributors @adonismyli.bsky.social, @allanpang.bsky.social and me, followed by a roundtable chaired by David Clayton 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Hot off the press! Check out 'A ‘Medieval Menagerie’ in a Progressive Era: Captive Animal Welfare and Minimal British Interventionism in Hong Kong, 1950s–1970s' by Catherine S. Chan: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
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A ‘Medieval Menagerie’ in a Progressive Era: Captive Animal Welfare and Minimal British Interventionism in Hong Kong, 1950s–1970s
Using the urban encounter with wild animals as a point of entry, this study sheds light on the feature of minimal interventionism in British colonial governance through the miserable conditions of ...
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Matthew Hurst @mrmhurst.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸 Contributors to 𝘈 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘋𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘒𝘰𝘯𝘨 Florence Mok @adonismyli.bsky.social @allanpang.bsky.social and myself will discuss re-examining Hong Kong's history using lesser-used sources for our new edited volume 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿: forms.gle/nYMiKFgMRzmZ...
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A New Documentary History of Hong Kong book talk
In its 14 chapters, A New Documentary History of Hong Kong examines a range of themes spanning politics, economics, society and culture through reproduced primary sources, diagrams and images. This ev...
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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I have a new review essay on recent Hong Kong books (focusing on ones by Angelina Chin, Florence Mok, Vaudine England, and Ho-fung Hung) out in the @historians.org's American Historical Review, an excerpt from it free online academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...
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The Many Booms in Hong Kong’s Past—And the First Ever Hong Kong History Boom
Unsettling Exiles is the second book—and second impressive book at that—by Angelina Chin. I am used to describing her as an up-and-coming specialist to wat
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Jon Howlett @jonhowlett.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
74 years ago, in March 1951, ‘Rose, Rose I Love You’ (玫瑰玫瑰我愛你), sung by Yao Lee (姚莉, pictured) became the first Chinese record to become a hit in Britain and America. (1/8)
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Matthew Hurst @mrmhurst.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Our 14-chapter 𝘈 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘋𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘒 explores themes in colonial Hong Kong history including politics, economics and society through primary sources and images hkupress.hku.hk/New_Doc_Hist... Contributors on Bluesky @adonismyli.bsky.social @allanpang.bsky.social @viviankonghk.bsky.social
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