Bachelor of Arts (BA) - The University of Hong Kong

200HIST2021.Nineteenth century Russia, 1800-1905 (6 credits)(This course is also offered to second and third year non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadeningpurposes.)This course surveys developments within the Russian Empire from the duel between Alexander I andNapoleon through the Revolution of 1905, the dress rehearsal for the Revolution of 1917 whichdestroyed Tsarism. This course focuses on internal developments, rather than on foreign policy; andthus includes topics such as Slavophilism vs. Westernizers, the tsarist reaction, and then reform underNicholas I and Alexander II, the revolutionary movement from the Decembrists to the Bolsheviks,industrialisation, the Nationalities Question, and the peasantry before and after Emancipation. Thiscourse requires no prior knowledge of European history.Assessment: 100% coursework.HIST2022.A special topic in history (6 credits)From time to time, the department will offer special survey courses under this title. Students may finddetails each year in the department's handbook.Assessment: 100% coursework.HIST2023.The history of the environment of China (6 credits)(This course is also offered to non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadening purposes.)China's environmental problems and ecologically unsustainable patterns of development predate themodern era. This course examines the interaction of human systems with other natural systems thathave shaped the course of Chinese history and society.Assessment: 100% coursework.HIST2024.A century of business in Hong Kong, 1842-1949 (6 credits)(This course is also offered to second and third year non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadeningpurposes.)This course traces the business history of Hong Kong after it became a British colony until theCommunist Takeover of China in 1949. The topics covered in the course include Hong Kong as acentre of opium trade, the development of Western businesses, the mode and practice of Chinesebusinesses such as the Nam Pak Hong, relations between Western and Chinese businesses, the impact ofChinese nationalism, the world wars, the Great Depression, and communist control in China on HongKong business.Assessment: 100% coursework.HIST2025.British Hong Kong and China 1895-1945 (6 credits)(This course is also offered to second and third year non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadeningpurposes.)This course concerns itself with the most uneasy and sometimes turbulent relations between Hong Kongas a British colony, the population of which is almost entirely Chinese, and China which was goingthrough what was perhaps the most dramatic and critical half century of its history. How British HongKong responded to such momentous developments as the 1911 Revolution, the rise of Chinesenationalism in the 1920's and Japan's progressive aggression makes a fascinating study.Assessment: 100% coursework.