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Professor LAU Chi Pang is the Associate Vice President (Academic Affairs and External Relations) of Lingnan University, and Professor of the Department of History. He is concurrently Coordinator of the Hong Kong and South China Historical Research Programme.
Professor Lau completed his BA and MPhil degrees at the University of Hong Kong and received his PhD (History) degree from the University of Washington, Seattle. He joined Lingnan University’s General Education Division in 1993 and became a founding member of the Department of History in 2002. He has been teaching Chinese history and Hong Kong history for the department ever since.
Professor Lau’s academic interests include the intellectual history of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, Hong Kong history, as well as the study of Chinese Local Records. He has focused on the research and teaching of local history in recent 20 years, publishing more than 20 books on a wide range of topics such as: the development of Tuen Mun, the New Territories and other places; oral history records of residents from So Uk Estate and Chung Ying Street, local artists from 1960 to 1975, Shandong policemen in the last century, Hong Kong people during Japanese Occupation, etc.; as well as the history of the bar-bending industry, Ta Teh Institute, Hong Kong International Airport and so on.
Apart from research and education, Professor Lau has been actively engaging in promoting Hong Kong history to the general public. He contributes to newspaper columns and participates in radio and TV programmes on a regular basis. Recently he has completed the Jockey Club Hong Kong History Learning Programme with generous donation from The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, compiling a comprehensive set of local history teaching kits for both primary and secondary school teachers and students.
Living up to the Lingnan motto “Education for Service”, Professor Lau has been sharing his professional knowledge with the wider public by earnestly taking part in community and cultural services. He had served the Tuen Mun District Council, Heung Yee Kuk, Antiquities Advisory Board, Advisory Committee on Revitalisation of Historic Buildings, Town Planning Board, History Museum Advisory Panel, Lord Wilson Heritage Trust. He is currently Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Built Heritage Conservation and member of Advisory Council on the Environment.
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Research and Publication on the Items of the “Representative List of the ICH of Hong Kong”
Leisure and Cultural Services Department (HKSAR)
1/08/20 → 31/07/23
Project: Grant Research
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Organisation of Study Tours to Suzhou and Chongqing
12/03/20 → 17/02/22
Project: Professional Projects (including Consultancy)
Research output
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建造香港:方圜平直 - 香港建造培訓四十五周年發展歷程
劉智鵬, 23 Dec 2020, 香港: 中華書局(香港)有限公司. 288 p.Research output: Scholarly Books | Reports | Literary Works › Book (Author)
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方志中的古代香港 :《新安縣志》香港史料選
劉智鵬 (ed.) & 劉蜀永 (ed.), 4 Sep 2020, 修訂再版 ed. 三聯書店(香港)有限公司.Research output: Scholarly Books | Reports | Literary Works › Book (Editor) › Profession
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香港志‧總述 大事記
丁新豹 (ed.), 陳佳榮 (ed.), 劉智鵬 (ed.) & 劉蜀永 (ed.), Dec 2020, 香港: 中華書局(香港)有限公司. 808 p.Research output: Scholarly Books | Reports | Literary Works › Book (Editor) › Profession
Prizes
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第九屆「香港書獎」 The 9th Hong Kong Book Prize
LAU, Chi Pang (Recipient), 21 Jun 2016
Prize: Prize / Award › Prize
Activities
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新界族譜的歷史意義及其現代應用
Chi Pang LAU (Speaker)
25 Apr 2020Activity: Talks or Presentations › Other Invited Talks or Presentations
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香港史 : 從源起、五四到現在
劉智鵬 (Speaker), 陳學然 (Speaker) & 譚家齊 (Speaker)
20 Jul 2019Activity: Talks or Presentations › Public Lecture
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全人發展講座 – 公民教育系列 :「了解昨日,才明今天 – 與學生談中國歷史人物」
劉智鵬 (Invited speaker)
2 Dec 2019Activity: Talks or Presentations › Other Invited Talks or Presentations
Press / Media
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高階思維 A question about the positioning of the reformed Liberal Studies curriculum
26/02/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research / Knowledge Transfer
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通識科要「重新冠名」Chinese translation of ‘renamed subject’
25/02/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research / Knowledge Transfer
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