Description
An online lecture by Dr. Chi Man Kwong on the operations and tactics in 1941 Battle of Hong Kong.This talk summarizes the speaker’s recent experience of revisiting the Battle of Hong Kong in 1941 through a Spatial History project based on critical reading of primary sources from Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Japan. The Spatial History approach allows the speaker to propose new observations about the operational and tactical dimensions of the battle, the performance of the Japanese forces, and the reasons for the battle’s outcome, which was seemingly a foregone conclusion. This talk also introduces the interactive web map and a WWII-war ruins database created by the speaker about the Battle, discusses some possible future research directions on the topic, and outlines how these new directions help with the commemoration of the battle in Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
Period | 24 Jun 2021 |
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Held at | Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong |
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The Battle of Hong Kong 1941: A Spatial History Project 1941年香港戰役地圖
Project: Digital scholarship project