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Conference Date:

Conference: May 28–31, 2026

 

Venue:
Li Dak Sum Yip Yio Chin Academic Building, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong 

 

Overview:
Building on a growing international conversation about China’s middle period (220–1600) and the success of the previous three Middle-Period China Humanities conferences, we are pleased to invite proposals for The Middle without Boundaries? The Fourth Middle-Period China Humanities Conference, to be held May 28–31, 2026, at City University of Hong Kong in Kowloon, Hong Kong. This marks the first time the conference series will be held in Asia, and we are excited to take this step together with you.

Three years after scholars gathered at Yale University to ask whether we are “Stuck in the Middle,” this conference seeks to continue those rich intellectual exchanges and to move beyond conventional boundaries—chronological, disciplinary, and geographical—in order to explore fresh approaches to this long and diverse era.

 

  

The Conference Organizing Committee：

Conference Program:

May 28
14:00	Registration Desk Open
16:00 – 17:20	Opening Ceremony
17:30 – 19:30	Reception
May 29
9:00 – 10:50	Panel Session I Disciplinary Panels
10: 50 – 11:15	Tea Break
11:15 – 12:45	Plenary Roundtable I (Rethinking Time: Periodization Revisited)
12: 45 – 14:00	Lunch
14:15	Leave for Field Trips
May 30
9:00 – 10:50	Panel Session II Interdisciplinary Panels
10: 50 – 11:15	Tea Break
11:15 – 12:45	Plenary Roundtable II (Rethinking Tools: New Methodological Developments)
12: 45 – 14:30	Lunch
May 31
9:00 – 10:50	Panel Reflections I
10:50 – 11:15	Tea Break
11:15 – 12:55	Panel Reflections II
12:55 – 13:00	Concluding Remarks
13:00 – 14:30	Farewell Lunch

 

For any inquiries, please write to cah4chinahumanities@cityu.edu.hk

Sponsored by:

The Tin Ka Ping Foundation

Hosted by：

The Department of Chinese and History, City University of Hong Kong