Focusing on watercourses as vectors of exchange and transformation, the symposium examines both wellknown elites such as Cantonese officials, literati, and merchants, as well as the often-overlooked actors who sustained and remade littoral life, including sailors, pirates, sea nomads, boat people, and others whose daily practice of navigation constituted a distinctive maritime knowledge. These communities' multilingual competencies, mobile capital, specialized crafts, and artistic endeavors enabled them to navigate and transform South China land-water interfaces.
Organisers
- Department of Chinese Language Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong
- CKC TechCulture Innovation Centre, The Education University of Hong Kong
Co-organizers
- Department of Literature and Cultural Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- The Institute of Chinese Studies
- Research Programme for Lingnan Culture
Symposium Panel
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