Lingnan Culture and the World:

Focus 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.

Date: 26 - 27 February 2026 (Thu-Fri, UTC+8)

Venue:

• Day 1 - C-LP-02, Tai Po Campus, EdUHK
• Day 2 - Ma Wan

Language: Chinese, English