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To promote cultural academic exchanges and historical studies, the New Asia College collaborated with Chung Chi College and the Department of History of the Chinese University in 2007 to host the "Yu Ying-shih Lecture in History". Each year, an outstanding scholar in history studies is invited to give lectures, and the series has gained wide recognition among academics in the field of culture and the public.

Professor Luo Zhitian from the History Department, Peking University, School of History and Culture, Sichuan University was invited to deliver this year's lecture in November 2013. On 30 November and 3 December, he delivered two speeches discussing China's greatest cataclysms in the last five thousand years and the dynamics of transition from reform to revolution in the late Qing Dynasty.

The first lecture, "A Different Modern China: Rethinking the Greatest Cataclysm in the Last Five Thousand Years" was jointly held by the New Asia College, Chung Chi College and the Hong Kong Museum of History. It was held in the Lecture Hall in the museum at 3 pm on 30 November 2013. The lecture explored the subjectivity of China's modern and contemporary history and contrasted the past and the present by relating the great changes in China's history.

The second one, "From Reform to Revolution: Rethinking the Last Ten Years of the Qing Dynasty,"was held at 4:30 pm at Cho Yiu Hall at the Chinese University on 3 December 2013. Prof Luo explained the social psychology of people in the Late Qing period, and analyzed the causes and influences of the revolution.