Leung Sang

World History

This Day In History

Nov. 25 – In 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese…
Nov. 26 – In 1942, President Roosevelt ordered…
Nov. 27 – In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who’d resigned.
Nov. 28 – In 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran during World War II…
Nov. 18 – In 1976, Spain’s parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
Nov. 19 – In 1863, President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
Nov. 20 – In 1945, 24 Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany….
Nov. 21 – n 1995, the presidents of three rival Balkan states agreed to make peace in Bosnia, ending nearly four years of terror and ethnic bloodletting that have left a quarter of a million people dead in the worst war in Europe since World War II…
Nov. 22 – In 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas…
Nov. 24 – In 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded…

Leung Yuen Sang, BA, MPhil (CUHK); PhD(UCSB); Dean, Faculty of Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Director of Research Centre for Comparative City Cultures, Research Institute for the Humanities, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Director of Research Centre for Contemporary Chinese Culture, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; College Head of Chung Chi College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Professor of History, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Writing history is a quest for Truth and Reality but it is also a personal search for Identity and Meaning. Historiographic traditions represent various forms of collective memories; yet they are also expressions of different cultural mentalities. Research Specializations and Interests: Confucianism and Christianity in Modern China, Cities and Cultures: Shanghai, Hong Kong and Shenzhen, Overseas Chinese Communities: Singapore and Los Angeles

The Legitimation of New Orders

November 11, 2012

http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Legitimation_of_New_Orders.html?id=cbDee_nEkYcC The Legitimation of New Orders: Case Studies in World History by Leung Yuen Sang The contributors…

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