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Florence Mok

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Florence Mok is Nanyang Assistant Professor of the History Department at Nanyang Technological University. She is a historian of colonial Hong Kong and modern China, with an interest in environmental history, the Cold War and state-society relations. She received her BA and MA in History from Durham University. She completed her PhD in History at the University of York in 2019. Her doctoral research examined governance and political culture in the 1970s Hong Kong. Her current projects explore water supplies and Chinese Communist cultural activities in colonial Hong Kong during the Cold War. For her next project, she will study the history of natural disasters and crisis management. The study will explore how the colonial government and the Chinese society in Hong Kong mitigated environmental crises from 1945 to 1980. This innovative study will shed light on the current global pandemics by tracing past practices used to alleviate emergencies in a densely populated and newly-urbanised environment which had an under-developed welfare system, supported by a narrow tax base.

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