This course aims to provide students with proper humanities perspective to understand how the present-day Greater Bay Area (GBA) has been evolved from the historical notion “Lingnan” (South of the Mountains) over the past two millennia. Going beyond dynastic history, the course considers the region as a cultural entity evolved over times. It offers fundamental knowledge of the region in such areas as human ecology, languages and ethnic compositions, religions and rituals, social institutions and organizations, trade and commercial activities, art and crafts, music and opera, cuisines and other social practices. This course helps students to discover the interdisciplinary nature of cultural and historical analysis and aids their development of such analytical techniques. By locating Hong Kong and Macau against the context of GBA, this course will also help students understand the history of the region as a crucial part of the global network which evolved since at least the 16th century.