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RE-VIEWING DARMSTADT: RESEARCH INTO THREE COMPOSERS OF EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDE MUSIC
To research the works of modernist composers Bussotti, Kagel and Schnebel through analysis of manuscripts housed in Milan and Basel, interviews with the composers, and collation of existing data. This will result in the publication of a monograph with the intent to transform the current understanding of postwar European music to include a radically different range of underlying aesthetic concepts.
Investigator: Dr. P.G. Attinello
Department: Music
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1997.11
RE-VIEWING DARMSTADT: RESEARCH AND DISSEMINATION OF A NEW HISTORY OF EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDE MUSIC
To transform the received understanding of postwar European music to include a more varied landscape of composers, works and concepts, showing its relation to contemporaneous American music and to later postmodern styles.
Investigator: Dr. P.G. Attinello
Department: Music
Source of funding: Hong Kong Research Grants Council
Starting date: 1998.09
AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF TWO DISCIPLINARY CULTURES
To identify and analyse key events, activities and genres within an engineering discipline and a scientific discipline and to determine how students are initiated into their chosen discipline, in order to better inform needs analysis and course design English for academic purpose.
Investigator: Mr. C.S. Barron
Department: English Centre
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1994.07
WHAT STUDENTS KNOW ABOUT LEARNING AND USING ENGLISH: A STUDY OF LANGUAGE LEARNING EXPERIENCES OF HONG KONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
To study the language learning experiences of first year students at the University of Hong Kong and an assessment of their implications for the design of English enhancement programmes.
Investigators: Mr. P. Benson (Principal)
Professor D.C. Nunan
Department: English Centre
Source of funding: Hong Kong Research Grants Council
Starting date: 1997.09
THE LEXICOGRAPHY OF CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH IN HONG KONG
(i) To conduct an initial investigation of 'Chinese English' and 'Hong Kong English' vocabulary in Hong Kong, (ii) the expansion of an existing relationship between the principal investigator and the Macquarie Dictionary Co., Australia's leading dictionary publisher, (iii) the promotion of research into 'Asian Englishes' and 'Hong Kong English', and (iv) the eventual publication of a dictionary of Hong Kong English.
Investigator: Mr. K.R. Bolton
Department: English
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1998.07
JAPANESE PRIMARY MATHEMATICS EDUCATION VIDEO PROJECT
To videotape and transcribe Japanese primary school maths lessons, in order to allow detailed analysis of teachers' pedagogical strategies, and of the discourse processes during lessons. Also, to do library research into the development of Japanese mathematics pedagogy.
Investigator: Mr. P. Cave
Department: Japanese Studies
Source of funding: Run Run Shaw Research and Teaching Endowment Fund
Starting date: 1998.12
HONG KONG - JAPAN RELATIONS FROM 1842 TO 1997
To compile a detailed record of Hong Kong-Japan relations from the signing of the Nanjing Treaty in 1842 to 1997.
Investigators: Mr. C.Y. Chan (Principal)
Miss V.W.Y. Yeung
Department: Japanese Studies
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1998.07
NEW COMPOSITIONS WITH STUDY MANUAL FOR ER-HU
To provide worldwide er-hu players a fresh repertory to get into the world of er-hu music; to provide the users with a way to learn about various kinds of Chinese music as well as contemporary music and to develop musical appreciation in general; to encourage the practice of using the internationally standardized staff system to notate er-hu music.
Investigator: Dr. J.K.B. Chan
Department: Music
Source of funding: Hong Kong Research Grants Council
Starting date: 1997.10
LEXICAL INTERCHANGE BETWEEN CHINESE AND ENGLISH WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO HONG KONG
To update the studies on lexical borrowing from English into Chinese and lexical borrowing from Chinese into English; to expand the scope of the research by taking into account the situation in neighbouring Guangdong province.
Investigator: Professor M.M.M. Chan
Department: English
Source of funding: Hang Seng Bank Golden Jubilee Education Fund for Research
Starting date: 1994.03
HISTORY OF THE EAST RIVER BRIGADE IN HONG KONG DURING WORLD WAR II
To trace the development of behind-the-lines Chinese Nationalist resistance to the Japanese armies in Guangdong and the transformation of these fighters into the East River guerilla column.
Investigator: Mr. S.J. Chan
Department: Centre of Asian Studies
Starting date: 1986.01
THE IMPACT OF CHINESE NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES ON THE CHINESE LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY OF YEAR ONE STUDENTS IN THE CHIESE DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
It is commonly accepted that the language deficiencies existing in Chinese magazines and newspapers have an adverse effect on the language proficiency of the general public. The first year students of the Department of Chinese, The University of Hong Kong, should in general have a good command in the Chinese language. This research targets on how and in what way, if any, the media has affected them with the aim to identify any remedies that may be required. Results obtained from this project could be beneficial to both our students and the paper media. With proper analysis, teching approaches and methods could be more precisely designed.
Investigators: Dr. Y.C. Chan (Principal)
Professor K.S. Lee
Dr. Y.K. Tse
Department: Chinese
Source of funding: Hang Seng Bank Golden Jubilee Education Fund for Research
Starting date: 1998.03
HOW PHONETICS INSTRUMENTS CAN CONTRIBUTE TO THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF PHONETICS
To compare (and evaluate) the performances of the different groups of students in their ability to master phonetics, one group exposed to the techniques of experimental phonetics, the other group not.
Investigator: Mrs. R.F.L. Chen
Department: Linguistics
Starting date: 1997.09
MING-CHING HISTORY
To conduct research into Ming-Ching history.
Investigator: Professor L.Y. Chiu
Department: Chinese
Source of funding: Hsu Long Sing Research Fund
Starting date: 1982.08
HISTORY OF THE AUSTRALIAN CHINESE POLITICAL AND INTELLECTUAL ACTIVITIES IN SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA DURING THE LATE QING PERIOD
Overseas Chinese political and intellectual activities in Sydney have never been properly studied. This project will fully make use of the Chinese newspapers published in Sydney during the late Qing and early Republican period and to highlight Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, Kang Yu-Wei and Liang Chi-Chao's activities in Australia.
Investigators: Professor L.Y. Chiu (Principal)
Professor W.P. Liu
Dr. H.W.O. Yeung
Departments: Chinese
School of East Asian Studies, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Source of funding: Hsu Long Sing Research Fund
Starting date: 1995.09
CHINESE HERITAGE IN SYDNEY DURING THE LATE QING PERIOD
Australian Chinese activities in Sydney and Melbourne, politically, socially and culturally, have never been properly studied. This project, apart from using those Chinese newspapers published in Sydney during the late 19th and early 20th century, the principal investigator and all the investigators will re-construct the relations between the Australian Chinese and the Chinese revolutionaries or reformers of the Guangdong regions by making use of the Quant Tart and Ah Ket papers now available.
Investigators: Professor L.Y. Chiu (Principal)
Professor W.P. Liu
Mr. C.K. Ma
Dr. H.W.O. Yeung
Departments: Chinese
School of East Asian Studies, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Source of funding: Hsu Long Sing Research Fund
Starting date: 1998.07
CHINESE MORAL CULTURE IN TRANSITION
To contribute to a better understanding of China's moral culture as it is going through a period of profound change; to give an account of an important yet relatively neglected aspect of People's Republic of China's cultural history, i.e., the history ofits moral culture.
Investigator: Dr. J. Ci
Department: Philosophy
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1997.11
RESPONSES TO WESTERN ART IN TWENTIETH CENTURY CHINA
To discover when and how awareness of modern western art reached China; to examine the various responses made to that art over time, particularly by artists.
Investigator: Dr. D.J. Clarke
Department: Fine Arts
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1989.06
HONG KONG IN TRANSITION: A PHOTO-DOCUMENTARY PROJECT
To create an archive of photo-documentary images documenting and analyzing aspects of cultural and other changes taking place in the period before and after the transfer of sovereignty.
Investigator: Dr. D.J. Clarke
Department: Fine Arts
Starting date: 1994.12
IN TRANSITION: HONG KONG ART AND THE TRANSFER OF SOVEREIGNTY
The transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong is a momentous historical event, and one which appears without real precedent. The incorporation of this capitalist city into a Communist state is a post-colonial story differing from those found elsewhere (narratives of independent statehood achieved), on which post-colonial theory is largely based. To study it is thus of particular value, and given that the handover was an event known many years in advance (unlike say the reunification of Germany), it has been possible for me to conduct a long-term project studying the effect of the transition on visual art in the territory.
Investigator: Dr. D.J. Clarke
Department: Fine Arts
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1998.07
A BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER OF CHANTRY PRIESTS IN REFORMATION ENGLAND
To produce a biographical register of the several thousand English priests who were serving as chantry chaplains at the time of the dissolution of the English chantries (1547-48) together with a comprehensive list of the chantry foundations.
Investigator: Dr. P.A. Cunich
Department: History
Starting date: 1991.10
A BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER OF THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS IN ENGLAND AND WALES, 1530-1603
To co-ordinate the research efforts of a large group of historians working in the field of sixteenth-century English history in order to produce a comprehensive biographical register of the nine thousand ex-religious in England and Wales after the dissolution of the monasteries (1536-40).
Investigator: Dr. P.A. Cunich
Department: History
Starting date: 1991.10
ACQUISITION AND ALIENATION OF CROWN LAND IN ENGLAND, 1536-1558
To trace patterns of acquisition and alienation of crown land in England during a period in which rapid changes in the land market had a major impact on the income base of the English state. This will allow for a detailed analysis of the relative roles played by the crown lands and other forms of income in the early development of a modern national treasury in England and the impact of these developments on society in general.
Investigator: Dr. P.A. Cunich
Department: History
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1996.07
A MONASTIC DATABASE FOR SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND AND WALES
To establish at the University of Hong Kong a multimedia electronic database which will give scholars from a range of disciplines (but especially historians) interactive access to the growing body of data being collected by researchers concerning the Dissolution of the Monasteries in England and Wales (1536-1540).
Investigator: Dr. P.A. Cunich
Department: History
Source of funding: Hong Kong Research Grants Council
Starting date: 1997.10
EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURY CELTIC LINGUISTICS
To trace the development of Celtic linguistics in the British Isles in the 18 and 19C.
Investigator: Dr. D.R. Davis
Department: English
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1997.07 Completion date: 1999.06
THE ATTITUDES OF CONTEMPORARY FRENCH INTELLECTUALS TO THE WAR IN THE PERSIAN GULF
Part of long term history of the French intelligentsia and how the concept of the 'left' has been changing.
Investigator: Mr. P.F. Deli
Department: History
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1991.06
TECHNIQUES IN TEPHRA IDENTIFICATION AND CORRELATION
To develop and prove laboratory-based techniques for use in the identification and correlation of andesitic tephras.
Investigator: Dr. S.L. Donoghue
Department: Earth Sciences
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1995.01
VOLCANIC HISTORY AND TEPHRA CORRELATION STUDIES AT MOUNT RAINIER
To elucidate the Holocene eruptive history of Mount Rainier, and to develop a methodology for correlating andesitic tephras.
Investigators: Dr. S.L. Donoghue (Principal)
Dr. J. Vallance
Departments: Earth Sciences
Geological Engineering, Geology and Geophysics, Michigan Technological University, U.S.A.
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1995.07
THE GREAT HANSHIN EARTHQUAKE - RECOVERY OPERATIONS AND PLANNING ISSUES
To examine specific issues in disaster management, using the Great Hanshin Earthquake as a case example; to document recovery operations in Kobe city; to appraise the nature and effectiveness of both the short- and long-term recovery planning process in the Hanshin region.
Investigators: Dr. S.L. Donoghue (Principal)
Professor R.T.A. Irving
Departments: Earth Sciences
School of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Dr. Stephen S.F. Hui Trust Fund
Hui Oi Chow Trust Fund
Starting date: 1995.07
A VOLCANIC HAZARDS ASSESSMENT AT RUAPEHU VOLCANO
To provide an integrated hazards assessment for tephras, lahars, and pyroclastic flows at Ruapehu volcano, based on the distributions, frequencies, and magnitudes of past events, as recorded by deposits preserved near the volcano.
Investigator: Dr. S.L. Donoghue
Department: Earth Sciences
Source of funding: Croucher Foundation
Starting date: 1995.12
THE ROAD MOVIE: IDEOLOGY AND THE AMERICAN QUEST
To publish a 300 page book.
Investigator: Dr. P.B. Erens
Department: Comparative Literature
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1997.07
REMNANTS OF REALISM: MODERNISM AND VIRGINIA WOOLF'S ROOMS
To explore the persistence of literary realism as a mode in interwar fiction, even after the arrival of modernism.
Investigator: Dr. W.C.H. Gan
Department: English
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1999.08
LEARNER INTERACTIVITY WITH LANGUAGE TEACHING SOFTWARE
To improve the learning potential of interactive language learning software by empirically evaluating the relationship between user/software interaction and the quality of learning.
Investigator: Mr. D.P. Gardner
Department: English Centre
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1994.07
MAKING SELF-ACCESS CENTRES MORE EFFECTIVE
To develop a set of tools to enable the assessment of the effectiveness of self-access centres and of self-access learning.
Investigators: Mr. D.P. Gardner (Principal)
Dr. L. Miller
Mr. R. Pemberton
Departments: English Centre
English, The City University of Hong Kong
Language Centre, The University of Science and Technology
Source of funding: University Grants Committee Central Allocation
Starting date: 1998.02
CATULLUS THROUGH ENGLISH POETRY
To provide an anthology of translations and representations of the Roman poet Catullus in English which represents his poetic, cultural and linguistic impact on English lyric poets from the renaissance to the present day.
Investigator: Dr. N.S. Gisborne
Department: English
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1997.11
THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH RAISING PREDICATES
To investigate the history of a class of English verbs over a period of one thousand years and to advance a case for dependency grammar as the formalism which is most adequately equipped to provide an account of syntactic change.
Investigator: Dr. N.S. Gisborne
Department: English
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1998.07
A UNIFIED SOLUTION TO SOME PARADOXES
To produce a technically correct and philosophically adequate solution to certain families of semantical and set-theoretic paradoxes.
Investigator: Professor L. Goldstein
Department: Philosophy
Starting date: 1996.06
STUDY OF OCCULT PRECIPITATION
To study occult precipitation.
Investigators: Professor R.D. Hill (Principal)
Dr. W.J. Kyle
Dr. M.R. Peart
Departments: Ecology and Biodiversity
Geography and Geology
Source of funding: Woo Ting Sang Agricultural Development Research Fund
Starting date: 1989.12
STYLOSANTHES OVERSOWING EXPERIMENT
To test the suitability of Stylosanthes, a protein-rich tropical legume, for oversowing into natural grassland.
Investigator: Professor R.D. Hill
Department: Ecology and Biodiversity
Source of funding: Hui Oi Chow Trust Fund
Starting date: 1990.11
TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
To gather material for a proposed book on traditional agriculture in Southeast Asia.
Investigator: Professor R.D. Hill
Department: Ecology and Biodiversity
Source of funding: Hang Seng Bank Golden Jubilee Education Fund for Research
Starting date: 1994.04
BOOK PROJECT ON TIMOTHY MO
This is a research project leading to the writing of a book on the contemporary novelist, Timothy Mo. Manchester University Press (MUP) has offered me a contract for the publication of the book in the second series of their Contemporary World Writers Series.
Investigator: Dr. E.Y.L. Ho
Department: English
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Hong Kong Research Grants Council
Starting date: 1998.07
A STUDY OF EMPERORSHIP LEARNING IN SONG PERIOD
The study of emperorship learning in Song period had long been neglected by scholars. This research is aimed to fill this gap.
Investigator: Dr. C.H. Hui
Department: Chinese
Source of funding: Hsu Long Sing Research Fund
Starting date: 1993.03
LANGUAGE STUDIES UNDER NATIONAL SOCIALISM
To contextualise national socialist linguistics in the wider history of language studies in the west.
Investigator: Dr. C.M. Hutton
Department: English
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1998.07
ORIENTALISM AND LANGUAGE: WESTERN LINGUISTICS AND ITS RECEPTION IN HONG KONG AND CHINA
At a theoretical level, the primary purpose of this project is to challenge conventional understandings of the history of linguistics. Linguistics, unlike anthropology, has not yet begun to take seriously its colonial past, and histories of linguistics make only passing reference to the context of European expansionism and colonialism within which they wrote. These histories operate with an idealogically sanitised model of linguistic inquiry, concentrating on advances in linguistic methodology and descriptive techniques. Linguistics' confrontation with Said's critique in Orientalism is long overdue. We aim to transform the way linguists look at the history of their discipline, a transformation which we believe will ultimately change the way linguists look at language questions in the contemporary world.
Investigators: Dr. C.M. Hutton (Principal)
Mr. K.R. Bolton
Dr. Q.S. Tong
Department: English
Source of funding: RGC Fundable Projects (Block Grant Funded)
Starting date: 1998.11
THE WRITER AND EMPIRE: LEONARD WOOLF, GEORGE ORWELL AND COLONIAL DISCOURSE
To investigate the representations of colonial experience in Asia, and the critique of colonialism, in the work of two English writers.
Investigator: Dr. D.W.F. Kerr
Department: English
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1997.07
THE ALLGEMEINE MUSIKALISCHE ZEITUNG (LEIPZIG, 1863-1882): MUSIC, IDEOLOGY, AND POLITICS IN A GERMAN MUSIC JOURNAL OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
To trace some of the principal ideological strategies deployed by the German educated bourgeoisie before, during, and after a crucial moment in its history, the unification of Germany under Prussian leadership (1870/71). The study will offer the first contextualized view of a music journal's discourse within the larger ideological framework of German and European history and cultural politics of the later nineteenth century.
Investigators: Dr. K.B.J. Kuegle (Principal)
Dr. M.J. Noone
Department: Music
Source of funding: Leung Kau Kui Research and Teaching Endowment Fund
Starting date: 1998.12
LANDSCAPE IN TRANSITION: HONG KONG, MACAU AN SHENZHEN AND ZHUHAI APPRAISED FROM ABOVE.
To provide a multimedia evaluation of the developments in Hong Kong, Macau and Shenzhen in the form of a videocassette suitable for use in Hong Kong secondary school geography courses.
Investigators: Dr. W.J. Kyle (Principal)
Professor C.Y. Jim
Dr. J.J. Wang
Dr. D. Zhang
Department: Geography and Geology
Source of funding: Hui Oi Chow Trust Fund
Starting date: 1996.12
HISTORY OF TWENTIETH CENTURY HONG KONG POETRY
History of Twentieth Century Hong Kong Poetry (about 270,000 words) is one of the research project of the History of Twentieth Century Chinese Literautre, a "national project" conducted by Professor Lam Di Zhi, Qinghua University. The complete series will be finalized in June, 1999 and published by Hunan Wenyi Publisher. I am invited by Professor Lam Di Zhi and committed with the responsibility for writing the part of Hong Kong Modern Poetry. After this project, I want to develop further the study of Hong Kong Modern Poetry until 30 June, 2000. In this period an International Conference on Hong Kong Modern Poetry will be organized also.
Investigator: Dr. W.Y. Lai
Department: Chinese
Source of funding: Hang Seng Bank Golden Jubilee Education Fund for Research
Starting date: 1998.05
LANGUAGE EDUCATION IN CHINA SINCE 1949: POLICY AND REALITY
To give an overall analysis of the language education policies in China since 1949. The official policies will be discussed and the way they have been experienced will be traced through different times and in different localities.
Investigator: Dr. A.S.L. Lam
Department: English Centre
Source of funding: Hong Kong Research Grants Council
Starting date: 1998.09
BOOK CHAPTER ON ANIMAL RIGHTS
To write an article in Chinese on animal rights in a forthcoming edited volume on applied ethics.
Investigator: Dr. J.Y.F. Lau
Department: Philosophy
Starting date: 1996.03 Completion date: 1999.06
CONNECTIONIST AND CLASSICAL EXPLANATIONS OF SYSTEMATICITY
To clarify the difference between connectionist and classical theories of mental representations, and to identify the strengths and weaknesses of both approaches in explaining the systematicity of cognitive capacities.
Investigator: Dr. J.Y.F. Lau
Department: Philosophy
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1998.07
STRUCTURED REPRESENTATIONS IN CONNECTIONIST MODELS OF COGNITIVE PROCESSES
To provide a well-motivated scheme for classifying mental representations, in order to evaluate philosophical arguments which link the systematicity of cognitive processes with the requirement that such processes involve syntactically structured representations. The suitability of different connectionist architectures for modelling systematic cognitive processes shall also be investigated.
Investigators: Dr. J.Y.F. Lau (Principal)
Professor M. Davies
Departments: Philosophy
Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, U.K.
Source of funding: UK/HK Joint Research Scheme (British Council / Hong Kong Research Grants Council)
Starting date: 1999.05
CROSS-BORDER POLLUTION PROBLEMS IN HONG KONG
To address two research questions: (1) What are the scope, extent as well as the broad impacts of cross-border environmental pollution problems affecting Hong Kong in general and north-western New Territories in particular? (2) To waht extent, and in what specific ways, could the Hong Kong SAR government work effectively with various local, provincial and central authroities in China to address cross-border environmental pollution problems wthin the constraints of the "one country, two systems" governance framework?
Investigator: Dr. F.Y.S. Lee
Department: Geography and Geology
Source of funding: Hui Oi Chow Trust Fund
Starting date: 1998.06
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS: HONG KONG, JAPAN, VIETNAM
To compare environmental consciousness in three major "border confucian" culture zones in Asia.
Investigators: Dr. F.Y.S. Lee (Principal)
Dr. M. Aoyagi-Usui
Dr. J. Nickum
Dr. T. Rambo
Departments: Geography and Geology
East-West Center, U.S.A.
National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan
University of Tokyo, Japan
Source of funding: Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research, Japan
Starting date: 1998.12
"KING OF SOUTHERN SKY": A STUDY OF CHEN JITANG'S RULE IN GUANGDONG (1929-36) WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO HIS "THREE-YEAR ADMINISTRATIVE PLAN" (1933-35)
To study the mentality of a typical reformist warlord and the prospects of socio-economic progress under a paternalistic and militaristic regime.
Investigator: Dr. A.H.Y. Lin
Department: History
Source of funding: Hsu Long Sing Research Fund
Starting date: 1997.02
THE HONG KONG-GUANGDONG INTEGRATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN THE NEW TERRITORIES, HONG KONG
To investigate the process of economic integration of Hong Kong-Guangdong integraton; to assess its implications for urban development in the New Territories; to recommend policies and planning measures to the local government.
Investigator: Dr. G.C.S. Lin
Department: Geography and Geology
Source of funding: Hui Oi Chow Trust Fund
Starting date: 1995.11 Completion date: 1998.10
TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF HONG KONG INVESTMENT IN GUANGDONG
To investigate the growth dynamics and locational characteristics of Hong Kong investment in guangdong Province since 1979, when the open door policy was initiated in mainland China. The purposes are, first, to identify the pattern of growth nd spatial distribution of Hong Kong investment in the mainland and, secondly, to asses the impacts of such investment on the employment structure and urban development in the region.
Investigator: Dr. G.C.S. Lin
Department: Geography and Geology
Source of funding: Hang Seng Bank Golden Jubilee Education Fund for Research
Starting date: 1996.01
LAND USE CHANGE IN HONG KONG AND THE PEARL RIVER DELTA: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
To compare the extent and mechanism of land use change in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta; to determine the degree of association, if any, between land use change in Hong Kong and the delta; to recommend policies and planning measures for management of land use in Hong Kong and the delta region.
Investigator: Dr. G.C.S. Lin
Department: Geography and Geology
Source of funding: Hui Oi Chow Trust Fund
Starting date: 1998.06
THE HISTORY OF NEW MUSIC IN CHINA 1885-1985
To study the development of Chinese music under the influence of European music from 1885 to 1985, excluding traditional and folk music.
Investigator: Dr. C.C. Liu
Department: Centre of Asian Studies
Source of funding: Centre of Asian Studies
Dr. Stephen S.F. Hui Trust Fund
Fulldiamond Ltd.
Henderson Land Development Co. Ltd.
Hong Kong Ethnomusicological Society
Hong Kong Pei Hua Education Foundation Ltd.
Hong Kong Sino-British Fellowship Trust Scholars' Foundation
Hong Kong Translation Society
Kam Koon Investment Co. Ltd.
Madam Lucina Laam King Ying
Starting date: 1984.02
THE DEVELOPMENT OF VOCAL MUSIC IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY IN CHINA
To study the development of vocal music in the twentieth century in China with special reference to the comparative studies between European style of singing with that of the Chinese style.
Investigators: Dr. C.C. Liu (Principal)
Ms B. Fei
Department: Centre of Asian Studies
Source of funding: Centre of Asian Studies
Hong Kong Culture and Art Foundation
Starting date: 1991.07
THE DEVELOPMENT OF POPULAR MUSIC IN HONG KONG
To study the development of popular music in Hong Kong since the beginning of the 20th century, with special reference to Cantonese popular songs.
Investigators: Dr. C.C. Liu (Principal)
Mr. J. Wong
Department: Centre of Asian Studies
Source of funding: Dr. Stanley Ho
Madam Lucina Laam King Ying
Starting date: 1993.09
MUSIC EDUCATION, MUSICAL ACTIVITIES AND MUSIC COMPOSITION IN HONG KONG 1841-1997
To study music education, musical activities and music composition in Hong Kong during the British rule.
Investigator: Dr. C.C. Liu
Department: Centre of Asian Studies
Source of funding: Centre of Asian Studies
Hong Kong Pei Hua Education Foundation Ltd.
Starting date: 1994.07
EARLY CHINESE YOGACARA THOUGHT: THE TEACHING OF CHING-YING HUI-YUAN
The Yogacara was one of the two main Indian Mahayana doctrinal traditions. The project attempts to examine the early development of Yogacara thought after its introduction into China, focusing on Ching-ying Hui-yuan who was the only early Chinese Yogacarin who had left behind a sizeable amount of writings.
Investigator: Professor M.W. Liu
Department: Chinese
Source of funding: Hsu Long Sing Research Fund
Starting date: 1997.05
HISTORY OF CANTON 1905-1925
To identify the loosely termed and ever-changing "feudal ruling class" in China and to study its relationship with the government and with the people.
Investigator: Professor A.Y.C. Lui
Department: History
Source of funding: Centre of Asian Studies
Starting date: 1983.10
CENTRALISATION VERSUS REGIONALISM IN LATE CH'ING
To study the late Ch'ing government: social forces and the operation of the government machinery both at the capital and in the provinces.
Investigator: Professor A.Y.C. Lui
Department: History
Source of funding: Hang Seng Bank Golden Jubilee Education Fund for Research
Starting date: 1986.02
CORRUPTION UNDER THE CH'ING DYNASTY, 1644-1911
To study a field of history which has been hitherto neglected by historians.
Investigator: Professor A.Y.C. Lui
Department: History
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1990.05
THE IMPACT OF RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY ON CH'ING GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY
To make use of primary sources from China and Hong Kong to write an indepth book of over 500,000 words on a topic "The impact of Religion and Philosophy on Ch'ing Government and Society" which has not been fuly research into.
Investigators: Professor A.Y.C. Lui (Principal)
Professor Rongjin Ge
Departments: History
People's University, Peking, People's Republic of China
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1993.07
THE EARLY CH'ING EMPERORS - THEIR PUBLIC IMAGE AND PRIVATE LIFE
To study the public and private roles of the rulers of China, and assess their correlations; to complete a book on a hitherto neglected area of Ch'ing China.
Investigator: Professor A.Y.C. Lui
Department: History
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1994.07
CONSTRUCTING A DATABASE OF SPOKEN CANTONESE WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND AN ON-LINE DICTIONARY
To build on archive of spoken Cantonese tape recordings, to construct a 200,000 word database on computer, and to compile an on-line dictionary from that database.
Investigators: Dr. K.K. Luke (Principal)
Mr. O.T. Nancarrow
Department: Linguistics
Source of funding: Hong Kong Research Grants Council
Starting date: 1996.11
GRAMMATICAL STUDIES OF CANTONESE BASED ON A CORPUS OF SPEECH DATA
To carry out a set of grammatical studies of Cantonese on the basis of a corpus of speech data.
Investigators: Dr. K.K. Luke (Principal)
Mr. O.T. Nancarrow
Department: Linguistics
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1998.07
A HISTORY OF SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES AND HIV/AIDS IN HONG KONG
To study not only the universal characteristics of STDS (those operating irrespective of location) but also to show the cultural, social and historical dimension in the management of these diseases in 19th and 20th century Hong Kong.
Investigator: Dr. K.L. MacPherson
Department: History
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1994.01
THE ZHABEI DISTRICT REDEVELOPMENT PLAN
To historically reconstruct the redevelopment plan for Shanghai's Zhabei district leading to a reinterpretation of the origins of the plan and the influence of Soviet Socialist planning.
Investigator: Dr. K.L. MacPherson
Department: History
Source of funding: Centre of Urban Planning and Environmental Management
Starting date: 1997.11
THE CITY IN MODERN CHINA
To provide a narrative history on the transformtion of the city in modern China and a re-evaluation of the theoretical literature on the nature of this transformation that does not stand up to the test of historical evidence.
Investigator: Dr. K.L. MacPherson
Department: History
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1998.07
NEGOTIATION OF MEANING IN SMALL GROUP WORK
To describe the interaction of university students in small group discussion.
Investigator: Ms. E.R. Martyn
Department: English Centre
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1994.07
MISSIONARY STUDIES OF SOUTHERN CHINESE DIALECTS
To evaluate the contribution of missionaries to the study of southern Chinese dialects, principally Cantonese and the Southern Min dialects of Amoy and Chaozhou.
Investigator: Dr. S.J. Matthews
Department: Linguistics
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1996.09
THE MIN DIALECT OF CHAOZHOU AND COMPARATIVE CHINESE GRAMMAR
To investigate some grammatical features of the Chaozhou dialect, spoken in Hong Kong and southeast Asia and as well as eastern Guangdong. Topics to be covered include aspect and modality, reduplication, comparative constructions and the syntax of tone change. The project is expected to result in a reference grammar and will contribute to knowledge of the linguistic diversity within varieties of Chinese.
Investigators: Dr. S.J. Matthews (Principal)
Dr. V. Yip
Departments: Linguistics
English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Source of funding: Hong Kong Research Grants Council
Starting date: 1996.09
ENCOUNTERS WITH CHINESE: THE WESTERN LINGUIST AND THE SINITIC LANGUAGES
To analyse and comment on the contributions of western linguists and missionaries to knowledge of the southern Chinese languages during the period 1850-1950: to evaluate the descriptive success and failures of western models confronted with the problems posed by Chinese, and to trace the influence of these works on each other and on western linguistics.
Investigators: Dr. S.J. Matthews (Principal)
Dr. U. Ansaldo
Department: Linguistics
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1997.07
HONG KONG HANDOVER FASHION
To describe and analysis the development of Hong Kong fashion and dressing during 80's and 90's. The fashion language as well as the Hong Kong fashion semiotic system are here considered as a clue of a wider change and evolution in Hong Kong culture, specifically related with the handover.
Investigator: Dr. C.C. Miranda
Department: Comparative Literature
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1998.09
MICROCOMPUTER ASSISTED LOGIC LEARNING
To produce a suite of computer programs providing a substantial grounding in formal logic; to produce secondary-school oriented computer literacy software.
Investigators: Professor F.C.T. Moore (Principal)
Professor L. Goldstein
Department: Philosophy
Source of funding: University Grants Committee
Starting date: 1987.06
THE TALE OF TUDBULOL: DOCUMENTING THE CREATION OF THE WORLD
To document and investigate the performance of the Philippine Tudbulol epic, an important cultural and literary resource. This epic encodes, through song, the customary law of the Tboli, one of the largest ethno-linguistic groups in Mindanao. This s epic (about 24 hours duration) will be recorded, transcribed and translated in its entirety. In addition, the performance practice and vocational history of the epic singer will be fully documented. More broadly, the project aims to produce for pubation an edited version of the epic for Compact Disc format. In so doing, the project not only contributes to the documentation and preservation of a Southeast Asian epic but makes it uniquely accessible.
Investigator: Dr. M. Mora
Department: Music
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1996.07
DOCUMENTATION OF LIRRGA AND WANGGA, TWO GENRES OF NORTH AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL MUSIC
To collect photographs, audio and videotape recordings of lirrga and wangga performances, to transcribe texts and music for new and archival recordings, and to collect relevant ethnographic and biographical details of performers.
Investigators: Dr. M. Mora (Principal)
Dr. L.M. Barwick
Professor A.J. Marett
Department: Music
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1996.07
LUTE CULTURES: AN ETHNOMUSICOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE KUDYAPI OF THE SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES
To document extant lute traditions in the southern Philippines, in particular, Mindanao, as a first step toward a wider study of lute practice within insular Southeast Asia; to produce an ethnography of lute practices throughout the southern Philippines which will include a wide selection of audio and video recordings.
Investigator: Dr. M. Mora
Department: Music
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1998.07
PRONUNCIATION AND SPEECH TUTOR - INTERACTIVE CD-ROM PROGRAMME
To provide a self-access pronunciation package delivered by CD-Rom for secondary school and tertiary students. The package provides on-screen tutors who demonstrate English sound formation, explain the IPA and provide instruction and samples of pause, stress, linking and intonation.
Investigators: Ms E.A. Mueller (Principal)
Ms E. Samson
Department: English Centre
Source of funding: Starling Committee on Language Education and Research (SCOLAR) Language Fund
Starting date: 1996.07 Completion date: 1998.09
THE ICONOGRAPHY OF ST. CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA: SCHOLAR, MYSTIC AND MARTYR
To examine the changes in the iconographical and iconological meaning of this saint from the 12th century, when her earliest visual images appeared, to the 17th century.
Investigator: Mrs. C.D. Muir
Department: Fine Arts
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1998.07
POSTMODERN JAPANESE LITERATURE
The terminology that has been established in postmodern discourse seems to be taking root in the academic world. In this postmodern situation the study of contemporary Japanese literature from the perspective of postmodernism has long been awaited for, but a lengthy, thorough, and in-depth book has not appeared yet. The purpose of this research is, by providing critical work of two postmodern Japnanese novelists (Murakami Horuki and Yoshimoto Banana) and two postmodern Japanese critics (Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin), to fill this gap.
Investigator: Mr. F. Murakami
Department: Japanese Studies
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1998.07
A DATABASE OF NUMBER TERMS IN THE WORLD'S LANGUAGES
To compile a database of number terms in the world's languages, to be maintained in the Department of Linguistics and published in CD-ROM format in both Chinese and English versions.
Investigators: Mr. O.T. Nancarrow (Principal)
Dr. K.K. Luke
Dr. S.J. Matthews
Department: Linguistics
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1998.07
THE MUSIC OF NOEL BAULDEWEYN (FL.1509-13)
To transcribe and edit the complete vocal works of Noel Bauldeweyn with a view to publishing a collected edition of his music, complete with scholarly introduction which includes an updated list of his extant works and concordance search.
Investigator: Dr. B.M.B.A. Nelson
Department: Music
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1997.11
MUSIC, MANUSCRIPTS AND MUSICIANS AT TOLEDO CATHEDRAL IN THE GOLDEN AGE (1539-1603)
To construct, from primary sources, biographies of composers and musicians for whom very little information is currently available; to answer specific questions about the ways and contexts within which Spanish Renaissance polyphony was performed at Toledo and elsewhere; to document every significant aspect of the 26 polyphonic manuscript choirbooks at Toledo; to compile a data-base comprising transcriptions of primary source material concerned with the commissioning, copying and production of this set of manuscript choirbooks; to document all known primary source material, both manuscript and printed, relating to the composition and practice of music at Toledo Cathedral; to reconstruct the ways and contexts within whcih music was composed and performed at the Cathedral through close scrutiny of the primary source material, both musical and historical; to publish a thorough and complete study of the Toledo manuscripts; to provide editions of important, unpublished works by significant composers workingt Toledo.
Investigator: Dr. M.J. Noone
Department: Music
Source of funding: Hong Kong Research Grants Council
Starting date: 1996.09
A CRITICAL EDITION OF DOM ELADIO ROS'S MUSIC AT NEW NORCIA, AN HISTORICAL SURVEY
To reveal at least as much about Australians and their musical past as it will about the Spanish Benedictines who left their sumptuous and ancient monasteries for the untamed Australian bush and its unfamiliar rhythms.
Investigator: Dr. M.J. Noone
Department: Music
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1998.07
SONGS OF POWER, PIETY: MUSIC AT THE ESCORIAL PALACE UNDER THE HABSBURGS (1563-1700)
To answer detailed questions about the ways and contexts within which Latin liturgical music (plainsong and polyphony) was performed at the monastery-palace; to document significant aspects of the Escorial's music manuscripts; to publish editions of the most important unpublished manuscripts of Escorial provenance concerning liturgical/musical practices and the biographies of Escorial musicians; to publish editions of important, unpublished works by significant composers working at the Escorial.
Investigators: Dr. M.J. Noone (Principal)
Dr. B.M.B.A. Nelson
Department: Music
Source of funding: Hong Kong Research Grants Council
Starting date: 1999.01
SURVEY OF JAPANESE POPULAR CULTURE IN HONG KONG: THE IMPACT OF JAPANESE POPULAR MUSIC ON HONG KONG SOCIETY
To examine the process of crafting self identity among pop song listeners in Hong Kong by investigating how and why some Japanese pop songs became popular in Hong Kong; to examine the process of encounter, negotiation and integration between Hong Kong and Japanese popular cultures by investigating how these Japanese pop songs, the songs that were covered by Hong Kong singers in particular, were introduced and re-packaged, (in advertisement, arrangement of music, change of lyrics etc.).
Investigator: Mr. M. Ogawa
Department: Japanese Studies
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1997.07
TOURIST CULTURE IN HONG KONG - A SOCIO-HISTORICAL EXAMINATION OF MASS TOURISM
To present an in-depth historical and sociological examination of mass tourism in Hong Kong.
Investigators: Dr. M. Okano (Principal)
Dr. H.W. Wong
Department: Japanese Studies
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1997.07
CULTURAL POLICY IN HONG KONG: 1945-1997
To investigate the various relationships between the social, economic and political elements, especially the effects of the Hong Kong government policy, which have contributed to the development of the arts in Hong Kong.
Investigator: Dr. V.C.H. Ooi
Department: English
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1994.07
PHILIPPINE HISTORICAL DEMOGRAPHY
To examine evidence pertaining to births, marriages and deaths in the late colonial period in the Philippines; and to attempt to explain certain paradoxes of South East Asian history.
Investigator: Professor N.G. Owen
Department: History
Source of funding: Centre of Asian Studies
Starting date: 1987.02
THE PHILIPPINE PRINCIPALIA
To study the evolution of local clites in the Philippines under colonial rule.
Investigator: Professor N.G. Owen
Department: History
Starting date: 1992.07
ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE MODERN PHILIPPINES
To write an economic history of the modern Philippines for publication as part of a project on the Economic History of Southeast Asia, based at Australian National University.
Investigator: Professor N.G. Owen
Department: History
Source of funding: Australian National University
Starting date: 1992.11
THE AINU - A JAPANESE MINORITY PEOPLE
The Ainu are the only indigenous ethnic minority people in Japan, and they have always fascinated both Western and Japanese scholars, because their language and culture is quite different from the Japanese, yet apparently not closely related to any others in the north eastern corner of Asia. On the island of Hokkaido there are about 25,000 Ainu, but in spite of revival attempts in recent years, their civilisation is threathened by extinction. The present project comprises four parts: (1) an analysis of earlier research done by Western scholars on the Ainu (combined with a reprint programme undertaken by Curzon Press to make this - often nearly inaccessible - material available to researchers); (2) a monograph on one of the most productive researchers of the Ainu ever, the British missionary John Batcherlor (1854-1944), and a revaluation of his contributions; (3) translation and analysis of Ainu orally transmitted folk tales, recorded by myself from a now deceased Ainu woman; (4) translation and analysis of texts recorded by Nicolai Nevski (1892-1937) - in cooperation with A. Kabanoff, St. Petersburg.
Investigators: Professor K. Refsing (Principal)
Professor A. Kabanoff
Departments: Japanese Studies
Institute of Oriental Studies, St. Petersburg, Russia
Source of funding: Hong Kong Research Grants Council
Starting date: 1997.09
THE AMERICAN "EASTERN ESTABLISHMENT" AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY U.S. FOREIGN AFFAIRS
To complete a two-volume study of the American Eastern Establishment and its influence on twentieth-century U.S. foreign affairs.
Investigator: Dr. P.M. Roberts
Department: History
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1987.07
WILLIAM L. CLAYTON AND THE RECOGNITION OF CHINA, 1945-66
To study why did other dedicated Atlanticists in the foreign policy elite, such as Dean Acheson, or even George Ball, take a less relaxed attitude towards the recognition of the People's Republic, or alternatively, what made Clayton in particular so committed to the normalization of relations. Thereby elucidate some of the internal forces which affected the making of American policy towards China in the 1950s and 1960s.
Investigator: Dr. P.M. Roberts
Department: History
Source of funding: Hang Seng Bank Golden Jubilee Education Fund for Research
Hsu Long Sing Research Fund
Starting date: 1993.06
THE CHINESE DIARIES OF DAVID K.E. BRUCE, 1973-1974
The production of an edited version of the diaries of David K.E. Bruce, the distinguished United States diplomat, during his service as the first head of the U.S. Liaison Office in Beijing, 1973-1974. It is tentatively planned that this will be published by the Centre of Asian Studies.
Investigator: Dr. P.M. Roberts
Department: History
Source of funding: Hsu Long Sing Research Fund
Starting date: 1998.04
THE HEYDAY AND DECLINE OF THE U.S. FOREIGN POLICY ESTABLISHMENT, L940 TO THE PRESENT
To complete the necessary archival research for the second volume of a major study of the development, from the First World War onwards, among that group of leading East Coast financiers and lawyers of the United States sometimes loosely termed the American 'Eastern Eastablishment' of an 'internationalist' and Europeanist foreign policy tradition.
Investigator: Dr. P.M. Roberts
Department: History
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1998.07
UNDAUNTED DAUGHTERS OF DESIRE: WOMEN, THEIR FAMILY ROMANCES AND NARRATIVE JOURNEYS HOME ACROSS TIME
To show how women story-tellers have acquired a heightened sense of identity, purpose, history and community through reconstruction of the original romance not only with the mother or father but the family as a whole.
Investigator: Dr. M.A. Sabine
Department: Comparative Literature
Starting date: 1996.09
THE TEXTILE WORKERS OF ST. PETERSBURG, 1881-1905
To write a book, and several articles on the subject.
Investigator: Dr. M.B. Share
Department: History
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1991.05
HONG KONG IN SINO-SOVIET RELATIONS, 1917-1991
To collect data for article and/or monograph for said title, paying particular emphasis on the post 1949 period.
Investigator: Dr. M.B. Share
Department: History
Source of funding: Hsu Long Sing Research Fund
Starting date: 1996.06
THE SOVIET UNION AND HONG KONG, 1917-1984
To study Soviet activities relating to Hong Kong from the formation of the Soviet Union in 1917 up through the British-Chinese Handover Agreement in 1984.
Investigators: Dr. M.B. Share (Principal)
Dr. P.M. Roberts
Department: History
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1998.07
NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE SPEAKING EFL TEACHERS' EVALUATION OF CHINESE STUDENTS' WRITING
To investigate how university EFL teachers in China evaluate student writing. The research focuses on three questions. First, do Chinese teachers and their native English counterparts give the same quantitative ratings to the same essays? Second, do native and nonnative teachers give their ratings based on the same criteria or for the same qualitative reasons? Third, are evaluations of these teachers affected by background factors such as age, years of teaching and training background? The findings should describe the standards of writing instruction and evaluation of native and nonnative EFL teachers in China. Implications of the study should help, on the one hand, the native teachers to understand the background training of the Chinese students and, on the other hand, the Chinese teachers to integrate the standards of their native counterparts in their teaching to either prepare their students to study abroad or socialize them into the written academic discourse of the native speakers.
Investigators: Dr. L. Shi (Principal)
Professor X.B. Qin
Professor Q.F. Wen
Departments: English Centre
English, Nanjing University, People's Republic of China
Foreign Language, South China University of Technology, People's Republic of China
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1998.07
A SURVEY ON STUDENTS' ESSAYS OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN HONG KONG
To compile and to publish two collections of outstanding papers written by Hong Kong junior and senior secondary school students.
Investigator: Dr. C.M. Si
Department: Chinese Languate Division of the Department of Chinese
Source of funding: Language Fund
Starting date: 1998.10 Completion date: 1999.07
CHINESE ETYMOLOGY, CHINESE PALEOGRAPHY, CHINESE PHONOLOGY, CHINESE SEMANTICS AND ANCIENT CHINESE TEXTS
To study Chinese etymology, Chinese paleography, Chinese phonology, Chinese semantics and ancient Chinese texts.
Investigator: Professor C.Y. Sin
Department: Department of Chinese
Source of funding: Hang Seng Bank Golden Jubilee Education Fund for Research
Starting date: 1997.07
EUROPEAN LEXICON IN CHINESE BEFORE THE OPIUM WARS
To build a database of European lexicon introduced in Chinese before the opium wars.
Investigators: Professor C.Y. Sin (Principal)
Mr. A.Y.S. Chan
Dr. T.P. Hsu
Mr. B.C. Kwok
Mr. K.W. Siu
Mr. Y. Yu
Departments: Department of Chinese
Chinese Language Enhancement of the Department of Chinese
Source of funding: Louis Cha Fund
Starting date: 1999.02
A CASE STUDY OF CHINA'S AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY: GLOBALIZATION VS. LOCALIZATION
To investigate recent development of the Chinese automobile industry in terms of technological progress, industrial linkages, spatial organization and scale economy against the world pattern of development of the industry. It will also provide a conceptual framework to understand the dynamics of change of the industry in China under increasing globalization and will evaluate corporate and governmental strategies of and major factors behind globalization and the concomitant localization of the industry in China.
Investigators: Professor V.F.S. Sit (Principal)
Mr. W.D. Liu
Department: Geography and Geology
Source of funding: Hui Oi Chow Trust Fund
Starting date: 1997.12
STRANGE ATTRACTORS: STOCHASTICS AND CHAOTICS IN RECENT AMERICAN FICTION
To explore the ways in which system theory, stochatics, and chaos theory help to explore some of the issues and explain some of the problems in contemporary American fiction.
Investigator: Dr. G.E. Slethaug
Department: English
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1995.07
REALISM IN THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN NOVEL
To investigate the various forms, and reasons for them, that realism has taken in contemporary American fiction.
Investigator: Dr. G.E. Slethaug
Department: English
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1997.11
TWENTIETH CENTURY JAPANESE POPULAR CULTURE TO 1945
To collect and analyse materials which describe Japanese popular culture from 1900 to 1945 as a means of (a) comprehending how the masses reacted to and in turn influenced changes in popular culture; and (b) how this popular culture interfaced with the political system.
Investigator: Dr. T.A. Stanley
Department: History
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1990.05
WINDOWS ON JAPAN, PAST AND PRESENT: A MULTI-MEDIA RESOURCE
To design and produce the first interactive, multi-media research tool on the history of Japanese culture. This will combine material, and analyses, from the perspectives of the several disciplines of the investigators, clustered around focal theme areas, and designed in such a way as to encourage the end-user (reader/viewer) to explore at will a very wide variety of materials and methodologies relating to the area clusters.
Investigators: Dr. T.A. Stanley (Principal)
Mr. T. Hara
Dr. R.T.A. Irving
Dr. P.R. Stanley-Baker
Departments: History
Fine Arts
Geography and Geology
Japanese Studies
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Hong Kong Research Grants Council
Starting date: 1992.07
UNION CATALOGUE OF HONG KONG RESEARCH RESOURCES IN AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN STUDIES
To compile a union catalogue of the extensive collections of source materials, both printed and microfilm, for research on the United States and Europe, which have accumulated in the libraries of the various tertiary institutions of Hong Kong, together with holdings in other locations (government libraries, schools, etc.).
Investigators: Dr. T.A. Stanley (Principal)
Dr. P.A. Cunich
Dr. P.M. Roberts
Department: History
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1996.07
WINDOWS ON JAPAN - AN INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA RESOURCE
To study windows on Japan - an interactive multimedia resource.
Investigator: Dr. P.R. Stanley-Baker
Department: Fine Arts
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1992.05
FAIVA (FINE ARTS INTERACTIVE VISUAL ARCHIVE)
To design and implement the development and test phases of FAIVA, that is to provide a working system for a digitised fine arts database, accessible via Ethernet by a variety of client stations.
Investigator: Dr. P.R. Stanley-Baker
Department: Fine Arts
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1994.07
READINGS IN THE TALE OF GENJI
To publish a book of collected essays, titled "Readings in the Tale of Genji", and produce a working research computerised graphics database ("Genji Graphics") of materials used in the project.
Investigator: Dr. P.R. Stanley-Baker
Department: Fine Arts
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1997.07
TEXTUAL DATABASE OF NOOTKA, A PACIFIC RIM LANGUAGE
To provide a complete collection of texts, which cover the gamut of Nootka culture and history, and a grammar and dictionary of the Nootka language.
Investigator: Dr. J.T. Stonham
Department: Linguistics
Source of funding: Hong Kong Research Grants Council
Starting date: 1997.10
ON THE NATURE AND SCOPE OF METATHESIS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE
The reordering of elements in a string may appear to be quite straightforward, yet virtually all models of phonological and morphological theory find this case to be quite troubling. All of the treatments therein involve the analysis of metathetical data in one or another language of the world, to assemble data from a large number of languages in which this phenomenon is attested, to provided a detailed database of all types of metathesis attested. This work will be of great value to researchers in this field, irrespective of their theoretical perspectives and thus will serve as a useful reference for all linguists concerned about the issue of metathesis.
Investigator: Dr. J.T. Stonham
Department: Linguistics
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1998.07
HENRY JAMES: CRITICAL ISSUES
For part of a book, already commissioned, on Henry James, and is to fund an assistant, whose duties will be the collection and collation of material, and the funding of a fact-finding visit to the United States, which will follow in the wake of James's on account of the United States, in "The American Scence." to give my study the obvious validity that I know it will command, I need to see and to work on the places that James visited.
Investigator: Professor J.C.R. Tambling
Department: Comparative Literature
Source of funding: Hong Kong Research Grants Council
Starting date: 1997.09
A HISTORY OF THE HONG KONG GARRISON
To write a history of the Hong Kong garrison from the beginning of Hong Kong's existence as a crown colony up to recent times.
Investigator: Professor C.M. Turnbull
Department: Centre of Asian Studies
Source of funding: University Grants Committee
Starting date: 1987.10
COLERIDGE AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ROMANTICISM
To show how S.T. Coleridge's theories and illustrations of a distinctively circular pattern of consciousness in which the processes of philosophical inquiry or imaginative creation both influence and are themselves determined by intuition or emotion provide a uniquely vivid insight into the psychological dynamics of the literature and thought of the Romantic period (c. 1780-1830).
Investigators: Dr. D.M. Vallins (Principal)
Dr. Q.S. Tong
Department: English
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1998.07
DEVELOPING INTELLIGENT AGENTS TO SUPPORT COMPLEX INTERFACE-BASED TASKS
To develop a new methodology for creating intelligent agents based on computational models of human behavior; to create a software agent that can tract and anticipate human behavior in a complex, interactive, real-time environment; to integrate the agent into a concurrently developed simulated virtual interface; to evaluate the agent's capabilities and contributions in a real-world setting.
Investigators: Dr. A.H. Vera (Principal)
Dr. J.K. Rosenblatt
Departments: Psychology
Institute for Advenced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, U.S.A.
Source of funding: Hong Kong Research Grants Council
Starting date: 1998.09
REFORMISM AND TRADITIONALISM IN TWENTIETH CENTURY CHINESE PAINTING
The field of twentieth century Chinese painting history is so young that appropriate materials for teaching the subject to university students have not been published. My aim is to fill this gap by writing an adequate textbook on the topic, focussing the top major artistic trends-reformism and traditionalism and covering most of the important issues, artists, and schools in this history. This work is intended not only for my own students at HKU, but also for students at other universities in the United States and Europe.
Investigator: Dr. Q. Wan
Department: Fine Arts
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1992.07
CATHOLIC ART IN CHINA (1846-1926)
After the Opium War, catholic churches were built first all over Shanghai then other cities. Within that period, workshops were set up to train Chinese apprentices by European catholic missionaries to produce icons and sculptures for churches in Chin One of the earliest workshops appeared in 1850s at Shanghai Tou-se-wei called Tou-se-wei Studio which lasted for 80 years and trained over one hundred Chinese orphans (through six years' apprenticeship). Among the graduates from the Studio, some bec the first generation of Chinese artists of western painting and sculpture and they later established their own studio to have taught innumerable students. This is a virtually unexplored area in field of art history. Due to restraints in time and fung, I can only arrived at a preliminary stage of this research project.
Investigator: Dr. Q. Wan
Department: Fine Arts
Starting date: 1994.08
CATHOLIC ART STUDIOS IN CHINA (1850-1920)
To explore the production of painting and sculpture in the Catholic Art Studios from later 19th Century to early 20th Century China and to examine the practice of Western art training in the Studios and its influence on Chinese artists of that time and its significance in Chinese art history.
Investigator: Dr. Q. Wan
Department: Fine Arts
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1996.07
AN ANALYSIS OF THE HUBBING ROLE OF HONG KONG AND ITS INTEGRATION WITH THE CONTAINER PORT SYSTEM IN SOUTH CHINA
To examine the role of inter-modal container transport in the formation of an integrated economic system in Hong Kong-Guangdon region.
Investigators: Dr. J.J. Wang (Principal)
Dr. D.K.Y. Chu
Dr. P.C. Lai
Department: Geography and Geology
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1997.07
THE BRONZE CULTURE OF PREHISTORIC HUNAN, SOUTH CHINA
To study the bronze culture in today's Hunan area of South China during the Shang-Zhou period from 1600 BC to 500 BC with regard to its stylistic periodization, ritual significance, and social implication.
Investigator: Mr. W. Wang
Department: Fine Arts
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1996.11 Completion date: 1999.03
AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY OF JAPANESE WOMEN WORKING IN HONG KONG
To analyse why Japanese women leave Japan in the first place, then why they come to Hong Kong rather than go to the U.S.A. Europe, or other parts of Southeast Asia, and finally how they adapt to Hong Kong society.
Investigator: Dr. H.W. Wong
Department: Japanese Studies
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1997.07
TOURIST CULTURE IN HONG KONG - A SOCIO-HISTORICAL EXAMINATION OF MASS TOURISM
To present an in-depth study of tourist culture in Hong Kong through an examination of the HKTA, the tourist industry, and the experiences of Japanese tourists. Our approach is multi-disciplinary which includes historical, sociological, and anthropological perspectives.
Investigators: Dr. H.W. Wong (Principal)
Dr. M. Okano
Department: Japanese Studies
Source of funding: RGC Fundable Projects (Block Grant Funded)
Starting date: 1998.11
TRANSLATION AND ANNOTATION OF WENXIN DIALONG
To produce an up-to-date and attractive English translation of this classic in Chinese literary criticism.
Investigators: Professor S.K. Wong (Principal)
Mr. K.T. Lam
Mr. A.C.H. Lo
Departments: Chinese
Chinese Language Enhancement of the Department of Chinese
Starting date: 1995.04
HONG KONG STAMPED POTTERY
To conduct an in-depth study of the styles and development of a group of Hong Kong pottery finds which are characterized by stamped decorations. These artefacts are largely datable to the period ranging from the late Neolithic period to the Han dynasty.
Investigator: Mr. C.T. Yeung
Department: University Museum and Art Gallery
Source of funding: The Lord Wilson Heritage Trust
Starting date: 1997.01
UNDERSTANDING CHARLES SEEGER: PIONEER IN AMERICAN MUSICOLOGY, UNDER CONTRACT WITH UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
To study the writings of Charles Seeger, widely recognized as the greatest thinker in musicology of this century.
Investigators: Professor B. Yung (Principal)
Professor H. Rees
Departments: Music
UCLA
Starting date: 1993.09 Completion date: 1999.08
AN EXHIBITION OF "GEMS OF ANCIENT CHINESE ZITHERS" AND A CATALOGUE
A collaborative project between the Music Department and the University Museum and Art Gallery, the exhibition and catalogue aim to inform the university community and the public of rare samples of Chinese zithers, accompanied by a catalogue which contains research articles.
Investigators: Professor B. Yung (Principal)
Mr. P.Y.C. Mak
Mr. C.T. Yeung
Departments: Music
University Museum and Art Gallery
Source of funding: University Museum and Art Gallery
Starting date: 1997.09 Completion date: 1998.11
CANTONESE NARRATIVE SONGS
To seek out surviving singers of Cantonese narrative songs and record their performances systematically and comprehensively, and to search for and collect extant recordings and song texts. In addition, it aims to collect secondary sources relevant to narrative songs, ranging from private memoirs to government documents. To explore and define traditional Chinese culture from the unique perspective of performing arts in general, and narrative songs in particular.
Investigator: Professor B. Yung
Department: Music
Source of funding: Hong Kong Research Grants Council
Starting date: 1997.10
FIFTY YEARS OF SINGING CANTONESE OPERA IN ENGLISH: A HONG KONG PHENOMENON
To document the local production of Cantonese opera song in English for the past fifty years, and to explore its artistic and sociological significance to Hong Kong.
Investigator: Professor B. Yung
Department: Music
Starting date: 1998.05
THE LIFE AND WORK OF A VENERABLE CHINESE MUSICIAN
To document the life and work of Ms Cai; to produce a biography of Ms Cai and a set of recordings of her performance.
Investigator: Professor B. Yung
Department: Music
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1998.07
HYDROCHEMISTRY OF THE NATURAL WATERS ON TIBETAN PLATEAN
To examine pH values, conductivity and chemical concentration of Tibetan waters; to investigate the relationships between water chemistry and high attitude environment.
Investigator: Dr. D. Zhang
Department: Geography and Geology
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1997.07 Completion date: 1998.12
THE PREHISTORICAL HUMAN HAND PRESS AND FOOT PRESS ON THE TIBETAN PLATEAU
To investigte human hand press and foot press on the sinter deposits, and the man-made stove in sinter using U-series and thermoluminescence dating techniques.
Investigator: Dr. D. Zhang
Department: Geography and Geology
Source of funding: Hui Oi Chow Trust Fund
Starting date: 1997.12
PHYSIOCHEMICAL MECHANISMS OF TRAVERTINE DEPOSITION ON SURFACE RIVERS
To stimulate the physical changes of river water in laboratory condition and analyse chemical evolution that is caused by the physical effects, then to examine the river water changes over travertine deposition, finally to establish our theory on the travertine formation.
Investigators: Dr. D. Zhang (Principal)
Dr. M.R. Peart
Department: Geography and Geology
Source of funding: Dr. Stephen S.F. Hui Trust Fund
Starting date: 1998.06
OSCAR WILDE AS AN ARTISTIC IMAGE IN MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
To explore the image of Oscar Wilde as an aesthete perfected in modern Chinese literature as well as the Chinese reception of other English aesthetes such as Walter Pater, Aubrey Beardsley, Ernest Dowson and Seinburne in the context of modern Chinese culture.
Investigators: Dr. X.Y. Zhou (Principal)
Dr. T.W. Wong
Department: Comparative Literature
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1998.08
THE USES OF HOLOCAUST METAPHOR IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
To investigate the various forms and cultural/social consequences of Holocaust Metaphor in contemporary American literature, film, and cultural discourse.
Investigator: Dr. W.I. Zierler
Department: English
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1997.11
LITERARY (UN)ORTHODOXIES: RELIGION, FEMINISM AND THE WOMAN WRITER
To create an adequate theoretical framework for the interpretation of this material; to examine the depiction of traditional religious women in 20th century literature and film both by men and women; to analyze closely the shared themes, plots and imaginative strategies of contemporary religious women writers.
Investigators: Dr. W.I. Zierler (Principal)
Dr. G.E. Slethaug
Department: English
Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants
Starting date: 1998.07
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