SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES

Researcher : Ansaldo U



List of Research Outputs

 

Ansaldo U., Matthews S.J. and Lim L., Deconstructing Creole. Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2007, 290.

 

Ansaldo U. and Matthews S.J., Deconstructing creole: the rationale, In: Ansaldo A, Matthews S and Lim, L, Deconstructing Creole. Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2007, 1-18.

 

Researcher : Becker B



List of Research Outputs

 

Becker B., 150 Years of Consular Relations between Hong Kong and German States, 1856-2006, Department of History, The University of Hong Kong and Consulate-General of the Federal Republic of Germany, Hong Kong. 2006.

 

Becker B., German Business in Hong Kong before 1914, In: Peter Halliday, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch. Hong Kong, Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch, 2006, 44: 91-113.

 

Researcher : Biancorosso G



List of Research Outputs

 

Biancorosso G., Review of 'Danny Elfman's "Batman": A Film Score Guide', by K. Halfyard, In: Nigel Fortune (Birmingham) Daniel Grimley (Nottingham) Daniel Chua (London), Music and Letters. London, Oxford University Press, 2007, 88-1: 188-190.

 

Biancorosso G., Review of 'Unsettling Scores: German Film, Music, and Ideology', by R. Hillman, In: N. Fortune - D. Chua - D. M. Grimley - R. Herissone, Music and Letters. London. UK, Oxford University Press, 2007, 88-2: 358-360.

 

Biancorosso G., Review of Phil Powrie and Robynn Stilwell, eds., 'Changing Tunes: The Use of Pre-existing Music in Film' , In: Karen Hiles, Current Musicology. New York, 2007, 83 Spring 2007: 167-174.

 

Biancorosso G., Romance, Insularity, and Representation: Wong Kar-wai's 'In the Mood for Love' and Hong Kong Cinema, In: Philip Hayward - Marea Mitchell, SHIMA: The International Journal for Research into Island Cultures. Sydney, 2007, 1-1: 88-94.

 

Biancorosso G., Setting, Symbol, or Enigma? Schubert, 'The Trout,' and Kurosawa's 'High and Low', Music and the Moving Image, New York University. 2007.

 

Biancorosso G., “In the Mood for Love: Romance as Allegory.”, “Whither the Orient: Asia and Asians in World Cinema”, Asia Culture Forum, Gwangju, South Korea. 2006.

 

Biancorosso G., “Stravinsky and The Role of the 20th-century Composer.”, "Understanding Composition and Contemporary Music" series organized by the Hong Kong Composers' Guild and presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, HKSAR Government.. 2006.

 

Researcher : Bodomo AB



Project Title:

Complex predicates and serial verbs across languages: issues of syntax, semantics, and information structure

Investigator(s):

Bodomo AB

Department:

Linguistics

Source(s) of Funding:

Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research

Start Date:

10/2002

 

Abstract:

To account for the morphological and syntactic properties of various types of complex predicates. A major underlying research issue here is to provide an explanation for how two or more spearate predicates can integrate to form a complex predicate, even under various syntactic alternations; to develop a set of descriptive constraints and a mechanism to show how they interact to fully account for the grammaticality of some types of serial verbs in Dagaare, Twi, Cantonese and other languages, and causative complex predicates in French and Norwegian; to look beyond syntactic and other formal issues in the complex predicate construction and consider how grammatical structure interacts with pragmatics and information structure; to produce several outputs that are significant in the field of syntax and its interfaces with other components of the grammar, with particular reference to pragmatic-information level phenomena.

 

Project Title:

Complex predicates and serial verbs from a cross-linguistic perspective: issues of syntax, semantics, and information structure

Investigator(s):

Bodomo AB

Department:

Linguistics

Source(s) of Funding:

Competitive Earmarked Research Grants (CERG)

Start Date:

01/2005

 

Abstract:

To investigate a group of grammatical features that are recurrent in many languages under the collective name of complex predicates; to develope a specific theory explaining the nature of grammatical information structuring in natural languages.

 

Project Title:

The Zhuang Language: Linguistic Field Methods Training and Proficiency Courses

Investigator(s):

Bodomo AB

Department:

School of Humanities

Source(s) of Funding:

Run Run Shaw Research and Teaching Endowment Fund - Teaching Grants

Start Date:

02/2005

 

Abstract:

To train about 50 students in basic Zhuang proficiency. To produce a book-length manuscript on Zhuang proficiency based onthe CLC framework. To produce a collection of articles on Zhuang by interested students and staff members of the department and beyond. To prepare (to fund partially) a book-length work on the description of the Zhuang language within the Lexical-Functional Grammar framework, which the PI has already begun.

 

List of Research Outputs

 

Anttila A. and Bodomo A.B., OCP effects in Dagaare, Annual Meeting Of The Linguistics Society Of America. 2007.

 

Anttila A... and Bodomo A.B., Prosodic morphology in Dagaare, 38th Annual Conference of African Linguistics, University of Florida, Gainsville, Florida, USA. 2007.

 

Bodomo A.B. and Pan Y., A Proficiency Course in Zhuang: Fieldwork Documentation and Revitalization of a Language and Culture of Southwestern China, Hong Kong, Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, 2007, 160.

 

Bodomo A.B., Constructivism in higher education: The case of online bulletin board discussions in a linguistics course, In: Mohamad S and N. J. Tuah, Applications of Computing and Information Technology in Higher Learning. Asaihl/University of Brunei, 2007, 1-22.

 

Bodomo A.B., Field Notes on the Pronominal System of Zhuang, 33rd Annual Meeting Of The Berkeley Linguistics Society. 2007.

 

Bodomo A.B., Journal of Dagaare Studies. 2006, vol.

 

Bodomo A.B., Mobile phone texting in Hong Kong, In: David Taniar, Encyclopedia Of Mobile Computing And Commerce. Information Science Reference (Idea Group Inc), 2007.

 

Bodomo A.B. and Marfo C.O., The morphophonology of noun classes in Dagaare and Akan, Studi Linguistici e Filologici Online. 2007, 4.2.

 

Hiraiwa K. and Bodomo A.B., Object Sharing As Symmetric Sharing, 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, University of California at Berkeley. 2007.

 

Marfo C. and Bodomo A.B., Information structuring in Akan question-word fronting and focus constructions, Studies in African Linguistics. 2006, 34 no 2, 2005: 179 - 208.

 

Wong M.L.Y. and Bodomo A.B., On the sequential ordering of adverbs in Mandarin Chinese, In: Per Kvaerme, Acta Orientalia. Novus Forlag, 2006, 67: 325-353.

 

Researcher : Buenconsejo JS



List of Research Outputs

 

Buenconsejo J.S., Spirit of the Act: On Indicating Presences in the Agusan Manobo Ritual Language, Department of Anthropology, College of Social Science and Philosophy, University of the Philippines at Diliman. 2006.

 

Buenconsejo J.S., The Mimicry of Modernity in a Frontier Island, Mindanao (Philippines), Trajectories II: Island Cultures in Transition in the Asia-Pacific Region . 2006.

 

Researcher : Carroll JM



List of Research Outputs

 

Carroll J.M., "Autonomy under Colonial Rule" , Conference on "Into the Future: Collective Reflections Ten Years after Reunification" . Hong Kong, 2007.

 

Carroll J.M., "Contested Colony: Hong Kong in the Cold War" , Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies. Boston, 2007.

 

Carroll J.M., "Hong Kong at the Edge of Empires" , Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Hong Kong, 2007.

 

Carroll J.M., "The Compradorial System" , In: Thomas Benjamin et al. , Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450 . New York, Macmillan, 2006, 2006.

 

Carroll J.M., A Concise History of Hong Kong, Lanham, Maryland, Rowman and Littlefield, 2007.

 

Carroll J.M., Edge of Empires: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong (originally published by Harvard University Press in 2005), Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2007.

 

Researcher : Chan HD



Project Title:

Neural mechanisms for different linguistic categories by Chinese-English bilinguals

Investigator(s):

Chan HD, Tan LH

Department:

School of Humanities

Source(s) of Funding:

Small Project Funding

Start Date:

11/2006

 

Abstract:

One important question in the field of bilingualism is how bilinguals process two languages in one brain. There are two hypotheses on this issue so far. The first one is the common system hypothesis which suggested the two languages are represented in an overlapping neural network, regardless of the age of acquisition of the second language, language distance, and proficiency level. This hypothesis has been supported by a lot of neuroimaging studies in the literature (Klein et al., 1995; Perani et al., 1998; Chee et al., 1999; Illes et al., 1999; Hernandez et al., 2001; Hasegawa et al., 2002; Mahendra et al., 2003). Alternatively, it is hypothesized that there are two separate systems representing different languages in bilinguals. Far less research (Kim et al., 1997) supports this theory. This project aims to examine the two hypotheses by using different linguistic categories and semantics at different levels as experimental stimuli and Chinese-English bilinguals as participants. The first experiment builds on our previous functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of Chinese that indicate that native Chinese speakers employ overlapping brain regions in processing Chinese nouns and verbs (Li et al., 2004) while native English speakers represent verbs and nouns in significantly different brain regions. We extend our previous studies with native Chinese monolinguals to Chinese-English bilinguals in this project, to discover the neural mechanisms underlying the processing of nouns and verbs in the bilingual's brain. The Chinese and English languages were employed because the two writing systems present sharp contrasts in design principles; in particular, grammatical categories such as nouns and verbs are represented dramatically differently (Li et al., 2004). Chinese does not use morphological devices to denote word categories while in alphabetic languages such as English, however, nouns and verbs are clearly distinct in most cases, carrying differential syntactic and semantic valences. In this context, one important question to be answered is that of whether nouns and verbs of Chinese and English are processed separately in early Chinese-English bilinguals. Based on the common neural system theory of early bilingualism (Chee et al., 1999; Kim et al., 1997; Klein et al., 1995; Mahendra et al., 2003; Wartenburger et al., 2003) which is supported by a good number of studies, one may predict that the pattern of brain activity induced by nouns and verbs in the two languages is identical for early bilinguals.While the first experiment aims to examine the neural processing of different linguistic classes, the second experiment aims to further investigate the cortical representations of semantic information at different levels, namely word level and sentence level, in bilinguals. It builds on our previous studies that showed a significant different neural network subserves semantic processing in Chinese as compared to previous research with English speakers (Tan et al., 2001). Words and sentences were chosen because the later is more frequently used in daily life whereas results from the former can be served as a replication to previous studies with monolinguals.

 

List of Research Outputs

 

Chan H.D., Luke K.K., Li G., Li P., Weekes B., Yip V. and Tan L.H., Neural correlates of nouns and verbs in early bilinguals, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. New York Academy of Sciences, 2007, 1115: 45-56.

 

Researcher : Chan HY



List of Research Outputs

 

Chan H.Y., “Learning and Teaching of Creative Music Making Through the Use of Human Voice” (invited-lecture in Cantonese and English for the Education and Manpower Bureau), 28 Oct & 4 Nov 2006, School Hall, Aldrich Bay Government Primary School, Hong Kong. 2006.

 

Chan H.Y., "InSense," 23 Aug 2006, Studio Theatre, HK Cultural Centre (Shiny Moon, Rainy Sky - for dizi (doubling xiao), sheng, erhu & zheng was performed), 2006.

 

Chan H.Y., Festival November Music 2006, 19 Nov 2006, Verkadefabriek Picos, 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands (Pastorali and Bagatelles from a Spooky Land – for guitar was performed), 2006.

 

Chan H.Y., Forever Anew: in praise of an old tune – for dizi, sheng, erhu & zheng (music composition, 14’), Composed for the Chinese Music Virtuosi’s tour to Warsaw; score completed in July 2006, premiered on 3 July 2006, Courtyard, Royal Castle, Warsaw. Hong Kong, 2006.

 

Chan H.Y., Pastorali and Bagatelles from a Spooky Land – for guitar (music composition, 12’), Commissioned by Professor Reinbert Evers, Musikhochschule Münster; score completed in Sept 2006, premiered on 28 Oct 2006 in “Grenzüberschreitungen: East- West-Ensemble & Global Village” (a programme of Festival KlangZeit Münster 2006). Müster, Germany, 2006.

 

Chan H.Y., “DIASPORA, TheatreWorks/Ong Keng Sen, Official Cultural Performance of Singapore 2006,” 18-19 Sept 2006, Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore (A Leo’s Discourse – concerto for an ensemble of Chinese instruments was performed), 2006.

 

Chan H.Y., “Discovering Shostakovich” (invited-lecture in Cantonese, organized in conjunction with the City Contemporary Dance of Hong Kong’s production 'Testimony'), 11 Nov 2006, Studio One, Radio Television Hong Kong. 2006.

 

Chan H.Y., “QUEST: Singapore Dance Theatre,” 17 Oct 2006, Towol Theater, Soul, Korea (Illusions – for amplified piano & an ensemble of Chinese instruments was used for the dance INTO), Korea, 2006.

 

Chan H.Y., “Renaud Capuçon and the Hong Kong Sinfonietta in Shanghai,” 2007 Shanghai Spring International Music Festival, 6 May 2007, Concert Hall, Shanghai Oriental Art Center (There’s Something in the Wind… – for orchestra & two Chinese-wind soloists was performed by Loo Sze-wang, Chu Siu-wai and Hong Kong Sinfonietta; Conductor: Yip Wing-sie), 2007.

 

Chan H.Y., “Seminar on Qin Culture” (panel chairman for the morning session on 1 Nov 2006), 1 & 2 Nov 2006, Chinese Civilisation Centre, City University of Hong Kong . 2006.

 

Chan H.Y., “Six Hermits,” 2 Nov 2006, HKU Loke Yew Hall (Wander, My Soul, in Quietude – for six voices, dizi, sheng & zheng; Liqourmania – for six voices & pipa ad libitum; The Melody is No More – for sheng, zheng, percussion & six voices were performed by The Song Company and The Chinese Music Virtuosi, Artistic Director: Roland Peelman), 2006.

 

Chan H.Y., “Writing for Dizi” (invited-lecture in Cantonese, a programme of Understanding Composition and Contemporary Music, presented by LCSD and HK Composers’ Guild), 16 Jan 2007, Tsuen Wan Town Hall, Hong Kong. 2007.

 

Chan H.Y., “Writing for Erhu” (invited-lecture in Cantonese, a programme of Understanding Composition and Contemporary Music, presented by LCSD and HK Composers’ Guild), 23 Jan 2007, Tsuen Wan Town Hall, Hong Kong. 2007.

 

Researcher : Chan JKB



List of Research Outputs

 

Chan J.K.B., Happy Birthday to HKSAR: Composition for Orchestra and Chorus, Dragon Jamboree, a mass youth concert at Hong Kong Coliseum in celebration of the 10th Anniversary of HKSAR. Hong Kong, 2007.

 

Chan J.K.B., Prosperous Spirit: Composition for Chinese Orchestra, 意象, Premiered by the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra and Jointed Chinese Orchestra at Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall. Hong Kong, 2006.

 

Chan J.K.B., The Great Verdigris Bell: Composition for Chinese Orchestra, Set Piece for Central Judging of Chinese Orchestra (Junior Colleges), Singapore Ministry of Education. Singapore, 2007.

 

Chan J.K.B., The Secretary for Home Affairs' Commendation: the Persons with Outstanding Contributions to the Development of Arts and Culture, 民政事務局局長嘉許狀:推動文化藝術發展傑出人士, Government of HKSAR. Hong Kong, 2007.

 

Chan J.K.B., The Tiny Shan Pui River: Composition for Chinese Orchestra, 小小山貝河, Premiered by the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra at Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall. Hong Kong, 2006.

 

Chan J.K.B., Winds Crescenti: Composition for Chinese Orchestra, Set Piece for Central Judging of Chinese Orchestra (Secondary Schools), Singapore Ministry of Education. Singapore, 2007.

 

Researcher : Cheung AKS



List of Research Outputs

 

Matthews S.J. and Cheung A.K.S., On Domain Minimization in Cantonese , Linguistics in Cognitive Sciences: Contributions from East Asian Languages . 2006.

 

Researcher : Cheung EMK



Project Title:

Fruit Chan's films and independent filmmaking in Hong Kong

Investigator(s):

Cheung EMK

Department:

Comparative Literature

Source(s) of Funding:

Competitive Earmarked Research Grants (CERG)

Start Date:

09/2005

 

Abstract:

To seek a culturally-specific definition of independent filmmaking in the context of contemporary global flows. Fruit Chan, one of the most renowned independent filmmakers in Hong Kong, is chosen as the focal point of this analysis so as to examine how the interaction of political industrial, institutional, and cultural factors shape the emergence and circulation of independent films nowadays. This project engages in a comparative study of his works with other Hong Kong filmmakers both from the independent and the mainstream cinemas, to shed light on a better understanding of the larger scenario of contemporary film culture. This research takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Fruit Chan and his relation with the cinema, using a wide range of data obtained from in-depth interviews and studies of institutional histories of both local and overseas. This study will examine the notion of "independence" with regard to artistic and cultural productions, and contend that the independent cinema in Hong Kong cannot be understood as a simple totality and in simple opposition to the mainstream cinema. The thematic concerns and visual styles of Chan's films will be deciphered to understand how they in turn shape the ways the terrains of independent and mainstream cinemas are redefined. It also proposed that Chan's constant interest in Hong Kong's changing circumstances (e.g. the 1997 handover and globalization) and issues about social marginality have inspired other filmmakers and enabled the global art-house circulation of his films, shaping the transnational nature of the cinema.

 

List of Research Outputs

 

Cheung E.M.K., Dialogues With Critics On Chinese Independent Cinemas, In: Chuck Kleinhan and Julia Lesage, Jump Cut: A Review Of Contemporary Media (www.ejumpcut.org). Berkeley, California, Jump Cut Associates, 2007, 49, Spring 2007: on-line publications.

 

Cheung E.M.K., Editor, In Critical Proximity: The Visual Memories of Stanley Kwan. 關錦鵬的光影記憶, Hong Kong, Joint Publishing, 2007, 407pp.

 

Cheung E.M.K., The Quasi-documentary and Imaginary Landscapes: On Jia Zhongke and Fruit Chan, Scenes and Visions: Approaches to 20th-Century Chinese Visual Culture, April 6-7 2007. USA, University of Southern California, 20pp.

 

Cheung E.M.K., 關錦鵬「既近且遠、既遠且近」的電影美學, 關錦鵬的光影記憶, Hong Kong, Joint Publishing, 2007, i-viii.

 

Cheung E.M.K., 從後殖民城市的文化想像說起 (www.ln.edu.hk/mcsln/our-future-sp7-1.html), 「我們的未來」系列〈後〉殖民、政治、香港的未來研討會, 二零零七年六月十日, 香港, 嶺南大學, 2007.

 

Cheung E.M.K., 關錦鵬電影中的上海魅影, 關錦鵬的光影記憶, Hong Kong, Joint Publishing, 2007, 39-59.

 

Researcher : Ci J



List of Research Outputs

 

Ci J., Agency as a Common Denominator for Comparative Philosophical Analysis of Cultures, Panel on "Chinese and European Identities: Philosophical Encounters" as part of the London Festival of Europe (this panel held at SOAS, University of London). 2007.

 

Ci J., Can Scientific Values Be Extended to the Public Sphere? (review article), International Studies in the Philosophy of Science. London, UK, Routledge, 2006, 20: 219-231.

 

Ci J., Capability and Subjectivity: The Case for an Internal Structural Differentiation of the Capability Space, In: Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong, The Ethics and Politics of Compassion and Capabilities. Hong Kong, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong, 2007, 85-100.

 

Ci J., Freedom and Legitimacy, International Conference on Modernity and Legitimacy, East China Normal University. 2007.

 

Nussbaum M., Chan J.C.W., Lau J.Y.F. and Ci J., The Nature Of Emotions, Hochelaga Lectures 2005. The Ethics and Politics of Compassion and Capabilities. Hong Kong, Faculty of Law, HKU, 2007, 73-80.

 

Researcher : Clarke DJ



Project Title:

Hong Kong in transition: a photo-documentary project

Investigator(s):

Clarke DJ

Department:

Department of Fine Arts

Source(s) of Funding:

Other Funding Scheme

Start Date:

12/1994

 

Abstract:

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.

 

Project Title:

Water and art

Investigator(s):

Clarke DJ

Department:

Department of Fine Arts

Source(s) of Funding:

Small Project Funding

Start Date:

11/2004

 

Abstract:

To look at various episodes from different cultures where water becomes significant (or even in a sense problematic) in the history of art.

 

Project Title:

A Visual Analysis of Contemporary Hong Kong

Investigator(s):

Clarke DJ

Department:

Department of Fine Arts

Source(s) of Funding:

Small Project Funding

Start Date:

09/2005

 

Abstract:

The primary purpose of this project is to create visual artworks of a photographic nature, and to create a second-order artwork from those photographs which will take the form of a book. Artists' books are now an established medium of output for visual artists, especially photographers, and the aesthetic work of assembling a photographic sequence of book length is analogous in nature to the task of editing a movie. While many of the photos I am producing for this project can stand alone as independent artworks, others will find their meaning only within the book as a whole (rather as an individual shot within a movie may lack meaning until incorporated into the movie montage as a whole). The book will have a meaning which is more than the sum of its individual constituent parts, and will thus be more than a matter of publishing of existing artworks. A secondary purpose is to make a contribution to Hong Kong cultural studies. This will occur through the written text which will be an integral part of the book, but also (and primarily) through the photographs themselves, which are intended to have a critical or analytical dimension as well as an aesthetic one. In having this double goal in mind this project will be similar to that which gave rise to my previous photographic book 'Reclaimed Land: Hong Kong in Transition', although in this case documentary or historical values will be less to the fore. Whereas that project was a five year study this present work will be based on a very intensive one year study which has already been commenced, with over 7200 photos having already been taken. Because such a significant amount of effort has already gone into the project (artistic creativity has to operate to its own rhythms and can't wait around for the annual deadlines of research grant applications), I feel very confident about being able to bring this project to a successful completion. I have already (on the basis of work done so far) been able to gain an expression of preliminary interest in publication from HKU Press, publisher of my previous photo book and a valued first choice partner with relevant expertise for projects that focus on Hong Kong culture. Because of the non-verbal nature of the visual creative process it is hard to put into words the issues that are being struggled with in these images (I tend to subscribe to Picasso's view that art shows what artists have found rather than what they are looking for). One could mention perhaps that they address the issue of how a contemporary city and its social, political and cultural changes can be visually represented. They attempt to balance topographic and temporal specificity of reference with more purely aesthetic concerns, and are thus a critical interrogation of documentary and photojournalistic photographic languages in general, and the journalistic and tourist-imagery visual clichés about Hong Kong in particular. Whereas my previous photographic work has dealt almost exclusively with black and white this project is entirely in colour and so can be said to be investigating the role of colour in contemporary photography. One aspect of that is an examination of what colour photography can learn from painting and the use of colour in other non-photographic media. A further concern is with the image as fragment (creating images that gain their full meaning as part of a larger whole - in this case a book) and with the imaging of fragments (many of the images being produced focus on details or partial views rather than giving the illusion of having provided a well-framed whole). This project also involves an investigation of the place of subjectivity (or the foregrounding of the maker's role) within photography that wishes to engage the external world. It is also a case study of the role of images as a critical tool within academic discourse, which of course tends to be overwhelmingly logocentric and characteristically treats photographic images as raw evidence that can be used unproblematically to support textual argument rather than as a medium of argumentation itself. In cultural studies terms there is a desire to specify this particular moment in Hong Kong's post-handover history, after the 1 July 2003 mass demonstration and including the period of the first Chief Executive's resignation and replacement. This concern to specify a particular moment fits in with the micro-historical and real-time participant observer approaches of much of the more text-based research I have been involved with in recent years, and which I find particularly fruitful as a mode of critical engagement with contemporary Hong Kong culture.

 

Project Title:

LOCAL COLOUR: an exhibition of photographic artworks concerning Hong Kong

Investigator(s):

Clarke DJ

Department:

School of Humanities

Source(s) of Funding:

Small Project Funding

Start Date:

10/2006

 

Abstract:

Since 1995 I have been extensively involved in the creation of photographic artworks. Whereas for the first decade or so of this time I focused almost exclusively on working in black and white (with my work of that phase being featured in a sole author book of 2002 and a one-person exhibition of the same year), since 2004 I have also started working in colour and this has lead to a distinct new phase of my artistic production. The purpose of this proposal is to enable the exhibition of artworks from this new phase to take place in a more extensive way than has so far been possible, and (more broadly) to enable me to take a quantum leap forward with this side of my intellectual and artistic output. This grant application is particularly output-orientated, in that its primary purpose is to enable a large-scale one-person museum show of my work to take place (an offer for such an exhibition has already been received from HKU's University Museum and Art Gallery). It will enable the creation of an exhibition (which might be regarded as a higher order 'artwork' in its own right), but will also enable creation of artworks themselves, both in the sense of allowing the printing at the appropriate scale and quality for exhibition of existing individual photographic pieces (which are currently only at the stage of being digital files), and in the sense of enabling the production of new images from scratch appropriate for exhibition or other forms of dissemination. Although the primary focus is to create an exhibition here in Hong Kong, this project will also seek opportunities for overseas exhibition and dissemination of this body of work, thereby intervening in other international spaces. Exhibition of art is 'site-specific', unlike the publication of books and articles, and thus each occasion must be arranged separately.

 

List of Research Outputs

 

Clarke D.J., Abstraction and Modern Chinese Art, In: Kobena Mercer, Discrepant Abstraction. USA, The MIT Press & inIVA, London, 2006, 74-93.

 

Clarke D.J., Artist talk, Brewhouse Gallery, Royal William Yard, Plymouth, March 16 2007. Event co-presented by Asia Art Space Project and AviD. UK, 2007.

 

Clarke D.J., Artwork Exhibited, Contemporary Arts Auction: A Range of Original works, March 29 - April 26 2007. UK, University of Plymouth, 2007.

 

Clarke D.J., Artwork published, Hong Kong Art Web site at:http://www.hongkongartweb.com/hkaw/photo/clarkedavid/CLARKEdavid-gallery1.html. Hong Kong, Hong Kong Art Web, 2007.

 

Clarke D.J., Artworks Exhibited, Para/Site Portfolios. I/xx: Hong Kong flat, May 4 - June 10 2007, curated by Tobias Berger. Hong Kong, Para/Site Art Space, 2007.

 

Clarke D.J., Artworks Exhibited, Solo Exhibition 'A Year in the Life of a City: Recent Photographs by David Clarke', February 10 - March 18 2007, curated by Tina Pang. Hong Kong, Unviersity Museum and Art Gallery, HKU, 2007.

 

Clarke D.J., Artworks Exhibited, Solo Exhibition 'Hong Kong Experience: An Exhibition of Photographs by David Clarke', March 9-24 2007, curated by Zoe Li. UK, Brewhouse Gallery, Plymouth, 2007.

 

Clarke D.J., Artworks Exhibited, Ten Years of Images - A Gift to Hong Kong, June 14-July 8 2007. Hong Kong, Too Art, 2007.

 

Clarke D.J., Guest Lecture , Making art in a city in transit: perspectives on Hong Kong from the late colonial era to the present by an art historian and photographer. UK, University of Plymouth, 2007.

 

Clarke D.J., Hong Kong x 24 x 365: A Year in the Life of a City. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2007, 176 pp.

 

Clarke D.J., Invited participant and moderator of this closed discussion session and its associated public panel, Documenta 12 Magazines Transregional Meeting, September 11-13 2006. Hong Kong, Documenta 12 & Goethe-Institut Hong Kong, 2006.

 

Clarke D.J., Photos were used for the front and back covers of Music CD, Jazz Folk. Hong Kong, 1 Hr music, 2006.

 

Clarke D.J., The Watery Turn in Contemporary Chinese Art, Art Journal. USA, College Art Association, 2006, 65 no. 4, Winter: 56-77.

 

Clarke D.J., Towards Psychic Decolonization: The Development of Luis Chan's Painting, In: Jack Lee, From Reality to Fantasy: The Art of Luis Chan. Hong Kong, Asia Art Archive, 2006, 141-145.

 

Clarke D.J., Traversing a city in transit: a photographic engagement with Hong Kong in its journey beyond colonialism, Invited speaker for the 'Changing Cities: explorations in art, history and cultures', held at the Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery. UK, Visual Arts and Galleries Association (VAGA), 2007.

 

Researcher : Cook GA



Project Title:

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Botany: Science in the service of society

Investigator(s):

Cook GA

Department:

Department of Philosophy

Source(s) of Funding:

Small Project Funding

Start Date:

12/2005

 

Abstract:

Purpose: The PI seeks funding to support completion of a scholarly monograph entitled Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Botany: Science in the Service of Society. This monograph examines the botanical project of the eighteenth-century Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778); this is the least well-known and least studied aspect of his extensive oeuvre. The only previous book-length study—now outdated—is Albert Jansen, _Jean-Jacques Rousseau als Botaniker_ (Berlin: Reimer, 1885). The PI’s project is based on her critical edition of Rousseau’s botanical writings in The Collected Writings of Rousseau, vol. 8 (Hanover, NH, 2000; hereafter “CW 8”), a wholly new version superseding all previous editions in several respects: (1) the range of texts included, (2) the order of their presentation and (3) the scholarly apparatus. On the basis of this work, the PI reinterprets Rousseau as botanist for a scholarly audience that includes not only philosophy, but also history of science, history of ideas and political science. She has received an Arts Faculty Research Scheme in Fall 2005 to pursue this research. Previous research: This project builds on the PI’s recent work on Rousseau in which she approaches Rousseau’s study of botany from a variety of angles. “Rousseau and Exotic Botany,” _Eighteenth-Century Life_, Special Issue 26/3 (December 2002) shows that he viewed “exotic” or colonial botany with skepticism, while in “Rousseau and the Languages of Music and Botany,” _Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century_ (2004) we see that Rousseau used scientific language to make nature study easier, more accessible and more systematic. In “Rousseau et les réseaux d’échange botanique,” in _Rousseau et les sciences_ (2003) and “Idées et pratiques scientifiques dans la correspondance botanique de Jean-Jacques Rousseau,” _Annales de la société Jean-Jacques Rousseau_ (2005, forthcoming), the PI demonstrates Rousseau’s participation in the scientific republic of letters through botanical networks of exchange and correspondence. “Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s copy of the great Swiss botanist Albrecht von Haller’s Historia Stirpium indigenarum Helvetiae inchoata (1768),” _Archives of Natural History_ 30/1 (April 2003), discusses Rousseau’s extensively annotated copy of a major text on alpine plants that had long been thought lost and that the PI discovered in the Royal Horticultural Society Library, London. Key issues and problems: The central problem this work addresses is Rousseau’s relationship to science, natural history and botany especially, but also to chemistry, a science he mastered, but that he later rejected as concerned only with “dead” matter. Important authorities as Jean Starobinski, _Jean-Jacques Rousseau: la Transparence et l’obstacle_ (Paris, 1971) assert that Rousseau’s study of botany was a mechanical and rote activity that had no scientific merit. The PI’s study uses a variety of materials—correspondence, herbaria, annotated books—to demonstrate the inaccuracy of this assessment. These materials enable the PI to place Rousseau squarely in the midst of the debates and practices that animated natural history in the third quarter of the eighteenth century; most important were debates about nomenclature and taxonomic systems that were particularly heated in France, since leading French naturalists in Paris (Buffon and Daubenton) rejected Linnaean taxonomy and were slow to adopt the Swedish botanist’s nomenclature. This point merits particular emphasis: Rousseau has been described by Pascal Duris as “the architect of the popularization of Linnaean ideas in France” (_Linné et la France_, [Geneva,1993], 105) because he was a proponent of Linnaean nomenclature. Rousseau implicitly opposed the nominalism and reductionism of Buffon and Daubenton, leading lights of eighteenth-century French natural history; they (1) espoused Lockean nominalism with respect to species, and (2) valued the study of “properties” (uses) over collecting, naming and ordering the plant kingdom. Rousseau rejects the study of properties in his _Reveries_: “it is habitual to look only for remedies and drugs in plants”; “People do not imagine that vegetal organization on its own could merit some attention” (O.C. I, 1063, 1064). The PI’s central claim in this study is that for Rousseau the final end of studying botany (and nature in general) is moral and social. This argument appears to contradict the position Rousseau adopted in his _Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts_ (the work that placed him at the center of Parisian intellectual life in 1750), in which he held the sciences and arts responsible for promoting the moral decay of society; nevertheless, he believed that science, one of the sources of society’s moral ills, could be enlisted as a remedy in the treatment of society’s moral decay. This approach has been termed Rousseau’s “homeopathic cure” because a dose of the disease is employed in its treatment (as in vaccination). Botany provides a good homeopathic cure as it is inexpensive, relatively accessible and concerns itself with the most agreeable of nature’s three realms: “the only spectacle in the world of which [the observer’s] eyes and heart never tire” (_Reveries_, seventh walk). In contrast with many other occupations, botany offers “a nourishment to the soul[,] a nourishment which profits it by filling it with the most worthy object of its contemplation” (first letter on botany to Mme Delessert, CW 8, 130) and a refuge from the conflicts of civil society. Rousseau believes, however, that botanical instruction had to be reformed because he is unconvinced by the assertion of the Swedish botanist Linnaeus that “all plants become known in a single year, at first sight, with no instructor and without pictures or description by means of stable recollection” (_Philosophia Botanica_, par. 151). Rousseau repeatedly refers to the impossibility of any novice realizing this goal because the instructional texts are for the learned while there are none to teach the ignorant (CW 8, 176-7, 204-5). This is the point at which Rousseau the pedagogue intervenes to transform the teaching of botany. Two works attack the pedagogical problem: (1) his elementary letters on botany to Madeleine-Catherine Delessert and (2) his dictionary of botanical terms, both published posthumously. These played a pivotal role in bringing botany to the attention of middle-class people with no particular scientific training. The letters to Mme Delessert appeared in translations into several European languages, most notably English (by Thomas Martyn, Regius professor of Botany, Cambridge, 1785). His legacy as a botanical educator is reflected in the works of early nineteenth-century educators such as Almira Phelps (U.S.), Priscilla Wakefield (England) and J.-L.Thuillier (France).

 

Project Title:

Early-Modern European Appropriations of Chinese Nature and Natural Knowledge

Investigator(s):

Cook GA

Department:

School of Humanities

Source(s) of Funding:

Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research

Start Date:

05/2007

 

Abstract:

The aim of this project is to lay the groundwork for a systematic account of early-modern European forays into, and appropriations of, Chinese natural history and natural knowledge. Living and working in Hong Kong has sharpened the PI’s interest in how Europeans appropriated Chinese nature and natural knowledge for their own ends. The PI will use the proposed funding to narrow down the topic from its current broad scope, to focus, for example, on one particular medicinal plant or leading figure in European appropriation of Chinese nature and/or natural knowledge. Using well-established research methods, this study investigates three related areas in which this interest yielded fruitful, if partial, results: botany, medicine and agriculture. The study shall delineate not only what kinds of knowledge Europeans sought and obtained, but also shall identify the systems of classification that were used (e.g. the Linnaean artificial system of sexual classification), their consequences (e.g. divorcing Chinese plants from indigenous settings, names and uses), and the resulting effects on Westerners’ understanding of Chinese nature and natural knowledge. An important inspiration and model for this proposal is Londa Schiebinger’s important work on eighteenth-century bio-prospecting in the Caribbean (Schiebinger 2004). The two overarching questions to be addressed are: (1) How did the encounter with China's distinctive flora, medical theories and history of conservation influence Europeans? and (2) what constructs (e.g. classificatory) operated in European receptions of Chinese nature and natural knowledge? Sub-topics of the investigation comprise: 1. The scope of European Appropriations of Chinese Nature and Natural Knowledge in medical science, botany, and agriculture: what was known, when and by whom? 2. The accuracy or inaccuracy of the information obtained; to what extent did misinformation or lack of access to information impede the European quest for, or use of, such supposed panaceas such as ginseng, rhubarb and tea? 3. Attempts to acclimatize Chinese plants, and the reasons for these attempts; 4. The means by which these appropriations came about, e.g. travel, local informants, and correspondence networks; 5. The impact of European systems of classification and nomenclature, especially the Linnaean artificial sexual system, on acquisition of Chinese natural knowledge; 6. How the encounter with China's distinctive flora, medical theories and history of conservation influenced European science, medicine and conservation policies. Many scholars have examined the early-modern European interest in Chinese philosophy, institutions, history, language, and gardens; Leibniz’s belief that Chinese was the original universal language is one well-known case of early-modern European sinophilia, or love of things Chinese. Enlightenment philosophers took sides on political, economic and moral questions by holding up China in as a mirror in which to contemplate Europe’s deficiencies. Similarly, the activities of the Society of Jesus in China, including its work in astronomy and mathematics, have received considerable attention. Scholars have likewise focused on the Rites controversy (1656-1742), which arose from Roman Catholic concerns about the Society’s acceptance of ancestor worship on the part of Chinese Christians. By contrast, China’s many contributions to Western science and natural knowledge are frequently mentioned, but studied less frequently or thoroughly. Studies of Westerners’ knowledge and use of Chinese natural knowledge in this period are less numerous, and have remained fairly narrow or limited in scope. This relative neglect may have arisen from the nineteenth-century view that China’s science lagged behind Western science (Guantao et al. 1966). Yet this was not the Western view of China in the eighteenth century, when Europeans eagerly sought Chinese natural knowledge and natural products; China was viewed as the scientific and technological equal of Europe (Koerner 1999). Existing studies have examined (1) Western scientific figures such as Linnaeus and Osbeck who received, identified and classified Chinese plants (Koerner 1999, Müller-Wille 1999), and who presided over important correspondence and exchange networks; (2) histories of the discovery, reception, and use of particular plants such as rhubarb (Foust 1992), ginseng (Appleby 1983) and medicinal plants generally (Leigh 1974); and (3) environmental history in relation to European awareness of Chinese successes in agriculture and forest conservation methods. An unusually comprehensive, if outdated, treatment of Western forays into Chinese botany is that of Bretschneider (1898; repr. 1962). However, this work lacks analysis of the social context of plant exploration, a critical perspective on methods of classification or any detailed discussion of the ends to which these discoveries were applied. The PI’s starting point is that European interest in Chinese nature and natural knowledge during the early-modern period was intense, especially in fields of immediate practical concern such as botany and medicine. Information about Chinese medicinal and other plants was relayed by Jesuits such as Michael Boym (1612-1659) and Pierre d’Incarville (1706-1757), as well as by naturalists in secular occupations. Europeans were well aware, for example, that the Chinese had invented paper, gunpowder, the compass and printing, inventions that transformed the world; Chinese herbal medicines, food provision, and agricultural practices likewise appeared to be extremely effective, as proven by the fruitfulness of the land and the size of her population—characteristics consistently remarked upon by early-modern European visitors to China. China was therefore strongly associated in the early-modern European mind not only with manufactured items, but also equally with such natural products as tea, and medicinal plants (e.g. rhubarb). European autocrats such as Joseph II of Austria and Louis XVI of France were so impressed by Chinese agricultural productivity that they adopted the Chinese emperor’s ceremonial ploughing of the first field in the Spring, a ceremony recorded in contemporary royal iconography, but largely forgotten today. Taken together, these facts indicate that China was not just a mirror in which Europeans could reflect on their deficiencies; it was at the same time, a very important source of natural products and natural knowledge that was new, stimulating and enriching. Moreover, we see that eighteenth-century Europeans took the equality of Chinese with Western natural knowledge for granted.

 

List of Research Outputs

 

Cook G.A., “Botanical Exchanges: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Duchess of Portland.” , History of European Ideas . Elsevier, 2007, 33: 142-56.

 

Cook G.A., Early-Modern European ‘linguistic imperialism’ in botany? The case of Chinese Plants, British Society for the History of Science. 2007.

 

Cook G.A., Review of The Enlightenment, 2nd edition, by Dorinda Outram, and Science in the Enlightenment: An Encyclopedia, by William E. Burns, British Journal for the History of Science . U.K., Cambridge UP, 2007, 40: 137-9.

 

Researcher : Cunich PA



List of Research Outputs

 

Cunich P.A., 'Maurice Chauncy and the Charterhouses of London and Sheen Anglorum', In: James Hogg, Alain Girard & Daniel Le Blevec, Analecta Cartusiana. Salzburg, Austria, University of Salzburg, 2007, 86:1: 1-57.

 

Cunich P.A., 'The Dissolution of the Monasteries and the end of medieval England's engagement with Islam', Christian-Islamic Relationships, CE 600-1600 (First International Conference of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies). Taipei, Taiwan, 2007.

 

Cunich P.A., 'The Syon Households in the Wilderness, 1539-57', ANZAMEMS 2007 (6th Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies) Adelaide, 7-10 February 2007.

 

Researcher : De BJB



List of Research Outputs

 

De B.J.B., Certificate of Commendation, for making outstanding contributions to development of arts and cultural activities. Hong Kong, Secretary of Home Affairs, HKSAR, 2007.

 

Researcher : Deutsch ME



List of Research Outputs

 

Goldstein L., Brennan A., Deutsch M.E. and Lau J.Y.F., Logic: Key Concepts in Philosophy (Portuguese translation). Portugal, Continuum, 2007, 220 pages.

 

Researcher : Dikotter F



List of Research Outputs

 

Dikotter F., 'China's cosmopolitan age between empire and communism', Royal Asiatic Society, Hong Kong, 2006.

 

Dikotter F., 'Studio photography in modern China: Popular uses and meanings', Conference on Chinese Visual Culture. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, 2007.

 

Dikotter F., 'The myth of the "opium plague" in China', Pomona College, Claremont, California, USA, 2007.

 

Dikotter F., In: Frank Dikotter and Ian Brown, Cultures of Confinement: A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2007, edited book: 335.

 

Dikotter F., Cultures of confinement: The history of the prison in Asia, Africa and Latin America, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2007.

 

Dikotter F., Exotic Commodities: Modern Objects And Everyday Life In China, also published as Things Modern: Material Culture And Everyday Life In China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007, 384.

 

Dikotter F., Exotic commodities: Modern objects and everyday life in China, New York, Columbia University Press, 2007.

 

Dikotter F., Introduction, In: Frank Dikotter and Ian Brown, Cultures of Confinement: A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2007, 1-13.

 

Dikotter F., The Promise of Repentance: The Prison in Modern China, In: Frank Dikotter and Ian Brown, Cultures of Confinement: A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2007, 269-303.

 

Researcher : Elbeshlawy AFMK



List of Research Outputs

 

Elbeshlawy A.F.M.K., The Prayer of Lady Macbeth–a psychoanalytic approach to the character of Lady Macbeth , Fe/Male Bodies. Hong Kong, Kubrick, 2006, Special Issue-Bodywise: 110-116.

 

Researcher : Goldstein L



List of Research Outputs

 

Goldstein L., Brennan A., Deutsch M.E. and Lau J.Y.F., Logic: Key Concepts in Philosophy (Portuguese translation). Portugal, Continuum, 2007, 220 pages.

 

Researcher : Ha MOY



Project Title:

Reading women in colonial francophone indochinese fiction

Investigator(s):

Ha MOY

Department:

Department of History

Source(s) of Funding:

Small Project Funding

Start Date:

11/2004

Completion Date:

10/2006

 

Abstract:

To articulate an alternative theoretical and critical apparatus that could take into account the cross-cultural and ideological specificities of colonial writings; to undertake a rereading of these narratives that will re-inscribe the female voice in the texts; to bring out the multiplicity of female colonial experience through a heteroglossic cross-reading of fictional and archival narratives about colonial women.

 

Project Title:

French women and the empire: the case of indochina

Investigator(s):

Ha MOY

Department:

Department of History

Source(s) of Funding:

Competitive Earmarked Research Grants (CERG)

Start Date:

01/2007

 

Abstract:

The objective of this project is two-fold. First, using Indochina as a case study, it proposes to reconstruct the history of the colonial experiences of French women, which have thus far received little scholarly attention. Secondly, unlike most of the existing works on British colonial women, which limit their investigations on the gender factor only, my study will attend to both the gender and class dimensions of French women's colonial experiences. For one of my hypotheses is that the diverse class origins of colonial women in Indochina posed a real challenge to the French colonial order, which attributed to women the role of civilizing agents to the " inferior" races. The Period under research covers the years from 1900 to 1940, the decades that witnessed a steady growth to French female population in Indochina. The first part examines the official narratives of French women's roles in the empire. The key issues to be studied are (1) What were the social and political circumstances under which colonial female emigration took place? (2) What was the official policy? If so, what were they? In what ways were the changes informed by new thinking among colonialists? (3) What roles were assigned to women in the empire? How did these assigned female roles define the class background of women deemed as acceptable candidates for emigration? (4) How did women's assigned roles relate to a feminized version of the civilizing mission? The second part of the project investigates the actual experiences of French women in Indochina. The main questions that will be asked are (5) What types of women did in fact go to the colony? Were they mostly wives of colonial civil servants and settlers? Were there single women (unmarried, widows or divorcees) staying in the colony? (6) For those who were homemakers, what kind of domesticity did they recreate in Indochina? What was the political role of domesticity in the ideology of the empire, in particular in relation to the civilizing mission? (7) For those who were single, how did they make a living in Indochina? What types of professions did protect "white prestige" in the colony? (8) What were the class configurations of French women in Indochina? Did they correspond to those defined in the official discourse? What implications would class differentials among colonial women have on the imperial rhetoric of civilizing mission and the fashioning of Frenchness in the colony?

 

List of Research Outputs

 

Ha M.O.Y., Assimilation and Identities in French Indochina, Universitas 21 Workshop “Diaspora(s)” University of Queensland, Australia . 2006, 1-12.

 

Ha M.O.Y., Colonial Female Emigration at the turn of the Century: The Case of Indochina, Colloque International de la Cité nationale de l’Histoire de l’immigration“Immigration et histoire : La question coloniale Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris . 2006, 1-10.

 

Ha M.O.Y., Innovation litteraire, traduction, regionalisme chair-commentator, French Colonial Historical Society 33rd Annual Conference Université de La Rochelle/Brouage La Rochelle France . 2007.

 

Ha M.O.Y., On Sartre’s Critique of Assimilation, Journal of Romance Studies 6.1&2 (2006): 49-60. Journal of Romance Studies (2006): . . UK, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies University of Lond, 2006, 6.1&2: 49-60.

 

Ha M.O.Y., Who Should Emigrate and Who Did Emigrate? French Colonial Emigration in the 1890s-1900s, French Colonial Historical Society 33rd Annual Conference Université de La Rochelle/Brouage La Rochelle France . 2007, 1-12.

 

Researcher : Hammers RL



Project Title:

Paintings to Prints: Illustrations to The Book of Agriculture by Wang Zhen

Investigator(s):

Hammers RL

Department:

School of Humanities

Source(s) of Funding:

Small Project Funding

Start Date:

09/2006

 

Abstract:

I will conduct research and publish an article that investigates the use of agrarian imagery in Wang Zhen's Book of Agriculture. The book was a major literary achievement that consolidated and expanded scholarship on agricultural technology. When it was published in 1313, it was the most encyclopedically authoritative text on agrarian technology in China and probably the world. The Book of Agriculture contained text and imagery. Wang Zhen published woodblock prints that illustrated both the equipment used in agriculture and the farmers at work. While drawing upon centuries of agronomic scholarship, Wang Zhen was innovative in his use of printed imagery to display agrarian labor. The inclusion of illustrations of people working was a new subject for agricultural publications. Modern scholars working in the mid- to late-twentieth century have suggested that Wang Zhen's illustrations most likely were based on earlier depictions of agrarian labor. In the twelfth century Emperor Gaozong was presented with two handscrolls referred to as the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving. Scholars have suggested these scrolls were likely visual precedents that inspired Wang Zhen. The Pictures of Tilling and Weaving were designed by the self-styled scholar-official Lou Shu as a set of two handscrolls. One handscroll presented the labor of men tilling the soil and cultivating grain in twenty-one procedures. The other depicted the work of the farmers' wives who raised silkworms and wove silk fabric in twenty-four steps. Each procedure was accompanied by a poem written by Lou Shu. According to the Song dynasty documents, Emperor Gaozong greatly praised this gift. The emperor may have been motivated to endorse the scrolls, because their subject matter engaged with the roles of agriculture and the taxes it provided for governance, aspects central to Southern Song political discourse. With recent publications of newly discovered Song and Yuan dynasty paintings, my article will demonstrate that many of the prints found in the various editions of Wang Zhen's Book of Agriculture adhere closely to the compositions of early Song examples of the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving. The prints and paintings share nearly identical positions and poses of the laboring farmers. In addition the prints incorporate the same kinds of incidental background objects, such as teapots, or farm animals, in the same scenes with similar compositional arrangements as in the paintings. The prints are based on the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving. In this project, I intend to explore the appeal of the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving had for Wang Zhen and his audience. Why did Wang Zhen employ the imagery from the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving? Traditionally representations of farmers at work were suitable subject matter for ambitious works of art produced in the form of silk paintings. What were Wang Zhen's motivations for incorporating iconography from elite art production and translating it into print medium? Wang Zhen maintained a connection with the earlier imagery of the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving while he introduced the most up-to-date information on agricultural practices. Close reading of passages in the Book of Agriculture suggest that for Wang Zhen his interest in the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving was not based solely on the formal qualities of the imagery. He sought to retain the Southern Song vision of the role of labor that was articulated in the scrolls and in their poems. As my article will argue, Wang Zhen desired to promote the benefits of a proper understanding of agrarian labor and its equipment as knowledge legitimated by the canonical literary traditions of China. In recreating the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving and distributing them in woodblock form for large-scale distribution, Wang Zhen established Southern Song depictions of labor as iconic. Given Wang Zhen's efforts, most, if not all, later imagery of agrarian labor incorporates visual references to the Southern Song prototype. Wang Zhen produced the Book of Agriculture during the Yuan dynasty when the Mongols ruled China. This article will conclude by considering the role of the re-affirmation of Southern Song material in this historical context. Wang Zhen represented the farmers and their wives at labor to illustrate procedures to teach the reading public about agricultural tools and techniques. It is possible to speculate that the visual presentation of this material also delivered other kinds of information. The prints with their style and composition invoked the Southern Song and its political discussions of the roles of agriculture and taxation in society. Passages within the Book of Agriculture itself support such a claim. The prints serve as a means to register Wang Zhen's allegiance to the Southern Song dynasty.

 

List of Research Outputs

 

Hammers R.L., Article entitled “Regarding the People in ‘Genre Painting’ or Fengsu Hua 風俗畫 in the Song Dynasty” (論宋代風俗畫中的人物) in the exhibition catalogue The Pride of China: Masterpieces of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy of the Jin, Tang, Song, and Yuan Dynasties from the Palace Museum (國之重寶:故宮博物院藏晉唐宋元書畫展) , Hong Kong, Leisure & Cultural Depart. Museum of Art, 2007, 80-95.

 

Hammers R.L., Exhibition Review: Breath of the Universe: Paintings and Calligraphies of Qing Teng and Bai Yang from the Palace Museum and the Shanghai Museum. Exhibition took place at the Macau Museum of Art, CAA: Reviews (College Art Association) . 2007.

 

Hammers R.L., Seminar: Working for the People: Reading Imagery of Agrarian Labor in Southern Song (1127-1279) China, University of Hong Kong, Department of Fine Arts, 2007.

 

Hammers R.L., The Legacy of the Mongols in Material Culture and in Myth, Hong Kong University and Art Gallery, 2007.

 

Researcher : Hawley P



Project Title:

Value and Knowledge

Investigator(s):

Hawley P

Department:

Department of Philosophy

Source(s) of Funding:

Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research

Start Date:

09/2006

 

Abstract:

(A better formatted version of Section V is attached separately to this proposal.) Some of the traditional central questions of epistemology are: 1. What is knowledge? 2. How is knowledge possible? 3. What makes a belief justified or reasonable? It is commonly thought that these questions are purely theoretical; it is commonly thought that the practical concerns of our daily lives have and should have no bearing on these questions. One broad goal of my research is to explain why the common thought is mistaken. A second broad goal is to show how examining what we do with our knowledge and our beliefs sheds light on the traditional questions of epistemology. Specifically and briefly, I propose the following: First, I will examine the problem of epistemological skepticism. My specific goal is to understand whether and to what extent skeptical arguments that knowledge is impossible should be taken seriously. Traditionally, skeptical arguments that knowledge is impossible are seen to divide neatly into categories. Sometimes skeptical arguments are classified by the sort of knowledge under threat--- be it knowledge of the external world, of other minds, of the future, and so on. And sometimes skeptical arguments are categorized by the strategy of argumentation: Cartesian, Humean, or Pyrrhonian. While there are historical reasons for such classifications, I propose to carve the territory anew. Beginning from the truism that some knowledge is more valuable to us than other knowledge, I plan to distinguish different forms of skepticism based on the importance to us of the knowledge that a skeptical argument would threaten. The result should help us understand how seriously skepticism about knowledge should be taken. Second, I will study the viability of foundationalist epistemology. According to foundationalism some of our beliefs have the special status of being basic. Lying at the foundation of our knowledge, basic beliefs are supposed to support our other beliefs, but basic beliefs are not themselves supported by any beliefs. A key foundationalist claim is that basic beliefs are justified or reasonable. My specific goal is to show that there are no reasonable basic beliefs.My starting point is the thought that in everyday life you need some confidence that you can rely on your beliefs; you need to be able to find some minimal reassurance that a belief is true. The need for such confidence in your beliefs arguably constrains which beliefs are reasonable. Arguing for and applying this constraint may show that there are no reasonable basic beliefs because no belief can both be reasonable and be at the foundation of our knowledge.

 

List of Research Outputs

 

Hawley P., Proper Names and Attention, Research Seminar, Department of Philosophy, HKU. 2007.

 

Hawley P., Reasons and Reassurance, Research Seminar, Department of Philosophy, HKU. 2006.

 

Hawley P., Skepticism and the Value of Knowledge, In: Chienkuo Michael Mi and Ruey-lin Chen, Naturalized Epistemology and Philosophy of Science. Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2007, 151-170.

 

Researcher : Hill RD



List of Research Outputs

 

Hill R.D., Growing Agriculture, Book Review on "Rural Development and Agricultural Growth in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand" CanbelTa: Asia Pacific Press for the World Bank, ISBN:0-7315-3786-6, Asia Pacific Viewpoint. New Zealand, Victoria University of Wellington, 2006.

 

Hill R.D., Writing the Histories of 'Traditional' Agriculture in Southeast Asia, Annual Meeting of the Asian Studies Association. Napoli, Italy, Asian Studies Association, 2007, 33 pp.

 

Researcher : Inglis KS



List of Research Outputs

 

Inglis K.S., Conscious Will: Illusion or Reality?. Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, 2006.

 

Researcher : Koon YW



Project Title:

Guangdong Art Worlds

Investigator(s):

Koon YW

Department:

School of Humanities

Source(s) of Funding:

Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research

Start Date:

06/2007

 

Abstract:

My research proposal on Guangdong art in the early 19th century makes an original contribution to our understanding of Chinese art history at a place and time when the country was being catapulted into its modern era. It will provide a comprehensive case study looking at a broad range of artists, visual artifacts and practices, and how these intersect with local and national interests. This in-depth investigation offers a new approach to regional art underpinned by a study of the emergence of a modern art culture. Guangdong serves as a favored case study because it was one of the earliest and most important juncture of local, regional, national and global interests. Historically, it was seen as a marginal area made up of a population with its own regional dialect, rituals, and social practices. However, between the late 18th and the mid-19th centuries, intense economic activities, in particular the China export trade, and violent upheavals, namely the Opium War (1839-42) and subsequent Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864), had a large impact in the making of Guangzhou art that had resonance and consequences beyond its borders. I propose two inter-related areas of studies that examines the interaction of local and non-local cultural and artistic practices: The Art of Diplomacy: The Gifting of Portraits, and The Local Art Worlds of 19th Century Guangdong. I aim to publish at least one paper for a peer-reviewed journal, and the research of both as part of a larger project that explores how the significance and purpose of modernist change was contingent and produced in accord with local society and history. The first area will examine the gifting of portraits as part of the forging of diplomatic relations in mid-19th century during the signing of the First Opium War treaty. In particular it will examine how Qi Ying, the Chinese plenipotenary, used portraiture for cultivating what he describes as a “yi-ti-me-de” (intimate) relationship as part of his “diplomacy by appeasement” policy. However, there were large discrepancies between the ways in which Qi Ying presented the gifts to his Western counterparts and how he reported his use of portraits as gifts in memorials to the emperor. The gifting of portraits was not part of the customary diplomatic exchange in China—a portrait of King George IV in royal robes was offered to the Emperor in 1816 by Lord Amherst and rejected, and while there are records of portraits given from other Western countries, there are few records of the equivalent being returned. Historical documents would suggests that the use of portraits as gifts was a new social practice, and as such can provide the basis for a fruitful discussion on diplomatic gifting of portraits as a site of intercultural encounter. The second area will continue and expand the investigation by examining the portrait as an art object and how its production was part of a larger web of interactions between China trade artisans, photographers and portraitists from the West, merchants, and local literati scholars. For participants of Guangzhou’s art communities, the torrent of activities spurred competition entrenched in self-definition—the literati saw themselves as vanguards of elite taste, professional urban artists (including women) used different strategies to attenuate their commercial status, and for several individuals, art-making was a means of investigating greater moral and social responsibilities. A broad overview of these relationships between different social groups of artists will provide the basis of how "Guangdong” was being defined. This second part is primarily data collection and preliminary analysis that is fundamental to a larger long-term project of a book on Guangdong art.

 

List of Research Outputs

 

Koon Y.W., "Found in Translation" Review of the "Chinglish" exhibition at the HKMA, In: Lim, Perry, MUSE Hong Kong Cultural Arts Magazine. Hong Kong, MUSE, 2007, 4.

 

Koon Y.W., "The Problem of Being Art" Review of Hong Kong photography, MUSE Hong Kong Cultural Arts Magazine. MUSE, 2007.

 

Koon Y.W., Informal Portraits of the Three Emperors, Friends of Hong Kong Museums. 2007.

 

Koon Y.W., Review of art exhibition: Art at the Crossroads, Wucius Wong, Hong Hong Museum of Art, MUSE. Hong Kong, MUSE, 2007.

 

Koon Y.W., Su Renshan and 19th Century Guangdong Art World, Xubaizhai Academic lecture Series. Hong Kong, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 2006.

 

Researcher : Lam CCO



List of Research Outputs

 

Lam C.C.O., The History of Hong Kong Banknotes Issuing Bank: Oriental Bank 1845-1884, 香港發鈔銀行史之:金寶銀行1845-1884, Journal of the Hong Kong Numismatic Society. Hong Kong, Hong Kong Numismatic Society, 2006, 2006:21: 73-110.

 

Researcher : Lau E



List of Research Outputs

 

Lau E., Acquisition of relative clauses by Cantonese children, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Leipzig, Germany, 2006.

 

Researcher : Lau JYF



List of Research Outputs

 

Goldstein L., Brennan A., Deutsch M.E. and Lau J.Y.F., Logic: Key Concepts in Philosophy (Portuguese translation). Portugal, Continuum, 2007, 220 pages.

 

Lau J.Y.F., A Mini Guide to Critical Thinking, In: Nasreen Taherm, Swapna Gopalan, Critical Thinking: Concepts and Applications. Hyderabad, India, The ICFAI University Press, 2006, 57-79.

 

Lau J.Y.F., Chapters on dualism, AI and consciousness, In: Thomas Ming, Twenty Problems in Philosophy: A Brief Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy. Singapore, McGraw-Hill, 2006.

 

Lau J.Y.F., HKU University Teaching Fellowship (2006). 2006.

 

Nussbaum M., Chan J.C.W., Lau J.Y.F. and Ci J., The Nature Of Emotions, Hochelaga Lectures 2005. The Ethics and Politics of Compassion and Capabilities. Hong Kong, Faculty of Law, HKU, 2007, 73-80.

 

Researcher : Lee WS



List of Research Outputs

 

Lee W.S., Duration as a cue for the identification of the vowels in Cantonese, In: Department of Chinese, The Peking University, Proceedings of the 7th Phonetic Conference of China and International Forum on Phonetic Frontiers. Beijing, China, The Peking University, 2006, 5 pages.

 

Researcher : Luke KK



Project Title:

Linguistic form compression: an investigation of second-order encoding in language

Investigator(s):

Luke KK, Bodomo AB, Lee WS, Perry C, Nancarrow OT

Department:

Linguistics

Source(s) of Funding:

Competitive Earmarked Research Grants (CERG)

Start Date:

09/2003

 

Abstract:

To study: (1) for any linguistic expression, how long is too long, and how should length be measured? (2) What are the motivations (both internal and external to language) for linguistic form compression? (3) What kinds of compression methods are available and what is their distribution across languages and language types? Languages from which data will be collected and analysed include Chinese, Dagaare, English, French, German, Hausa, Japanese, Norwegian, Russian, Swahili, Twi, and others.

 

Project Title:

Automatic annotation technologies for Cantonese corpus

Investigator(s):

Luke KK, Fu G

Department:

Linguistics

Source(s) of Funding:

Seed Funding Programme for Applied Research

Start Date:

10/2003

 

Abstract:

To build a large-scale annotated Cantonese corpus and develop relative automatic annotation technologies to support Cantonese studies and applications.

 

Project Title:

'Elastic Sentences': towards a typology of turn continuations in conversation

Investigator(s):

Luke KK, Flynn C, Zhang W

Department:

Linguistics

Source(s) of Funding:

Competitive Earmarked Research Grants (CERG)

Start Date:

01/2005

 

Abstract:

To specify the inter-relationships among prosody, syntax, and pragmatics in the production and comprehension of turn continuations in Chinese conversations, and to test, through comparison with other languages, the validity of Couper-Kuhlen, Ono and Vorreiter's cross-linguistic typology of turn continuations.

 

Project Title:

Doctor-Patient Interaction in Hong Kong: Linguistic and Conversational Perspectives

Investigator(s):

Luke KK, Flynn C, Zhang W, Lam TP

Department:

Linguistics

Source(s) of Funding:

Small Project Funding

Start Date:

12/2005

 

Abstract:

The purpose of the proposed research is to achieve a better understanding of factors that may enhance or otherwise reduce the effectiveness of communication between doctors and patients during medical consultations in Hong Kong. Doctor-patient interaction is a hot topic of research in the US, the UK and Europe in recent years, but has not received very much attention locally. As a pilot study, the proposed project will focus on one particular primary care clinic in Hong Kong, namely the Apleichau clinic, where one of the co-investigators works. The data collected from this clinic will be closely analysed using proven techniques commonly employed in Linguistics and Conversation Analysis. The outcome of the research should contribute towards the enhancement of doctor-patient interaction in Hong Kong.

 

List of Research Outputs

 

Chan H.D., Luke K.K., Li G., Li P., Weekes B., Yip V. and Tan L.H., Neural correlates of nouns and verbs in early bilinguals, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. New York Academy of Sciences, 2007, 1115: 45-56.

 

Researcher : Marchetti G



List of Research Outputs

 

Marchetti G., Andrew Lau and Alan Mak’s INFERNAL AFFAIRS—The Trilogy . Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2007, 210 pp.

 

Marchetti G., Between Comrade and Queer: Stanley Kwan’s HOLD YOU TIGHT (translated into Chinese), In: Esther M.K. Cheung , In Critical Proximity: The Visual Memories of Stanley Kwan. Hong Kong, Joint Publishing, 2007, pp.134-150.

 

Marchetti G., COME DRINK WITH ME—If You Dare: Golden Swallow, King Hu, and the Cold War, Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese. 2007, 8: pp. 133-163.

 

Marchetti G. and Tan S.K., Co-editor, Hong Kong Film, Hollywood and the New Global Cinema. London, Routledge, 2007, 286pp.

 

Marchetti G., In the City and on the Road in Asian American Film: MY AMERICA…OR, HONK IF YOU LOVE BUDDHA, In: Peter Swirski , All Roads Lead to the American City. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2007, pp. 27-47.

 

Marchetti G. and Tan S.K., Introduction, In: Gina Marchetti and Tan See-Kam , Hong Kong Film, Hollywood, and the New Global Cinema. London, Routledge, 2007, 1-9.

 

Marchetti G., Martial Arts North and South: Liu Jialiang’s Vision of Hung Gar in Shaw Brothers Films, EnterText . 2006, 6: pp. 74-110.

 

Marchetti G., Participant, Symposium on International Teaching: The Chinese Student, University of Hong Kong. 2007.

 

Marchetti G., Respondent, Thinking Film, School of Humanities Seminar, University of Hong Kong. 2007.

 

Researcher : Marfo CO



List of Research Outputs

 

Bodomo A.B. and Marfo C.O., The morphophonology of noun classes in Dagaare and Akan, Studi Linguistici e Filologici Online. 2007, 4.2.

 

Researcher : Martin MR



List of Research Outputs

 

Martin M.R., "Human Nature and Ritual Behaviur (li) in Hsun Tzu", Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. 2007.

 

Martin M.R., Human Nature and Ritual Behaviour (li) in Hsun Tzu (Abstract), Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 2007, 3273.

 

Martin M.R., The Ethics of Collecting and Preserving Cultural Property in an Age of Terror, In: David Jones, East-West Connections. USA, Georgia Philosophy Series, 2007, 5: 75 - 83.

 

Researcher : Matthews SJ



Project Title:

Parsing principles and constituent order in Cantonese

Investigator(s):

Matthews SJ, Francis EJ, Perry C

Department:

Linguistics

Source(s) of Funding:

Competitive Earmarked Research Grants (CERG)

Start Date:

01/2005

 

Abstract:

To investigate some typologically unusual word order properties of Cantonese from the perspective of the 'performance' theory of Hawkins (1994) and related work.

 

Project Title:

Towards a Grammar of Chinese Pidgin English

Investigator(s):

Matthews SJ, Smith GPS

Department:

Linguistics

Source(s) of Funding:

Small Project Funding

Start Date:

09/2005

 

Abstract:

The project seeks to develop a gramatical sketch of the grammatical structure of Chinese Pidgin English (CPE). In particular the work will evaluate the role of Cantonese as substrate language. Grammatical issues to be addressed include: 1. Use of personal pronouns (my wanchee vs. me wanchee vs. I wanchee) 2. Presence vs absence of wh-movement (you pay me what offer vs. you pay me what offer)3. Placement of prepositional phrases and time adverbials (we tomorrow makee move)4. Null subjects and objects (must likey or no likey)5. Use of have/hab as an auxiliary (have bring rice this voyage?)The work also aims to provide analyses of the grammatical functions of key words such as 'long' as a comitative preposition (do littee pidgeon long you) and 'make' as a 'dummy' or light verb (I makee mendee).These usages do not suggest Cantonese influence, but have typological and possibly historical parallels in other contact languages of the Pacific region such as Tok Pisin which have been extensively studied by the co-investigators. These parallels will be addressed with particular attention to the respective roles of historical contacts between contact languages and typological factors. The findings will be published in a book on the history and structure of Chinese Pidgin English to be co-edited by the investigators.

 

List of Research Outputs

 

Ansaldo U., Matthews S.J. and Lim L., Deconstructing Creole. Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2007, 290.

 

Ansaldo U. and Matthews S.J., Deconstructing creole: the rationale, In: Ansaldo A, Matthews S and Lim, L, Deconstructing Creole. Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2007, 1-18.

 

Francis E.J. and Matthews S.J., Categoriality and object extraction in Cantonese serial verb constructions, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 2006, 24: 751-801.

 

Matthews S.J., Cantonese grammar in areal perspective, In: Aikhenvald A.Y. and Dixon R.M.W., Grammars in Contact: A Cross-linguistic Typology. Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, 2006, 220-236.

 

Matthews S.J. and Cheung A.K.S., On Domain Minimization in Cantonese , Linguistics in Cognitive Sciences: Contributions from East Asian Languages . 2006.

 

Xu H.L. and Matthews S.J., The grammaticalization of the words for "say" and "see" in the Chaozhou dialect and Taiwanese Southern Min, Cong duoci dao ziju jiegou biaoji: Chaozhou fangyan he Taiwan Minnan hua dongci ‘shuo’ he ‘kan’ de xuhua guocheng, Studies in Chinese Linguistics. Zhongguo Yuwen Yanjiu, 2007, 23: 61-71.

 

Yap F.H., Inoue Y., Shirai Y., Matthews S.J., Wong Y.W. and Chan Y.H., Aspectual asymmetries in Japanese: insights from a reaction time study, In: T.J.Vance and K.Jones, Japanese/Korean Linguistics,Volume 14. Stanford, California, Center for the Study of Language and Information, 2006, 113-124.

 

Yip V. and Matthews S.J., Assessing language dominance in bilingual acquisition: a case for Mean Length Utterance differentials, Language Assessment Quarterly. 2006, 3: 97-116.

 

Yip V. and Matthews S.J., Relative clauses in bilingual children: typological challenges and processing motivations, Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 2007, 29: 277-300.

 

Researcher : Muir CD



Project Title:

Saintly brides and bridegrooms: the mystic marriage in northern renaissance art

Investigator(s):

Muir CD

Department:

Department of Fine Arts

Source(s) of Funding:

Small Project Funding

Start Date:

11/2004

Completion Date:

10/2006

 

Abstract:

To study the visual imagery of selected male and female mystics during the Northern Renaissance, i.e. the 14th to 16th centuries, as a manifestation of certain religious attitudes and beliefs that had developed during the Middle Ages.

 

List of Research Outputs

 

Muir C.D., Saintly Brides and Bridegrooms: The Mystic Marriage in Northern Renaissance Art, PhD Thesis, University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K. . Manchester, U.K., 2007.

 

Muir C.D., St. Catherine and St. Agnes: Brides of the Adult Christ in some late Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, Department of Fine Arts Seminar Series, University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong, 2007.

 

Muir C.D., St. Catherine and St. Agnes: Brides of the Adult Christ in some late Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, Manchester Medieval Society. Manchester, U.K., 2007.

 

Researcher : O'Leary TE



List of Research Outputs

 

O'Leary T.E., "Foucault's Turn From Literature", Department Seminar, Department of Philosophy, HKU. 2006.

 

O'Leary T.E., Culture, Metaphor and Confusion: Brian Friel's 'Translations'., Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris. 2006.

 

O'Leary T.E., Governing The Tongue: Heaney Among the Philosophers, Department Seminar, Department of English, HKU. 2006.

 

O'Leary T.E., Lost in Translation: Culture, Identity and Language, Language, Culture, Mind Conference, Paris.. 2006.

 

O'Leary T.E., Respone to Prof.Wartenberg's Paper, "Arguing Against Utilitarianism", "Thinking Film" Symposium, HKU. 2007.

 

O'Leary T.E., Department of Philosophy, 2006, Senior Honorary Fellow.

 

Researcher : Pan Y



List of Research Outputs

 

Bodomo A.B. and Pan Y., A Proficiency Course in Zhuang: Fieldwork Documentation and Revitalization of a Language and Culture of Southwestern China, Hong Kong, Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, 2007, 160.

 

Researcher : Pomfret DM



Project Title:

Youth and empire: young people in the colonies of Britain and France, 1890-1940

Investigator(s):

Pomfret DM

Department:

Department of History

Source(s) of Funding:

Competitive Earmarked Research Grants (CERG)

Start Date:

01/2006

 

Abstract:

To produce six scholarly articles, to be published in historical journals, on the subject of the history of young people in the colonies of Britain and/on France, 1890-1945

 

List of Research Outputs

 

Pomfret D.M., Chairman, “Informal US-Sino Bridges: Literature, Popular Culture and the Personal” , Bridging the Sino-American Divide Conference, University of Hong Kong.. 2006.

 

Pomfret D.M., Reviewer , Richard I. Jobs, Riding the New Wave: Youth and the Rejuvenation of France after the Second World War . Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2007.

 

Pomfret D.M., ‘Clara Haslewood and the Children of Empire: Colonial Policy, International Relations and ‘Child Slavery’, In: Priscilla Roberts and He Peiqun, Bonds across Borders: Women, China and International Relations in the Modern World. Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007, N/A.

 

Pomfret D.M., “Curriculum Reform and Teaching Quality in Hong Kong”, ASAIHL Conference, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. 2007.

 

Pomfret D.M., “Eurasians, Space and the Colonial City in British Hong Kong and French Indochina, 1880-1945,” , In: International Planning History Society, International Planning History Conference, Delhi, India.. 2006.

 

Pomfret D.M., “’Lands of Youth!’: Empire, Travel and the Cult of Youthful Energy in Britain and France, 1880s-1940”, Society for the History of Childhood and Youth, Linköping University, Sweden.. 2007.

 

Pomfret D.M., ““Auxiliaries of Empire’: Children and the European Family in Asian Colonial Cities, 1880-1940”, History of the European Family, University of Limerick, Ireland.. 2007.

 

Pomfret D.M., ”News from the Field”, Society for the History of Childhood and Youth Bulletin. 2006.

 

Researcher : Predota GA



Project Title:

Johannes Brahms: Symphony Nr, 5 in E-flat

Investigator(s):

Predota GA

Department:

Music

Source(s) of Funding:

Other Funding Scheme

Start Date:

11/2002

 

Abstract:

To produce, along with an extensive critical apparatus, a performance edition of the surviving movements of the 5 Symphony by Johannes Brahms with an eye on a world premiere performance in Hong Kong.

 

List of Research Outputs

 

Predota G.A., Editor, From the Archive of Paul Wittgenstein: Alexander Tansman (1943) Concert Piece for Orchestra and Piano Left-hand. , Hong Kong, Octavian Society Press, 2007.

 

Predota G.A., Editor, From the Archive of Paul Wittgenstein: Franz Schmidt (1938) Quintett für Klavier (linke Hand allein), Klarinette in A, Bratsche und Violoncello A-Dur. Hong Kong, Octavian Society Press, 2007.

 

Predota G.A., Exit in Case of Brahms , HKPO Swire Lecture. Hong Kong, 2007.

 

Predota G.A., Leading the Past into the Future: Johannes Brahms and the Petrification of the Editorial Process, 14th International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, July 20-23, 2006. UK, University of Manchester.

 

Predota G.A., Muddying the Waters: Max Kalbeck and the Fifth Symphony by Johannes Brahms, , 2006., In: Maureen Buja, Fontes Artis Musicae. Middleton: A-R Editions, 2006, 53/4 October-December 2006.

 

Predota G.A., Paul Wittgenstein's Voice and Richard Strauss's Music: Discovering the Musical Dialogue between Composer and Performer, Strauss Among the Scholars: An International Forum, 29 June to 1 July 2007. UK, University of Oxford.

 

Predota G.A., Two Tales of One City: Musical Memory and Tradition in Erich Korngold's and Paul Wittgenstein's Vienna, Neue Gallerie/Museum for German and Austrian Art, February 14, 2007. New York.

 

Researcher : Roberts PM



Project Title:

Frank Altschul: A Political and Intellectual Biography

Investigator(s):

Roberts PM

Department:

School of Humanities

Source(s) of Funding:

Other Funding Scheme

Start Date:

03/2006

 

Abstract:

The research and writing of a biography of the leading twentieth-century New York banker, philanthropist, and Council on Foreign Relations member, Frank Altschul.

 

List of Research Outputs

 

Roberts P.M., "All Roads Lead From the American City? The Land of the Urban Frontier", In: Peter Swirski, All Roads Lead To the American City. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2007, 7-26, 125-127.

 

Roberts P.M., "Globalization in Historical Perspective", Beijing Forum. Beijing, China, Peking University, 2006.

 

Roberts P.M., "Nitze, Paul Henry", In: Arnold Markoe, Karen Markoe, and Kenneth T. Jackson, Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives Volume 7 2003-2005. New York, Thomson Gale, 2007, 7: 398-401.

 

Roberts P.M., "The First World War as Catalyst and Epiphany: The Case of Henry P. Davison", Diplomacy and Statecraft. London, Routledge, 2007, 18:2: 315-350.

 

Roberts P.M., Behind the Bamboo Curtain: An Example of the New Cold War History, Center for American Studies and Department of International Politics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Shanghai, China, Fudan University, 2006.

 

Roberts P.M., Conference Coordinator, "Bridging the Sino-American Divide", "Bridging the Sino-American Divide", conference co-sponsored by the University of Hong Kong and the US-China Education Trust. Hong Kong, 2006.

 

Roberts P.M., Cutler, Lloyd Norton, In: Arnold Markoe, Karen Markoe, and Kenneth T. Jackson, Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives Vol. 7 2003-2005. New York, Thomson Gale, 2007, 7: 119-122.

 

Roberts P.M., David Bruce and the Triangular Relation of China, the US, and the USSR, Transforming the Cold War: China and the Changing World, 1960s-1980s. Shanghai, China, East China Normal University, 2006.

 

Roberts P.M., Dillon, C(larence) Douglas, In: Arnold Markoe, Karen Markoe, and Kenneth T. Jackson, Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives Vol. 7 2003-2005. New York, Thomson Gale, 2007, 7: 146-148.

 

Roberts P.M., Education Software Review Award (EDDIE) for US History Website, for database "The United States at War: Understanding Conflict and Society", In: ABC-CLIO (Priscilla Roberts is a major contributor), ComputEd Gazette. Santa Barbara, California, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2006.

 

Roberts P.M., External reader/examiner of Ph.D. thesis of Allison Li Haga, Department of History, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, United States. Williamsburg, Virginia, United States, Department of History, College of William and Mary, 2007.

 

Roberts P.M., External reviewer of article, Journal of Cold War Studies. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Harvard University, 2006.

 

Roberts P.M., Introduction: The Vietnam War in Its International Setting", In: Roberts, Priscilla, Behind the Bamboo Curtain: China, Vietnam, and the World Beyond Asia. Washington, DC, and Stanford, CA, USA, Stanford University Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2006, 1-52.

 

Roberts P.M., Neustadt, Richard Elliott, In: Arnold Markoe, Karen Markoe, and Kenneth T. Jackson, Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives Vol. 7 2003-2005. New York, Thomson Gale, 2007, 7: 393-395.

 

Roberts P.M., Non-Governmental Archives and Private Papers, In: George Washington University, Fifth Annual Summer Institute on Conducting Archival Research. Washington, DC, United States, George Washington University, 2007.

 

Roberts P.M., Review of Herbert H. Kaplan, Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the Creation of a Dynasty: The Critical Years, 1806-1816. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006)., Business History Review. Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Harvard Business School, 2006, 80:3 (Autumn 2006): 605-607.

 

Roberts P.M., Review of Mark A. Stoler. Allies in War: Britain and America Against the Axis Powers 1940-1945. London, UK: Hodder Arnold, 2005. , Journal of Military History. Lexington, Virginia, USA, Virginia Military Institute, 2006, 70:4: 1160-1161.

 

Roberts P.M., Review of Mary E. Glantz, FDR and the Soviet Union: The President’s Battles Over Foreign Policy. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. 2005., Cold War History. London, Routledge, 2007, 7:1: 155-156.

 

Roberts P.M., Software Information Association CODiE Award for Best Social Studies Instruction Solution, for database "The United States at War: Understanding Conflict and Society", In: ABC-CLIO (Priscilla Roberts is a major contributor), Software Information Industry Association. Santa Barbara, California, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2007.

 

Roberts P.M., Software Information Industry Association CODiE Award for Best Education Reference, for database "The United States at War: Understanding Conflict and Society" , In: ABC-CLIO (Priscilla Roberts is a major contributor to this database), Software Information Industry Association. Santa Barbara, California, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2007.

 

Roberts P.M., Sole editor of book, Behind the Bamboo Curtain: China, Vietnam, and the World Beyond Asia. Stanford, CA, and Washington, DC, USA, Stanford University Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2006, xviii + 559.

 

Roberts P.M., Summer Visiting Research Fellowship, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, July-August 2006. 2006.

 

Roberts P.M., Technology and Learning Magazine Award of Excellence, for database "The United States at War: Understanding Conflict and Society", In: ABC-CLIO (Priscilla Roberts is a major contributor), Technology and Learning Magazine. Santa Barbara, California, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2006.

 

Roberts P.M., The Kissinger Phenomenon: Villain, Victim, or Cold War Statesman?, In: Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Conference. Chantilly, Virginia, United States, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2007.

 

Roberts P.M., The New Cold War History, Lecture delivered at Institute for International Studies, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai. Shanghai, China, Shanghai International Studies University, 2006.

 

Tucker S. .C., Roberts P.M., Kingseed C. .C., Muir M. and Zabecki D., Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2006, for The Encyclopedia of World War I: A Political, Social, and Military History, American Library Association. Chicago, Illinois, United States, American Library Association, 2007.

 

Tucker S.C., Roberts P.M., Kingseed C.C., Muir M. and Zabecki D., Named by Booklist as Editors' Choice, 2006, The Encyclopedia of World War I: A Political, Social, and Military History. 2007.

 

Researcher : Sabine MA



Project Title:

Nuns on screen: the changing face of modern women religious in post World War II film

Investigator(s):

Sabine MA

Department:

Comparative Literature

Source(s) of Funding:

Competitive Earmarked Research Grants (CERG)

Start Date:

01/2005

 

Abstract:

To examine how nuns are respresented in mainstream, and mainly English language, film since the Second World War and what cultural myths of gender and religion shape their cinematic projection; to study the underlying institutional and sexual politics of their filmic representation, and consider how the images and stereotypes projected on screen compare to the diverse and often substantial roles that nuns actually played in the development of modern society, and the changes, in turn, that modern secular society produced in nuns' lives and religious community.

 

List of Research Outputs

 

Sabine M.A., "Ingrid Bergman -- A Modern Magdalene: 'Saint to Whore and Back Again' in Casablanca, The Bells of St. Mary's and The Inn of the Sixth Happiness" , In: Professors Elizabeth Stuart and Heather Walton, Theology and Sexuality. 2006, 13.1: 63-78.

 

Sabine M.A., Crashaw and Abjection: Reading the Unthinkable in his Devotional Verse, In: Peter Rudnytsky, American Imago. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, 63.4: 423-443.

 

Sabine M.A., Thomas Traherne 1637-1674, In: Michelle Lee, Poetry Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of the Most Significant and Widely Studied Poets of World Literature. Farmington Hills, MI, Thomson Gale, 2006, 70: 245-251.

 

Researcher : Siok WT



Project Title:

Reading development and reading disorders of bilingual children

Investigator(s):

Siok WT, Luke KK

Department:

Linguistics

Source(s) of Funding:

Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research

Start Date:

10/2004

Completion Date:

09/2006

 

Abstract:

To examine the cognitive factors underlining reading success/failure in Chinese-English bilingual children.

 

List of Research Outputs

 

Hoeft F., Hernandez A., McMillon G., Taylor-Hill H., Martindale J.L., Meyler A., Keller T.A., Siok W.T., Deutsch G.K., Just M.A., Whitfield-Gabrieli S. and Gabrieli J.D.E., Neural basis of dyslexia: A comparison between dyslexic and nondyslexic children equated for reading ability., Journal of Neuroscience. 2006, 26: 10700-10708.

 

Hoeft H., Meyler A., Hernandez A., Juel C., Taylor-Hill H., Martindale J.L., McMillon G., Kolchugina G., Black J.M., Faizi A., Deutsch G.K., Siok W.T., Reiss A.L., Whitfield-Gabrieli S. and Gabrieli J.D.E., Functional and morphometric brain dissociation between dyslexia and reading ability, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2007, 104: 4234-4239.

 

Perfetti C., Tan L.H. and Siok W.T., Brain-behavior relations in reading and dyslexia: Implications of Chinese results, Brain and Language. 2006, 98: 344-346.

 

Qiu D., Khong P.L., Siok W.T. and Tan L.H., Asymmetrical inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus in Chinese children: correlation with Chinese reading, Annual Meeting of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2007.

 

Qiu D., Khong P.L., Siok W.T. and Tan L.H., Asymmetrical inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus in Chinese children: correlation with Chinese reading, ISMRM 15th Scientific Meeting & Exhibition, Berlin, Germany,19-25 May 2007. (Proc Intl Soc Mag Reson Med 2007;15:3751) . 2007.

 

Siok W.T., Eden G., Chen L. and Tan L.H., Brain activity in visual cortex correlates with Chinese reading performance, The 36th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, Georgia.. 2006.

 

Siok W.T., Reading and Dyslexia in Chinese: Behavioral and fMRI Evidence., the Twenty-Fifth European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Bressanone, Italy. 2007.

 

Researcher : Szeto MM



List of Research Outputs

 

Szeto M.M., "Cultural Conservation:Hong Kong Style" , Invited Lecture, General Education course on cultural conservation, 5/2/2007. 2007.

 

Szeto M.M., "Discursive Disjunction in Hong Kong Cultural Movements 1982-2007 論述段層到論述與運動的在地連結, 論述段層到論述與運動的在地連結, "Our Future: Culture, Politics," Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University. 2006.

 

Szeto M.M., Empire: Global Capitalism & the Postmodern New World Order – Understanding the Present Problems and Blindspots, Invited Lectures: Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, MA Program in Liberal Studies, course MALS 533 "Rethinking Globalization". 2006.

 

Szeto M.M., 米老鼠、唐老鴨和全球化 , Invited Lecture: Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, 14th General Knowledge Lectures Date: 8 July 2006 (Sat) Time: 1-3pm. 2006.

 

Szeto M.M., Misrecognizing or Claiming “Masculinity in Crisis”? Hong Kong Men's Responses to Feminist, Queer and Postcolonial Theories Challenges, 2007 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society Shanghai Conference: Conditions of Knowledge and Cultural Productions, June 16-17, 2007.

 

Szeto M.M., Neoliberalism and Globalization, Invited Lectures: Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, MA Program in Liberal Studies, course MALS 533 "Rethinking Globalization". 2006.

 

Szeto M.M., Preserve what? The politics of preservation in Hong Kong, Conference on "The Transforming Asian City: Innovative Urban and Planning Practices," organized by the Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, 3-5 May, 2007. . 2007.

 

Szeto M.M., “Postmodernity as Coloniality: Contesting Cultural Imaginaries In 1990s Hong Kong” , Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. 2006, 8(2): 253-275.

 

Szeto M.M., “Queer Politics and Its Discontents: the case of the postcolonial tongzhi community in Hong Kong” , Annual Conference of Taiwan Cultural Studies Association . 2007.

 

Researcher : Tan LH



Project Title:

Cognitive and brain processing of the Chinese language

Investigator(s):

Tan LH, Yang ES, Shen GG, Perry C, Spinks JA, Siok WT

Department:

Linguistics

Source(s) of Funding:

Central Allocation Vote - Group Research Project

Start Date:

02/2003

 

Abstract:

To investigate cognitive processes of Chinese reading and character recognition; to identify functional neuro-anatomical substrates of sub-lexical phonological computation; to determine the brain mechanism underlying Chinese language production.

 

Project Title:

Learning to read in Chinese: Possible intervention strategies implicated by fMRI studies

Investigator(s):

Tan LH, Siok WT

Department:

Linguistics

Source(s) of Funding:

Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research

Start Date:

02/2005

 

Abstract:

To address the question - "we suggesting motor programming is one of the most important facilitators of Chinese reading acquisition." by using a battery of behavioral-cognitive tasks. It will advance our understanding of how to improve the teaching and learning of the Chinese language.

 

Project Title:

Neuroimaging research on visual and attentional deficits in Chinese dyslexia

Investigator(s):

Tan LH

Department:

Linguistics

Source(s) of Funding:

Matching Fund for National Key Basic Research Development Scheme (973 Projects)

Start Date:

09/2005

 

Abstract:

This proposed research is based on theories of visual perception and uses functional magnetic resonance imaging and advanced imaging analysis techniques to investigate the neurobiological origin of Chinese dyslexia (impaired Chinese reading). The project aims to define the nature of dyslexic reading in Chinese children and to lay scientific foundation for early diagnosis and treatment of Chinese dyslexia. The research will also generate important pathological data to test the prominent topological theory of visual perception that assumes that the perception of wholes of an object precedes the perception of tis constituents.

 

List of Research Outputs

 

Chan H.D., Luke K.K., Li G., Li P., Weekes B., Yip V. and Tan L.H., Neural correlates of nouns and verbs in early bilinguals, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. New York Academy of Sciences, 2007, 1115: 45-56.

 

Perfetti C., Tan L.H. and Siok W.T., Brain-behavior relations in reading and dyslexia: Implications of Chinese results, Brain and Language. 2006, 98: 344-346.

 

Perfetti C., Liu Y., Fiez J., Nelson J., Bolger D. and Tan L.H., Reading in two writing systems: Accommodation and assimilation of the brain’s reading network, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. Cambridge University Press, 2007, 10: 131-146.

 

Perfetti C., Liu Y., Fiez J. and Tan L.H., The neural bases of reading: The accommodation of the brain’s reading network to writing systems, In: P. Cornelissen, M. Kringelbach, & P. Hansen, The Neural Basis of Reading.. Oxford University Press, 2007.

 

Qiu D., Khong P.L., Siok W.T. and Tan L.H., Asymmetrical inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus in Chinese children: correlation with Chinese reading, Annual Meeting of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2007.

 

Qiu D., Khong P.L., Siok W.T. and Tan L.H., Asymmetrical inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus in Chinese children: correlation with Chinese reading, ISMRM 15th Scientific Meeting & Exhibition, Berlin, Germany,19-25 May 2007. (Proc Intl Soc Mag Reson Med 2007;15:3751) . 2007.

 

Siok W.T., Eden G., Chen L. and Tan L.H., Brain activity in visual cortex correlates with Chinese reading performance, The 36th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, Georgia.. 2006.

 

Tan L.H., Associate Editor, Human Brain Mapping. Wiley-Liss, 2007.

 

Tan L.H., Associate Editor, Human Brain Mapping. Wiley-Liss, 2006.

 

Tan L.H., Editorial Board Member, Journal of Neurolinguistics. Elsevier, 2007.

 

Tan L.H., How does the human brain support written language? , International Symposium on Language, Evolution, and the Brain, International Institute for Advanced Studies, Kyoto, Japan.. 2007.

 

Tan L.H., Neural representation for reading in Chinese, Chinese International School, Hong Kong. 2007.

 

Tan L.H., Neural representation for reading in logographic systems, 25th Rodin Remediation Academy Conference, Washington, DC. 2006.

 

Weekes B., Shu H., Hao M., Liu Y. and Tan L.H., Predictors of timed picture naming in Chinese, Behavior Research Methods. Psychonomics Society, 2007, 39: 335–342.

 

Researcher : Thomas GM



Project Title:

Impressionist childhood

Investigator(s):

Thomas GM

Department:

Department of Fine Arts

Source(s) of Funding:

Small Project Funding

Start Date:

11/2003

 

Abstract:

To write a scholarly book about the representation of childhood and families in Impressionist painting in France during the later 19th century.

 

Project Title:

European Perceptions of Yuanming Yuan

Investigator(s):

Thomas GM

Department:

School of Humanities

Source(s) of Funding:

Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research

Start Date:

03/2007

 

Abstract:

The purpose of this project is to examine the way people in Europe perceived and responded to Chinese culture in the 18th and 19th centuries, using the Yuanming Yuan Palace as a case study. Located outside Beijing near the present-day Summer Palace (or Yihe Yuan), Yuanming Yuan was completed in the 18th century and was the Chinese emperor's primary residence and largest, most elaborately furnished palace and garden complex. European Jesuit missionaries lived there in the 18th century, sharing artistic and scientific knowledge with the imperial court and writing a great deal about Chinese art, architecture, and garden design based on their experience at Yuanming Yuan. European diplomats visited Yuanming Yuan and the palace of Jehol at Chengde in the 1790s and early 1800s, again producing texts and images that described Chinese culture for Western readers. In 1860, during the Second Opium War, British and French armies invaded China and looted Yuanming Yuan, after which the British army burned the entire palace to the ground. Hundreds of the finest art objects were delivered to the Queen of England and the Empress of France, with thousands of others auctioned in Europe or kept in the hands of returning soldiers. Thus, over a period of 120 years, Yuanming Yuan was the site of Europeans' most in-depth contact with Chinese art, architecture, and culture. By examining the various ways in which visitors responded to this site, we can better understand how European attitudes towards Chinese culture took shape in this crucial period of early contact, exploration, and colonial domination. One key issue this project addresses is how Europeans interpreted Chinese art, architecture, and garden design. Yuanming Yuan was a source for much of this knowledge and interpretation, which shaped many of Europe's ideas about what kind of nation China was, what kind of culture it had, and the degree to which China fit into Western ideas of civilization. By describing the ways in which Westerners interpreted Chinese arts, the project aims to show how specific cultural misunderstandings prejudices, misunderstandingsAnother key issue is analysis of variations in Western responses. One of the reasons Yuanming Yuan is an ideal test case is that it was seen by many different types of people (missionaries, diplomats, soldiers, and artists, as well as readers back in Europe), by people from different nations (especially France, England, Italy, and the Netherlands), and by people covering a 120-year period of exploration and colonial aggression. Response to the site thus shows rich variety. Initial research indicates, for example, that European painters in the 18th century looked down on Chinese art while European architects admired and imitated Chinese architecture. In 1860, French officers refused to assist the British in burning down the palace. By analyzing how different interest groups looked at China differently, and how attitudes changed over time, the project will illuminate the different ways in which Westerners perceived China and used China to validate their own particular moral and cultural values. A third key issue is the basic problem of source material. Because the palace was completely destroyed and most objects were dispersed, much effort is required to reconstruct the material that Europeans encountered in the 18th and 19th centuries. Scholars have been able to reconstruct the palace itself in some detail, based on building plans, maps, texts, excavations, and the construction of models and computer simulations. But very little has been accomplished in identifying objects that were taken to Europe and in tracing their subsequent use and reception. By tracking down some of these objects and showing how they were used, displayed, written about, and evaluated, the project will provide detailed evidence about multiple Chinese-European artistic interactions.

 

List of Research Outputs

 

Thomas G.M., "Conserving the National Landscape: The Barbizon School in the Forest of Fontainebleau" , "Between Fontainebleau and Giverny: Territories of Modern Landscape," Orsay Museum, Paris and the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny, Giverny. 2007.

 

Thomas G.M., "Privacy on Parade: Impressionism, Public Parks, and Modern Identity", Brown University. Brown University, 2006.

 

Researcher : Tsang WY



List of Research Outputs

 

Tsang W.Y., On the Nude, Sketches of Nudes by Tsang kai-hong. 畫裏真真曾繼康人體素描, Hong Kong, University Museum and Art Galleries, HKU, 2007, 16-19.

 

Tsang W.Y., 裸像藝術, Sketches of Nudes by Tsang kai-hong. 畫裏真真曾繼康人體素描, Hong Kong, University Museum and Art Galleries, HKU, 2007, 14-15.

 

Researcher : Vukovich DF



List of Research Outputs

 

Vukovich D.F., Sinological-Orientalism and the Limits of Area and Postcolonial Studies, Asia and the Other 亞洲與他者: An International Conference. National Taiwan Normal University. 23 June 2007 . 2007.

 

Vukovich D.F., “Orientalism Versus Occidentalism and Sinography.” , In: Prof. Shi-Xu, The Second International Conference on Multicultural Discourses, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, April 2007. . 2007.

 

Vukovich D.F., “The Poetics of Intervention: On Cary Nelson and New Directions in Cultural Studies.” , Poetry, Politics and the Profession: A Tribute to Cary Nelson, Urbana, Illinois, October 2006.. 2006.

 

Researcher : Wong MLY



List of Research Outputs

 

Wong M.L.Y. and Bodomo A.B., On the sequential ordering of adverbs in Mandarin Chinese, In: Per Kvaerme, Acta Orientalia. Novus Forlag, 2006, 67: 325-353.

 

Researcher : Wong MTP



List of Research Outputs

 

Wong M.T.P., A Sociolinguistic Study of Youth Slanguage of Hong Kong Adolescents. Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, 2006.

 

Researcher : Wong YBN



List of Research Outputs

 

Wong Y.B.N., A Lover's Earlobe (http://othervoicespoetry.org/vol26/nwong/index.html), The Other Voices International Project . Hong Kong, 2007, 26.

 

Wong Y.B.N., Best Graduate Paper, "Wither the Orient" in Asian Culture Forum 2006, October 26-29 2006. Gwangju, Korea, 2006.

 

Wong Y.B.N., City of Sameness (http://www.apwn.net/index.php?/writing/more/city_of_sameness/), In: Xu Xi, Special Hong Kong Edition of Asia and Pacific Writers Network (APWN). A&PWN, 2006, November 2006.

 

Wong Y.B.N., Fingernails (http://www.apwn.net/index.php?/writing/more/fingernails/), In: Xu Xi, Special Hong Kong Edition of Asia and Pacific Writers Network (APWN) . A&PWN, 2006, November 2006.

 

Wong Y.B.N., Haruki Murakami: A Spring Tree Above the Village, Karawane: A Journal of Experimental Performing Texts. Hong Kong, Laura Winton, 2007, 9: 31.

 

Wong Y.B.N., Hymen (http://www.apwn.net/index.php?/writing/more/hymen/) , In: Xu Xi, Special Hong Kong Edition of Asia and Pacific Writers Network (APWN) . A&PWN, 2006, November 2006.

 

Wong Y.B.N., Reading the Eye as a Haunting and Desirable Organ, The 2007 International Conference on Inter-Asian Culture, Communication Conflict and Peace, May 4-5 2007. Hong Kong, City Unviersity of Hong Kong.

 

Wong Y.B.N., The Carnal hand and Fetishism in Wong Kar-wai's The Hand, "Wither the Orient" in Asian Culture Forum 2006, October 26-29 2006. Gwangju, Korea.

 

Wong Y.B.N., The Evolution of Beard (http://www.apwn.net/index.php?/writing/more/the_evolution_of_beard/) , In: Xu Xi, Special Hong Kong Edition of Asia and Pacific Writers Network (APWN) . A&PWN, 2006, November 2006.

 

Wong Y.B.N., The Lunatic's Penis (http://www.apwn.net/index.php?/writing/more/the_lunatics_penis/) , In: Xu Xi, Special Hong Kong Edition of Asia and Pacific Writers Network (APWN) . A&PWN, 2006, November 2006.

 

Researcher : Yau KF



Project Title:

Film Narratives and Globalization

Investigator(s):

Yau KF, Cheung EMK

Department:

School of Humanities

Source(s) of Funding:

Small Project Funding

Start Date:

09/2006

 

Abstract:

The project surveys the theories and histories of narrative film and film narrative. After examining storytelling amid cinematic images in several major narrative cinemas in film history, it looks into the major concepts of film narrative formulated by narratologists, film theorists and philosophers. Focusing on S. Eisenstein, C. Metz and G. Deleuze, the book pinpoints their respective attempts in encountering cinematography and narratology. Eisenstein promotes dialectical (thesis-antithesis-synthesis) clashes of images that generate and orientate meaning across real historical situations and cinematic narratives; Metz challenges the formalist-structuralist foregrounding of syntax in his perception of cinema as a language, which is open and changing, not a language system, which is embodied by a closed set of syntax; Deleuze proposes that time’s subordination to movement in classical cinemas is reversed in the post-war modern time-image, in which montage tends to disappear in favour of the sequence shot. Last but not least, the book canvasses intercultural and postcolonial issues concerning film narrative in response to such a theoretical and historical agenda.

 

List of Research Outputs

 

Yau K.F., Alfred Hitchcock: The Construction of Romance, Zhong Shan University. 中山大學, 2006.

 

Yau K.F., Breaking New Waves: Paris, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong. 2006.

 

Yau K.F., Film Narrative and Globalization, Small Project Funding, The University of Hong Kong. 2006.

 

Yau K.F., Imaging Hong Kong: Wong Kar-wai’s 8 Movies and 6 Hong Kongs, 影像香港:王家衛的八部電影和六個香港, Twenty-First Century (Online Version). 二十一世紀網絡版, Hong Kong, CHinese University of Hong Kong, 2007, 62.

 

Yau K.F., Kung Fu Hustle and the Hong Kong Martial Arts Film, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong. 2006.

 

Yau K.F., Reality within/beyond the Frame: Bicycle Thieves, Reality within/beyond the Frame: Bicycle Thieves. 2006.

 

Yau K.F., The Japanese Samurai Film and the Wuxia pian, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong. 2006.

 

Yau K.F., Zhong : A Semantic History, In: Jeffrey T. Schnapp and Matthew Tiews , Crowds. Stanford, USA, Stanford University Press, 2006, 262-264.



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