SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES



Researcher : Ang SW

Project Title:Working Title: "Religion as Ethical Order"
Investigator(s):Ang SW
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:09/2010


Project Title:Literary Ethics and the Problem of Race
Investigator(s):Ang SW
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2012


Project Title:MLA Annual Convention "Are We Coming or Going? Preeta Samrasan's Evening Is the Whole Day," “Racial Otherings Twice Removed”
Investigator(s):Ang SW
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:01/2012


List of Research Outputs

Ang S.W., The Politics of Victimization and the Model Minority, In: David E. Johnson, CR: The New Centennial REview. 2011.


Researcher : Ansaldo U

Project Title:The complexity of isolating languages
Investigator(s):Ansaldo U
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2010
Completion Date:08/2011


Project Title:Research Output Prize (Faculty of Arts)
Investigator(s):Ansaldo U
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Research Output Prize (in Faculty)
Start Date:12/2010


Project Title:Complexity and simplicity in isolating languages
Investigator(s):Ansaldo U
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2011


List of Research Outputs

Ansaldo U., In: Umberto Ansaldo, Nigel Love, Language Sciences. Elsevier, 2012.
Ansaldo U., Metatypy in Sri Lanka Malay, In: R. Singh, Annual review of South Asian languages and linguistics. Mouton, 2012.
Ansaldo U., Pidgins and Creoles in Asia, Benjamins Current Topics. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia, John Benjamins, 2012, 38: 170.
Lim L.L.S. and Ansaldo U., Areal features of English in Asia? , 17th Annual Conference of the International Association for World Englishes. Melbourne, Australia, 2011.
Lim L.L.S. and Ansaldo U., Colloquial Singaporean English (Singlish), In: Kortmann, Bernd and Lunkenheimer, Kerstin, The Electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English [eWAVE]. Leipzig, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 2011.


Researcher : Becker B

Project Title:Research Output Prize
Investigator(s):Becker B
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Research Output Prize (in Faculty)
Start Date:10/2008


Project Title:German Kiaochow, 1898-1914: Commerce and Shipping in Northeast China
Investigator(s):Becker B
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2010
Completion Date:08/2011


Project Title:German Kiaochow, 1898-1914: Commerce and Shipping in Northeast China
Investigator(s):Becker B
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2011


List of Research Outputs

Becker B., Cooper, Luise , In: May Holdsworth and Christopher Munn, Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography. Hong Kong University Press, 2011, 107-108.
Becker B., Jebsen, Michael / Jebsen, Jacob Friedrich Christian / Jebsen, Michael / Jebsen, Hans Jacob, In: May Holdsworth and Christopher Munn, Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2011, 210-211.
Becker B., Klitzke, Ernst, In: May Holdsworth and Christopher Munn, Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2011, 229.
Becker B., Lobscheid, Wilhelm, In: May Holdsworth and Christopher Munn, Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2011, 282-284.
Becker B., Müller, Johannes, In: May Holdsworth and Christopher Munn, Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2011, 331.


Researcher : Becker B.

Project Title:Research Output Prize
Investigator(s):Becker B
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Research Output Prize (in Faculty)
Start Date:10/2008


Project Title:German Kiaochow, 1898-1914: Commerce and Shipping in Northeast China
Investigator(s):Becker B
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2010
Completion Date:08/2011


Project Title:German Kiaochow, 1898-1914: Commerce and Shipping in Northeast China
Investigator(s):Becker B
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2011


List of Research Outputs



Researcher : Biancorosso G

Project Title:Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2008-2009
Investigator(s):Biancorosso G
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Start Date:12/2009


Project Title:Songs of Delusion: Musical Fantasies and Narrative Agency in Film
Investigator(s):Biancorosso G
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:12/2010


Project Title:4th MaM (Music and Media) Conference Memory and the Leitmotif in Cinema
Investigator(s):Biancorosso G
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2012


List of Research Outputs

Biancorosso G., Music and the Leitmotif in Cinema, In: Walden, Joshua, Representation in Western Music. Cambridge (UK), Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Biancorosso G., Popular Music and the Aesthetics of the Self in Wong Kar Wai's Cinema, In: Ashby, Arved, Popular Music and the Auteur after MTV. Oxford University Press, 2012.
Biancorosso G., Staging Attention on the Operatic Stage, The University of Chicago Center in Beijing, "Chinese Opera Film: At the Intersection of Theater, Cinema, and Politics.". 2012.


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


Project Title:The Grammatical Structure of Zhuang: An Investigation into the Language and Culture of a Minority Group of South-Western China
Investigator(s):Bodomo AB
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2009
Completion Date:04/2012


List of Research Outputs

Bodomo A.B., AFRICANS IN CHINA: A Sociocultural Study and its Implications on Africa-China Relations, NewYork, Cambria Press, 2012.
Bodomo A.B., Africans in China: Communication strategies in a multilingual market place, International Workshop: Globalization, Market Places, and Border Crossings, Leuven University, Belgium. 2012.
Bodomo A.B., Africans in China: a new territory for area and global studies?, Workshop on Area Studies in the Global Context, Asian Studies Program, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA. 2012.
Bodomo A.B. and Silva R.T., Language matters: The role of the Portuguese language in the establishment of the Lusophone African community in Macau, African Studies. 2012, Vol 71 no 1: 71 - 90.
Bodomo A.B., Stanford Humanities Scholar Award, Stanford University. 2011.
Bodomo A.B., Studies in African Linguistics, 2012.
Bodomo A.B. and Ma G., We are what we eat: food in the process of community formation and identity shaping among African traders in Guangzhou and Yiwu, African Diaspora. Brill, 2012, 5 (1): 3- 26.


Researcher : Borland JL

Project Title:Showcases of Modern Japan: Reconstructed Primary Schools and the Legacy of the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake
Investigator(s):Borland JL
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:12/2011


Project Title:Society of Architectural Historians 65th Annual Meeting Reconstructed Primary Schools and Visions of New Tokyo, 1923-1930
Investigator(s):Borland JL
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2012
Completion Date:04/2012


List of Research Outputs

Borland J.L., Children of Catastrophe: The Documentation and Use of Children’s Experiences of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, Society for the History of Children and Youth Biennial Conference, New York. 2012.
Borland J.L., I am an Earthquake: The Political and Pedagogical Use of Stories by Children who Survived Japan’s 1923 Catastrophe, Child Health and Humanitarian Emergencies, University of Hong Kong. 2012.
Borland J.L., Reconstructed Primary Schools and Visions of New Tokyo, 1923-1930, Society of Architectural Historians 65th Annual Conference, Detroit. 2012.
Borland J.L., Scott Opler Emerging Scholar Award for Best Paper, Society of Architectural Historians 65th Annual Meeting in Detroit. 2012.
Borland J.L., Voices from the Ruins of Tokyo: Children’s Memories of the 1923 Earthquake, The 4th Japanese History Workshop Australia, Murdoch University. 2011.


Researcher : Carroll JM

List of Research Outputs

Carroll J.M., "The British and Pre-Opium War Canton", "Britain and China: Pasts, Presents and Futures, From the Nineteenth Century to the Twenty-First" . Bristol, UK, University of Bristol, 2011.
Carroll J.M., "The Manchus' 'Unnatural' Frontier: Western Observations on the Canton System" , International Workshop on Defining the Jecen: The Evolution of the Qing Frontier . 2012.
Carroll J.M., "The Worlds of Hong Kong", Workshop on Global Cities. University of Warwick, 2011.


Researcher : Chan AWS

List of Research Outputs

Chan A.W.S., Matthews S.J. and Yip V., The acquisition of relative clauses in Cantonese and Mandarin, In: Kidd, E, The acquisition of relative clauses: processing, typology and function. Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2011, 197-225.


Researcher : Chan HY

List of Research Outputs

Chan H.Y., Prelude to the Dawn of a Phoenix – for oboe, bassoon, violin, piano & double bass (music composition, 8'), Commissioned by Chung Chi College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong to celebrate the College's 60th Anniversary; score completed in Feb 2012, premiered on 20 April 2012, Lee Hysan Concert Hall, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 2012.
Chan H.Y., “Imposed or Embraced: A Composer's Reflection on Chineseness” (invited-lecture in English), 30 Jan 2012, Chinese Heritage Centre Auditorium, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 2012.
Chan H.Y., “Music from the Silk Road Concert,” 13 May 2012, The Hall, National Museum of Australia, (Liqourmania – for voices & cello was performed by The Song Company; Conductor: Roland Peelman), 2012.


Researcher : Chan JKB

List of Research Outputs

Chan J.K.B., Effective Scoring for Chinese Ensemble, Singapore International Chinese Chamber Music Composition Symposium. Singapore, 2012.
Chan J.K.B., From Descending Scale to Orchestral Texture, Soochow University. Taipei, 2011.
Chan J.K.B., KOTO, present in Asia, Clumusica Festival 2012. Kyoto, 2012.
Chan J.K.B., Southern Wind: Composition for Flute and 2 Kotos, Premiered by Clumusica. Kyoto, 2012.
Chan J.K.B., The Current Development of Hong Kong New Music, First Pen Club of Chinese Composers, organized by Fujian United Association of Literature and Arts. Xiamen, 2011.
Chan J.K.B., Writing for/against a Chinese Ensemble Setting?, Singapore International Chinese Chamber Music Composition Symposium. Singapore, 2012.


Researcher : Cheung EMK

Project Title:Creativity, Crisis and Everyday Life: Studies of Hong Kong Urban Cultural Texts
Investigator(s):Cheung EMK
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:12/2010


Project Title:ACLA 2012 Collapse/Catastrophe/Change Border-Crossing and the Poetics of Dislocation in Natalia Chan’s poetry
Investigator(s):Cheung EMK
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2012
Completion Date:04/2012


List of Research Outputs

Cheung E.M.K., Border-crossing and the Poetics of Dislocation in Natalia Chan’s Poetry, 2012 Annual Meeting of American Comparative Literature Association, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A., March 29 to April 1, 2012. 12.
Cheung E.M.K., 再版序言: 寫給過渡城市的詩, In: Esther M.K. Cheung, City at the End of Time: Poems by Leung Ping-kwan. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2012, 21-35.
Cheung E.M.K., Dream in Evans Chan’s Datong, Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference 2012, University of Hong Kong, March 16-20, 2012. 6.
Cheung E.M.K., Introduction to the New Edition: New Ends in a City of Transition, In: Esther M.K. Cheung, City at the End of Time: Poems by Leung Ping-kwan. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2012, 1-19.
Cheung E.M.K., Keynote speech, Haunting and Everyday Life in the Global Present, Symposium on “Haunting and Globalization: Symptoms of the Present,” organized by Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, July 25, 2011. Bangkok, Thailand, 2011, 23pp.
Cheung E.M.K., Teaching Excellence Awards 2011 Outstanding Teaching Award---- Individual Award , University of Hong Kong. 2011.
Cheung E.M.K., Tender is the Night! , 明報〈世紀‧看窗〉D4, 2011.
Cheung E.M.K., The New England Chill, 聲韻詩刊 第6期, 2012, 13.
Cheung E.M.K., The Ordinary Fashion Show: Eileen Chang’s Profane Illumination and Mnemonic Art, In: Kam Louie, Eileen Chang: Romancing Languages, Cultures, and Genres. Hong Kong, Hong Kong UNiversity Press, 2012, 73-90.
Cheung E.M.K., We are just an emial away!, 明報〈世紀‧看窗〉D4, 2012.
Cheung E.M.K., Writing the City of Hong Kong: Topography, Poetics and Everyday Life., Hong Kong Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences Lunchtime Interdisciplinary China Seminar, University of Hong Kong, April 24, 2012. 8.
Cheung E.M.K., 港片的未來,將臨的轉進──從《2010香港電影回顧》說起, Seminar on “Future and Viability of Hong Kong Cinema”, organized by Hong Kong Film Critics Society, in Hong Kong In-media. Hong Kong, 2011.
Cheung E.M.K., 開學‧過渡‧生死, 明報〈世紀‧看窗〉D4, 2011.
Cheung E.M.K., 陰曆生日, 明報〈世紀‧看窗〉D4, 2011.
Cheung E.M.K., 無以名狀的苦與樂, 明報〈世紀‧看窗〉D4, 2011.
Cheung E.M.K., 十月的狂熱, 明報〈世紀‧看窗〉D4, 2011.
Cheung E.M.K., 穿高跟鞋的,佔領不了九把刀, 明報〈世紀‧看窗〉D4, 2011.
Cheung E.M.K., 記憶的明滅, 明報〈世紀‧看窗〉D4, 2011.
Cheung E.M.K., 烏有之鄉, 明報〈世紀‧看窗〉D4, 2011.
Cheung E.M.K., 淚是怎樣生成的, 明報〈世紀‧看窗〉D4, 2012.
Cheung E.M.K., 後現代詭話, 明報〈世紀‧看窗〉D4, 2012.
Cheung E.M.K., 另類生肖故事, 明報〈世紀‧看窗〉D4, 2012.
Cheung E.M.K., 她和她的影子, 明報〈世紀‧看窗〉D4, 2012.
Cheung E.M.K., 鬧劇。面譜。地庫, 明報〈世紀‧看窗〉D4, 2012.
Cheung E.M.K., 給「桃姐」許下的諾言, 明報〈世紀‧看窗〉D4, 2012.
Cheung E.M.K., 料峭春寒新英倫, 明報〈世紀‧看窗〉D4, 2012.
Cheung E.M.K., 遇上陳可辛, 明報〈世紀‧看窗〉D4, 2012.
Cheung E.M.K., 看框。看書, 明報〈世紀‧看窗〉, Hong Kong, 2011, D4.
Cheung E.M.K., 紅影樹, 你好!, 明報〈世紀‧看窗〉, 2012.
Cheung E.M.K., 住在窗外, 明報〈世紀‧看窗〉, Hong Kong, 2011, D4.
Cheung E.M.K., 地方誌詩學:城市.律動.詩想, 聲韻詩刊 第5期, 2012, 4-5.
Cheung E.M.K., 極速的國度, 明報〈世紀‧看窗〉, Hong Kong, 2011, D4.
Leung P.K. and Cheung E.M.K., Editor, In: Esther M.K Cheung, City at the End of Time: Poems by Leung Ping-kwan . Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2012, 264.


Researcher : Cheung SC

List of Research Outputs

Cheung S.C., Matthews S.J. and Tsang W.L., Transfer from L3 German to L2 English in the Domain of Tense-Aspect, In: Gessica De Angelis, Jean-Marc Dewaele , New Trends in Crosslinguistic Influence and Multilingualism Research . Bristol, Multilingual Matters, 2011, 53-73.


Researcher : Choi SH

List of Research Outputs

Choi S.H., Pang S.M. and Au C.K., In: Choi Sze Hang, Pang Suk-man, Au Chi-kin, Biography of Sixty-six People in 1911 Revolution. 辛亥革命群像, Hong Kong, Chung Hwa Book Co. Ltd., 2011, 316.
Choi S.H., The Bridge between the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs and the World Shipping Industry in the Late Qing Period: The Management of Chinese Junks by Kowloon Maritime Customs as a Case Study (1890-1911), 清末中國海關與世界航運的接軌——以九龍關管理中國民船為例 (1890-1911), International Conference on China and the World. 「中國與世界」國際學術研討會, 2011.


Researcher : Chua DKL

Project Title:Beethoven and Freedom
Investigator(s):Chua DKL
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:08/2009


Project Title:Visiting Research Professors Scheme 2009-10
Investigator(s):Chua DKL
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Visiting Research Professors Scheme
Start Date:09/2009


Project Title:Musical Aesthetics Beethoven and the Aesthetics of Freedom
Investigator(s):Chua DKL
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2010


Project Title:Visiting Research Professors Scheme 2010-2011
Investigator(s):Chua DKL
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Visiting Research Professors Scheme
Start Date:09/2010


Project Title:After the End of Music History For Richard Taruskin Conference Why Beethoven Draws a Blank
Investigator(s):Chua DKL
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:02/2012
Completion Date:02/2012


List of Research Outputs

Chua D.K.L., Beethoven's Humanism: The Freedom of Abstract Violence, Humanitarian Violence, Humanitas, University of Hong Kong . 2012.
Chua D.K.L., Current Musicological Situation in Hong Kong, Plenary Symposium on ‘Current Musicological Scene in East Asia’, Inaugural East Asia Regional Association of the International Musicological Society, Seoul National University. 2011.
Chua D.K.L., Humanities and Humanity in the New Century, Humanitarian Futures, Peking University, Institute for Medical Humanities. 2012.
Chua D.K.L., Thinking Music Theory, Music Theory, East and West Conference, Chicago University Centre in Beijing . 2011.
Chua D.K.L., Why Beethoven Draws a Blank, After the End of Music History Conference, Princeton University . 2012.
Chua D.K.L., Why Beethoven Must Remain Blank, Inaugural East Asia Regional Association of the International Musicological Society, Seoul National University. 2011.


Researcher : Ci J

Project Title:Research Output Prize (Faculty of Arts)
Investigator(s):Ci J
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Research Output Prize (in Faculty)
Start Date:11/2007


Project Title:Cultural and social transition: theory and practice over three decades China and the question of democracy
Investigator(s):Ci J
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2011
Completion Date:07/2011


List of Research Outputs

Ci J., Chapter 38 of the Daodejing as an Imaginary Genealogy of Morals, In: Chris Fraser, Dan Robins, Timothy O'Leary, Ethics in Early China. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2011, 233-43.
Ci J., China and the Question of Democracy, International Conference on "Cultural and Social Transition: Theory and Practice over Three Decades," jointly organized by the Center for the Study of Contemporary Literature, Shanghai University, and Tufts University, USA, July 2011.
Ci J., Equality and Resistance, Keynote speech at "International Philosophy Conference on Rethinking Resistance," organized by the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Macau. 2011.
Ci J., Social Science and the Diversity of Its Roles for Democracy (Review article), International Studies in the Philosophy of Science. 2011, 25: 179-190.


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


Project Title:Chinese and Western art: Comparisons and interactions.
Investigator(s):Clarke DJ
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:01/2008
Completion Date:08/2011


Project Title:MODERN ART AND WATER
Investigator(s):Clarke DJ
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:09/2008




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


Project Title:Early-modern European appropriations of Chinese nature and natural knowledge
Investigator(s):Cook GA
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Louis Cha Fund
Start Date:05/2007


Project Title:Œuvres complètes of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: tercentenary edition
Investigator(s):Cook GA
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:04/2011


Project Title:Seventeenth Biennial Colloquium of the Rousseau Association Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s adoption of the ‘modèle suisse’
Investigator(s):Cook GA
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2011
Completion Date:07/2011


Project Title:Ruvres completes of J.J. Rousseau--Botany
Investigator(s):Cook GA
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:12/2011


List of Research Outputs

Cook G.A., Curator: exhibit on Rousseau and botany, 'Je raffole de la botanique', Conservatoire et jardin botaniques/Conservatory and Botanical Garden . Geneva, Switzerland, Conservatoire et jardin botaniques, 2012.
Cook G.A., The problem of images in post-Linnaean botanical texts” , Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, 19th Annual Conference, Washington, DC. 2011.
Cook G.A., ‘Jean-Jacques Rousseau: un pluraliste taxonomique?’, 'Penser avec Rousseau': University of Geneva, Switzerland. Geneva, Switzerland, University of Geneva, 2012.
Cook G.A., ‘Une passion contre les passions: Jean-Jacques pratique la botanique’, In: Chantal Mustel and Laurence Feo, Rousseau, passionnément . Montmorency, France, Musée Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 2012, 55-65.
Cook G.A., “Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s adoption of the ‘modèle suisse”, Rousseau Association biennial colloquium, University of Bristol. 2011.


Researcher : Cunich PA

Project Title:Centenary history of The University of Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Cunich PA
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Vice-Chancellor's Office - General Award
Start Date:05/2007


List of Research Outputs

Cunich P.A., 'A Noble Landmark: Sir Hormusjee Mody and the Construction of HKU's Main Building', University Museum and Art Gallery Public Lecture. Hong Kong, 2012.
Cunich P.A., 'Charles Ridley Duppuy', In: May Holdsworth and Christopher Munn, Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2011, 130-131.
Cunich P.A., 'Daphne Chun Wai-chan', In: May Holdsworth and Christopher Munn, Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2011, 100.
Cunich P.A., 'Dreaming Spires and Ivory Towers: The Building of Hong Kong University, 1910-12', Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch Public Lecture. Hong Kong, 2011.
Cunich P.A., 'Ernest Judd Barnett', In: May Holdsworth and Christopher Munn, Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2011, 18-19.
Cunich P.A., 'Gordon King', In: May Holdsworth and Christopher Munn, Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2011, 226-227.
Cunich P.A., 'Love and Revolution in South China: The Church Missionary Society and the 1911 Revolution', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch. Hong Kong, RASHKB, 2011, 51: 143-169.
Cunich P.A., 'Richard Charles Alford', In: May Holdsworth and Christopher Munn, Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2011, 3-4.
Cunich P.A., 'Sir Albert Maria Rodrigues', In: May Holdsworth and Christopher Munn, Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2011, 374-375.
Cunich P.A., 'Sir Charles Norton Edgcumbe Eliot', In: May Holdsworth and Christopher Munn, Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2011, 134-135.
Cunich P.A., 'The Foundation of the University and the Beginnings of Educational Philanthropy in Hong Kong', The University of Hong Kong Foundation for Educational Development and Research Annual General Meeting Lecture. Hong Kong, 2012.
Cunich P.A., 'Wang Chung Yick', In: May Holdsworth and Christopher Munn, Dictionary of Hong Kong Biogaphy. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2011, 448-449.
Cunich P.A., 'William Banister', In: May Holdsworth and Christopher Munn, Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2011, 17.
Cunich P.A., Editor, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch. Hong Kong, RASHKB, 2011, 51: 416 pp.
Cunich P.A., Review of Thomas Sutherland: A Great Victorian, by Malcolm Sutherland (2010), Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch. RASHKB, 2011, 51: 350-52.


Researcher : Deutsch ME

Project Title:The 2002 Meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy A Reductio of Millianism
Investigator(s):Deutsch ME
Department:Department of Philosophy
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:05/2002


Project Title:Experimental Philosophy and Philosophical Method
Investigator(s):Deutsch ME
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:12/2010


Project Title:Invited talk at School of Advanced Study, UCL, The Institute of Philosophy Experimental Philosophy and Philosophical Method
Investigator(s):Deutsch ME
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:09/2011




Researcher : Dikotter F

Project Title:Social History of the Great Famine in China, 1959-61
Investigator(s):Dikotter F, Zhou X
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation of International Scholarly Exchange - General Award
Start Date:07/2008


Project Title:Outstanding Researcher Award 2008-2009
Investigator(s):Dikotter F
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Outstanding Researcher Award
Start Date:12/2009


Project Title:A Social History of the Early Peoples Republic of China, 1949-57 '
Investigator(s):Dikotter F, Zhou X
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:09/2011


Project Title:Research Output Prize (Faculty of Arts)
Investigator(s):Dikotter F
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Research Output Prize (in Faculty)
Start Date:12/2011




Researcher : Ding PS

Project Title:Kinship Terminology in Languages of the Qiangic Area in Southwestern China
Investigator(s):Ding PS
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2010
Completion Date:08/2011


Project Title:Kinship Terminology in Tibeto-Burman Languages of the Qiangic Area in Southwestern China
Investigator(s):Ding PS
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2011


Project Title:Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics Utterance-final particles with grammaticalized intonation in Cantonese
Investigator(s):Ding PS
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2012
Completion Date:03/2012


List of Research Outputs

Ding P.S., A Preliminary Classification of Prinmi Dialects, The 17th Himalayan Languages Symposium. Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, 2011.
Ding P.S., Chinese Influence on Vietnamese: A Sinospheric tale, Language Empires in Comparative Perspective. Germany, University of Bremen, 2012.
Ding P.S., On historical phonetics: Non-language specific and unidirectional sound changes, The 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Osaka, Japan, 2011.
Ding P.S., Phonological Modification through Bilingual Speakers: the case of word-tone system in coastal Chinese topolects, International Conference on Bilingualism and Comparative Linguistics. Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012.
Ding P.S., The average Chinese language: An outline of typological profile, Workshop on Typological Studies of Languages of China. University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2011.
Ding P.S., The partially denasalized bilabial plosive in Southern Min: comparison to [mb] in Amdo Tibetan, The 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Hong Kong, China, 2011.
Ding P.S., Understanding the Values of Minority Languages and Initiation of Heritage Maintenance by Ethnic Minorities, The First Workshop on Ethno-Linguistics and Culture of Greater Mekong Region. Chiangrai Rajabhat University, 2012.
Ding P.S., Utterance-final particles with grammaticalized intonation in Cantonese, Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics. Columbus, Ohio, The Ohio State University, 2012.


Researcher : Ford S

List of Research Outputs

Roberts P.M., Ford S. and Mei R.Y., Judge, Postgraduate Student Papers Competition, In: US-China Education Trust and Beijing Foreign Studies University, 9th American Studies Network Conference. Beijing, Beijing Foreig Studies University/US China Education Trust, 2012.


Researcher : Fraser CJ

Project Title:Landscape and Traveling—East and West Landscape, Travel, and a Zhuangist Response to Nagel’s Cosmic Question
Investigator(s):Fraser CJ
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:05/2012
Completion Date:06/2012


List of Research Outputs

Fraser C.J., Ethics in Early China, "Introduction", In: Chris Fraser, Dan Robins, and Timothy O'Leary, Ethics in Early China: An Anthology. HKU Press, 2011.
Fraser C.J., Landscape, Travel, and a Zhuangist Response to Nagel’s Cosmic Question, “Landscape and Travelling—East and West." Académie du Midi, Alet Les Bains, France. 2012.


Researcher : Ha MOY

Project Title:Female imperial gaze: Reading Jeanne Leuba's Travel Writings
Investigator(s):Ha MOY
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:02/2011


Project Title:Women and gender in the colonial context French Women in Indochina
Investigator(s):Ha MOY
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:01/2012
Completion Date:01/2012


List of Research Outputs

Ha M.O.Y., French women in Indochina, Femmes et genre en contexte colonial XIXe-XXe siècle Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po, Paris . 2012, 12.
Ha M.O.Y., Pierre Brocheux and Daniel Hémery, Indochina : An Ambiguous Colonization, 1858-1954. Berkeley : California UP, 2009. 508 pp, Journal of World History. University of hawai'i press, 2011, 22: 880-883.
Ha M.O.Y., “French women in Indochina” , Femmes et genre en contexte colonial XIXe-XXe siècle Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po, Paris. 2012, 10.


Researcher : Hammers RL

Project Title:Pictures of Tilling and Weaving: The Visual Culture and Ideology in Song and Yuan China
Investigator(s):Hammers RL
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Hsu Long Sing Research Fund
Start Date:01/2008


Project Title:Regarding the Mongols from within and without
Investigator(s):Hammers RL
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:10/2008


Project Title:Mongolian Studies Open Conference Tribute to the Great Khan: Mongol Authority and Identity in the painting Khubilai Khan Hunting
Investigator(s):Hammers RL
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2011


Project Title:Pictures of Tilling and Weaving and the early Qing emperors
Investigator(s):Hammers RL
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2012


List of Research Outputs

Hammers R.L., Beyond Beauty: Regarding the Peony in the Tang to Yuan Dynasties , The University of Hong Kong Museum Society. 2012.
Hammers R.L., Chinese painting: Appreciating the presence of the artist, The University of Michigan Museum of Art. 2012.
Hammers R.L., Discussant for seven papers of the conference "A Connective History of Qing Art" , 2012.
Hammers R.L., Invited paper: “Zhongguo Yishu yu yishu lilun zhong de ‘Tiaoli’: Luojie Fulai de xingshi zhuyi meixue (‘Lining’ up Chinese art and art theory: The Formalist aesthetics of Roger Fry)” (delivered in Mandarin), 中國藝術與藝術理論中的「條理」: 羅傑.弗萊的形式主義美學, Sixth Shenzhen Ink Forum: Lines and Images at the Shenzhen Fine Art Institute, Shenzhen, PRChina. 第六届深圳水墨論壇:綫條與圖像 (深圳畫院), 2012.
Hammers R.L., Perspectives in Early Qing-Dynasty Pictures of Tilling and Weaving and Pictures of Cotton, In: Takehiko Hashimoto, Historia Scientiarum. Tokyo, History of Science Society of Japan, 2011, 21-1: 1-17.
Hammers R.L., Pictures of Tilling and Weaving: Art, Labor, and Technology in Song and Yuan China. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2011, 293.
Hammers R.L., The Painting Khublai Khan Hunting and the Fabrication of Authority , Oriental Ceramics Society. 2011.
Hammers R.L., The Pleasures of the Peony - Regarding the Floral Temptress in the Song Dynasty, Sponsored by the University of Michigan's Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum, Center for Chinese Studies, Museum of Art, History of Art, and the Confucius Institute. 2012.
Hammers R.L., Tribute to the Great Khan: Mongol Authority and Identity in the painting Khubilai Khan Hunting, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. 2012.


Researcher : Hawley P

Project Title:Meaning and use: the case of names
Investigator(s):Hawley P
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2010
Completion Date:12/2011


List of Research Outputs

Hawley P., Attention as dual process, American Philosophical Association, Washington D.C.. 2011.
Hawley P., Reference as Matching, Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, Sussex, UK. 2011.


Researcher : Ho JKH

List of Research Outputs

Ho J.K.H., “A Chinese Queer Discourse: Camp and Alternative Desires in the Films of Yon Fan and Lou Ye” in LGBT Transnational Identity in Media: Post Colonial Post Queer. , Palgrave Macmillan., 2012.


Researcher : Kim Y

Project Title:“How do we hear music?”: Contextualizing theories of musical hearing
Investigator(s):Kim Y
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:09/2010
Completion Date:02/2012


Project Title:Society for Music Theory 2011 Meeting Looking Back and Reconstructing: Dialogical Voices in Hugo Riemann’s Theories on Phrasing and Rests
Investigator(s):Kim Y
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:10/2011
Completion Date:10/2011


Project Title:Convergence and/or Dialogue: Music Theory and Psychology in Fin-de-Siecle Germany
Investigator(s):Kim Y
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2012


List of Research Outputs

Kim Y., Force, Afterimages, and the Ears: Changing Notions of Music Listening in Late 19th-century Thoughts. , Music and the Body. 9-11 March 2012. Hong Kong. Coorganized by Department of Music and the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine. The University of Hong Kong. . 2012.
Kim Y., “Hearing Pauses: Theories and Analyses at the Turn of the 20th Century.” East Asian Regional Association of the International Musicological Society/Western Music Research Institute. Seoul National University. Seoul, Korea. 16–18 September 2011, 2011.
Kim Y., “Looking Back and Reconstructing: Dialogical Voices in Hugo Riemann’s Theories on Rhythm, Phrasing and Rests.” The 34th Annual Meeting of Society for Music Theory 2011. Society for Music Theory. Minneapolis, USA. 27–30 October 2011. , 2011.
Yang Y. and Kim Y., Musica Humana, Special issue: Reflections on Acousmatic Listening, In: Youn Kim and Yuanzheng Yang, 2011, Vol. 3, No. 1: 177.


Researcher : Koon YW

Project Title:Su Renshan (1814-c.1850): Template of a Modern Artist
Investigator(s):Koon YW
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:09/2009


Project Title:Qing Images and Imaginaries: A Workshop in Qing Art The Image and the Witness: Paintings in post-Opium War Guangdong
Investigator(s):Koon YW
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2011
Completion Date:07/2011


List of Research Outputs

Koon Y.W., Epigraphy, Kaozheng and Icons: Su Renshan's Literati Buddhist Art, In: Organizer: Yeewan Koon, University of Hong Kong, A Connective History of Qing Art: Visuality, Images, and Visuality . 2012.
Koon Y.W., The Face of Diplomacy in Nineteenth-Century China: Qiying's Portrait Gifts, In: Kendall Johnson, Narratives of Free Trade: The Commercial Cultures of Early American- Chinese Relations. Hong Kong, 2012, 131-148.
Koon Y.W., The Image and the Witness: Paintings in post-Opium War Guangdong, Qing Images and Imaginaries: A Workshop. Institute of Fine Arts, New York University . 2011.
Koon Y.W., Ways of Seeing: Export painting and Qing Art, In: Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art; Export Art Lecture series . 2012.
Koon Y.W., Wordscapes: Tsang Kin-wah, In: M+ Museum: West Kowloon Cultural district Authoirty, Mobile M+: Yau Ma Tei. 2012.


Researcher : Law FYW

List of Research Outputs

Law F.Y.W., A Hong Kong odyssey: stories of (no) return from ROUGE (1987) to FROZEN (2010), ACSS (Asian Cinema Studies Society) Conference, The University of Hong Kong, March 18-20, 2012.. 2012.
Law F.Y.W., Fabulating Animals: Journey to an Affective Sphere in Asian Film Scene, Critical Connections: Forum on Cultural Studies in Asia and Beyond, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 16 March 2012.. 2012.


Researcher : Li KLM

List of Research Outputs

Li K.L.M. and Matthews S.J., A new source for Macao Pidgin Portuguese, Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. Portland, USA, 2012.


Researcher : Luke KK

Project Title:The 9th International Conference on Chinese Linguistics Phonological Re-interpretation: The Assignment of Cantonese Tones to English Words
Investigator(s):Luke KK
Department:Linguistics
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2000


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:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2005


Project Title:Outstanding Researcher Award 2007-2008
Investigator(s):Luke KK
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Outstanding Researcher Award
Start Date:10/2008




Researcher : Marchetti G

Project Title:China and Global Cinema: The Legacy of Solidarity and Dissent
Investigator(s):Marchetti G
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2010
Completion Date:08/2011


Project Title:CFP Bangkok Symposium on Haunting and Globalization: Symptoms of the Present Haunted by Hollywood: Hong Kong Noir, Horror, and RUNNING ON KARMA
Investigator(s):Marchetti G
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2011
Completion Date:07/2011


Project Title:Hong Kong Women Filmmakers: Sex, Politics and Cinema Aesthetics, 1997-2010
Investigator(s):Marchetti G
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2012


List of Research Outputs

Marchetti G., “Eileen Chang and Ang Lee at the Movies: The Cinematic Politics of LUST, CAUTION”, In: Kam Louie, Eileen Chang: Romancing Languages, Cultures and Genres . Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2012, 131-154.
Marchetti G., “Citing China: Postmodernism, Politics, and Cinema” , Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. Guangzhou, PRC, 2011.
Marchetti G., “Haunted by Hollywood: Hong Kong Noir, Horror, and RUNNING ON KARMA” , Haunting and Globalization: Symptoms of the Present, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. 2011.
Marchetti G., “Hong Kong Women Filmmakers in Contemporary Global Cinema: A Study of Director Ann Hui” , Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference. 2012.
Marchetti G., Advisory Board Member, Journal of Chinese Cinemas. 2012.
Marchetti G., Forum lecture, “Asian Citations: Postmodernism, Politics, and Global Cinema” , Busan Cinema Forum, Seeking the Path of Asian Cinema. Busan, Korea, 2011.
Marchetti G., Introduction, “Trinh T. Minh-ha: The Politics of Forms and Forces” , Public Lecture Series on Gender Studies. Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011.
Marchetti G., The Chinese Diaspora on American Screens: Race, Sex, and Cinema . Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 2012.
Marchetti G., “From Mao’s ‘Continuous Revolution’ to Ning Ying’s PERPETUAL MOTION (2005): Sexual Politics, Neoliberalism, and Postmodern China” , In: Wang, Lingzhen, Chinese Women’s Cinema: Transnational Contexts. New York, Columbia University Press, 2011.
Marchetti G., “The Hong Kong New Wave” , In: Zhang Yingjin, A Companion to Chinese Cinema . Chichester, Wiley-Blackwell, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012, 95-117.


Researcher : Matthews SJ

Project Title:Linguistic Society of America 2001 Annual Meeting A Multi-dimensional Approach to the Category Verb in Cantonese
Investigator(s):Matthews SJ
Department:Linguistics
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:01/2001


Project Title:International Association for Chinese Linguistics, 11th Annual Meeting The Pronominal Copula in Chaozhou
Investigator(s):Matthews SJ
Department:Linguistics
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2002


Project Title:Chinese Pidgin English poetry from Shanghai
Investigator(s):Matthews SJ
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:12/2008


Project Title:Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics 2012 A new source for Macao Pidgin Portuguese
Investigator(s):Matthews SJ
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:01/2012
Completion Date:01/2012


List of Research Outputs

Chan A.W.S., Matthews S.J. and Yip V., The acquisition of relative clauses in Cantonese and Mandarin, In: Kidd, E, The acquisition of relative clauses: processing, typology and function. Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2011, 197-225.
Cheung S.C., Matthews S.J. and Tsang W.L., Transfer from L3 German to L2 English in the Domain of Tense-Aspect, In: Gessica De Angelis, Jean-Marc Dewaele , New Trends in Crosslinguistic Influence and Multilingualism Research . Bristol, Multilingual Matters, 2011, 53-73.
Li K.L.M. and Matthews S.J., A new source for Macao Pidgin Portuguese, Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. Portland, USA, 2012.
Matthews S.J., Is there a universal Chinese grammar?, North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. University of San Francisco, 2012.
Matthews S.J., Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award, University of Hong Kong. 2011.
Matthews S.J. and Yip V., Wh-fronting in Cantonese grammar and in bilingual acquisition, 43rd International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics. Lund, Sweden, 2011.
Xu H.L. and Matthews S.J., On the polyfunctionality and grammaticalization of the morpheme 'kai' in the Chaozhou dialect, In: Yap FH, Grunow-Harsta K and Wrona, J, Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and typological perspectives. Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2011, 109-124.


Researcher : McCarthy DP

List of Research Outputs

McCarthy D.P., Risk-free approaches to the priority view, Erkenntnis. 2012.


Researcher : Mora M

Project Title:13th Biennial IASPM Conference: Making Music, Making Meaning Subjectivity, Place and Song in Filipino - Altered Native Music
Investigator(s):Mora M
Department:Music
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2005


Project Title:India and the World: The Performing Arts 2008 Reflections on musical cultural contact during the Indianization of Southeast Asia
Investigator(s):Mora M
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2008




Researcher : Muir CD

Project Title:Saintly Brides and Bridegrooms: The Mystic Marriage in Northern Renaissance Art
Investigator(s):Muir CD
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:09/2010
Completion Date:02/2013


List of Research Outputs

Muir C.D., "Lay Bridegrooms of a Female Christ in Two Fifteenth-Century French Miniatures", Source: Notes in the History of Art. New York, 2011, volume 30, number 4: 4-11.


Researcher : O'Leary TE

Project Title:Ethics and the History of Experience
Investigator(s):O'Leary TE
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2010
Completion Date:08/2011


Project Title:2012 Kaifeng International Deleuze Conference Lu Xun's Lines of Flight
Investigator(s):O'Leary TE
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:05/2012


List of Research Outputs

O'Leary T.E., What’s ‘Experimental’ about Philosophy?, School of Philosophy, UNSW Sydney. Sydney, 2011.


Researcher : Peckham RS

Project Title:Economies of Contagion: Plague, Trade and Empire, 1894-1914
Investigator(s):Peckham RS
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:11/2010


Project Title:Doris Zimmern HKU-Cambridge Hughes Hall Fellowships 2011-12
Investigator(s):Peckham RS
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Doris Zimmern HKU-Cambridge Hughes Hall Fellowships
Start Date:09/2011


Project Title:Infective Economies: Plague and the Crisis of Empire
Investigator(s):Peckham RS
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2012


Project Title:Humanitarian Futures New Models? History & Futures
Investigator(s):Peckham RS
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:05/2012


List of Research Outputs

Peckham R.S., Daydreaming With...The Hong Kong Edition, Daydreaming With... The Hong Kong Edition. Hong Kong, Future Industries/Daydreaming With, 2012.
Peckham R.S., Diseasing the City: Colonial Noir and the Ruins of Modernity, Fast Capitalism. 2011, 8:1.
Peckham R.S., Memos on Networking, Advanced Cultural Leadership Programme, HKU . 2012.
Peckham R.S., New Humanitarian Models? Histories and Futures, Institute for Medical Humanities, Peking University, China. 2012.
Peckham R.S., Seeing Violence: Geovisualizing Humanitarian Crisis, Humanitarian Violence, HKU. 2012.
Peckham R.S., Social Entrepreneurship for Health, Social Entrepreneurship for Sexual Health, LSHTM & HKU. 2011.
Peckham R.S., The History of Medicine: Challenges and Futures, Perspectives on History. American Historical Association, 2011, 48:8: 45-47.
Peckham R.S., The Paintings of Simon Birch, Hong Kong, Future Industries, 2012.
Peckham R.S., Traces: On the Road Again, Hong Kong, Future Industries, 2011.
Peckham R.S., Urban Modernity: Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution, Centaurus: An International Journal of the History of Science and its Cultural Aspects. Oxford, UK, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, 53: 333-334.
Pomfret D.M. and Peckham R.S., Imperial Contagions: Medicine, Hygiene, and Cultures of Planning in Asia, Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2012.


Researcher : Pomfret DM

Project Title:Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2006-2007
Investigator(s):Pomfret DM
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Start Date:11/2007


List of Research Outputs

Pomfret D.M. and Peckham R.S., Imperial Contagions: Medicine, Hygiene, and Cultures of Planning in Asia, Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2012.
Pomfret D.M., Introduction: Medicine, Hygiene, and the Re-ordering of Empire, In: Dr. David M. Pomfret, Dr. Robert S. Peckham, Imperial Contagions: Medicine and Cultures of Planning in Asia, 1880-1949. 2012.
Pomfret D.M., ‘Beyond Risk of Contagion’: Childhood, Hill Stations and the Planning of British and French Colonial Cities", In: Dr. David M. Pomfret Dr. Robert S. Peckham, Imperial Contagions: Medicine and Cultures of Planning in Asia, 1880-1949. Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong Press, 2012.
Pomfret D.M., “Colonial Circulations: Vietnamese Youth, Travel and Empire” , “A Transnational Age: Youth in the Twentieth-Century World” . 2012.
Pomfret D.M., “Curriculum as Process: Connective Learning in Hong Kong University’s Common Core” , Hoa Sen University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. 2012.
Pomfret D.M., “E-learning,” , CETL Seminar. 2012.
Pomfret D.M., “Integrated Experiential Learning,” , CETL, The University of Hong Kong.. 2011.
Pomfret D.M., “Teaching the Facebook Generation: Realtime Interactive Video and Lectures (RIVAL) for Large Classes,” , Hoa Sen University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. 2012.


Researcher : Roberts PM

Project Title:King's/HKU Fellowship Awards 2009-10
Investigator(s):Roberts PM
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:King's/HKU Fellowship Awards
Start Date:09/2009


Project Title:The Shifting International Theme in the Life and Works of Henry James
Investigator(s):Roberts PM
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:11/2009
Completion Date:10/2012


Project Title:Anglo-American Think Tanks and the British Empire in the Pacific, 1920-1945
Investigator(s):Roberts PM
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2010
Completion Date:08/2011


Project Title:Doris Zimmern HKU-Cambridge Hughes Hall Fellowships 2010-11
Investigator(s):Roberts PM
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Doris Zimmern HKU-Cambridge Hughes Hall Fellowships
Start Date:09/2010


Project Title:Anglo-American Think Tanks and the British Empire in the Pacific, 1920-1945
Investigator(s):Roberts PM
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2011


Project Title:The 2011 TSA Annual Conference "Mr. Anglo-American": Arthur Lehman Goodhart, the Scholar as Diplomat
Investigator(s):Roberts PM
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2011
Completion Date:07/2011


Project Title:Rebuilding a Relationship: Britain and China after 1967
Investigator(s):Roberts PM
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:05/2012


List of Research Outputs

Roberts P.M., "Historicizing American Studies", In: US-China Education Trust/ Luce Foundation/ Beijing Foreign Studies University, American Studies Faculty Development Program, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing. Beijing, Beijing Foreign Studies University, 2011.
Roberts P.M., "Introduction" to Round-Table Review of Nicolas Guilhot, ed., The Invention of International Relations Theory; Realism, the Rockefeller Foundation and the 1954 Conference on Theory (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011). , In: Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse, H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable Forum . Columbia, Ohio, USA, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2011, Vol. 3 No. 5: 2-8.
Roberts P.M., "Introduction: China Views Nine-Eleven", In: Priscilla Roberts; Mei Renyi; and Yan Xunhua, China Views Nine-Eleven: Essays in Transnational American Studies. Newcastle-on-Tyne, UK, Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2011, 1-36.
Roberts P.M., "Mr. Anglo-American": Arthur Lehman Goodhart, the Scholar as Diplomat, In: Alan Dobson, Transatlantic Studies Association annual conference. University of Dundee, Transatlantic Studies Association, 2011.
Roberts P.M., "Soft Power in Sino-American Relations: A Historical Perspective", 8th Annual American Studies Network Conference. Northeast Normal Univ, Changchun, China, American Studies Network/US-China Education Trust, 2011.
Roberts P.M., 9/11 as Diplomatic Milestone and Turning-Point, In: Priscilla Roberts; Mei Renyi; and Yan Xunhua, China Views Nine-Eleven: Essays in Transnational American Studies. Newcastle on Tyne, UK, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, 111-125.
Roberts P.M., Abrial, Jean Marie Charles (1879-1962), In: Tucker, Spencer C., World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols.. Santa Barbara, CA, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2011, 1: 4-5.
Roberts P.M., Academic Coordinator, International conference on "Mao's China, Non-Communist Asia, and the Global Setting, 1949-1976". Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong, 2012.
Roberts P.M., Appointed Academic Adviser to US-China Education Trust, In: Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch (President, USCET), US-China Education Trust. Washington, DC, USA, US-China Education Trust, 2011.
Roberts P.M., Auboyneau, Philippe Marie Joseph Raymond (1899-1961), In: Tucker, Spencer C., World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols.. Santa Barbara, CA, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2011, 1: 64-65.
Roberts P.M., Auphan, Paul Gabriel (1894-1982), In: Tucker, Spencer C., World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols.. Santa Barbara, CA, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2011, 1: 65-66.
Roberts P.M., Australian Prime Ministers and the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Australian Prime Ministers Centre, Museum of Australian Democracy. Canberra, Australia, Australian Prime Ministers Centre, 2012.
Roberts P.M., Bloch, Claude Charles (1878-1967), In: Tucker, Spencer C., World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols.. Santa Barbara, California, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2011, 1: 118-119.
Roberts P.M., Christie, Ralph Waldo (1893-1987), In: Tucker, Spencer C., World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols.. Santa Barbara, California, USA, ABCCLIO, 2011, 1: 176-177.
Roberts P.M., Conolly, Richard Lansing (1892-1962), In: Tucker, Spencer C., World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols.. Santa Barbara, California, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2011, 1: 183-184.
Roberts P.M., Cuban Missile Crisis: The Essential Reference Guide, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2012, xix + 278.
Roberts P.M., Cunningham, Sir John Henry Dacres (1885-1962), In: Tucker, Spencer C., World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols.. Santa Barbara, California, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2011, 1: 215-216.
Roberts P.M., Mei R.Y. and Yan X.H., Editor of book, China Views Nine-Eleven: Essays in Transnational American Studies. Newcastle on Tyne, England, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, xi + 515.
Roberts P.M., External reviewer of article, Business History Review. Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Harvard Business School, 2012.
Roberts P.M., Fechteler, William Morrow (896-1967), In: Tucker, Spencer C., World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols.. Santa Barbara, California, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2011, 1: 266-268.
Roberts P.M., Fegen, Edward Stephen Fogarty (1891-1940), In: Tucker, Spencer C., World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols.. Santa Barbara, California, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2011, 1: 267-268.
Roberts P.M., Giffen, Robert Carlisle 'Ike' (1886-1962), In: Tucker, Spencer C., World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols.. Santa Barbara, California, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2011, 1: 307.
Roberts P.M., Godfrey, John Henry (1888-1971), In: Tucker, Spencer C., World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols.. Santa Barbara, California, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2011, 1: 312-314.
Roberts P.M. and Tucker S.C., Godfroy, Rene Emile, In: Tucker, Spencer C., World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols.. Santa Barbara, California, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2011, 1: 314-315.
Roberts P.M., Great Britain, Women's Royal Naval Service, In: Tucker, Spencer C., World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols.. Santa Barbara, California, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2011, 1: 322-323.
Roberts P.M., Harwood, Sir Henry (1888-1950), In: Tucker, Spencer C., World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols.. Santa Barbara, California, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2011, 1: 341-342.
Roberts P.M., Henry James and British Power, In: Wm. Roger Louis, Resurgent Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain. London and Austin, Texas, USA, I. B. Tauris and Harry Ransom Center, 2011, 61-74.
Roberts P.M., Hewitt, Henry Kent (1887-1972), In: Tucker, Spencer C., World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols.. Santa Barbara, California, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2011, 1: 347-348.
Roberts P.M., Holland, Lancelot Ernest (1887-1941), In: Tucker, Spencer C., World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols.. Santa Barbara, California, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2011, 1: 350.
Roberts P.M., Ingersoll, Royal Eason (1883-1976), In: Tucker, Spencer C., World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols.. Santa Barbara, California, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2011, 1: 379-380.
Roberts P.M., Ingram, Jonas Howard (1886-1952), In: Tucker, Spencer C., World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols.. Santa Barbara, California, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2011, 1: 380-381.
Roberts P.M., Introduction to H-Diplo Roundtable on Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, ed. The Cold War in East Asia 1945-1911 (Washington, DC, and Stanford: Wilson Center Press and Stanford University Press, 2011)., In: Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse, H-Diplo Round Table Reviews. Columbus, Ohio, USA, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2012, 12, No. 30: 2-11.
Roberts P.M., Ford S. and Mei R.Y., Judge, Postgraduate Student Papers Competition, In: US-China Education Trust and Beijing Foreign Studies University, 9th American Studies Network Conference. Beijing, Beijing Foreig Studies University/US China Education Trust, 2012.
Roberts P.M., Keyes, Roger John Brownlow (1872-1945), In: Tucker, Spencer C., World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols.. Santa Barbara, California, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2011, 1: 415-416.
Roberts P.M., Kim Il Sung and the Road to the Korean War, In: ABC-CLIO, Database World at War: Understanding War and Society. Enduring Questions: The Idea Exchange. . Santa Barbara, CA, United States, ABC-CLIO, 2011.
Roberts P.M. and Tucker S.C., King, Ernest Joseph (1878-1956), In: Tucker, Spencer C., World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols.. Santa Barbara, California, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2011, 1: 420-421.
Roberts P.M., Kirk, Alan Goodrich (1888-1963), In: Tucker, Spencer C., World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols.. Santa Barbara, California, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2011, 1: 423-424.
Roberts P.M., Knox, William Franklin 'Frank' (1874-1944), In: Tucker, Spencer C., World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols.. Santa Barbara, California, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2011, 1: 424-425.
Roberts P.M. and Tucker S.C., Laborde, Jean Joseph, Comte de (1878-1977), In: Tucker, Spencer C., World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols.. Santa Barbara, California, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2011, 1: 441-442.
Roberts P.M., Marco Polo Bridge Incident, In: Li Xiaobing, China at War: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2012, 265-267.
Roberts P.M., McGrigor, Sir Rhoderick Robert (1893-1959), In: Tucker, Spencer C., World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols.. Santa Barbara, California, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2011, 2: 488.
Roberts P.M., McMorris, Charles Horatio 'Soc' (1890-1954), In: Tucker, Spencer C., World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols.. Santa Barbara, California, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2011, 2: 489.
Roberts P.M., Nanjing, Rape of, In: Li Xiaobing, China at War: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2012, 296-298.
Roberts P.M., Noble, Sir Percy Lockhart Harnam (1880-1955), In: Tucker, Spencer C., World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols.. Santa Barbara, California, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2011, 2: 564-565.
Roberts P.M., Outside reviewer for article, Journal of Cold War Studies. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Harvard University, 2012.
Roberts P.M., Outside reviewer for article, Journal of the Hong Kong Royal Asiatic Society. Hong Kong, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2011.
Roberts P.M., Outside reviewer for manuscript of article, Journal of Cold War Studies. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Harvard University, 2012.
Roberts P.M., Outside reviewer of book manuscript, In: N/A, Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, Cambridge University press, 2011.
Roberts P.M., Outside reviewer of book manuscript, Hong Kong University Press. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2012.
Roberts P.M., Reeves, Joseph Mason (1872-1948), In: Tucker, Spencer C., World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols.. Santa Barbara, California, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2011, 2: 624-625.
Roberts P.M., Research Fellowship, Australian Prime Ministers Centre, Canberra, Australia. Canberra, Australia, Australian Prime Ministers Centre, 2011.
Roberts P.M., Review of Brian Morton, Woodrow Wilson: United States (London: Haus Publishing, 2008). , Diplomacy and Statecraft. London, UK, Taylor and Francis, 2012, 23:1: 182-184.
Roberts P.M., Review of Mario del Pero, The Eccentric Realist: Henry Kissinger and the Shaping of American Foreign Policy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010). , In: Thomas A. Schwartz, H-Diplo Round Table Reviews.. Columbus, Ohio, H-Diplo, 2011, XI, No. 29: 18-28.
Roberts P.M., Review of Noburu Ishikawa, Between Frontiers: Nation and Identity in a Southeast Asian Borderland (Singapore: NUS Press and Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2010)., International History Review. London, UK, Taylor and Francis, 2012, 34:1: 199-291.
Roberts P.M., Review of Shigeru Akita and Nicholas J. White, eds. The International Order of Asia in the 1930s and 1950s (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010). , In: Andrew Williams and Gaynor Johnson, International History Review. Abingdon, UK, Taylor and Francis, 2011, 737-738.
Roberts P.M., Seminar Coordinator, PHAROS II (Second Postgraduate History Archival Research Orientation Seminar). Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong, 2012.
Roberts P.M., Sherman, Forrest Percival (1896-1951), In: Tucker, Spencer C., World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols.. Santa Barbara, California, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2011, 2: 660-661.
Roberts P.M., Stark, Harold Raynsford 'Betty' (1880-1972), In: Tucker, Spencer C., World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols.. Santa Barbara, California, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2011, 2: 709-711.
Roberts P.M., The Geopolitics of Literature: The Shifting International Theme in the Works of Henry James, International History Review. London, UK, Routledge, 2012, 34:1: 89-114.
Roberts P.M., Wilkinson, Theodore Stark 'Ping' (1888-1946), In: Tucker, Spencer C., World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols.. Santa Barbara, California, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2011, 2: 801-802.
Roberts P.M., Zimmern-Hughes Hall Visiting Fellowship, Hughes Hall, Cambridge University. Cambridge, UK, Hughes Hall, Cambridge University, 2011.
Roberts P.M., “The Prague Spring of 1968: Its Significance and Impact.” , In: ABC-CLIO, Database: World History: The Modern Era. Enduring Questions” The Idea Exchange. . Santa Barbara, California, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2011.
Roberts P.M., “Was the Versailles Treaty Peace Settlement a Success or Failure?” , In: ABC-CLIO, Database: World History: The Modern Era. Enduring Questions: The Idea Exchange. . Santa Barbara, CA, United States, ABC-CLIO, 2011.
Tucker S.C., Roberts P.M., Pierpaoli P.G.J.R., Morelock J.D., Zabecki D. and Zuhur S., Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011. For The Encyclopedia of Modern Middle East Wars: The United States in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq Conflicts. 5 vols. ABC-CLIO, 2010., Choice Reviews Online/American Library Association. Chicago, Illinois, USA, Choice Reviews Online/American Library Association, 2012.


Researcher : Sabine MA

Project Title:Women, God and Feminism: A Research Symposium Fred Zinnemann's The Nun's Story and the Pilgrim Soul of Women
Investigator(s):Sabine MA
Department:Comparative Literature
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/1999


Project Title:Twentieth-Century Woman Writer Rumer Godden: British-Indian Pilgrim on the Earth
Investigator(s):Sabine MA
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:07/2011


List of Research Outputs

Sabine M.A., "Black Narcissus's Censored Story: Women, Sexuality and the Religious Life in Powell and Pressburger's 1947 Film", Catholics and Cinema: Productions, Policies and Power, Conference at Oxford Brookes University. 2011.
Sabine M.A., Black Narcissus's Censored Story: Women, Sexuality and the Religious Life in Powell and Pressburger's 1947 Film, Catholics and Cinema : Productions, Policies and Power at Oxford Brookes Univeristy September 2-3, 2011.
Sabine M.A., GRF Award 2011/12 Twentieth-Century Woman Writer Rumer Godden: British-Indian Pilgrim on the Earth, 2011.


Researcher : Schencking JC

Project Title:The Great Kantō Earthquake and the Culture of Catastrophe and Reconstruction in Japan
Investigator(s):Schencking JC
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:09/2009
Completion Date:09/2011


Project Title:The Great KantM Earthquake and the Political and Ideological Use of Catastrophe in Japan
Investigator(s):Schencking JC
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:10/2009
Completion Date:03/2012


Project Title:America's Tsunami of Aid: Charity, Opportunism, and Delusion following Japan's Great Kanto Earthquake
Investigator(s):Schencking JC
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2012


List of Research Outputs

Schencking J.C., Australia-wide Discovery Grant and Future Fellow Reviewer for the Australian Research Council , Australian Research Council. 2012.
Schencking J.C., Catastrophe, Opportunism, and Contestation: The Great Kanto Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan, Invited Keynote Speaker for the 11th Australasian Urban History/Planning History Conference (Perth, Australia 5-8 February, 2012). 2012.
Schencking J.C., Catastrophe, Opportunity, and Contestation: The Great Kanto Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan, Keynote Address: The 11th Australasian Urban History/Planning History Conference. 2012.
Schencking J.C., Constructing Japan's 1923 Calamity for Relief and Reconstruction, Invited Speaker at the University of Heidelberg Conference on "Images of Disasters" sponsored by the European Union Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context". 2012.
Schencking J.C., Constructing Japan's 1923 Earthquake Calamity for Relief and Reconstruction, Images of Disaster Conference sponsored by the Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe European Union Academic Grant, University of Heidelberg. 2012.
Schencking J.C., Constructing Japan's 1923 Earthquake Calamity for Relief and Reconstruction, Images of Disasters International Conference, Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context, University of Heidelberg. 2012.
Schencking J.C., Executive Editorial Committee, In: Schencking, J. Charles, Modern Asian Studies. University of Cambridge, 2011.
Schencking J.C., Imperial Japan at its Zenith, American Historical Review. Chicago, USA, University of Chicago Press, 2012, 117: 179-180.
Schencking J.C., Japan in the Shadow of the Bomber, Japan’s World War II in Asia: 70 Years On, sponsored by The Asian Studies Center and the University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh . 2011.


Researcher : Siok W.T.

Project Title:Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2007-2008
Investigator(s):Siok WT
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Start Date:10/2008


Project Title:The Biological basis of reading disability in Chinese children
Investigator(s):Siok WT, Luke KK, Tan L
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:09/2009


List of Research Outputs



Researcher : Siok WT

Project Title:Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2007-2008
Investigator(s):Siok WT
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Start Date:10/2008


Project Title:The Biological basis of reading disability in Chinese children
Investigator(s):Siok WT, Luke KK, Tan L
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:09/2009


List of Research Outputs

Qiu D., Tan L., Siok W.T., Zhou K. and Khong P.L., Lateralization of the arcuate fasciculus and its differential correlation with reading ability between young learners and experienced readers: a diffusion tensor tractography study in a Chinese cohort, Human Brain Mapping. 2011, 32: 2054-2063.


Researcher : Szeto MM

Project Title:International Workshop on Masculinities in Asia In Face of Globalization, Neoliberalization, Mainlandization: Shifts in Libidinal-Political Economy & Changing Plural Masculinities in post-1997 Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Szeto MM
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2011
Completion Date:08/2011


Project Title:Mainlandization of Hong Kong Film Industry: Does it bring revival and creativity?
Investigator(s):Szeto MM
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2012


List of Research Outputs

Szeto M.M., Cultural Policy and Politics in Postcolonial Hong Kong, Invited Lecture for the Sociology Department, Hong Kong Baptist University, course entitled: SOC 1150 Hong Kong Society.. 2012.
Szeto M.M., Cultural Policy and Politics in Postcolonial Hong Kong, Invited Lecture for the Sociology Department, Hong Kong Baptist University, course entitled: SOC 1150 Hong Kong Society.. 2011.
Szeto M.M., Hong Kong New Wave to SAR New Wave: From Ann Hui to Ann Hui and Beyond, ASIAN CINEMA STUDIES SOCIETY CONFERENCE. 2012.
Szeto M.M., In Face of Globalization, Neoliberalization, Mainlandization: Shifts in Libidinal-Political Economy & Changing Plural Masculinities in post-1997 Hong Kong, In: Asia Research Institute and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (Asian Studies Division, Gender Studies Minor Program, and 'Doing Asian Studies' Reading Group), International Workshop on Masculinities in Asia, National University of Singapore, National University of Singapore, 3-6 August. 2011.
Szeto M.M. and Chen Y.C., Rebuilding An Eco-village From The Ruin Of Developmentalism: making Utopia In Choi Yuen Village, Hong Kong, In: The International Workshop on Urban Utopianism by Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University; Urban Research, Osaka City University, The International Workshop On Urban Utopianism. 2012.
Szeto M.M., Significance of Blue House and Socio-Cultural Innovations for Hong Kong Cultural Policy, Invited Cultural Tour for the Advanced Cultural Leadership Programme, University of Hong Kong. 2012.
Szeto M.M., The Cultural-Spatial Turn in Hong Kong Social Movement, Inter Asia Cultural Studies Society (IACSS) Conference, entitled: Cultural Transformations: Development Initiatives and Social Movements. 2011.
Szeto M.M., Working With Government: Politics and Influence - Why the Living Preservation of the Blue House Heritage Cluster in Wanchai Worked, Invited Lecture for the Advanced Cultural leadership Programme, University of Hong Kong. 2012.
Szeto M.M., Working with Community, Government, Professional and Business Stake-holders: Knowledge Exchange in the Living Preservation of the Blue House Heritage Cluster, In: Professor John Bacon-Shone, Director Knowledge Exchange Office, HKU; Professor Paul Y.S. Cheung, Director, Technology Transfer Office, HKU, The Knowledge Exchange Conference: Knowledge Transforming Society. 2011.


Researcher : Tan L

Project Title:Learning to read in Chinese: Possible intervention strategies implicated by fMRI studies
Investigator(s):Tan L, Siok WT
Department:Linguistics
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:02/2005


Project Title:The State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Investigator(s):Tan L, Sham PC, So KF
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Matching Fund for State Key Laboratory (SKL)
Start Date:10/2008


List of Research Outputs

Mo L., Xu G., Kay P. and Tan L., Electrophysiological evidence for the left-lateralized effect of language on preattentive categorical perception of color, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2011, 108: 14026–14030.
Qiu D., Tan L., Siok W.T., Zhou K. and Khong P.L., Lateralization of the arcuate fasciculus and its differential correlation with reading ability between young learners and experienced readers: a diffusion tensor tractography study in a Chinese cohort, Human Brain Mapping. 2011, 32: 2054-2063.
Tan L., Brain Systems Underlying Chinese Language Processing, Invited speech at International Summit on Brain function and Brain Imaging, the 3nd IEEE Workshop on Communication among Neuroscience, Cognition and Information Technology, Chengdu, China. 2011.
Tan L., rain Systems Underlying Chinese Language Processing: Insights from Functional Neuroimaging Studies, Invited keynote speech at the International Conference on Chinese Language Learning and Teaching in the Digital Age, Hong Kong. 2011.
Wong P., Ciocca V., Chan A., Ha T., Tan L. and Peretz I., Effects of culture on musical pitch perception, Plos One . 2012, 7: e33424.
Yang J., Tan L. and Li P., Lexical representation of nouns and verbs in the late bilingual brain, Journal of Neurolinguistics. 2011, 24: 674–682.


Researcher : Tan L.

Project Title:Learning to read in Chinese: Possible intervention strategies implicated by fMRI studies
Investigator(s):Tan L, Siok WT
Department:Linguistics
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:02/2005


Project Title:The State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Investigator(s):Tan L, Sham PC, So KF
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Matching Fund for State Key Laboratory (SKL)
Start Date:10/2008


List of Research Outputs



Researcher : Tan LH

Project Title:Learning to read in Chinese: Possible intervention strategies implicated by fMRI studies
Investigator(s):Tan L, Siok WT
Department:Linguistics
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:02/2005


Project Title:The State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Investigator(s):Tan L, Sham PC, So KF
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Matching Fund for State Key Laboratory (SKL)
Start Date:10/2008


List of Research Outputs

Tan L.H., Editorial Board Member, Journal of Neurolinguistics. Elsevier, 2007, 2012.
Tan L.H., Member of Editorial Board, Neuroscience. 2012.


Researcher : Thomas GM

Project Title:Childhood and Family in Art
Investigator(s):Thomas GM
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:01/2009


Project Title:The Reception of Chinese Art in British Palaces
Investigator(s):Thomas GM
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:03/2011


Project Title:The French and British Reception of Chinese Visual Arts at Yuanming Yuan, 1740-1900
Investigator(s):Thomas GM
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:09/2011


List of Research Outputs

Thomas G.M., “Chinese Civilization and Imperial Ambivalence in Britain”, College Art Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles. 2012.
Thomas G.M., “Qing Arts in European Palaces” , Exotica and Emperorship at the Qing Court, Academia Sinica, Taipei. 2011.


Researcher : Tsang CL

List of Research Outputs

Tsang C.L., Zuo Y... and Pang P... .C... .Y..., Empire State of Mind: Articulations of British Culture in the Empire, 1707-1997, The British Scholar Society Newsletter. The British Scholar Society, 2011, November 2011.
Tsang C.L., The Immaculate Construction: British Colonial Governance and the Provision of Western Women’s Medicine in Interwar Hong Kong, The Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong (ASAHK): The Seventh Annual Conference, Hong Kong Shue Yan University. 2012.


Researcher : Vukovich DF

Project Title:Seeing Like a Red State: Tourism, Nationalism, Revolution
Investigator(s):Vukovich DF
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2011


List of Research Outputs

Vukovich D.F., "What Was Chinese Maoism? (Cultural Reprise)", "Art and Activism: Cross-Cultural Currents" International Workshop. . Hong Kong & The Hague, 2011.
Vukovich D.F., 5. “The End of ‘Re-Colonization’: On Hong Kong, Knowledge, and G.O.D.” Neo-Helicon: Acta comparationis litterarum universarum. 39.1 (June 2012): 167-82. , springer, 2012.
Vukovich D.F., China and Orientalism: Western KNowledge Production and the PRC, london, routledge, 2011.
Vukovich D.F., Maoist Discourse, Historical Breaks, and Liberalism's Vengeance." , In: Zhong Xueping, Liao Kebin, Cao Tianyu, eds. , 2. [In Chinese.] Trans. Liu Xi and Yu Xuying. Cultural and Social Transformation: Theoretical Frameworks and the Chinese Context. . Guangxi Normal University Press, 2012., 2012.
Vukovich D.F., Roundtable/Workshop on Post-coloniality, 2012.
Vukovich D.F., “China as Humanist Exemplum.” Accepted August 2011, pending revision. Forthcoming sometime later in 2012, In: John Armitrage, Ryan Bishop, et al. [ j.armitage@technologica.demon.co.uk]. , Cultural Politics: an International Journal. . London & USA, Berg and Duke UP, 2012.
Vukovich D.F., “The Battle for Chinese Discourse and the Rise of the Chinese New Left: Towards A Post-colonial Politics of Knowledge.” , In: eds. Ban Wang and Lu Jie, China’s New Left: Sociopolitical and Sociocultural Interventions. . Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Lexington Books, 2012.
Vukovich D.F., “The End of ‘Re-Colonization’: On Hong Kong, Knowledge, and G.O.D.” , In: Peter Hadju, J. Pal, et al. , Neohelicon. . Hungary and USA, Springer, 2011.
Vukovich D.F., “Towards a Thick Description of Maoist Discourse: With Help from Zhao Shuli.” , In: Jiang Hui, Peking University: jianghui@pku.edu.cn Zhang Xudong, NYU: xz3@nyu.edu, Frontiers of Literary Studies in China.. Beijing, China and USA/Springer, Springer, 2012.


Researcher : Xu G

Project Title:Chinese and Americans: a shared history
Investigator(s):Xu G
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2011


Project Title:Asia and the Great War
Investigator(s):Xu G
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2012


List of Research Outputs

Xu G., A Study of Anglo-American diplomacy during American Civil War, 美国内战时期的英美外交研究, In: 本书编辑委员会编, Festschrift in honor of Professor Liu Xuyi’s 100-year birthday. 野老丹心一放翁——庆祝刘绪贻教授百岁华诞文集, Wuhan, 湖北人民出版社, 2012.
Xu G., Olympic Movement and China’s Internationalization, In: William Tsutsui, Michael Baskett, The East Asian Olympiads . London, Global Oriental, 2011.


Researcher : Yang CL

Project Title:The Cognitive Mechanisms and Functional Neuroanatomy for the Processing of Sentences with Head-final Relative Constructions
Investigator(s):Yang CL
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:10/2008




Researcher : Yang Y

Project Title:The discovery of Jiang Kui’s Art Songs in the Mid-18th Century Yangzhou
Investigator(s):Yang Y
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2012


Project Title:The Third Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities The Earliest Form of the Chinese Qin Zither?
Investigator(s):Yang Y
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2012
Completion Date:04/2012


List of Research Outputs

Yang Y., Ba Wang Mengshu xiansheng jiao gao si zhong [On the Textual Criticism of Wang Mengshu], In: Geng Huiling, Qinxue huicui. Ji’nan, Qilu chubanshe, 2011, 348-352.
Yang Y., Guanyu Anyang mingqi wu qin [On the So-called Jade Funeral Qin Excavated from Anyang], In: Zhejiang Provincial Museum, 2010 nian Zhongguo guqin guoji xueshu yantaohui lunwen ji [Proceeding of the 2010 International Symposium on Qin Music]. Hangzhou, Xiling chubanshe, 2011, 52-56.
Yang Y., Inventing the Fuxi Style of Qin Form, Current Musicological Scene in East Asia, Western Music Research Institute, Seoul National University. Seoul, 2011.
Yang Y., Japanification of Chinese Music in Tokugawa Japan, National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Fudan University. Shanghai, 2011.
Yang Y., Japanification of Chinese Music in Tokugawa Japan, Newsletter of National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies. 2011, no. 19: 15-16.
Yang Y. and Kim Y., Musica Humana, Special issue: Reflections on Acousmatic Listening, In: Youn Kim and Yuanzheng Yang, 2011, Vol. 3, No. 1: 177.
Yang Y., The Earliest Form of the Chinese Qin Zither?, Speaker, the 3rd Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities, The International Academic Forum. Osaka, 2012.
Yang Y. and Liang X., Two Abbots and a Rotulus: New Light on Brussels 19606 (Chinese translation), Studies in Culture and Art . 2011, vol.4, no. 4: 237-252.


Researcher : Yau ECM

Project Title:Local Memories, Testimony and Creativity in Recent Chinese Documentaries
Investigator(s):Yau ECM
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:04/2011


Project Title:Transformative Witnessing and Everyday Ethics: A Study of Cultural Memory in Chinese Films and Public Discourse
Investigator(s):Yau ECM
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2012


List of Research Outputs

Yau E.C.M., A Future in the National? Claiming National Time and Imagined Past in Hong Kong Action Cinema, Asian Cinema Studies Society 2012 Conference. 2012.
Yau E.C.M., GRF Merit Award 2011-12, Faculty of Arts, University of Hong Kong. 2011.
Yau E.C.M., Key Note Speech. Ethics of Visualizing the Edge: Ann Hui and Hong Kong as Remnant., Looking Back: 100 Years of the Republic of China: Chinese/Taiwanese Women’s Cinema International Conference . 2011.
Yau E.C.M., RGC General Research Fund 2011-2012 . Project Title: Transformative Witnessing and Everyday Ethics: A Study of Cultural Memory in Chinese FIlms and Public Discourse", Research Grants Council of Hong Kong . 2012.


Researcher : Yau HYA

List of Research Outputs

Yau H.Y.A. and Zayts O.A., ‘So it’s normal or abnormal?’: Patients’ perception of risk in screening for Down Syndrome, Communication, Medicine and Ethics (COMET) conference. Nottingham, UK, 2011.


Researcher : Yee WLM

List of Research Outputs

Yee W.L.M., The Ecopoetics Of Memories: Landscape And Identity in Tsang Tsui-shan's "Big Blue Lake" (2011), Asian Cinema Studies Conference, The University of Hong Kong, March 16-20, 2012.
Yee W.L.M., Un-masking Shanghai: History, Memory And Cosmopolitics in Wang Anyi's "Moonstruck" (yuese Liaoren, 2008), Critical Connections: Forum on Cultural Studies in Asia And Beyond, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 16 March 2012.


Researcher : Zamuner E

List of Research Outputs

Zamuner E., A Theory Of Affect Perception, In: Samuel Guttenplan, Ruth Campbell, Robyn Carston, Tim Crane, Gregory Currie, Francesca Happé, Margaret Harris, Michael Martin, Sarah Patterson, Neil Smith and Deirdre Wilson , Mind and Language. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2011, 26: 436–451.
Zamuner E., Seeing What Others Feel, In: Armindo Freitas-Magalhães , Emotional Expression: The Brain and The Face. 3rd Volume: Studies in Brain, Face and Emotion. Porto, Portugal, Universidade Fenando Pessoa, 2011, 3: 131-150.
Zamuner E., The Role Of The Visual System In Emotion Perception, In: Editor-in-Chief: Danilo Suster , Acta Analytica. 2012.


Researcher : Zatsepine VV

Project Title:The Bitter Fruits of Friendship: Soviet culture in China in the 1950s
Investigator(s):Zatsepine VV
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2011
Completion Date:04/2012


List of Research Outputs

Zatsepine V.V., “Untamed Reaches of the Amur Frontier, 1860-1911,” , In: Matthew Mosca, Loretta Kim, Victor Zatsepine, International Conference, “Defining the Jecen: The Evolution of the Qing Frontier, 1644-1912, HKU-HKBU. 2012.


Researcher : Zayts OA

Project Title:Language, Medicine and Culture: English as a Lingua Franca in Prenatal Genetic Counseling in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Zayts OA, Kang AM, Leung KY, Luke KK
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:10/2009
Completion Date:03/2012


Project Title:Constructing and negotiating identities at work: A study of Hong Kong workplaces
Investigator(s):Zayts OA
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:12/2009
Completion Date:03/2012


Project Title:A Discourse Analytic Study of Telegenetic counseling in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Zayts OA
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:11/2011


Project Title:Exploring the role of culture in leadership discourse in Hong Kong workplaces
Investigator(s):Zayts OA
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2012


Project Title:10th Interdisciplinary Conference: Communication, Medicine and Ethics Bad news and good news: Risk and reassurance in telephone-mediated counselling
Investigator(s):Zayts OA
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2012


List of Research Outputs

Bridges S. and Zayts O.A., The ‘other’ in the room: Mediated interpreting in primary healthcare settings, 10th Interdisciplinary Conference: Communication, Medicine & Ethics (COMET). Trondheim, Norway. Trondheim (Norway), 2012.
Chan A., Schnurr S. and Zayts O.A., Revisiting face in Chinese business meetings in Hong Kong, Discourse, Communication, and the Enterprise VI Conference. Hong Kong. Hong Kong, 2011.
Pilncik A. and Zayts O.A., “Let’s have it tested first”: Directiveness, culture and decision-making following positive antenatal screening in Hong Kong, Sociology of Health and Illness. 2012, 34 (2): 266-282.
Pilnick A. and Zayts O.A., “Let’s have it tested first”: Directiveness, culture and decision-making following positive antenatal screening in Hong Kong. , In: Armstrong, N. & Eborall, H. , The Sociology of Medical Screening: Critical Perspectives, New Directions. 1st edition. Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012, 105-120.
Pilnick A. and Zayts O.A., “This is just a probability”: The interactional management of uncertainty in conveying ‘positive’ results in an antenatal screening clinic., 3rd International Conference on Conversation Analysis and Clinical Encounters . York, Uk, 2011.
Sarangi S. and Zayts O.A., Self- and other-oriented reassurance in telegenetic counseling, The European Meeting on Psychosocial Aspects of Genetics. Nürnberg, Germany . Nürnberg (Germany), 2012.
Schnurr S. and Zayts O.A., ‘You have to do what you have to do’: Constructing professional identities in multicultural workplaces in Hong Kong. , Pragmatics. 2012, 22 (2): 279-299.
Yau H.Y.A. and Zayts O.A., ‘So it’s normal or abnormal?’: Patients’ perception of risk in screening for Down Syndrome, Communication, Medicine and Ethics (COMET) conference. Nottingham, UK, 2011.
Zayts O.A. and Schnnurr S., Advice-giving in antenatal screening for Down Syndrome in Hong Kong , Communication, Medicine and Ethics (COMET) conference. Nottngham, UK, 2011.
Zayts O.A. and Sarangi S., Bad news and good news: Risk and reassurance in telephone- mediated counselling, 10th Interdisciplinary Conference: Communication, Medicine & Ethics (COMET). Trondheim, Norway. Trondheim (Norway), 2012.
Zayts O.A., Wake V.Y. and Schnurr S., Chinese prenatal genetic counseling discourse in Hong Kong: Health care providers’ (non)directive stance, or who is making the decision, In: Pan, Y. & Gazdar, D. , Chinese Discourse and Interaction: Theory and Practice. London, Equinox, 2012, 228-247.
Zayts O.A., Decision-making in multicultural professional discourse, School of English Seminar Series, HKU. 2012.
Zayts O.A. and Schnurr S., “I can't remember them ever not doing what I tell them!” Negotiating ‘upward’ refusals in multicultural workplaces in Hong Kong, 12th International Pragmatics Association Meeting. Manchester, UK (panel: From refusing to schmoozing: Investigating strategic roadmaps for negotiating conflict and rapport, organized by D. Boxer & H. Keiser)). Manchester (UK), 2011.
Zayts O.A. and Scnnurr S., “You may know better than I do” Negotiating advice-giving on Down Syndrome screening in a Hong Kong prenatal hospital, In: Locher M.A. & Limberg H., Advice in Discourse. Amsterdam, John Benjamins [Pragmatics and Beyond Series], 2012, 195-212.
Zhang W., Chan A. and Zayts O.A., A study of discourse of professionals in a medical laboratory, 12th International Pragmatics Association Meeting. Manchester, UK. Machester (UK), 2011.


Researcher : Zhao X

List of Research Outputs

Zhao X., Xinhai Revolution: In A Reflective Vision Of Theory Of Civilization, 辛亥革命:在一个反思性的文明论视野中, Law School, Peking University. 北京大学法学院, 2011.


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