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
Completion Date:03/2013


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., Another Look at Space, Globalization and Minor Culture Groups. Versailles, 2013, June 19-22.
Ang S.W., Of Racial Contracts, Crossroads Cultural Conference. Paris, 2012, July 1-3.


Researcher : Ansaldo U

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


Project Title:Complexity and simplicity in isolating languages
Investigator(s):Ansaldo U, Gong T, Matthews SJ
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2013


List of Research Outputs

Ansaldo U., Contact, convergence and new grammar, New reflections on Grammaticalization, Edinburgh University. 2012.
Ansaldo U. and Lim L.L.S., Diversity, convergence and modernity in Sri Lanka: A retrospective, Panel on Language death and language preservation in South Asia, 22nd European Conference on South Asian studies (ECSAS2012). Lisbon, Portugal, 2012.
Ansaldo U. and Lim L.L.S., English in Asia, In: Hickey, Raymond, Areal Features of the Anglophone World. Berlin/ New York, Mouton de Gruyter, 2012.
Ansaldo U., Minorities under crossfire, The Linguistic Society of New Zealand, University of Auckland. 2012.
Lim L.L.S. and Ansaldo U., Contact in the Asian arena, In: Nevalainen, Terttu and Traugott, Elizabeth Closs, The Oxford Handbook of the History of English. New York, Oxford University Press, 2012, 560-571.
Lim L.L.S. and Ansaldo U., Singlish, In: Michaelis, Maurer, Huber and Haspelmath, Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Structures. Oxford University Press, 2012.
Lim L.L.S. and Ansaldo U., Singlish, In: Michaelis, Maurer, Huber and Haspelmath, The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures . Oxford University Press, 2012.


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:07/2011


Project Title:Sixth International Congress of Maritime History The French Colony of Kwang-chow-wan: Shipping and Politics in Southwest China, 1898-1945
Investigator(s):Becker B
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2012


List of Research Outputs

Becker B., From Charlemagne to Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer, Germany and France: Roundtable "From Foes to Friends", The University of Hong Kong, School of Modern Languages and Cultures. 2013.
Becker B., Globalisierung und Küstenschiffahrt in der Ostsee und in Ostasien im 19. Jahrhundert [Globalisation and Coastal Shipping in the Baltic and in East Asia in the 19th Century], In: Gesamtverein der deutschen Geschichts- und Altertumsvereine [General Association of German History and Early German History Associations], Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte [Journal of German Regional History]. Köln, Germany, Gesamtverein der deutschen Geschichts- und Altertumsvereine, 2012, 147 (2011): 27.
Becker B., Michael Jebsen 1835-1899: Reeder und Politiker. Eine Biographie [Michael Jebsen 1835-1899: Shipowner and Politician. A Biography]. Kiel, Germany, Verlag Ludwig, 2012, 854.
Becker B., Michael Jebsen: Shipowner and Politician 1835-1899, In: Hermann Ehlers Academy Kiel; German-Danish Association; and Association for Schleswig-Holstein History, 2013.
Becker B., Siegfried Heimann, Der Preussische Landtag (1899-1947). Eine politische Geschichte [The Prussian Diet (1899-1947): A Political History] (Berlin, 2011), In: Juergen Elvert, University of Cologne, Germany, Das Historisch-Politische Buch. Cologne, Germany, Ranke-Gesellschaft, 2012, 6: 2.
Becker B., The Apenrade Shipowner and Politician Michael Jebsen (1835-1899), In: Museum Sonderjylland, Kulturhistorie Aabenraa, Denmark, Talk Series. 2013.
Becker B., The French Colony of Kwang-chow-wan: Shipping and Politics in Southwest China, 1898-1946, In: Organised by Ghent University in Ghent, Belgium, 6th IMEHA International Maritime History Congress International Maritime Economic History Association. 2012.
Becker B., The Shipowner Michael Jebsen (1835-1899): Agent of Globality, In: University of Kiel, Germany, Chair of History of Northern Europe, Lecture Series on the History of the Indian Ocean and Other Asian Seas. 2013.
Becker B., Western firms and Chinese compradors: The case of Jebsen & Co. and Chau Yue Ting, In: The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Workshop on 'Multicultural Encounters in Hong Kong'. 2013.


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:07/2011


Project Title:Sixth International Congress of Maritime History The French Colony of Kwang-chow-wan: Shipping and Politics in Southwest China, 1898-1945
Investigator(s):Becker B
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2012


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:International Musicological Society Congress The 'Foreign Vernacular': the Classical Tradition in East Asia
Investigator(s):Biancorosso G
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2012
Completion Date:07/2012


List of Research Outputs

Biancorosso G., "Memory and the Leitmotif in Cinema.", In: Walden, Joshua, Representation in Western Music. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013, 203-223.


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


List of Research Outputs

Borland J.L., Spaces of State: Schools, Education and Society in Interwar and Wartime Tokyo, The Origins of Japan’s War in Asia, 1931-1945, University of Pittsburgh. 2012.


Researcher : CHAN HY

List of Research Outputs

CHAN H.Y., Incompatibilist About What?" , 3rd workshop of Experimental Philosophy Group UK. UK, University, 2012, (co-authored with Dr. Max Deutsch).
CHAN H.Y., Incompatibilist About What, Intuition Workshop. Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong, 2013.
Chan H.Y., Experimental Philosophy: Possibilities and Limits, 16th Annual Graduate Student Philosophy Conference . U.S., City University of New, 2013.
Chan H.Y., 'Twas the Thawing Wind – for sheng & orchestra (music composition, 17'), Commissioned by the Hong Kong Sinfonietta; score completed in Aug 2012, premiered on 22 Sept 2012, City Hall Concert Hall, HK. Hong Kong, 2012.
Chan H.Y., As the Wind Goes by – for sheng & string quartet (music composition, 10'), Commissioned by RTHK Radio 4 for RTHK Quartet’s 2012 European tour; score completed in Sept 2012, premiered on 27 Nov 2012, Palazzo Santa Chiara, Rome, Italy. 2012.
Chan H.Y., Heart of Choral – a chamber opera in three acts (music composition, 75'), Commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Festival Society for the 41st Hong Kong Arts Festival; score completed in Feb 2013, premiered on 1 March 2013, City Hall Theatre, HK; repeated in the same venue on 2 & 3 March 2013. 2013.
Chan H.Y., “Gala Dinner, Hong Kong Week,” presented by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, Brussels, 29 Nov 2012, Chateau du Clos de Vougeot, Burgundy (As the Wind Goes by – for sheng & string quartet was performed by Loo Sze-wang and RTHK Quartet), 2012.
Chan H.Y., “Hong Kong Sinfonietta,” 1 Oct 2012, Jack Singer Concert Hall, Calgary ('Twas the Thawing Wind – for sheng & orchestra was performed by Loo Sze-wang and Hong Kong Sinfonietta; Conductor: Yip Wing-sie), 2012.
Chan H.Y., “Hong Kong Sinfonietta,” 28 Sept 2012, Chan Shun Concert Hall, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, Vancouver ('Twas the Thawing Wind – for sheng & orchestra was performed by Loo Sze-wang and Hong Kong Sinfonietta; Conductor: Yip Wing-sie), 2012.
Chan H.Y., “Hong Kong Sinfonietta,” 4 Oct 2012, Koerner Hall, Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto ('Twas the Thawing Wind – for sheng & orchestra was performed by Loo Sze-wang and Hong Kong Sinfonietta; Conductor: Yip Wing-sie), 2012.
Chan H.Y., “Hong Kong Sinfonietta,” 7 Oct 2012, Rose Theater, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Lincoln Centre, New York ('Twas the Thawing Wind – for sheng & orchestra was performed by Loo Sze-wang and Hong Kong Sinfonietta; Conductor: Yip Wing-sie), 2012.
Chan H.Y., “Hong Kong Sinfonietta,” 8 Oct 2012, Place des Arts, Maison Symphonique, Montreal ('Twas the Thawing Wind – for sheng & orchestra was performed by Loo Sze-wang and Hong Kong Sinfonietta; Conductor: Yip Wing-sie), 2012.
Chan H.Y., “Imposed or Embraced: A Composer’s Reflection on Chineseness” (research seminar in English), 19 June 2013, Department of Music, University of York, UK. 2013.
Chan H.Y., “RTHK Quartet, 3rd Anniversary Concert,” 10 April 2013, Loke Yew Hall, HKU (As the Wind Goes by – for sheng & string quartet was performed by Loo Sze-wang and RTHK Quartet), 2013.
Chan H.Y., “Vent d’Est, Vent d’Quest,” presented by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, Brussels, 1 Dec 2012, Dijon Grand Theatre, Dijon (As the Wind Goes by – for sheng & string quartet was performed by Loo Sze-wang and RTHK Quartet), 2012.


Researcher : CHU K-W

List of Research Outputs

CHU K.-.W., Best 5 Graduate Papers ASLE Conference Travel Award, 28 May – 1 June, 2013, 10th Biennial Conference, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), Lawrence, Kansas. 2013.
CHU K.-.W., Beyond Human World: Eco-cosmopolitanism, Daoism, Global Art Cinema, Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conference 2013. The Drake Hotel, Chicago, March 6-10.
CHU K.-.W., Constructing Ruins: New Urban Aesthetics in Chinese Art and Cinema, In: Munro, Majella, Modern Art Asia: Selected Papers . UK, Enzo Arts and Publishing, 2012, Issue 1-8.
CHU K.-.W., Displacing Red Childhood: Representation of Childhood during Mao’s Era in Little Red Flowers, In: Olson, Debbie, and Scahill, Andrew, Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema. US, Lexington Books, 2012.
CHU K.-.W., Ecocriticism and Chinese Philosophy in Conjunction: From Zhuangzi’s Butterfly Dream to Contemporary World Cinema, Natures 2013. Riverside, CA, La Sierra University, 15 Feb.
CHU K.-.W., Film Scene Reviews, In: Lai, Linda and Choi, Kimburley, World Film Locations: Hong Kong. UK, Intellectual Books, 2013.
CHU K.-.W., New Landscapes in Contemporary Chinese Art : From Daoist Ecology to Eco-materialism, ASLE 10th Biennial Conference, , . . Kansas, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 2013, 28 May – 1 June.
CHU K.-.W., Scale and Subjectivity in Eco-film Criticism: A Reading of Michelangelo Frammartino’s Le Quattro Volte, Ecocriticism: Transpacific Dialogue, . 17-18 Feb, 2013. . Orlando, FL, University of Central Florida, 2013, Feb 17-18.
CHU K.-.W., Transnational Ecocinema, In: Kääpä, Pietari and Gustafsson, Tommy, From My Fancy High Heels to Useless Clothing: ‘Interconnectedness’ and Eco-critical Issues in Transcultural Documentaries. U.K, Intellect Books, 2013.
CHU K.-.W., Ways of Seeing New Chinese Landscapes Art: Some Ecocritical Observations Border/lands, Border/lands: An Interdisciplinary Ecocritical Conference. Moscow, Idaho, University of Idaho,, 2013, 13 April.
CHU K.-.W., “Three Gorges on Film: Toward an East-West Comparative Eco-film Criticism”, Association for Asian Studies 2013 Conference, Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego. 21-24 March, 2013. Presenter and Panel Organiser, “Ecocriticism Turns East: Ecological Issues in Image, Film and Media in Asia”., Association for Asian Studies 2013 Conference. Presenter and Panel Organiser, “Ecocriticism Turns East: Ecological Issues in Image, Film and Media in Asia”.. San Diego, Manchester Grand Hyatt, 2013, March 21-24.


Researcher : Carroll JM

Project Title:Canton Days: The British in Pre-Opium War China
Investigator(s):Carroll JM
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:10/2012


Project Title:Annual Meeting; Sizing Up the Middle Kingdom: Western Observations on China's Population in the Canton Trade Period
Investigator(s):Carroll JM
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2013


List of Research Outputs

Carroll J.M., "The Peak: Residential Segregation in Colonial Hong Kong" , In: Bryna Goodman and David Goodman, Twentieth Century Colonialism and China: Localities, the Everyday, and the World. London, Routledge, 2012, 81-91.
Carroll J.M., Ten entries on prominent Chinese and Eurasians in Hong Kong, In: Christopher Munn and May Holdsworth, Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2012.


Researcher : Chan HY

List of Research Outputs

CHAN H.Y., Incompatibilist About What?" , 3rd workshop of Experimental Philosophy Group UK. UK, University, 2012, (co-authored with Dr. Max Deutsch).
CHAN H.Y., Incompatibilist About What, Intuition Workshop. Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong, 2013.
Chan H.Y., Experimental Philosophy: Possibilities and Limits, 16th Annual Graduate Student Philosophy Conference . U.S., City University of New, 2013.
Chan H.Y., 'Twas the Thawing Wind – for sheng & orchestra (music composition, 17'), Commissioned by the Hong Kong Sinfonietta; score completed in Aug 2012, premiered on 22 Sept 2012, City Hall Concert Hall, HK. Hong Kong, 2012.
Chan H.Y., As the Wind Goes by – for sheng & string quartet (music composition, 10'), Commissioned by RTHK Radio 4 for RTHK Quartet’s 2012 European tour; score completed in Sept 2012, premiered on 27 Nov 2012, Palazzo Santa Chiara, Rome, Italy. 2012.
Chan H.Y., Heart of Choral – a chamber opera in three acts (music composition, 75'), Commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Festival Society for the 41st Hong Kong Arts Festival; score completed in Feb 2013, premiered on 1 March 2013, City Hall Theatre, HK; repeated in the same venue on 2 & 3 March 2013. 2013.
Chan H.Y., “Gala Dinner, Hong Kong Week,” presented by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, Brussels, 29 Nov 2012, Chateau du Clos de Vougeot, Burgundy (As the Wind Goes by – for sheng & string quartet was performed by Loo Sze-wang and RTHK Quartet), 2012.
Chan H.Y., “Hong Kong Sinfonietta,” 1 Oct 2012, Jack Singer Concert Hall, Calgary ('Twas the Thawing Wind – for sheng & orchestra was performed by Loo Sze-wang and Hong Kong Sinfonietta; Conductor: Yip Wing-sie), 2012.
Chan H.Y., “Hong Kong Sinfonietta,” 28 Sept 2012, Chan Shun Concert Hall, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, Vancouver ('Twas the Thawing Wind – for sheng & orchestra was performed by Loo Sze-wang and Hong Kong Sinfonietta; Conductor: Yip Wing-sie), 2012.
Chan H.Y., “Hong Kong Sinfonietta,” 4 Oct 2012, Koerner Hall, Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto ('Twas the Thawing Wind – for sheng & orchestra was performed by Loo Sze-wang and Hong Kong Sinfonietta; Conductor: Yip Wing-sie), 2012.
Chan H.Y., “Hong Kong Sinfonietta,” 7 Oct 2012, Rose Theater, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Lincoln Centre, New York ('Twas the Thawing Wind – for sheng & orchestra was performed by Loo Sze-wang and Hong Kong Sinfonietta; Conductor: Yip Wing-sie), 2012.
Chan H.Y., “Hong Kong Sinfonietta,” 8 Oct 2012, Place des Arts, Maison Symphonique, Montreal ('Twas the Thawing Wind – for sheng & orchestra was performed by Loo Sze-wang and Hong Kong Sinfonietta; Conductor: Yip Wing-sie), 2012.
Chan H.Y., “Imposed or Embraced: A Composer’s Reflection on Chineseness” (research seminar in English), 19 June 2013, Department of Music, University of York, UK. 2013.
Chan H.Y., “RTHK Quartet, 3rd Anniversary Concert,” 10 April 2013, Loke Yew Hall, HKU (As the Wind Goes by – for sheng & string quartet was performed by Loo Sze-wang and RTHK Quartet), 2013.
Chan H.Y., “Vent d’Est, Vent d’Quest,” presented by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, Brussels, 1 Dec 2012, Dijon Grand Theatre, Dijon (As the Wind Goes by – for sheng & string quartet was performed by Loo Sze-wang and RTHK Quartet), 2012.


Researcher : Chan HY

List of Research Outputs

CHAN H.Y., Incompatibilist About What?" , 3rd workshop of Experimental Philosophy Group UK. UK, University, 2012, (co-authored with Dr. Max Deutsch).
CHAN H.Y., Incompatibilist About What, Intuition Workshop. Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong, 2013.
Chan H.Y., Experimental Philosophy: Possibilities and Limits, 16th Annual Graduate Student Philosophy Conference . U.S., City University of New, 2013.
Chan H.Y., 'Twas the Thawing Wind – for sheng & orchestra (music composition, 17'), Commissioned by the Hong Kong Sinfonietta; score completed in Aug 2012, premiered on 22 Sept 2012, City Hall Concert Hall, HK. Hong Kong, 2012.
Chan H.Y., As the Wind Goes by – for sheng & string quartet (music composition, 10'), Commissioned by RTHK Radio 4 for RTHK Quartet’s 2012 European tour; score completed in Sept 2012, premiered on 27 Nov 2012, Palazzo Santa Chiara, Rome, Italy. 2012.
Chan H.Y., Heart of Choral – a chamber opera in three acts (music composition, 75'), Commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Festival Society for the 41st Hong Kong Arts Festival; score completed in Feb 2013, premiered on 1 March 2013, City Hall Theatre, HK; repeated in the same venue on 2 & 3 March 2013. 2013.
Chan H.Y., “Gala Dinner, Hong Kong Week,” presented by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, Brussels, 29 Nov 2012, Chateau du Clos de Vougeot, Burgundy (As the Wind Goes by – for sheng & string quartet was performed by Loo Sze-wang and RTHK Quartet), 2012.
Chan H.Y., “Hong Kong Sinfonietta,” 1 Oct 2012, Jack Singer Concert Hall, Calgary ('Twas the Thawing Wind – for sheng & orchestra was performed by Loo Sze-wang and Hong Kong Sinfonietta; Conductor: Yip Wing-sie), 2012.
Chan H.Y., “Hong Kong Sinfonietta,” 28 Sept 2012, Chan Shun Concert Hall, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, Vancouver ('Twas the Thawing Wind – for sheng & orchestra was performed by Loo Sze-wang and Hong Kong Sinfonietta; Conductor: Yip Wing-sie), 2012.
Chan H.Y., “Hong Kong Sinfonietta,” 4 Oct 2012, Koerner Hall, Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto ('Twas the Thawing Wind – for sheng & orchestra was performed by Loo Sze-wang and Hong Kong Sinfonietta; Conductor: Yip Wing-sie), 2012.
Chan H.Y., “Hong Kong Sinfonietta,” 7 Oct 2012, Rose Theater, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Lincoln Centre, New York ('Twas the Thawing Wind – for sheng & orchestra was performed by Loo Sze-wang and Hong Kong Sinfonietta; Conductor: Yip Wing-sie), 2012.
Chan H.Y., “Hong Kong Sinfonietta,” 8 Oct 2012, Place des Arts, Maison Symphonique, Montreal ('Twas the Thawing Wind – for sheng & orchestra was performed by Loo Sze-wang and Hong Kong Sinfonietta; Conductor: Yip Wing-sie), 2012.
Chan H.Y., “Imposed or Embraced: A Composer’s Reflection on Chineseness” (research seminar in English), 19 June 2013, Department of Music, University of York, UK. 2013.
Chan H.Y., “RTHK Quartet, 3rd Anniversary Concert,” 10 April 2013, Loke Yew Hall, HKU (As the Wind Goes by – for sheng & string quartet was performed by Loo Sze-wang and RTHK Quartet), 2013.
Chan H.Y., “Vent d’Est, Vent d’Quest,” presented by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, Brussels, 1 Dec 2012, Dijon Grand Theatre, Dijon (As the Wind Goes by – for sheng & string quartet was performed by Loo Sze-wang and RTHK Quartet), 2012.


Researcher : Chan JKB

List of Research Outputs

Chan J.K.B., Moments of Peace: Composition for Piano Trio, Premiered by 3 Israeli musicians. Tel Aviv, 2012.
Chan J.K.B., The Flying Dragon: Composition for Orchestra, Premiered by Hong Kong Youth Symphony Orchestra, LCSD. Hong Kong, 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:2013 Annual Meeting of American Comparative Literature Association; Locating and Activating “Place” in Hong Kong Millennial Films
Investigator(s):Cheung EMK
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2013


List of Research Outputs

Cheung E.M.K., Leaving in Sorrow, In: Gary Bettinson, Directory of World Cinema. Bristol and Chicago Intellect, 2012, 12: 194-6.
Cheung E.M.K., Locating and Activating ‘Place’ in Hong Kong Millennial Films, Annual Meeting of American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). Toronto, Canada, 2013.
Cheung E.M.K., Member of Editorial Board. Serving as referee for scholarly papers and book reviews, Journal of Urban Cultural Studies (JUCS) (Intellect),. 2012.
Cheung E.M.K., The Fantasia of Form, The Social Life of Forms: Hong Kong Workshop, organized by University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) and the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism, University of Witwatersrand Institute for Social and Economic Theory (WISER). Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong, 2013.
Cheung E.M.K., The Uncanny on the Frame. 寫在窗框的詭話, Hong Kong, Infolink Publishing, 2013, 247 pages.
Cheung E.M.K., 洛楓的日常詩學和愛慾寓言, 聲韻詩刊, Hong Kong, 2013, 11: 14-16.
Cheung E.M.K., 小小人變了高高塔, 世紀‧看窗, Hong Kong, 明報, 2013, D4.
Cheung E.M.K., 死亡的時節, 世紀‧看窗, Hong Kong, 明報, 2013, D4.
Cheung E.M.K., 一個沒有剝削的城市, 世紀‧看窗, Hong Kong, 明報, 2013, D4.
Cheung E.M.K., 教室的窗子, 世紀‧看窗, Hong Kong, 明報, 2013, D4.
Cheung E.M.K., 英譯洛楓詩作:〈走過除夕與元旦的交界2003〉、〈感情幹線〉、〈自我紙盒藏屍的日子〉、〈飛天棺材〉, 聲韻詩刊, Hong Kong, 2013, 10: 30-37.
Cheung E.M.K., 永遠懷念梁秉鈞教授/也斯老師:過渡裏的永恆對話, 聲韻詩刊, Hong Kong, 2013, 10: 4-6.
Cheung E.M.K., 三個人在途上, 明報〈世紀‧看窗〉D4, 2012.
Cheung E.M.K., 陳可辛的追夢人, 世紀‧看窗, Hong Kong, 明報, 2013, D4.
Cheung E.M.K., 蝙蝠噩夢, 明報〈世紀‧看窗〉D4, 2012.
Cheung E.M.K., 「希望原則」裏的學民思潮, 明報〈世紀‧看窗〉D4, 2012.


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:ISM Consultation on Music and Theology; Theological ramifications of musical autonomy and the question of freedom
Investigator(s):Chua DKL
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:02/2013


List of Research Outputs

Chua D.K.L., Echoes of Hope in Monteverdi’s L’ Orfeo and Beethoven’s Fidelio, In: eds. Trevor Hart, Jeremy Begbie and Gavin Hopps, Art, Imagination and Christian Hope: Patterns of Promise. Ashgate, 2012.
Chua D.K.L., Editorial Board, Journal of the American Musicological Society. 2012.
Chua D.K.L., Ineffabeethoven, Royal Musical Association, Music and Philosophy Conference, King’s College London . 2012.
Chua D.K.L., Theology and Music, Institute of Sacred Music, Consultation on Music and Theology: Yale: February 2013.


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


List of Research Outputs

Ci J., Agency and Other Stakes of Poverty, Journal of Political Philosophy. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, 21: 125-50.
Ci J., Dialectic of the Chinese Revolution Revisited: Desublimation and Resublimation in Post-Mao China, In: Fred Dallmayr and Tingyang Zhao, Contemporary Chinese Political Thought. University of Kentucky Press, 2012, 173-84.
Ci J., Neither Devotion Nor Introjection: Freudian Reflections on China's Moral Crisis, In: Tao Jiang and P. J. Ivanhoe, The Reception and Rendition of Freud in China: The Freudian Slip. Routledge, 2013, 103-16.


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:MODERN ART AND WATER
Investigator(s):Clarke DJ
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:09/2008
Completion Date:09/2012


Project Title:The long view: Modern art in historical perspective
Investigator(s):Clarke DJ
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:05/2013




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
Completion Date:01/2013


Project Title:Œuvres complètes 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., In: N/A, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and botany: the salutary science. Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2012, 422 pp + index.
Cook G.A., ‘Le pluralisme taxonomique de Jean-Jacques Rousseau’, In: Claire Jaquier and Timothée Léchot, Rousseau botaniste: Je vais devenir plante moi-même, recueil des articles et catalogue d’exposition. Pontarlier, éditions du Belvédère, 2012, 37-56.


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 British Colony and its Books: The University of Hong Kong and its Libraries, 1912-1962', University of Hong Kong Libraries Centenary Conference: Academic Libraries Today: Our Future is Now. Hong Kong, 2012.
Cunich P.A., 'Forging a HKU Identity, 1905-1945', HKU Libraries Centenary Book Talk. Hong Kong, 2012.
Cunich P.A., 'Higher Education Philanthropy: The Hong Kong University Story', HKU/Hong Kong Jockey Club ExCEL3 Community Institute Public Seminar. Hong Kong, 2013.
Cunich P.A., 'Making Space for Higher Education in Colonial Hong Kong, 1887-1913', In: Laura Victoir and Victor Zatsepine, Harbin to Hanoi: The Colonial Built Environment in Asia, 1840 to 1940. Hong Kong, HKU Press, 2013, 181-205.
Cunich P.A., 'The Syon Household at Denham, 1539-50', Ecclesiastical History Society 51st Summer Conference (2012): Religion and the Household. Bangor, UK, 2012.
Cunich P.A., A History of the University of Hong Kong, Volume 1, 1911-1945. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2012, 716 pp.
Cunich P.A. and Le Pichon A., Editor, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch. Hong Kong, RASHKB, 2012, 52: 414 pp.
Cunich P.A., Faculty of Arts Knowledge Exchange Award 2012. 2012.
Cunich P.A., Review of 'Troubling American Women: Narratives of Gender and Nation in Hong Kong', by Stacilee Ford (2011), Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch. Hong Kong, RASHKB, 2012, 52: 374-78.
Cunich P.A., Review of Augustine Baker, A Treatise of the English Mission, ed. John Clark (2 vols., 2011-12), Recusant History. London, UK, The Catholic Record Society, 2013, 31: 490-493.


Researcher : DING H

List of Research Outputs

DING H., Does Zhaojue have eagles: a preliminary study on Nuosu tense and lax vowels, The 6th International Conference on Yi-Burmese Languages and Linguistics. Chengdu, Sichuan, China, 2012, Nov.


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


Project Title:First Conference on Contemporary Philosophy in East Asia; The Philosophy of the Philosophy of Language
Investigator(s):Deutsch ME
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:09/2012


List of Research Outputs

Deutsch M.E., Gettier's Method, Conference on Contemporary Philosophy in East Asia. 2012.


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


Project Title:New Approaches to the Mao Era (1949-1976): Everyday History and Unofficial Memory
Investigator(s):Dikotter F, Wang A, Zhou X
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:ANR / RGC Joint Research Scheme
Start Date:03/2013




Researcher : Ding PS

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:The 9th International Symposium on Bilingualism; Bilingualism in Transition: Case Studies in Myanmar and Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Ding PS
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2013


List of Research Outputs

Ding P.S., An analysis of topics in Prinmi: in cross-linguistic perspective, The 23rd Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 2013.
Ding P.S., Bilingualism in transition: case studies in Myanmar and Hong Kong, The 9th International Symposium on Bilingualism. Nanyang Technology University, Singapore, 2013.
Ding P.S., Black and White: A note on interpretation of the autonyms of Nosu and Prinmi, 黑与白——试诠释两个自称名词Nosu和Prinmi, The 6th International Conference on Yi-Burmese Languages and Linguistics.. 第六届国际彝缅语学术研讨会, Southwest University for Nationalities, Chengdu, China, 2012.
Ding P.S., China, Minority Languages, In: James A. Banks, Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education. Thousand Oaks, CA, SAGE Publications, 2012, 340-342.
Ding P.S., Hong Kong as a Laboratory for Language Contact, 香港——语言接触的实验室, The First International Conference on Language Contact. 首届语言接触国际研讨会, Xining, China, 2013.
Ding P.S., Issues in classification of Prinmi dialects, The 45th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics. Nanyang Technology University, Singapore, 2012.
Ding P.S., Language contact and Chinese nationalism, Language Contact in Asia and the Pacific. University of Macau, Macau, China, 2012.


Researcher : Fraser CJ

Project Title:Nature and Value in Chinese and Western Philosophy; Chinese Naturalism and the Limits of Ethics
Investigator(s):Fraser CJ
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2013


List of Research Outputs

Fraser C.J., Chinese Naturalism and the Limits of Ethics, In: Tao JIANG, Nature and Value in Chinese and Western Philosophies. New Jersey, Rutgers University, 2013.
Fraser C.J., Distinctions, Judgment, and Reasoning in Classical Chinese Thought, History and Philosophy of Logic . 2013, 34.1: 1-24.
Fraser C.J., Mohism and Early Chinese Metaphysics, In: Chenyang Li, Conceptions of Reality: Metaphysics and Its Alternatives in Chinese Thought . Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, 2013.
Fraser C.J., Mozi, In: Hugh LaFollette, International Encyclopedia of Ethics. Wiley, 2013.
Fraser C.J., Rational Souls or Virtuoso Performers? Logos versus Dào-dé 道德 in Ancient Greek and Chinese Thought., In: Jeremy Seligman, Liu Fenrong, History of Logic in China. Tianjin, Nankai University, 2013.
Fraser C.J., The Ethics of the Mohist "Dialogues." , In: Carine Defoort and Nicolas Standaert, The Mozi as an Evolving Text: Different Voices in Early Chinese Thought. Brill, 2013, 175-204.
Fraser C.J., The Limitations of Ritual Propriety: Ritual and Language in Xunzi and Zhuangzi , Sophia. Springer, 2012, 51.2: 257–282.
Fraser C.J., Truth in Mohist Dialectics, Journal of Chinese Philosophy . 2012, 39.3: 351-368.


Researcher : Geng X

Project Title:HKU Overseas Fellowship Awards 2013-14
Investigator(s):Geng X
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:HKU Overseas Fellowship Awards
Start Date:06/2013


Project Title:Novel Fast MRI Acquisition Technique and Its Application in Brain Functional Mapping and Connectivity Analyses
Investigator(s):Geng X, Tan L
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2013


List of Research Outputs

Yuan Y., Gilmore H.J., Geng X., Styner M.A., Chen K., Wang J. and Zhu H., A Longitudinal Functional Analysis Framework for Analysis of White Matter Tract Statistics, Information Processing in Medical Imaging . Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2013, 7917: 220-231.
Zhang X., Lee L.R., Salmeron B.J., Stein D.J., Hong E., Geng X., Ross T.J., Li N., Hodgkinson C. and Shen P., Prefrontal white matter impairment in substance users depends upon the catechol-o-methyl transferase (COMT) val158met polymorphism, Neuroimage. 2012, 69: 62-69.


Researcher : Gong T

Project Title:Designing a 2D Category Game to Study the Origins and Evolutions of Color Categories in Languages
Investigator(s):Gong T
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:02/2013


Project Title:1st International Winter School on Evolution; Simulating Socio-Cultural Evolution of Language
Investigator(s):Gong T
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2013


List of Research Outputs

Coupe C. and Gong T., Review of the 9th international conference on the evolution of language (Evolang9), Biolinguistics. 2013, 7: 112-131.
Gong T. and Shuai L., A cross-model study on the effect of power-laws on language evolution, 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2012). 2012, 3237-3244.
Gong T. and Shuai L., Modelling the coevolution of joint attention and language, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2012, 279: 4643-4651.
Gong T., Shuai L. and Wu Y., Multidisciplinary approaches in evolutionary linguistics, Language Sciences. 2013, 37: 1-13.
Gong T., Simulating the coevolution of language and joint attention, The Evolution of Language: the 9th International Conference. 2013, 444-445.
Gong T. and Shuai L., 用计算机模拟研究语言演化, 中国社会科学报, 2013.
Gong T., Shuai L. and Wang W., 用计算机模拟研究语言演化, 语言科学, 2013, 12: 82-100.
Shuai L. and Gong T., 语言演化与大脑偏侧化, 中国社会科学报, 2013.
Wang Q. and Gong T., 当代跨学科的语言学研究―评《语言、演化与大脑》及未来研究的若干重要方向, 南开语言学刊, 2012, 19: 143-154.
Zhang M. and Gong T., Principles of parametric estimation in modeling language competition, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2013, 110: 9698-9703.


Researcher : HO KYK

List of Research Outputs

HO K.Y.K., Consumption and the Environment (Chinese), Local Secondary Schools (Oct 2012 - Apr 2013) . 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
Completion Date:08/2013


Project Title:Women and the Chinese Diaspora in Vietnam
Investigator(s):Ha MOY
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:09/2012


List of Research Outputs

Ha M.O.Y., Women and Chinese diaspora in Vietnam, GRF. 2012.


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., Imagined Profits: Converging and diverging representations of Chinese agrarian labor in late-eighteenth and nineteenth-century China and Britain, Society for Cultural Interaction in East Asia. 2013.
Hammers R.L., Introduction to the Culture of India and South India, Asia Society Hong Kong Center. 2012.
Hammers R.L., Jewelry and women in India: Adoration in the making, Asia Society Hong Kong Center. 2012.
Hammers R.L., Jewelry in its place: Religious traditions in India and representations of divinity, Asia Society Hong Kong Center. 2012.
Hammers R.L., Jewelry in the Hindu temples of South India, Asia Society Hong Kong Center. 2012.
Hammers R.L., Lecture and tour of the exhibition Chinese Painting and Calligraphy of Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties from the Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Oriental Ceramics Society. 2013.
Hammers R.L., Moderator for “Art History Masterclass with Professor Michael Sullivan", University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong. 2012.
Hammers R.L., Picturing tools for a perfect society: Wang Zhen’s Book of Agriculture and the Northern Song Reforms in the Yuan dynasty” , Journal of Song-Yuan Studies. Middlebury, Vermont, Institute of East Asian Studies, 2012, 42: forthcoming.
Hammers R.L., Review of Dagmar Schäfer, The Crafting of the 10,000 Things: Knowledge and technology in seventeenth-century China, In: Hans Ulrich Vogel, East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine. Tuebingen, Germany, International Society for the History of East Asian Science, 2012, no. 30 (2013): forthcoming.


Researcher : Kim Y

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., (De) Constructing the Disciplinary Identity of Music Theory: The Case of Theories of Rhythm at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, "Musics, Cultures, Identities." The 19th Congress of the International Musicological Society. 1-7 July 2012 at the Auditorium Parco della Musica Rome, Italy. . 2012.
Kim Y., “Ghost in the Machine in the History of Music Psychology.” , The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Research Colloquium. . 2013.
Kim Y., “Moving beyond Metaphors: How Scientific Concepts Affected Understanding of Music in Fin-de-siècle Germany.” , Research Colloquium. The Graduate Institute of Musicology at National Taiwan University.. 2013.


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:Face to Face: The Transcendence of the Arts in China and Beyond; Urban Imaginaries: The Framing of China Trade Paintings
Investigator(s):Koon YW
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2013


Project Title:Deliberating Deceptions: The Self-knowing Copy in Chinese Painting
Investigator(s):Koon YW
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:06/2013


List of Research Outputs

Koon Y.W., Rethinking “Hybridity” in Export Art, In: Seoul National University , Issues of Asian Art Workshop. 2013.
Koon Y.W., The Art of Tales: Qing Novels and Paintings by Su Renshan (1814-c.1850), In: Alexander Green, Rethinking Visual Narratives in Asian Art. 2012.


Researcher : LEE SM

List of Research Outputs

Tsang C.L., LEE S.M. and TANG Y.H.P., Searching for an Identity: Debates over Moral and National Education as an Independent Subject in Contemporary Hong Kong, International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research. The Historical Association, 2013, May 2013.


Researcher : Law FYW

List of Research Outputs

Law F.Y.W., Fabulating Animals: Journey to an Affective Sphere in Asian Film Scene, The 9th Bi-annual Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Sorbonne Paris Cité, and UNESCO, Paris, France, 2-6 July 2012.. 2012.


Researcher : Li KLM

Project Title:19 Hispanistentag Congreso de la Asociación Alemana de Hispanistas; Macau Creole Portuguese and Pidgin Portuguese: a continuum?
Investigator(s):Li KLM
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2013


Project Title:Chinese Pidgin English: development and variation
Investigator(s):Li KLM, Matthews SJ
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:06/2013


List of Research Outputs

Li K.L.M., Complementation in Chinese Pidgin English, Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. Boston, USA, 2013.
Li K.L.M., Emergence of so as complementizer in Chinese Pidgin English, 9th International Symposium on Bilingualism. Singapore, 2013.
Li K.L.M., Historical relationships between Macau Pidgin Portuguese and Chinese Pidgin English: a view from pronouns, SPCL Summer Conference / ACBLPE Annual Meeting. Lisbon, Portugal, 2013.
Li K.L.M., Macau Creole Portuguese and Pidgin Portuguese: a continuum?, 19 Hispanistentag. Münster, Germany, 2013.
Li K.L.M. and Matthews S.J., Macau Pidgin Portuguese: Evidence from a new source, 1st Conference on Language Contact in Asia and the Pacific. Macau, 2012.
Matthews S.J. and Li K.L.M., Portuguese pidgin and Chinese Pidgin English in the Canton trade, In: Hugo C. Cardoso, Alan N. Baxter and Mário Pinharanda Nunes, Ibero-Asian Creoles. Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2012, 263-287.


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 : Mansour ON

List of Research Outputs

Mansour O.N., Caravaggio, Carracci, and the Beginnings of Baroque Art, Hong Kong University Museum Society. 2013.


Researcher : Marchetti G

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


Project Title:Film Festivals Programming: From Europe to Asia; Venice and Jia Zhangke's THE WORLD
Investigator(s):Marchetti G
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:09/2012


List of Research Outputs

Marchetti G., “The Asian Body, the American Male and Global Hollywood: Flexible Masculinity in RUSH HOUR 1, 2, 3” , In: Anne Crémieux , CinémAction. 2012, 143: 171-177.
Marchetti G., “The Contradictions of Cosmopolitanism: Hong Kong Women Filmmakers, the New Wave, and World Cinema” , Screen conference. Glasgow, Scotland, 2013.
Marchetti G. and Tan S...K..., “Asian Cinema: The World and a Region on Screen” , International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS 8). Macau, 2013.
Marchetti G., "TRANSAMERICA: Queer Cinema in the Middle of the Road" , In: Gordon Slethaug and Stacilee Ford, Hit the Road Jack: Essays on the Culture of the American Road . Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012, 198-213.
Marchetti G., HKU Fellowship Award to visit the University of Venice Ca’Foscari, Italy, 2012., University of Hong Kong. 2012.
Marchetti G., International Advisory Board, , Asian Cinema. 2012.
Marchetti G., Panelist, “Film Festivals: National and Transnational Contexts” and “Film Festivals and Asia,” , Workshop: Film Festivals Programming: From Europe to Asia. Universita Ca’Foscari, Venice, 2012.
Marchetti G., “Chinese Cinema a the Millennium: Defining ‘China’ and the Politics of Representation” , In: Sharon R. Mazzarella, The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies, Volume III: Content and Representation. Malden, MA, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Marchetti G., “Flexible Masculinities and the RUSH HOUR Franchise: The Asian Body, the American Male, and Global Hollywood” , In: Timothy Shary, Millennial Masculinity: Men in Contemporary American Cinema . Wayne State University Press, 2012, 288-312.
Marchetti G., “Hong Kong Police on Screen” , Representations and Realities of Policing in Hong Kong: An Open Dialogue. Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong, 2012.
Marchetti G., “Venice and Jia Zhangke’s THE WORLD” , Workshop: Film Festivals Programming: From Europe to Asia. Universita Ca’Foscari, Venice, 2012.


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


List of Research Outputs

Li K.L.M. and Matthews S.J., Macau Pidgin Portuguese: Evidence from a new source, 1st Conference on Language Contact in Asia and the Pacific. Macau, 2012.
Matthews S.J. and Li K.L.M., Portuguese pidgin and Chinese Pidgin English in the Canton trade, In: Hugo C. Cardoso, Alan N. Baxter and Mário Pinharanda Nunes, Ibero-Asian Creoles. Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2012, 263-287.


Researcher : McCarthy DP

Project Title:The Structure of Good
Investigator(s):McCarthy DP
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2013




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


Project Title:Religious Men in the Middle Ages Bride/Bridegroom Revisited: Further Thoughts on Men and Mystic Marriage
Investigator(s):Muir CD
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2012
Completion Date:07/2012


List of Research Outputs

Muir C.D., "Saintly Brides and Bridegrooms: The Mystic Marriage in Northern Renaissance Art". Turnhout, Belgium, Brepols, 2012.
Muir C.D., “Bride/Bridegroom Revisited: Further Thoughts on Men and Mystic Marriage,” , Religious Men in the Middle Ages. University of Huddersfield, U.K., 2012.


Researcher : O'Leary TE

Project Title:Philosophy and the History of Experience
Investigator(s):O'Leary TE
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2013


List of Research Outputs

O'Leary T.E., In: Christopher Falzon, Timothy O'Leary Jana Sawicki., A Companion to Foucault. Oxford, Wiley Blackwell, 2013, 626pp.
O'Leary T.E., Chronology (by Daniel Defert), In: C. Falzon, T. O'Leary, J. Sawicki, A Companion to Foucault. Oxford, Wiley Blackwell, 2013.
O'Leary T.E., Happiness and/or Justice, Forum for American/Chinese Exchange at Stanford (FACES), Zhejiang University. 2012.
O'Leary T.E., Introduction, In: C. Falzon, T. O'Leary, J. Sawicki, A Companion to Foucault. Oxford, Wiley Blackwell, 2013.
O'Leary T.E., New Tools, New Foucault? The Critique of Ethical Experience, University of Western Sydney. 2012.
O'Leary T.E., What is the Critique of Experience?, Terra Critica, University of Utrecht. Utrecht, Netherlands, 2012.


Researcher : ONG D

List of Research Outputs

ONG D., Louis Cha Postgraduate Research Fellowship, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Arts. 2013.


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


List of Research Outputs

Peckham R.S., Economies of Contagion: Financial Crisis and Pandemic, Economy and Society. Taylor & Francis, 2013, 42/2: 226-248.
Peckham R.S., Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia, The China Quarterly. Cambridge University Press, 2013, 213: 220-221.
Peckham R.S., Infective Economies: Empire, Panic and the Business of Disease, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. Taylor & Francis, 2013, 41/2: 211-237.
Peckham R.S., Introduction: Medicine, Hygiene, and the Re-ordering of Empire, In: Robert Peckham and David M. Pomfret, Imperial Contagions: Medicine, Hygiene, and Cultures of Planning in Asia. Hong Kong University Press, 2013, 1-14.
Peckham R.S., Matshed Laboratory: Colonies, Cultures, and Bacteriology, In: Robert Peckham and David M. Pomfret, Imperial Contagions: Medicine, Hygiene, and Cultures of Planning in Asia. Hong Kong University Press, 2013, 123-147.
Peckham R.S., Outstanding Teaching Award 2012, The University of Hong Kong. 2013.
Peckham R.S., Panic Encabled: Epidemics and the 'Telegraphic World', Panic: Disease, Crisis, and Empire. 2012.
Peckham R.S., Parasitic Capital: Economics, Contagion and the New Imperialism, Empires on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: Panic in Imperial Settings, 1860-1940, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany. 2012.
Peckham R.S., Social Entrepreneurship for Sexual Health (SESH): A New Approach for Enabling Delivery of Sexual Health Services Among Most-At-Risk-Populations, PLoS Medicine. 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


Project Title:‘Empire Generations’: Age Relations in Colonial Asia
Investigator(s):Pomfret DM
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:03/2013


Project Title:Space and Childhood in History; “‘No Day Without a Deed to Crown It’: Ministering Children in Colonial Asia”
Investigator(s):Pomfret DM
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2013


List of Research Outputs

Pomfret D.M., Review of Eric Jennings, Imperial Heights: Dalat and the Making and Undoing of French Indochina, H-France. H-France, 2012, 7, 3: 1-6.
Pomfret D.M., UGC Grants Awards for Teaching Excellence, University Grants Committee, Hong Kong. 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: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: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


Project Title:The 2012 Transatlantic Studies Association, University College, Cork Saboteurs of Empire: Edgar J. Tarr, the Canadian Institute of International Affairs, and the 1942 Mont Tremblant Conference
Investigator(s):Roberts PM
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2012
Completion Date:07/2012


Project Title:Contesting Imperialisms? Anglo-American Think Tanks and the Pacific, 1920-1945
Investigator(s):Roberts PM
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:09/2012


List of Research Outputs

Roberts P.M., "Mr. Anglo-American": Arthur Lehman Goodhart and Second World War Britain, In: J. Simon Rofe and Andrew Stewart, Diplomats at War: The American Experience. Dordrecht, Netherlands, Republic of Letters Publishing, 2013, 65-84.
Roberts P.M., "The Cold War and Non-Communist Asia", In: Chulacheeb Chinwanno, Workshop on Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, and the Cold War. Bangkok, Thailand, Thammasat University, 2013.
Roberts P.M., Author’s/editor’s response to reviews of Priscilla Roberts, ed., Bridging the Sino-American Divide: American Studies with Chinese Characteristics (2007); Priscilla Roberts and He Peiqun, eds., Bonds Across Borders: Women, China, and International Relations in the Modern World (2007); and Priscilla Roberts, Mei Renyi, and Yan Xunhua, eds., China Views Nine-Eleven: Transnational Essays in American Studies (2011). , In: Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse, H-Diplo Round Table Reviews. Columbus, Ohio, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2013, XIV, No. 22: 36-43.
Roberts P.M., China, Role in War, In: Priscilla Roberts, World War II: The Essential Reference Guide. Santa Barbara, CA, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2012, 36-41.
Roberts P.M., Conference Coordinator, International Workshop: "China, World War II, and the Politics of Memory". Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong, 2013.
Roberts P.M., External reviewer of Starting Grant Proposal, In: NA, European Research Council, History and Archaeology Panel. Brussels, Belgium, European Research Council, 2013.
Roberts P.M., Outside reader for manuscript, In: Cambridge Scholars Publishers, Cambridge Scholars Publishers. Newcastle, UK, Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2012.
Roberts P.M., Outside reviewer of article submission, Journal of Cold War Studies. Cambridge, Mass, USA, Harvard University, 2012.
Roberts P.M., Outside reviewer of article submission, The Round Table. London, Routledge, 2012.
Roberts P.M., Overseas Research Fellowship to New York University, University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong, 2012.
Roberts P.M., Review of Jeremy Black, Avoiding Armageddon: From the Great War to the Fall of France, 1918-40 (London: Bloomsbury, 2012). , In: Bruce Vandervort, Journal of Military History. Lexington, Virginia, USA, Society for Military History, 2013, 77:2: 726.
Roberts P.M., Review of Robert M. Gillespie, BLACK OPS VIETNAM: The Operational History of MACVSOG (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2011). , In: University of British Columbia, Pacific Affairs. Vancouver, Canada, University of British Columbia, 2013, 86:1: 186-189.
Roberts P.M., Reviewer of article, In: Harvard Project on Cold War Studies, Harvard University, Journal of Cold War Studies. Cambridge, Mass, USA, MIT Press, 2013.
Roberts P.M., Saboteurs of Empire: Edgar J. Tarr, the Canadian Institute of Interntional Affairs, and the 1942 Mont Tremblant Conference, Transatlantic Studies Association 11th annual conference. Cork, Ireland, Transatlantic Studies Association, 2012.
Roberts P.M., Tweaking the Lion's Tail: Edgar J. Tarr, the Canadian Institute of International Affairs, and the British Empire, 1931–1950, In: Brian McKercher, Diplomacy and Statecraft. Abingdon, Oxford, UK, Taylor and Francis, 2012, 23:4: 636-659.
Roberts P.M., Tweaking the Lion's Tail: The Institute of Pacific Relations, the Canadian Institute of International Relations, and the British Empire, 1930-1950, In: Prof. Tony Badger, American History Seminar Series, Cambridge University . Cambridge, UK, American History Seminar, Clare College, Cambridge Univ., 2013.
Roberts P.M., Voices of World War II: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, Greenwood, 2012, xxxix + 236.
Roberts P.M., World War II: The Essential Reference Guide, In: Priscilla Roberts, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, ABC-CLIO, 2012, xxvi + 410.


Researcher : Robins DP

Project Title:Nature in Comparative Perspectives
Investigator(s):Robins DP
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2013


List of Research Outputs

Robins D.P., Contingency and Mohist Virtue, HKU Philosophy Department Seminar. 2013.
Robins D.P., Contingency and Mohist Virtue, Lingnan University Philosophy Department Seminar. 2013.
Robins D.P., Names, Cranes, and the Later Mohists, In: Cheng Chung-ying, Journal of Chinese Philosophy. University of Hawaii, Wiley, 2012, 39: 369-385.
Robins D.P., Reasoning and Autonomy in the Mencius, Xunzi, and Mozi, American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division), San Francisco. 2013.


Researcher : STURGEON DJ

List of Research Outputs

STURGEON D.J., Chinese Text Project, http://ctext.org/. 2012.
STURGEON D.J., Graduate Student Essay Prize, The Australasian Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy Conference in Sydney in July 2012. 2012.
STURGEON D.J., School of Names, In: Tim Wright, Oxford Bibliographies in Chinese Studies. 2013, January.
STURGEON D.J., The Daoist Nazi Problem, Warp Weft and Way: Chinese and Comparative Philosophy. run byStephen Angle, Chris Fraser and Manyul Im, 2012, October.
STURGEON D.J., Zhuangzi, perspectives, and greater knowledge, The Australasian Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy Conference. Sydney, 2012, July 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




Researcher : Schencking JC

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., Constructing, Contesting, and Memorializing Japan’s Earthquake Calamity, Japan Foundation Sponsored Japanese History Workshop, Murdoch University. 2012.
Schencking J.C., Editorial Executive Committee, 2006-2012, Modern Asian Studies. Cambridge, Cambridge University, 2012.


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

Tan L., XU M., Chang C. and Siok W.T., China’s language input system in the digital age affects children’s reading development., Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2013, 110: 1119-23.


Researcher : Szeto MM

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., "Intra-local and inter-local Sinophone: Rhizomatic Politics of Hong Kong writers Saisai and Wong Bik-wan", In: Shih, Shu-mei,Chien-hsin Tsai & Brian Bernards (eds.), Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader. Columbia University Press, 2012, 191-206.
Szeto M.M. and Chen Y...C..., "Mainlandization or Sinophone translocality? Challenges for Hong Kong SAR New Wave cinema", In: Audrey Yue, Olivia Khoo, Song Hwee Lim, Journal of Chinese Cinemas. Intellect, 2012, 6(2): 115-134.
Szeto M.M., "Youth in Social Movements: Principles of Engagement Among Hong Kong Post-80s and Post-90s Youth", Conference on Trust-Building and Governance in Hong Kong and Macao, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, 19-20 Oct. 2012.. 2012.


Researcher : TANG Y

List of Research Outputs

TANG Y., Nihilism and the Social Constructedness of Morality, 虛無主義與道德的建構性, World Philosophy . 世界哲學, Beijing, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (北京:中國社會科學院), 2012, 5: 141-51.


Researcher : TANG YHP

List of Research Outputs

TANG Y.H.P., Selling NASA: Skylab Student Experiment Project, AIAA SPACE 2012 Conference & Exposition. Pasadena, California, 2012, doi: 10.2514/6.2012-5224.
TANG Y.H.P., Selling NASA: Skylab Student Experiment Project, AIAA SPACE 2012 Conference & Exposition. 2012.
Tsang C.L., LEE S.M. and TANG Y.H.P., Searching for an Identity: Debates over Moral and National Education as an Independent Subject in Contemporary Hong Kong, International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research. The Historical Association, 2013, May 2013.


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

Perfetti C. and Tan L., Write to read: The brain’s universal reading and writing network, Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 2013, 17: 56-57.
Tan L., Brain Systems Responsible for Chinese Language Processing: Applications of Basic Research Findings to Language Learning Practice and Translational Medicine, Invited keynote speech at the 20th annual conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics. 2012.
Tan L., XU M., Chang C. and Siok W.T., China’s language input system in the digital age affects children’s reading development., Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2013, 110: 1119-23.


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



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


Project Title:33rd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art “Regrouping: Displays of Loot from Yuanmingyuan”
Investigator(s):Thomas GM
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2012


List of Research Outputs

Thomas G.M., In: Education Bureau, Government of the Hong Kong SAR, Examples of Understanding Western Art through Culture. 2013.
Thomas G.M., Member of steering committee for the conference "Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West", Getty Research Institute. Beijing, Beijing University, 2012.
Thomas G.M., Narrative Visualization and Embodied Meaning, In: Alexandra Green, Rethinking Visual Narratives from Asia: Intercultural and Comparative Perspectives. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2013, 245-252.
Thomas G.M., Ornament as Dialogue: The Interpretation of Chinese Art in European Palace Displays, Institute for Advanced Study. Princeton, 2013.
Thomas G.M., Rhetorics of Display: Brighton Pavilion and the End of Chinoiserie, In: Peking University, Beijing, Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West. Beijing, Getty Research Institute, 2012.
Thomas G.M., “Regrouping: Displays of Loot from Yuanming Yuan” , 33rd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art, Nuremberg. 2012.


Researcher : Tsang CL

List of Research Outputs

Tsang C.L. and Hampton M.A., British History in Contemporary Hong Kong, Twentieth Century British History. OUP, 2012, (2012) 23(4).
Tsang C.L., LEE S.M. and TANG Y.H.P., Searching for an Identity: Debates over Moral and National Education as an Independent Subject in Contemporary Hong Kong, International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research. The Historical Association, 2013, May 2013.


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., "China as Humanist Exemplum." , Cultural Politics: an International Journal. 8.2 (2012): 207-231.. US, Durham, duke up, 2012.
Vukovich D.F., 3. “The Battle for Chinese Discourse and the Rise of the Chinese New Left: Towards A Post-colonial Politics of Knowledge.” , In: Ban Wang and Lu Jie, eds., China and New Left Visions: Political and Cultural Interventions. . US, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2012., 2012.
Vukovich D.F., Postcolonialism, Globalization, and the ‘Asia Question’., In: Graham Huggan. , Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies. Graham Huggan. . oxford,uk, oxford university press, 2013, 587-606.
Vukovich D.F., “From Charting the Revolution to Chartered Liberalism: What's Imperialism Got to Do With It?” , In: Prof. Luo Gang, convener, East China Normal University and Tufts University conference on Chinese Social and Cultural Transformation. Shanghai, 9-10 July, 2012.. 2012.


Researcher : Wolff JE

Project Title:Philosophy of Science Association/History of Science Society joint biennal conference 2012; Are Conservation Laws Metaphysically Necessary?
Investigator(s):Wolff JE
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2012


Project Title:The Metaphysics of Quantity: The case of "observables"
Investigator(s):Wolff JE
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:01/2013


List of Research Outputs

Wolff J.E., Do objects depend on structures?, In: Professor Steven French Dr Michela Massimi , British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. Oxford, UK, Oxford Journals, 2012, 63: 607-625.
Wolff J.E., Structure InAction, In: Andreas Huttemann, Causation and Structuralism Workshop. 2013.


Researcher : XU M

List of Research Outputs

Tan L., XU M., Chang C. and Siok W.T., China’s language input system in the digital age affects children’s reading development., Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2013, 110: 1119-23.


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


Project Title:Research Output Prize (Faculty of Arts)
Investigator(s):Xu G
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Research Output Prize (in Faculty)
Start Date:01/2013


List of Research Outputs

Xu G., China’s national representation and the Taiwan Question in the Olympic Movement: the case of Taiwan and Beijing’s participation in the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games, In: George Wei, China-Taiwan Relations in a Global Context: Taiwan's Foreign Policy and Relations . London, Routledge, 2012.
Xu G., The New Approach of International History and Its practice, 会当临绝顶,一览众山小:国际史方法及其应用, Wen Shi Zhe . 2012, 5.


Researcher : YIU SY

List of Research Outputs

YIU S.Y., Cantonese Phonetics and Phonology, LING2058 Topics in Cantonese Linguistics Hong Kong. University of Hong Kong, 2013.
YIU S.Y. and WEE L...H..., Hong Kong Cantonese Tones: Replication Study, The 13th Workshop on Cantonese. (WOC 13). Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, 2013, March 16.


Researcher : Yakpo K

Project Title:4th International Symposium on the Languages of Java, 17th International Symposium on Malay and Indonesian Linguistics ; The Javanese language in Suriname: Explorations in language contact and change
Investigator(s):Yakpo K
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2013


List of Research Outputs

Yakpo K., Betwixt and between: Causatives in the English-lexicon creoles of West Africa and the Caribbean, In: Leino, Jaako; Waldenfels, Ruprecht, Analytical causatives: from ‘give’ and ‘come’ to ‘let’ and ‘make’.. Munich, Lincom Europa, 2012, 9-39.
Yakpo K., Reiteration in Pichi: Forms, functions and areal-typological perspectives, In: Aboh, Enoch A.; Zribi-Hertz, Anne, The morphosyntax of reiteration in creole and non-creole languages. Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2012, 251-284.


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 57th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology; Interpreting the Qin in Tokugawa Japan: Ogyu Sorai's Studies on Chinese Music
Investigator(s):Yang Y
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2012


Project Title:Music Antiquarianism and Political Legitimacy in Tokugawa Japan, 1650-1850
Investigator(s):Yang Y
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Start Date:01/2013


List of Research Outputs

Yang Y., A Highly Decorated Qin Excavated from Jiuliandun, International Symposium: East-West Dialogue: Chinese Music Historiography from a Global Perspective. 2013.
Yang Y., A Highly Decorated Qin Excavated from Jiuliandun, the 8th Symposium of the International Study Group on Music Archaeology. 2012.
Yang Y., Interpreting the Qin in Tokugawa Japan: Ogyū Sorai's Studies on Chinese Music, the 57th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology. 2012.
Yang Y., Inventing the Fuxi Style of Qin, In: Ricardo Eichmann, Fang Jianjun, and Lars-Christian Koch , Studien zur Musikarchäologie. Rahden, M. Leidorf, 2012, VIII: 195-206.


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
Completion Date:03/2013


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


Project Title:Film and Media Conference 2013; Martial Arts Spectacles and Cultural Memory in Trans-Local Hong Kong Action Cinema
Investigator(s):Yau ECM
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2013


List of Research Outputs

Yau E.C.M., Knowledge Exchange Exercise 2012-13: "Migration Memory and Creative Digital Narratives", Knowledge Exchange Exercise 2012-2013, University of Hong Kong. 2012.
Yau E.C.M., Martial Arts Spectacle and Cultural Memory in Trans-local Hong Kong Action Cinema , Film and Media Conference 2013.
Yau E.C.M., Migration Memory and Creative Digital Narratives, Hong Kong University Knowledge Exchange Impact Project. 2013.


Researcher : Yee WLM

List of Research Outputs

Yee W.L.M., Beyond Ruins And Poetic Silence: Topographical Writing Of Nature And Urban In Two Chinese Documentaries, Travel Grant, Conference on Ecopoetics Organizers. 2013.
Yee W.L.M., Beyond Ruins And Poetic Silence: Topographical Writing Of Nature And Urban In Two Chinese Documentaries, Conference On Ecopoetics, February 22-24, 2013, Berkeley, California. 2013.
Yee W.L.M., Of Ruins And Silence: Topographical Writing Of Nature And Urban In Three Asian Documentaries, The Eighth International Convention Of Asian Scholars (ICAS 8), 24-27 June, Macao, China. 2013.
Yee W.L.M., Renditions of poems of Natalia Chan: "In Love with Wind and SARS" and "Dismantle", Sound and Rhyme. 聲韻, Hong Kong, 2013, 10: 25-28.
Yee W.L.M., 從物件開始的飛天之旅─讀洛楓的《飛天棺材》, Sound and Rhyme. 聲韻, Hong Kong, 2013, 11: 17-19.
Yee W.L.M., Writing The Riverscape: The Representation Of Nature In Su Tong's The Boat to Redemption (2009), Crossroads in Cultural Studies 2012, Association for Cultural Studies, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, July 2-6, 2012.


Researcher : Zamuner E

Project Title:Talk to the THUMOS research group of the University of Geneva. See details at http://www.unige.ch/lettres/philo/thumos/Thumos/Home.html. Note that since this is not a conference, no conference program or pamphlet is available. As a way of example, see THUMOS seminars' calendar for last semester: http://cms.unige.ch/lettres/philo/wiki/Thumos_Seminar. I will give my talk on November 15. From November 8 to 10 I will also attend a conference in Tubingen, Germany, (for details see: http://emotionsandvalues.sabinedoering.de/conferences-and-workshops/) hence the need to travel from November 6 to 17. Note that two of the conference speakers (Julien Deonna and Fabrice Teroni) are the organisers of my talk in Geneva. I do not seek financial support for attendance to the conference in Tubingen.; Emotions and Verb Aspect. A Vendlerian Approach to the Ontology of Emotions
Investigator(s):Zamuner E
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2012


List of Research Outputs

Zamuner E., Can We See Other People’s Emotions?, Thumos Seminar, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva. 2012.
Zamuner E., Emotions as Mental Actions, Thumos Seminar, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva. 2012.
Zamuner E. and Mac Cumhaill C., Keeping it to Yourself, Conference “The Ontology of Emotions”, University of Geneva. 2013.


Researcher : Zatsepine VV

Project Title:Association for Asian Studies 2013 Annual Conference; Paper "For Conquest and Learning: Imperial Russia's explorers in Central, Inner and East Asia, 1860-1917"
Investigator(s):Zatsepine VV
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2013


List of Research Outputs

Victoir L.A.U.R.A. and Zatsepine V.V., Edited Volume, In: Laura Victoir, Victor Zatsepine, Harbin to Hanoi: Colonial Built Environment in East Asia, 1840-1940 . Hong Kong, HKU Press, 2012.


Researcher : Zayts OA

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


Project Title:I-mean; Exploring ‘another side’ of identity construction
Investigator(s):Zayts OA
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2013


List of Research Outputs

Zayts O.A. and Schnurr S., The dynamics of family decision-making in intercultural prenatal screening , 19th Sociolinguistics Symposium (SS19). Berlin, Germany. Berlin (Germany), 2012.


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