SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES



Researcher : Ang SW
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


List of Research Outputs

Ang S.W., Editorial board, Culture and Dialogue . Kyushu University, 2013.
Ang S.W., Reviewer, Journal of Commonwealth . LiteratureLeeds Metropolitan University, 2013.
Ang S.W., The Politics of Victimization and the Model Minority, The New Centennial Review. 2013, Winter.


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., SLM is dead. Long live Sri Lanka Malay, In: R. Nicolai, Journal of Language Contact. Netherlands, Brill, 2014, 7.2: 381 –391.
Ansaldo U. and Lim L.L.S., The lifecycle of Sri Lanka Malay, In: N. Thierberger, Language Documentation and Conservation. University of Hawai'i, 2014, 7: 100-113.
Lim L.L.S. and Ansaldo U., Colloquial Singaporean English (Singlish), In: Bernd Kortmann & Kerstin Lunkenheimer, The Electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English [eWAVE]. Leipzig, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 2013.
Lim L.L.S. and Ansaldo U., Singlish structure dataset, In: Susanne Maria Michaelis, Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath and Magnus Huber, Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online. Leipzig, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 2013.


Researcher : Archangeli DB
Project Title:Workshop on Stress and Meter to celebrate Morris Halle's 90th birthday; A Bottom-up Approach to Margi Tone
Investigator(s):Archangeli DB
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:09/2013


Project Title:An Ultrasound Investigation of the Acquisition of Speech Articulation in Cantonese, Putonghua, and English
Investigator(s):Archangeli DB, To KS
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:10/2013


Project Title:Programming for phonological analysis
Investigator(s):Archangeli DB
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2014


List of Research Outputs

Archangeli D.B. and Pulleyblank D.G., A Bottom-up approach to Margi tone, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 90th Birthday Celebration for Morris Halle. 2013.
Archangeli D.B. and Pulleyblank D.G., Autosegments in Emergent Grammar, Free Linguistics Conference. 2013.
Archangeli D.B., Brenner D., Coto R. and Johnston S., Probe Skewing Effects & Kinect Head-tracking in Tongue Contour Imaging, Ultrafest 6. 2013.
Archangeli D.B., Berry J., Cooper M. and Sung J.H., Testing AutoTrace: A Machine-learning Approach to Automated Tongue Contour Data Extraction, UltraFest 6. 2013.
Archangeli D.B., Sung J.H., Clayton I., Brenner D., Johnston S., Hammond M. and Carnie A., The Articulation of Scottish Gaelic Plain and Palatalized Consonants, Ultrafest 6. 2013.
Archangeli D.B., Coto R., Ellison D., Mahdavi M., Hahn-Powell G., Berry J. and Boersma P., UltraPraat: Software for simultaneous acoustic and articulatory analysis, Ultrafest 6. 2013.
Archangeli D.B., Warner N., Davis A., Carnie A., Fisher M. and Hammond M., Vowel insertion in Scottish Gaelic, Phonology. Cambridge University Press, 2014, 31: 123-153.


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


List of Research Outputs

Becker B., Chinese Merchants and Western Shipping Competition in South China in the 1890s, In: Free University of Berlin and Volkswagen Foundation, Rethinking Business History in Modern China, 12-14 June 2014, Hannover, Germany. 2014.
Becker B., Jebsen & Co. Ltd., Hong Kong: From Shipping Agency to Major Trading House in the Far East, 1895 to World War II, In: University of Southern Denmark and Danish Industry Museum, Ready for China? Scandinavian Businesses in China 1890-2014, 27-28 May 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark. 2014.
Becker B., Michael Jebsen (1835-1899): The Political Entrepreneur of North Schleswig, General Assembly of the Association of Schleswig-Holstein History 2014, Kiel, Germany. 2014.
Becker B., Prize of the Association of Schleswig-Holstein History 2014, Association of Schleswig-Holstein History, Kiel, Germany. 2014.
Becker B., Review of the book "Insel im pommrischen Meer", ed. by Irmfried Garbe and Nils Jörn (Greifswald: Sardellus, 2011), In: Wolfgang Neugebauer, Klaus Neitmann, Uwe Schaper, Jahrbuch für die Geschichte Mittel- und Ostdeutschlands (Yearbook for the History of Central and Eastern Germany). Berlin, De Gruyter, 2014, 59, 1: 307-309.
Becker B., Skibsreder Michael Jebsen, Aabenraa (1835-1899): En kreativ ivaerksaetter pa et globalt marked [The Shipowner Michael Jebsen (1835-1899): A Creative Initiator on the Global Market] [in Danish], In: Aabenraa Byhistoriske Forening i samarbejde med Museum Soenderjylland - ISL, Aarsskrift for Aabenraa Byhistoriske Forening 2013 [Yearbook of the Aabenraa Local History Association 2013] [in Danish]. Aabenraa, Aabenraa Byhistoriske Forening, 2013, 2013: 6-26.


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


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
Completion Date:12/2013


Project Title:society for cinema and media studies; double agents and the poor man's orchestra: music and the aesthetics of the self in *chunking express* (1994)
Investigator(s):Biancorosso G
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2014
Completion Date:03/2014


List of Research Outputs

Biancorosso G., "A Global Vernacular? Musing on European Art Music in Hong Kong.", Musica Docta, 3, 105-109. 2014.
Biancorosso G., "Songs of Delusion: Popular Music and the Aesthetics of the Self in Wong Kar-Wai's Cinema.", In: Arved Ashby, Popular Music and the New Auteur: Visionary Filmmakers after MTV. New York, Oxford University Press, 2013, 109-125.
Biancorosso G., Member of the Editorial Board with the role of Consultant, In: Giuseppina La Face Bianconi, Il saggiatore musicale (international journal). 2013.
Biancorosso G., The Big Screen and Verdi's Stage, In: University of Fribough and Lausanne (CH), "Dentro il Cristallo Arcano": Verdi on Screen. 2013.


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
Completion Date:01/2014


Project Title:Showcases of New Tokyo: Modern Architecture, Space, and Social Management in the Reconstructed Capital, 1923-1930
Investigator(s):Borland JL
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2014




Researcher : CHU K-W
List of Research Outputs

CHU K.-.W., Fulbright Scholarship - Doctoral Dissertation Awards RGC-Fulbright Hong Kong Scholar Program 2012-2013 Aug, 2012 – July, 2013 , University of Idaho, English Department . 2013.


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:Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference; The Other "Inner Opium War": British Traders' Debates About Opium in the Canton Period
Investigator(s):Carroll JM
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2014
Completion Date:03/2014


List of Research Outputs

Carroll J.M., Before and Beyond 1834: Robert Morrison and the End of the East India Company's Monopoly in China , International Conference on Private Merchants in the Canton Trade. Guangzhou, PRC, Sun Yat-sen University, 2013.
Carroll J.M., British Mortality in Early Nineteenth-Century South China, International Conference on Death and Bereavement. Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong, 2014.
Carroll J.M., Review of Elizabeth Sinn, Pacific Crossing: California Gold, Chinese Migration, and the Making of Hong Kong , American Historical Review. 2013, 118: 1491-92.
Carroll J.M., The Other 'Inner Opium War': British Traders' Debates about Opium in the Canton Period , Association for Asian Studies. Philadelphia, 2014.


Researcher : Chan HY
List of Research Outputs

Chan H.Y., Best Artist Award (Music), Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2013, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Hong Kong. 2014.
Chan H.Y., A Touch of Rain – for sheng & mixed choir (music composition, 8'), Composed specially for a concert featuring The 24 (University of York, UK), O-kai Singers (Taiwan), and Loo Sze-wang (HK). 2014.
Chan H.Y., Adieu Sequence – for sheng, viola & percussion (music composition, 8'), Composed for the exhibition “From Photography to Music: a Creative Dialogue between David Clarke and Chan Hing-yan”. 2013.
Chan H.Y., Little Oriole – for six voices (music composition, 3.5'), An arrangement specially made for The Song Company (Australia). 2014.
Chan H.Y., Of Seven – for mixed choir (music composition, 3'), Composed as a tribute to Professor Tsui Lap-chee on the occasion of his retirement as Vice-Chancellor of The University of Hong Kong. 2014.
Chan H.Y., “Brand or Burden: A Composer’s Reflection on Hong Kong Identity” at the session “ Performance and Composition” (presentation in Cantonese), 26 April 2014, “Continuity, Innovation, and Challenges in Chinese Instrumental Music”, Department of Music, Hong Kong Baptist University. 2014.
Chan H.Y., “Fire of Love,” 1 March 2014, Centre for Christianity, Canberra, Australia (Little Oriole – for six voices was performed by The Song Company), 2014.
Chan H.Y., “Fire of Love,” 2 March 2014, Wollongong ART Gallery, Australia (Little Oriole – for six voices was performed by The Song Company), 2014.
Chan H.Y., “Fire of Love,” 27 Feb 2014, Newcastle Conservatorium, Australia (Little Oriole – for six voices was performed by The Song Company), 2014.
Chan H.Y., “Fire of Love,” 4 March 2014, Melbourne Recital Centre, Australia (Little Oriole – for six voices was performed by The Song Company)., 2014.


Researcher : Chan JKB
List of Research Outputs

Chan J.K.B., Journey Accompanied: Composition for Erhu and Koto, Performed by Joshua Chan and Sawako Fukuhara at the Kyoto City University of Arts, Japan. 2014.
Chan J.K.B., Modern Music Can be Appealing, Sharing Lectures by Hong Kong Composers Presented by LCSD. 2014.


Researcher : Chen ES
List of Research Outputs

Lo W.H., Fu S.N., Wong C.K.H. and Chen E.S., Prevalence, correlates, attitude and treatment seeking of erectile dysfunction among type 2 diabetic Chinese men attending primary care outpatient clinics, Asian Journal of Andrology. Wolters Kluwer Health, 2014, 16 (5): 755-60.


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:Hong Kong Topographical Poetry and Public Space
Investigator(s):Cheung EMK
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:06/2014


List of Research Outputs

Cheung E.M.K., Book review editor, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture. 2013.
Cheung E.M.K., Editorial board member, Journal of Urban Cultural Studies. United Kingdom, Intellect, 2014, 1.
Cheung E.M.K., The Iterability of Hong Kong Topographical Poetry”, Literature and Democratic Public Spaces. 2013.
Cheung E.M.K., 目盲。盲目, 世紀‧看窗, Hong Kong, 明報, 2013, D4.
Cheung E.M.K., 異質空間裏的詭話, 世紀‧看窗, Hong Kong, 明報, 2013, D4.
Cheung E.M.K., 狂舞的感染, 世紀‧看窗, Hong Kong, 明報, 2013, D4.


Researcher : Cheung SC
List of Research Outputs

Matthews S.J., Cheung S.C. and Tsang W.L., Anti-transfer effects in third language acquisition, 9th International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism. 2014.


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
Completion Date:07/2013


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: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:Adorno: Music and Modernity; Adorno’s Symphonic Space-Time and Beethoven’s Time-Travel in Space
Investigator(s):Chua DKL
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:10/2013


List of Research Outputs

Chua D.K.L., ‘Absolute Music’, Centre for Arts and the Sacred at King’s College London and Westminster Abbey Institute . 2014.
Chua D.K.L., ‘Adorno’s Symphonic Space-Time Dimension’, Adorno and Music Conference, Harvard. 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




Researcher : Clarke DJ
Project Title:Hong Kong in transition: a photo-documentary project
Investigator(s):Clarke DJ
Department:Fine Arts
Source(s) of Funding:Other Funding Scheme
Start Date:12/1994


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


Project Title:Art in twentieth-century China
Investigator(s):Clarke DJ
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme
Start Date:06/2014




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


Project Title:International Congress for the history of science, technology and medicine; Symposium 048. Putting Chinese natural knowledge to work in the long eighteenth century (organizer)/Putting Chinese natural knowledge to work in an eighteenth-century Swiss canton: the case of Laurent Garcin
Investigator(s):Cook GA
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2013
Completion Date:07/2013


Project Title:Research Output Prize (Faculty of Arts)
Investigator(s):Cook GA
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Research Output Prize (in Faculty)
Start Date:01/2014


Project Title:The herbarium as scientific object: 1545-present
Investigator(s):Cook GA
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2014


List of Research Outputs

Cook G.A., 'Eighteenth-Century Botanical Cosmopolitanism: Books, Seeds and Herbaria', Enlightenment Cosmopolitanisms and Sensibilities: Sydney Intellectual History Network, University of Sydney, Australia http://sydney.edu.au/intellectual-history/news- events/cosmopolitanism.shtml . 2014.
Cook G.A., 'Eighteenth-century sustainability debates: Ostervald's Description of Neuchâtel (1764)' , Sustainable Networks conference, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore. Singapore, 2014.
Cook G.A., 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau and botany: the salutary science', Department of Philosophy Seminar, University of Hong Kong. 2014.
Cook G.A., 'Putting Chinese natural knowledge to work (or not) in an eighteenth-century Swiss canton: the case of Dr Laurent Garcin of Neuchâtel', 24th International Congress for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. 2013.
Cook G.A., 'The herbarium as scientific object: 1545 - present', Lichtenberg-Kolleg Colloquium (Göttingen Institute of Advanced Study). Göttingen, Germany, 2013.
Cook G.A., JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, Ecrits sur la botanique, Takuya Kobayashi (editor), Œuvres complètes, vol. XI. Raymond Trousson and Frédéric Eigeldinger (editors). Slatkine, Geneva and Champion, Paris: 2012. Pp xvii, 434., In: Peter Davis (Hon. ed.) & Isabelle Charmantier (revs. ed.) , Archives of natural history. Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh Press, 2013, 40.2: 371-372.
Cook G.A., John Thackray Medal, Society for the history of natural history (London). 2014.
Cook G.A., Panel organizer: Putting Chinese natural knowledge to work in the long eighteenth century, 24th International Congress for the history of science, technology and medicine. Manchester, UK, 2013.
Cook G.A., Research Output Prize, Arts Faculty, University of Hong Kong. 2014.
Cook G.A., Review of Michael Keevak, Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011). Pp. ix+219. ISBN 978-0-691-14301-5 , In: Hasok Chang, Adam Mosely, British Journal for the History of Science. Cambridge UK, Cambridge Univ Press, 2014, 47: 378-379.
Cook G.A., ‘Jean-Jacques Rousseau and botany’, Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Beijing, China, 2014.
Cook G.A., ‘La fabrication posthume des Fragmens pour un dictionnaire des termes d'usage en botanique et la question de son attribution à Jean-Jacques Rousseau', In: Jacques Berchtold, Michel Porret, Annales de la société Jean-Jacques Rousseau . Geneva, Droz, 2013, 51: 93-116.


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., 'The Political Consciousness of HKU Undergraduates, 1912-1989', St John's College, University of Hong Kong, 2014.
Cunich P.A., 'The Syon Household at Denham, 1539-50', In: John Doran, Charlotte Methuen & Alexandra Walsham (eds.), Religion and the Household. Woodbridge, UK, Boydell & Brewer, 2014, 174-87.
Cunich P.A., Old Hong Kong. Hong Kong, FormAsia Books, 2014, 312 pp.
Cunich P.A., Review of 'Pacific Crossing: California Gold, Chinese Migration, and the Making of Hong Kong', by Elizabeth Sinn (2013), Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch. Hong Kong, RASHKB, 2014, 53: 307-312.


Researcher : DING H
List of Research Outputs

DING H., The dilemma: a study of bilingual education policy in Yi minority schools in Liangshan, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism . 2013, 16: 451-47.


Researcher : Deutsch ME
Project Title:The 2002 Meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy A Reductio of Millianism
Investigator(s):Deutsch ME
Department: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: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




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


List of Research Outputs

Dikotter F., 'Da jihuang de shizuoyongzhe he xishengzhe' (Perpetrators and victims during Mao's Great Famine)', In: Laogai Foundation, Ren xiangshi de niandai (The Great Famine). Washington, Laogai Foundation, 2013, 77-100.
Dikotter F., 'The New Archival History of China's Great Famine', China Information. London, Sage, 2013, 27:3: 371-378.
Dikotter F., The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution, 1945-1957. London, Bloomsbury, 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 2014 conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics; The Charms of Chinese Characters and Minority Language Education in China
Investigator(s):Ding PS
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2014
Completion Date:03/2014


List of Research Outputs

Ding P.S., From Intonation to Tone: the case of utterance-final particles aa and wo in Cantonese, 从语调到声调——以粤语句末语气助词‘呀’、‘喎’为例, Modern Linguistics. 现代语言学, 2013, 1(2): 36-41.
Ding P.S., Hong Kong as a laboratory for language contact, 香港——语言接触的实验室, Qinghai Nationalities Studies. 青海民族研究, 2013, 100.4: 171–176.
Ding P.S., Notes on labiodentals in Bai, 白语的唇齿音初探, In: WANG Feng and WANG Shuangcheng, The First International Conference on the Bai Language. 首届白语国际学术研讨会, Shanghai, Zhongxi Shuju, 2013, 172-178.


Researcher : Donohue CJ
Project Title:Complex tones and register in Bumthang and Nepali
Investigator(s):Donohue CJ
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2014


Project Title:Syntax and Semantics of Experiencers: Theoretical and empirical perspectives; Dative experiencers in Basque
Investigator(s):Donohue CJ
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2014


List of Research Outputs

Donohue C.J., An OT model of case marking in Fore., The 7th International Free Linguistics Conference.. 2013.
Donohue C.J. and WU M., Aspiration and F0 in Kam: Caught at the beginning?, International Conference on Phonetics of the languages in China (ICPLC- 2013). 2013.
Donohue C.J., Dative experiencers in Basque., Work on the Syntax and Semantics of Experiencers: Empirical and Theoretical Approaches.. 2014.
Donohue C.J., Fuzhou tonal acoustics and tonology. LINCOM Europa, 2013, LINCOM Studies in Asian Linguistics 82.
Donohue C.J., Interpreting non-canonical case., ANU workshop on argument structure and event structure.. 2013.
Donohue C.J., Donohue M.H. and Denham T., New Guinea and Southeast Asia: Predictive areal typology, social histories and multidisciplinary perspectives., ANU Linguistics Seminar Series.. 2013.
Donohue C.J., On understanding non-canonical case., The Linguistics Society of Hong Kong: Annual Research Forum.. 2013.
Donohue C.J., The importance of meaning in understanding case., CUHK Linguistics Seminar Series.. 2013.
Donohue C.J., The interaction of tones and vowels in Fuzhou., BLS. Berkeley, CA, University of California, 2013, 33: 97-105.
Donohue C.J., Towards a model of argument marking in Fore., ANU Linguistics (CAP) Seminar Series.. 2013.


Researcher : Fraser CJ
List of Research Outputs

Fraser C.J., Heart-Fasting, Forgetting, and Using the Heart Like a Mirror: Applied Emptiness in the Zhuangzi, In: JeeLoo Liu and Douglas Berger, Nothingness in Asian Philosophy,. Routledge, 2014.
Fraser C.J., Landscape, Travel, and a Daoist View of the 'Cosmic Question.', In: H. Moeller and A. Whitehead, Landscape and Travelling East and West: A Philosophical Journey. Bloomsbury Academic, 2014, 211-223.
Fraser C.J., Xunzi Versus Zhuangzi: Two Approaches to Death in Classical Chinese Thought, Frontiers of Philosophy in China. 2013, 8.3: 410–427.


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
Completion Date:08/2014


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

Wang Y., Nie J., Yap P.T., Li G., Shi F., Geng X., Guo L. and Shen D., Knowledge-Guided Robust MRI Brain Extraction for Diverse Large-Scale Neuroimaging Studies on Humans and Non-Human Primates, In: Katriina Aalto-Setala, PLOS ONE. 2014.


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
Completion Date:07/2014


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


Project Title:The 10th International Conference on the Evolution of Language; GRASPING COMPOSITIONAL PATTERN IN AN ARTIFICIAL LANGUAGE BY CHINESE PARTICIPANTS/MODELLING LANGUAGE COMPETITION WITHOUT PRESTIGE
Investigator(s):Gong T
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2014


List of Research Outputs

Gong T. and Shuai L., Computer simulation as a scientific approach in evolutionary linguistics, Language Sciences. 2013, 40: 12-23.
Gong T., Shuai L. and Ansaldo U., Computer simulation of language convergence, In: Peng G, Shi F, Eastward Flows the Great River: Festschrift in Honor of Prof. William S-Y. Wang on His 80th Birthday . 2013, 375-392.
Gong T., Shuai L. and Liu J., Construction of cross-cultural identity by language choice and linguistic practice: A case-study of mixed Hong Kong-Mainland identity in university contexts, Open Journal of Modern Linguistics. 2013, 3: 208-215.
Gong T., Shuai L. and Comrie B., Evolutionary linguistics: Theory of language in an interdisciplinary space, Language Sciences. Elsevier, 2014, 41: 243-253.
Gong T., Shuai L. and Zhang M., Modeling language evolution: Examples and predictions , Physics of Life Reviews. 2014, 11: 280-302.
Lam Y. and Gong T., Grasping compositional pattern in an artificial language by Chinese participants, The 10th International Conference on Language Evolution (Evolang10). 2014.
Shuai L. and Gong T., A review of NAO YU YUYAN RENZHI: A survey of recent research on brain and language cognition, 评《脑与语言认知》：脑与语言认知研究新进展, Journal of Chinese Linguistics. 中国语言学报, 2013, 41: 468-478.
Shuai L. and Gong T., Book review, Lingua. 2013, 134: 27-31.
Shuai L. and Gong T., Temporal relation between top-down and bottom-up processing in lexical tone perception, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 2014, 8.
Shuai L., Gong T. and Wu Y., Who is who? Interpretation of multiple occurrence of the Chinese reflexive: Evidence from real-time sentence processing, PLoS ONE. 2013, 8.
Zhang M. and Gong T., Modeling language competition without prestige, The 10th International Conference on Language Evolution (Evolang10). 2014.


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




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: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


Project Title:Middle Period China Conference; Identifying Mongol Art in the Yuan dynasty: The Case of Khubilai Khan Hunting
Investigator(s):Hammers RL
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2014


List of Research Outputs

Hammers R.L., China and Great Britain: Representing Chinese Agrarian Labor in the Empire, The First International Conference on Comparing China and the West, Institute of World Literature, Peking University. 2013.
Hammers R.L., Chinese and European monarchs at work: Images of rulers personally pushing ploughs in the 18th century, Society for Cultural Interaction in East Asia (SCIEA). Fudan University, Shanghai, 2014.
Hammers R.L., Exploring the exhibition "No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia", Asia Society Hong Kong Center. 2013.
Hammers R.L., Identifying Mongol Art in the Yuan dynasty: The Case of Khubilai Khan Hunting, Conference on Middle Period China. Harvard University, Boston, 2014.
Hammers R.L., Meditating in Painting: Spiritual Art of the East and the West in 17th Century , Asia Society Hong Kong Center. 2014.
Hammers R.L., Painting and Calligraphy as One: Xu Bing and the Postmodern traditions of tradition, Asia Society Hong Kong Center. 2014.
Hammers R.L., “Western” art styles of China , Asia Society Hong Kong. 2014.


Researcher : KWOK YN
List of Research Outputs

KWOK Y.N., European Landscape Paintings and Unconventional Visual Qualities Conveying Revolutionary Spatial Characteristics in the 19th Century, 欧洲十九世纪风景画里非常规的视觉元素和革命性的空间特征, In: 丁寧 ， 李淞, 2012年北京大學美術學博士生國際學術論壇論文集, 西安市, 陝西師範大學出版總社有限公司, 2013, pp. 309-320.


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., Music in the Ear's Mind , Music Perception and Cognition II. Seoul, Korea, Emaksekye, 2013, 35-58.
Kim Y., “‘Minding Gaps’: Theorizing Bodily and Musical Motions in the Early 20th Century.” , The 2nd Biennial Conference of the East Asian Regional Association of the International Musicological Society. 18–20 October 2013. National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan.. 2013.


Researcher : Koon YW
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., A Defiant Brush: Su Renshan (1814-c.1850) and the Politics of Painting in Guangdong, Hong Kong University Press and University of Hawaii Press, 2014.
Koon Y.W., Guest Curator of Exhibition - It begins with Metamorphosis: Xu Bing, Asia Society, Hong Kong Center. 2014.
Koon Y.W., It Begins with Metamorphosis: Xu Bing; A Evening Discussion with the Artist, 2014.
Koon Y.W., Pictorial Wit & Suzhou Pride: Qiu Ying & His Handscroll Paintings”, In: NA, Oriental Ceramic Society. 2014.
Koon Y.W., Urban Imaginaries: The Framing of China Trade Paintings, In: Lisbon University, Face to Face: The Transcendence of the Arts in China and Beyond Symposium Volume. University of Lisbon, 2013, 2013.


Researcher : Kwok VPY
List of Research Outputs

Kwok V.P.Y. and Tan L., Lexical tone processing in Chinese reading., International Symposium on Language, Technology, and Brain. 2013.


Researcher : Li KLM
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. and Matthews S.J., Chinese Pidgin English structure dataset, In: Susanne Maria Michaelis, Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath, and Magnus Huber, The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online. Leipzig, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 2013.
Li K.L.M., Pidgin and phrasebooks in China: historical and grammatical relationships, China and the West: Cross-linguistic perspectives. 2014.
Matthews S.J. and Li K.L.M., Chinese Pidgin English, In: Susanne Maria Michaelis, Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath, and Magnus Huber, The Survey of Pidgin and Creole Languages. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013, Vol.1: 206-213.


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 : MATARESE V
List of Research Outputs

MATARESE V., DALL’ARTICOLO ‘EPR’ AGLI ESPERIMENTI DI ALAIN ASPECT: IL LUNGO CAMMINO DEL PROBLEMA DELLA NONLOCALITÀ IN MECCANICA QUANTISTICA, In: acme, Annali della Facoltà di Studi Umanistici dell'Università degli Studi di Milano. MILANO, ACME, 2013, 66 (1-2): 197-224.
MATARESE V., The new conception of order as revealed by the holographic paradigm, In: Société de Philosophie des Sciences (SPS)., Metaphysics of science. LILLE, Societé de Philosophie de Sciences, 2014, 1: 50.
MATARESE V., The quantum-classical divide understood in terms of Bohm's holographic paradigm, In: Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, Quantum-classical Divide. Berlin, DEUTSCHE PHYSIKALISCHE GESELLSCHAFT, 2014, Feb-14: 407.


Researcher : Magnan-Park AHJ
Project Title:The Chivalrous Men of Asia: Hong Kong Action Cinema’s Civilizing Mission
Investigator(s):Magnan-Park AHJ
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:08/2013


Project Title:Annual Conference; Americanization and the Aesthetic Annihilation of Asian Cinema: The Case of Wong Kar Wai's The Grandmaster (2013)
Investigator(s):Magnan-Park AHJ
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2014
Completion Date:03/2014


List of Research Outputs

Magnan-Park A.H.J., Americanization and the Aesthetic Annihilation of Asian Cinema: The Case of Wong Kar-wai’s The Grandmaster (2013 , Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Seattle, WA, USA . 2014.


Researcher : Mansour ON
Project Title:Splendid Encounters: Diplomats and Diplomacy in Europe 1500-1750; Islam, orientalism and diplomacy in the decoration of the early-modern papal audience chamber 1492-1622.
Investigator(s):Mansour ON
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:09/2013
Completion Date:09/2013


Project Title:Global Rome: Art, Diplomacy, and Shaping of Global Catholicism ca. 1580-1640
Investigator(s):Mansour ON, Weisberg-Roberts AK
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2014


List of Research Outputs

Mansour O.N., A Master in Transition: Caravaggio's second Supper at Emmaus and its legacy, Asia Society, Hong Kong. 2014.
Mansour O.N., Censure and censorship in Rome ca.1600: visitation of Clement VIII and the visual arts, In: Marcia Hall, Tracy E. Cooper, The Sensuous in the Counter-Reformation Church. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Mansour O.N., Contested Performance: Ambassadors from beyond Europe at the Papal Court, Conference on Performativity of Visual Cultures, Graduate Institute of Art History, NTNU, Taipei. 2013.
Mansour O.N., How to tell a Persian from a Turk: Safavid Ambassadors and the Visual Culture of the Papal Court from Gregory XIII (1572–1585) to Paul V (1605–1620), College Art Association, Chicago (February 2014). 2014.
Mansour O.N., Islam, Orientalism and Diplomacy in the Decoration of the Early-Modern Papal Audience Chamber, 1492-1622, Splendid Encounters: Diplomats and Diplomacy in Europe, 1500-1750, Warsaw (September 2013). 2013.
Mansour O.N., Kress Foundation International Travel Grant , Kress Foundation. 2013.
Mansour O.N., Picturing Global Conversion: Art and Diplomacy at the Court of Paul V (1605-1621), In: Nabil Matar, Simon Ditchfield, Journal of Early Modern History. 10.1163/15700658-12342380, Brill, 2013, 17, issue 5-6: 525-559.


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:HKU Overseas Fellowship Awards 2012-13
Investigator(s):Marchetti G
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:HKU Overseas Fellowship Awards
Start Date:07/2012


List of Research Outputs

Marchetti G., “Hong Kong Women Filmmakers, the New Wave, and World Cinema,”, International Cultural Studies Program, University System of Taiwan, Hsin Chu, Taiwan. Taiwan, 2013.
Marchetti G., “Hong Kong Women Filmmakers’ Visions of the 21st Century” , Leverhulme Trust Research Network: Chinese Cinemas in the 21st Century: Production, Consumption, Imagination, National Chiao Tong University, Hsin Chu, Taiwan. Hsin Chu, Taiwan, 2013.
Marchetti G., “Cosmopolitan Visions of Hong Kong Women Filmmakers: Ann Hui, the New Wave, and World Cinema” , Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies (UNNC), University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Ningbo, China, 2014.
Marchetti G., “Clara Law’s RED EARTH: The HKIFF and the Cultural Politics of the Sponsored Short,”, Chinese Film Festival Studies Conference, University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong, 2014.
Marchetti G., “LIKE A DREAM: Asian American Masculinity and Transnational Chinese Cinema.” , Transnational Currents of US-China Relations: The 10th Anniversary of the American Studies Network (USCET-ASN) in China International Conference, University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong, 2013.
Marchetti G., "Sylvester Stallone and John Rambo's Trek across Asia: Politics, Performance and American Empire", In: Chris Holmlund, ed., The Ultimate Stallone Reader: Sylvester Stallone as Star, Icon, Auteur . London, Wallflower Press, 2014, 217-240.
Marchetti G., “Brecht in Hong Kong Cinema: Ann Hui’s ORDINARY HEROES,” , XXVI FILLM International Congress, Languages and Literatures Today, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China. Ningbo, 2014.
Marchetti G., “Does the Karate Kid Have a Kung Fu Dream? Hong Kong Martial Arts between Hollywood and Beijing,”, JOMEC Journal: Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies . 2014, No. 5.
Marchetti G., “Hong Kong Women Filmmakers: Working Beyond the Nation,” , Transnational Cinema/Media Studies, sponsored by the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute . Abu Dhabi, 2014.
Marchetti G., “IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (2000), Wong Kar-wai”, In: Jeffrey Geiger and R.L. Rutsky, Film Analysis: A Norton Reader . New York, W.W. Norton and Company, 2013, 966-989.
Marchetti G., “Women as Sex Workers in Two HKSAR Films: Herman Yau and Elsa Chan (Yeeshan)’s WHISPERS AND MOANS and TRUE WOMEN FOR SALE” , Global Capitalism, Socialist Markets, and Feminist Interventions, University of Shanghai. Shanghai, 2014.


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:Association for Linguistic Typology - 10th Biennial Conference (ALT 10); "Correlations between Tonality and Word Order Types"
Investigator(s):Matthews SJ
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2013
Completion Date:08/2013


List of Research Outputs

Kwan J., Mai Z., Matthews S.J. and Yip V., The grammar of displacement in Cantonese heritage speakers, 2nd International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages. University of California, Los Angeles, 2014.
Li K.L.M. and Matthews S.J., Chinese Pidgin English structure dataset, In: Susanne Maria Michaelis, Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath, and Magnus Huber, The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online. Leipzig, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 2013.
Mak H.L. and Matthews S.J., Tone substitution in the acquisition of Cantonese tone by native speakers of English, First International Conference on Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language . 首屆國際漢語教學研討會, Hong Kong, 2013.
Matthews S.J., Cheung S.C. and Tsang W.L., Anti-transfer effects in third language acquisition, 9th International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism. 2014.
Matthews S.J. and Yip V., Bilingual and Multilingual Acquisition of Chinese, In: C.-T. J. Huang, Y.-H. A. Li & A. Simpson, The Handbook of Chinese Linguistics. Chichester, Wiley Blackwell, 2014, 496-510.
Matthews S.J. and Li K.L.M., Chinese Pidgin English, In: Susanne Maria Michaelis, Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath, and Magnus Huber, The Survey of Pidgin and Creole Languages. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013, Vol.1: 206-213.
Matthews S.J., Parisian explorations in verb-fronting, Linguistique chinoise et linguistique générale: Journée d’hommage à Marie-Claude Paris. Paris, Université Paris Diderot, 2014.
Matthews S.J. and Yip V., The emergence of quantifier scope, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2013, 3: 324-329.
YIU S.Y. and Matthews S.J., Correlations between Tonality and Word Order Type, Association for Linguistic Typology 10th Biennial Conference (ALT 10) . Leipzig, Germany, University of Leipzig, 2013.


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


Project Title:King's/HKU Fellowship Awards 2013-14
Investigator(s):McCarthy DP
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:King's/HKU Fellowship Awards
Start Date:09/2013




Researcher : Moore KB
Project Title:The 60th Annual Meeting of the RSA (Renaissance Society of America); Transmediality and the Mystery of Transformation in the Holy Land Pilgrimage Experience (real and imagined)
Investigator(s):Moore KB
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2014
Completion Date:03/2014


Project Title:The Christian architecture of the Holy Land: a history of reception
Investigator(s):Moore KB
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2014


List of Research Outputs

Moore K.B., Botticelli and the Bonfire of the Vanities, Sandro Botticelli's Venus, exhibition at HKU's University Museum and Art Gallery. 2013.
Moore K.B., The Disappearance of an Author and the Emergence of a Genre: Niccolò da Poggibonsi and Pilgrimage Guidebooks between Manuscript and Print, In: Nicholas Terpstra, Renaissance Quarterly. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2013, 66: 357-411.
Moore K.B., Transmediality and the Mystery of Transformation in the Holy Land Pilgrimage Experience (real and imagined), The 60th Annual Meeting of the RSA (Renaissance Society of America). 2014.


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 : NG KT
List of Research Outputs

NG K.T., Object Marking in three Sinitic languages: An Experimental Comparative Study, International Association for Chinese Linguistics and North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. University of Maryland, 2014.
NG K.T., On the Typology of Basic Locative Constructions in Sinitic Languages, International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics. Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2014.


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


Project Title:SPEP 2013; Foucault’s Critique of Ethics: Experience Squared
Investigator(s):O'Leary TE
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:10/2013
Completion Date:10/2013


List of Research Outputs

O'Leary T.E., Foucault’s Critique of Ethics: Experience Squared, SPEP Annual Conference, University of Oregon. 2013.
O'Leary T.E., Get Over Yourself! Critique and Desubjectivation, Theory Lab, Centre for the Humanities, University of Utrecht. 2014.
O'Leary T.E., Get Over Yourself! Foucault’s Critique of Ethical Experience, Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, Annual Conference, University of Western Sydney. 2013.
O'Leary T.E., The Critique of Moral Sensibility, Marxism and Social Critique Conference, University of Nanjing. 2014.
O'Leary T.E., Three Ecologies, Three Critiques, International Network for Critical Humanities. Utrecht, Netherlands, University of Utrecht, 2013.
Zamuner E. and O'Leary T.E., Co-editorship., In: Issue Editors: Timothy O'Leary and Edoardo Zamuner Journal Editor: Edward Minar, Philosophical Perspectives on Happiness. Edited issue of "Philosophical Topics". Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, The University of Arkansas Press, 2013, Forthcoming in 2013: NA.


Researcher : PANG PL
List of Research Outputs

PANG P.L., Crossing the Boundaries: Image and Reception of Chinese Musicians Playing with the Shanghai Municipal Orchestra, CUHK-NTU International Graduate Music Forum 2014: "Sound, Image, and Representation". The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2014.
PANG P.L., Playing Cosmopolitanism: Programs of the Shanghai Municipal Orchestra in the Early Twentieth Century, 2nd Biennial Conference of the East Asian Regional Association of IMS:"Musics in the Shifting Global Order". National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2013.


Researcher : Peckham RS
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., Contagion: Epidemiological Models and Financial Crises, Journal of Public Health. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013, 36: 13-17.
Peckham R.S., Cowboys in the Tropics: Milk, Hygiene, and the Acclimatisation of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. 2013.
Peckham R.S., Disease and Crime: A History of Social Pathologies and the New Politics of Health, Routledge, 2013.
Peckham R.S., Faculty Research Award for Junior Tenure-track Professoriate Staff, Faculty of Arts, The University of Hong Kong. 2014.
Peckham R.S., Ghosts in the Body: Infections, Genes and the Re-enchantment of Biology, In: Olu Jenzen and Sally R. Munt, The Ashgate Research Companion to Paranormal Cultures. Farnham, Ashgate, 2013, 95-106.
Peckham R.S., Introduction: Pathologizing Crime, Criminalizing Disease, In: Robert Peckham, Disease and Crime: A History of Social Pathologies and the New Politics of Health. New York, Routledge, 2013, 1-18.
Peckham R.S., Making an Urban Wilderness: Water and the ‘Technological Imaginary’ in Colonial Hong Kong , Ecologies of Urbanism in Asia II: Cities, Towns, and the Places of Nature. 2014.
Peckham R.S., Pathological Properties: Scenes of Crime, Sites of Infection, In: Robert Peckham, Disease and Crime: A History of Social Pathologies and the New Politics of Health. New York, Routledge, 2013, 56-78.
Peckham R.S., Serial Killer: Imagining SARS, Viral Imaginaries: Infectious Disease and Society in Contemporary China. 2013.


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:Empire Generations: Youth, Colonialism and Imperial Networks
Investigator(s):Pomfret DM
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2014


List of Research Outputs

Pomfret D.M., Invited Talk, “’Teaching History to the Youth of Today’: A UGC Teaching Award Winning Challenge,” Lingnan University, November 2013, 2013.
Pomfret D.M., “A Global Age: Doing Transnational Histories of Youth,” , American Historical Association, January 2014, Washington, DC.. 2014.
Pomfret D.M., “Engaging the Connected Generation: Technology and Transformative Learning,” , Conference, Engaging Student Learning, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, February 2014. 2014.
Pomfret D.M., “When Angels Deserve to Die: Child Death in Historical Perspective,” , Dying Cultures, International Conference on Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society, June 2014, The University of Hong Kong. 2014.
Pomfret D.M., “‘No Day Without A Deed to Crown It,’ Ministering Children in Colonial Asia,”, Society for the History of Children and Youth, July 2013, The University of Nottingham. 2013.


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: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
Completion Date:04/2014


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


Project Title:China, Hong Kong, and the Long 1970s in Global Perspective
Investigator(s):Roberts PM, Dikotter F, Xu G, Wong JDO
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:ESRC/RGC Joint Research Scheme
Start Date:07/2013


Project Title:Faultlines: Cohesion and Division in Europe from the 18th Century to the 21st; America, For and Against: European Faultlines in the Twentieth Century
Investigator(s):Roberts PM
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2013
Completion Date:07/2013


Project Title:Managing Perceived Decline: US Think Tanks and the Reassessment of US Power in the Long 1970s
Investigator(s):Roberts PM
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:04/2014


List of Research Outputs

Roberts P.M., "Adjusting to China, Adjusting to Change: The Williamsburg Conference, 1971-1981", In: Emilian Kavalski, David Walton, and Peter Mauch, Power Transitions in Asia Seminar: The Rise of China and Its Implications for the Asia Pacific. Parramatta, NSW, Australia, University of Western Sydney, 2013.
Roberts P.M., "America, For and Against: European Faultlines in the Twentieth Century", In: Australasian Association for European History (AAEH) 23rd Biennial Conference, "Faultlines: Cohesion and Division in Europe from the 18th Century to the 21st". Wellington, New Zealand, AAEH, Victoria University of Wellington, 2013.
Roberts P.M., "Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)", In: McPherson, Alan, Encyclopedia of U.S. Military Interventions in Latin America. 2 vols.. Santa Barbara, CA, United States, ABC-CLIO, 2013, 1: 132-136.
Roberts P.M., "Dulles, Allen (1893-1969)", In: McPherson, Alan, Encyclopedia of U.S. Military Interventions in Latin America. 2 vols.. Santa Barbara, CA, United States, ABC-CLIO, 2013, 1: 174-175.
Roberts P.M., "U.S. Middle East Policy, 1945 to Present.", In: Thomas R. Mockaitis, The Iraq War Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA, United States, ABC-CLIO, 2013, 444-458.
Roberts P.M., Aneurin Bevan, In: ABC-CLIO, World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society Database.. Santa Barbara, CA, United States, ABC-CLIO, 2013.
Roberts P.M., Bilderberg Meetings: Cold War, In: ABC-CLIO, World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society Database. Santa Barbara, CA, United States, ABC-CLIO, 2013.
Roberts P.M., China: Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars, In: ABC-CLIO, World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society Database.. Santa Barbara, CA, United States, ABC-CLIO, 2013.
Roberts P.M., Chinese Revolution and Civil War (Overview), In: ABC-CLIO, World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society. Santa Barbara, CA, United States, ABC-CLIO, 2013.
Roberts P.M., Chinese Revolution and Civil War, In: ABC-CLIO, World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society Database.. Santa Barbara, CA, United States, ABC-CLIO, 2013.
Roberts P.M., Co-Investigator, "Writing the War in Asia: A Documentary History", In: Mark Frost, Daniel Schumacher, and Priscilla Roberts, University of Hong Kong. Konstanz, Germany, University of Konstanz, 2014.
Roberts P.M., Commentator, panel on "The U.S., China, and the Cold War: New Evidence", In: President: Prof. Fredrik Logevall, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations annual meeting. Lexington, Kentucky, USA, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2014.
Roberts P.M., Council on Foreign Relations: Cold War, In: ABC-CLIO, World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society Database. Santa Barbara, CA, United States, ABC-CLIO, 2013.
Roberts P.M., Dwight D. Eisenhower: Role in the Cold War, In: ABC-CLIO, World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society. Santa Barbara, CA, United States, ABC-CLIO, 2013.
Roberts P.M., Dwight D. Eisenhower: Role in the Korean War, In: ABC-CLIO, World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society Database. Santa Barbara, CA, United States, ABC-CLIO, 2013.
Roberts P.M., Europe and the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars, In: ABC-CLIO, World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society Database. Santa Barbara, CA, United States, ABC-CLIO, 2013.
Roberts P.M., Harold Brown, In: ABC-CLIO, World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society Database. Santa Barbara, CA, United States, ABC-CLIO, 2013.
Roberts P.M., Introduction, In: Priscilla Roberts, Going Soft? The US and China Go Global. Newcastle, UK, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014, xvi-lxi.
Roberts P.M., Japan: Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars, In: ABC-CLIO, World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society Database. Santa Barbara, CA, United States, ABC-CLIO, 2013.
Roberts P.M., John Sherman Cooper Jr., In: ABC-CLIO, World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society Database. Santa Barbara, CA, United States, ABC-CLIO, 2013.
Roberts P.M., Kuhn, Loeb and Company, In: Melvyn I. Dubofsky, Oxford Encyclopedia of American Economic, Business, and Labor History. . New York, Oxford University Press, 2013, 1: 423-424.
Roberts P.M., Legacy of the War: Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars, In: ABC-CLIO, World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society Database. Santa Barbara, CA, United States, ABC-CLIO, 2013.
Roberts P.M., National City Bank (Citibank), In: Melvyn I. Dubofsky, Oxford Encyclopedia of American Economic, Business, and Labor History. . New York, Oxford University Press, 2013, 2: 5.
Roberts P.M., Outside reviewer of article, In: Mark Kramer, Journal of Cold War Studies. Cambridge, MA, United States, MIT Press, 2013.
Roberts P.M., Outside reviewer of draft article, In: Brian McKercher, Diplomacy and Statecraft. Abingdon, Oxon, UK, Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Roberts P.M., PHAROS III (Postgraduate History Archival Research Orientation Seminar), In: Priscilla Roberts, University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong, 2013.
Roberts P.M., Professeur Invité (Visiting Research Professor) for one month, Ecole Normale Superieure-Cachan, Paris, France. Paris, France, ENS-Cachan, 2013.
Roberts P.M., Rape of Nanjing, In: ABC-CLIO, Database: Modern Genocide: Understanding Causes and Consequences. Santa Barbara, CA, United States, ABC-CLIO, 2013.
Roberts P.M., Rebuilding a Relationship: British Cultural Diplomacy towards China, 1967-80, In: Greg Kennedy and Christopher Tuck, British Propaganda and Wars of Empire: Influencing Friend and Foe 1900-2010 . Farnham, Surrey, England, Ashgate, 2014, 191-218.
Roberts P.M., Review of Michael E. Weaver. “The Relationship Between Diplomacy and Military Force: An Example from the Cuban Missile Crisis.” Diplomatic History 38:1 (January 2014): 137-181, In: Diane Labrosse and Thomas Maddux, H-Diplo and Society for HIstorians of American Foreign Relations. Columbia, Missouri, UA, H-Diplo, 2014, LXI + 576.
Roberts P.M., Reviewer of article manuscript, In: Walter A. Friedman and Geoffrey Jones, Business History Review. Boston, MA, United States, Harvard Business School, 2014.
Roberts P.M., Round-table review of Odd Arne Westad, Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750 (New York: Basic Books, 2012). , In: Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse, H-Diplo Roundtable Review. Columbus, Ohio, USA, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2013, 15:2: 22-39.
Roberts P.M., Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, In: ABC-CLIO, World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society. Santa Barbara, CA, United States, ABC-CLIO, 2013.
Roberts P.M., Soft Power in Sino-American Relations, In: Priscilla Roberts, Going Soft? The US and China Go Global. 122-140`, Newcastle, UK, Canmbridge Scholars Publishing, 2014, 122-140.
Roberts P.M., Sole Editor, In: Priscilla Roberts, Going Soft? The US and China Go Global. Newcastle, UK, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014, lxi + 576.
Roberts P.M., The Complexities of Collaboration and Colonialism: Claro M. Recto's Bid for "Real" Philippine Independence, 1944, In: Daniel Schumacher, Mark Frost, and Priscilla Roberts, Writing the War in Asia: A Documentary History. Konstanz, Germany, University of Konstanz, 2014.
Roberts P.M., The Complexities of Collaboration in the Philippines: Claro M. Recto, 1944, In: University of Konstanz, Writing the War in Asia, 1937-45. Konstanz, Germany, University of Konstanz, 2013.
Roberts P.M., The Consequences of the Cuban Missile Crisis: 50th Anniversary Article, In: ABC-CLIO, World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society. Database.. Santa Barbara, CA, United States, ABC-CLIO, 2013.
Roberts P.M., The US Foreign Policy Elite: Continuities and Changes, In: ENS-Cachan, Paris, France, Graduate Seminar in International History. Paris, France, ENS-Cachan, 2013.
Roberts P.M., Transnational Networks of Think Tanks and Imperialism, In: Ecole Normale Superieure-Cachan, Paris, France, Graduate Seminar in International History. Paris, France, ENS-Cachan, 2013.
Roberts P.M., United Kingdom: Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, In: ABC-CLIO, The United States at War: Understanding Conflict and Society. Santa Barbara, CA, United States, ABC-CLIO, 2013.
Roberts P.M., Warren Robinson Austin, In: ABC-CLIO, World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society. Database.. Santa Barbara, CA, United States, ABC-CLIO, 2013.
Roberts P.M., William Lockhart Clayton, In: ABC-CLIO, World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society Database. Santa Barbara, CA, United States, ABC-CLIO, 2013.
Roberts P.M., William Putnam Bundy, In: ABC-CLIO, World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society Database. Santa Barbara, CA, United States, ABC-CLIO, 2013.
Roberts P.M., William Sowden Sims, In: ABC-CLIO, World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society. Database. Santa Barbara, CA, United States, ABC-CLIO, 2013.
Roberts P.M., World War I Reparations, In: ABC-CLIO, Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society. Santa Barbara, CA, United States, ABC-CLIO, 2013.
Roberts P.M., World War I Reparations, In: ABC-CLIO, World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society. Santa Barbara, CA, United States, ABC-CLIO, 2013.


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., Later Mohist Nominalism, Seminar Series, Centre for the Study of Logic and Intelligence, Southwest University, Chongqing. 2014.
Robins D.P., Meaning on the Outside, Departmental colloquium, University of Richmond, U.S.A.. 2014.
Robins D.P., Three Puzzles about Conforming Upwards, Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy and the Australasian Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (Singapore). 2013.
Robins D.P., Western Scholarship on the Later Mohists, In: Fenrong Liu, Zhai Jincheng, Jeremy Seligman, The Third International Conference on the History of Logic in China, Tianjin. 第三屆中國邏輯史國際會議, 2014.


Researcher : SONG F
List of Research Outputs

SONG F., Can We be Ultimately Morally Responsible for What We Choose, North Carolina Philosophical Society Meeting 2014, Chapel Hill. US, 2014.


Researcher : SUZUKI Y
List of Research Outputs

SUZUKI Y., First ‘definitions’ by Plato’s Socrates, Plato & Rhetoric, International Plato Society, Regional Meeting. 2014.
SUZUKI Y., Saying as Action: Philosophy of Language in the Zhuangzi , The annual American Philosophical Association meeting . Baltimore, The Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, 2013.
SUZUKI Y., Saying as Action: Philosophy of Language in the Zhuangzi, Chinese Traditional Culture and Ultimate Concern: Forum for Hong Kong and Beijing Graduate Students. China, Remnin University of China, 2013.
SUZUKI Y., ‘Saying’ as action: Zhuangzian philosophy of language, American Philosophical Association, Annual Meeting, Eastern Division. 2013.
SUZUKI Y., ‘Saying’ as action: Zhuangzian philosophy of language, Chinese Traditional Culture and Ultimate Concern: Forum for Hong Kong and Beijing Graduate Students. 2013.


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
Completion Date:06/2014


Project Title:Americas Tsunami of Aid: Compassion, Opportunism and Delusion Following Japan's 1923 Earthquake Calamity'
Investigator(s):Schencking JC
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2014


Project Title:The Great Kanto Earthquake and the Reconstruction of Tokyo: A Visual History
Investigator(s):Schencking JC
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:06/2014


List of Research Outputs

Schencking J.C., The Great Kanto Earthquake And The Chimera Of National Reconstruction In Japan. New York, Columbia University Press, 2013, 374.
Schencking J.C., The Imperial Japanese Navy and the First World War: Unprecedented Opportunities and Harsh Realities, In: Tosh Minohara, Tze-ki hon, Evan Dawley, The Decade of the Great War: Japan and the Wider World in the 1910s.. Leiden, Brill, 2014, 83-106.


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




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




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
Completion Date:12/2013


List of Research Outputs

Szeto M.M. and Chen Y.C., "In Your Face Multiculturalism: reclaiming public space and citizenship by the Filipina migrant workers in Hong Kong", In: Daniel P.S. Goh, Jun-Hyeok Kwak (eds.), Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society (IACS) Conference 2013, Beyond the Cultural Industry, 3-5 July, 2013, at the National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge Campus, Faulty of Arts and Social Sciences, ASS AS7, Singapore.. 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


List of Research Outputs

Kwok V.P.Y. and Tan L., Lexical tone processing in Chinese reading., International Symposium on Language, Technology, and Brain. 2013.


Researcher : Thomas GM
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
Completion Date:02/2014


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:The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France: Representations of the ‘Summer Palace’ in the West; Ornamental Aesthetics: The Framing of Yuanmingyuan at the Musée Chinois
Investigator(s):Thomas GM
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2013
Completion Date:07/2013


List of Research Outputs

Thomas G.M., Approaches to Intercultural Interaction: Europe and China, Seoul National University. 2014.
Thomas G.M., Ornamental Aesthetics: The Framing of Yuanming Yuan at the Musée Chinois, The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France: Representations of the ‘Summer Palace’ in the West. Manchester, University of Manchester, 2013.
Thomas G.M., Regrouping: Displays of Loot from Yuanmingyuan, In: 33rd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art, The Challenge of the Object,. Nuremberg, Germanischen Nationalmuseum, 2013, 2: 509-513.
Thomas G.M., Sino-European Aesthetics at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton, In: Seoul National University, New Perspectives in Art History. 2014.


Researcher : Tsang CL
List of Research Outputs

Tsang C.L., Hong Kong’s Floating World: Crime and Disease at the Edge of Empire , In: Robert Peckham, Disease and Crime: A History of Social Pathologies and the New Politics of Health . Routledge, Studies in Cultural History, 2013.
Tsang C.L., Knowing Chinese Women: Richard Tottenham and Colonial Medicine in Interwar Hong Kong, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Hong Kong Branch. Hong Kong, Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch, 2013, 53: 167-181.


Researcher : Tsang WL
Project Title:Doris Zimmern HKU-Cambridge Hughes Hall Fellowships 2011-12
Investigator(s):Tsang WL
Department:Centre for Applied English Studies
Source(s) of Funding:Doris Zimmern HKU-Cambridge Hughes Hall Fellowships
Start Date:09/2011


Project Title:The blessing or curse of multilingualism: Cross-linguistic influence amongst Cantonese, English and French
Investigator(s):Tsang WL
Department:Centre for Applied English Studies
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:11/2011
Completion Date:10/2013


List of Research Outputs

Matthews S.J., Cheung S.C. and Tsang W.L., Anti-transfer effects in third language acquisition, 9th International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism. 2014.


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
Completion Date:12/2013


List of Research Outputs

Vukovich D.F., Cultures of Belief and Politics After Orientalism: Thinking China via Wukan. , Macau University, Department of Communications . Macau, SAR, China, 2013.
Vukovich D.F., Discourse and Historiography in Hong Kong-China: Colonial Liberalism and the Politics of Knowledge. , Macau University, Department of Communications. 9 May 2014.. Macau, SAR, China, 2014.
Vukovich D.F., Seeing Like an Other State: China, the New Orientalism, and the Politics of Knowledge, In: Jan Van Pieterse, Debin Liu, and Changgang Guo, Seventh Annual Global Studies Conference. Shanghai, 2014.
Vukovich D.F., The New Orientalism: An Interview with Dan Vukovich, Part I. , In: C. Derick Varn, The North Star. . 2013.
Vukovich D.F., The New Orientalism: An Interview with Dan Vukovich, Part II. , In: C. Derick Varn, The North Star. . USA, 2013.


Researcher : WU M
List of Research Outputs

Donohue C.J. and WU M., Aspiration and F0 in Kam: Caught at the beginning?, International Conference on Phonetics of the languages in China (ICPLC- 2013). 2013.


Researcher : Wolff JE
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
Completion Date:10/2013


Project Title:29th Boulder Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science - Measurement across the Sciences; Is there anything operationalism got right?
Investigator(s):Wolff JE
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2013
Completion Date:11/2013


List of Research Outputs

Wolff J.E., Are conservation laws metaphysically necessary?, In: Andrea I. Woody, Philosophy of Science. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2013, 80(5): 898-906.
Wolff J.E., Criteria of physical significance for quantities in physics, In: Massimiliano Carrara, Angelo Cei, Mauro Dorato, Pierluigi Graziani , Matteo Morganti, Emanuele Rossanese, Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science (SILFS). 2014.
Wolff J.E., Heisenberg's observability principle, In: D. Dieks, J. Uffink, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. Elsevier, 2014, 45: 19-26.
Wolff J.E., Is there anything operationalism got right?, In: Carol E. Cleland Professor of Philosophy, 29th Boulder Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science. 2013.
Wolff J.E., Naturalistic quietism or scientific realism?, In: Jamin Asay, Darrell Rowbottom, Science -- the real thing?. 2014.


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
Completion Date:06/2014


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


Project Title:King's/HKU Fellowship Awards 2013-14
Investigator(s):Xu G
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:King's/HKU Fellowship Awards
Start Date:09/2013


Project Title:Asia and the First World War
Investigator(s):Xu G
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2014


Project Title:annual conference of American historical association; The Great War and China's Great Transformation
Investigator(s):Xu G
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:01/2014
Completion Date:01/2014


List of Research Outputs

Xu G., Asia and the Great War, In: Jay Winter, The Cambridge History of the First World War. Cambridge University Press, 2014, one: 479-510.


Researcher : YIU SY
List of Research Outputs

YIU S.Y., A Phonetic description of tones in Hong Kong English, The 2013 Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Polytechnic University, November 30.. 2013.
YIU S.Y., Cantonese tones and musical intervals, In: Wai-Sum Lee, Proceedings of the International Conference on Phonetics of the Languages in China 2013. Hong Kong.
YIU S.Y. and Matthews S.J., Correlations between Tonality and Word Order Type, Association for Linguistic Typology 10th Biennial Conference (ALT 10) . Leipzig, Germany, University of Leipzig, 2013.
YIU S.Y., Musical intervals of tones in Cantonese English, In: Nick Campbell, Dafydd Gibbon and Daniel Hirst, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Speech Prosody. Dublin, Ireland, 2014.
YIU S.Y., Tone spans of Cantonese English, In: Carlos Gussenhoven, Yiya Chen and Dan Dediu, Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages. Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2014.
YIU S.Y., Understanding tones in Cantonese, LING7004 Phonetics and Phonology: Guest Lecture of University of Hong Kong. 2013.


Researcher : Yakpo K
Project Title:Asian language in diaspora: language contact & the development of the Indic languages of the Indian Ocean & the Caribbean
Investigator(s):Yakpo K
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:12/2013


List of Research Outputs

Borges R., Muysken P., Villerius S. and Yakpo K., Tense, mood, and aspect in Suriname, In: Borges, Robert, The life of language: dynamics of language contact in Suriname. LOT Publications, 2014.
Yakpo K. and Villerius S., Contact-induced developments in Sarnami and Surinamese Javanese, Creoles and Beyond: Creoles, Code-mixing, Heritage Languages, Ethnolects (University of Amsterdam). 2013.
Yakpo K. and Muysken P., Language change in a multiple contact setting: The case of Sarnami (Suriname), In: Buchstaller, Isabelle and Holmberg, Anders and Almoaily, Mohammad, Pidgins and Creoles beyond Africa-Europe encounters. Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2014, 101-140.
Yakpo K., Out of India: contact-induced change in Sarnāmi (Suriname), 35th Annual & 1st International Conference of Linguistic Society of India (Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore). 2013.
Yakpo K., Pichi, In: Michaelis, Susanne and Maurer, Philippe and Haspelmath, Martin and Huber, Magnus, The Survey of Pidgin and Creole Languages: English-based and Dutch- based languages. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013, 1: 194-205.
Yakpo K., Wayward daughter: Language contact in the emergence of Pichi (Equatorial Guinea), Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. De Gruyter, 2013, 34: 275-299.


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
Completion Date:03/2014


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., 2013 Southern Metropolis Daily Best Editions of Classics Award, 2013年度南方都市報古籍整理獎, Southern Metropolis Daily . 南方都市報, 2013.
Yang Y., A Tale of Two Manuscripts: The Making and Origins of the Earliest Scrolls of Qin Music, Acta Musicologica: Journal of International Musicological Society. Breikopf & Härtel, 2014, LXXXVI: 32-73.
Yang Y., Biannian kaocun qinshu jianbiao jieti [Explanatory Preface to Biannian kaocun qinshu jianbiao], 《編年考存琴書簡表》解題, Beijing, Zhonghua Shuju, 2013, vol. 2: 565-567.
Yang Y., Chinese Qin Zither in the Late Bronze Age, Hong Kong Baptist University. 2013.
Yang Y., Editor, 主编 , Guwu Wang Mengshu xiansheng qinxue yizhu [The Posthumous Works of Wang Mengshu (1887-1969)]. 古吳汪孟舒先生琴學遺著, Beijing, Zhonghua Shuju, 2013, 2 vols: 879+iii.
Yang Y., Lepu Qinshi jiao jieti [Explanatory Preface to Lepu Qinshi jiao], 《樂圃琴史校》解題, Guwu Wang Mengshu xiansheng qinxue yizhu [The Posthumous Works of Wang Mengshu (1887-1969)]. 古吳汪孟舒先生琴學遺著, Beijing, Zhonghua Shuju, 2013, vol. 1: 147-149.
Yang Y., Portrait on the Double Ninth: A Glimpse into the Recirculation of Twelfth-Century Literati Music in Eighteenth-Century Yangzhou, the 42nd ICTM (International Council for Traditional Music) World Conference. 2013.
Yang Y., Taiyin daquanji jiaozhu jieti [Explanatory Preface to Taiyin daquanji jiaozhu], 《太音大全集校注》解題, Guwu Wang Mengshu xiansheng qinxue yizhu [The Posthumous Works of Wang Mengshu (1887-1969)]. 古吳汪孟舒先生琴學遺著, Beijing, Zhonghua Shuju, 2013, vol. 1: 261-263.
Yang Y., Wusilan zhifashi jieti [Explanatory Preface to Wusilan zhifashi], 《烏絲欄指法釋》解題, Editor, Guwu Wang Mengshu xiansheng qinxue yizhu [The Posthumous Works of Wang Mengshu (1887-1969)]. 古吳汪孟舒先生琴學遺著, Beijing, Zhonghua Shuju, 2013, vol. 1: 3-4.
Yang Y., Wuzhizhai Zhuang Zhou mengdie yipu jieti [Explanatory Preface to Wuzhizhai Zhuang Zhou mengdie yipu], 《五知齋莊周夢蝶逸譜》解題, Guwu Wang Mengshu xiansheng qinxue yizhu [The Posthumous Works of Wang Mengshu (1887-1969)]. 古吳汪孟舒先生琴學遺著, Beijing, Zhonghua Shuju, 2013, vol. 1: 405-406.
Yang Y., Yaxuan qinpu jiaoduji jieti [Explanatory Preface to Yaxuan qinpu jiaoduji], 《雅軒琴譜校讀記》解題, Guwu Wang Mengshu xiansheng qinxue yizhu [The Posthumous Works of Wang Mengshu (1887-1969)]. 古吳汪孟舒先生琴學遺著, Beijing, Zhonghua Shuju, 2013, vol. 2: 509-510.
Yang Y., Yongle dadian yinyue shiliao jilu jieti [Explanatory Preface to Yongle dadian yinyue shiliao jilu], 《永樂大典音樂史料輯錄》解題, Guwu Wang Mengshu xiansheng qinxue yizhu [The Posthumous Works of Wang Mengshu (1887-1969)]. 古吳汪孟舒先生琴學遺著, Beijing, Zhonghua Shuju, 2013, vol. 2: 605-606.
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Researcher : Yau ECM
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:Visions of Identity: Global Film and Media (The 4th Annual London Studies 2014) (June 26-28, 2014); "Global and Transnational Idioms in Contemporary Chinese Cinema: A TOUCH OF SIN and AMERICAN DREAMS IN CHINA
Investigator(s):Yau ECM
Department:School of Humanities
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2014
Completion Date:06/2014




Researcher : Yee WLM
List of Research Outputs

Yee W.L.M., From the Personal to the Collective: Feeling Ann Hui's Summer Snow (1995)(Translated into Italian), In: Stefano Locati and Emanuele Sacchi, Il Nuovo Cinema Di Hong Kong: Voci e Sguardi Oltre L'handover. Milano, Edizioni Bietti, 2014, 356-357.
Yee W.L.M., Hong Kong's Liminal Spaces: Unveiling Nature and Identity in Tsang Tsui-shan's Big Blue Lake, In: John Hess Chuck Kleinhans Julia Lesage, Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media. Berkeley, Jump Cut Associates, 2013, 55.
Yee W.L.M., Temporalizing Urban Space: The Making of Place by Three Hong Kong Writers, In: Benjamin Fraser, Journal of Urban Cultural Studies. Great Britain, Intellect Ltd., 2014, 1.2: 295-303.


Researcher : Zamuner E
List of Research Outputs

Zamuner E. and O'Leary T.E., Co-editorship., In: Issue Editors: Timothy O'Leary and Edoardo Zamuner Journal Editor: Edward Minar, Philosophical Perspectives on Happiness. Edited issue of "Philosophical Topics". Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, The University of Arkansas Press, 2013, Forthcoming in 2013: NA.
Zamuner E., On Seeing Someone Else’s Happiness, In: Armindo Freitas-Magalhães, Emotional Expression: The Brain and The Face. 4rd Volume: Studies in Brain, Face and Emotion. Porto, Portugal, Universidade Fenando Pessoa, 2013, Forthcoming in September 2013.
Zamuner E., Di Lascio V. .E. and Levy D. .K., Wittgenstein's Lecture on Ethics. Chichester West Sussex, PO19 8SQ UK, Wiley Blackwell, 2013.


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
Completion Date:04/2014


Project Title:International Pragatics Association Conference; Negotiating the identities of allied healthcare professionals in the age of ‘superdiversity’ in healthcare/Exploring tensions between different levels of identity construction in the narratives of expatriates living and working in Hong Kong.
Investigator(s):Zayts OA
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:09/2013
Completion Date:09/2013


Project Title:Vicarious Narratives in Talk at Work in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Zayts OA
Department:School of English
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2014




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