HK INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITIES & SOC. SCI.



Researcher : Cao N

Project Title:108th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association Christian revival and the politics of morality in urban China
Investigator(s):Cao N
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:12/2009




Researcher : Cao NL

Project Title:108th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association Christian revival and the politics of morality in urban China
Investigator(s):Cao N
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:12/2009




Researcher : Chin JK

Project Title:Transnational Migration and Frontier History: Chinese Migrant Community of Kokang in Northern Myanmar
Investigator(s):Chin JK
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2011


Project Title:11th Annual World Family Business Research Conference Family Business and Chinese Immigrant Entrepreneurs on the Malay Peninsula: A Historical Perspective
Investigator(s):Chin JK
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2011




Researcher : Hamashita T

List of Research Outputs

Lee P.T. and Hamashita T., Series of Modern Asian Cities and Japan: Collection of Materials of Hong Kong as an Urban City. シリーズ・近代アジアの都市 と日本:香港都市案內集成, Tokyo, Yumani Shobo, 2014, 7-13.


Researcher : Leung A.K.C.

Project Title:the construction of nutritional knowledge in modern China (ca.1850-1950)
Investigator(s):Leung KCA
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2014


Project Title:Envisioning Modernity: Technology and the Making of East Asia: 19th-21st centuries (CRF)
Investigator(s):Leung KCA
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding for Incubating Group-based Collaborative Research Projects
Start Date:01/2015


List of Research Outputs



Researcher : Leung AKC

Project Title:the construction of nutritional knowledge in modern China (ca.1850-1950)
Investigator(s):Leung KCA
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2014


Project Title:Envisioning Modernity: Technology and the Making of East Asia: 19th-21st centuries (CRF)
Investigator(s):Leung KCA
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding for Incubating Group-based Collaborative Research Projects
Start Date:01/2015


List of Research Outputs



Researcher : Leung KCA

Project Title:the construction of nutritional knowledge in modern China (ca.1850-1950)
Investigator(s):Leung KCA
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2014


Project Title:Envisioning Modernity: Technology and the Making of East Asia: 19th-21st centuries (CRF)
Investigator(s):Leung KCA
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding for Incubating Group-based Collaborative Research Projects
Start Date:01/2015


List of Research Outputs

Leung K.C.A., Book review on Between Birth and Death: Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century China by Michelle T. King, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. United States, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015, 8 (No.2): 324-5.
Leung K.C.A., Book review on Imperial Contagions: Medicine, Hygiene, and Cultures of Planning in Asia, edited by Robert Peckham and David M. Pomfret, Technology and Culture. United States, John Hopkins University Press, 2014, 55 (October 2014): 1016-7.
Leung K.C.A., Book review on Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China: Great Transformations Reconsidered by Francesca Bray, East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal. Durham, Duke University Press, 2014, 9, No.3 (September 2015): 319-21.
Leung K.C.A., Globalizing Medicine in the Canton/Hong Kong Region in Late Qing China (1840-1911), Global China Lecture Series, Cambridge University, 14 May 2015. 2015.
Leung K.C.A., Japanese Medical Texts in Chinese on Kakké in the Tokugawa and Early Meiji Periods, In: Benjamin A. Elman, Antiquarianism, Language, and Medical Philology. Leiden, Brill, 2015, WAS 12: 163-185.
Leung K.C.A., Lecture on "The global circulation of a drug/spice in the longue durée: the story of Asafoetida/awei 阿魏", Advanced training program on “Inter-Asian Urbanity: Connections and Comparisons”, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 18-24 August 2014. 2014.
Leung K.C.A., Medicine in Ming-Qing Society, 明清社會中的醫學發展, In: Research Group of the History of Health and Healing(生命醫療史研究室), A New Chinese History: Volume on History of Medicine. 中國史新論:醫學史分冊, Taipei, Linking Publishing, 2015, 307-336.
Leung K.C.A., The honor of Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes académiques, French Ministry of National Education (Higher Education and Research). 2014.


Researcher : Li J

Project Title:Floods, Religion, and Trade: A Lost River Town in Late Imperial and Modern China
Investigator(s):Li J
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2014


Project Title:Making Religion, Making Local Society: The Social History of a Catholic Village in Northeast China
Investigator(s):Li J
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:03/2015


Project Title:Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2015 Annual Conference ; Floods, Religion, and Trade: A Lost River Town in Late Imperial and Modern Chongqing
Investigator(s):Li J
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2015




Researcher : Liu OY

Project Title:Does Southeast Asia Belong to China?: The Discourse of Southeast Asian Territory in Late Imperial and Early Republican China
Investigator(s):Liu OY
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:10/2014


Project Title:Chinas Southeast Asia: Territory, People, Civilization, and Europes Fear
Investigator(s):Liu OY
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:10/2014


List of Research Outputs

Liu O.Y., Between Competing Empires: Overseas Chinese and the Making of Nationality, HKIHSS departmental seminar. 2014.
Liu O.Y., Migrant connections and the reconceptualization of territorial belonging in the Sino-Southeast Asian maritime sphere, Connectivity in Southeast Asia. 2014.


Researcher : Mosca MW

Project Title:Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference Official Knowledge and the Knowledge of Officials: The Case of Qi-shi-yi
Investigator(s):Mosca MW
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2012




Researcher : Santos GD

Project Title:Intimate Modernities. Love, Money, and Everyday Ethics in the Hills of Guangdong, 1976-2014
Investigator(s):Santos GD
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:01/2015


Project Title:Technology, charitable benefaction, and humanitarian aid in contemporary China
Investigator(s):Santos GD
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2015


List of Research Outputs

Santos G.D., Do Flush Toilets Have Politics?, CEAS China Colloquium, Yale University. 2015.
Santos G.D., External Reviewer, Czech Science Foundation. 2014.
Santos G.D., External Reviewer, European Research Council. 2014.
Santos G.D., Invited Discussant, International Postgraduate Student Forum (Panel on Risk Society), Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Anthropology , International Postgraduate Student Forum, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Anthropology. Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2015.
Santos G.D., The logics of humanitarian care in contemporary China. The case of Guangdong Lions Club, International conference "Beyond the global care chain”, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, 10-12 July 2014, Halle/Saale . 2014.
Santos G.D., The shift to the flush toilet in the Chinese countryside: Theoretical reflections and challenges, In: Jacob Eyferth (Chicago) & Donald Harper (Chicago), Symposium “Text and Labor in Asian Agriculture”, Panel Two – Organizations. 2015.
Santos G.D. and Zhang J., “I give, I’m happy, I mature”: The making of middle-class subjectivities in contemporary China , The Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies. Chicago, USA, 2015.


Researcher : Trambaiolo DM

Project Title:Medical Commodities and Pharmaceutical Knowledge in Early Modern Japan
Investigator(s):Trambaiolo DM, Leung KCA
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:03/2014


List of Research Outputs

Trambaiolo D.M., The Languages of Medical Knowledge in Tokugawa Japan, In: Benjamin Elman, Rethinking East Asian Languages, Vernaculars, and Literacies, 1000–1919. Leiden, Brill, 2014.


Researcher : Wheeler CJ

Project Title:6th European Society for Environmental History Conference Boats, mobility and integration: Amphibious society in early modern Vietnam
Investigator(s):Wheeler CJ
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2011




Researcher : Wong WL

List of Research Outputs

Wong W.L., Making a productive home: how Chinese immigrant women "do family", In: Siumi Maria Tam, Wai Ching Angela Wong, and Danning Wang, Gender and Family In East Asia. London and New York, Routledge, 2014, 119-140.
Wong W.L., Writing Oral History in Hong Kong: People-Oriented Narratives of History, 香港口述歷史書寫:“以人為本”的歷史論述, Series of "Oral History". 《口述歷史》叢書, 2014.


Researcher : Zhang J

Project Title:From Canton to Guangzhou: Urban Renewal and Spatial Politics in a South China City
Investigator(s):Zhang J
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2014


Project Title:2015 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference; “I give, I feel happy, I mature!”: The making of humanitarian subjects in contemporary China
Investigator(s):Zhang J
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2015
Completion Date:03/2015


List of Research Outputs

Santos G.D. and Zhang J., “I give, I’m happy, I mature”: The making of middle-class subjectivities in contemporary China , The Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies. Chicago, USA, 2015.
Zhang J. and Sun P., "When Are You Going to Get Married?" Parental Matchmaking and Middle-class Women in Contemporary Urban China.", In: Davis, Deborah Friedman, Sara, Wives, Husbands, and Lovers: Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Urban China. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2014.
Zhang J., Driving for the Family: Ethical Negotiation in the Making of Middle Class in Urban China, Department of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2014.
Zhang J., Review: The Middle Class in Neoliberal China: Governing Risk, Life-Building, and Themed Spaces (by Hai Ren; Routledge 2013), Pacific Affairs. 2014, 87 (3).
Zhang J., The Rise and Fall of Qilou: Metamorphosis of Forms and Meanings in the Built Environment of Guangzhou., Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review. 2015, 26 (2): 25-40.


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