SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES & CULTURES



Researcher : Auer S

Project Title:Germany and the Crisis of the European Project
Investigator(s):Auer S
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2014


List of Research Outputs

Auer S., Der Maidan, die EU und die Rückkehr der Geopolitik [The Maidan and the Return of Geopolitics], In: Katharina Raabe and Manfred Sapper, Testfall Ukraine. Europa und seine Werte [The test case Ukraine: Europe and its values]. Berlin, Suhrkamp, 2015.
Auer S., Europe, Ukraine and the German Roots of the New Russian Geopolitics, Fifth International Symposium on European Languages in East Asia “Crises, Changes, and Chances: The European Conundrum”, October 24- 25, 2014.
Auer S., Holocaust als Fiktion: Von Andrzej Wajda bis Quentin Tarantino, In: Manfred Sapper, Volker Weichsel, Osteuropa. Berlin, Deutsche Gessellschaft für Osteuropakunde, 2014, 64: 103-114.
Auer S., The Limits Of Transnational Solidarity And The Eurozone Crisis In Germany, Ireland And Slovakia, In: Christian Schweiger Jose Magone, The Effects of the Eurozone Sovereign Debt Crisis: Differentiated Integration between the Centre and the New Peripheries of the EU. Routledge, 2015, Chapter 6.
Auer S., Ukraine between Europe and Russia and the Return of Geopolitics, Sino-European Strategic Dialogue, organized by CICIR (China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations) in collaboration with Asia Centre (Paris) and IHEDN. Beijing, 1-2 December 2014 . 2014.


Researcher : Blasco Garcia R

List of Research Outputs

Blasco Garcia R., Flash In The Pan Or Here To Stay? The Expansion Of The Teaching And Learning Of Spanish In Hong Kong, 2015 International Conference on Language Education and Studies. 2015.


Researcher : Borland JL

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


List of Research Outputs

Borland J.L., Building Resilience: Children, Schools and the Origin of Japan’s Disaster Preparedness, Aftershocks: Experiences of Japan’s Great Earthquake. 2014.


Researcher : Cha JJ

Project Title:The Retreat of the Korean Peninsula from the Medieval World System
Investigator(s):Cha JJ, Kim SY
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:04/2015


List of Research Outputs

Cha J.J., Digital / Humanities: New Media and Old Ways in South Korea, Asiascape. 2015, 2: 126-147.
Cha J.J., Rethinking the Rise of Confucianism in Medieval Korea, University of Hong Kong. 2014.
Cha J.J., The Birth of the Yangban, University of Hong Kong. 2015.
Cha J.J., The Origins of the Early Chosŏn State Ideology: A New Perspective, Princeton University. 2015.


Researcher : Chau LFK

List of Research Outputs

Wong H.W., Chau L.F.K. and Yau H.Y., To Be a Hong Kong Man is to Be a Feminized Man: Negotiating Manhood and Nationhood in the 1990s Hong Kong, Translating Chinese Masculinities: Chinese Men in Global Contexts. 2014.


Researcher : Chee WC

Project Title:Symposium on Creative Education; Beyond Creativity in Teaching and Learning: What Place Does Creativity Have in Assessment?
Investigator(s):Chee WC
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:10/2014
Completion Date:10/2014


Project Title:Mainland Chinese Students in Hong Kong and U.S. Higher Education – A Comparative Perspective
Investigator(s):Chee WC
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:11/2014


List of Research Outputs

Chee W.C., Beyond Creativity in Teaching and Learning: What Place Does Creativity Have in Assessment?, Symposium on Creative Education. 2014.
Chee W.C., Book Review: “Tibetanness” Under Threat? Neo-integrationism Minority Education and Career Strategies In Qinghai, P.R. China, Asian Anthropology. 2014, 13: 153-155.
Chee W.C., Challenges, Opportunities, and Transitions: Educational Aspirations of Ethnic Minority Youth in Hong Kong, Multiculturalism in Action 2014-2015, Nepali Culture Workshop: Social Marginalization, Discrimination & Empowerment. 2014.
Chee W.C., Navigating Islamic Enclosure and Cosmopolitan Space: Young Chinese Female Muslim Converts in Hong Kong, Religious Minorities in Asia. 2015.
Chee W.C., Overcast of Shadow: Private Tutoring for Public Exams, 2014 Annual Conference of the East Asian Anthropological Association. 2014.
Chee W.C., Panel Discussion: Meanings of Life and Identity in the Global Age, 7th Annual CUHK Anthropology Postgraduate Student Forum “Impacting the World: Emerging Voices of Asian Anthropology". 2015.
Chee W.C., The Perceived Role of Religion in the Educational Attainment of Pakistani Immigrant Secondary Students in Hong Kong, Asian Anthropology. 2015, 14: 33-42.
Chee W.C., Youth Aspirations and Challenges: Ethnic Minority Migrant Students in Hong Kong, American Anthropological Association (AAA) 113th Annual Meeting. 2014.
Chee W.C., ‘Lose at the starting line, win at the finishing line’: Beating Academic Adversity, Educational Resilience among Asian Children in Challenging Family Environment. 2015.
Chee W.C., ‘Senses’ of Belonging: The Senses of Culture and How We Make Sense of the World, Synesthesia Hong Kong. 2015.


Researcher : Chu YWS

Project Title:China-West Studies
Investigator(s):Chu YWS, Zhang XC
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding for Strategic Research Theme
Start Date:06/2013


Project Title:Beyond Co-productions: Toward a New Subjectivity of Hong Kong Cinema
Investigator(s):Chu YWS
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:12/2013


Project Title:The Sixth Asian Conference on the Arts and Humanities; Empowering Hong Kong Cinema in the Age of Co-Productions
Investigator(s):Chu YWS
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2015
Completion Date:04/2015


List of Research Outputs

Chu Y.W.S., "'Faces of Hong Kong': My City? My Home?", International Journal of Cultural Studies. London, Sage, 2015, Published online before print March 13, 2015.
Chu Y.W.S., "Between Postcolonialities: Hong Kong’s Postcolonial Writing Reconsidered", Siting Postcoloniality. 2015.
Chu Y.W.S., "Critical Geographies", In: Esther Cheung, Gina Marchetti and Esther Yau, A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema (London: Blackwell, 2015), 225-233.. 2015.
Chu Y.W.S., "HK-Styled Love in Local Pop Music", 香港式戀愛──從本土流行音樂看愛情, "Dialogues on New Vision" Lecture Series, IATC(HK). 對談新視野藝文沙龍講座系列 - 國際演藝評論家協會(香港分會), 2014.
Chu Y.W.S., "Hong Kong Studies as Method" (in Chinese), <香港(研究)作為方法>, 21st Century. <<二十一世紀>>, Hong Kong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2015, 147: 48-63.
Chu Y.W.S., "Johnnie To's 'Northern Expedition': From Milkyway Image to Drug War", Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. London, Rouledge, 2015, 16:2: 192-205.
Chu Y.W.S., "The Last Generation of Local Scholars?", <最後一代本土學者?>, In: Eva Man , Hong Kong Cantonese Culture (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Commercial Press, 2014), 252-262.. <<香港嘅廣東文化>>, 2014.
Chu Y.W.S., "Toward a New Hong Kong Cinema: Beyond Mainland-Hong Kong Co-productions", Journal of Chinese Cinemas. Oxon, Routledge, 2015, 9:2: 111-124.
Chu Y.W.S., An Egg and a Lamb: Cantopop Lyrics and Social Reality, 雞蛋與羔羊: 粵語流行歌詞與社會現況, Undergrad, Student Association, HKU. 學苑,香港大學學生會, 2014.
Chu Y.W.S., Cantopopsibility: Reflections on the Crisis of Cantopop as a Creative Industry, The First Global Creative Industries Conference, HKU. 2015.
Chu Y.W.S., <還有多少個十年>, City Print. Hong Kong, Student Association of City University of Hong Kong, 2015, 30.1: 102-103.
Chu Y.W.S., Empowering Hong Kong Cinema in the Age of Co-productions, The Sixth Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities, Osaka. 2015.
Chu Y.W.S., Life, Poems and Lyrics, 拉闊生活詩與詞, SHKP Reading Club, Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited. 「新閱會賞創營——拉闊生活」, 2014.
Chu Y.W.S., Lost in Transition and Beyond: Hong Kong Culture in the Age of China, Department of Chinese and History, City U. 2015.
Chu Y.W.S., Now and Then: Old Photos and Hong Kong Culture, 此時彼刻—香港舊照片與文化回顧, Strait Talk Hong Kong. 海峽尋新香港論壇, 2015.
Chu Y.W.S., The Aesthetics of Violence in Popular Music, Comparative Literature Association, HKU. 2015.
Chu Y.W.S., The Death of Cantopop, 香港粵語流行曲已死?, "Hong Kong Popular Culture Seminar Series 2014," Hong Kong Institute of Education. 2014.
Chu Y.W.S., The Demise of Cantopop Lyrics, 歌詞之死, School of Continuing Education, Hong Kong Baptist University. 2015.
Chu Y.W.S., The Last Generation of Local Scholars?, 最後一代本土學者?, "University Education" Series, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. 香港理工大學大學教育系列, 2014.
Chu Y.W.S., The Power of Songs: Protest Songs in Sunflower Movement and Umbrella Movement", "Parallel Texts, Intersecting Conversations" Series, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2015.
Chu Y.W.S., Ya Si and Hong Kong Studies, 也斯與香港研究, "Hong Kong and the World through Leung Ping Kwan" International Conference, Lingnan University. 2015.


Researcher : Cristaudo WA

Project Title:International and Pluridisciplinary Conference Bringing Back Character and Grammar: Freeing Literature from Philosophy and Theory
Investigator(s):Cristaudo WA
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2010


Project Title:Visiting Research Professors Scheme 2010-11
Investigator(s):Cristaudo WA
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Visiting Research Professors Scheme
Start Date:09/2010


Project Title:How Islam is Transforming Contemporary Europe
Investigator(s):Cristaudo WA
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:04/2011


Project Title:The End of Liberalism?
Investigator(s):Cristaudo WA
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2011




Researcher : Daglier U

List of Research Outputs

Daglier U., Comparative Democratization and Culture: Turkey’s Jacksonian Moment, Taiwan Journal of Democracy. Taiwan, Taiwan Foundation for Democracy, 2014, 10(1): 147-177.
Daglier U., Historical Consciousness Among the Converted Peoples in V. S. Naipaul's Islamic Writings, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. Taylor & Francis, 2014, 1-12.
Daglier U., Of Rage and Pride in V. S. Naipaul's AMONG THE BELIEVERS: AN ISLAMIC JOURNEY, The Explicator. UK & USA, Taylor & Francis, 2014, 72/4, 2014: 261-265.


Researcher : Fichter JR

Project Title:French, British and American Maritime Rivalry in Asia, 1870-1885
Investigator(s):Fichter JR
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2014


List of Research Outputs

Fichter J.R., Britain and France: Carbon Rivalry and Naval Power in the Gulf of Siam, 1870-1895, Among Empires: The British Empire in Global Imperial Context. 2015.
Fichter J.R., Imperial Interdependence on Indochina's Maritime Periphery: France in Singapore and Hong Kong, 1859-1895, French Colonial History Conference. 2015.


Researcher : Fiot G

List of Research Outputs

Fiot G., Meyer D.C., Iseli-Chan N.C., Li Y., Holtermann S. and Martinez V.J., "French Language and Culture, Introduction". Hong Kong, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Hong, 2014, 100 pp.


Researcher : Goddard TU

Project Title:Teito Tokyo: Imagining the Japanese Imperial Capital
Investigator(s):Goddard TU
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:02/2015


Project Title:Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference; Weng Nao's Tokyo Vagabonding
Investigator(s):Goddard TU
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2015
Completion Date:03/2015


List of Research Outputs

Goddard T.U., Memory as Cartography: Sata Ineko's "My Map of Tokyo", The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2015.
Goddard T.U., Weng Nao's Tokyo Vagabonding, Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. 2015.


Researcher : Gruenewald T

Project Title:Monuments, Memorials and Museums – Visual Narrative Strategies of Memory Spaces in the United States
Investigator(s):Gruenewald T
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:08/2014


List of Research Outputs

Gruenewald T., From Fan Activism to Graphic Narrative: Culture and Race in Gene Luen Yang’s Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Promise., In: Monica Chiu, Drawing New Color Lines: Transnational Asian American Graphic Narratives. . Hong Kong, HKU Press, 2014, 165-188.


Researcher : Holtermann S

List of Research Outputs

Fiot G., Meyer D.C., Iseli-Chan N.C., Li Y., Holtermann S. and Martinez V.J., "French Language and Culture, Introduction". Hong Kong, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Hong, 2014, 100 pp.
Holtermann S. and Meyer D.C., "French Language and Culture, Textes et Travaux - French III.1". School of Modern Languages and Cultures, HKU, 2014, 68 pp.
Holtermann S. and Meyer D.C., "French Language and Culture, Textes et Travaux - French III.2". School of Modern Languages and Cultures, HKU, 2014, 86 pp.


Researcher : Iseli-Chan NC

List of Research Outputs

Fiot G., Meyer D.C., Iseli-Chan N.C., Li Y., Holtermann S. and Martinez V.J., "French Language and Culture, Introduction". Hong Kong, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Hong, 2014, 100 pp.
Hu X., Lei C.U., Iseli-Chan N.C., Siu F.L.C. and Chu S.K.W., Access Moodle Using Mobile Phones: Student Usage and Perceptions, The International Mobile Learning Festival. 2015.


Researcher : Johnson KA

Project Title:The Image of Canton China in the National Romance of Early American Literature
Investigator(s):Johnson KA
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2011


Project Title:Publishing China: The First American Missionaries to China and Their Faith in the Printing Press
Investigator(s):Johnson KA
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:11/2012


Project Title:Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference; “Such a Sight You Never Saw”: Harriett Low’s Picturesque Language and the Romance of the Opium Trade
Investigator(s):Johnson KA
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2014


Project Title:Morse Codes in China: American Networks of Faith, Commerce and Telegraphy in Nineteenth-Century East Asia
Investigator(s):Johnson KA
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:01/2015


List of Research Outputs

Johnson K.A., Henry James and the China Trade, In: John N. Duvall, Modern Fiction Studies (MFS). Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014, 60: 677-710.
Johnson K.A., Reading for Contexts of American Orientalism from the Far East to the Far West, American Literary History (ALH). Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014, 25: 638-635.


Researcher : Kim LE

Project Title:A Native History of Early Modern Amuria
Investigator(s):Kim LE
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2013


Project Title:Centering Crossroads: Russian Culture and Local History in Northeastern China
Investigator(s):Kim LE
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2015


List of Research Outputs

Kim L.E., “A Garrison in Time Saves Nine: Frontier Administration and ‘Drawing In’ the Yafahan Orochen in Late Qing Heilongjiang.” , Journal of Chinese Military History . 2015, 4: 44-79.


Researcher : Kim SY

Project Title:Love and Family in Popular Culture in Modern Korea, 1906-1970
Investigator(s):Kim SY
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2013


Project Title:Production of Popular Fiction: Romance and Family Themes in Modern and Contemporary Korea
Investigator(s):Kim SY
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Start Date:12/2014


Project Title:The Asian Studies Conference Japan; Life on the Borderline as Cosmopolitan: Manchurian Popular Narratives in Colonial Korea
Investigator(s):Kim SY
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2015


List of Research Outputs

Kim S.Y., Life on the Borderline as Cosmopolitan? : Manchurian Popular Narratives in Colonial Korea, Association for Asian Studies Japan Conference. 2015.


Researcher : Lai Henderson S

Project Title:Defining America: New Writing, New Voices, New Directions; Mark Twain in China
Investigator(s):Lai Henderson S
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:09/2014
Completion Date:10/2014


Project Title:Mark Twain, Langston Hughes and the May Fourth Movement
Investigator(s):Lai Henderson S
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:02/2015


List of Research Outputs

Lai Henderson S., Associate Managing Editor, In: Editorial Board: SHELLEY FISHER FISHKIN, ALFRED HORNUNG, SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM, etc., Journal of Transnational American Studies. 2015.
Lai Henderson S., Mark Twain and the Chinese Connection, Centre for Humanities Research, Lingnan University of Hong Kong.. 2015.
Lai Henderson S., Mark Twain in China. California, Stanford University Press, 2015, 184.
Lai Henderson S., Mark Twain in China, Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford, Connecticut. 2015.
Lai Henderson S., Mark Twain in China, Transnational American Studies (Graduate Seminar), Stanford University. 2014.


Researcher : Levi JA

Project Title:The Third ABORNE Annual Meeting Border and Border Crossing in Lusophone Africa.
Investigator(s):Levi JA
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:09/2009




Researcher : Li Y

List of Research Outputs

Fiot G., Meyer D.C., Iseli-Chan N.C., Li Y., Holtermann S. and Martinez V.J., "French Language and Culture, Introduction". Hong Kong, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Hong, 2014, 100 pp.


Researcher : Martinez VJ

List of Research Outputs

Fiot G., Meyer D.C., Iseli-Chan N.C., Li Y., Holtermann S. and Martinez V.J., "French Language and Culture, Introduction". Hong Kong, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Hong, 2014, 100 pp.


Researcher : Meyer DC

List of Research Outputs

Fiot G., Meyer D.C., Iseli-Chan N.C., Li Y., Holtermann S. and Martinez V.J., "French Language and Culture, Introduction". Hong Kong, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Hong, 2014, 100 pp.
Holtermann S. and Meyer D.C., "French Language and Culture, Textes et Travaux - French III.1". School of Modern Languages and Cultures, HKU, 2014, 68 pp.
Holtermann S. and Meyer D.C., "French Language and Culture, Textes et Travaux - French III.2". School of Modern Languages and Cultures, HKU, 2014, 86 pp.
Meyer D.C., "Au Bord de l'Inde: Portraits d'Objets, d'icones et de Celebrites" . New Delhi, Goyal Publishers, 2014.
Meyer D.C., "L'Ici de l'Ailleurs et le Nous de Là-bas: La description du Japon de Luis Frois à Roland Barthes", Academia.edu, 2015.
Meyer D.C., Presentation of "Au Bord de l'Inde: Portraits d'Objets, d'Icones et de Celebrites" (2014), Conference series Pune, Goa, Mumbai, Bangalore. 2014.


Researcher : Mito A

List of Research Outputs

Mito A., Creative Writing for Pre-intermediate Learners of Japanese, Sydney-ICJLE(International Conference on Japanese Language Education). 2014.


Researcher : Nakano Y

Project Title:Japanese Memories in Hong Kong: Oral History Interviews with the Pioneers who Introduced Japanese Products and Services to Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Nakano Y
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:12/2011


List of Research Outputs

Nakano Y., Eating One’s Way to Sophistication Japanese Food, Transnational Flows and Social Mobility in Hong Kong, In: Yasemin Nuhoḡlu Soysal, Transnational Trajectories in East Asia: Nation, Citizenship, and Region. Oxford and New York, Routledge, 2014.
Nakano Y., Flying the National Costume: Early Japan Airlines Advertising in the U.S. and Hong Kong, 2013 Annual Meeting of the East Asian Anthropological Association . 2014.
Nakano Y., Flying with Madame Butterfly: Early Japan Airlines Advertising in the U.S. and Hong Kong, Global Japan Studies Lecture Series 7, Tokyo University . 2015.
Nakano Y., Furisode Sugata no "Suchuwadesu"?: 1954-nen Soratobu Nihon-bijin no Shikakenin-tachi ("Stewardesses" in Kimonos?: People Behind Japan Airlines' Orientalist Strategies in 1954) , Nihongaku Saizensen ("Japanese Studies at the Cutting Edge") Lecture Series 6, Faculty of Arts, Okayama University . 2014.
Nakano Y., Stories of "Made in Japan" in Hong Kong (No. 38 to 43), Hongkong Japanese Club. Hong Kong, Hongkong Japanese Club, 2014, Hong Kong bi-Monthly magazine of the Hongkong Japanese Club: 1 page articles.


Researcher : Nakayama I

Project Title:Be Polite, Be Healthy, Be Feminine: Gender, Body Culture, Etiquette, and Health in modern Japan
Investigator(s):Nakayama I
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:07/2014
Completion Date:08/2015




Researcher : Poch DT

Project Title:Ambiguous Sentiments: Ethical Negotiations of Human Feeling and the Production of Literature in Nineteenth Century Japan
Investigator(s):Poch DT
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:03/2015


Project Title:Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference; Sexual Desire, Amorous Sentiment, and the Production of Ethical Ambivalence in Bakin’s Nansô Satomi hakkenden
Investigator(s):Poch DT
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2015
Completion Date:03/2015


List of Research Outputs

Poch D.T., Emotion, Desire, and the Production of Literature across the Edo-Meiji Divide, International Symposium on New Horizons in Japanese Literary and Cultural Studies, Columbia University. 2015.
Poch D.T., Mediating between the Novel and Traditional Poetry: Sketch Prose (Shaseibun) and the Representation of Feelings in Turn-of-the-Century Japan, 14th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies, Ljubljana. 2014.
Poch D.T., Sexual Desire, Amorous Sentiment, and the Production of Ethical Ambiguity in Bakin’s Nansô Satomi hakkenden, Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago. 2015.
Poch D.T., “Emotionen schreiben über die Epochenschwelle: Verhandlungen von Literatur im Japan des langen 19. Jahrhhunderts” [Writing Emotions across the Epochal Divide: Negotiations of Literature in Japan’s Long Nineteenth Century], Invited Lecture at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies (Free University Berlin). 2015.
Poch D.T., “Mediating between the Novel and Traditional Poetry: Sketch Prose (Shaseibun) and the Representation of Feelings in Turn-of-the-Century Japan”, First International Conference Japón Interculturas, National University of La Plata, Buenos Aires. 2014.


Researcher : Swirski P

Project Title:Educating John Doe: Literature, Politics, Justice
Investigator(s):Swirski P
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:07/2008


Project Title:2009 Congress of the Humanities and the Social Sciences American City or Global Village?
Investigator(s):Swirski P
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:05/2009




Researcher : Teo VEL

Project Title:The Chinese Tango in Uncle Sam’s Backyard: Geopolitics, Strategic Partnerships and the China’s South-American Foray (1991-2010)
Investigator(s):Teo VEL
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2011


Project Title:Prospects and Challenges of Resolving the Senkaku / Diaoyutai Dispute: Perspectives from Japan, China and Taiwan
Investigator(s):Teo VEL
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:06/2013


Project Title:Haebangil Summer Forum cum Conference - DPRK; Lessons from China’s Modernization: Some Thoughts for North Korea's Development
Investigator(s):Teo VEL
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2014


List of Research Outputs

Teo V.E.L., Contexuallizing The Koreas Between China And Japan, In: Victor Teo and Lee Guen, The Koreas Between China and Japan. Newcastle, UK, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014, 209.
Teo V.E.L., The Democratic Peoples Republic Of Korea (dprk) In China’s And Japan’s Post Cold War Grand Strategy: Challenges And Prospects , In: Victor Teo and Lee Guen, The Koreas Between China And Japan. Newcastle, UK, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.


Researcher : Tesfaye F

Project Title:Colonial medical expeditions and the Scramble for Africa: Robert Koch in Africa 1883-1908
Investigator(s):Tesfaye F
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:03/2015


List of Research Outputs

Tesfaye F., Climate change & colonialism: Revisiting the scramble for Africa, Coping with Climate and Environment Changes in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. 2015.
Tesfaye F., Disease and Colonialism: Rinderpest & the Scramble for Africa, Animal Histories in Human Health: Comparative Perspectives from East Asia, 1850- 1950. 2015.
Tesfaye F., Faculty Research Award for Junior Tenure-Track Professoriate Staff, Faculty of Arts, The University of Hong Kong. 2015.
Tesfaye F., Murderous Identity categories: The Rwandan case, The Eighth Global Social Sciences Conference: Trans-disciplinary Approaches to Global Social Sciences. 2014.
Tesfaye F., Rwanda: Navigating deadly lines, After the Leviathan. 2014.
Tesfaye F., STATISTIQUE(S) ET GÉNOCIDE AU RWANDA: La genèse d'un système de catégorisation "génocidaire". Paris, L'Harmattan, 2014.
Tesfaye F., Writing for publication--book reviews and articles, Transferrable Skills. 2014.


Researcher : Vazquez Vazquez MM

List of Research Outputs

Vazquez Vazquez M.M., Moderator by invitation of a talk by Dr. Nora Parola ("Migration and Theatre," HKU Main Library, Book Talk Series). . 2014.


Researcher : Vogt CR

Project Title:Political parties, parliamentary dynamics, and leadership constellations in the conduct of German foreign and trade policy towards China
Investigator(s):Vogt CR
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:06/2014


List of Research Outputs

Albers M. and Vogt C.R., Business with Beijing, détente with Moscow: West Germany's China policy in a global context, 1969–1982, In: Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse, Cold War History. H-Diplo, 2015, 14: 237-257.
Vogt C.R., Driving with the Rearview Mirror? Historical analogies as templates for managing crises and transitions in the international order, After the Leviathan? About the Creation of Global Lines of Politics and Polity in and after the Age of Extremes, research conference, 23-24 October 2014, Hong Kong. 2014.
Vogt C.R., How to Keep China Interested in Europe, Nikkei Asian Review. Tokyo, Nikkei Inc, 2015, July 13-19: 56-57.


Researcher : Wong HW

Project Title:Manufacturing Subject for the State: Cultural Policies in Lee Teng-hui's Taiwan
Investigator(s):Wong HW
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2011


Project Title:The Cultural Policies in Taiwan in the 20th Century and their Relationships to the Formation of Modern Taiwanese Consciousness
Investigator(s):Wong HW
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:12/2013


Project Title:Consuming Extravagance: The Transformation of Hong Kong’s Jewellery Industry and the Formation of Consumer Society
Investigator(s):Wong HW
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:05/2014


Project Title:XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology; "Biographical Experience, Desires, and Interests: A Case Study of Individual Hong Kong Fans of Japanese Boy Love Comics"
Investigator(s):Wong HW
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2014
Completion Date:07/2014


List of Research Outputs

Wong H.W., Afterword, 编后记, Anthropological Studies. 人类学研究, 浙江, 浙江大学出版社, 2015, 231-232.
Wong H.W., Biographical Experience, Desires, and Interests: A Case Study of Individual Hong Kong Fans of Japanese Boy Love Comics, XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology: Facing an Unequal World--Challenges for Global Sociology. 2014.
Wong H.W., Cristaudo W.A.Y.N.E. and Sun Y.O.U.Z.H.O.N.G., Co-editor, In: Wong Heung Wah, Wayne Cristaudo and Youzhong Sun , Order and Revolt: Debating the Principles of Easter and Western Social Thought. California, USA, Bridge 21, 2014.
Wong H.W. and Maegawa K.E.I.J.I., Co-editor, In: Wong Heung Wah & Keiji Maegawa, Revisiting Colonial and Post-Colonial: Anthropological Studies of the Cultural Interface. 人类学研究, California, USA, Bridge 21, 2015.
Wong H.W. and Moeran B., Creative Engagements and Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to the Study of Business, Journal of Business Anthropology. Denmark, CBS, 2014, 3(2): 136-139.
Wong H.W. and Yau H.Y., Japanese Adult Videos in Taiwan and Hong Kong, Routledge Handbook of Sexuality Studies in East Asia. Oxon and New York, Routledge, 2014, 414-426.
Wong H.W., On Entrepreneurship In Creative Industries, A Lecture organized by the director of UNlimited Institute, Hong Kong at The University of Hong Kong.. 2015.
Wong H.W. and Moeran B.R.I.A.N., Special Issue co-editor on Creative Engagements and Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to the Study of Business, In: Brian Moeran, Journal of Business Anthropology. Denmark, CBS, 2014.
Wong H.W., Studying Cross-Cultural Migration of Cultural Goods as A historical Event: Reflections on Yaohan’s Venture in Hong Kong, 将商品跨文化迁移当作历史事件研究--对八百半进军中国香港地区案例的一些评论, Anthropological Research. 人类学研究, 浙江, 浙江大学出版社, 2015, 6: 1-40.
Wong H.W., The Prison House of Disciplines or Is Business Anthropology as a Discipline Possible?, a forum to mark the retirement of Professor K. Hioki of Kyoto University at Kyoto University, Japan.. 2015.
Wong H.W., The Role of Culture in the Study of Business, Journal of Business Anthropology. Denmark, CBS, 2015, 4(1): 144-150.
Wong H.W. and Yau H.Y., There is no simple Japanization, Creolization or Localization: Some Reflections on the Cross-cultural Migration of Japanese Popular Culture to Hong Kong, Revisiting Colonial and Postcolonial: Anthropological Studies of the Cultural Interface. California, USA, Bridge 21, 2015, 39-68.
Wong H.W., Chau L.F.K. and Yau H.Y., To Be a Hong Kong Man is to Be a Feminized Man: Negotiating Manhood and Nationhood in the 1990s Hong Kong, Translating Chinese Masculinities: Chinese Men in Global Contexts. 2014.
Wong H.W. and Yau H.Y., Two or Three Things that I Know about Boundary or The Implications of Anthropological Study of Ethnicity to Political Science: Taiwan as an Example, After the Leviathan? About the creation of global lines of politics and polity in and after the age of extremes. 2014.
Wong H.W., Two or Three Things that I Know about Chinese Kinship, Continuity and Change of Chinese Culture: Family, Ethnicity and State Under Globalization. 2014.
Wong H.W., What is Culture? A Systematic Defense of Anthropology, Monthly Lecture organized by Association of Anthropology at Tsukuba University, Tsukuba University, Tokyo, Japan.. 2015.
Wong H.W. and Yau H.Y., When Japanese Adult Videos Meet the Chinese Sexual Desires: the cultural theories of gender, sexuality and pornography. 當日本A片遇上華人慾 望:性別、性相、色情 品的文化理論, Taipei, Taiwan, Airiti Press, 2015.


Researcher : Wong JDO

Project Title:The business of eating, drinking and shopping: A transnational business history in the Pearl River Delta and ports of the South China Sea
Investigator(s):Wong JDO
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2014


List of Research Outputs

Wong J.D.O., The Shifting Concept of Space and Territory in the Warring States Era., Asia Major.. 2015, 28:1: 1-35.


Researcher : Wu Y

List of Research Outputs

Lee P.T. and Wu Y., Image And Commercial Culture: An Analysis Of Modern Chinese Advertising. 圖像與商業文化──分析中 國近代廣告, Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2014, 248.


Researcher : Yorozu M

Project Title:A study on motivation and learning strategies
Investigator(s):Yorozu M
Department:Japanese Studies
Source(s) of Funding:Other Funding Scheme
Start Date:04/2001


List of Research Outputs

Yorozu M., Chinese Learners of Japanese in Hong Kong, Symposium of Reciprocal Second Language Education in a Borderless Age: Creating Polycentric Language Learning Environments. 2015.
Yorozu M., Online Simulation: Japanese Language Learning Linking Hong Kong, Beijing, and Melbourne, Symposium of Reciprocal Second Language Education in a Borderless Age: Creating Polycentric Language Learning Environments. 2015.
Yorozu M., Where We Are and Where We Are Going: Survey on Articulation in Japanese Language Education--Tertiary-level Exchange Programmes, INternational Conference on Japanese Language Education, Sydney. 2014.


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