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 Fund 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 : Hirsh MB

Project Title:The Accommodation of Mobility: Housing Transient Populations in the Contemporary Asian City
Investigator(s):Hirsh MB
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:08/2014


Project Title:Serviced Apartments in Three Asian Hub Cities
Investigator(s):Hirsh MB
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:08/2015


Project Title:Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians; Transnational Housing Histories of the Pacific Rim
Investigator(s):Hirsh MB
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2016
Completion Date:04/2016


List of Research Outputs

Crawford M., Hirsh M.B. and Tang D.S.W., Panyu: Rural becoming Urban?, In: Aaron Betskey, Alfredo Brillembourg, Hubert Klumpner, Doreen Heng Liu, 2015 Shenzhen Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Architecture/Urbanism. 2015.
Hirsh M.B. and Hirsh M.B., Airport Urbanism: Infrastructure and Mobility in Asia. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2016, 232.


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., Charity, Medicine, and Religion: The Quest for Modernity in Canton (ca. 1870-1937), In: V. Goossaert, J. Kiely, and J. Lagerwey, Modern Chinese Religion II (1850-2015). Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2015, 2: 579-612.
Leung K.C.A., Glocalizing Medicine in the Canton Region in Late Qing China, 晚清廣州地區醫療文化的全球在地化, Sun Yat-sen University, 22 October 2015.. 中山大學文理醫融合拓 宽视野名師系列講座, 2015.
Leung K.C.A., Glocalizing Medicine in the Canton/ Hong Kong/Macau Region in Late Qing China, NYU Shanghai Center for Global Asia Lecture Series, NYU Shanghai, 8 March 2016. 2016.
Leung K.C.A., 光緒十三年(1887)『腳 氣芻言』建構腳氣症候 的「方」與「法」, Keynote speech at the International Conference on “The History of Material culture in Medicine”, The Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, 11-13 November 2015. 「醫學的物質文化史」 國際術研討會, 2015.
Leung K.C.A., To build or to reform vegetarian China in the Republican period, "素食中國"在民國時期的兩個意義, Fudan University, Shanghai, 9 March 2016. 2016.
Leung K.C.A., Were Daoist Immortals Pioneers of Immunology?, Public Lecture Series on History of Science in China, co-organized by the Education Bureau, Hong Kong Science Museum and East Asian History of Science Foundation (Hong Kong), 23 September 2015. . 2015.


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 Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2014
Completion Date:05/2016


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


List of Research Outputs

Li J., Translating the Daily Life: Faith, Language and Privacy in a Chinese Catholic Village, The Ninth International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 9). 2015.
Li J., Water, City and State: Jiangbeicheng in Nineteenth-Century Chongqing, The Third Conference of East Asian Environmental History (EAEH 2015). 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 Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:10/2014


Project Title:China’s Southeast Asia: Territory, People, Civilization, and Europe’s Fear
Investigator(s):Liu OY
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:10/2014
Completion Date:10/2016


List of Research Outputs

Liu O.Y., 'Foreign Asians' on the Move and the Politics of Inclusion in Dutch Indonesia, 1890-1920s, Race, Mobility, and Imperial Networks: Charting the Transnational-Asia Pacific World, 1800-2015.
Liu O.Y., Southeast Asia as China's 'Lost Territory', Southeast Asia Consortium: Intra-Asian Dynamics, Mobility of Ideas, and Intellectual Exchange in Southeast Asia. 2015.


Researcher : Lo KF

List of Research Outputs

Wong W.L. and Lo K.F., Memoryscape: Aberdeen Fishermen Oral Histories. 記憶景觀:香港仔漁民口述歷史, Hong Kong, Joint Publishing (H.K.) Co. Ltd., 2015.


Researcher : Luk YLC

List of Research Outputs

Luk Y.L.C., Biotech in Hong Kong: How Biologist-Entrepreneurs Pursued “Hong Kong’s Bioscience Dream”, In: Wen-Hua Kuo, East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal. Taiwan, Duke University, 2016, 10: 1-23.


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 : 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


List of Research Outputs

Nakayama I., Defining Infertility in Japan, 1880–1925, Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting . 2016.


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 Fund 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

Donner H. and Santos G.D., Love, Marriage, and Intimate Citizenship in Contemporary China and India: An Introduction., Modern Asian Studies (Special Issue “Love, Marriage, and Intimate Citizenship in contemporary China and India” edited by Henrike Donner and Gonçalo Santos). Cambridge, UK, University of Cambridge, 2016, 50 (4): 1123-1146.
Donner H. and Santos G.D., Special Issue: "Love, Marriage, and Intimate Citizenship in contemporary China and India.", Modern Asian Studies Volume 50, Special Issue 04. Cambridge, UK, University of Cambridge, 2016, 50 (4).
Santos G.D., "Flush toilet modernities. Emergent models in the Chinese countryside", Conference: "The Second life of Things" (Zürich, 25th-28th August 2015). 2015.
Santos G.D. and Zhang J., Birthing Dramas and Generational Narratives: Coping with Medicalization in Rural South China, 1960s-2010s”, Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), Double Panel: Rethinking Reproductive Technologies and Modernities. Pregnancy and Childbirth in East Asian Societies (Singapore, 22-26 June 2016). 2016.
Santos G.D., East Asian reflections on flush toilets, modernity, and technology in regional history, Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), Panel : “Making Modernity: Technology in Regional History" organized by Erik van der Vleuten (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven) and Francesca Bray (University of Edinburgh), Singapore 22-26 June 2016. Society for the History of Technology.
Santos G.D., On intimate choices and troubles in rural South China, Modern Asian Studies (Special Issue “Love, Marriage, And Intimate Citizenship In Contemporary China And India”). Cambridge, UK, University of Cambridge, 2016, 50 (4): 1298-1326.


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


Project Title:14th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia (ICHSEA); Understanding Epidemics in Early 19th Century Japan
Investigator(s):Trambaiolo DM
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2015
Completion Date:07/2015


Project Title:Japanese Understandings of Warm Epidemics (on’eki 温疫), 1700–1850: A Case Study of the Relationship between Epidemics and Medical Innovation in Early Modern Japan
Investigator(s):Trambaiolo DM
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2016


List of Research Outputs

Trambaiolo D.M., Senior Book Review Editor, Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity. 2016.


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., Doing Oral History In Hong Kong – Some Experiences, 香港口述歷史:經驗分享, Information Technology for Education Conference: Local Culture and Oral History. 第六屆信息技術與教育國際學術研討會----圖書館與口述歷史及地方文化, 2015, 255.
Wong W.L., Hong Kong Experience: The Construction of Oral History Archives and the Roles of Libraries, 香港經驗分享:口述歷史檔案庫的創建兼論圖書館的角色, In: 湖南圖書館, Library. 圖書館, Changsha, 湖南圖書館, 2015, 255: 10-14.
Wong W.L. and Lo K.F., Memoryscape: Aberdeen Fishermen Oral Histories. 記憶景觀:香港仔漁民口述歷史, Hong Kong, Joint Publishing (H.K.) Co. Ltd., 2015.


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 Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2014
Completion Date:04/2016


Project Title:Driving toward Modernity: The Car and Middle-Class Lives in Contemporary China
Investigator(s):Zhang J
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2016


Project Title:The 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology; “Birthing Dramas and Generational Narratives: Coping with Medicalization in Rural South China, 1960s–2010s”
Investigator(s):Zhang J
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2016
Completion Date:06/2016


List of Research Outputs

Santos G.D. and Zhang J., Birthing Dramas and Generational Narratives: Coping with Medicalization in Rural South China, 1960s-2010s”, Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), Double Panel: Rethinking Reproductive Technologies and Modernities. Pregnancy and Childbirth in East Asian Societies (Singapore, 22-26 June 2016). 2016.
Zhang J., (Extended) Family Car, Filial Consumer-Citizens: Becoming Properly Middle Class in Post-Socialist South China, Modern China. 2016.
Zhang J., Materializing a New Form of Governance: When Streets Building Intersected with State Building in the Early Twentieth-century Canton, China (a revised paper is currently under review), “Infrastructures: Provocations towards an Inter-disciplinary Dialogue” by Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore . 2015.


Researcher : Zhang LCL

Project Title:Association for Asian Studies 2016 Annual Meeting; Becoming Healthy: Changing Views on Tea in East Asia
Investigator(s):Zhang LCL
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2016




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