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 Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2014
Completion Date:02/2016


Project Title:22nd International Conference of Europeanists, Contradictions: Envisioning European Futures; German Geopolitics in and towards Putin’s Russia
Investigator(s):Auer S
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2015
Completion Date:07/2015


List of Research Outputs

Auer S., Can the Centre Hold in our Domestic Political System?, 12th Annual European Seminar at the European Cultural Centre in Delphi, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, Greece. 2015.
Auer S., Can the Centre Hold in our Domestic Political Systems?, The EU and its Discontents: Is the European Project sustainable and/or adaptable? 12th European Seminar, Delphi, Greece, 10-13 September. 2015.
Auer S., Carl Schmitt in the Kremlin: Germany, Russia and the Return of Geopolitics, UACES 45th Annual Conference, Bilbao, Spain. 2015.
Auer S., Carl Schmitt in the Kremlin: the Ukraine crisis and the return of geopolitics, International Affairs. Chatham House, 2015, 91: 953-968.
Auer S., From the Single European Act to EU’s Sovereignty Paradox, European Union Studies Association Asia Pacific Annual Conference 2016: "30 Years after the Single European Act", 29-30 June 2016, Hong Kong. 2016.
Auer S., German Geopolitics in and Towards Putin's Russia, 22nd Council for European Studies Conference, Sciences Po, Paris. 2015.
Auer S., Havel: a life. By Michael Zantovsky., International Affairs. Chatham House, 2015, 91: 1431-1432.
Auer S., The new intergovernmentalism: states and supranational actors in the post-Maastricht era. Edited by Christopher J. Bickerton, Dermot Hodson and Uwe Puetter, International Affairs. 2016, 92: 476-478.
Auer S., Will the centre hold? Germany, Ireland and Slovakia and the crisis of the European project, In: José M. Magone, Brigid Laffan and Christian Schweiger , Core-periphery Relations in the European Union: Power and conflict in a dualist political economy. 2016, 72-86.


Researcher : Blasco Garcia R

List of Research Outputs

Blasco Garcia R., Is E-mail An Effective Tool For Telecollaboration? An Exchange Between Chinese And Spanish Students, APVEA (Asia-Pacific Virtual Exchange Association) Conference - 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


Project Title:9th International Convention of Asia Scholars; Heart and Lungs of the New Imperial Capital: Parks and Green Space in Reconstructed Tokyo
Investigator(s):Borland JL
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2015
Completion Date:07/2015




Researcher : CAI Q

List of Research Outputs

CAI Q., Carlsberg Foundation Grant 2015, Carlsberg Foundation, University of Copenhagen. 2016.
CAI Q., Gender and Power Inside and Outside Kitchens: A Historical Analysis of the Origin of Shanghai 'Apron Husbands', 2015 Graduate Food Studies Conference-The Future of Food Studies, Harvard University. 2015.


Researcher : CHAN WK

List of Research Outputs

CHAN W.K., Crave for Hauntings: Horror as Popular Cultural Empowerment, Symposium on “East Asian Popular Culture: Looking Back, Looking Forward”, Hong Kong Institute of Education. 2016.
CHAN W.K., Mythicizations of the Nationless: Hong Kong Spectral Temporality, Tamkang Review, Volumn 46 Number 1 (2015/12/01), 49-74 . 2015.


Researcher : CHANG CF

List of Research Outputs

CHANG C.F., PhD Graduate Thesis, An Anthropological Study of A Japanese Advertising Production Company, University of Hong Kong. 2015.


Researcher : CUI T

List of Research Outputs

CUI T., PhD Graduate Thesis, Chinese Fashion Education: Teaching Designers in the People's Republic of China, University of Hong Kong. 2016.


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
Completion Date:07/2016


Project Title:AKSE Biennial Conference 2015; The Retreat of the Korean Peninsula from the Medieval World System
Investigator(s):Cha JJ
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2015
Completion Date:07/2015


List of Research Outputs

Cha J.J., DHAsia Short-term Fellowship, Stanford University. 2016.
Cha J.J., Intellectual History and Computing: Modeling and Simulating the World of the Korean Yangban, Stanford DHAsia. 2016.
Cha J.J., Intellectual History and Text Analytics, Kyujanggak International Symposium. 2015.
Cha J.J., The Digital Turn in Korean Studies, Korean Studies Summer Lectures for Graduate Students at Seoul National University. 2015.
Cha J.J., The Retreat of the Korean Peninsula from the Medieval World System, AKSE Biennial Conference. 2015.
Cha J.J., To Build a Centralizing Regime: Yangban Aristocracy and Medieval Patrimonialism, In: Cha, Javier, Bridging Korea Old and New: Re-Periodizing the History of Korea for a Global Age. 2016.
Cha J.J., Visualization and Analysis of Korean Genealogical Data using Cytoscape, Stanford DHAsia Hands-On Clinic. 2016.


Researcher : Chau LFK

List of Research Outputs

Wong H.W., Chau L.F.K. and Yau H.Y., Colonialism, Cultural Policies, and Hong Kong Identity, the 11th Annual Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong,: Japan, Hong Kong, Asian and Alternative Modernities, Kobe University. 2016.
Wong H.W., Chau L.F.K. and Pan L., Editor of a book, In: Lu, Pan, H. W. Wong, and Karin L. F. Chau, Politics and Aesthetics of Creativity: City, Culture, and Space in East Asia. Calif. USA, Bridge 21, 2015.
Wong H.W., Chau L.F.K. and Lu P., Preface, Politics and Aesthetics of Creativity: City, Culture and Space in East Asia. Calif. USA, Bridge 21, 2015, 11-15.
Wong H.W. and Chau L.F.K., Publishing Colonialism: A Case Study of the Hong Kong Annual Report, In: T. Tanikawa, H. W. Wong and Sudo Noriko, The Creative Industries in East Asia: Politics of Culture. Tokyo, Shinwasha, 2015, 139-176.
Wong H.W. and Chau L.F.K., Tradition and Transformation: TSL and the Evolving Chinese Family Business, the 11th Annual Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong,: Japan, Hong Kong, Asian and Alternative Modernities, Kobe University. 2016.


Researcher : Chee WC

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 Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:11/2014


Project Title:American Anthropological Association 114th Annual Meeting: "Familiar Strange"; Local and Global, but Not National: Citizenship Education of South Asian Migrant Students in Post-Colonial Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Chee WC
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2015
Completion Date:11/2015


Project Title:A Longitudinal Study of Mainland Chinese and South Asian Teenage Immigrant Students in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Chee WC
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:12/2015


List of Research Outputs

Chee W.C., Celebrating Cultural Diversity in a Multi-ethnic School in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Discovery, 2015, 91: 56-61.
Chee W.C., Disengaging Multiculturalism, Hong Kong Keywords: A Vocabulary of Hong Kong Theory, organized by the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, the University of Hong Kong. 2016.
Chee W.C., Embodiment and Representation of Islamic Enclosure and Cosmopolitan Identities: Young Chinese Female Muslim Converts in Hong Kong, World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) 2015 Inter-Congress. 2015.
Chee W.C., Local and Global, but Not National: Citizenship Education of South Asian Migrant Students in Post-Colonial Hong Kong, American Anthropological Association (AAA) 114th Annual Meeting. 2015.
Chee W.C., Ritual Space as an Evolving Process, AAS­-in-­ASIA 2016 Conference, “Asia in Motion: Horizons of Hope,” organized by the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and Doshisha University. 2016.
Chee W.C., Single-Parent, ‘Double-Nots’: Hong Kong-Born Mainland Children, 9th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS). 2015.
Chee W.C., The Quest for Transnational Mobilities and Professional Knowledge, The World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) 2016 Inter-Congress, “World Anthropologies and Privatization of Knowledge: Engaging Anthropology in Public”. 2016.
Chee W.C., ‘Lived Secularization’: Young Chinese Female Muslim Converts in Hong Kong, Secularisms and the Formations of Religion in Asia, organized by Nanyang Technological University. 2016.
Mathews G. and Chee W.C., Detaining the Immigrant Other in Hong Kong, In: Rich Furman, Douglas Epps, and Greg Lamphear, Detaining the Immigrant Other: Global and Transnational Issues. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 105-116.


Researcher : Chong L

List of Research Outputs

Chong L., HKU Faculty of Arts Teaching Excellence Award, Faculty of Arts The University of Hong Kong. 2015.
Chong L., Gender Imbalance & HKU Retirement Policy: A Case Study on the Impact of Compulsory Retirement , Asia-Pacific Women in Leadership (APWiL) Policy Round Table on Gender Equity at HKU. 2016.
Chong L., Goethe-Institute German Teachers’ Scholarship, Goethe Institute Hong Kong. 2016.
Chong L., HKU Faculty of Arts Gender Task Force Recommendations on Hiring Retention and Promotion, HKU Faculty of Arts Gender Task Force Forum . 2016.
Chong L., Report on Gender Action Strategies At Tertiary Educational Institutions Around the World , HKU Faculty of Arts Gender Task Force. 2016.


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 Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:12/2013


Project Title:Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2016 Annual Conference; “On Speaking (up for) Cantonese and/as Hong Kong Cultural Identity”
Investigator(s):Chu YWS
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2016
Completion Date:04/2016


List of Research Outputs

Chu Y.W.S., "A Taste of Hong Kong Culture", HKU Taster @ Easter 2016. 2016.
Chu Y.W.S., "Always on My Mind: A Lyrical Account of Hong Kong Cantopop", 〈念念不忘:詞話香港粵語流行曲〉, Department of Chinese and History, City University of Hong Kong. 2016.
Chu Y.W.S., "Hong Kong Cultural and Creative Industries Reconsidered: Pop Music as Example", 〈香港文化創意產業再思:以流行音樂為例〉, Twentieth-First Century. 《二十一世紀》, Hong Kong, Institute of Chinese Studies, CUHK, 2016, 153: 95-109.
Chu Y.W.S., "Hong Kong through Cantopop", 〈從粵語流行曲歌詞細看香港〉, Hong Kong Book Fair, Hong Kong Trade Development Council. 2015.
Chu Y.W.S., "Karaoke and Hong Kong Popular Songs", Initium Media. 2016.
Chu Y.W.S., "Lin Xi and the Hong Kong He Loves", 〈是有種詞人:林夕和他所(痛)愛的香港〉, "Hong Kong Literature in the Past Two Decades," City University of Hong Kong. 近二十年香港文學學術研討會, 香港城市大學, 2016.
Chu Y.W.S., "Once upon a Time: Lyrics X Theatre X Roots of Love", 《殞石旁的天際》, Theatre Ronin. 2016.
Chu Y.W.S., "The Sinophone as a Method for Hong Kong", "Sinophone Hong Kong: Issues and Debates," Hong Kong Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences. 2015.
Chu Y.W.S., "While Hong Kong Still Has Cantopop", 〈趁香港還有廣東歌〉, Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education. 2016.
Chu Y.W.S., "Who Speaks for the Lion Rock? Pro-Cantonese Campaign (or Lack Thereof) in Hong Kong", Civil Unrest Workshop, Faculty of Law, HKU. 2016.
Chu Y.W.S., “Five Senses: Body, Mind and Soul”, <五感身心靈>, City Magazine Forum, Eslite Bookstore. <<號外>>, 2016.
Chu Y.W.S., “In Dialogue with Chan Koon-chung”, <與陳冠中對話>, Sentimental K – Adapted from Hong Kong Trilogy by Chan Koon-chung , Theatre Ronin, Hong Kong Cultural Centre. 浪人劇場《裸「言泳」無邪》-改編自陳冠中《香港三部曲》., 2015.
Chu Y.W.S., “On Speaking (up for) Cantonese as Hong Kong Cultural Identity”, Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference 2016, Seattle. 2016.


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


Project Title:Ecrire l’histoire de l’empire et de la postcolonie : dialogues franco-britanniques; The Navy in the Empire: Naval Sources and Imperial History
Investigator(s):Fichter JR
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:10/2015


Project Title:Mirror Empires, Linked Histories: British and French Imperialism from the 17th to Twentieth Centuries
Investigator(s):Fichter JR
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:France/Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme - Conference/Workshop Grants
Start Date:01/2016
Completion Date:12/2016


List of Research Outputs

Fichter J.R., Imperial Interdependence on Indochina's Maritime Periphery France in Sri Lanka, Singapore and Hong Kong, 1859-1895, Connected Histories, Mirrored Empires: British and French Imperialism from the 17th through the twentieth centuries. 2016.
Fichter J.R., New methodological directions: archives and sources half a century after the end of empire, Writing Imperial and Postcolonial History: Franco-British Dialogues Historiographical conversations under the auspices of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (UK) and Outre-Mers, Revue d’histoire (France). 2015.
Fichter J.R., “The Relationship between Tea Advertising and Tea Essays in Colonial Newspapers, 1774-1776: What Tea Was and What It Should Be.”, Propaganda, Persuasion, the Press and the American Revolution, 1763-1783. 2016.


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 Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:02/2015
Completion Date:02/2016




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 Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:08/2014
Completion Date:09/2016


Project Title:Traumatic Histories and the National Imagination: Narrative Construction in U.S. National Memorial Museums
Investigator(s):Gruenewald T
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:07/2015
Completion Date:11/2015


List of Research Outputs

Gruenewald T., Superhero Films after 9/11: Mitigating “Collateral Damage” in the Marvels Cinematic Universe., Imperial Benevolence: U.S. Foreign Policy in American Popular Culture, The University of Hong Kong. 2016.
Gruenewald T., The Real China: Manufacturing Tropes About Mainland China in U.S. Documentaries., China in Foreign Eyes, The University of Hong Kong. 2016.
Gruenewald T., Victims of Terror and the Nation: Nationalism and the September 11 Memorial & Museum, Beijing Foreign Studies University. 2016.


Researcher : HA MY

List of Research Outputs

HA M.Y., Diversified Cultural Intermediates Importing Foreign Popular Culture to Hong Kong, International Academic Forum, The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies, Kobe, Japan. 2016.
HA M.Y., From 'City of Sky' to 'Ring'- the success of Japanese Movie Entertainment Culture in HK, Symposium of East Asian Popular Culture/Faculty of Humanities, Hong Kong Institute of Education. 2016.
HA M.Y., Globalization in Media: Hong Kong vs Korea, Symposium Lecture guest speaker for students of Kookmin University of Korea, Korea. 2016.
HA M.Y., Localism and Globalism: Role of Agents for transformation of Popular Culture, IUAES Inter-Congress 2015, Re-imagining Anthropological and Sociological Boundaries, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand. 2015.
HA M.Y., Media goes globalization & personalization, Graduation Project course, BA (Hons) in creative writing for Film, Television & New Media, Academy of Film, School of Communication, HKBU. 2015.
HA M.Y., Where Do I Begin ? The Role of Intermediates in the Spread of Japanese Pop Music to HK in 1980s, The Eleventh Annual Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong: Japan, Hong Kong, Asia and Alternative Modernities, Kobe University, Japan. 2016.


Researcher : HU E

List of Research Outputs

HU E., From hygienic salvation to national salvation: how Yenching educational missionaries reoriented the intellectual gospel, 2016 Yale-Edinburgh Conference on the History of Missions and World Christianity, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. 2016.
HU E., The Gospel of Intellectuality: Indoctrinating Yenching Educational Missionaries in the Progressive Era, The Mission of Development: Religion and Techno-politics in Asia, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. 2015.


Researcher : Holtermann S

List of Research Outputs

Holtermann S. and Meyer D.C., "French Language and Culture, Textes et Travaux". School of Modern Languages and Cultures, HKU, 2015, 146 pp.


Researcher : Iseli-Chan NC

List of Research Outputs

Hu X., Lei C.U., Li J., Iseli-Chan N.C., Siu F.L.C. and Chu S.K.W., Access Moodle Using Mobile Phones: Student Usage and Perceptions, In: Daniel Churchill, Jie Lu, Thomas K.F. Chiu, Bob Fox, Mobile Learning Design: Theories and Application. Singapore, Springer, 2015, 155-171.


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
Completion Date:10/2015


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 Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:01/2015


Project Title:Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference; Picturing the Extraterritorial Graveyard: The Visual Aesthetics of Free Trade Imperialism in Commodore Perry's *Narrative of the Expedition*
Investigator(s):Johnson KA
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2016


Project Title:The Social History of United States Diplomacy in China from Anson Burlingame to James B. Angell, (1861-1881)
Investigator(s):Johnson KA
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2016


List of Research Outputs

Johnson K.A., "Legacies of Ginseng and the Continental Drifts of Early National Commerce," Propaganda, Persuasion, the Press and the American Revolution, 1763-1783", Thomas Jefferson Foundation (Virginia, USA) / American Studies at the University of Hong Kong. 2016.
Johnson K.A., "Once Upon a Time in 1784: National Biography and the American Quest for Free Trade in China" , China and Global Modernity, 1784-1919, Sun Yat-sen University. 2016.
Johnson K.A., "Picturing the Extraterritorial Graveyard: The Visual Aesthetics of Free Trade Imperialism in Commodore Perry’s Narrative of the Expedition (1856)", Association for Asian Studies, Seattle, Washington. 2016.
Johnson K.A., "Sacred Fonts and the American Revival of the Silk Road: Printing Mongolian in the Chinese Repository", International Symposium of Macao, Hong Kong and 'Silk Road on the Sea' in Global Perspective, Jinan University (Guangzhou). 2015.
Johnson K.A., "Surviving Imperialism in The Revenant (2015)", Fulbright Conference: Benevolent Imperialism: Foreign Policy in American Popular Culture," University of Hong Kong. 2016.
Johnson K.A., "Thomas DeQuincey, Free Trade, and the Anxious Evangelism of Extraterritorial Printing: Revising President John Quincy Adams's "Lecture on the War with China" (1841) for The Chinese Repository", The Victorians and the Democratic Imagination," School of English, University of Hong Kong. 2016.
Johnson K.A., “Captivity Narratives” , Oxford Bibliographies in “American Literature". New York, Oxford University Press, 2016, 1-50.


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:International Conference on Water Management and Politics in Arid Regions of China, Eurasia and the Middle East (16th-20th centuries)
Investigator(s):Kim LE
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Hsu Long Sing Research Fund
Start Date:01/2015


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 Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2015


Project Title:Telling History in Native Time: Exhibiting Orochen Culture in an Experiential Context
Investigator(s):Kim LE, Knothe F
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Louis Cha Fund
Start Date:02/2016


List of Research Outputs

Kim L.E., "Development of Manchuology in Korea-Take Korean Translation of Manju I Yargiyan Kooli as an Example" (journal's official translation, not author's translation), 韓國滿學的演變面貌:以《滿洲實錄》韓譯為例, In: 丁立群, Manchu Studies. 滿語研究, Harbin, 2015, 61: 69-74.
Kim L.E. and Wong S.H.R., "Discovering the Past through Data: Promoting the Design and Analysis of Original Data-sets in History Undergraduate Courses in Hong Kong", International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning. Taylor & Francis, 2016.
Kim L.E. and Tam E.S.Y., Student Co-Teaching to Foster Learning Autonomy: A Case Study in an Undergraduate History Classroom in Hong Kong , The History Teacher. 397-417, 2016, 49.3.
Sivan A., Tam V.C., Hu A., Chan D.W.K., Leung A.Y.L., Chaudhuri T., Chow B.C., Hung S.S.L., Kim L.E., Mah D.N.Y., Shroff R.H. and Wong O.M., Designing and Implementing a Two-Level Community of Practice Project to Develop a Teaching Portfolio Framework, Learning Communities Journal. 2016, 8.2: 51-69.


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 Fund 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


List of Research Outputs

Kim S.Y., Intermarriage: Assimilation or Just Another Romance Story?, Workshop on Nation, Gender, and Genres: Literature and Film from Taiwan and Korea, 1930s960s. 2015.
Kim S.Y., Kim Naesŏng and his Postcolonial Genre Hybridity, Workshop on Nation, Gender, and Genres: Literature and Film from Taiwan and Korea, 1930s960s. 2015.
Kim S.Y., Manchurian Popular Narratives and Gender in Colonial Korea, 27th Association of Korean Studies in Europe (AKSE) Conference, 2015.
Kim S.Y., peer review for an article submission to Concentric: Literary & Cultural Studies, Concentric: Literary & Cultural Studies. 2016.


Researcher : LEUNG KY

List of Research Outputs

LEUNG K.Y., Grassroot Politics in Hong Kong Independent Music-Cases of My Little Airport and Wong Hin Yan, The Eleventh Annual Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong: Japan, Hong Kong, Asia and Alternative Modernities, Kobe University, Japan. 2016.
LEUNG K.Y., Nostalgia and the Intangible Dream - Political Perssimism in Hong Kong Popular Music in the Millenniums, The Second Global Creative Industries Conference: From Global to Local and Vice Versa, Kobe University, Japan. 2016.


Researcher : Lai Henderson S

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 Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:02/2015
Completion Date:01/2016


Project Title:Modern Language Association’s 2016 International Symposium, Other Europes: Migrations, Translations, Transformations ; Langston Hughes, Paris, and Shanghai
Investigator(s):Lai Henderson S
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2016
Completion Date:06/2016


List of Research Outputs

Lai Henderson S., From Mark Twain to Langston Hughes in China, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. 2016.
Lai Henderson S., Langston Hughes in Shanghai, Columbia University. 2016.
Lai Henderson S., Langston Hughes: Paris, Harlem, and Shanghai, MLA International Symposium. 2016.


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 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., "sacred Heart" And The Appropriation Of Catholic Faith In Nineteenth-century China, In: Gang Song, Reshaping the Boundaries: The Christian Intersection of China and the West in the Modern Era. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2016.


Researcher : Martinez VJ

List of Research Outputs

Martinez V.J., Co-constructing East and West : towards intercultural competences? An example of research on academic mobility in Hong Kong. . Turku, Humanoria, 2015, 413: 249.


Researcher : Meyer DC

List of Research Outputs

Holtermann S. and Meyer D.C., "French Language and Culture, Textes et Travaux". School of Modern Languages and Cultures, HKU, 2015, 146 pp.
Meyer D.C., "La Chine daguerréotypée de Balzac: Entre Désenchantement et Instrumentalisation" , Groupe International de Recherches Balzaciennes. 2015.
Meyer D.C., « Du Local au Global », In: Société Japonaise de Didactique du Français:, Colloque International, "L'Enseignement du français en Asie de l'Est à l'heure de la glocalisation", University Seinan Gakuin, Fukuoka, Japan. 2015.


Researcher : Nakano Y

Project Title:Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference ; Orientalism in the Sky: Japan Airlines’ Kimono-Branding in the 1950s
Investigator(s):Nakano Y
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2016
Completion Date:04/2016


List of Research Outputs

Nakano Y., Chapter 34 "Nihon-jin komyuniti: Tenkin suru hito, Teijyu suruhito (The Japanese community in Hong Kong: Those who leave and those who stay)", In: Masayuki Yoshikawa and Toru Kurata, Honkon wo shirutameno 60-sho (Introduction to Hong Kong) . Tokyo, Akashi Shoten, 2016, 206-10.
Nakano Y., Chapter 39 "Sengo Kyoiku-shi: Honkon no dekiru onna-tachi no ayumi (Education since 1945)", In: Masayuki Yoshikawa and Toru Kurata , Honkon wo shirutameno 60-sho (Introduction to Hong Kong) . Tokyo, Akashi Shoten, 2016, 231-5.
Nakano Y., Chapter 42 "Daigaku: Sekai rankingu de yusei nano wa nazeka? (Hong Kong Universities and World Rankings)". , In: Masayuki Yoshikawa and Toru Kurata, Honkon wo shirutameno 60-sho . Tokyo, Akashi Shoten, 2016, 246-50.
Nakano Y., Chapter 51 "Kifu bunka: shakai ni ataerareta mono wa shakai he (Charitable Contributions and Donations)", In: Masayuki Yoshikawa and Toru Kurata , Honkon wo shirutame no 60 sho. (Introduction to Hong Kong). Tokyo, Akashi Shoten, 2016, 304-8.
Nakano Y., Chapter 52 "Nihon shoku: Teno-todoku zeitaku (Japanese food in Hong Kong" , In: Masayuki Yoshikawa and Toru Kurata, Honkon wo shirutameno 60-sho (Introduction to Hong Kong) . Tokyo, Akashi Shoten, 2016, 309-13. .
Nakano Y., Flying with Madame Butterfly: Early Japan Airlines Advertising in the U.S. and Hong Kong, "Toward the Construction of East Asian Sociology" at Korea University, Seoul. 2015.
Nakano Y., Japanese Food in Print Ads, 1960-2016, Japanese Food Business in Hong Kong, Research Centre for Comparative Japanese Studies, CUHK. 2016.
Nakano Y., Orientalism in the Sky: Japan Airlines’ Kimono-Branding in the 1950s , Association for Asian Studies, Annual Conference 2016.
Nakano Y., Soratobu Madamu Batafurai: JAL Sogyoji no Omotenashi to Nihon heno Manazashi (Flying with Madame Butterfly: Japan Airlines' Early Inflight Services and the International Gaze) , "Ronshu: Ajia-gaku no Saizensen ("Asian Studies Watching") . Research and Information Center for Asian Studies, Universit, 2015.
Nakano Y., Soratobu Madamu Batafurai: JAL Sogyoji no Omotenashi to Nihon heno Manazashi (Flying with Madame Butterfly: Japan Airlines’ Kimono-Branding in the 1950s), The 126th Tobunken/ASNET Seminar, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, Tokyo University. 東京大学東洋文化研究 所 東文研 ASNET Seminar, 2015.
Nakano Y., Stories of "Made in Japan" in Hong Kong (No. 44 to 49), Hongkong Japanese Club. Hon Kong, Hongkong Japanese Club, 2016, various.
Nakano Y., “De-geishanizing” the Kimono: Japan Airlines’ Branding Exercise in the 1950s , AAS-in-Asia Kyoto 2016, Association for Asian Studies . 2016.
Nakano Y., “Have you had one today?”: Adapting a Japanese probiotic drink for Hong Kong consumers, International Conference on "Food and Health" by the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. 2015.


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 Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:03/2015


Project Title:16. Deutschsprachiger Japanologentag (16th German-Language Conference in Japanese Studies); Tugend und tierische Sexualität: Verhandlungen gesellschaftsgefährdender Begierden und Gefühle in Bakins Nansô Satomi hakkenden/English Title: Virtue and Animal Sexuality: Negotiations of Transgressive Desires and Sentiments 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:08/2015
Completion Date:08/2015


List of Research Outputs

Poch D.T., Tugend und tierische Sexualität: Verhandlungen gesellschaftsgefährdender Begierden und Gefühle in Kyokutei Bakins Nansô Satomi hakkenden [Virtue and Animal Sexuality: Negotiations of Transgressive Desires and Feelings in Kyokutei Bakin's Nansô Satomi hakkenden], 16. Deutscher Japanologentag [16th German Language Japanese Studies Conference], Munich. 2015.
Poch D.T., Writing Human Feeling: Emotionality, Desire, and the Production of Literature in 19th Century Japan, Invited Lecture at the Comparative Asian Research Network Monthly Lecture Series on Issues and Research in the Asian Region, organized by the Department of Japanese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2016.


Researcher : STIEGLER TWGL

List of Research Outputs

STIEGLER T.W.G.L., 2016 Sørensen Research Grant for archival studies, European Union University Institute (EUI), Florence. 2016.
STIEGLER T.W.G.L., From ‘Mission civilisatrice’ to ‘accord intercivilisationel’? Why are the EU and China learning to cooperate on human rights? (1989-2014), EUAP Annual Conference 2015: Distant Neighbours or Active Stakeholders? EU Policy Responses to Challenges in EU-China Relations, Hong Kong. 2015.
STIEGLER T.W.G.L., Travel Support for Research Postgraduate Students for International Academic Training/Research Activities to conduct field research (unstructured interviews), EU institutions in Brussels. 2016.


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
Completion Date:01/2016


Project Title:Doris Zimmern HKU-Cambridge Hughes Hall Fellowships 2015-16
Investigator(s):Teo VEL
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Doris Zimmern HKU-Cambridge Hughes Hall Fellowships
Start Date:09/2015


Project Title:Vanguard of the Revolution: A Study of North Korean Traders at the PRC-DPRK Border
Investigator(s):Teo VEL
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:10/2015


Project Title:Illicit livelihoods and Clandestine Globalisation: A Comparative Study of Different Border Towns in the People’s Republic of China
Investigator(s):Teo VEL
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2016


List of Research Outputs

Teo V.E.L., In Celebration of Lee Kuan Yew: Singapore's Future as a Global City, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism. 2015, 15: 363-374.
Teo V.E.L., Recalibrating Sino-japanese Relations For A Better Future: Implications Of Japan's Joint Anti-piracy Operations In The Gulf Of Aden With China, In: Yoneyuki Sugita, Japan Viewed From Interdisciplinary Perspectives: History And Prospects. Lexington Books: An Imprint of Rowman and Littlefield, 2015.
Teo V.E.L., Towards A More Amicable Asia-pacific: Rethinking Japan’s Relations With The Us And China, In: Yoneyuki Sugita, Toward A More Amicable Asia-pacific Region: Japan’s Roles. University Press of America, 2016.


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 Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:03/2015


Project Title:Anxiety in and about Africa; Colonial Health Anxieties in Africa: German Medical practitioners during the Scramble for Africa
Investigator(s):Tesfaye F
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2016
Completion Date:06/2016


List of Research Outputs

Tesfaye F., Africa@HKU or Why Teach/Learn about "Africa" in the University?, Arts Summer Residential Programme. 2015.
Tesfaye F., African Hegemony: The Global Reach of African Music Culture, 2015.
Tesfaye F., Co-Editor, In: Rashed Chowdry Veysel Simsek Anna Winterbottom, IOWC Working Papers. 2015.
Tesfaye F., Colonial Health Anxieties in Africa: German Medical practitioners during the Scramble for Africa, Anxieties in and about Africa. 2016.
Tesfaye F. and Winterbottom A., Histories of Medicine and Healing in The Indian Ocean World. Vol 1. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 1: 204.
Tesfaye F. and Winterbottom A., Histories of Medicine and Healing in The Indian Ocean World. Vol 2. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 2: 282.
Tesfaye F., Writing for publication - Book Reviews and Articles, 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


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., Mercurial Remedies for Syphilis in Early Modern China and Japan, In: Rafael Suter, Asiatische Studien/Etudes Asiatiques. 2015, 69: 997-1016.


Researcher : Vazquez Vazquez MM

List of Research Outputs

Vazquez Vazquez M.M., Figurations of Class Globalization in La Salada and Plastic City (Original title: Figuraciones de la Globalización de Clases en La Salada y Plastic City), V AsAECA International Congress (Argentine Cinema and Audiovisual Studies Association). 2016.
Vazquez Vazquez M.M., Reconfiguring Identities Through Latin American Cinema by Asian Directors, XXXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. 2016.
Vazquez Vazquez M.M., Research Seminar: The Cinematic Return of "El Pueblo", Department of Comparative Literature, HKU. 2016.


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
Completion Date:02/2016


List of Research Outputs

Vogt C.R., A Relationship of Unequals? The Gradual Erosion of Mutual Usefulness in EU-China Relations, 2015 EUAP Annual Conference ‘Distant Neighbours or Active Stakeholders? EU Policy Responses to Challenges in EU-China Relations’, The University of Hong Kong, 27-28 November 2015.


Researcher : WANG C

List of Research Outputs

WANG C., From 'Gazee' to 'Tourist': Examining Local's Role in Tourism, The Eleventh Annual Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong: Japan, Hong Kong, Asia and Alternative Modernities, Kobe University, Japan. 2016.
WANG C., Outsiders and Insiders: Perceiving Authenticity Locally, The Second Global Creative Industries Conference: From Global to Local and Vice Versa, Kobe University, Japan. 2016.


Researcher : WANG N

List of Research Outputs

WANG N., 2015 Chinese Field Research Fund - Tencent Internet Anthropology Scientific Research Support Scheme, 2015年度中国田野调查基金·腾讯互联网人类学科研支持计划, Sun Yat-sen University. 2015.
WANG N., Anthropological Studies of Chinese Boy’s Love Culture and Funü Community, 中國BL文化與腐女群體的人類學研究, Symposium on “East Asian Popular Culture: Looking Back, Looking Forward”, Hong Kong Institute of Education. 2016.
WANG N., Ganthropological Perspective in Cultural Industries Consumer Research - Case of the 'Prosumer' roles of Chinese Funü, The Eleventh Annual Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong: Japan, Hong Kong, Asia and Alternative Modernities, Kobe University, Japan. 2016.
WANG N., The F world: Ethnographical Exploration of 'Boys' Love' Fans Community in Mainland China, The Second Global Creative Industries Conference: From Global to Local and Vice Versa, Kobe University, Japan. 2016.


Researcher : WEI W

List of Research Outputs

WEI W., A Japanese Contest for Digital Content, Politics and Practices of Creativity: Creative Industries in East Asia, HKU Summer Institute. 2015.
WEI W., Translation of a book chapter, Sex as a Ritual: Transforming Women’s Sexual Being from 'Human-like' to 'Animal-like' in Taiwan, by Heung Wah Wong & Hoi Yan Yau, 性——臺灣女性的性存在由「人類」轉化為「動物」的儀式, 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, 2015.
WEI W., Translation of a book chapter, The 'Real Core': The Taste of Taiwanese Men for Japanese Adult Videos, by Heung Wah Wong & Hoi Yan Yau, 真正的性調——臺灣男性對日本成人電影的品味, 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, 2015.
WEI W., Translation of a book chapter, The Emergence of A New Sexual Ideal: A Case Study of Yuki Maiko’s Pornographic VCDs in Hong Kong, by Heung Wah Wong & Hoi Yan Yau, 新性感女神典範之興起——夕樹舞子色情光碟在香港之個案分析, 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, 2015.


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:IUAES2015; Why and how rule through consent is possible: Managerial Control in a Japanese Supermarket in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Wong HW
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2015
Completion Date:07/2015


Project Title:Colonialism, Popular Culture and the Formation of the Post-war Hong Kong Identity
Investigator(s):Wong HW
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:08/2015


List of Research Outputs

Wong H.W., Afterword: The Study of Creative Industries is always Political or it is Nothing., In: T. Tanikawa, H. W. Wong and Sudo Noriko, The Creative Industries in East Asia: Politics of Culture. Tokyo, Shinwasha, 2015, 345-347.
Wong H.W. and Yau H.Y., Becoming Japanese is to Become Taiwanese: Lee Teng-hui and the Formation of Taiwanese Consciousness, the 11th Annual Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong,: Japan, Hong Kong, Asian and Alternative Modernities, Kobe University. 2016.
Wong H.W., Circulating Japanese Culture in Hong Kong in the 1980s: Yaohan as a Case Study, the 11th Annual Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong,: Japan, Hong Kong, Asian and Alternative Modernities, Kobe University. 2016.
Wong H.W., Chau L.F.K. and Yau H.Y., Colonialism, Cultural Policies, and Hong Kong Identity, the 11th Annual Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong,: Japan, Hong Kong, Asian and Alternative Modernities, Kobe University. 2016.
Wong H.W., Creative Industries in Asia, International Research Symposium at Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia. 2015.
Wong H.W., Chau L.F.K. and Pan L., Editor of a book, In: Lu, Pan, H. W. Wong, and Karin L. F. Chau, Politics and Aesthetics of Creativity: City, Culture, and Space in East Asia. Calif. USA, Bridge 21, 2015.
Wong H.W., Encyclopedia of China editor, Cinema and Television Industries and Global Cultural and Creative Industries, Encyclopedia of China, 3rd Edition. Beijing, Encyclopedia of China Publishing House, 2015.
Wong H.W., Escape from the Realities? An Ethnographic Study of BL comics Fans in Hong Kong, The Second Global Creative Industries in Asia, Kobe University. 2016.
Wong H.W., From Politics of Ethnicity to Politics of Cultures: When Kool Far East Group Took over Shiranai International in Hong Kong, In: H. Nakamaki at al., Enterprise as an Instrument of Civilization: An Anthropological Approach to Business Administration. Japan, Springer, 2015, 207-225.
Wong H.W. and Yau H.Y., How Far Can we Say that Taiwan and Hong Kong are the Same Chinese Society? Take Masculinity as an Example, Changing Chinese Masculinities: From Imperial Pillars of State to Global Real Men. Hong Kong, HKU Press, 2016, 220-243.
Wong H.W., Individual and Society: Reflections from the Ethnographic Study of a Japanese Idol's Hong Kong Fans, the 11th Annual Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong,: Japan, Hong Kong, Asian and Alternative Modernities, Kobe University. 2016.
Wong H.W., Overcoming the Dead End: Is Business Anthropology a Way Out for Anthropology?, Guest lecture at Institute of Anthropology, Renmin Unversity of China, China. 2015.
Wong H.W., Chau L.F.K. and Lu P., Preface, Politics and Aesthetics of Creativity: City, Culture and Space in East Asia. Calif. USA, Bridge 21, 2015, 11-15.
Wong H.W. and Yau H.Y., Producing Salvaging Ideology and Sexual Imperialism: An Ethnographic Study of the Shooting Process of a Japanese Adult Video, The Second Global Creative Industries in Asia, Kobe University.. 2016.
Wong H.W. and Chau L.F.K., Publishing Colonialism: A Case Study of the Hong Kong Annual Report, In: T. Tanikawa, H. W. Wong and Sudo Noriko, The Creative Industries in East Asia: Politics of Culture. Tokyo, Shinwasha, 2015, 139-176.
Wong H.W., Renationalizing Taiwan, Depoliticalizing Hong Kong, the 11th Annual Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong,: Japan, Hong Kong, Asian and Alternative Modernities, Kobe University. 2016.
Wong H.W., Several Questions about Social Development, A guest lecture at National Academy of Social Development Strategy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China. 2015.
Wong H.W., Soft-power is not Hard: A Reflection on the Importation of Japanese Popular and Consumer Culture in Greater China after the Second World War, An International Symposium on Popular Culture and the Sino-Japanese Interaction. 2015.
Wong H.W. and Yau H.Y., The More I Shop at Yaohan, the More I Become a Heung Gong Yahn: Japan and the Formation of Hong Kong Identity, In: G. Kirsch, D. P. Martinez and M. White, Assembling Japan: Modernity, Technology, and Global Culture. Oxford, Peter Lang, 2015, 161-182.
Wong H.W. and Yau H.Y., The Spread of the Salvaging Ideology of Japanese Adult Videos to Taiwan and Hong Kong., ASA-in-ASIA 2016.
Wong H.W., The Third Eyes: The Methods of Understanding the Other, Distinguished Anthropological Forum at Institute of Global Ethnology and Anthropology, Minzu University of China, China. 2015.
Wong H.W. and Chau L.F.K., Tradition and Transformation: TSL and the Evolving Chinese Family Business, the 11th Annual Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong,: Japan, Hong Kong, Asian and Alternative Modernities, Kobe University. 2016.
Wong H.W., What is Creativity, Research Institute of Television and Movie Art, Chinese National Academy of Arts, China. 2015.
Wong H.W., Why and How Rule Through Consent is Possible: Managerial Control in a Japanese Supermarket in Hong Kong, IUAES InterCongress 2015: Re-imaging Anthropological and Sociological Boundaries at Tjammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand. 2015.
Wong H.W., Tanikawa T. and Sudo N., editor of a book, In: T. Tanikawa, H. W. Wong and Sudo Noriko, The Creative Industries in East Asia: Politics of Culture. Tokyo, Shinwasha, 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 Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2014
Completion Date:04/2016


Project Title:XVIIth World Economic History Congress; Traders in the “forex” and credit markets of early-nineteenth-century Canton
Investigator(s):Wong JDO
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2015
Completion Date:08/2015




Researcher : Wong WLM

Project Title:The Changing Interface Between the Creative Industries and Law
Investigator(s):Wong WLM
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:01/2016


List of Research Outputs

Wong W.L.M., Hong Kong Colonial History and Self-determination (Chinese), 香港的殖民史與自決權, Isolated Island 2.0: Global Social and Economic Problem and the Application of International Human Rights Issues in Asia. 島弧人權2.0國際研討會, 2016.


Researcher : YAN S

List of Research Outputs

YAN S., For China, WTO Market Economy Status is about more than just economics, The Parliament Magazine. 2016.
YAN S., Hong Kong Government Reaching Out Award 2015-16, HKSAR, Hong Kong. 2015.
YAN S., Inbev-Baillet Latour Award for the best thesis on EU-China relations 2015, College of Europe. 2015.
YAN S., Online paper, The European Parliament’s Role in EU Trade Policy after Lisbon: Analysis from an Actorness Approach, in Thomas Christiansen & Anna Herranz (eds.), PADEMIA (Erasmus Academic Network) Online Papers on Parliamentary Democracy, 3/2015, ISBN: 978-94-91704-10-9, pp.1-31(double-blind review, funded by European Commission). 2015.
YAN S., The European Parliament’s Actorness in EU-China Trade Relations: the Case of Bilateral Investment Treaty Negotiation, EUAP Annual Conference 2015: Distant Neighbours or Active Stakeholders? EU Policy Responses to Challenges in EU-China Relations, Hong Kong. 2015.
YAN S., The Actorness of the European Parliament in EU-China Bilateral Investment Treaty Negotiations, EU-China Observer, Issue 3, 2015, 23-28. 2015.
YAN S., The EU, China and the Global Governance of Refugee, International Studies Association Asia-Pacific Region Conference, Hong Kong. 2016.
YAN S., The European Parliament as a Normative Actor in EU Trade Policy towards China: the Case of Market Economy Status, Jean Monnet Network ‘PACO’ Conference, Parliamentary Cooperation and Diplomacy in Europe and beyond – Theories, Practices and Comparisons, Maastricht University Campus Brussels, Brussel. 2016.


Researcher : YAO L

List of Research Outputs

YAO L., The Emerging Master, Zhou Zuoren's First Translation Attempt - The First Chinese Face of Edgar Allan Poe, The First International Conference on Chinese Translation History, Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2015.
YAO L., The First Chinese Face of Edgan Allan Poe: Zhou Zuoren's Early Translation Attempt, 3rd Young Scholars' Conference on China Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2015.


Researcher : YU H

List of Research Outputs

YU H., Debating China's Foreign Policy in the Xi Jinping Era, International Studies Association Asia-Pacific Region Conference, Hong Kong. 2016.


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., “The Development and Revisions of HKU Japanese Language Standards: Implications to Reforms in Tertiary Education in Japan”, 2016.


Researcher : ZHANG P

List of Research Outputs

ZHANG P., 'Translating' Minnie Vautrin's Diary in Geling Yan's The Flowers of War, Program ID-1923, 2016 Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) Annual Meeting, Miami, Florida, US . 2016.


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