HK INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITIES & SOC. SCI.



Researcher : An W

List of Research Outputs

An W., Belief In Meaninglessness, Belief In Literature- Religious Imaginations In The Contemporary Chinese Literature" On 25 November 2016.. 2016.
An W., Belief In Meaninglessness, Belief In Literature- Religious Imaginations In The Contemporary Chinese Literature" On 25 November 2016., ( / 2016) , Belief In Meaninglessness, Belief In Literature- Religious Imaginations In The Contemporary Chinese Literature" On 25 November 2016., ( / 2016). 2016.


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: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:Passenger Terminal Conference; Airport Urbanism: Moving Beyond the Aerotropolis Model
Investigator(s):Hirsh MB
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2017
Completion Date:03/2017


Project Title:Technical Experts and the Production of Airport Infrastructure in Asia
Investigator(s):Hirsh MB
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2017




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
Completion Date:12/2016


Project Title:Making Modernity in East Asia: Technologies of Everyday Life, I 9th -2lst Centuries
Investigator(s):Leung KCA, Santos GD
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) - Group Research Project
Start Date:06/2017


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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
Completion Date:12/2016


Project Title:Making Modernity in East Asia: Technologies of Everyday Life, I 9th -2lst Centuries
Investigator(s):Leung KCA, Santos GD
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) - Group Research Project
Start Date:06/2017


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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
Completion Date:12/2016


Project Title:Making Modernity in East Asia: Technologies of Everyday Life, I 9th -2lst Centuries
Investigator(s):Leung KCA, Santos GD
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) - Group Research Project
Start Date:06/2017


List of Research Outputs

Leung K.C.A., A “South” Imagined and Lived: The Entanglement of Medical Things and Experts in Pre-Modern “Lingnan 嶺南”, Eleventh Annual Frederick P. Mote Lecture in Chinese Studies for 2016-2017, Princeton University, 15 March 2017. 2017.
Leung K.C.A., Business, Science, Religion and Charity: Charity Halls and Modernity in Canton (1870-1937) , 商業、科學、宗教與施濟: 走向近代的廣州善堂 (1870-1937), Distinguished Lectures on Chinese Culture and Religion, The Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, 2 November 2016. 2016.
Leung K.C.A., Seeking Stability in Times of Change: Elementary Education and Charities in Late Imperial and Modern China. 變中謀穩:明清至近代的啟蒙教育與施善濟貧, Shanghai, Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2017, 241.
Leung K.C.A., Strategies of a Biomedical Hospital in 19th-century Canton: Materiality Advertised in Qizheng lüeshu 奇症略述 (Brief Account of Extraordinary Clinical Patterns), 1866, Études chinoises. 2016, vol. XXXV-1: 175-196.


Researcher : Li J

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


Project Title:The 21st biennial conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies ; Making religion, making local society: social formation and identity construction of a Catholic village in nineteenth-century Manchuria
Investigator(s):Li J
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2016
Completion Date:08/2016


Project Title:Doris Zimmern HKU-Cambridge Hughes Hall Fellowships 2016-17 (Second Round)
Investigator(s):Li J
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Doris Zimmern HKU-Cambridge Hughes Hall Fellowships
Start Date:09/2016


Project Title:Rethinking indigenization and Christianity in China: Alfred Marie Caubrière (1876-1948) and his private writings in early twentieth-century Manchuria
Investigator(s):Li J
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2017




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
Completion Date:09/2016


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




Researcher : Luk YLC

List of Research Outputs

Luk Y.L.C., Making Space for Engineering Studies: the South China Institute of Engineering, In: Gary Downey Jr. , Engineering Studies. UK, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.


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 : Mostowlansky T

List of Research Outputs

Mostowlansky T., In: Till Mostowlansky, Azan on the Moon: Entangling Modernity along Tajikistan's Pamir Highway. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017, 224.


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
Completion Date:12/2016


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

Harrell S... and Santos G.D., Introduction, In: Gonçalo Santos and Stevan Harrell, Transforming Patriarchy. Chinese Families in the Twenty-First Century.. Seattle, Washington, University of Washington Press., 2016, 3-36.
Santos G.D., Changing Birthing Infrastructures. Women’s Networks and Everyday Reproductive Practices in Rural China, 1960s-2010s , International Workshop, Collaborative Research Project: “Making Modernity in East Asia. Technologies of Everyday Life, 19th-21st centuries”, University of Hong Kong. 2016.
Santos G.D., Love, Family, and Gender in 21st Century China, In: Kirsten W. Endres and Chris Hann, Socialism with Neoliberal Characteristics. Social Support and Kinship in China and Vietnam.. Halle, Saale, Germany, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, 2017.
Santos G.D., Multiple Mothering and Labor Migration in rural South China, In: Gonçalo Santos and Stevan Harrell, Transforming Patriarchy. Chinese Families in the Twenty-First Century. Seattle, Washington, University of Washington Press, 2016, 91-110.
Santos G.D. and Harrell S., Transforming Patriarchy. Chinese Families in the Twenty-First Century.. Seattle, Washington, University of Washington Press, 2016.
Zhang J. and Santos G.D., Ethical Labor and the Workings of Non-governmental Humanitarian Care in Contemporary China., In: Organizers: Drs. Goncalo Santos, Jun Zhang and Isaac Gagne, Humanitarianism in Action: Asia-Pacific Ethnographic Perspectives (Sponsored by the American Council for Learned Society). Hong Kong, 2017.


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: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


Project Title:Epidemic Disease and Medical Innovation in Early Modern Japan
Investigator(s):Trambaiolo DM
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Start Date:01/2017


Project Title:Association for Asian Studies; Tokugawa Toxins: Diseases, Poisons, and Drugs as Concepts and Practices in 18th-19th Century Japanese Medicine
Investigator(s):Trambaiolo DM
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2017
Completion Date:03/2017




Researcher : WINIGER FV

List of Research Outputs

WINIGER F.V. and Palmer D.A., Chinese Governmentality and the Genealogy of Socialist Spiritual Civilization, International conference on A Secular Age in Asia, National University of Singapore, March 6-7, 2017. . 2017.


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., Oral History and Storytelling – Reflection on an Alternative Approach of Teaching History, Storytelling: Global Reflections on Narrative, 9th Global Meeting. 2016.
Wong W.L., 父親的「六七暴動」記憶— 兼論口述歷史的主觀性問題, “本土经验与国际口述歷史的多元发展”国际學术研讨会, 2016.


Researcher : Zhang J

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:Old Neighbourhoods, New Spaces: Urban Reconstruction and Governance in China’s Urbanization
Investigator(s):Zhang J, Santos GD
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2017


List of Research Outputs

Zhang J. and Santos G.D., Ethical Labor and the Workings of Non-governmental Humanitarian Care in Contemporary China., In: Organizers: Drs. Goncalo Santos, Jun Zhang and Isaac Gagne, Humanitarianism in Action: Asia-Pacific Ethnographic Perspectives (Sponsored by the American Council for Learned Society). Hong Kong, 2017.
Zhang J., Taxis, Traffic and Thoroughfares: The Politics of Transportation Infrastructure in China’s Rapid Urbanization in the Reform Era, City & Society. 2016, 28: 411-436.


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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