SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES & CULTURES



Researcher : Auer S

Project Title:Enhancing EU Studies in Hong Kong and China
Investigator(s):Auer S
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:European Union Grant
Start Date:09/2016


Project Title:ECPR General Conference at Charles University, Prague; Borderless Europe and its Discontents: The EU’s Sovereignty Paradox
Investigator(s):Auer S
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:09/2016
Completion Date:09/2016


Project Title:Borderless Europe and its Discontents: National Sovereignty in Times of Crisis
Investigator(s):Auer S
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2017


List of Research Outputs

Auer S., Borderless Europe and its Discontents: The EU’s Sovereignty Paradox, European Consortium for Political Research General Conference, Charles University, Prague. Prague, Charles University, 2016.
Auer S., Brexit, Soverignty and the End of an Ever Closer Union, In: William Outhwaite, Brexit: Sociological Responses. Anthem Press, 2017.
Auer S., Brexit, Territoriality and the European Refugee Crisis, International Studies Association (ISA) Conference, The University of Hong Kong. The University of Hong Kong, 2017.
Auer S. and Scicluna N.B., Framing a new world order? The Sino-Russian Challenge to the West, Australian Slavonic and East European Studies. The University of Melbourne, Australia and New Zealand Slavists' Association, 2016, 30: 113-141.
Auer S., GRF: Borderless Europe and its Discontents, The Research Grants Council. 2016.
Auer S., Jean Monnet Chair, Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency of the European Union. 2016.
Auer S., Kennet Dyson and Iv Maes (eds.), Architects of the euro: intellectuals in the making of European Monetary Union, International Affairs. London, Oxford University Press, 2017, 93: 737-738.
Auer S., Merkel’s Germany: exceptional, normal, European, Workshop of the German Politics Specialist Group in the Political Studies Association ‘Change and Transition in German Politics’, The University of Birmingham, 25 November 2016.


Researcher : Blasco Garcia R

List of Research Outputs

Blasco Garcia R., Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (2015-16), Faculty of Arts, The University of Hong Kong. 2017.
Blasco Garcia R., Would Confucius approve? Virtual Exchange and Confucian Heritage Cultures, APVEA II - "Developing Communicative and Intercultural Competence through Virtual Exchange - Theory and Practice". 2017.


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
Completion Date:12/2016


List of Research Outputs

Borland J.L., Voices of Vulnerability and Resilience: Children and their Recollections in Post-Earthquake Tokyo, Japanese Studies . Taylor&Francis, 2016, 36: 299-317.


Researcher : CAI Q

List of Research Outputs

CAI Q., 'Apron Husbands' in Shanghai television dramas: From a placebo to a threat, Asian Studies Conference (AAS-in-ASIA), Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. 2017.
CAI Q., When Chinese Festival Food Meet Consumerism: A Case Study of the Representations of Mid-Autumn Festival Food in Hong Kong Media, Food & Society 2016 International Conference, The National University of Malaysia. 2016.


Researcher : CHUK TS

List of Research Outputs

CHUK T.S., Queer Representations in Korean Media - Heteronormativitiy, Homonormativity, and Queer Transgression, University of Hong Kong. 2017.


Researcher : COSTA A

List of Research Outputs

COSTA A., Useful Rivals: Evolving Competition between China and Japan over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands from 1970 to the Present Day, 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




Researcher : Cha SK

Project Title:Postcolonial Divide: Korean Christians and the Problem of National Belonging, 1945-1975
Investigator(s):Cha SK
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:12/2015


Project Title:United Through Separation: Foreign Missionaries, Korean Christians, and Government Officials, 1882-1942
Investigator(s):Cha SK
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:09/2016


Project Title:AAS in Asia Conference; International Christian Partnership and Reunification in South Korea
Investigator(s):Cha SK
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2017
Completion Date:06/2017


List of Research Outputs

Cha S.K., International Partnership and Reunification in South Korea, AAS in Asia. 2017.


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
Completion Date:07/2016


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


Project Title:A Study on Highly-Skilled Mainland Chinese Returnees in China’s First-Tier And Second-Tier Cities
Investigator(s):Chee WC
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research for Resubmission of GRF/ECS Proposals
Start Date:07/2016
Completion Date:11/2016


Project Title:Beyond learning: Design and innovation in the production of the new normal: The 2nd conference on anthropology and education; Can anthropology be a new normal in experiential learning cum public outreach for non-anthropology students?
Investigator(s):Chee WC
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:10/2016
Completion Date:10/2016


List of Research Outputs

Chee W.C., An Anthropology of Hong Kong’s Belief Systems and Religious Practices, Shantou University visiting students. 2016.
Chee W.C., Can Anthropology Be a New Normal in Experiential Learning Cum Public Outreach for Non-Anthropology Students?, 2nd Conference on Anthropology and Education “Beyond Learning: Design and Innovation in the Production of the New Normal”. 2016.
Chee W.C., Ethnic Minority Youth in Hong Kong: Challenges and Opportunities, Ethnic Minority Parenting Workshops at YMCA. 2016.
Chee W.C., Model of and Model for Ethnic Minorities: Individualization of the Model Minority Stereotype in Hong Kong, In: Chu, Yiu-Wai (Ed.), Hong Kong Culture and Society in the New Millennium: Hong Kong as Method. Singapore, Springer, 2017, 193-211.
Chee W.C., Parental Involvement, Ethnic Minority Parenting Workshops at YMCA. 2016.
Chee W.C., Private Tutoring, Public Exams and Higher Education, Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong (CESHK) 2017 Spring Annual Conference. 2017.
Chee W.C., Pursuing Transnational Mobilities in the Education-Migration Nexus: Mainland Chinese International Students in World-Level U.S. Universities, 9th International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO) Conference. 2016.
Chee W.C., Pursuing Transnational Mobilities in the Education-Migration Nexus, The 9th International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO) Conference, organized by ISSCO and University of British Columbia. 2016.
Chee W.C., Trapped in the Current of Mobilities: China-Hong Kong Cross-Border Families, Mobilities. 2017, 12: 199-212.
Chee W.C., ‘Lose at the Starting Line, Win at the Finishing Line’: The Narratives Behind Beating Academic Adversity, Social Indicators Research. Netherlands, Springer, 2017, Online First: 1-13.
Leung T.H., Tam C.W.L., Cheng P.Y.H. and Chee W.C., Adapting for Social Good: A Case Study of Identity-based Mentoring Innovations for Ethnic Minority Teenagers in a Hong Kong Residential Hall Community, International Conference "Imagining the Future: Community Innovation and Social Resilience in Asia. 2017.


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:21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association; The Language of Postcolonial Hong Kong: Cantopop Lyrics and/as Hong Kong Identity
Investigator(s):Chu YWS
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2016
Completion Date:07/2016


List of Research Outputs

Chu Y.W.S., Between China and the World: Hong Kong Studies as Method, Many Different Shores: Hong Kong Connections across the South-/East Asian Sinosphere, University of Zurich. 2016.
Chu Y.W.S., Cantopop and My Happy Days, 粵語流行曲與我的快樂時代, 40th Anniversary Special Issue, The City Magazine.. 2016.
Chu Y.W.S., Cantopop as Sinophone Articulations, Sinophone Studies: New Directions | Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. 2016.
Chu Y.W.S., Cantopop: The 1970s, The 5th Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Conference 2016 in Melbourne, Monash University. 2016.
Chu Y.W.S., Hong Kong Cantopop: A Concise History. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2017, 256.
Chu Y.W.S., Hong Kong Culture Is Said To Be Dying. Are We Dead Yet?, "Hong Kong: 20 Years After" Symposium, University of British Columbia. 2017.
Chu Y.W.S., Hong Kong Culture and Society in the New Millennium: Hong Kong as Method. Singapore, Springer, 2017, 219.
Chu Y.W.S., Hong Kong Studies as Method, Crossroads in Cultural Studies 2016, Sydney University. 2016.
Chu Y.W.S., The Lives of Cantopop, Public Seminar on Cantopop, Richmond Public Library, Vancouver. 2017.
Chu Y.W.S., The Represenations of China in Hong Kong Popular Lyrics, 香港流行歌詞中的「中國」再現和想像, Hong Kong Literature and Culture Seminar Series, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. 2017.
Chu Y.W.S., Understanding Hong Kong: The Cantonese Sensibility, Channel NewsAsia. 2017.


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: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




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:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:08/2016


Project Title:Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference; Imagining Great Tokyo: The Modern Metropolis in Text and Image
Investigator(s):Goddard TU
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


List of Research Outputs

Goddard T.U., Imagining Great Tokyo: The Modern Metropolis in Text and Image, Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. 2017.


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 National Memory Museums in the United States
Investigator(s):Gruenewald T
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Start Date:07/2016


Project Title:THINKING THROUGH THE FUTURE OF MEMORY and Confronting Violent Pasts and Historical (In)Justice; Memory Spaces as Film
Investigator(s):Gruenewald T
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:12/2016
Completion Date:12/2016




Researcher : HA MY

List of Research Outputs

HA M.Y., The role of Cultural Intermediates in the spread of Japanese Pop music to HK in 1980s, University of Hong Kong. 2016.


Researcher : HU E

List of Research Outputs

HU E., Spreading the Intellectual Gospel: A Study of the American Educational Missionaries at Yenching University, University of Hong Kong. 2017.


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: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
Completion Date:12/2016


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


Project Title:The Opium Workshop; Anxious Evangelism and the Authority of Extraterritorial Publication: Revising John Quincy Adams’s Views on the Opium War in The Chinese Repository
Investigator(s):Johnson KA
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:12/2016
Completion Date:12/2016


List of Research Outputs

Johnson K.A., The New Middle Kingdom: China in the Early American Romance of Free Trade. Balitmore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017, 432.


Researcher : Kim LE

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
Completion Date:08/2017


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


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


List of Research Outputs

Kim L.E., "Inclement Weather and Human Error: Regular Irregularities in the Manchurian Tribute System during the Qing Dynasty", In: Norman Smith, Empire and Environment in the Making of Manchuria. Vancouver BC, Canada, University of British Columbia Press, 2017, 80-106.
Kim L.E., 中國是否可走向後邊疆、後少數民族的時代?:反思《何為中國》中「邊疆」與「民族」之結合, In: 錢永祥, Reflexion. 思想, 臺北, 聯經出版社, 2016, 31.


Researcher : Kim SY

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:Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting; Women’s Image in Popular Romance Stories in 1930s 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:03/2017
Completion Date:03/2017


List of Research Outputs

Kim S.Y., Women’s Role in Popular Romance Stories in the 1930s Colonial Korea, Association of Asian Studies. 2017.
Kim S.Y., reviewed manuscript for journal Acta Koreana, 2017.
Kim S.Y., reviewed manuscript for the Journal of Asian Studies, 2017.


Researcher : LEUNG KY

List of Research Outputs

LEUNG K.Y., Protest Music in Hong Kong Music of Protest, Resistance, and Subversion in the Millenniums, The 5th Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Conference, Monash University, Melbourne. 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: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 : Meyer DC

List of Research Outputs

Meyer D.C., « Perspectives didactiques pour le français en milieu non francophone », In: Fédération Internationale des Professeurs de Français (FIPF), , 14th International Congress "Français Langue Ardente", University of Liege, Belgium. 2016.


Researcher : Mito A

List of Research Outputs

Mito A., Haiku And Senryu Creations By Japanese Language Learners, CAJLE 2016 Proceedings. 2016.


Researcher : Nakano Y

Project Title:2017 Biannual Conference Spring(2017年春季全国研究発表大会); Branding "Japan", 1951-1970: American Gaze and Japan Airlines (戦後「日本」のブランディング: アメリカのまなざし、JALのこだわり)
Investigator(s):Nakano Y
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


List of Research Outputs

Nakano Y., "Japanese Space" on JAL's International Flights, 1954-1970 (JAL Kokusaisen no "Nihon Kukan", 1954-1970), Kyoto Institute of Technology, Design Program Lecture Series. Kyoto, 2016.
Nakano Y., "New Women" in the Postwar Japan: A 27-year-old American who Trained 37 Japanese Flight Attendants in 1953 (Sengo Nihon to Atarashii Josei), Lecture Series co-sponsored by "New Women" and Asian Modernity (Atarashi Jyosei to Asia no Kindai) Project and Tokyo University's Network for Education and Research on Asia (ASNET). Tokyo, Tokyo University, 2017.
Nakano Y., Branding "Japan", 1951-1970: American Gaze and Japan Airlines (Sengo "Nihon" no Burandingu: American no Manazashi, JAL no Kodawari)., The Japan Society For Management Information (Keiei Jyoho Gakkai), Bi- annual meeting. Tokyo, Hosei University, 2017.
Nakano Y., Early Japan Airlines Branding, 1951-1970 (JAL no burandingu kotohajime), JAL Branding Lecture Series (JAL Burandingu Kowa). Tokyo, Japan Airlines, 2016.
Nakano Y., Eating One’s Way to Sophistication : Japanese Food in Hong Kong, “Heritage and Innovation in Contemporary Japanese, Korean, and Chinese Foodways”, School of International Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan. 2016.
Nakano Y., Stories of "Made in Japan" in Hong Kong, Hongkong Japanese Club. Hong Kong, Hongkong Japanese Club, 2017, 50 to 55: various.


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:Writing Human Feeling: Emotionality, Desire, and the Production of Literature in 19th Century Japan
Investigator(s):Poch DT
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Start Date:06/2017




Researcher : SEBENA M

List of Research Outputs

SEBENA M., Rise of Reluntant Hegemons: Germany and China in Early 21st Century, International Studies Association Asia-Pacific Region Conference, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 2017.


Researcher : STIEGLER TWGL

List of Research Outputs

STIEGLER T.W.G.L., Socialisation in EU-China Human Rights Diplomacy From the Diplomacy of Values to the Values of Diplomacy, University of Hong Kong. 2017.


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 : TSE WH

List of Research Outputs

TSE W.H., Remapping linearity: Dung Kai-cheung's Archaeology of the Future, Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature Biennial Conference: Text, Media, and Transcultural Negotiation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 2017.


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: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




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:HKU Overseas Fellowship Awards 2017-18
Investigator(s):Tesfaye F
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:HKU Overseas Fellowship Awards
Start Date:06/2017


List of Research Outputs

Tesfaye F., Co-Editor, In: Rashed Chowdry Veysel Simsek Anna Winterbottom, IOWC Working Papers. 2016.
Tesfaye F., Doris Zimmern HKU-Cambridge Fellowship 2017-18, University Research Services, HKU. 2017.
Tesfaye F., HKU Overseas Fellowship Award 2017-18, University Research Services, HKU. 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 : Vazquez Vazquez MM

List of Research Outputs

Vazquez Vazquez M.M., Reconciling Re-emancipation and Industrial Development in Venezuelan Cinema, LASA 2017 Dialogues of Knowledge, Latin American Studies Association. 2017.


Researcher : Vogt CR

Project Title:The EU as a Global Actor and EU-China Relations
Investigator(s):Vogt CR
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:European Union Grant
Start Date:09/2016


Project Title:UACES 2016 Annual Conference; Between Norm Entrepreneurship and Norm Coercion? The Influence of European Policies on Tax Evasion on Asian Financial Centres
Investigator(s):Vogt CR
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:09/2016
Completion Date:09/2016


Project Title:Between norm entrepreneurship and norm coercion: the influence of European policies on tax evasion on Asian financial centres
Investigator(s):Vogt CR
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2017


List of Research Outputs

Vogt C.R., 'Power and Reputation. The EU's efforts to prevent tax evasion in Asian financial centres', Institute of European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), 29 May 2017, 2017.
Vogt C.R., 'Thatcher and her legacy in British politics', Hong Kong Baptist University, 17 October 2016, 2016.
Vogt C.R., BRICS, Brexit, and Beyond: International Dynamics of Marketing Channels—An Overview, Journal of Marketing Channels. 2016, 23: 173-179.
Vogt C.R., Between Norm Entrepreneurship and Norm Coercion? The Influence of European Policies on Tax Evasion on Asian Financial Centres, UACES Annual Conference, London, 5-7 September 2016.
Vogt C.R., Personal Diplomacy in the EU. Political Leadership and Critical Junctures of European Integration. Abingdon, Routledge, 2016.


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: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: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 for Resubmission of GRF/ECS Proposals
Start Date:07/2016
Completion Date:11/2016


Project Title:The Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion & Philosophy 2017; Ancestor Worship, Gift and Kinship are Magic in Chinese Culture
Investigator(s):Wong HW
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


List of Research Outputs

Wong H.W., Book Series Chief Editor, Asian Cultural Industries Book Series. Taipei, Airiti Press, 2016.
Wong H.W., Book Series Chief Editor, Asian Studies: Imaging the Alternatives. Taipei, Airiti Press, 2016.
Wong H.W., Book Series Chief Editor, Textbook Series of Creative Industries in East Asia. Taipei, Airiti Press, 2016.


Researcher : Wong JDO

Project Title:Crossroad in Cultural Stuies 2016; Hongkong-Mainland Relations at a Crossroad from the Historical Perspective of Language
Investigator(s):Wong JDO
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:12/2016
Completion Date:12/2016


List of Research Outputs

Ng H.K.M. and Wong J.D.O., Co-editor, In: Michael Ng and John Wong, Civil Unrest and Governance in Hong Kong: Law and Order from Historical and Cultural perspectives. NY, Routledge, 2017, 220.
Wong J.D.O., Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century: The House of Houqua and the Canton System. London, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2016, 254.
Wong J.D.O. and Ng H.K.M., Negotiating the Legitimacy of Governance, In: Michael H.K. Ng and John D. Wong, Civil Unrest and Governance in Hong Kong: Law and Order from Historical and Cultural Perspectives. NY, Routledge, 2017.
Wong J.D.O., The Business of English and the English of Business in Early-nineteenth-century Canton., National University of Singapore, 2016.


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., Abolition of T’sip in Hong Kong, 香港廢妾:殖民體制及現代性的暖昧, In: He Zhihui , Research on Legal Culture: Symposium on Legal Culture of Hong Kong. 法律文化研究第九輯: 香港法律文化專題, Beijing, Social Sciences Academic Press (China), 2016, 9: 133-150.
Wong W.L.M., The Challenges Of The New Chief Executive Of The HKSAR, 下一屆特首的挑戰:北京與民主派的變與不變, The Election Of The Chief Executive Of The HKSAR And The Development Of Taiwan-HK Relationship. 香港特首選舉與臺港 關係發展, 2017.
Wong W.L.M., The Protection Of The New Territories Indigenous People: Protection Of Economic Rights Under The Hong Kong Basic Law, 新界權益的保障, The Sixth Anniversary Macau-Canton Legal Forum (Chinese). 2017. 第六屆濠粵法 律論壇, 2017.


Researcher : YAN S

List of Research Outputs

YAN S., From Strange Rivals to Strategic Partners? An Enquiry Study of China-NATO Cooperation in the Post-Afghanistan, New Concepts and New Conflicts in Global Security Issues, in Kutay Karaca & Fatma Ozkurt (eds.), Istanbul. Gelisim University Press, 2017, June 2017.
YAN S., Lessons from Italian Constitutional Referendum, Global Times (Chinese version). 2016.
YAN S., Normative Power Europe on Sustainable Development? The EU’s Engagement with China, The 6th Workshop on EU-China Relations in Global Politics, ‘EU-Asian Sustainable Development’, European Union Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei. 2017.
YAN S., Shaping EU Investment Policy: the European Parliament and EU-China Negotiation on a Bilateral Comprehensive Agreement on Investment, International conference ‘The EU-China Bilateral Comprehensive Agreement on Investment’, European Economic and Social Committee, Brussels. 2017.
YAN S., Studying the EU, Invited lecture for ‘European Forum’, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou. 2016.
YAN S., Substantial, Symbolic and Supplementary: Making Sense of the European Parliament's Role in EU Relations with China from a Role Theory Perspective, University of Hong Kong. 2017.
YAN S., They are the real masters of the EU, 他们才是欧盟‘真正的统治者, China Financial Weekly. 财经国家周刊, 2017.


Researcher : YAO L

List of Research Outputs

YAO L., The First Chinese Face of Edgar Allan Poe, University of Hong Kong. 2016.


Researcher : YU H

List of Research Outputs

YU H., From Angry Youth to Silent Observers: How Selective Framing of Anti-foreign Protests in Social Media Weakens Political Participation among Chinese University Students, 29th Association of Chinese Political Studies Annual Conference and International Symposium, Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California, USA. 2016.
YU H., Media Framing and Chinese Netizens' Attitudes toward Anti-foreign Collective Actions: Evidence from Online Experiments, Annual Convention of the International Studies Association 2017, Baltimore, MD, USA. 2017.
YU H., Online Political Efficacy as a Predictor of Online Collective Rights Defense Engagement in China, Annual Conference of the New York State Political Science Association 2017, Rochester, NY, USA. 2017.
YU H., Online Political Efficacy as a Predictor of Online Collective Rights Defense Engagement in China, Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, Austin, TX, USA. 2017.
YU H., Reaching Out Award 2016-17, HKSAR. 2017.


Researcher : ZHANG M

List of Research Outputs

ZHANG M., A Japanese adult video actress in Mainland China: a case study of Aoi Sola, University of Hong Kong. 2017.


Researcher : ZHANG P

List of Research Outputs

ZHANG P., Intertextuality of the Nanjing Massacre: The Afterlife of Missionary Writings in Transnational Literature and Cinema, University of Hong Kong. 2017.


Researcher : ZHANG Y

List of Research Outputs

ZHANG Y., Cantopop as a vehicle for dialogue: A Bakhtinian analysis of vernacular culture and social context in Olin Xi's lyrics, INCOLAS/HKU PhD Sociolinguistic Seminar, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. 2016.


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