HK INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITIES & SOC. SCI.



Researcher : Cao N

Project Title:108th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association Christian revival and the politics of morality in urban China
Investigator(s):Cao N
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:12/2009




Researcher : Cao NL

Project Title:108th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association Christian revival and the politics of morality in urban China
Investigator(s):Cao N
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:12/2009




Researcher : Chin JK

Project Title: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 for New Staff
Start Date:08/2014


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


Project Title:Urban Design. Research and Education; The Ideal School of Urban Design
Investigator(s):Hirsh MB
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2018
Completion Date:06/2018




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
Completion Date:12/2017


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



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
Completion Date:12/2017


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



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
Completion Date:12/2017


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 Pre-modern Entanglement of Medical Things, Experts, and Identities in East Asia’s South, The 9th International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicines (ICTAM IX), University of Kiel, Germany, 6-12 August 2017. 2017.
Leung K.C.A., Competing medical traditions in colonial Asia: The framing and managing of beriberi/jiaoqi/kakké 腳氣, The 9th Meeting of International Society for the History of Medicine, Peking University, 7 September 2017. 國際醫學史學會第九屆學術會議, 2017.
Leung K.C.A. and Nakayama I., In: Angela Ki Che Leung and Izumi Nakayama, Gender, Health, and History in Modern East Asia. Hong Kong, HKU Press, 2017, 336.
Leung K.C.A., History of Variolation and Vaccination against Smallpox, 古代道教仙人是免疫学的先驱?, Fifth Summer Workshop on Chinese History, Nankai University, Tianjin, 6 July 2017. 第五屆中國史研習營, 2017.
Leung K.C.A., 李約瑟的“中國科技文明史”對今天科技史研究的影響與意義, Opening Ceremony of “Chinese Wartime Science through the Lens of Joseph Needham” Exhibition, Hong Kong Baptist University, 22 January 2018. 2018.
Leung K.C.A., Weak Men and Barren Women: Framing Beriberi/Jiaoqi/Kakké in Modern East Asia, ca.1830-1940, Gender, Health, and History in Modern East Asia. Hong Kong, HKU Press, 2017, 195-215.


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
Completion Date:11/2017


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


Project Title:Negotiating Spirituality and Urban Space in Jiangbeicheng: Local History, Religion and the Making of Modern China
Investigator(s):Li J
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Start Date:01/2018




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

Bolander B.W.R. and Mostowlansky T., Co-editor of special issue "Language and Globalization in South and Central Asian Spaces", In: Ofelia Garcia (journal editor), International Journal of the Sociology of Language. Mouton de Gruyter, 2017, 247: 149.
Bolander B.W.R. and Mostowlansky T., Introducing Language and Globalization in South and Central Asian Spaces, In: Ofelia Garcia (journal editor) Brook Bolander & Till Mostowlansky (editors of special issue), International Journal of the Sociology of Language. Mouton de Gruyter, 2017, 247.
Mostowlansky T., Building Bridges across the Oxus: Language, Development, and Globalization at the Tajik-Afghan Frontier, In: Ofelia Garcia (journal editor) Brook Bolander & Till Mostowlansky (editors of special issue), International Journal of the Sociology of Language. Mouton de Gruyter, 2017, 247.
Mostowlansky T., Development Institutions and Religious Networks in the Pamirian Borderlands, In: Alexander Horstmann, Martin Saxer, Alessandro Rippa, Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands. Routledge, 2018.


Researcher : Nakayama I

List of Research Outputs

Leung K.C.A. and Nakayama I., In: Angela Ki Che Leung and Izumi Nakayama, Gender, Health, and History in Modern East Asia. Hong Kong, HKU Press, 2017, 336.
Nakayama I., Gender, Health, and the Problem of “Precocious Puberty” in Meiji Japan, Gender, Health, and History in Modern East Asia. Hong Kong, HKU Press, 2017, 37-60.
Nakayama I., Shifting Mores, Stagnant Laws: Fertility Politics In East Asia, AsiaGlobal Online. 2018.
Nakayama I., Shoyu and Hospitals: The Emergence of Low Sodium Soy Sauce in Modern Japan, Annual Meeting for the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S). 2017.
Nakayama I., Speedy Soy Sauce: Togano Meijiro and his rapid brewing method in 20th century Japan, Workshop on "The History of Food Technology," organised by HKIHSS, East Asian Science, Technology, and Society: an International Journal, and the Department of History, National Chi Nan University (Taiwan). 2018.


Researcher : Santos GD

Project Title:116th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association; Chinese Family Matters: Hierarchy, Conflict, and Negotiation
Investigator(s):Santos GD
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2017


List of Research Outputs

Santos G.D., "Reproductive Labor and Gynocentric Technologies in East Asia 1800s-2000s", International Symposium: "Kinship and Politics: Rethinking a Conceptual Split and its Epistemic Implications in the Social Sciences - Unit 15," organised by "Kinship and Politics" Research Group, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University, Germany, July 16 2017.. 2017.
Santos G.D., "Rural Midwives and Women’s Networks of Maternity Care in rural South China, 1960s-2010s", International Conference: “China in Time and Space: G. William Skinner’s Ideas Going Forward”, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. 2018.
Santos G.D., "Transforming Patriarchy. Some Afterthoughts", Book Forum: The Politics and Ethics of Patriarchy in Contemporary China. A Conversation about Sex, Family, and Power [Debating the book: Transforming Patriarchy. Chinese Families in the 21st Century. Edited by Gonçalo Santos and Stevan Harrell. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 2017], organized by China Studies Centre and Department of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong.. 2017.
Santos G.D., "Women and Birth in Transition", USC Symposium on Chinese Society and Policy: “The Transition of Marriage and Family in China,” organized by Universities Service Centre (USC) for China Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, October 20 2017. 2017.
Santos G.D., Report of Invited Discussant, AAA Double Panel: Chinese Family Matters: Hierarchy, Conflict, and Negotiation, 116th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association Washington DC, Nov 29 - Dec 3 2017. 2017.
Santos G.D., TechnoViews #1 "Artisans in Thailand and Greece." Interview with Prof. Michael Herzfeld (Harvard), TechnoViews YouTube Channel, Sci-Tech Asia Collective. 2018.
Santos G.D., TechnoViews #2 "The Crafting of the 10.000 Things" Interview with Prof. Dagmar Schäfer (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science), TechnoViews, YouTube Channel, Sci-Tech Asia Collective. 2018.
Santos G.D., Technological Choices and Modern Material Civilization. Reflections on Everyday Toilet Practices in rural South China, In: Johann Arnason and Chris Hann, Anthropology and Civilizational Analysis. Eurasian Explorations. New York, State University New York Press, 2018, 259-280.
Santos G.D., Visiting Scholar Fellowship (Summer 2017), Collaborative Research Project: “Kinship and Politics: Rethinking a Conceptual Split and its Epistemic Implications in the Social Sciences”, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Bielefeld University, Germany . 2017.
Santos G.D., “Rural Midwives and Women’s Networks of Maternity Care in rural South China, 1960s-2010s.”, International Conference: “China in Time and Space: G. William Skinner’s Ideas Going Forward,” organized by Stevan Harrell (Univ. of Washington) and William Lavely (Univ. of Washington), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, June 20-23 2018.. 2018.


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 for New Staff
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:HSS Annual Meeting 2017; Visual representations of tactile knowledge: Early modern Japanese images of bone manipulation and abdominal palpation
Investigator(s):Trambaiolo DM
Department:School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2017
Completion Date:11/2017




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 : 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
Completion Date:12/2017


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


Project Title:Deconstructing the Units in Practices: Producing the Political Order and the Border through Kingship; Love for the Family, Service for the Nation: Middle-Class Family Practices in Contemporary Urban China
Investigator(s):Zhang J
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2017
Completion Date:07/2017


List of Research Outputs

Zhang J., Love for the Family, Service for the Nation: Middle-Class Family Practices in Contemporary Urban China, Deconstructing the Units in Practices: Producing the Political Order and the Border through Kinship. 2017.
Zhang J., Materializing a form of urban governance: when street building intersected with city building in Republican Canton (Guangzhou), China, History and Technology. 2017, 33 (2): 153-174.


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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