HK INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITIES & SOC. SCI.



Researcher : BERNARDI JUNQUEIRA LF

List of Research Outputs

BERNARDI JUNQUEIRA L.F., Popular Healing in Printed Medical Books: The Compilation and Publication of the Chuanya from the Late Qing through the Republican Period, 《串雅》——清代及民國版本解讀, Monumenta Serica. 華裔學志, 2018, 66: 391-436.
BERNARDI JUNQUEIRA L.F., Revealing Secrets: Talismanic Healing and Print Culture in the Late Qing and Republican China, 11th Spring History Symposium. 2019.


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 : Davies SNG

List of Research Outputs

Lai L.W.C., Lorne F.T. and Davies S.N.G., A Reflection on the Trading of Pollution Rights via Land Use Exchanges and Controls: Coase Theorems, Coase’s Land Use Parable, and Schumpeterian Innovations, Progress in Planning. Elsevier, 2018.


Researcher : HUA S

List of Research Outputs

HUA S., The Art of Fang Zhaoling: Continuity in Chinese Ink Painting and Transcultural Modernity, 方召麐的藝術——淺談中國現代水墨畫文化傳統的延續與跨文化的現代性探索, Journal of Nanjing Arts Institute(Fine Arts & Design). 南京艺术学院学报:美 术与设计, Nanjing, China, Nanjing Arts Institute, 2018, 2018 (4): 181-187.


Researcher : Hirsh MB

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
Completion Date:03/2019


Project Title:American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting; Technical Experts and the Production of Airport Infrastructure in Asia
Investigator(s):Hirsh MB
Department:Geography
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2019


List of Research Outputs

Leung K.C.A., Nakayama I., Hirsh M.B. and Hård M., Presenting the Collaborative Research Project “Making Modernity in East Asia: Technologies of Everyday Life, 19th-21st Centuries”, The 9th Tensions of Europe conference: Decoding Europe: Technological Pasts in the Digital Age. 2019.


Researcher : ISKRA AM

List of Research Outputs

ISKRA A.M., Healing the Nation through self-discovery: Body-Heart-Soul fever and the emergence of Homo Sentimentalis in the PRC, The Inaugural Conference of the East Asian Society for the Scientific Study of Religion: Religiosity, Secularity and Pluralism in the Global East. 2018.
ISKRA A.M., Lee Hysan-HKIHSS Fellowship for Postgraduate Students/Senior Undergraduate Students, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong. 2018.


Researcher : LINK GJ

List of Research Outputs

LINK G.J., Mosuo Kinship and State Civilisation: Making “Quality” Family in Southwest China, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong. 2019.


Researcher : LIU X

List of Research Outputs

LIU X., Smoke and Silkworms: Itineraries of Materia Complexes across Euraisa, In: Pamela H. Smith, Entangled Itineraries: Materials, Practices, and Knowledges across Eurasia. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019, 165-181.
Smith P.H., DeVinney J., Grafit S. and LIU X., Smoke and Silkworms: Itineraries of Material Complexes across Eurasia, In: Pamela H. Smith, Entangled Itineraries: Materials, Practices, and Knowledges across Eurasia. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019, 165-181.


Researcher : Leung A.K.C.

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


Project Title:The Birth of East Asian Modern Entrepreneurship: The Case of Soy Sauce Making, ca. 1880-1960
Investigator(s):Leung KCA, Nakayama I
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:10/2018


List of Research Outputs



Researcher : Leung AKC

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


Project Title:The Birth of East Asian Modern Entrepreneurship: The Case of Soy Sauce Making, ca. 1880-1960
Investigator(s):Leung KCA, Nakayama I
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:10/2018


List of Research Outputs



Researcher : Leung KCA

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


Project Title:The Birth of East Asian Modern Entrepreneurship: The Case of Soy Sauce Making, ca. 1880-1960
Investigator(s):Leung KCA, Nakayama I
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:10/2018


List of Research Outputs

Leung K.C.A., A ‘South’ Imagined and Lived: The Entanglement of Medical Things, Experts, and Identities in Premodern East Asia’s South, In: Tagliacozzo, Siu and Perdue (eds.) , Asia Inside Out: Itinerant People. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2019, 122-145.
Leung K.C.A., A “South” Imagined and Lived: The Entanglement of Medical Things and Experts in Pre-Modern East Asia, Workshop on “Asia Inside Out: Hanoi”, Vietnam, 9-10 January 2017. 2019.
Leung K.C.A., Becoming an everyday food: changing technology and values of modern Chinese soy sauce 1750-1950, 7th Global Social Science Graduate Student Conference: Becoming Agents of Technological Change, Hong Kong Baptist University, 17 April 2019. 2019.
Leung K.C.A., Book review on Novel Medicine: Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China by Andrew Schonebaum, The Journal of Asian Studies. Cambridge University Press, 2019, Volume 78, Issue 1 - February 2019: 179-180.
Leung K.C.A., 中國慈善文化的演變與傳承: 明末清初以來慈善活動的公共空間, China Charity Culture Forum 2018, Beijing, 20 November 2018. 中國慈善文化論壇2018, 2018.
Leung K.C.A. and Chen M., Global circulation of Asafoetida as a drug/spice from the 5th to the 19th centuries: with a focus on its reception in East Asia, Workshop on “Itineraries of Materials, Recipes, Techniques, and Knowledge in the Early Modern World”, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, 9-11 July 2014 and 13-24 July 2015. 2019.
Leung K.C.A., Nakayama I., Hirsh M.B. and Hård M., Presenting the Collaborative Research Project “Making Modernity in East Asia: Technologies of Everyday Life, 19th-21st Centuries”, The 9th Tensions of Europe conference: Decoding Europe: Technological Pasts in the Digital Age. 2019.
Leung K.C.A., The construction of ‘Lingnan materia medica’ as shown in medical texts and materials circulating in East Asia’s South, 17th-19th centuries, International Conference on "History of Books in Vietnam", Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Hanoi, 23-25 May 2018. 2019.
Leung K.C.A. and Chen M., The itinerary of Hing/Awei/Asafetida across Eurasia, 400-1800, In: Pamela H. Smith, Entangled Itineraries: Materials, Practices, and Knowledges across Eurasia. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019, 141-164.
Leung K.C.A., 東亞前近代的"南方醫藥"’觀: 從異域想像到地域意識的形成, “跨越邊際的古代東方 醫學:對話與互動”國 際學術討論會, Peking University, 22-23 September 2018, 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 : Nakayama I

List of Research Outputs

Leung K.C.A., Nakayama I., Hirsh M.B. and Hård M., Presenting the Collaborative Research Project “Making Modernity in East Asia: Technologies of Everyday Life, 19th-21st Centuries”, The 9th Tensions of Europe conference: Decoding Europe: Technological Pasts in the Digital Age. 2019.
Nakayama I., Historicising Menstruation, Speaking of History lecture, Renmin University. 2019.
Nakayama I., Technologies and Values of Japanese Soy Sauce, Making East Asian Foods: Technologies and Values, 19th-21 centuries. 2019.


Researcher : Palmer DA

Project Title:Rethinking Spirituality and Religion in China
Investigator(s):Palmer DA
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:NeoUnion ECS Organization
Start Date:01/2018


Project Title:Infrastructures of Faith: Religious Mobility on the Belt and Road (CRF)
Investigator(s):Palmer DA
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding for Strategic Interdisciplinary Research Scheme
Start Date:04/2018


Project Title:Daoism, Ethnic Identity and State Socialism: the Lanten Yao on the China-Vietnam-Laos Borderland
Investigator(s):Palmer DA
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:09/2018


Project Title:Daoist Ritual, Local Society and the State: Ethnography, Text and Theory
Investigator(s):Palmer DA
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme
Start Date:12/2018


Project Title:Infrastructures of Faith: Religious Mobility on the Belt and Road
Investigator(s):Palmer DA, Halkias G, Li J, Qian J
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) - Group Research Project
Start Date:06/2019


List of Research Outputs

Palmer D.A., HKU Faculty of Social Sciences Outstanding Research Output award, HKU Faculty of Social Sciences. 2018.
Palmer D.A., Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship, RGC. 2018.


Researcher : RAO Y

List of Research Outputs

RAO Y., From Confucianism to Psychology: Rebooting internet addicts in China, In: Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The 11th Annual CUHK Anthropology Postgraduate Student Forum. 2019.
RAO Y., Trusting Strangers with Big Data: Credit, Morality, and Power on China's P2P Lending Platforms, In: Anthropology Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Today Guest Speech Series 2019. 2019.
RAO Y., Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation. 2019.


Researcher : Santos GD

List of Research Outputs

Santos G.D., Visiting Scholar Fellowship (2018-2019), Research Cluster: Histories of Planning, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. 2018.
Zhang J. and Santos G.D., "Digital Humanitarians: Online Charity Platforms in Contemporary China", 18th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, July 16-20 2018.. 2018.
Zhang J. and Santos G.D., "From Agricultural Commodities to Domestic Waste Materials: Changing Infrastructures of Human Waste Management in Republican Canton", 5th AAS-in-Asia Conference, Association for Asian Studies, New Delhi, July. New Delhi, 2018.
Zhang J. and Santos G.D., "From Agricultural Commodities to Domestic Waste Materials: Changing Infrastructures of Human Waste Management in Republican Canton", AAS in Asia Meeting, New Delhi, India (Panel: Mundane Matters: Everyday Politics in Chinese Metropolises), July 6 2018. 2018.


Researcher : TIAN J

List of Research Outputs

TIAN J., Redefining the “Self” through Martial Arts — Ethic, Honor, and Moral Bodies in Transnational Kendo in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong. 2018.


Researcher : Trambaiolo DM

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


List of Research Outputs

Trambaiolo D.M., Senior Book Review Editor, Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity. 2019.


Researcher : WINIGER FV

List of Research Outputs

Palmer D.A. and WINIGER F.V., Secularization, Sacralization and Subject Formation in Modern China, In: Kenneth Dean and Peter van der Veer , The Secular in South, East, and Southeast Asia. Cham (Switzerland), Palgrave MacMillan, 2018, 83-105.


Researcher : WRIGHT AJ

List of Research Outputs

WRIGHT A.J., Algorithmic Care in the Robotocene: a Case Study from Japan, Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Conference. Sydney, 2018.
WRIGHT A.J., Robertson, Jennifer 2018. Robo sapiens Japanicus. Robots, gender, family, and the Japanese nation. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 280 pp. Pb: £24.00. ISBN: 9780520283206., Social Anthropology. 2019, 27: 130-131.


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 : XIAO Z

List of Research Outputs

XIAO Z., Infrastructure of Invisibility: Public Mortuary in Modern China, The 7th Global Social Sciences Graduate Student Conference “Becoming Agents of Technological Change”. 2019.


Researcher : XING L

List of Research Outputs

XING L., Combining ethnography with sociotechnical systems: A case study of taxi and e-hailing drivers in Xi'an, China, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting 2018.


Researcher : ZHONG Y

List of Research Outputs

ZHONG Y., Mothering with Mobile Communication Technologies in Urban China, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong. 2019.


Researcher : Zhang C

List of Research Outputs

Zhang C., Hang Seng Bank Golden Jubilee Education Fund for Research, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. 2019.


Researcher : Zhang J

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




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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