Our research is supported by a variety of external and internal sources of funding. Here we feature some examples of research projects that have received funding on a competitive basis. Further details regarding our research efforts can be found in the profiles of individual researchers and on the departmental websites.
2015 - 2018
Dr. George Kam Wah Mak
The Annotation Question of the Chinese Protestant Bible, 1877-1917
2015 - 2018
Prof. Lauren F. Pfister
“Exploring Two Major savant missionaires’ Hermeneutic Engagements with Classical and Modern China: The French Jesuits Seraphin Couvreur (1835-1919) and Leon Wieger (1856-1933)”
2015 - 2017
Dr. Gladys CHONG
“Governing Desire in a Globalising World: A Comparative Study of Youth in Hong Kong and Beijing”
2014 - 2017
Prof. Zhang Hongsheng
A Study of Huiwen Ci in the Qing Dynasty
2014 - 2018
Prof. David Chung
A Study of Sources and Performance Practice Issues in Recently-Rediscovered Sources of Seventeenth-Century French Harpsichord Music
2014 - 2016
Dr. Winnie Chor
Discourse markers in Cantonese: grammaticalization, subjectification, and typological implications
2014 - 2017
Dr. Eirik Lang HARRIS
Han Fei’ Political Philosophy
2014 - 2015
Prof. Timothy Wai Keung CHAN
The Time-Travel of Liu Chen and Ruan Zhao: The Wonderland Romance and Its Variations in Medieval Chinese Literature
2013 - 2016
Dr. Ruth Y.Y. Hung
"Time Has Begun": Hu Feng and the Generation of Left-wing Intellectuals in 20th Century China"
2013 - 2016
Prof. LO MING TUNG
From Central Institution to Regional Indoctrination: The Interplay between Ritual Policies and Cultural Assimilation in the Didactic Transformation of Ancient Chinese Etiquette in the Chosun Dynasty of Korea from the 15th to 16th Century