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.
2018 - 2019
Prof. CHOW Yiu Fai
Different ages, different precarities? A study of single women doing creative work in Shanghai from the perspective of age
2018 - 2020
Dr. LEE Siu Fan
How Proper Names Refer: Is Causal Descriptivism Defensible?
2018 - 2020
Dr. LI Mingxing
Perceptual Basis of Language Typology: An Experimental Study of Syllable-final Consonants
2018
Prof. LO Ming Tung
Spatial Construction of Etiquette Spread in the Yeongnam Region During the Joseon Period
2018 - 2020
Prof. ZHANG Hongsheng
The Development of Qing ci Poetry During the Taiping Civil War of 19th Century China
2018 - 2020
Prof. CHAN Timothy Wai Keung
“Myth, Mountains, and Meditation: A New Reading of the Poetry of Li Bai (701–62)”
2017 - 2019
Dr. CHAN Benedict Shing Bun
A Philosophical Investigation of the Ethics of Human Rights to Health
2017 - 2018
Prof. John WAKEFIELD
A Semantic Analysis of English Loanwords in Cantonese
2017 - 2018
Dr. CHEUNG Charles Chi Wai
Exploring the new trend in researching pornography
2017 - 2018
Dr. PAN Janice Jun
Interpreting into the B language: A corpus-oriented study of pragmatic markers in interpreted political speeches from Chinese to English