| Ongoing Projects |
| (Arranged in alphabetical order of the first words in the project titles) |
| (A) |
GRF Projects |
| 1. |
Gridlocked: A History of Traffic in New York City before the Automomobile
(PI: Dr. David SCHLEY) |
| 2. |
Marginal People in Liminal Places: Non-elite Europeans in Colonial-era East Asian Port Cities
(PI: Dr. Catherine Frances LADDS) |
| 3. |
Networked names: Co-authoring nomenclature in eighteenth-century botany
(PI: Dr. Bettina DIETZ) |
| 4. |
Religion and Environment in Early China
(PI: Dr. Rebecca ROBINSON) |
| 5. |
Same Couple, Second Wedding: A Study of China’s Chongfeng huazhu Custom from the Eighteenth Century to the Mid-Twentieth Century
(PI: Prof. Clara Wing-chung HO) |
| 6. |
The Healing Ministry: Protestant Christianity and the History of Medical Care in Colonial Hong Kong, 1842-1997
(PI: Dr. Man-kong WONG) |
| 7. |
The Mass Production of Bronzes in 500-300 BC China
(PI: Dr. Kin-sum LI) |
| 8. |
The Japanese “Total-State” Experiment in Hong Kong, 1942-1945
(PI: Dr. Chi-man KWONG) |
| 9. |
The Production, Function, and Revitalization of Silk Textiles from Ancient China
(PI: Kin-sum LI) |
| 10. |
The Trans-Asian Trade in Turkish Opium, 1912-1940
(PI: Dr. Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal) |
| 11. |
Trading Diaspora and Merchant Community-The Sassoon and Kadoorie Family Enterprise in the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia and Coastal China, 1830-1990
(PI: Prof. Stephanie Po-yin CHUNG) |
| (B) |
ECS Projects |
| 1. |
Attaining Accuracy and Precision of Measuring Containers during the Qin Dynasty
(PI: Dr. Kin-sum LI) |
| 2. |
Chinese Mixed Race Communities in Eastern Java and Their Regional Connections: The Shaping of a Maritime Silk Road Corridor, 1400-1900
(PI: Dr. Oiyan LIU) |
| 3. |
Envisioning Future Warfare in China: Tactics, Technology, State, and National Mobilisation
(PI: Dr. Chi-man KWONG) |
| 4. |
Transnational Identities of the Global South Asian Diaspora in Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand, and South Africa, 1900s-1940s
(PI: Dr. Jatinder MANN) |
| 5. |
Transpacific Japanese Migrations and Multi-ethnic Nation Formation across the Pacific: 1920s-1940s
(PI: Dr. Noriaki HOSHINO) |
| (C) |
FRG Projects |
| 1. |
Early Modern Globalization through Macau in the 19th Century
(PI: Prof. Cindy Yik-yi CHU) |
| 2. |
Overseas Chinese and the Making of Nationality: The Chinese in Dutch Indonesia
(PI: Dr. Oiyan LIU) |
| 3. |
Religion and Environment in Early China
(PI: Dr. Rebecca ROBINSON) |
| (D) |
Others |
| 1. |
A History of the Hong Kong Bible Conference Association
(Funding: Hong Kong Bible Conference Association Ltd.; PI: Prof. Kam-keung LEE) |
| 2. |
Centennial History of Bethel Mission of China
(Funding: The Bethel Mission of China; PI: Prof. Kam-keung LEE)
|
| 3. |
Local history of Yan Gardan and Dongguan
(Funding : HKBU Service-Learning Mini-Grants. PI Dr. Daniel Kam-chau KWOK) |
| 4. |
Pictorial Representation of Sun Yat-sen in Newspapers beyond China since the Late 19th Century
(Funding: Dr. Sun Yat-sen Research Fund [Endowed]; PI: Prof. Clara Wing-chung HO; CI: Dr. Daniel Kam-chau KWOK and Dr. Raymond Kwun-sun LAU) |
| 5. |
“Where ‘Hong Kong in the Sea’ and ‘Hong Kong on the Land’ Meet -- A Study on the Conservation of Historic Building Clusters in the Ap Lei Chau-Aberdeen-Lamma Island Area”
(PI:Prof. Stephanie Po-yin CHUNG; CI: Prof. Clara Wing-chung HO, Dr. Kin-sum LI, Dr. Oiyan LIU, Dr. Kam-chau KWOK, Prof. Wing-shing TANG, Mr. Tony Lam) |
| Recently Completed Projects |
| (A) |
GRF / ECS / CERG Projects |
| 1. |
A Bookish Science: Eighteenth-century Botany and Its Use of Books
(PI: Dr. Bettina DIETZ) |
| 2. |
A Documentary History of Public Health in Hong Kong
(CI: Dr. Man-kong WONG) |
| 3. |
A History of Diseases and Epidemics in Hong Kong, 1841-2003
(PI: Dr. Man-kong WONG) |
| 4. |
A History of the London Missionary Society in Hong Kong, 1842-1922
(PI: Dr. Man-kong WONG) |
| 5. |
An Archival Research of the Diplomatic Career of Sir Edward as British Ambassador to China, 1974-1978
(PI: Dr. Man-kong WONG) |
| 6. |
Children of Empire: The History of Eurasians in China, Hong Kong and Britain, 1830-1960
(PI: Dr. Catherine Frances LADDS) |
| 7. |
China’s Southeast Asia: Territory, People, Civilization, and Europe’s Fear
(PI: Dr. Oiyan LIU) |
| 8. |
Escape to Inwardness: Philosophical Responses to Modernity and Modernization in China during the 1930s
(PI: Prof. Ricardo King-sang MAK) |
| 9. |
Family, Ethnicity and Business Expansion - the Case of the Eu Yan Sang Firm in Guangzhou, Hong Kong, the Straits Settlements and British Malaya, 1876-1999”
(PI: Prof. Stephanie Po-yin CHUNG)
|
| 10. |
Herstory: Historical Works by Women in Imperial China
(PI: Prof. Clara Wing-chung HO) |
| 11. |
Institutionalisation of Modern Military Science in Republican Chinese Armies: A Study Focusing on the Fengtian and the National Revolutionary Armies, 1911-1937
(PI: Dr. Chi-man KWONG) |
| 12. |
Islamic Endowments [the waqf] and the Chinese Ancestral Tong: A Comparative Appraisal of the Evolution of Ethical Capitalism, 1830-2007
(PI: Prof. Stephanie Po-yin CHUNG) |
| 13. |
Making the Capitalist City: The B&O Railroad and Urban Space in Baltimore, 1827-1877
(PI: Dr. David SCHLEY) |
| 14. |
Managing Social Order in Maritime South China: The Late Ming (1550-1645) Judicial Court Experiences
(PI: Dr. Ka-chai TAM) |
| 15. |
Native History of Early Modern Amuria
(PI: Dr. Loretta KIM) |
| 16. |
Representation of Teaching Mothers in Paintings: A Study of Messages Embedded in the Kezi tu Production in Qing China
(PI: Prof. Clara Wing-chung HO) |
| 17. |
The Collaborative Epistemic Culture of Eighteenth-century Natural History
(PI: Dr. Bettina DIETZ) |
| 18. |
The Glocalization of the Catholic Church in the Context of Higher Education in China in the First Half of the 20th Century
(PI: Prof. Cindy Yik-yi CHU) |
| 19. |
The Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong, 1921-1969: Their Contribution in Education, Social Services and Welfare
(PI: Prof. Cindy Yik-yi CHU) |
| 20. |
The Ming-Qing Transition (1619-1740): A Reassessment from the Legal Angle
(PI: Dr. Ka-chai TAM) |
| 21. |
The Rise of a New Political Horizon: The Chinese Reception of Rousseau’s Of the Social Contract, 1895-1925
(PI: Dr. Guangxin FAN) |
| (B) |
FRG Projects |
| 1. |
A Business History of Two Chinese Ancestral Tongs: The Story of Lee Cheuk Yue Tong and Eu Sai Hong Tong, 1860s-1960s
(PI: Prof. Stephanie Po-yin CHUNG) |
| 2. |
A History of Diseases and Epidemics in Hong Kong (1840s–1960s): A Pilot Project
(PI: Dr. Man-kong WONG) |
| 3. |
A Study of the Intellectual Couple Hu Wenkai and Wang Xiuqin
(PI: Prof. Clara Wing-chung HO) |
| 4. |
A Study of the Women’s Press in Late Qing China
(PI: Prof. Kai-wing CHOW) |
| 5. |
An Archival Research on the Diplomatic Career of Sir Edward Youde as British Ambassador to China, 1974-1978
(PI: Dr. Man-kong WONG) |
| 6. |
An Oral History of HKBU Student-centered Learning Experience in Beijing, 1989-2014: The Summer Sojourn of the China Studies Programme at Tsinghua University as the Case Study
(PI: Dr. Man-kong WONG) |
| 7. |
Advice on Wealth Management Given by a Mother in Late Qing and Early Republican Guangdong: A Study of Qu Fengzhu and Her Zhijia Yaoyi
(PI: Prof. Clara Wing-chung HO) |
| 8. |
Cameralist Experiments in Late Eighteenth-Century Europe
(PI: Dr. Bettina DIETZ) |
| 9. |
Chinese Servicemen in the British Military, 1857-1945
(PI: Dr. Chi-man KWONG) |
| 10. |
Contextualizing the Chinese Reception of Rousseau's Of the Social Contract: 1895-1925
(PI: Dr. Guangxin FAN) |
| 11. |
Cultural Mediators Between Two Worlds: The Chinese Germanists and the German Sinologists in the Inter-war Years
(PI: Prof. Ricardo King-sang MAK) |
| 12. |
Database of Tribute and Return Gifts between Heilongjiang Tribes and the Qing Dynasty Government
(PI: Dr. Loretta KIM) |
| 13. |
Enlightened Technology: Cameralist Experiments in Late Eighteenth-Century Europe
(PI: Dr. Bettina DIETZ) |
| 14. |
Faithfully Outlawed: Chinese Catholics Facing the Mid-Qing Persecution of Christianity (1721-1860) in Light of Judicial Records from the Xingke Tiben from the Qing Period
(PI: Dr. Ka-chai TAM) |
| 15. |
Happy Birthday vs Rest in Peace: Birthday Greetings and Bereavement Messages for Women in Late Imperial and Republican China
(PI: Prof. Clara Wing-chung HO) |
| 16. |
Identifying Female Historians in Imperial China
(PI: Prof. Clara Wing-chung HO) |
| 17. |
Legal Transmission and Market Governance: Rulings on Hindu Debutters, Islamic Waqfs and Chinese Tongs in Colonia Courts (India, Malaya and Hong Kong, 1850s-1980s)
(PI: Prof. Stephanie Po-yin CHUNG) |
| 18. |
Making the Capitalist City: The B&O and Urban Space in Baltimore, 1827-1877
(PI: Dr. David SCHLEY) |
| 19. |
Migration and Enterprises: A Business History of Three Migrant Families in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore, 1860-2000
(PI: Prof. Stephanie Po-yin CHUNG) |
| 20. |
Mothers as Teachers: Evidences from Paintings in Qing China
(PI: Prof. Clara Wing-chung HO) |
| 21. |
Public Administration of Cultural Pluralism in Hong Kong, 1947-2011
(PI: Dr. Loretta KIM) |
| 22. |
Reinventing Confucianism through German Cultural Ideals: The Thoughts of Zong Baihua (1897-1986), He Lin (1902-1992) and Zhang Junmai (1887-1969)
(PI: Prof. Ricardo King-sang MAK) |
| 23. |
Rousseau's Legacy in Modern Chinese Political Culture: The Reception of Foreign Ideas and the Search for A Glorious Native Tradition
(PI: Dr. Fan Guangxin) |
| 24. |
Sino-Foreign Relations in Chinese Christianity during the Republican Era
(PI: Prof. Cindy Yik-yi CHU) |
| 25. |
Social and Cultural Exchanges in Early Modern Amuria
(PI: Dr. Loretta KIM) |
| 26. |
The Catholic Church in China: 1978 to the Present
(PI: Prof. Cindy Yik-yi CHU) |
| 27. |
The Chinese Path to Enlightenment
(PI: Prof. Ricardo King-sang MAK) |
| 28. |
The Chinese Sisters of the Precious Blood and the Evolution of the Catholic Church
(PI: Prof. Cindy Yik-yi CHU) |
| 29. |
The Designs and Weaving Techniques of Early Chinese Textiles
(PI: Dr. Kin-sum LI) |
| 30. |
The Glocalization of the Catholic Church in the Context of Higher Education in China in the First Half of the 20th Century
(PI: Prof Cindy Yik-yi CHU) |
| 31. |
The Reception of German Romanticism in Early Twentieth Century China (PI: Prof. Ricardo King-sang MAK) |
| 32. |
Trading Diaspora and Business Expansion - The Jewish Communities in India, Southeast Asia and Coastal China, 1830-1950
(PI: Prof. Stephanie Po-yin CHUNG) |
| 33. |
Trading Diaspora in Southeast Asia and South China - The Big Hadhrami Merchant Families of Singapore, 1830-2010
(PI: Prof Stephanie Po-yin CHUNG) |
| 34. |
Traditional Korean Sports during the Koryö Dynasty (918-1392)
(PI: Dr. Wing-chung FAN) |
| 35. |
Trafficking of Women and Children in Asia: A Contemporary Form of Slavery
(PI: Prof. Cindy Yik-yi CHU) |
| 36. |
Victor Elias Sassoon (1881-1961) and the Cathay Land Investment Company
(PI: Prof. Stephanie Po-yin CHUNG) |
| 37. |
Works by Qing Women on Educating Their Children
(PI: Prof. Clara Wing-chung HO) |
| (C) |
TDG Projects |
| 1. |
Dataset Development and Historical Research
(CI: Dr. Loretta KIM) |
| 2. |
Fostering Student Autonomy and Instructor-Student Co-Teaching and Co-Publishing
(CI: Dr. Loretta KIM) |
| 3. |
Re-examining Chinese History with a Gender Perspective: Introduction to New Teaching and Learning Approaches
(PI: Prof. Clara Wing-chung HO) |
| 4. |
Teaching History in a New Era: Meeting the 2012 Challenges
(PI: Prof. Ricardo King-sang MAK; CI: Prof Clara Wing-chung HO) |
| 5. |
Teaching Modern Chinese History through the Critical Use of Films
(TDG; PI: Dr. Guangxin FAN) |
| (D) |
Others |
| 1. |
A History of the Gurkha Soldiers in Hong Kong
(Funding: Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence; PI: Dr. Chi-man KWONG) |
| 2. |
A Study of Memorial Parks in Honor of Dr. Sun Yat-sen in Different Countries
(Funding: Dr. Sun Yat-sen Research Fund [Endowed] and Hung Hin Shiu Charitable Foundation [at Institute of Creativity, HKBU]; PI: Prof. Clara Wing-chung HO; CI: Dr. Daniel Kam-chau KWOK and Dr. Raymond Kwun-sun LAU) |
| 3. |
Agricultural Crops of Fujian under the Qing Dynasty
(Funding: Centre for China Urban and Regional Studies, HKBU; PI: Prof. Kam-keung LEE) |
| 4. |
An International Conference on the Sources for Chinese Women’s History
(Funding: Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, Dr. Arthur C. F. Lau, & HKBU; PI: Prof. Clara Wing-chung Ho) |
| 5. |
Biographies of Church Leaders in Hong Kong
(Funding: The Hong Kong Chinese Christian Churches Union; PI: Prof. Kam-keung LEE) |
| 6. |
Centenary History of the Hong Kong Chinese Christian Churches Union
(Funding: The Hong Kong Chinese Christian Churches Union; PI: Prof. Kam-keung LEE) |
| 7. |
Community Project for Refugees in Hong Kong
(Funding: HKBU Service-Learning Mini-Grants, PI: Dr. Daniel Kam-chau KWOK) |
| 8. |
Dr. Sun Yat-sen and His Teachers, Friends
(Funding: Dr. Sun Yat-sen Museum; PI: Prof. Kam-keung LEE) |
| 9. |
Enhancing Students’ Graduate Attributes (GAs) through Problem Based Learning and Service Learning in Formal Academic Courses
(Funding: Member of the Community of Practice [CoP] Project; PI: Prof. Cindy Yik-yi CHU) |
| 10. |
Icons of Post-War Hong Kong
(Funding: Leisure and Cultural Services Department, HKSAR Government; PI: Prof. Ricardo King-sang MAK) |
| 11. |
Industrial Production and Unification of the Weight System in the Qin Empire
(Funding: Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange; PI: Dr. Kin-sum LI) |
| 12. |
Memoirs of Dr. Lau Wah Sum
(Funding: private donation; PI: Prof. Kam-keung LEE) |
| 13. |
Post War Hong Kong Comics: A History
(Funding: Leisure and Cultural Services Department, HKSAR Government; PI: Prof. Ricardo King-sang MAK) |
| 14. |
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Oral History Project
(Funding: Queen Elizabeth Hospital; PI: Dr. Man-kong WONG) |
| 15. |
Sino-Japanese War and Modern China
(Funding: Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defense; PI: Prof. Kam-keung LEE) |
| 16. |
Tao Xingzhi and Modern Chinese Education
(Funding: Chung Yeh Educational Organization Co. Ltd.; PI: Prof. Kai-wing CHOW) |
| 17. |
Using Modern Examples to Aid in Understanding Visual Appreciation of Tea Ceremony Described in Daguan Chalun
(FOSS Collaborative Research Grant; PI: Dr. Sammy Kin-sum LI; CI: Dr. Simon HAN Quanbin and Dr. Jiang LEI) |
