Ongoing Projects (Arranged in alphabetical order of the first words in the project titles) (A) GRF Projects 1. Centering Dutch Indies Chinese from the Margins: On Nationality and Subjectness in an Era of Inter-Imperial Rivalry, ca. 1854-1930 (Dr. Oiyan LIU) 2. Fixing the Outdated Ancestral Rule: the Formation of the Hongzhi Wenxing tiaoli and the Socio-economic Transformations of Mid-Ming China in the Light of the Huang Ming tiaofa shi leizuan and Other Legal Sources from 15th Century (Dr. Ka-chai TAM) 3. Gridlocked: A History of Traffic in New York City before the Automobile (PI: Dr. David SCHLEY) 4. Marginal People in Liminal Places: Non-elite Europeans in Colonial-era East Asian Port Cities (PI: Dr. Catherine Frances LADDS) 5. Networked names: Co-authoring nomenclature in eighteenth-century botany (PI: Dr. Bettina DIETZ) 6. Religion and Environment in Early China (PI: Dr. Rebecca ROBINSON) 7. The Healing Ministry: Protestant Christianity and the History of Medical Care in Colonial Hong Kong, 1842-1997 (PI: Dr. Man-kong WONG) 8. The Japanese “Total-State” Experiment in Hong Kong, 1942-1945 (PI: Dr. Chi-man KWONG) 9. The Joy and Frustration of Aging: Self-narratives of Men and Women in Qing China (PI: Prof. Clara Wing-chung HO) 10. The Mass Production of Bronzes in 500-300 BC China (PI: Dr. Kin-sum LI) 11. The Production, Function, and Revitalization of Silk Textiles from Ancient China (PI: Kin-sum LI) 12. The Rise of Phlegm as Embodied Emotion in Chinese Medicine (960-1911) (PI: Dr. Natalie KOEHLE) 13. The Trans-Asian Trade in Turkish Opium, 1912-1940 (PI: Dr. Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal) 14. 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. Fluid Fire: The Rise of Phlegm as Embodied Emotion in the Chinese World (PI: Dr. Natalie KOEHLE) 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 Global Study of Streets Named after Sun Yat-sen (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) 2. A History of the Hong Kong Bible Conference Association (Funding: Hong Kong Bible Conference Association Ltd.; PI: Prof. Kam-keung LEE) 3. Centennial History of Bethel Mission of China (Funding: The Bethel Mission of China; PI: Prof. Kam-keung LEE) 4. Local history of Yan Gardan and Dongguan (Funding : HKBU Service-Learning Mini-Grants. PI Dr. Daniel Kam-chau KWOK) 5. Mid-Autumn Festival: The Pok Fu Lam Fire Dragon Dance (Funding: Intangible Cultural Heritage Office, Leisure and Cultural Services Department. PI: Prof. Stephanie Po-yin CHUNG; Co-researchers: Dr. Daniel Kam-chau KWOK, Dr. LIU Wing-Shing, Dr. LO Shuk-ying; Academic Advisors: Prof. Clara Wing-chung HO, Dr. Sammy Kin-sum LI and Dr. Oiyan LIU) 6. 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) 7. The British Army Aid Group (1942-1945): A Historical Geographic Information System (HGIS) Project (Funding: Knowledge Transfer Office Seed Fund; PI: Dr. Chi-man KWONG) 8. 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” (Funding: Built Heritage Conservation Fund, Development Bureau, HKSAR; PI:Prof. Stephanie Po-yin CHUNG; CI: Prof. Clara Wing-chung HO, Dr. Kin-sum LI, Dr. Oiyan LIU, Dr. Daniel Kam-chau KWOK, Prof. Wing-shing TANG, Mr. Tony Lam) 9. Teaching Chinese History with 3D Models of Artifacts (Funding: Quality Education Fund, HK; PI: Dr. Sammy Kin-sum LI; CI: Dr. Ka-chai TAM, Dr. Wing-chung FAN, Dr. Daniel Kam-chau KWOK, Dr. Yuen-han LAW) 10. An Interactive Map for Chinese History and History Subjects: The Battle of Hong Kong during the Second Sino-Japanese War (Dec 1941) (Funding: Quality Education Fund, HK; PI: Dr. Chi-man KWONG; CI: Prof. Clara Wing-chung HO, Prof. Timothy Man-kong WONG, Dr. David SCHLEY, Dr. Ka-chai TAM, Dr. Wing-chung FAN, Mr. Tony BANHAM, Mr. Yiu-lun TSOI, Mr. Tim-keung KO) 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. 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) 18. The Collaborative Epistemic Culture of Eighteenth-century Natural History (PI: Dr. Bettina DIETZ) 19. 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) 20. The Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong, 1921-1969: Their Contribution in Education, Social Services and Welfare (PI: Prof. Cindy Yik-yi CHU) 21. The Ming-Qing Transition (1619-1740): A Reassessment from the Legal Angle (PI: Dr. Ka-chai TAM) 22. 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. Early Modern Globalization through Macau in the 19th Century (PI: Prof. Cindy Yik-yi CHU) 14. Enlightened Technology: Cameralist Experiments in Late Eighteenth-Century Europe (PI: Dr. Bettina DIETZ) 15. 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) 16. 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) 17. Identifying Female Historians in Imperial China (PI: Prof. Clara Wing-chung HO) 18. 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) 19. Making the Capitalist City: The B&O and Urban Space in Baltimore, 1827-1877 (PI: Dr. David SCHLEY) 20. Migration and Enterprises: A Business History of Three Migrant Families in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore, 1860-2000 (PI: Prof. Stephanie Po-yin CHUNG) 21. Mothers as Teachers: Evidences from Paintings in Qing China (PI: Prof. Clara Wing-chung HO) 22. Public Administration of Cultural Pluralism in Hong Kong, 1947-2011 (PI: Dr. Loretta KIM) 23. 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) 24. 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) 25. Sino-Foreign Relations in Chinese Christianity during the Republican Era (PI: Prof. Cindy Yik-yi CHU) 26. Social and Cultural Exchanges in Early Modern Amuria (PI: Dr. Loretta KIM) 27. The Catholic Church in China: 1978 to the Present (PI: Prof. Cindy Yik-yi CHU) 28. The Chinese Path to Enlightenment (PI: Prof. Ricardo King-sang MAK) 29. The Chinese Sisters of the Precious Blood and the Evolution of the Catholic Church (PI: Prof. Cindy Yik-yi CHU) 30. The Designs and Weaving Techniques of Early Chinese Textiles (PI: Dr. Kin-sum LI) 31. 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) 32. The Reception of German Romanticism in Early Twentieth Century China (PI: Prof. Ricardo King-sang MAK) 33. Trading Diaspora and Business Expansion - The Jewish Communities in India, Southeast Asia and Coastal China, 1830-1950 (PI: Prof. Stephanie Po-yin CHUNG) 34. Trading Diaspora in Southeast Asia and South China - The Big Hadhrami Merchant Families of Singapore, 1830-2010 (PI: Prof Stephanie Po-yin CHUNG) 35. Traditional Korean Sports during the Koryö Dynasty (918-1392) (PI: Dr. Wing-chung FAN) 36. Trafficking of Women and Children in Asia: A Contemporary Form of Slavery (PI: Prof. Cindy Yik-yi CHU) 37. Victor Elias Sassoon (1881-1961) and the Cathay Land Investment Company (PI: Prof. Stephanie Po-yin CHUNG) 38. 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)