The Faculty is pleased to receive 24 GRF/ECS projects for 2015-16, with over $10M funding support from the Research Grants Council (RGC).
Principal Investigator(s) | Dept/Centre | Type of Scheme | Project Title |
Professor Cheng Sea Ling | ANT | GRF | Love's Refuge: The Meanings of Intimacy for African Asylum-seekers and Refugees in Hong Kong |
Professor Kuan Teresa | ANT | GRF | Repairing Relationships: An Ethnographic Study of the Development of Family Therapy in China |
Professor Fan Sin Piu | CHI | GRF | 香港《立報》 (1938-1941) 副刊研究 |
Professor Kwong Ho Yee Connie | CHI | GRF | The Reception of French Leftist Intellectuals by Chinese Modernists in the 1930s and 1940s |
Professor Tsui Wai | CHI | GRF | Narrative vs Lyric: Transitional Changes of Ci and the Practice of Cishi Reconsidered (1840-1911) |
Professor Chung Peichi | CRS | GRF | The Online Distribution for Application Game Developers in Hong Kong, China and South Korea |
Professor Huang Weishan | CRS | GRF | Buddhist Gentrification: Spatial and Social Analysis of Buddhist Revival in Contemporary Urban Shanghai |
Professor Lim Song Hwee | CRS | GRF | After Taiwan New Cinema: Authorship, Transnationality, Historiography |
Professor Chan Tsz Yan Evelyn | ENG | GRF | The Perilous Inheritances of Joseph Conrad's Heroes |
Professor Mok Kar Leung Harold | FAA | GRF | Renjian Huahui: Left-wing Artists and Their Activities in Hong Kong in the 1930s and 1940s |
Professor Wang Shi Yuan William | FOA | GRF | Multi-sensory Integration and Language in the Elderly: An Electroencephalographic Comparison of Normal Ageing & Dementia |
Professor Zheng Jie | FOA | GRF | The "Cultural Elite State", "Cultural Strategies" and the "Public Art" Planning System in Shanghai's Urban Development |
Professor Choi Chi Cheung | HIS | GRF | Reenacting "Cultural China" in the twentieth century: Chinese communal hungry ghost festivals in Hong Kong, Kobe and Singapore |
Professor Hsiung Ping Chen | HIS | GRF | Aging in Late Imperial China: Advice and Practice |
Professor Noah Shusterman | HIS | GRF | Militia Mania: Weapons and Citizenship in the Early Modern Atlantic World |
Professor Tang Chung | HIS | GRF | Jade Technologies and Raw Material Exchanges in Prehistoric Northeast Asia: An Archaeological Study of Nephrite Accessories |
Professor Lee Hun Tak Thomas | LIN | GRF | The Acquisition of Grammar by Shanghainese-speaking children as studied from the perspective of parametric variation in Chinese dialects |
Professor Mok Pik Ki Peggy | LIN | GRF | Re-visiting Tone Acquisition of Cantonese Speaking Children in Hong Kong |
Professor Tang Wai Lan Gladys | LIN | GRF | Profiling Chinese Grammatical Knowledge of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students in HK and China - A Comparative Study |
Professor Huang Yong | PHI | GRF | Knowing-to: The Contemporary Significance of Wang Yangming's Moral Philosophy |
Professor James Andre | TRA | GRF | Conceptualizing China through Translation |
Professor Wong Wai Yee Sharon | ANT | ECS | On In-depth Cross-cultural Exchange: Chinese Elements in the Early Ceramic Production Centre of Angkor, Cambodia |
Professor Christoph Steinhardt | CCS | ECS | The Repertoire of Repression in Urban China: Threat, Visibility, and Change |
Professor Yellen Jeremy Avrum | JAS | ECS | The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: Japan's Hybrid Empire during World War II |