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Research Awards

RGC Competitive Grants Award 2022-23
The following research projects in Arts are supported by the Research Grants Council in the 2022-23 round.

 

Principal Investigator(s)
Department Project Title Scheme
Prof LEUNG Shi Chi
Cultural Studies
“Waste Commons” in Motion via Hong Kong’s Light Rail Loop: Exploring the Multiple Routes for Community-Oriented Food Waste Management

ECS

Prof LEUNG Yuk-ming Lisa
Cultural Studies
Ethnic Minority Workers, Platformed 'Precarities' and Tactics of Resilience in Hong Kong - an intersectional and interdisciplinary study

GRF

Prof TANG Tse-shang Denise
Cultural Studies
Not Just Another Guy: Transgender Men in the Workplace

HSSPFS

Prof HAMILTON Peter Evan
History
Managing Modern China: A Global History

ECS

Prof LEUNG Vincent Sueh Han
History
Homosexuality in Early China: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents

GRF

Prof LIU William Guanglin
History
Warfare and State Finance in China, Stage 1, AD 1127–1294

GRF

Prof TSUI Chung Man Carmen
History
The Third Way of Housing Production: A History of Housing Cooperatives in Post-War Hong Kong, 1940s–1980s

GRF

Prof BRADLEY Adam Lee
Philosophy
Affect, Concern, and the Sense of Self

ECS

Prof BRAUER Ethan Erich
Philosophy
A New Theory of Relevance

ECS

Prof CHAN Wing-ching Elton
Philosophy
Realist Confucianism: From Dirty Hands to Political Virtues

ECS

Prof MARSHALL Daniel Graham
Philosophy
Resemblance and Grounding

GRF

Prof LIN Qingyang Lynn
Translation
The Heuristics of Translational Sinography: Examining the Cultural Formations of Classical Chinese Poetry in English Translation, 1890s-1920s

ECS

Prof LI Yu-chieh
Visual Studies
Live Art 1993-2020: Beyond Black Box and White Cube, Between Asia and Europe

ECS

Prof ZENG Hong
Visual Studies
The Contemporary Art Ecosystem in the Pearl River Delta: A Case Study of Region-building and Worlding Practices

ECS

General Research Fund (GRF)
Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme (HSSPFS)

 

 

RGC Competitive Grants Award 2021-22
The following research projects in Arts are supported by the Research Grants Council in the 2021-22 round.

 

Principal Investigator(s)
Department Project Title Scheme
Prof GONG Haomin
Chinese
Ethnicity and Ecology in Chinese Cinema since 1949

GRF

Prof HSU Tzu-pin
Chinese

Theoretical Construction and Strategic Application of "Ritual Context" in Confucian Classics: A comprehensive Study of Zheng Xuan's Commentary of the Analects

「禮制語境」的理論建構及實踐策略― ― 《論語鄭氏注》禮說綜合研究

GRF
Prof STEVIC Aleksandar
English
Aestheticism on the Margins: Aesthetic Detachment, Moral Universalism, and the Ethics of Testimony in Twentieth-Century Literature

GRF

Prof HAMPTON Mark Andrew
History
The Far Right Press in Britain, 1934-2014
GRF
Prof CHIU Wai-wai
Philosophy
Nature and Self-cultivation in the Zhuangzi and the Commentary on the Zhuangzi

GRF

Prof HAWKE Peter Michael
Philosophy
The Semantics of Knowledge and Ignorance
ECS
Prof STERK Darryl Cameron
Translation
Minority Autoethnobotany: The Role of Translation in Seediq-Language Descriptions of Plants

GRF

Prof DI CROCE Alessandra
Visual Studies
Fragments of Truth. Images, Objects, and Words after the Council of Trent
ECS
Prof YEH Yueh-yu Emilie
Visual Studies
Cinema and the Colonial Dispositif: Early Screen Culture in Hong Kong (1897 to 1925)

HSSPFS

General Research Fund (GRF)
Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme (HSSPFS)

 

Research Output Excellence Award 2021-22
Prof TANG Tse-shang Denise (Department of Cultural Studies)

 

Young Researcher Output Award 2021-22
Prof HO Nga-man Janet (Department of English)

 

 

RGC Competitive Grants Award 2020-21
The following research projects in Arts are supported by the Research Grants Council in the 2020-21 round.


Principal Investigator(s)
Department Project Title Scheme
Prof NIRANJANA Tejaswini
Cultural Studies
Digital Intimacy, Young Women, and Social Transformation in Asia

GRF

Prof HO Nga-man Janet
English
How Chinese and English Newspapers Portrayed Migrant Domestic Helpers (2010-2019): A mixed methods analysis of discursive strategies 
ECS
Prof DU Chunmei
History
GIs and Chinese: Sino-American Interactions at the Grassroots, 1945-1949

GRF

Prof LEUNG Sueh-han Vincent
History
Economic Thought of the Han Empire: A Critical Anthology
GRF
Prof BAKER Derek Clayton
Philosophy
Skepticism about Practical Reason

GRF

Prof ROWBOTTOM Darrell Patrick
Philosophy
Scientific Progress: Foundational Issues
GRF
Prof WAXMAN Daniel
Philosophy
The Justification of Consistency

ECS

Prof ZHANG Jiji
Philosophy
Parsimony in Causal Inference: Epistemic Justifications and Methodological Implications
GRF
Prof HO Chui-fun Selina
Visual Studies
Art, Museums, and Heritage: The Creative Citizens in Hong Kong and Taiwan

ECS

Prof HUANG Ying-ling
Visual Studies
Chinese Women Artists in Britain: Chang Chien-Ying, Nancy Kuo, Wendy Yeo, and their Circle of Friends
GRF

General Research Fund (GRF)
Early Career Scheme (ECS)

 

Research Output Excellence Award 2020-21
Prof ROWBOTTOM Darrell Patrick (Department of Philosophy)

 

Young Researcher Output Award 2020-21
Prof HO Chui-fun Selina (Department of Visual Studies)

 

 

RGC/PICO Grants Award 2019-20
The following research projects in Arts are supported by the Research Grants Council and the HKSAR Government's Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office in the 2019-20 round.


Principal Investigator(s)
Department Project Title Scheme
Prof Anjeline Eloisa Javate DE DIOS
Cultural Studies
Transpopular Musics: Diasporic Filipino Musicians in Hong Kong & Singapore, 1960s-1980s
ECS
Prof IP Iam Chong
Cultural Studies
Privacy Challenges and Big Data in Smart City
PPR
Prof TANG Tse-shang Denise
Cultural Studies
Being Trans and Masculine: A Comparative Ethnography of Trans Men in Bangkok and Hong Kong
GRF
Prof Preet HIRADHAR 
English
Science Fiction (SF) and the Techno-urban Imaginary: Science, City, and SF Narratives in Colonial India
GRF
Prof HUANG Yunte
English
Chinese Whispers: Poetry, Translatability and Risk
GRF
Prof Andrew SEWELL
English
The 'falling standards' debate: Metalinguistic discourse, language ideologies and stories of English in Hong Kong
GRF
Prof ZHOU Feifei
English
Personhood, Power and Sense of Place:
A Linguistic Landscape Study of Chinese Writing and Place-making in Transitional China

ECS

Prof Niccolo PIANCIOLA
History
Borderlands Lives: An Oral History of Migrations from China to Soviet Central Asia, 1949-1976
GRF

Prof LIANG Wen-chun

Translation
When AI Meets TCM: Neural Machine Translating Traditional Chinese Medicine Texts

GRF

General Research Fund (GRF)
Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Public Policy Research (PPR)

 

Research Output Excellence Award 2019-20
Prof NIRANJANA Tejaswini (Department of Cultural Studies)

 

Young Researcher Output Award 2019-20
Prof WAXMAN Daniel (Department of Philosophy)

 

 

RGC Competitive Grants Award 2018-19
The following research projects in Arts are supported by the Research Grants Council in the 2018-19 round.


Principal Investigator(s)
Department Project Title Scheme
Prof LAU Yin-ping Grace
Chinese
Originality versus Performability: Edition Study of Tong Di-sang’s (唐滌生)Plays of the Mud Print Version
GRF
Prof Roberto Carlos CASTILLO BAUTISTA
Cultural Studies
Made-in-China Nollywood: New Geographies of African Diasporic Imagination
ECS
Prof Diana Lucy LEMBERG
History
Applied Linguistics in the American Century
GRF
Prof ZHANG Lei
History
Night-soil Lords: Manure Collectors and Urban Waste Disposal in Beijing, 1900-1950
ECS
Prof Derek Clayton BAKER
Philosophy
Expressivism about Modals and Reasoning
GRF
Prof Simon David GOLDSTEIN
Philosophy
New Work in Dynamic Semantics

ECS

Prof ZHANG Jiji
Philosophy
Logical Investigations of Causal Models and Counterfactual Structures
GRF

Prof CHAN Tak-hung Leo

Translation
Free Translation, Adaptation, and Sino-Japanese Transcultural Rewriting

HSSPFS

General Research Fund (GRF)
Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme (HSSPFS)

 

Research Output Excellence Award 2018-19
Prof HUI Ting-yan Isaac (Department of Translation)

 

Knowledge Transfer Excellence Award 2018-19
Prof LEUNG Yuk-ming Lisa (Department of Cultural Studies)