Research Awards

RGC Competitive Grants Award 2023-24
The following research projects in Arts are supported by the Research Grants Council in the 2023-24 round.

 

Principal Investigator(s)	Department	Project Title	Scheme
Prof GONG Haomin	Chinese	Reinstalling Nature: Ecocriticism and Minzu in Chinese Fiction from the 1980s	GRF
Prof GU Yixin	Chinese	Knowledge, Power, and Intermediality of Writing in Han and Early Medieval China	ECS
Prof HSU Tzu-pin	Chinese	Inheritance and Innovation in the Lingnan School of Confucian Studies: A Critical Study of So Man-jok’s Published and Unpublished Manuscripts on the Ritual Classics 嶺南經學的傳承與開拓：蘇文擢先生禮詁遺稿綜合研究	GRF
Prof TAN Li Wen Jessica	Chinese	Engendering the Cold War Youth: Malleability, Mobility, and Liminality in Sinophone Southeast Asian Literature	ECS
Prof CASTILLO BAUTISTA Roberto Carlos	Cultural Studies	Race and Racism in Africa-China Relations: Contemporary Social Media Narratives and Representations	GRF
Prof KINDLER Benjamin Joseph	Cultural Studies	Factory humanisms: Sino-Soviet encounters, labour aesthetics and the fashioning of the post-socialist factory in reform-era China	ECS
Prof LU Miao	Cultural Studies	Competing for Africa’s Digital Infrastructure: Cables, Base Stations, and Chinese Telecom Companies in Ghana	ECS
Prof PUN Ngai	Cultural Studies	Cultivating worker communities among themselves: digital technologies, platform workers, and participatory culture in China	GRF
Prof CHEN Fong Fong	Digital Arts & Creative Industries	When Clothes Mattered in Female Figure Paintings: Wu Youru and the Media Turn in Shanghai (1870s-1920s)	ECS
Prof JACKS Wesley Aaron	Digital Arts & Creative Industries	On the Screen but Off the Map: Import Film Distribution in the PRC 1978-1993	ECS
Prof LEE Sang Joon	Digital Arts & Creative Industries	Border Crossings in Celluloid Asia: South Korea’s Encounter with Sinophone Cinemas in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan	GRF
Prof ZENG Hong	Digital Arts & Creative Industries	Transforming national culture into intellectual property: Guofeng games in China’s online game industry	GRF
Prof ZHOU Feifei	English	Temporality, Embodiment, and Creativity: A Critical Multimodal Study of New Practices on Chinese Social Media	GRF
Prof FANCIULLO James Eric	Philosophy	Desire, Preference, and Context	ECS
Prof SAUCHELLI Andrea	Philosophy	Survival, Value and Existential Risk: Foundational Issues	GRF
Prof SONG Fei	Philosophy	The morality of risk: how to live morally in the world of uncertainty	ECS
Prof BAI Yunfei	Translation	Translation and the Making of Modern Tibetan Diction	ECS
Prof LI Bo	Translation	Interpreters for the Chinese Labour Corps During WWI	GRF

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

 

 

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.

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.

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)