Research Themes

This category places China within the context of global history and regional exchanges, emphasising how political order, culture, commercial networks, and ethnic or group identities were produced, translated, and reconfigured across landed frontiers and maritime space.

This category examines the internal dynamics of Chinese dynasties and states throughout history, including how central authority, orthodox thought, local communities, material resources, and cultural practices mutually shaped one another.

This category connects China with East and Southeast Asia through the visual relationships among images, film, and media, and asks how the visual history of the region has been produced, circulated, remembered, and reread. What colonial memories and postcolonial imaginaries are borne by urban spaces, war memorials, film archives, and island narratives? Now that artificial intelligence is intervening in humanities research, in what ways will visual archives be reorganized, retrieved, and reimagined?

This category takes “media” as a methodological axis running through past and present, re-examining the emergence and transformation of Chinese literary and cultural history. The research scope covers ancient philology and canonical interpretation, classical poetry and the tradition of anthologies, and the manuscript and print culture of the Ming and Qing dynasties. It extends to modern and contemporary Chinese literature, film, and cultural studies, as well as modern communications and electronic media technologies.

This category explores the formation of Hong Kong’s unique status and culture, as well as its critical role in China’s modernization and globalization. Adopting an approach that encompasses history, literature, and visual media, it reconsiders Hong Kong’s position within the framework of Lingnan culture and the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macau Greater Bay Area, along with its connections with the mainland and the world.

This category examines how thought, belief, and ritual are organized, transmitted, viewed, and reproduced through concrete material practices, and how scriptures, ritual implements, images, and liturgical procedures circulate and interact across different systems of ethics, thought, and religious traditions. These include Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, and popular religion.

This category focuses on how scientific, technological, medical, and environmental knowledge in China is produced and grounded in local societies, and how it is redefined, challenged, and rewritten across regions and time in modern and globalized contexts. It engages in deep dialogue with multiple fields, including STS, environmental humanities, gender studies, global health history, and AI applications in the humanities.