PolyU Council Chairman
Chairman of RCCHC Advisory Board
Dean of Faculty of Humanities
Sin Wai Kin Foundation Professor in Humanities and Technology & Chair Professor of Neurolinguistics and Bilingual Studies
- HHB-503A
- ping2.li@polyu.edu.hk
Head of Department and Professor
Department of Chinese History and Culture
- HJ 629
- xiaorong.han@polyu.edu.hk
- Modern Chinese and Vietnamese History, Peasant Movements, Ethnic Relations, The Chinese Diaspora, Intra-Asian Interactions
Major Research Staff and Research Areas
Distinguished Research Professor, Chang Jiang Scholars Chair Professor of Pre-modern Chinese History, Lead Expert, Zhu Honglin Workshop, Chinese Academy of History of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Department of Chinese History and Culture
- HJ 628
- chu.hunglam@polyu.edu.hk
- History of later imperial China with special interests in the intellectual, social and political aspects of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). Neo-Confucianism and classic texts of statecraft from Song to early Qing times. Recent research focuses include imperial China’s institutions of Confucian canonization, the community compact and reproduction of social order, classical lectures in the court, character and policies of the Ming founder, Ming territorial expansion and consolidation in the provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi. On-going textual study of the indispensable sourcebook of Ming thought, Huang Zongxi’s Mingru xuean, for the production of a modern edition dependable for research usage.
Associate Head, Associate Professor and Postgraduate Programme Leader
Department of Chinese History and Culture
- HJ 624
- brian.kh.tsui@polyu.edu.hk
- Modern and contemporary Chinese history and culture, Modern and contemporary China’s relations with other parts of Asia
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Programme Leader
Department of Chinese History and Culture
- HJ 604
- lu.pan@polyu.edu.hk
- Visual culture and art, urban culture, media theories, space, film, cultural memory, war monuments in modern and contemporary Greater China, inter–asia cultural studies, colonialism in East Asia, island studies
Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor
Faculty of Humanities and Department of Chinese History and Culture
- HJ 625
- kathy.mak@polyu.edu.hk
- Modern and contemporary Chinese art and literature, Environmental history of China
Assistant Professor
Department of Chinese History and Culture
- HJ 612
- weiling.chang@polyu.edu.hk
- Political culture in the Song dynasty, Local history in the middle period of China, Digital humanities
Assistant Professor
Department of Chinese History and Culture
- HJ 606
- jing-jc.chen@polyu.edu.hk
- Classical Chinese Poetry and Poetics, Traditional Chinese Literary Thought, Literary Anthology, Reception of Early Poetry, Print Culture, Women’s Literature in Late Imperial China, Digital Humanities
Assistant Professor
Department of Chinese History and Culture
- HJ 605
- david.lebovitz@polyu.edu.hk
- Early Chinese literature, thought, and religion; Chinese philology and manuscript culture; early Chinese poetics; formation and interpretation of the Chinese classics; Chinese philosophy, rhetoric, exegesis, and material culture
Assistant Professor
Department of Chinese History and Culture
- HJ 611
- xingyi-xy.wang@polyu.edu.hk
- Chinese and Japanese Buddhism, Vinaya Studies and Monasticism, Buddhist Ethics, Pure Land Buddhism, Yogācāra, Gender Studies, Buddhist Art
Assistant Professor
Department of Chinese History and Culture
- HJ 627
- mailwan.yi.wu@polyu.edu.hk
- Modern and contemporary Chinese history and culture, Ancient chinese History and culture
Assistant Professor
Department of Chinese History and Culture
- HJ 607
- emma.yu.zhang@polyu.edu.hk
- Modern and contemporary Chinese Literature, film and cultural studies, Technology, media, and modern Chineseculture (particularly telecommunication and transport studies), Chinese revolutionary and socialist culture, Thec cultural politics of representing labor and work in modern China, Artisanal aesthetics in contemporary China, Finance and literature, Spatial crossing and modern Chinese cultural Experience
Assistant Professor
Department of Chinese History and Culture
- HJ 603
- yun-sophie.zhang@polyu.edu.hk
- History of Health and Medicine in China; Science and Technology Studies; Gender Studies; Reproduction and Gender; Feminine Hygiene
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Chinese History and Culture
- HJ 626
- bin-b.chen@polyu.edu.hk
- China’s modern transition, history of commerce, Islam in China, the social history of religion, the life of ideas
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Chinese History and Culture
- HJ 610
- yiying.pan@polyu.edu.hk
- Early Modern and Modern China, Labor Migration, Empire Building/State Building, Environmental History, Infrastructure Studies
