Research Centres

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Research Centre for Chinese History and Culture

The Research Centre for Chinese History and Culture brings together expert scholars to study the depth and breadth of Chinese history and culture, covering a wide range of topics from the study of ancient texts, history, literature and philosophy, to arts, religion and social custom. The Centre also aims to deepen the students’ and the general public’s understanding of Chinese culture and to enhance their ability to appreciate the significance of Chinese cultural heritage and the value of Chinese culture to personal life, social harmony and world peace. Activities of the Centre include lecture series and seminars, study tours to cultural sites, and writing for publication on Chinese history and culture.

The Centre aspires to be an international hub for young scholars of sinology and the study of Chinese history and culture.

Currently the Centre is headed by its founding Director, Professor Chu Hung-lam, with Professor Chen Lai of Tsinghua University and Professor Michael Nylan of the University of California at Berkeley being its Advisors. A full list of members of the Centre can be found on CIHK webpage.

Research Centre for Chinese Language Teaching

The Centre facilitates research activities that support the teaching of Chinese language, including exploration of pedagogical theories for Chinese language teaching, nourishment and enhancement of language ability, cross-cultural communication, and assessment of language ability. Its programmes include research projects, lectures and conferences, language study and training courses, and production of Chinese language teaching materials and reference books.

The vision of the Centre is to make the Confucius Institute of Hong Kong a key research base for teaching Chinese as a foreign language.

Currently the Centre is headed by its founding Director, Dr Li De-chao, with Professor Cornelius C. Kubler of Williams College, USA, being its Advisor. A full list of members of the Centre can be found on CIHK webpage.

Investigation	Title and Affiliation	Project Title
CHU Hung-lam	Chair Professor of Chinese Culture; Chairman, Council of CIHK, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Theory and practice of ancestor veneration rites
XIE Shi	Head and Professor, Department of History, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou	History and society of coastal lands and islands in Ming-Qing Zhejiang
YANG Haiying	Research Fellow and Professor, Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing	The Wu family of military leaders from Shaoxing in the Ming-Manchu war
LIU Yong	Professor, Department of History, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou	Confucian diaries for personal cultivation in late imperial China
ZHANG Ruilong	Associate Professor, School of History, Renmin University of China, Beijing	Imperial favor for expansion of civil examination quota in Ming and Qing dynasties
ZHANG Feng	Associate Professor, School of History, Northwest University, Xi’an	Theory and practice of the compilation of official history
KWOK Ka Fai	Associate Research Fellow, Sun Yat-sen University (Zhuhai)	Rescue of foreigners in shipwreck in Qing dynasty
XIE Yang	Associate Research Fellow, Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing	Statecraft works of Ming China
ZHOU Xin	Associate Research Fellow, Institute of History and Sun Yat-sen, Guangdong Academy of Social Sciences, Guangzhou	Family Rites by Zhu Xi and familial rites in late imperial China
HO Wei-hsuan	Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Linguistics and Literature, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan	Interpretations of Emperor Shun’s marriage written in the Book of Documents
PI Kuo-li	Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of History, National Central University, Taiwan	The challenges and responses of modern Chinese medicine (1830-1960)
LEUNG Wai Kei	Manager, Department of Publishing, Joint Publishing (Hong Kong) Company Limited	Publishing industry and cultural life of Song times
TAM Ka-chai	Assistant Professor, Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University	Marginal social groups in Ming and Qing China
TSE Wai Kit	Associate Professor, Department of History, The Chinese University of Hong Kong	A short history of violence of ancient China
Gu Liwei	Associate Professor, School of History and Culture, Central China Normal University, Wuhan	Change and continuity in the government of Northern and Southern Song dynasties
ZHAN Beibei	Associate Professor, Yuelu Academy, Hunan University, Changsha	Royal wedding in imperial China
TAN Weihua	Associate Professor, School of Public Administration, Hunan Normal University, Changsha	The ethnic Cao Miao in the Hunan-Guangxi-Guizhou
WU Zhaofeng	Lecturer, School of History, Wuhan University	Ideas and practice of Ming Confucians for the edification of palace eunuchs
YU Jindong	Associate Dean, School of Humanities and New Media and Associate Prof., Department of History, Yangtze University, Jingzhou	The civil official evaluation system in Ming dynasty
ZHU Ye	Lecturer, Institute of History, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan	The Compendia of the Four Books, Five Classics, and Nature and Principles in the world of thought in early modern East Asia
CHEN Guanhua	Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing	Opening of Confucianism and cultural unity in 16th China
CHNG Xing Liang	Ph.D candidate, Department of Chinese Culture, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	The statecraft proposals of a low-ranking scholar-official in 16th – century China
HONG Guoqiang	Lecturer, School of History and Culture, Central China Normal University, Wuhan	Eight-legged essays in Ming times
HUANG Tao	Ph.D, Department of Chinese Culture, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	The Philosophy of Wang Yangming in the transformative last century of imperial China (1840-1911)
ZHOU Zhongliang	Lecturer, Department of History, Yangtze University, Jingzhou	Stories of exemplary persons and the idea and practice of moral education in Ming times
LIN Zhan	Lecturer, Department of History, Soochow University, Suzhou	Primers of Neo-Confucian learning in Ming times
Wang Anqi	Ph.D candidate, Department of Chinese Culture, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Evidential learning and education in mid Qing times