Dr. Patrick Fong, our Associate Head (Partnership)and Associate Professor,has been working with one of our visiting scholars, Prof. Li Ying for research collaboration from the perspective of knowledge management since June 2016.
With a wealth of expertise in the arena of ‘Knowledge Management’,Dr. Fong takes a leading role in Prof. Li’s sub-project on the literature of Dai, Wa, Jing po Cross-border Ethnic Groups(傣族、佤族、景頗族文學研究成果資料集成)funded under major projects from the National Social Science Foundation(國家社科基金重大招標項目). This sub-project aims at preserving these ethnic minorities’ culture, literature, language and architecture in a comprehensive way to facilitate the sharing and connection with other like-minded researchers across the globe.
Prof. Li Ying is currently a professor in the School of Ethnic Minorities Culture(民族文化學院) at Yunnan Minzu University(雲南民族大學) and has successively won funding from the National Social Science Foundation for her major researches, the latest one of which is the above-mentioned sub-project led by Dr. Fong.