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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.

 

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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

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