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Organization Structure

Dr LAM Tai-fai
Dr LAM Tai-fai

PolyU Council Chairman

Chairman of RCCHC Advisory Board

Prof. LI Ping

Dean of Faculty of Humanities

Sin Wai Kin Foundation Professor in Humanities and Technology & Chair Professor of Neurolinguistics and Bilingual Studies

Prof. HAN Xiaorong

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

Advisory Committee

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Research Committee 

The Centre’s research strategies, policies and human resources are formulated by the Research Committee, a committee chaired by experienced academic staff of the Department of Chinese History and Culture. The Research Committee also administers and assesses funding schemes to strengthen the Centre’s research performance.

 

Major Research Staff and Research Areas

  • 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.
Prof. HAN Qi

Professor

Department of Chinese History and Culture

  • HJ602
  • xing-h.hang@polyu.edu.hk
  • East Asian world order, maritime East Asia, Eurasian comparative history, Ming-Qing transition, overseas Chinese, Chinese nationalism and identity
Dr PAN Lu

Associate Head and Associate Professor

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
Dr Qing PEI

Associate Professor

Department of Chinese History and Culture

  • ZN619
  • qing.pei@polyu.edu.hk
  • Historical Geography, History of Climate and Society, Social-Ecological Resilience, Digital Humanities, Historical GIS
Dr CHANG Wei-ling

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
Dr CHEN Jing

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
Dr LEBOVITZ David J.

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
Dr MAK Kathy Yim King

Assistant Professor

Department of Chinese History and Culture

  • HJ 625
  • kathy.mak@polyu.edu.hk
  • Modern and contemporary Chinese art and literature, Environmental history of China
Dr PAN Yiying

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
Dr Bony SCHACHTER

Assistant Professor

Department of Chinese History and Culture

  • A212
  • bony.schachter@polyu.edu.hk
  • Daoism, Ritual Theory, Late Imperial China, Late Imperial Ritual History, Late Imperial Book History, Zhu Quan Studies
Dr WANG Xingyi

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
Dr WU Wan Yi

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
Dr ZHANG Yu

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
Dr ZHANG Yun, Sophie

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
Dr Dongxin ZOU

Assistant Professor

Department of Chinese History and Culture

  • HJ608
  • dongxin.zou@polyu.edu.hk
  • History of medicine and global health, Global Chinese medicine, Science, technology, and society, Global circuits and knowledge transfer, Vernacular knowledge and technologies, Modern China and the Third World, China-Arab connections, Oral history
Dr Angie C. Baecker

Research Assistant Professor

Department of Chinese History and Culture

  • HJ623
  • angie.baecker@polyu.edu.hk
  • modern Chinese cultural studies, mass art, collective art, material culture of the P.R.C., Cultural Revolution studies, intellectual history of postsocialism, historiography of contemporary Chinese art
Dr CHEN Bin

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
Dr Yi ZHAO (Joey)

Research Assistant Professor

Department of Chinese History and Culture

  • HJ623
  • joey-yi.zhao@polyu.edu.hk
  • Chinese Material Culture/Art History, East Asian Buddhist Art, Chinese Funerary Art, Religious Material Cultures Along the Silk Routes, Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, Modern and Contemporary Asian Art, Museum Studies and Practices
Dr HU Guangming

Teaching Fellow

Department of Chinese History and Culture

Dr LAU Kai Yiu

Teaching Fellow

Department of Chinese History and Culture

  • HJ609
  • kaiyiu.lau@polyu.edu.hk
  • Intellectual History in Republican China, Chinese martial arts history
Dr LIN Zhihui

Teaching Fellow

Department of Chinese History and Culture

  • HJ623
  • fay-z.lin@polyu.edu.hk
  • Chinese Gender History, Everyday Life and Culture in Imperial China
Dr KWOK Ka Fai

Instructor

Department of Chinese History and Culture

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