The School of Modern Languages and Cultures has an active research culture that draws Faculty and Graduate Students into collaborative projects.
Our key research interests are in the cultural, anthropological, political, philosophical, historical and literary aspects of diverse countries in Europe, Asia and the Americas.
We explore the ancient, modern and contemporary contexts of social and cultural change around the globe and publish our research in diverse languages of the world.
This breadth of regions, languages, cultures and disciplines is the foundation of the School’s research strength in interdisciplinary and comparative research projects.
The School of Modern Languages and Cultures has:
• a vibrant research seminar series (all welcome) that operates during university semesters on Wednesday afternoons 4.30-6.00 pm.
• an active research mentoring program for HKU academic colleagues and graduate students.
• regular international conferences and workshops.
• faculty with publications in top academic journals and with prestigious publishing houses
Title | Staff Name | Type | Start date | End date | amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bottling Goodness: Culture and Commerce in Layered Identities of Dairy and Soy Beverages along the Periphery of China under Western Influences | Wong John D. | GRF | October 1, 2017 | September 30, 2021 | 477870 |
Medicalising Ethiopia | GRF | September 1, 2019 | February 28, 2023 | 346990 | |
Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of Hong Kong, 1930s-1998 | Wong John D. | GRF | 2020 | 2023 | |
Making Religion, Making Local Society: The Social History of a Catholic Village in Northeast China | Li Ji | GRF | January 1, 2016 | November 30, 2017 | 627340 |
Tea's Party. Tea in the American Revolution, 1773-1776 | Fichter James | GRF | September 1, 2018 | August 31, 2021 | 288640 |
GRF : A Native History of Early Modern Amuria | Kim Loretta | GRF | January 1, 2013 | June 30, 2016 | 293700 |
United Through Separation: Foreign Missionaries, Korean Christians, and Government Officials, 1882-1942 | GRF | September 1, 2016 | February 29, 2020 | 404500 | |
Christianity on the Move: Routes and Religious Mobility in Late Imperial and Modern China from 1750s to 1950s
| Li Ji | GRF | January 1, 2021 | December 31, 2023 | 604938 |
The Politics of Japanese Popular Culture in China (1980s - present) | GRF | October 1, 2019 | September 30, 2022 | 738585 | |
Pablo Neruda in China | Fernández Melleda Bárbara | GRF | 1 January 2025 | 31 December 2027 | 183,764 |
Endangered Icon: A Postwar History of Japan's Efforts to Save the "Sacred Crane" from the Brink of Extinction | GRF | June 28, 2021 | June 28, 2024 | 305000 | |
Japanese Popular Culture and the Cultural Formation of Hong Kong Society | GRF | October 1, 2017 | September 30, 2019 | 596000 |
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
SMLC Book Series with Hong Kong University Press
Series Editor: Dixon H. W. Wong
The Global Connections series explores the movement of ideas, people, technologies, capital and goods across national and regional borders. Books in the series reveal how these interconnections have the power to produce new global forms of cultures, politics, identities and economies. Seeking to explore the dynamics of change, the series includes both historical and contemporary topics. It focuses on interactions between the world's diverse cultures through the production of new interdisciplinary knowledge.
Global Connections welcomes submissions to the series from authors working on sole authored or edited volumes. The series has published in Chinese and English at this point but welcomes authors working in other languages as well.
Contact the Editor, Dixon Wong in the first instance to discuss your proposal.
