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RGC General Research Fund

The Pill and Women's Empowerment in Japan
Principal Investigator: Prof. CHEUNG Shoan Yin
Year of Award: 2024-2025

 

The Rise of the Sovereign Subject: A Critical Reflection of the Concept of Freedom in Modern Chinese Intellectual Culture 自主個體的興起:現代中國知識分子中的自由概念批判思考

Principal Investigator: Prof. PANG Laikwan
Year of Award: 2024-2025

 

The Cultural Consequences of AI Extrapolations: On differences and stereotyping in machine learning
Principal Investigator: Prof. CAO Xuenan
Year of Award: 2023-2024

 

Natural Science in Early Christianity: A Case Study of Basil of Caesarea
Principal Investigator: Prof. YAM Cheuk Yin Colten

Year of Award: 2023-2024

 

State Sovereignty or Popular Sovereignty? State, Territory, and the People from Late Qing to Socialist China
Principal Investigator: Prof. PANG Laikwan
Year of Award: 2021-2022

 

Digitizing the non-human: Chinese fantasy film and media in the Anthropocene
Principal Investigator: Prof. TAN Jia 
Year of Award: 2021-2022

 

Decolonizing Critical Theory in Southeast Asia
Principal Investigator: Prof. Elmo GONZAGA
Year of Award: 2020-2021

 

Coming to the Terms of Modern Chinese Buddhism, 1870-1950
Principal Investigator: Prof. Douglas GILDOW
Year of Award: 2020-2021

 

Protestant Interpretations of the Yijing: A Comparative Study of Thomas McClatchie and James Legge in Late Qing China
Principal Investigator: Prof. LAI Tsz Pang John
Year of Award: 2020-2021

 

Fallen Crosses in "China’s Jerusalem": Towards a Critical Analysis of State-Church Relations in Contemporary China
Principal Investigator: Prof. YING Fuk Tsang
Year of Award: 2020-2021

 

Wise as Serpents and Innocent as Doves? Chinese Overseas Mission in the Context of One Belt, One Road
Principal Investigator: Prof. Tobias BRANDNER
Year of Award: 2019-2020

 

Global/Local Perspectives on Chinese Muslim Origin Narratives and Guangzhou's Islamic Heritage Sites
Principal Investigator: Prof. James FRANKEL
Year of Award: 2019-2020

 

Seeking a Contextual Understanding of Interfaith Encounter in Christian Pastoral Care Settings in a Non-Western and Non-Christian Postsecular Society
Principal Investigator: Prof. KWAN Shui Man Simon
Year of Award: 2019-2020

 

Late Qing/Republican Literati and Gentry in Guangdong Daoism: Creating a Digital Database on Daoist Literati and Gentry in Guangdong
Principal Investigator: Prof. LAI Chi Tim
Year of Award: 2018-2019

 

A Historical and Anthropological Study of the Rituals of Chinese Popular Buddhism
Principal Investigator: Prof. TAM Wai Lun
Year of Award: 2018-2019

 

Mediating quan: Human Rights and Feminist and Queer Media Culture in China
Principal Investigator: Prof. TAN Jia
Year of Award: 2018-2019

 

Digital Ritual Archive of Chinese Temples in Hong Kong: Study of Multi-dimensional Ritual Processes
Principal Investigator: Prof. LAI Chi Tim
Year of Award: 2016-2017

 

Hannah Arendt’s Political Theories and Hong Kong’s 2014 Umbrella Movement
Principal Investigator: Prof. PANG Laikwan
Year of Award: 2016-2017

 

The Cultural Politics of Volunteering and the Making of Urban Identities in Contemporary Beijing
Principal Investigator: Prof. WU Ka Ming
Year of Award: 2016-2017

 

The Online Distribution Strategies of Independent Application Game Developers in Hong Kong, China and South Korea 
Principal Investigator: Prof. CHUNG Peichi 
Year of Award: 2015-2016

 

After Taiwan New Cinema: Authorship, Transnationality, Historiography 
Principal Investigator: Prof. LIM Song Hwee
Year of Award: 2015-2016

 

Buddhist Gentrification: Spatial and Social Analysis of Buddhist Revival in Contemporary Urban Shanghai 
Principal Investigator: Prof. HUANG Weishan
Year of Award: 2015-2016

 

Remapping the Transcultural Modernity in Early Republican China: Chinese Leftist Intellectuals’ Reception of Henri Bergson’s Philosophy of Life 
Principal Investigator: Prof. CHEUNG Lik Kwan 
Year of Award: 2014-2015

 

Trans-Asian Women's Forum on Erotic/Pornographic Media and Cultural Affect 
Principal Investigator: Prof. Katrien JACOBS 
Year of Award: 2014-2015

 

Transforming Morality and Society: Chinese Jesuit Fiction and Drama in the Republican Era (1912-1937) 
Principal Investigator: Prof. LAI Tsz Pang John 
Year of Award: 2014-2015

 

Contemporary Chinese Christian Discourses on Religious Diversity 
Principal Investigator: Prof. LAI Pan Chiu 
Year of Award: 2014-2015

 

Opening the Greek World to All: Creating a Chinese-Greek Lexical Database of the New Testament 
Principal Investigator: Prof. WONG Kun Chun Eric 
Year of Award: 2014-2015

 

Protestant Death Rituals, Continuing Bonds between the Living and the Dead, and Bereavement Care 
Principal Investigator: Prof. KWAN Shui Man Simon
Year of Award: 2013-2014

 

The Adaptation of Model Plays: Aesthetics and Politics in China’s Cultural Revolution 
Principal Investigator: Prof. PANG Laikwan 
Year of Award: 2013-2014

 

Local ritual traditions in southeast China 
Principal Investigator: Prof. TAM Wai Lun 
Year of Award: 2013-2014

 

Negotiating between Cultures: A Study of the Hong Kong Muslim Women in Hong Kong 
Principal Investigator: Prof. WONG Wai Ching Angela 
Year of Award: 2013-2014

 

In Search of Popular Christianity: A Study of Audience Responses  from Mainland China to Christian Gospel Broadcasts (1959-2004) 
Principal Investigator: Prof. YING Fuk Tsang 
Year of Award: 2013-2014

 

Rediscovering the Lost Heritage: The Religious Poetics of the "New Age Novels" (1895) and Its Far-reaching Impact on Chinese Literary Modernity 重尋失落的遺產:「時新小說」(1895)的宗教詩學及其對中國文學現代化的深遠影響 
Principal Investigator: Prof. LAI Tsz Pang John 
Year of Award: 2012-2013

 

Virtual Museum of Guangzhou Daoist Temples (Ming Dynasty-Present): GIS Application in Daoist Studies 
Principal Investigator: Prof. LAI Chi Tim 
Year of Award: 2011-2012

 

The Deprivatization of Jesus Christ's Inner World in the Gospel of Matthew - A Contribution to the Redaction History in Matthew and towards the Historical Jesus 
Principal Investigator: Prof. WONG Kun Chun Eric 
Year of Award: 2011-2012

 

Reconceptualizing Moral Education in a Reforming China: A Critical Study of the Thoughts of Lu Jie and Her Community of Scholars since 1980s 
Principal Investigator: Prof. YEUNG Kwok Keung 
Year of Award: 2011-2012

 

Christian discourse with Chinese characteristics: Protestant theology in the political and cultural context of China, 1980-2010 
Principal Investigator: Prof. YIP Ching Wah Francis 
Year of Award: 2011-2012

 

Chinese Christian Novels in Late Qing China (1807-1911): An Interdisciplinary Study of Religion and Literature 晚清基督教中文小說 (1807-1911):宗教與文學的跨學科研究 
Principal Investigator: Prof. LAI Tsz Pang John 
Year of Award: 2010-2011

 

The Book of Judith: A Postcolonial Feminist Reading 
Principal Investigator: Prof. TAN Nam Hoon Nancy 
Year of Award: 2010-2011

 

Buddhism in Socialist China: 1949-2008 
Principal Investigator: Prof. XUE Yu 
Year of Award: 2010-2011

 

Daoism and Local Society in Guangdong: A Collection of Daoist Epigraphy of Guangdong 道教與廣東地方社會研究──廣東道教碑銘彙集
Principal Investigator: Prof. LAI Chi Tim 
Year of Award: 2009-2010

 

Christian Theological Responses to Mahayana Buddhism 
Principal Investigator: Prof. LAI Pan Chiu 
Year of Award: 2009-2010

 

From a Foreign Book to Chinese Christian Scripture: Appropriation of the Bible in the Multi-Textual Milieu of China (1840-1919) 
Principal Investigator: Prof. LEE Chi Chung Archie 
Year of Award: 2009-2010

 

Women Negotiating Cultures: Family Values, Religion and Chinese Patriarchy 
Principal Investigator: Prof. WONG Wai Ching Angela 
Year of Award: 2009-2010

 

Strategies of Cultural Negotiation: A Critical Study of Translation of Christian Tracts in Late Qing China, 1843-1911 
Principal Investigator: Prof. LAI Tsz Pang John 
Year of Award: 2008-2009

 

Everyday Aesthetics in Hong Kong Camera Phone Use 
Principal Investigator: Prof. Helen GRACE 
Year of Award: 2008-2009

 

Toward a Revision of Hope-Based Christian Counseling Approaches with a Mutually Critical Correlational Analysis
Principal Investigator: Prof. KWAN Shui Man Simon
Year of Award: 2008-2009

 

A Critical Study of the Discursive Development of Cultural Policy in China 
Principal Investigator: Prof. PANG Laikwan 
Year of Award: 2008-2009

 

Ritual Specialists in Local Society in Southeast China 
Principal Investigator: Prof. TAM Wai Lun 
Year of Award: 2008-2009

 

Struggle between "Love of Country" (aiguo) and "Love of Church" (aijiao): An Investigation into the conflict between Wu Yaozong and Wang Mingdao in Revolutionary China (1949-1966) 
Principal Investigator: Prof. YING Fuk Tsang 
Year of Award: 2008-2009

 

Foreign Domestic Workers as Cultural Translators: Gender, Migration to Hong Kong, and Emancipation 
Principal Investigator: Prof. LAI Ming Yan 
Year of Award: 2007-2008

 

Cultural Christians in Cultural and Theological Perspectives 
Principal Investigator: Prof. LAI Pan Chiu 
Year of Award: 2007-2008

 

Between Globalization and Localization: Comparative Research of Christianity in Chinese Societies 
Principal Investigator: Prof. NG Tze Ming Peter 
Year of Award: 2006-2007

 

Chinese-Language Cinema as Cultural Industry: Reterritorialization with Globalization 
Principal Investigator: Prof. PANG Laikwan 
Year of Award: 2006-2007

 

The Hidden Echo of Paulinism in the Gospels of Mark and Matthew 
Principal Investigator: Prof. WONG Kun Chun Eric 
Year of Award: 2006-2007

 

Chinese Women and Hong Kong Christianity: An Oral History 
Principal Investigator: Prof. WONG Wai Ching Angela 
Year of Award: 2006-2007

 

Possibilities and Politics of Intercultural Theatre on the Contemporary Hong Kong Stage 
Principal Investigator: Prof. LUK Yun Tong Thomas 
Year of Award: 2005-2006

 

Contemporary Daoist Ritual of Zhengyi Tradition in Hong Kong and Macau and Its Structural Relationship with the Daoist Liturgies of the Song Period 
Principal Investigator: Prof. LAI Chi Tim 
Year of Award: 2005-2006

 

Out of Ma'am's Kitchen: Public Articulation, Representation and Foreign Domestic Workers in Hong Kong 
Principal Investigator: Prof. LAI Ming Yan 
Year of Award: 2005-2006

 

Heavenly Kingdom and Pure Land: Transformation of Their Interpretations in Republican China 
Principal Investigator: Prof. LAI Pan Chiu 
Year of Award: 2005-2006

 

Critical Biblical Scholarship in China: A Study of Li Jung Fang (李榮芳) in Socio-Intellectual Context 
Principal Investigator: Prof. LEE Chi Chung Archie 
Year of Award: 2005-2006

 

Chinese-Christian Identity in Migration: Protestant Theology in Hong Kong 1950s-70s 
Principal Investigator: Prof. LAI Pan Chiu 
Year of Award: 2004-2005

 

The Christian Dreams–Models of Christian Colleges/Universities in East Asian Countries 
Principal Investigator: Prof. NG Tze Ming Peter 
Year of Award: 2004-2005

 

A Comparative Analysis of Jesus' Radicalism and Paul's Deradicalization 
Principal Investigator: Prof. WONG Kun Chun Eric 
Year of Award: 2004-2005

 

Naming God in Chinese: Interpreting Missionary and Chinese Christian Debates on the "Term Question" in Cross-Cultural Encounters 
Principal Investigator: Prof. LEE Chi Chung Archie 
Year of Award: 2003-2004

 

Adaptations and Translations of Western Drama: A Social-cultural Study of Hong Kong Repertory Theatre's Productions from 1977 to the Present
Principal Investigator: Prof. LUK Yun Tong Thomas 
Year of Award: 2003-2004

 

Local Religion and Society in Southeast China 
Principal Investigator: Prof. TAM Wai Lun 
Year of Award: 2003-2004

 

A Study of Chinese Christian Writings from the Seventeenth to the Early Twentieth Century China 
Principal Investigator: Prof. LEE Chi Chung Archie 
Year of Award: 2001-2002

 

Publishing, Reading and Religious Life in the Popular Literature of Late Imperial China 
Principal Investigator: Prof. WANG Richard G. 
Year of Award: 2001-2002

 

History of Early Heavenly Master Taoism in Six Dynasties Period: A Study of the Nature of Traditional Chinese Religion 
Principal Investigator: Prof. LAI Chi Tim 
Year of Award: 1999-2000

 

A Lexical Analysis of the Greek New Testament: Towards "A Greek-Chinese Lexicon of the Greek New Testament" 
Principal Investigator: Prof. WONG Kun Chun Eric 
Year of Award: 1999-2000

 

Religious Festivals in Northern Guangdong: A Study of Chinese Religion, Social Structure and Local Identity 
Principal Investigator: Prof. TAM Wai Lun 
Year of Award: 1999-2000

 

Thirteen Points of Light: Christian Colleges / Universities and China's Modern Transformation 
Principal Investigator: Prof. NG Tze Ming Peter 
Year of Award: 1997-1998