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Division of Humanities Acting Head of Division:

Zongli LU, Associate Professor of Humanities The Division of Humanities offers a wide range of concentrations, including

Linguistics, Literature, History and Anthropology, and Philosophy and Religion. In line with the University’s aim to produce specialists who will not only excel in their technical expertise but also be equipped with a broad outlook on life and the world, the Division offers a diversity of courses for undergraduates in science, engineering, and business and management. A minor program is available for those who wish to pursue further and more intensive training in the humanities. At the postgraduate level, the curriculum is focused and integrated, with a special emphasis on China in the broader, cultural sense to include Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, the Chinese Mainland, and the Chinese diaspora. Moreover, the Humanities program is interdisciplinary and comparative in orientation. China is approached not only as a region but also in a global context (e.g. in relation to Asia and the West). It is also noteworthy that the Humanities Division is not subdivided into traditional departments. Instead, it emphasizes dialogue among the various disciplines within the Division. UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

The Division offers a great variety of courses in the humanities. For organizational purposes, the courses are grouped into four areas: (1) Linguistics, (2) Literature, (3) History and Anthropology, and (4) Philosophy and Religion.

Linguistics

The linguistics curriculum introduces students to the study of language, with a particular emphasis on Chinese. It offers an integrated view of various linguistics components, including the study of writing system, speech sounds and sound patterns, word formation, sentence structure, meaning, language use, and language change. The courses provide students with a general appreciation of language as a communicative system and equip them with tools needed for linguistic analysis. Aside from a general introduction to the basics in linguistics, the curriculum focuses on the structure of the Chinese language, its history and its present state of development. Chinese dialects are also examined. Literature

The literature curriculum introduces students to the study of literary art and other art forms in their multifarious aspects and various manifestations. The courses provide opportunities for students to experience and engage with literary texts and other art forms and train students in the analysis of different kinds of cultural “texts” from an artistic and ideological basis, in both the global and local perspective. They aim to refine students’ aesthetic sensibility, heighten their analytical skills, and help them gain a broad understanding of human cultures in general and the literary art in particular.

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The emphasis of the curriculum is on Chinese literature, covering a variety of genres and periods. It also offers courses on other literary traditions and other forms of art such as film, music, and popular cultures. Some of the courses deal with important intellectual questions of contemporary society in terms of the study of gender issues and cultural identities. History and Anthropology

The curriculum in history and anthropology introduces students to an organized study of the disciplines. It aims to show what kinds of knowledge and forms of inquiry exist in these areas, how different means of analysis are used, and what their value is. The courses provide guidance to students in achieving the goal of a broad education along with particular forms of knowledge and intellectual skills in history and anthropology. The emphasis of the curriculum is placed on China in the broadest cultural sense to include societies in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, the Chinese Mainland, and the Chinese diaspora. The curriculum is organized into four foci: (1) Chinese Culture and Society, (2) The East and the West, (3) South China, and (4) Chinese Art History. Philosophy and Religion

The curriculum in the disciplines of philosophy and religion is designed to provide students with as broad, diversified, and comprehensive as possible a perspective from which they can explore the nature, the subject matter, and the methodology of the subjects involved. Through a graded progression of the courses at different levels, students may not only expand their intellectual horizons in a general sense but acquire expertise in what actually concerns philosophy and religion as two major disciplines of human knowledge. Towards this end, the curriculum is designed to cover five major areas of interest: (1) philosophy and religion in general, (2) Chinese philosophy and religion, (3) philosophy and religion of the East, (4) Western philosophy and religion, and (5) world philosophy and religion. Curriculum

Description of the curriculum and courses for the following programs are presented online at http://publish.ust.hk/calendar :

The Undergraduate Minor Program in Humanities The Undergraduate Minor Program in China Studies (Joint Minor Program) The Undergraduate Minor Program in Liberal Studies (Joint Minor Program)

POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMS AND RESEARCH

The postgraduate programs in the Division are all interdisciplinary in nature. A significant focus of interest is on studies related to China, Hong Kong and the wider Asia-Pacific region.

The Division offers both research and taught postgraduate programs. The

taught programs lead to the degrees of Graduate Diploma (GD) and Master of Arts (MA) in Humanities. It also offers two other taught programs, MA in China Studies and MA in Liberal Studies, jointly with the Division of Social Science. Research programs lead

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to the degrees of Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in all four areas of linguistics, literature, history and anthropology, and philosophy and religion.

Candidates for all postgraduate degrees should normally be honors graduates in relevant disciplines, and those seeking admission to the PhD program will generally have an MA or MPhil degree. They are all expected to be proficient in Chinese and English at the postgraduate level and required to attend courses. The greater part of the training for those in the MPhil and PhD programs is, however, devoted to research and the preparation of a thesis. Students should refer to the section on regulations governing postgraduate studies for course and residency requirements. Admission Requirements

All applicants must meet the general requirements for admission set by the University. For admission to the PhD program, a Master’s degree thesis or a substantial essay in either English or Chinese must be submitted by the applicant. Curriculum

Description of the curriculum and courses for the following programs are presented online at http://publish.ust.hk/calendar :

Taught Postgraduate Programs: Graduate Diploma (GD) in China Studies (Joint Degree Program) Graduate Diploma (GD) in Humanities Master of Arts (MA) in Humanities Master of Arts (MA) in China Studies (Joint Degree Program) Master of Arts (MA) in Liberal Studies (Joint Degree Program)

Research Postgraduate Programs: Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Humanities Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Humanities

FACULTY AND THEIR RESEARCH INTERESTS

Chair Professors

Yiu-Ming FUNG ( 馮 耀 明 ), BA National Taiwan Normal; MPhil, PhD Chinese Univ of Hong Kong Research Interests: Confucianism; Buddhist philosophy; logic in ancient China; comparative philosophy.

Chang-Tai HUNG ( 洪 長 泰 ), BA Chinese Univ of Hong Kong; AM, PhD Harvard Research Interests: Modern Chinese cultural history; contemporary Chinese rituals and politics; Chinese popular and folk culture; political space and history.

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James LEE ( 李 中 清 ), BA Yale; MA, PhD Chicago (Dean of Humanities and Social Science, and Chair Professor of Social Science) Research Interests: Chinese history (late imperial and contemporary); demography and sociology of populations in the past; genealogical approaches to social science; higher education and social stratification in China.

Professors

Kim-Chong CHONG ( 莊 錦 章 ), BA Singapore; PhD London Research Interests: Ethics; comparative philosophy; early Confucianism; Zhuangzi.

Bozhong LI ( 李 伯 重 ), MA, PhD Xiamen Research Interests: Chinese social and economic history; Ming and Qing history; Chinese military history; comparative history.

Adjunct Professors

Lai CHEN ( 陳 來 ), BA Central South Industry; MA, PhD Peking Research Interests: Chinese philosophy; Confucianism; Neo-Confucianism; modern Confucian philosophy.

Samuel Hung-Nin CHEUNG ( 張 洪 年 ), BA, MA Chinese Univ of Hong Kong; PhD Univ of California, Berkeley Research Interests: Chinese linguistics; Cantonese dialect; vernacular Chinese fiction.

Kathy Cheng-Mei KU ( 古 正 美 ), BA, MA National Taiwan; PhD Univ of Wisconsin, Madison Research Interests: Buddhist political ideology; Buddhist art and history; Mahayana Buddhism.

William S. Y. WANG ( 王 士 元 ), BA Columbia Coll; MA, PhD Michigan Research Interests: Evolution theory and linguistics; languages and peoples of China; language engineering.

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Visiting Professor

Bright SHENG, MA City Univ of New York; DBA Columbia Research Interests: Western Classical music, music composition, music theater, opera, ballet music, Silk Road music cultures, Asian music cultures, Scandinavian music, language and music, 20th Century music styles, and contemporary music.

Associate Professors

Charles W. H. CHAN ( 陳 榮 開 ), BA, MPhil Chinese Univ of Hong Kong; MA Hiroshima; PhD Toronto Research Interests: Classical Confucianism; Song and Ming Neo-Confucianism; Taoism; Tokugawa Japanese Confucianism; comparative Chinese and Japanese thought and culture.

Jianhua CHEN ( 陳 建 華 ), MA, PhD Fudan; MA Univ of California, Los Angeles; PhD Harvard Research Interests: Chinese poetics and hermeneutics; Ming-Qing literature; Republican popular literature and print culture; modern Chinese "revolution" discourses and translation theories; Chinese literary and visual modernities.

Li-Fen CHEN ( 陳 麗 芬 ), BA National Taiwan; MA Wake Forest; PhD Univ of Washington Research Interests: Fiction; literary theory and cultural criticism; modern literature.

Siu-Woo CHEUNG ( 張 兆 和 ), BSocSc Chinese Univ of Hong Kong; MA, PhD Univ of Washington (Associate Director of South China Research Center) Research Interests: Ethnicity and ethno-historical processes in South China and Vietnam; subject-identity constitution and representation; cultural politics among border peoples.

Flora Li-Tsui FU ( 傅 立 萃 ), BA National Taiwan; MA, PhD Univ of California, Berkeley Research Interests: Twentieth-century Chinese painting; Ming and Qing painting; topographical painting.

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Virgil K. Y. HO ( 何 傑 堯 ), BA Hong Kong; MSt, DPhil Oxford (Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Science) Research Interests: Social and cultural history of modern China; rural South China in the Republican and the early-Socialist periods; political cultures and political symbolisms in modern China.

Tik-Sang LIU ( 廖 迪 生 ), BSocSc, DipEd Chinese Univ of Hong Kong; PhD Pittsburgh (Director of South China Research Center) Research Interests: Family and kinship; popular religion in South China; ethnicity; ecological anthropology; visual anthropology; heritage conservation.

Zongli LU ( 呂 宗 力 ), BA East China Normal; MA Chinese Acad of Soc Sc; MA, PhD Univ of Wisconsin, Madison (Acting Head of Division, and Director of Center for Cultural Studies) Research Interests: Chinese political, social and intellectual history from early to early medieval periods; Chinese cultural history; political institutions and systems; classical textual studies; popular beliefs and religions.

Jingtao SUN ( 孫 景 濤 ), BA, MA Peking; PhD British Columbia (Director of Center for Chinese Linguistics) Research Interests: Chinese linguistics; morphology and etymology; phonetics and phonology; Chinese dialectology; oracle-bone and bronze inscriptions.

Xinyang WANG ( 王 心 揚 ), BA, MA Nankai; MA, PhD Yale Research Interests: Chinese Diaspora history; early medieval Chinese history; history of Sino-foreign relations.

Lisa Lai-Ming WONG ( 黃 麗 明 ), BA, CertEd Hong Kong; MA City Univ of Hong Kong; PhD Hong Kong Univ of Sc & Tech Research Interests: Modern poetry; lyrical theory; comparative literature.

Simon Man-Ho WONG ( 黃 敏 浩 ), BA, MA National Taiwan; PhD Toronto Research Interests: Confucianism; Neo-Confucianism; Taoism; Chinese Buddhism.

Angelina Chun-Chu YEE ( 余 珍 珠 ), BA Univ of California, Berkeley; AM, PhD Harvard Research Interests: Narrative and drama; cultural criticism; colonial and post-colonial studies; gender studies.

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Kam-Ming YIP ( 葉 錦 明 ), BA, MPhil, PhD Chinese Univ of Hong Kong Research Interests: Philosophy of language; methodology of thinking; philosophy of religious Taoism.

Min ZHANG ( 張 敏 ), BA, PhD Peking Research Interests: Chinese linguistics; Chinese historical grammar; Chinese dialectology; cognitive semantics and syntax.

Xiaonong ZHU ( 朱 曉 農 ), MA Fudan; PhD Australian National Research Interests: Historical phonology; dialectology; experimental phonetics; evolutionary phonology.

Adjunct Associate Professors

Oliver See-Yin LO ( 盧 思 彥 ), HigherDip Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ; AdvDip Hong Kong Acad of Performing Arts; MMus, DMA Eastman Sch of Music (Senior Instructor) Research Interests: Opera education; vocal performance and vocal pedagogy.

Matthew TOMMASINI, BA Univ of California, Los Angeles; MA, DMA Michigan Research Interests: Music composition; music theory; music history; piano performance.

Ming-Hsiu YEN, BMus Eastman Sch of Music; MMus, DMA Michigan Research Interests: Music composition; music theory; piano performance; piano pedagogy; chamber music.

Assistant Professors

Joshua DERMAN, AB Harvard; MA, PhD Princeton Research Interests: Modern European history; global intellectual history; history of social and political thought.

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William Guanglin LIU ( 劉 光 臨 ), BA, MA Peking; PhD Harvard Research Interests: Chinese economic history; political economy of late Imperial China; Chinese military history; Neo-Confucianism and the market economy in a historical perspective.

Jianxiong MA ( 馬 健 雄 ), BA Yunnan; MA Yunnan Nationalities; MPhil, PhD Hong Kong Univ of Sc & Tech Research Interests: Ethnicity; kinship; tourism anthropology; ethnic minorities in China and in highland Southeast Asia.

Kenny Kwok-Kwan NG ( 吳 國 坤 ), BA Chinese Univ of Hong Kong; MPhil Hong Kong Univ of Sc & Tech; PhD Harvard Research Interests: History and politics in fiction; Chinese cinema and visual modernity; literary and media culture; colonialism and Hong Kong cultural history.

Carine Yuk-Man YIU ( 姚 玉 敏 ), BA, MA Manitoba; MPhil, PhD Hong Kong Univ of Sc & Tech Research Interests: Chinese linguistics; Cantonese dialect; Chinese dialectology; syntax; semantics.

Visiting Assistant Professor

Daisy Sheung-Yuen NG ( 伍 湘 畹 ), BA, MPhil Hong Kong; MA Chinese Univ of Hong Kong; MA Stanford; MA Monterey Inst of Int'l Stud; PhD Harvard Research Interests: Modern and contemporary Chinese literature and film; Hong Kong film and culture; gender studies; cultural studies; interpreting studies.