Hong Kong

Current Research Projects and Interests: Normative influence on behavior

Professor Wong is an associate professor in the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Education Psychology. She received her B.A. in History from the University of Hong Kong and her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Heidelberg.  She has researched and taught extensively on developmental psychology.

Cheng Chung-yi is Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Prof. Cheng’s research interests are the development of Confucian philosophy from Neo-Confucianism to the contemporary New Confucianism movement, and the reinterpretation of Chinese spirituality. He received his M.Phil. in Chinese intellectual history and Ph.D. in Chinese philosophy from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Pan Lu is currently lecturer in The University of Hong Kong, Community College. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Comparative Literature, The University of Hong Kong. Previously, she obtained her Master’s degree from University Bayreuth, Germany and her Bachelor’s degree from Shanghai International Studies University, China. Her Ph.D. dissertation focuses mainly on a comparative perspective to the space of memory, modernity and visual culture in Shanghai and Berlin. Her major research interests include urban culture in globalization, inter-city competition, transformation of urban spaces and architecture in globalization, memory politics in national and global discourses and the redefinition of global modernities. While at HYI as an Urban Studies Training Program Visiting Fellow, she will focus on the spatial politics and cultural imagery in two urban renewal projects in China: Beijing Dazhalan and Shanghai Tianzifang.

Billy K. L. So is Chair Professor and Head of the Division of Humanities at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He was formerly Chair Professor of History and Associate Pro-vice-chancellor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Author of Prosperity, Region, and Institutions in Maritime China (Harvard, 2000), and coeditor of Power and Identity in the Chinese World Order (Hong Kong University Press, 2003) and The Treaty Port Economy in Modern China: Empirical Studies of Institutional Change and Economic Performance (Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2011), he specializes in Chinese economic history, historical GIS and geography, legal history, and business history. His works have appeared in T’oung Pao, Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales, and the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, among others.

Sylvia W.S. Lee is currently an art history Ph.D. candidate in the Fine Arts Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.  During her stay as a visiting fellow, she will work on her doctoral dissertation on garden strategies of elite women in Jiangnan, China in the 17th century.  Her other research interests include the relationship between art made for women or created by women and the consumer culture in the Ming dynasty, vernacular Chinese architecture as well as material culture in the Song dynasty.  Lee earned her M.A.in Art History from the University of Hawaii and her M.B.A. from University of California, Riverside.  Having worked at the Honolulu Academy of Arts and the Art Museum of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, she is now a freelance curator actively promoting and curating exhibitions for young and upcoming Hong Kong visual artists.

Cheung Lik-Kwan (Ph.D., Chinese University of Hong Kong) is currently an instructor in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is also a member of the Research Centre for Foreign Sinology (Chinese Literature) of Soochow University. His research interests include Chinese Leftist writers, Western Marxism and the culture of globalization. While staying at the Harvard-Yenching Institute as a Visiting Scholar, Dr. Cheung will be working on a project titled “Spatial Imagination and Cultural Politics in Chinese Leftist Writers’ Travel Writings”.