Research Grants
Faculty members of the School have launched many new research initiatives with support from the Research Grants Council and elsewhere including projects focusing on Hong Kong, projects comparing Hong Kong with elsewhere, and projects dealing with more universal issues.
- Research Grants Council (RGC) – General Research Fund
- RGC – Direct Allocation Grant
- University Grants Council (UGC) – Areas of Excellence
- UGC – Research Project Competition
- CPU – Public Policy Research
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- Early Career Scheme
- Prestigious Fellowship Scheme under Humanities and Social Sciences Panel
- RGC – Collaborative Research Fund (Group Research)
Research Grants Council (RGC) – General Research Fund
| Project Title | Principal Investigator | Amount | Exercise Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doing diversity in Hong Kong universities: discourses of queer belonging in a cosmopolitan, Confucian context | FREESTONE, Pip (HUMA) | HK$425,126 | 2024-2025 |
| From the New World: Sanctions and the Votes of Immigrants | HAN, Li (SOSC) | HK$520,000 | 2024-2025 |
| The Economic Legacy of Civilian Killings: Evidence from the Korean War | PARK, Sangyoon (SOSC) | HK$482,539 |
2024-2025 |
| Barriers to Structural Transformation and Labor Allocation by Gender: A Quantitative Analysis of China | WANG, Jin (SOSC) | HK$232,121 | 2024-2025 |
| Crafting the Soundscape of the Future: Economic Impacts of Traffic Road Noise | WANG, Wen (SOSC) | HK$254,813 |
2024-2025 |
| Gender and Authorship: Women Animation Directors in Socialist China | DU, Daisy Yan (HUMA) | HK$428,000 |
2023-2024 |
| Engineering Equity: An Embodied Approach to Implicit Bias and AI-Assisted Intervention | HUANG, Ta-Lun Linus (HUMA) | HK$202,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Seaborne Visions: Early Nineteenth-Century Missionary Publications in Chinese | JIN, Huan (HUMA) | HK$320,000 | 2023-2024 |
| The Enchantment of the Otherworldly in the Early Twenty-First Century | LIU, Jianmei (HUMA) | HK$427,200 | 2023-2024 |
| Neither Green nor Black: The History of the Tea Industry in Taiwan | ZHANG, Lawrence L C (HUMA) | HK$360,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Will More Surveillance Cameras Lead to Fewer Protests? A Global Level Analysis | ZHANG, Han (SOSC) | HK$530,400 | 2023-2024 |
| Between Worlds: China’s WWII Interpreters and Their Divergent Fates in China, Taiwan, and the United States | CHANG, Cheng David (HUMA) | HK$590,000 | 2022-2023 |
| The Führer’s Successor: Constitutional Theory and Conciliarism in Nazi Germany | DERMAN, Joshua (HUMA) | HK$430,000 | 2022-2023 |
| Limits of the Chinese empire in the Southwest: Silver mining and ethnic construction in the frontier between Yunnan and Burma from the 1640s to the 1830s from a historical anthropology perspective | MA, Jianxiong (HUMA) | HK$790,577 | 2022-2023 |
| Migration of Graduates in China: 1985-2020 | MA, John Z (SOSC) | HK$665,302 | 2022-2023 |
| Navigating Belonging: Exploring settlement for South Asians in Hong Kong through narratives and participatory photography | SIMPSON, James Edward Barbour (HUMA) | HK$709,260 | 2022-2023 |
| An Investigation of the Effectiveness of Dynamic Norm Messages in Promoting Public Support for Climate Policies | TAM, Kim-Pong (SOSC) | HK$532,000 | 2022-2023 |
| The Impacts of Ultra-High Voltage Electricity Transmission on China’s Environment, Health, and Energy Market | HE, Guojun(SOSC) | HK$627,653 | 2021-2022 |
| Disasters and Official Careers in the Qing Civil Service, 1830-1912 | CAMPBELL, Cameron Dougall(SOSC) | HK$389,962 | 2021-2022 |
| Dams and Conflicts | HAN, Li(SOSC) | HK$384,993 | 2021-2022 |
| The naturally talented or the hard worker? Examining the emergence and development of the naturalness bias over time | CHEN, Eva(SOSC) | HK$325,701 | 2021-2022 |
| Youths, Identity Consciousness and Generational Change | KU, Agnes(SOSC) | HK$969,965 | 2021-2022 |
| Negotiating Representational Strategies: Pictures of Mount Taibo from the 14th to the 18th Centuries | FU, Li-tsui Flora(SOSC) | HK$192,709 | 2021-2022 |
| Detecting Social and Political Desirability in Hong Kong Public Opinion Surveys | TANG, Wenfang(SOSC) | HK$1,191,620 | 2020-2021 |
| Sensuous Touch, Kiss, and Intimacy in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture | WU, Shengqing(HUMA) | HK$459,680 | 2020-2021 |
| The Korean War Prisoners Who Chose Neutral Nations: Their Odysseys from China and Korea to India and then Latin America | CHANG, Cheng David(HUMA) | HK$429,840 | 2020-2021 |
| Social Organizations and Peasant Militancy: The Case of the Chinese Famine | CAI, Yongshun(SOSC) | HK$260,000 | 2020-2021 |
| Place-based Policies, Growth and the Environment: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing | WANG, Jin (SOSC) | HK$160,806 | 2019-2020 |
| An Investigation of the Effectiveness of a Cultural Sustainability Frame in Climate Change Communication | TAM, Kim-Pong (SOSC) | HK$600,092 | 2019-2020 |
| Collective Action Among Greater Pearl River Delta Cities to Reduce Regional Air Pollution | PATCHELL, Gerald R (SOSC) | HK$504,008 | 2019-2020 |
| Impact of the US-China Trade War on Chinese Firms and Workers | PARK, Albert Francis (SOSC) | HK$578,923 | 2019-2020 |
| Pills and Power: How Political Connections Affect Drug Coverage in Basic Medical Insurance in China | HAN, Li (SOSC) | HK$363,800 | 2019-2020 |
| The impact of ethnicity and social status on the socializing preferences of children in Hong Kong | CHEN, Eva (SOSC) | HK$503,084 | 2019-2020 |
| Eyes in the Sky: The Political Economy of Surveillance in China | TSAI, Kellee (SOSC) | HK$443,200 | 2019-2020 |
| Socioeconomic Segregation, School Choice, and Geography of Educational Inequality in Hong Kong | XU, Duoduo (SOSC) | HK$599,440 | 2018-2019 |
| Resource-Driven Development and Social Welfare under Dictatorship | HONG, Ji Yeon (SOSC) | HK$317,500 | 2018-2019 |
| A Visual Poetry: The Aesthetics of Chinese Cine-Poems | LIU, Jianmei (HUMA) | HK$245,629 | 2018-2019 |
| Contractual Dispute Settlement under Corrupt Court | LIN, Yi-min (SOSC) | HK$576,383 | 2018-2019 |
| Family Background Influences on the Appointment and Career Mobility of Qing Officials With Examination Degrees | CAMPBELL, Cameron Dougall (SOSC) | HK$1,105,600 | 2018-2019 |
| Do happiness and sadness co-occur in everyday life? An experience-sampling and cross-cultural study | YIK, Michelle (SOSC) | HK$658,732 | 2018-2019 |
| Money and Politics in Late Imperial China: Office purchase and career entry, promotion, and exit in the Qing civil service | ZHANG, Lawrence L. C. (HUMA) | HK$363,400 | 2018-2019 |
| Innovation and Access to Technology for Sustainable Development: The Role of Public Policy Actors | MATUS, Kira (SOSC) | HK$687,484 | 2018-2019 |
| Refugee Camps: A Global History | SMITH, Jenny Leigh (HUMA) | HK$382,500 | 2018-2019 |
| The Social and Spatial Origins of China’s Educated Elite: 1865-2014 | LEE, James Z. (HUMA) | HK$735,997 | 2017-2018 |
| Between The Old and the New: Marriage in Rural China During the Middle of the 20th Century | CAMPBELL, Cameron Dougall (SOSC) | HK$1,143,500 | 2017-2018 |
| Plasmatic Empire: Animated Filmmaking in the Manchukuo Film Association (1937-1945) | DU, Daisy Yan (HUMA) | HK$743,320 | 2017-2018 |
| Has Technology Transfer remained a driver of China’s reverse migration? | ZWEIG, David (SOSC) | HK$496,000 | 2017-2018 |
| Swimming Against the Tide: Public-Private Partnership in Water Sector in China | WU, Xun (SOSC) | HK$775,600 | 2017-2018 |
| Multilateral Lending and Corruption in Developing Countries: The Case of the IMF | CHO, Hye Jee (SOSC) | HK$262,000 | 2017-2018 |
| The Political Economy of Urbanization in the Context of China’s New Normal | TSAI, Kellee (SOSC) | HK$278,200 | 2017-2018 |
| The Economic Impacts of Water Quality Monitoring in China | HE, Guojun (SOSC) | HK$364,876 | 2017-2018 |
| The Demand for Tasks and Skills in China and the World | PARK, Albert Francis (SOSC) | HK$617,253 | 2017-2018 |
| Explaining the Public Support for Democracy in Hong Kong: Revaluation after the Umbrella Movement | SING, Ming (SOSC) | HK$554,000 | 2016-2017 |
| Social Media Campaigns in China: An Emergent Channel for Setting Policy Agendas? | TSAI, Kellee (SOSC) | HK$644,698 | 2016-2017 |
| ”Ethnic” Enclaves, Migrant Settlement, and Socio-spatial Differentiation in Metropolitan Shenzhen, 2000-2010 | WU, Xiaogang (SOSC) | HK$436,476 | 2016-2017 |
| Anti-Mainland Protests in Hong Kong: A Social Movement Analysis | SO, Alvin Y C (SOSC) | HK$466,000 | 2016-2017 |
| Friend or foe? Person perception in preschool children across cultures | CHEN, Eva E (SOSC) | HK$486,260 | 2016-2017 |
| The Political Theology of the Chinese in Early Modern European Philosophy | NELSON, Eric S (HUMA) | HK$342,250 | 2016-2017 |
| State and Conflict Resolution in China: The Case of Medical Disputes | CAI, Yongshun (SOSC) | HK$497,465 | 2016-2017 |
| Tai Polities in Yunnan and West Mainland Southeast Asia, circa. 1253 to 1450 AD | DANIELS, Christian A. (HUMA) | HK$680,270 | 2016-2017 |
| Entrepreneurship, Law, and Morality: The House of Macmillan, 1870-1936 and Its Textbook Business in Global and Comparative Perspective | SO, Billy K L (HUMA) | HK$343,000 | 2016-2017 |
| On the relationship between valence and arousal in subjective experience: Modeling cultural and personality variations | YIK, Michelle (SOSC) | HK$773,680 | 2016-2017 |
| Animal Agency and Social Networks from a Historical Anthropology Perspective: Mules and Animal Husbandry, Agriculture and Long Distance Caravan Trade between Yunnan, Burma and Margins of the Tibetan Plateau | MA, Jianxiong(HUMA) | HK$759,000 | 2016-2017 |
| Contemporary Death Ritual and the Political Economy of Dead Bodies in Rural China | LIU, Huwy-min(HUMA) | HK$857,400 | 2016-2017 |
| Reconstructing the history of Chinese dialectal grammar: A study of word order | YIU, Carine Y M (HUMA) | HK$922,000 | 2015-2016 |
| Women and Daoism in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature | LIU, Jianmei (HUMA) | HK$370,000 | 2015-2016 |
| The Dynamics of Ethnic Stratification amid China’s Economic Transition | WU, Xiaogang (SOSC) | HK$683,148 | 2015-2016 |
| Photo Poetics: Visual Truths, Illusions and the Circulation of Emotion in Modern China | WU, Shengqing (HUMA) | HK$647,000 | 2015-2016 |
| The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same? Cross-National and Temporal Variations in Occupational Hierarchies | WONG, Raymond S K (SOSC) | HK$574,000 | 2015-2016 |
| Coming Home: Reverse Migration of Entrepreneurs and Academics in India and Turkey in Light of the Chinese Experience | ZWEIG, David (SOSC) | HK$974,387 | 2015-2016 |
| Fanshen Revisited: New Perspectives on Land Reform and Rural Collectivization in North China, 1945-1965 | LEE, James Z. (SOSC) | HK$410,000 | 2015-2016 |
| Human Agency and Population Behavior in Historical and Comparative Perspective: New Discoveries from East Asian Panel Data | LEE, James Z. (SOSC) | HK$637,992 | 2014-2015 |
| In Search of Literary Aura: Documentary Films about Writers in Taiwan | CHEN, Li Fen (HUMA) | HK$201,760 | 2014-2015 |
| The Third Reich and International Thought | DERMAN, Joshua (HUMA) | HK$443,500 | 2014-2015 |
| The Roles of the Soviet Union and the United States in Animated Filmmaking in Socialist China, 1940s-1970s | DU, Daisy Yan (HUMA) | HK$438,996 | 2014-2015 |
| How did the local government work in pre-industrial times: collection and analysis of the financial data for Chinese local administrations, 1150-1550 | LIU, Guanglin (HUMA) | HK$170,500 | 2014-2015 |
| A Historical Inquiry of the Belief in Retribution for Good and Evil Deeds in Early and Early Medieval China in a Comparative Perspective | LU, Zongli (HUMA) | HK$110,000 | 2014-2015 |
| Rights Without Heaven? Ten/Tian (天) and Social Darwinism in the Constitutional Law Theories of Katō Hiroyuki(加藤弘之) and John Wu(吳經熊) | SO, Billy K L (HUMA) | HK$378,200 | 2014-2015 |
| Tonal systems in the Miao language in China: Is it really possible for a tonal system to have six level tones? | ZHU, Xiaonong (HUMA) | HK$466,344 | 2014-2015 |
| Spatial, Temporal, and Social Network Influences on Officials’ Careers during the Qing: Creation and Analysis of a National Database from the Jin Shen Lu | CAMPBELL, Cameron Dougall (HUMA) | HK$846,988 | 2014-2015 |
| The impact of social group membership on Hong Kong Chinese children’s learning and socializing preferences | CHEN, Eva E (SOSC) | HK$524,423 | 2014-2015 |
| Return Migration and Urbanization in China | MA, John Z (SOSC) | HK$1,293,000 | 2014-2015 |
| Local Development and Ethnic Capital in China and India | TSAI, Kellee (SOSC) | HK$850,000 | 2014-2015 |
| Longitudinal Study of School-to-Work Transitions in Rural China | PARK, Albert Francis (SOSC) | HK$1,000,000 | 2014-2016 |
| Industrial Structures and the Promotion of Collaboration among Regional Clusters: An Analysis of Hong Kong and Tokyo | SHARIF, Nau Bahar (SOSC) | HK$388,517 | 2014-2016 |
| Colonial Censorship and the Cultural Politics of Hong Kong Cinema in the Cold War | NG, Kenny K K (HUMA) | HK$497,500 | 2013 |
| “Surviving Wars, Prisons, Persecution, and Displacement: Prisoners of the Korean War in Postwar Mainland China and Taiwan” | CHANG, Cheng David (HUMA) | HK$659,999 | 2013 |
| Buddhist Landscapes and the Literati: Paintings of Buddhist Sacred Sites during the Late Yuan and Early Ming | FU, Flora Li-tsui (HUMA) | HK$274,318 | 2013 |
| “The Process of Economic Development in West Sichuan, China” | HOLZ, Carsten A (SOSC) | HK$780,000 | 2013 |
| Social Origins of University Students in Republican China | LEE, James Z (HUMA) | HK$738,000 | 2013 |
| Going Local While Going Global?: Chinese Enterprise Localization in Africa and in Comparative Perspective | SAUTMAN, Barry V (SOSC) | HK$731,868 | 2013 |
| Entering-tone (ir)regularities in Beijing Mandarin and surrounding dialects: Comprehensive fieldwork data for systematic hypothesis-testing | SUN, Jingtao (HUMA) | HK$519,000 | 2013 |
| Understanding how values are transmitted in families facing cross-cultural transition | TAM, Kim-Pong (SOSC) | HK$574,000 | 2013 |
| The Postverbal Constraint across Chinese Dialects | ZHANG, Min (HUMA) | HK$704,000 | 2013 |
| Identity Formation and Social Interdependency Based on the Bazi (壩子) System: A Historical Anthropology Perspective on Social Construction between Mountains and Basins in the Zhaozhou Area, Western Yunnan Frontier, Southwest China | MA, Jianxiong (HUMA) | HK$377,894 | 2012-2013 |
| Business, Law and Education for Modernity: The Golden Harbor Press in Meiji Japan and the Commercial Press in Modern China | SO, Billy K L (HUMA) | HK$476,773 | 2012-2014 |
| Who Is Migrating and Who Are Left Behind? Social Consequences of Labor Migration in Rural China | MA, John Z (SOSC) | HK$586,084 | 2012-2013 |
| Rising Labor Demand(s), Employment, and Industrial Upgrading: The Pearl River Delta Firm-Worker Pilot Survey | PARK, Albert Francis (SOSC) | HK$796,933 | 2012-2013 |
| Contemporary Changes in the American Occupational Structure | WONG, Raymond S K (SOSC) | HK$484,605 | 2012-2013 |
| Differentiating Community and Family Contextual influences on Socioeconomic Attainment and Demographic Behaviour: Shuangcheng, 1855-1911 | LEE, James (DHSS) | HK$1,260,460 | 2011-2014 |
| Between Escape and Assimilation: Miao Identity in Southwest China and the Politics of Othering | CHEUNG, Siu Woo (HUMA) | HK$965,458 | 2011-2013 |
| War Clouds Over the Southern Sky: Society and Culture in Wartime Canton and the Pearl River Delta, 1937-1945 | HO, Virgil K Y (HUMA) | HK$1,187,260 | 2010-2012 |
| The early modern economy at the two ends of Eurasia: A comparative study of the GDP of the Yangzi Delta and the Netherlands in the early nineteenth century | LI, Bozhong (HUMA) | HK$893,943 | 2011-2014 |
| The Study of Siege Wars in Sichuan, 1100-1279 | LIU, Guanglin (HUMA) | HK$445,389 | 2010-2012 |
| A Semantic Map Approach to Comparative Chinese Dialectal Grammar | ZHANG, Min (HUMA) | HK$966,000 | 2010-2013 |
| Chinese Tones, Their Phonetic Properties, Typological Universals and Trajectories of Evolution | ZHU, Xiaonong (HUMA) | HK$917,056 | 2009-2012 |
| Public Interest and Institutional Development in the Early Modern State: England (1550-1688), Japan (1700-1890), and China (1700-1890) | HE, Wenkai (SOSC) | HK$478,260 | 2011-2014 |
| Partible Inheritance and Landed Wealth: Commercialization, Family Structure, and Distributive Consequences in Late Imperial China | KUNG, James K S (SOSC) | HK$969,383 | 2011-2014 |
| The Political Economy of China’s “Great Leap Famine”, 1959-1961, An Intra-provincial Analysis of Excess Mortality Variations | KUNG, James K S (SOSC) | HK$601,019 | 2011-2013 |
| Asian Values and Cultural Democralization: A Retest of the Asian Values Thesis | SING, Ming (SOSC) | HK$496,973 | 2010-2012 |
| What values do parents prefer in their children? The role of social norms | TAM, Kevin K P (SOSC) | HK$516,810 | 2009-2011 |
| Anthropomorphizing nature and pro-environmental behavior | TAM, Kevin K P (SOSC) | HK$446,972 | 2011-2014 |
| Social Stratification and Mobility in East Asia: A Comparative Study of China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan | WONG, Raymond S K (SOSC) | HK$1,027,180 | 2009-2011 |
| Consequences of Internal and Cross-border Migration in China for Children: A Mainland-Hong Kong Comparison | WU, Xiaogang (SOSC) | HK$1,150,000 | 2011-2014 |
| Higher Education, Elite Formation, and Social Stratification in Contemporary China | WU, Xiaogang (SOSC) | HK$1,205,568 | 2011-2013 |
| Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony | ZWEIG, David Stephen (SOSC) | HK$623,392 | 2010-2013 |
RGC – Direct Allocation Grant
| Project Title | Principal Investigator | Amount | Exercise Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal transplant for modern corporation: Meiji Japan and modern China | SO, Billy K L (HUMA) | HK$100,000 | 2012-2014 |
| A supplementary study of logic and language in early China | FUNG, Yiu Ming (HUMA) | HK$70,000 | 2011-2012 |
| Creating a modern army: the late Ming military reform under the shadow of financial crisis | LI, Bozhong (HUMA) | HK$103,300 | 2010-2011 |
| The Framework of the Bazi-Based Culture System: Multilayer Networks of Ethnic Diversity, Transportation and Political Centers at the Yunnan Frontier in Southwest China | MA, Jianxiong (HUMA) | HK$100,000 | 2010-2012 |
| A phonetic study on a unique feature: towards a new understanding on Sinitic languages in Northwestern Fujian | ZHU, Xiaonong (HUMA) | HK$70,000 | 2011-2012 |
| Income Inequality, Political Stability, and Development: The implications of country creditworthiness and income inequality on economic growth | CHO, Hye Jee (SOSC) | HK$100,000 | 2010-2012 |
| Chinese Statistics | HOLZ, Carsten A (SOSC) | HK$25,000 | 2010-2012 |
| Regional competition and the dearth of migrant workers in China | MA, John Z (SOSC) | HK$40,000 | 2010-2011 |
| China in Africa’s agricultural development | SAUTMAN, Barry V (SOSC) | HK$70,000 | 2011-2012 |
| Tracking knowledge-transfer from universities to society in Hong Kong’s innovation system | SHARIF, Naubahar (SOSC) | HK$32,000 | 2010-2011 |
| The impact of special economic zone on regional economy: micro-evidence from China | WANG, Jin (SOSC) | HK$103,300 | 2010-2012 |
| Child care and the labor supply of women in China | ZHU, Yi (SOSC) | HK$106,800 | 2010-2012 |
University Grants Council (UGC) – Areas of Excellence
| Project Title | Principal Investigator | Amount | Exercise Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| The historical anthropology of Chinese Society | LIU Tik Sang (HUMA) | TBC | 2014-2017 |
UGC – Research Project Competition
| Project Title | Principal Investigator | Amount | Exercise Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Political Economy of Eco-innovation in China and Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Transition Management Issues | BAARK, Erik (SOSC) | HK$354,000 | 2011-2013 |
| Innovation system and policies for innovative entrepreneurship in Hong Kong | SHARIF, Naubahar (SOSC) | HK$146,000 | 2011-2013 |
| The Study of the Long-Term Relationship between Mortality, Climatic Conditions and Air Pollution | TU, Jow Ching (SOSC) | HK$360,000 | 2010-2012 |
| Hong Kong Study of Undergraduate Learning (HK SOUL) A Panel Study | WONG, Raymond S K (SOSC) | HK$360,000 | 2010-2012 |
| Hong Kong Adolescents and Youth Life Survey. A Pilot Panel Study | WU, Xiaogang (SOSC) | HK$380,000 | 2010-2012 |
CPU – Public Policy Research
| Project Title | Principal Investigator | Amount | Exercise Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Low Carbon Transport Futures in Hong Kong and Shenzhen | ZHAO, Jimin (SOSC) | HK$784,776 | 2012-2014 |
| Tracking Knowledge-Transfer from Universities to Society in Hong Kong’s Innovation System | SHARIF, Naubahar (SOSC) | HK$372,000 | 2010-2012 |
| Occupational segregation, anti-discrimination policies, & gender inequality in Hong Kong | WONG, Raymond S K (SOSC) | HK$313,950 | 2009-2011 |
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
| Project Title | Principal Investigator | Amount | Exercise Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-generational Demographic and Landholding Date: CMGPD-SC Public Release. 1R01HD070985-01 Demographic and Behavioral Sciences, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development | CAMPBELL, Cameron Dougall (HUMA) Consultant: LEE, James Z. (SOSC) |
US$695,082 in direct costs and US$173,533 in indirect costs | 2012-2015 |
| The Liaoning Multi-Generational Panel Dataset: Public Release and User Training, Demographic Behavioral Sciences, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development | LEE, James Z. (SOSC) | US$492,367 in direct costs and US$270,993 in indirect cost | 2009-2011 |
| Demographic Responses to Community and Family Context. 1RO1HD045695-01A2, Demographic and Behavioral Sciences, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development | LEE, James Z. (SOSC) | US$570,000 in direct costs and US$296,875 in indirect cost | 2006-2010 |
Early Career Scheme
| Project Title | Principal Investigator | Amount | Exercise Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| The History of the Use and Trade of Animal-Based Pharmaceuticals in Hong Kong | CHEE, Pui Yee (HUMA) | HK$372,200 | 2024-2025 |
| Between Buddha-nature and Emptiness: The Peak Era of Chinese Buddhism | HUNG, Jenny (HUMA) | HK$290,249 | 2024-2025 |
| Adult Second-language Learners’ Consolidation of Cantonese Tones during Daytime Naps: The Role of Prior Knowledge | QIN, Zhen Quentin (HUMA) | HK$580,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Platform Governance of the Chinese Civic Sector in the Shadow of the State | ZHENG, Wenjuan (SOSC) | HK$569,580 | 2023-2024 |
| Whether and When Grievances Become Protests in China: A Big Data Approach | ZHANG, Han(SOSC) | HK$568,150 | 2021-2022 |
| From West to East: The Global Journey of Russian Nihilism | MA, Xiaolu(HUMA) | HK$610,000 | 2020-2021 |
| Marriage Patterns and National Networks of Chinese Elites in the Qing dynasty | ZHANG, Lawrence L C (HUMA) | HK$316,000 | 2017-2018 |
| Contemporary Death Ritual and the Political Economy of Dead Bodies in Rural China | LIU, Huwy-min (HUMA) | HK$857,400 | 2016-2017 |
| Oil, Migration, and Ethnic Violence in Xinjiang, China | HONG, Ji Yeon (SOSC) | HK$234,000 | 2015-2016 |
| The impact of social group membership on Hong Kong Chinese children’s learning and socializing preferences | CHEN, Eva E (SOSC) | HK$524,423 | 2014-2015 |
| The Roles of the Soviet Union and the United States in Animated Filmmaking in Socialist China, 1940s-1970s | DU, Daisy Yan (HUMA) | HK$558,996 | 2014-2015 |
| Surviving War, Prisons, Persecution, and Displacement: Prisoners of the Korean War in Postwar Mainland China and Taiwan | CHANG, David Cheng (HUMA) | HK$659,999 | 2013-2014 |
| Carrots and Sticks for Teacher Quality: Can Conditional Grant Programs Stop the Braindrain? | HAN, Li (SOSC) | HK$304,000 | 2012-2014 |
| The Longer the Better? The Effects of Maternity Leave on Childhood and Later Outcomes in China | ZHU, Yi (SOSC) | HK$334,432 | 2013-2015 |
Prestigious Fellowship Scheme under Humanities and Social Sciences Panel
| Project Title | Principal Investigator | Amount | Exercise Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| China's Second Silent Revolution: Comparing China's Top University Students and Top Academic Researchers, 1920-2020 | LEE, James Z. (HUMA) | HK$813,800 | 2023-2024 |
| Nothingness, Suffering, and the Unconscious: Buddhism and Nineteenth-Century German Philosophy | NELSON, Eric(HUMA) | HK$264,000 | 2021-2022 |
| The Predicament of “the Third Space” in Modern China “第三空間”在現代中國的困境 | LIU, Jianmei (HUMA) | HK$255,000 | 2020-2021 |
| Can Reverse Migration Change Insitutions? | ZWEIG, David Stephen (SOSC) | HK$932,900 | 2013-2014 |
| The Early Modern Economy at the Two Ends of Eurasia: A Comparative Study of the GDP of the Yangzi Delta and the Netherlands in the Early Nineteenth Century | LI, Bozhong (HUMA) | HK$302,000 | 2012-2013 |
| The Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics (HKPSSD) | WU, Xiaogang (SOSC) | HK$769,660 | 2012-2013 |
Research Grants Council (RGC) – Collaborative Research Fund (Group Research)
| Project Title | Principal Investigator(s) | Amount | Exercise Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community and Population Aging in Hong Kong: An Extension of the Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics (HKPSSD) | WU, Xiaogang (PM-SOSC, HKUST) WEI, Xiangdong (LU) CHEN, Juan (PolyuU) ZHANG, Zhuoni (CityU) PARK, Albert Francis (SOSC, HKUST) | HK$4,939,971 | 2017-2020 |