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The Transformation of Local Religion in Rural Central China under Maoism, 1949-1976
\nPrincipal Investigator: Professor Jan KIELY
\nFund Source: RGC General Research Fund
\nYear of Award: 2020
\nBrief Introduction: This study examines village religious culture in relation to local people\u2019s existential concerns about sustenance, health and security from the 1950s through the early 1970s. The focus is on particular regions in the central provinces of Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu where rural people\u2019s struggles for basic survival and security had long been acute and remained so well after 1949.<\/p>\n

\n‘A community of shared future\u2019: ideas, debates and innovations in China\u2019s global vision
\nPrincipal Investigator: Professor Tim SUMMERS
\nFund Source: Direct Grant for Research
\nYear of Award: 2020
\nBrief Introduction: This project will examine the ideas and debates which have influenced the Chinese leadership\u2019s development of \u201cA community of shared future for (hu)mankind\u201d as an innovation in its foreign policy discourse and global vision over recent years. As well as contextualising this in Chinese views about the world, the research will position this concept in the ongoing intellectual debates in the PRC, thus bringing together domestic and externally-oriented discussions of China\u2019s place in the world.<\/p>\n

\nFood Consumption of Left-behind Children and Rural Transformation in Post-reform China
\nPrincipal Investigator: Professor LING Minhua
\nFund Source: RGC General Research Fund
\nYear of Award: 2019
\nBrief Introduction: This project situates left-behind children\u2019s daily life, especially foodways and health consequences, within both individual households and rural communities at large, to reveal in ethnographic details the effects of parents\u2019 migration upon their children\u2019s wellbeing in the context of local economic conditions, socioecological systems, and cultural values that have also been undergoing modifications due to migration and industrialization. Doing so will allow this research to illuminate how familial bonds and socioecological relations in rural communities have been changing, in terms of the ways they affect and are affected by dietary practices, under the sustained pressure of rural-to-urban migration.<\/p>\n

\nThe Hong Kong Crime Film
\nPrincipal Investigator: Professor Kristof VAN DEN TROOST
\nFund Source: RGC Early Career Scheme
\nYear of Award: 2019
\nBrief Introduction: The aim of this project is to write a history of the Hong Kong crime film genre from the late 1940s to the present. The resulting book will place the genre in its political, social and cultural contexts\u2014all the while keeping in mind that genre categories themselves are constructed in discourse. The book\u2019s central argument is that in a highly commercialized and politically censored environment, Hong Kong crime films have historically been one of the few venues in which social and political issues could be addressed and negotiated.<\/p>\n

\nDialect Writing and Identity Formation from Late Qing to Contemporary Shanghai
\nPrincipal Investigator: Professor GAO Yunwen
\nFund Source: RGC Early Career Scheme
\nYear of Award: 2019
\nBrief Introduction: This project examines the changing discourse and cultural significance of Wu dialect writing in the history of Shanghai literature and culture from the late Qing period (1849-1911) to the present. Dialect was a vital source in the formation of a new vernacular in late imperial and early Republican China. The Wu dialect region, now called the lower Yangtze River region, boasts a vibrant storytelling tradition. Many regional practices found their way into magazines and newspapers as a result of the flowering of Shanghai\u2019s print culture. Despite various national language movements in Republican and Communist periods that suppressed dialects, dialect writing continues to persist in contemporary Shanghai and overseas Shanghainese-speaking communities. By tracing the historical trajectory of Wu dialect literature in the forms of serialized novel, short story, folk song, and poetry in Shanghai, this research posits oral traditions and narrative strategies from late imperial China continue to shape cultural identity beyond the regional level.<\/p>\n

\nTracing the history of Chinese immigrants in Cuba through Cantonese Opera in Havana during the 1920s-1940s
\nPrincipal Investigator: Professor GAO Yunwen
\nFund Source: Direct Grant for Research
\nYear of Award: 2018
\nBrief Introduction: This project examines the operatic tradition and identity formation in the Chinese immigrant communities in Havana during the 1920s to 1940s. I analyze findings from archival research of Chinatown Opera theatre in the Americas and Southeast Asia, as well as contemporary records of Chinese immigrants in Cuba reported and aestheticized in documentary films and oral histories in order to explore the significance of Cantonese opera as a vehicle of the trans-Pacific trade and cultural exchange. Overall, this project contributes to the studies of Cantonese opera and cultural identity in overseas Chinese communities.<\/p>\n

\nHybrid Regulatory Regime and the Role of State in China\u2019s Stock Market Crisis 2014-2015
\nPrincipal Investigator: Professor LI Chen
\nFund Source: RGC Early Career Scheme
\nYear of Award: 2018<\/p>\n

\nChina’s Belt and Road Initiative: Provincial Policy Reponses in Yunnan
\nPrincipal Investigator: Professor Tim SUMMERS
\nFund Source: Direct Grant for Research
\nYear of Award: 2018<\/p>\n

\nEating Junk: Consumption of Packaged Food among Left-behind Children in Rural China
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\nPrincipal Investigator: Professor LING Minhua
\nFund Source: Direct Grant for Research
\nYear of Award: 2018<\/p>\n

\nPolitical Censorship of Films in Pre-1997 Hong Kong: The 1988 Film Censorship Ordinance
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\nPrincipal Investigator: Professor Kristof VAN DEN TROOST
\nFund Source: Direct Grant for Research
\nYear of Award: 2018
\nBrief Introduction: This project revisited the introduction of the 1988 Film Censorship Ordinance in Hong Kong, including the societal debates about censorship in the years before and after the law was passed. Given the anxiety surrounding the survival of freedom of expression and of the press in the territory following the 1997 Handover, the discussion around film censorship assumed an unusual urgency and importance during this period. The project also assessed the impact of the new censorship legislation on local film genres, especially on so-called \u201cCategory III films\u201d.<\/p>\n

\nEnvironmental Contention in China: Mapping its Evolution and Political Geography
\nPrincipal Investigator: Professor Christoph STEINHARDT (till mid-January 2018)
\nFund Source: RGC General Research Fund
\nYear of Award: 2017<\/p>\n

\nThe Political Economy of China\u2019s Central State Corporatism: Chinese Communist Party and Large State-controlled Business Groups
\nPrincipal Investigator: Professor LI Chen
\nFund Source: Seed Funding for New Recruits
\nYear of Award: 2015<\/p>\n

\nThe Repertoire of Repression in Urban China: Threat, Visibility, and Change
\nPrincipal Investigator: Professor Christoph STEINHARDT (till mid-January 2018)
\nFund Source: RGC Early Career Scheme
\nYear of Award: 2015<\/p>\n

\nChina in the Twentieth Century, An Additional Focus to \u201cThe Historical Anthropology of Chinese Society\u201d
\nPrincipal Investigator: Professor David FAURE
\nFund Source: The Vice-Chancellor\u2019s One-off Discretionary Fund
\nYear of Award: 2014
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