Working Papers and Forthcoming Works
David A. Palmer
Professor
Palmer, David A. and Brownnutt Mike (forthcoming) Re-Assembling Reality: Realism and Constructivism in Science, Religion and Society. Book manuscript to be submitted in Fall 2026 to Oxford University Press.
Palmer, David A. and Brownnutt Mike (in progress) Objects, Persons and Powers: Relating to the World in Science, Religion and Magic.
Palmer, David A. (in progress) Global China in a Religious World
Palmer, David A. and McCormick, Joseph (in progress) Intersections of purity and danger in the civil sphere: A cultural sociology of the political compass
Palmer, David A.,Wang, Yang and Xuan, Ziqi (in progress) Constructing the Belt and Road initiative from the ground up: ‘One line, two zones’ between China and Myanmar
Palmer, David A. and Estevez, Joseba (in progress) Cooking the barbarians, conquering the forest: Lanten Yao spiritual warfare at the Margins of Chinese and Tai polities
Palmer, David A. (in progress) Postcolonial Empires in the Era of the Belt and Road
John D. Wong
Professor
Wong, John D. (in progress) Hong Kong dollar: Mediating China’s participation in global capitalism
Wong, John D. (in progress) Making Hong Kong home: private-sector homeownership and the transformation of state-market dynamics
Wong, John D. (in progress) China reincorporated: The state and the choice of corporate form.
Wong, John D. (in progress) Enterprises and the transformation of modern Chinese society
Ji Li
Associate Professor
Li, Ji (forthcoming) The ‘World’ in local China: Multicultural histories and micro-narration of modern China. In Past to Contest/Past to Share: “China” in Chinese History. Edited by Nagatomi Hirayama. Michigan: University of Michigan Press.
Li, Ji and Qiu, Zichan (forthcoming) Negotiating identity through religion: Hakka migrants and Chinese Catholics in Jamaica. In Transnational History. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong University Press
Li, Ji (in progress) Miracles, healing, and the politics of holy water in Chinese Catholicism
Li, Ji (ed.) (in progress) Revisiting imperial margins: Religious and political challenges in modern Asia. Chinese Historical Review (Special Issue)
Li, Ji (ed.) (in progress) Cities in crisis: Perspectives and discourses. Journal of Urban History (Special issue).
Li, Ji and Zhao Ruijuan (eds.) (in progress) Speaking Chinese in Manchuria: Manuscript Collection by Alfred Caubrière (1876 – 1948). (Archival collection series in progress)
Li, Ji (in progress Religion and Vernacular Knowledge: Women, Missionaries, Everyday Literacy and Technics in China (tentative book title). (Book manuscript in progress)
Li, Ji (in progress) City on the North Bank: Religion and the Making of Urban China. (Book manuscript in progress)
Ghassan Moazzin
Assistant Professor
Moazzin, Ghassan (forthcoming) A Business History of Modern China: c. 1800 to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Moazzin, Ghassan (in progress) Selling electrical modernity: Electricity and advertisements in Republican Shanghai, 1912-1937
Moazzin, Ghassan (in progress) Warfare and state intervention in China’s electrical and electronics Industries, 1937-1945
Moazzin, Ghassan (in progress) Electric China: A History of the Chinese Electrical and Electronics Industries, 1870-1978
Sijie Hu
Assistant Professor
Sijie, Hu (in progress) Gender inequality in lifespan in historical China, 1368–1911. (Co-authored with Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, and Kaixiang Peng)
Sijie, Hu (in progress) Marriages in Ming–Qing Chinese lineages: A quantitative reassessment
Sijie, Hu (in progress) Knowledge for lineage: Queen, keju and social mobility in Tang China. (Co-authored with Shuo Chen, Shouying Liu, and Zhenxiang Wu)
Sijie, Hu (in progress) Agriculture curse and delayed modernization. (Co-authored with Runzhuo Zhai and Zichuan Zhao)
Sijie, Hu (in progress) The Micro-evidence for the Malthusian system: China, 1350–1900. (Co-authored with Xinyu Liu and Runzhuo Zhai)
Chung Fung Tong
Assistant Professor
Tong, Chun Fung (in progress) Scribal agency in the production of Judicial texts in early imperial China: Evidence from the Zoumalou Western Han manuscripts
Tong, Chun Fung (in progress) Recipients and Judicial procedures in *case concerning the obstruction of judicial officials of the convict labor of the Palace Wai and Bushi in reporting Wu’s unauthorized request to release his fetters from the Zoumalou Western Han manuscripts” 長沙走馬樓西漢簡牘「宮司空獄史外、不識故弗舉劾武請擅解脫易桎案」傳書對象與司法程序再探
Tong, Chun Fung (in progress) Legal reasoning in the formative stage of imperial China, ca. 221–186 BCE
Tong, Chun Fung (in progress) Cultural memory of the ‘Qin Collapse’ from Han to Song
Tong, Chun Fung (in progress) The Tokenization of rank during the Qin Conquest
Doudou Chao
Research Assistant Professor
Cao, D., Crema, E. R., Yang, F., Li, S., Lu, H., Yuan, H., Chilie, C., & Pomeroy, E. (in progress) Spatiotemporal variation in human body size and proportions across ancient China: A Bayesian hierarchical approach
Cao, D., Crema, E. R., & Pomeroy, E. (in progress) Multifactorial drivers of spatial variation in human body form across modern China
Cao, D., Yang, F., Li, S., Lu, H., Yuan, H., Chilie, C., & Pomeroy, E. (in progress) Shaped by the Highlands: Stature, body mass, and limb proportions of ancient Tibetan populations compared with neighbouring Lowlanders
Cao, D., Yang, F., Li, S., Lu, H., Yuan, H., Chilie, C., & Pomeroy, E. (in progress) Adaptation or constraint? Skeletal evidence for growth and health in ancient western Himalayan populations
Cao, D. , Yuan, H., Yang, F., Li, S., Chilie, C., & Pomeroy, E. (in progress) Evaluating the performance of stature estimation equations in ancient Chinese populations
Cao, D., Karakostis, F., Yuan, H., Yang, F., Li, S., Lu, H., Chilie, C., & Pomeroy, E. (in progress) Assessing the reliability of a 3D method for re-associating commingled hip joints in archaeological assemblages
