Active Projects
David A. Palmer
Professor
The S of ESG and Social Risk Management for Chinese Enterprises in the Global South
Religious Intersections with the Belt and Road Initiative
The Yao Dao Project: Daoist Ritual and Society among the Lanten Yao ethnic minority in Laos
Datong and Religious Cosmopolitanism in Republican China
John D. Wong
Professor
Homeownership and the Emergence of the Middle Class in Hong Kong
The role of Hong Kong as China’s Interface with Global Capitalism
Li Ji
Associate Professor
(2025-2028) Gender, Religion, and Literacy in Rural China, 1870s-1940s
(2024-2026) Gender, Religion, and Epistolary Writing in Rural China, 1870s-1940s
Ghassan Moazzin
Assistant Professor
Business History of Modern China
History of the Chinese Electrical and Electronics Industries, 1870-1978
Yuqi Chen
Assistant Professor
Framework for Interactive Simulation of History (FISH project), https://fishframe.net/
AI for the Humanities: Enhancing Large Language Models for Understanding Low-Resource Historical Materials
Sijie Hu
Assistant Professor
(2025) Gender Inequality in Chinese Historical Demography: A Genealogical Approach, Seed Fund for Basic Research for New Staff, HKU
Xin Su
Assistant Professor
(2025) The archaeology of “stone” resources in the Bronze Age: Settlements and society of the Shang Dynasty in the Middle Yangtze River
(2025) Ceramic Production and Technology in the Zhengzhou Shang City
(2025) Research on the Jiazhuang Site at Zhengyang (2025)
(2024) The Panlongcheng Field Archaeology Summer School
(2023) Frontier Societies in Early China from the Archaeological Data of the Lower Xiajiadian Culture
(2023) Stone Production in the Yanshi City of the Shang Dynasty (2023)
(2023) Member, Stone Production in the Zhengzhou City of the Shang Dynasty
(2022) Production of Pottery and Stone Tools in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River during the Xia and Shang Dynasties
(2021) Study on the Civilization Process of the Xia and Shang Dynasties in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River
Chun Fung Tong
Assistant Professor
Writing, Remembering and Identity Formation in Early Imperial China, 221 BCE–220 CE
Excavated Manuscripts and Local Administration in the Qin Dynasty
Doudou Cao
Research Assistant Professor
Unequal Lives: Modelling the Distribution of Growth and Survival in Ancient China
Growth, health, and skeletal adaptation in ancient high-altitude Tibetan populations
