Research Centres and Laboratories under Departments

The centre aims to encourage research and exchange in cultural heritage studies, promote public understanding, and study the management, policy formulation and development of cultural heritage preservation in China and the rest of Asia.

The centre is committed to promoting scholarly research on Chinese language teaching and learning and dedicated to creating a research platform to develop promising research on Chinese language teaching and learning as a new frontier in tertiary education.

Established in 2001, the Hong Kong Literature Research Centre (HKLRC) is the nexus of Hong-Kong-related literary research, teaching, outreach and exchange across the CUHK campus.

Established in 2000, the centre is committed to conducting and actively supporting scholarly research on Cantonese language and linguistics from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives by means of conferences, lectures and training classes for linguistic surveys.

The Research Centre for Classical Chinese Poetics was established to promote and facilitate research on classical Chinese poetry and poetics. It aims to explore new issues, methods and areas of study, and foster communication and cooperation among Eastern and Western scholars.

The Centre for Catholic Studies is mainly committed to developing Catholic studies, including carrying academic research, providing university education and formation courses, holding academic conferences, scholarly publications, and disseminating Catholic cultural knowledge.

The Centre for Christian Studies aims at promoting and deepening the study of the great Christian traditions, and at facilitating their dialogue with other religious traditions in the pluralistic situation of culture and religion in Hong Kong and China.

The Centre for Cultural Studies was established in 2014 within the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies. The aim of the centre is to serve as a platform for the promotion of research activities in the field of cultural studies.

The centre is committed to promoting Quality Life Education with churches and church-affiliated schools in campuses, so that our cultural heritage and the traditions of Christianity and other religions can be appreciated with rationality and an open mind.

The centre focuses on researching Chinese cultures, particularly the Chan culture. It additionally holds activities such as international conferences, lectures and workshops, publications, a visiting scholar programme and organising cultural tours for students of CUHK.

The Centre for Studies of Daoist Culture was founded in 2006 with the cooperation of Fung Ying Seen Koon. Besides further developing academic studies of Daoist culture, the centre promulgates knowledge of Daoist culture to the general public in Hong Kong.

The Centre was established in 2015 with the donation from the Islamic Cultural Association. Its mission is to promote academic studies of Islamic culture and to enhance the public understanding of Islam, through conducting multi-disciplinary research projects of international standing, taking part in comparative or dialogic studies of religions and cultures.

In light of the rapid development and changing situation of Christian studies in mainland China, RCCCS has reformed the Summer Academic Exchange Programme for 2021. It now offers thesis supervision to students and conferences to fellow scholars and teachers for a more fruitful teaching and learning experience.

Set in motion in 2009 with a generous donation from the Philomathia Foundation, the RCHV aims to promote discussion and research concerning questions involving human values across The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong and internationally.

Established in 2004, the centre promotes and facilitates research on the political, social, economic, intellectual and cultural aspects of early and late imperial China, and serves the local community by participating in matters relating to the education of Chinese history.

The centre was established in 2002. Drawing on the expertise and talents of members and colleagues through disciplinary and interdisciplinary collaborative projects, it engages in a wide range of research and educational public outreach services and programmes in the region.

The Centre attempts to develop a full-scale research hub of local history in Hong Kong.  It carries out in-depth research, focusing upon how cultural symbols and practices contribute to the formation and interpretation of Hong Kong history and other humanities issues in any of its forms,  as well as how the combination of explanations of the past and memories is manifested in literature and audio-visual form.

The research centre is well-situated to serve as a platform that brings together comparative Japanese scholars from around the region. It promotes synergy and collaboration with existing academic units by holding joint research projects, seminars and conferences with colleagues engaged in relevant research from the departments of Anthropology, Cultural Studies, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, Government and Public Administration, Centre for China Studies and the Hong Kong Institute of Asia Pacific Studies here at the university.

The Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies, established in 2003, focuses on developing interdisciplinary research and professional training in sign linguistics, sign language teaching, sign language interpreting, deaf children’s oral language and sign language acquisition and education.

Established in 2008, CBRC is dedicated to the study of childhood bilingualism and multilingualism in diverse environments and communities with a focus on the development of Cantonese, Mandarin and English.

The centre combines the strength of the two universities to pursue two focus areas of research, namely, the biological basis of language learning and development, and the cross-linguistic study of the spoken languages in the Netherlands and mainland China.

The Language Acquisition Laboratory (LAL), established in 2006, promotes the theoretical study of language acquisition and empirical research, with a focus on the acquisition of the languages and dialects of China.

The Language, Learning and the Brain Laboratory conducts research in experimental linguistics, including language processing, language learning, speech perception and production, computer-assisted learning, neurolinguistics and communication disorders.

The archive is devoted to collecting, editing and translating phenomenology classics and to promoting research on phenomenology and related issues.

The centre aims to promote research in new issues, methods, areas of study and materials within Chinese philosophy. Academic exchange on an international level is equally essential in this respect.

The Centre commits itself to attending the IT-related needs of the humanities community, both locally and internationally. It hosts a research-oriented web site called HUMANUM, which started with meta-indexing work (now decommissioned) but switched very quickly to the preparation of searchable electronic texts of philosophical classics and other thematic web pages, and finally focused on the implementation of online databases, with the “Multi-function Chinese Character Database” being currently its signature product. In the future, the Centre will look for further opportunities to carry out meaningful projects of similar nature.

Established in 2007 by the generous donation of Dr. Edwin S. L. Cheng, The Edwin Cheng Foundation Asian Centre for Phenomenology aims to promote research and development in phenomenology, with particular interest in fostering international exchange and cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region.

Founded in 2006, CTT fosters research into all aspects of translation and technology with a focus on the adoption of digital humanities approaches to the role of technology in the study of translation.