Our MPhil students had worked on a wide range of research topics. The following list shows the research topics that our students had explored:
Electronic Theses & Dissertations Collection at CUHK Library
| Graduation Year | 
 Thesis Title  | 
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 2022  | 
 Three Generations of Memories of Socialist Past in China’s Post-Socialist Industrial Rustbelt (FENG Yuxuan 馮雨萱)  | 
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 2022  | 
 A Timely and Opportunistic Endeavour: Ceramic Production in Vijaya Champa, Central Vietnam and its Relationships with China and Southeast Asia during the 14th-15th Century AD (TAN Yan Zhen 陳彥甄)  | 
| 
 2022  | 
 (XIAO Yuqi 肖毓綺)  | 
| 
 2020  | 
 Precarious Labor and Vulnerable Intimacy: A Study of Queer Sex Work in Hong Kong (TSOI Kwok Kwan 蔡國君)  | 
| 
 2020  | 
 Refiguring Rural-Urban Relations: Death, Governance and Landscapes in a Chinese Urban- Village (ZHENG Yushuang 鄭羽雙)  | 
| 
 2019  | 
 The Self-Presentation of Facebook Users in Hong Kong (AU Wing Lam Vivian 歐詠霖)  | 
| 
 2019  | 
 Slow Media in the Viral Age: Urban Renewal and Community Organization in Hong Kong (CHAUNG Wing Yee 張詠儀)  | 
| 
 2019  | 
 The Social Life of Candles: A Traditional Craft Industry in Modern Japan (HUI Lok Hang 許樂恆)  | 
| 
 2019  | 
 Building Alternative: A Study of Women Workers and the Cooperative Provision of Elderly Care in Hong Kong (YUEN Ka Sin 阮嘉善)  | 
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 2019  | 
 Love on the Move: Filipina Migrant Workers and Their Same-sex Relationships in Hong Kong (DUAN Yimin 段毅敏)  | 
| 
 2018  | 
 The Made and The Making: Double- F Pottery Production and Community Construction in Bronze Age Eastern Lingnan (POH Yi Jia 傅一嘉)  | 
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 2017  | 
 Arguing The Political, Enacting The Moral: Ordinary Citizens’ Struggle for Social Change in Contemporary Hong Kong (HUANG Xiuwei 黃修瑋)  | 
| 
 2017  | 
 Whose University Museums? A Comparative Study of University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, and Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (LAM Ka Ki 林嘉琪)  | 
| 
 2017  | 
 Negotiating Life-events in China: An Enthnographic Study of Sichuan – Tibet Long Distance Bicycling (Liu Shuman 劉抒曼)  | 
| 
 2017  | 
 At the Edge of Sleep: Insomnia in Hong Kong (Tong Dik Wai 唐廸偉)  | 
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 2017  | 
 Politics of Vulnerability: Troubling Empire, Whiteness, and Masculinity in Postcolonial Hong Kong (Wo Lai Yuen 胡麗賢)  | 
| 
 2016  | 
 Living Pusa: Shamanism in a Small Jiangsu City (Jiang Yan 蔣燕)  | 
| 
 2016  | 
 Senses of Life after Death in South China (Kwong Miu Ying 鄺妙盈)  | 
| 
 2016  | 
 Leaving the Faith: How Hong Kong Young Ex-Christians Make Sense of Their Lives (Tsang Nai Wang 張廼弘)  | 
| 
 2015  | 
 Coming of Age with “Internet Addiction” in China – An Ethnographic Study of Institutional Encounters and Subject Formation (Rao Yichen 饒一晨)  | 
| 
 2015  | 
 Guangchang Wu: An Ethnographic Study of Dance in Public Spaces (Wang Qianni 王芊霓)  | 
| 
 2014  | 
 八零後中國基督徒- 一個北京城市教會個案研究 [Post-80s Chinese Christians : a case study of a Three-Self Church in Beijing] (Chan Tan 陳丹)  | 
| 
 2014  | 
 Environmental Activists in Hong Kong: Who They Are, How They Live, and Why They Do What They Do (Chun See Ching 秦思正)  | 
| 
 2014  | 
 Contesting the “Local”: Identity Politics in Hong Kong (Tse Hiu Hin 謝曉軒)  | 
| 
 2014  | 
 Chinese Small Entrepreneurs between South China and Nigeria: Business Strategies, Social Relations and Globalization (Xiao Hai 肖海)  | 
| 
 2014  | 
 Chinese Weddings in Hong Kong: Continuities and Social Change (Yu Po Ting 余寶婷)  | 
| 
 2013  | 
 Eurasians in Hong Kong : race, ethnicity, and beauty (Deng Yuanye 鄧圓也)  | 
| 
 2013  | 
 Accommodating the “Abnormal”: Intellectual Disability in a Gansu Village. (Feng Xiangjun 馮相郡)  | 
| 
 2013  | 
 Making Gold: Commodification and Consumption of the Medicinal Fungus Chongcao in China (Liang Yaqian 梁雅茜)  | 
| 
 2013  | 
 Hunting Mirages of Success: Dreams of Extralegal South Asians in Hong Kong (Gaurav Murgai)  | 
| 
 2013  | 
 Class and Power Dynamics in Urban “Development”: A Case Study of a Community Museum in Hong Kong (Tsang Ching Yi, Gloria 曾靜怡)  | 
| 
 2013  | 
 Deceptive Development: Practices and Discourses of Microfinance in Rural China (Xue Cheng 薛誠)  | 
| 
 2013  | 
 Between Constraint and Autonomy: How Young White-Collar Women in Hong Kong Express Their Sexuality (Yu Hiu Yan 余曉恩)  | 
| 
 2012  | 
 Building “Tang Heritage”: The Wuli Mausoleum and its Transregional Connections (Chan Hiu Ling 陳曉玲)  | 
| 
 2012  | 
 Censorship in Cyberspace: Accommodation and Resistance Among Chinese Netizens (Chang Xinyue, Astrid 常欣悅)  | 
| 
 2012  | 
 Sham Shui Po: A Marginal Neighbourhood in the Centre of Hong Kong (Cheng Christopher 鄭藝超)  | 
| 
 2012  | 
 Dissonance in Harmony: The Cantonese Opera Music Community in Guangzhou (Cheung Ah Li, Leah 張亞里)  | 
| 
 2012  | 
 空間、性別與社會變遷: 廣東梅州客家圍龍屋的個案研究 [Space, Gender and Social Change: A case Study of Hakka Settlement in Meizhou, Guangdong] (Luo Jiting 駱吉婷)  | 
| 
 2012  | 
 What’s in it for me?: A Study of Motivations for Nonprofit Involvement in Hong Kong (McKay, Scott Alan 麥浩天)  | 
| 
 2012  | 
 Beyond Cantonese Cuisine: Chinese Migration and Chinese Restaurants in Sydney (Pang Leo 彭磊)  | 
| 
 2011  | 
 The Magic of Modernity: Fengshui in Hong Kong (Chan Hui Ting, Cassandra 陳曉婷)  | 
| 
 2011  | 
 Prehistoric Cultural Development at Yung Long. (Lai Pak Kin Patrick 黎柏健)  | 
| 2011 | Wine Consumption in Hong Kong: Negotiating Identity through Taste. (Siu Kit Wah, Lydia 蕭潔樺) | 
| 
 2011  | 
 Between Two Homes: On the Lives and Identities of Transnational Pakistani Women in Hong Kong. (So Fun Hang 蘇寬衡)  | 
| 
 2011  | 
 民族、宗教與藏傳佛教藝術品的買賣:以成都”藏族街”為例. (Song Liyun 宋黎昀)  | 
| 
 2011  | 
 China’s Ghost City: Popular Religion, Tourism and Local Development in Fengdu. (Tan Xilin 譚熹琳)  | 
| 
 2011  | 
 Concepts of Female Sexuality in Hong Kong. (Wang Guan 王冠)  | 
| 
 2011  | 
 Sailing on a Neoliberal Sea: Multinational Seafarers on Container Ships. (Wu Liang 胡亮)  | 
| 
 2011  | 
 African Traders in Guangzhou: Why They Come, What They Do, and How They Live. (Yang Yang 楊瑒)  | 
| 
 2011  | 
 Potsherds Narrate: Studying the Social Structure of Bronze Age Hong Kong through Pottery Analysis. (Yau Ping Yuen, Charlotte 邱平原)  | 
| 
 2011  | 
 Cultural Identity in Hong Kong as Reflected through Demeanor. (Yau Sin Yee, Christine 邱倩儀)  | 
| 
 2010  | 
 In Pursuit of Home: An Ethnographic Study of Hong Kong Migrants in the Netherlands. (Chan Hing Yuen 陳慶源)  | 
| 
 2010  | 
 Working as a Maid in Shanghai: A Comparative Study of the Lives and Employment of Chinese and Filipina Domestic Helpers. (Chen Yingjun 陳英君)  | 
| 
 2010  | 
 飲食,傳統和社會變遷:雲南德宏景頗族飲食方式研究. (Ma Xin 馬欣)  | 
| 
 2010  | 
 Islam, Tourism, and Changing Foodways among the Utsat of Hainan Island. (Wu Huanyu 武洹宇)  | 
| 
 2010  | 
 尖狀器與香港史前物質文化. (Yang Ke 楊軻)  | 
| 
 2010  | 
 犛牛、環境與社會變遷:西藏林芝縣秀巴村的個案研究. [Yaks, Environment and Social Change: A Case Study in Hsiuba Village, Nyingchi Country, Tibet] (Zhou Tao 周濤)  | 
| 
 2009  | 
 History Museums as Tourist Attractions: A Comparison of Hong Kong and Macau. (Chan Yee On, Christine 陳怡安)  | 
| 
 2009  | 
 Transnational Connections, Local Life, and Identity: A Study of the Sikhs in Hong Kong. (Cheuk Ka Kin 卓嘉健)  | 
| 
 2009  | 
 Whose Heritage? – A Study of a Conservation Movement in a Hong Kong Urban Building Complex. (Lee Chui Mei 李翠媚)  | 
| 
 2009  | 
 Yoga in Hong Kong: Globalization, Localization, and the Fetishism of the Body. (Lin Kwan Ting, Maggie 連君婷)  | 
| 
 2009  | 
 Magic and Modernity: A Study of Shamanism in Hong Kong. (Ng Shuk Kwan 吳淑君)  | 
| 
 2008  | 
 Becoming Heunggongyahn- A Study of Female Mainland Immigrants in Hong Kong. (Lau Ying Chui, Janice 劉影翠)  | 
| 
 2008  | 
 Ethnic Identity in a Hong Kong Religous Setting: The Kowloon City Swatow Baptist Church and Its Members. (Lin Tat Kit 連達傑)  | 
| 
 2008  | 
 Patriotic Education: The Teaching of National Identity in Hong Kong Secondary Schools. (Tse Yuen Man 謝婉雯)  | 
| 
 2007  | 
 Modernizing Hong Kong Buddhism: The Case of the Chi Lin Nunnery. (Pong Seong, Teresa 龐裳)  | 
| 
 2007  | 
 South Asian Students in Primary School: Minorities and Education in Hong Kong. (Tam Sin Yu, Ophelia 談倩如)  | 
| 
 2007  | 
 Mihn Baau: The Localization and Consumption of Bread in Hong Kong. (Tang Lai La 鄧麗娜)  | 
| 
 2007  | 
 香港新石器時代中期陶器的製造工藝與文化發展. (Wong Ka Yee 黃家儀)  | 
| 
 2006  | 
 The Manufacturing and Functions of Stone Adzes in the Cultural Development of Late Neolithic Sha Ha. (Chan Yuet Wah 陳月華)  | 
| 
 2006  | 
 Betel Nut Consumption in Contemporary Taiwan: Gender, Class and Social Identity. (Liu Huwy-min 劉慧敏)  | 
| 
 2006  | 
 發展與女工充權:一個香港非政府組織在深圳成立女工合作社的研究 (Poon Man Hon 潘文瀚)  | 
| 
 2006  | 
 Restaurants, Class and Consumption in Hong Kong – A Study of a City Block in East Tsim Sha Tsui. (So Wan Suen 蘇韻璇)  | 
| 
 2006  | 
 Cultural Conceptions of Intellectual Property: The Pirated Disc Market in Xi’an, China. (Matthew West 西馬特)  | 
| 
 2006  | 
 居民、政府和文化遺產保護-福建土樓個案研究 (Yip Ping 葉蘋)  | 
| 
 2005  | 
 市場上的性別化身體 – 香港模特兒的民族誌研究 (Chan Shuk Kwan 陳淑筠)  | 
| 
 2005  | 
 面對貧窮:香港基層家庭互助會的政府資助家庭之個案研究 [Coping With Poverty: Hong Kong Case Studies of Government Assisted Families of Mutual Help Association of CSSA Families]. (Lai Ning Po 黎玲寶)  | 
| 
 2005  | 
 Migration, Culture and Work: A Study of Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong. (So Yuen Man 蘇婉雯)  | 
| 
 2004  | 
 Tradition and Local Politics: Case Studies in Po Toi O and Ping Shan. (Cheng Ying Shuet, Alison 鄭映雪)  | 
| 
 2004  | 
 從”孤軍”到華人族群 - 泰國北部原國民黨軍隊、眷屬及其後裔族群認同的民族誌研究 [From Wandering Soldiers to Ethnic Chinese: An Ethnographic Study of Ethnic Identity of Kuomintang Soldiers and Their Descendents in Northern Thailand] (Duan Ying 段穎)  | 
| 
 2004  | 
 The Aftermath of Abuse – How Abused Women in Hong Kong Reconstruct Their Identities in a Mutual Help Center. (Hui Sio Ieng 許少英)  | 
| 
 2004  | 
 Identity Construction at the Hong Kong Museum of History. (Leung Po Cheung 梁寶璋)  | 
| 
 2004  | 
 Minority Groups and Ngos in Northwestern Bangladesh: An Anthropological Study of the Santal and the Oraon. (Islam Saiful)  | 
| 
 2004  | 
 Qigong in Hong Kong: A Study of Complementary Medicine and Health Consciousness. (Siu Yuen Man, Judy 蕭婉文)  | 
| 
 2004  | 
 Identity Negotiation between Religion and Sexuality: A Study of Gay Christians in Hong Kong. (Tang Wai Man, Wyman 鄧偉文)  | 
| 
 2003  | 
 From Refugee Camps to City Streets: Young Vietnamese in Hong Kong. (Chan Wai Kwong, Ocean 陳偉光)  | 
| 
 2003  | 
 Crazy about the Railroad: Japanese Company Workers Who Live for Their Hobbies. [鐵道癡迷:為嗜好而活的日本上班族。] (Cheung Yuk Man 張彧暋)  | 
| 
 2003  | 
 Dead End Work?- Youth in Menial Fast Food Jobs in Hong Kong. (Chow Man Wai 周雯慧)  | 
| 
 2003  | 
 Lesbian Masculinity: identity and body construction among tomboys in Hong Kong. (Lai Yuen Ki, Franco 賴婉琪)  | 
| 
 2003  | 
 The Pursuit of a Meaningful Life in Old Age: A Hong Kong Study (Lee Shirley 李瑞瑜)  | 
| 
 2003  | 
 Nanyin in Quanzhou : a study of a folk musical tradition and cultural identity in Fujian. [泉州南音:一個福建民間音樂傳統與文化認同的研究。] (Wu Sui Chu 吳瑞珠)  | 
| 
 2003  | 
 從人類學觀點探討香港廣東話粗口. (Yuen Lap Yee 袁立宜)  | 
| 
 2002  | 
 Embodying Gender Politics: A Study of Flight Attendants in Hong Kong. (Li Shuk Wan 李淑韻)  | 
| 
 2002  | 
 Seeking an Ideal Wife: Why Hong Kong Men Pursue Mainland Chinese Spouses. (Li Wai Ki 李偉琪)  | 
| 
 2002  | 
 “Being Japanese” in a Foreign Place: Cultural Identities of Japanese in Hong Kong (Ayako Sone 曾根禮子)  | 
| 
 2002  | 
 Naxi and Ethnic Tourism: A Study of Homestay Tourism in Lijiang Old Town. (Wang Yu 王崳)  | 
| 
 2001  | 
 Consumption and Modernity in a Village in South China. (Chow King Mun 鄒景敏)  | 
| 
 2001  | 
 Western Food in China: Globalization and Consumption in a Restaurant in Guangzhou. (Ma Fung Shan 馬鳳珊)  | 
| 
 2000  | 
 性騷擾在香港:一個公共問題的建構. (Tsang Suet Man 曾雪汶)  | 
| 
 2000  | 
 語言.宗教與文化認同:中國涼山兩個彝族村子的個案研究 [Language, Religion and Cultural Identity: A Case Study of two Yi Villages in Liangshan, Sichuan]. (Wu Da 巫達)  | 
| 
 2000  | 
 Management of Death in Hong Kong. (Chan Yuk Wah 陳玉華)  | 
| 
 2000  | 
 潯埔婦女:一個福建漁村的性別身份建構 [Women in Xunpu: The Construction of Gender Identity in a Fujian Fishing Village]. (Ding Yuling 丁毓玲)  | 
| 
 2000  | 
 The Changing Meaning of Being ‘Tang’: A Study of Generation Gap in a Single Surname Village in Rural Hong Kong. (Li Yuen Kwan, Fiona 李婉筠)  | 
| 
 2000  | 
 Consuming Designer Fashion in Hong Kong. [名牌服裝在香港的文化意義] (Yeung Lai Yin, Linda 楊麗賢)  | 
| 
 1999  | 
 「新移民 」的社會建構:一個社群分類的迷思 [The Social Construction of “New Immigrants”: A Case of Group Differentiation]. (Chan Nga Wing 陳雅詠)  | 
| 
 1999  | 
 Beijing Cartoon – A Contested Site of Cultural Production. (Cheung Hiu Wan 張曉芸)  | 
| 
 1999  | 
 Identity Construction in the Canadian Context: A Case Study of Hong Kong Migrants in Vancouver. (Hui Tsz Wan, Alison 許子韻)  | 
| 
 1999  | 
 Indians in Hong Kong: A Study of Ethnic Associations and Ethnicity. (Law Sin Yee, Noel 羅倩兒)  | 
| 
 1999  | 
 Living on the Margin/Living in the Mainstream: The Cultural Milieu of Sex Workers on Un Chau Street, Hong Kong. (Lee Wai Yi 李維怡)  | 
| 
 1999  | 
 香港新一代的交流活動與青年人的國家意識 [Young People’s National Consciousness: The Case of Cultural Exchange Activities Between Hong Kong and Mainland China]. (Lo Man Fong, Noel 盧文芳)  | 
| 
 1999  | 
 政府與 外來工共同參與的社會舞台:深圳「大家樂」世界的剖析. (Ng Chi Wo 伍志和)  | 
| 
 1999  | 
 The Cultural Construction of Festivals in a Cosmopolis: A Comparison of Christmas and the Lunar New Year in Hong Kong. (Tsang Mei Lan 曾美蘭)  | 
| 
 1998  | 
 「關係」文化:香港商人在珠江三角洲的投資經驗. (Lam Hiu Yin 林曉燕)  | 
| 
 1997  | 
 食物與族群 : 香港潮州人的飲食硏究. (Lee Wai Yee 李偉儀)  | 
| 
 1997  | 
 個人,社會與曲藝社:以觀華遊樂社為研究對象. (Tsui Cheuk Yin 徐焯賢)  | 
| 
 1997  | 
 婚姻的再詮釋:廣東順德自梳與不落家之女性. (Ng Fung Yee 吳鳳儀)  | 
| 
 1996  | 
 香港單親家庭中的母女關係與「女性」的建構. (Tse Ching Man 謝靜雯)  | 
| 
 1996  | 
 Migrant Intellectuals in an Emerging South China City: Local Ethnic Relations in Foshan. (Midori Hino 日野綠)  | 
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 1996  | 
 The Taiwanese Merchants in Mainland China: A Case Study on Ethnicity, Cultural Identity, and Business Behavior. (Chiu Shu Ju, Ann 邱淑如)  | 
| 
 1995  | 
 Negotiating daughterhood [electronic resource] : a case study of the female inheritance movement in the New Territories, Hong Kong. (Chan Chong Lai 陳莊麗)  | 
| 
 1995  | 
 Religion, Politics, and the Construction of Ethnic Identity in Macao. (Ana Brito)  | 
| 
 1995  | 
 The Cultural Construction of Adolescent Feminity – The Case of Tuen Mun School Girls. (Wong Sai Yun 黃世忻)  | 
| 
 1995  | 
 香港藝術與香港人-一個族群意識的形成. (Chan Yuen Kwong 陳遠光)  | 
| 
 1994  | 
 Mother-daughter relationship in Contemporary Urban China. (Jean K.M. Hung 熊景明)  | 
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 1994  | 
 宗祠的演變與社會意義. (Zhang Xiaojun 張小軍)  | 
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 1992  | 
 Hong Kong Elites in Election – The Behaviour, Strategies and Objectives of UDHK. (Law Wun Sheng 羅運承)  | 
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 1990  | 
 An Anthropological Analysis of the Qing Dynasty’s Policy towards the Pai Yao. (Lam Chun-kwong 林進光)  | 
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 1989  | 
 Domestic and Communal Worship in Rural Chinese Society: A Field Study in New Territories, Hong Kong. (Leung Chor-on 梁礎安)  | 
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 1989  | 
 A Study of the Daping Yao Peasant Economy. (So Sung Wan 蘇崇尹)  | 
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