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Professor Max Xiaobing TANG

Director, Institute of Chinese Studies
Dean, Faculty of Arts
Sin Wai Kin Professor of Chinese Humanities

Phone: 3943 7386
Email: maxtang@cuhk.edu.hk
Office: 106, Institute of Chinese Studies

Professor Max Xiaobing Tang was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Arts in September 2019. He was also named Sin Wai Kin Professor of Chinese Humanities. Since February 2020, Professor Tang began serving as Director of the Institute of Chinese Studies.

From 2008 to 2019, Professor Tang was Helmut F. Stern Professor of Modern Chinese Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Before Michigan, Professor Tang taught at the University of Southern California, the University of Chicago, and the University of Colorado, Boulder, from 1991 to 2008.

Professor Tang’s research and scholarly work focuses on modern and contemporary Chinese literature, visual culture, history of art, sound studies, and cultural politics. His publications include Global Space and the Nationalist Discourse of Modernity: The Historical Thinking of Liang Qichao (Stanford University Press, 1996), Chinese Modern: The Heroic and the Quotidian (Duke University Press, 2000), and Origins of the Chinese Avant-Garde: The Modern Woodcut Movement (University of California Press, 2008). His most recent book is Visual Culture in Contemporary China: Paradigms and Shifts (Cambridge University Press, 2015), which was published in Chinese in 2018 and then in Korean in 2020. The Chinese version of Visual Culture was named “One of Ten Best Books of 2018” by The Southern Metropolitan Daily of Guangzhou in December 2018.

Professor Tang’s Chinese publications include Postmodernism and Theories of Culture: Lectures by Professor Fredric Jameson (Shaanxi Teachers University Press, 1986) and Re-reading: The People’s Literature and Art Movement and Its Ideology (Oxford University Press of [Hong Kong], 1993).

Professor. Lai Chi Tim

Executive Associate Director, Institute of Chinese Studies
Director, Research Programme for Lingnan Culture
Professor of Daoist Studies

Tel: 39437395
Email: laichitim@cuhk.edu.hk
Address: Room G12, Institute of Chinese Studies

Lai Chi Tim is Professor in Daoist Studies at the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he is now serving as the Director of the Centre for Studies of Daoist Culture, Director of The Chinese University of Hong Kong—Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Asia-Pacific Centre for Chinese Studies, and Associate Director (Executive) of Institute of Chinese Studies. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, Divinity School, specializing in Daoism, history of religions, and social scientific theories of religion.

Professor Lai’s research interests focus on Six Dynasties Daoism, early Heavenly Master texts, Daoist ritual tradition, and history of Daoism in Guangdong and Hong Kong. His major research projects include “Collection of Daoist Epigraphy in Guangdong: A Study of Daoism and Local Society” (RGC General Research Fund grant); “Temples, Urban Society, and Taoists, 1860-2010: The Modern Transformation of Urban Chinese Religious Organization” (CCK Foundation); and “Contemporary Development of Daoist Temples in Guangdong” (Centre for Studies of Daoist Culture, CUHK).

He is the author of Daoist Temple Inscription in Guangzhou (Beijing: Zhonghua Shu Ju, 2013); Guangdong Local Daoism: Daoist Temple, Master, and Ritual (Chinese University Press, 2007); Religious Studies and Hermeneutics (Chinese University Press, 2003); Hong Kong Daoism (co-author, 2009); History and Transmission of Daoist Temple Ritual in Hong Kong (co-author, 2007). He has edited The Source of the Dao in Lingnan: the Gazetteer of the Three Principles Temple at Guangzhou (2019), Conflict and Peace in Religions (2007), Daoism in Hong Kong and South China (2005), Daoist Studies and Chinese Religious Culture (2003), Interpretation of Hope in Chinese Religions and Christianity (2002), Daoism and Popular Religions (1999), and Cultivating the Mind and Refining the Inner Nature: Lüzu’s Commentary on the True Scripture of the Marvelous Wonder for the Supreme Mysterious Merit (2017), an complied volume won the second prize of the 8th Academic Research Achievement Award (Humanities and Social Sciences) of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China in 2020. His major articles cover the Six Dynasties Daoism, Daoist ritual studies, and history of Daoism in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau, published in international refereed journals.

Professor Ho Che Wah

Associate Director, Institute of Chinese Studies
Choh-Ming Li Professor of Chinese Language and Literature

Phone: 3943 7379
Email: cwho@cuhk.edu.hk
Office: G13, Institute of Chinese Studies

Ho Che Wah is Professor of Chinese at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He also holds concurrent posts as Associate Director of the Institute of Chinese Studies and Director of the D. C. Lau Research Centre for Chinese Ancient Texts. Ho was also awarded Choh-Ming Li Professor of Chinese Language and Literature. Ho received his MPhil and PhD in Chinese from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1988 and 1995 respectively.

Ho’s research focuses on topics in ancient Chinese texts and Chinese textual criticism. His most recent research projects are “A Study of the Intratextuality and Intertextuality of Xunzi: A New Attempt at Dating Ancient Chinese Texts” (a UGC General Research Fund project) and “A Research Project on the Sources of the Xunzi (a Hop Wai Research Grant project of the Institute of Chinese Studies as well as a UGC Research Matching Grant project).

Ho has published extensively, including over 50 authored and edited books such as A Textual Study of Classical Canons: From the Shijing, Shangshu to Shiji (Hong Kong: Research Centre for Chinese Ancient Texts, 2007,) Collected essays on Gao You’s Commentaries on the Lüshi Chunqiu and the Huainanzi (Hong Kong: Research Centre for Chinese Ancient Texts, 2007,) Studies in Zhuangzi and Xunzi (Hong Kong: D.C. Lau Research Centre for Chinese Ancient Texts, 2015,) Lüshi Chunqiu guankui (Hong Kong: Chung Hwa Book Co., 2015,) Zhujian Wenzi yanjiu zhi huigu yu fansi (Beijing: Chung Hwa Book Co., 2019,) and some 30 referred journal papers. He is co-compiler of the outstanding ICS Concordances to Works of Pre-Han and Han Concordance Series and ICS Concordances to Works of Wei-Jin and the Northern and Southern Dynasties Concordance Series. Ho succeeded Professor D. C. Lau in establishing and maintaining the online database of ancient Chinese texts “CHANT Database.” It includes about 87 million characters, consists of seven transmitted and excavated ancient Chinese text databases, and spans the period from the Shang to the Six Dynasties.

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Professor Ho Che Wah

Associate Director, Institute of Chinese Studies
Choh-Ming Li Professor of Chinese Language and Literature

Phone: 3943 7379
Email: cwho@cuhk.edu.hk
Office: G13, Institute of Chinese Studies

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Professor LEUNG Yuen-sang

Director, Research Centre for Contemporary Chinese Culture

Phone: 3943 7418
Email: ysleung@arts.cuhk.edu.hk
Office: G11, Institute of Chinese Studies

Leung Yuen Sang received his BA (First-class Hons) from Chung Chi College and M Phil from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1972 and 1974 respectively. He then went on to further study in the United States and received his PhD from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1980. Since then he has taught at the National University of Singapore, the California State University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has published several books in modern Chinese history and overseas Chinese history: The Shanghai Taotai: Linkage Man in a Changing Society, 1843-90 (Singapore University Press and Hawaii U. Press, 1990, and Chinese translation in 2003 ), Modern China in Transition：Essays in Honor of Professor Immanuel Hsu (Claremont Regina Books, 1995), Young J. Allen: His Careers and the Wan Guo Gongbao (The Chinese University Press, 1978), Confucianism and the Chinese Community in Early Singapore (The Chinese University Press, 1995), The Cross-Lotus: Selected Essays on Chinese Christianity (Centre for the Study of Religion and Chinese Culture, 2004), The Chinese Community in Singapore(Singapore NUS and Global Publishing, 2006), The Chinese-Christian Encounter(Taipei: Cosmic Light, 2006), and The Legitimation of New Orders: Case Studies in World History, an edited volume published by the Chinese University of Hong Kong Press in 2007. His current research interests have been focusing on Comparative City Cultures in Modern China (Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong and Singapore), the Confucian Revival Movement in China and East Asia, and the Christian Experience in Modern China especially the history of Christian higher education. He is at present Research Professor of History, and he had served in several administrative positions including Director of the Institute of Chinese Studies, Head of Chung Chi College and Dean of Arts at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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Professor. Lai Chi Tim

Executive Associate Director, Institute of Chinese Studies
Director, Research Programme for Lingnan Culture
Professor of Daoist Studies

Tel: 39437395
Email: laichitim@cuhk.edu.hk
Address: Room G12, Institute of Chinese Studies

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