Poon Ming Kay graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, majoring in Chinese Language and Literature, and obtained his Bachelor (First Class Honors), Master, and Doctor degrees accordingly. Since 2006, he has been teaching in this department, serving successively as Instructor I, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and is currently Professor and Department Chairman. He also holds concurrent positions as an Honorary Research Fellow at the D.C.Lau Research Centre for Chinese Ancient Texts, Institute of Chinese Studies, Associate Master and Dean of General Education at Wu Yee Sun College, and Associate Director of the University General Education.
His research areas include Confucian literature, Classics from the Han and Tang dynasties, historical taboos, overseas Chinese texts, and natural history.
He has been honored with the Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
His monographs include “The Life Wisdom of Confucius”, “The Life Wisdom of Mencius”, “Confucius and Mencius after Confucius and Mencius”, “Hanshu and its Spring and Autumn Annals’s writing style,” “Collected Papers on the Yan Shigu commentaries of Jing and Shi“, “Collection of Essays on Jia Yi”, “A Study of Jia Yi and His Jiayi Xinshu“, “Animal World in the Chinese Wordbook”, “Animal World in Chinese Characters”, “The Collation and Interpretation of the Qunshu Zhiyao from the Kujo-clan edition”, “Micro-view of Han Shu: The Western Han People and Events Written by Historians”, and essay collections “Annoyance and silence”, “Tales Under the Epidemic”
Research Interests
Biliography / Collation of Ancient Documents / Foreign Chinese Classics / Natural History
Selected Publications
Monographs
“Micro-view of ‘Han Shu’: The Western Han People and Events Written by Historians”《微觀〈漢書〉：史家筆下的西漢人和事》, Hong Kong : Open Page, 2024.6, 204pages.
“The Collation and Interpretation of the Qunshu Zhiyao from the Kujo-clan edition”《九條家本〈群書治要〉校理》, Shanghai: Shanghai Chinese Classics Publishing House, 2023.12, Book 1, 453pages, Book 2, 229pages.
“Confucius and Mencius after Confucius and Mencius”《孔孟以後的孔孟》, Hong Kong: The Commercial Press, 2023.7, 331pages.
“Animal World in the Chinese Wordbook”《字書裡的動物世界》, Taipei: Wanjuanlou Book Company, 2020, 238 pages.
“Hanshu and its Spring and Autumn Annals’s writing style”《漢書及其春秋筆法》, Beijing: Zhonghua Book Store, 2019, 424 pages.
“A Study of Jia Yi and His Jiayi Xinshu”《賈誼及其〈新書〉研究》, Shanghai: Shanghai Chinese Classics Publishing House, 2017, 266pages.
“Collected Papers on the Yan Shigu commentaries of Jing and Shi”《顏師古經史注釋論叢》, Hong Kong: Research Centre for Chinese Ancient Texts, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2016, 6 chapters, 279 pages.
“A Comparative Study of the Tea Literature in Yi Wen Lei Ju and Tai Ping Yu Lan”〈《藝文類聚》與《太平御覽》所載「茗」類文獻比較研究〉, In Tea Culture Tour: Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Travel Writings in Chinese《茶文化之旅：第七屆世界華文旅遊文學國際學術研討會文集》, Hong Kong: Great Mountain Culture Publication Limited, 2024, pp.144-170.
“On the disciples of Confucius in the mystery novels of the Six Dynasties”〈論六朝志怪小說裡之孔門弟子〉, In Proceedings of International Conference on classic shaping and text interpretation《水流花開：經典形塑與文本闡釋國際學術研討會論文集》, Shanghai: Zhongxi Press, 2019.12, pp.113-135.
“On the similarities and differences between the Pictorial Stone Carving of Han Dynasty and the stories in the existing documents”〈論漢畫像石與傳世文獻所載故事之異同〉, In The interpretation of unearthed documents and existing documents《出土文獻與傳世典籍的詮釋》, Shanghai: Zhongxi Press, 2019.11, pp.262-295.
“A Study of Qunshu zhiyao’s Quotation of the Shen zi” 〈《群書治要》所載《慎子》研究〉, In Proceedings of Sino-japanese Book International Conference《梯航集：日藏漢籍中日學術對話錄》, Shanghai: Shanghai Chinese Classics Publishing House, 11, pp.320-349.
“On the significance of Jia Yi’s study of Confucian Classics”〈論賈誼經學思想之時代意義〉, In Proceedings of the International Conference on the Studies of the Chinese Classics《嶺南大學經學國際學術研討會論文集》, Taipei: Wan Juan Lou Books Company Limited, 2014.12, pp.906-939.
Research Projects
Year
Research
2021－2023
PI, General Research Fund 2020/21, A research on Different Editions of Qunshu Zhiyao in Japan 日本所藏諸本《群書治要》研究, RGC, HK$328,000, 01-2021-06/2023.
2017－2018
PI, General Research Fund 2016/17, A Research on the Chinese Taboo Studies in the Qing dynasty 清代避諱學研究, RGC, HK$252,400, 01/2017-12/2018.
2014－2015
PI, General Research Fund 2013/14, A Research on Yan Shigu’s study of the Confucius Classics 顏師古經學考, RGC, HK$252,400, 01/2014-12/2015.
