RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP 1997 Research Project Arts and Languages
Research Projects Arts and Languages Administrative, Business and Social Studies Biological Sciences Physical Sciences Education Medicine, Dentistry and Health: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Civil and Structural Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Computing Sciences, Information Technology and Applied Mathematics Mechanical, Production and Industrial Engineering including Textiles and Clothing Architecture, Surveying, Urban Planning and Urban Studies Law	AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF TWO DISCIPLINARY CULTURES To identify and analyse key events, activities and genres within an engineering discipline and a scientific discipline and to determine how students are initiated into their chosen discipline, in order to better inform needs analysis and course design English for academic purpose. Investigator: Mr. C.S. Barron Department: English Centre Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1994.07 A SELF-ACCESS COMPUTER-BASED WRITING HELPER FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND POSTGRADUATE ACADEMIC WRITING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG Research and development of the 1st stage in a computer-assisted writing environment for students of The University of Hong Kong, designed to enable them to better handle the linguistic and rhetorical demands of their academic environment. Investigators: Mr. N.J. Bruce (Principal) Mrs. S.A. Byron Mr. J.P. Marsh Mr. A. Tong Departments: English Centre Centre for the Advancement of University Teaching Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1994.01 THE CHINESE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT AND HONG KONG, 1921-1949 To study the Communist movement in Hong Kong from the founding of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921 to the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Investigator: Professor L.K.C. Chan Department: History Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1988.12 PUBLICATION OF A BOOK OF HISTORY Publication of a book of history. Investigator: Professor L.K.C. Chan Department: History Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1993.07 THE CHINA FACTOR AND EXTERNAL LINKS, 1842-1997 [ DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF HONG KONG, VOLUME III] To produce a book length (300pp) volume of history on the China factors and other external links that shaped Hong Kong's global relations. This volume will be the 3rd title in the "A Documentary History of Hong Kong" aiming at both students, teachers and specialists in China-Hong Kong history and local civic education. Investigator: Dr. M.K. Chan Department: History Source of funding: Hsu Long Sing Research Fund Starting date: 1997.01 LEXICAL INTERCHANGE BETWEEN CHINESE AND ENGLISH WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO HONG KONG To update the studies on lexical borrowing from English into Chinese and lexical borrowing from Chinese into English; to expand the scope of the research by taking into account the situation in neighbouring Guangdong province. Investigator: Professor M.M.M. Chan Department: English Source of funding: Hang Seng Bank Golden Jubilee Education Fund for Research Starting date: 1994.03 HISTORY OF THE EAST RIVER BRIGADE IN HONG KONG DURING WORLD WAR II To trace the development of behind-the-lines Chinese Nationalist resistance to the Japanese armies in Guangdong and the transformation of these fighters into the East River guerilla column. Investigator: Mr. S.J. Chan Department: Centre of Asian Studies Starting date: 1986.01 MING-CHING HISTORY To conduct research into Ming-Ching history. Investigator: Professor L.Y. Chiu Department: Chinese Source of funding: Hsu Long Sing Research Fund Starting date: 1982.08   HISTORY OF THE AUSTRALIAN CHINESE POLITICAL AND INTELLECTUAL ACTIVITIES IN SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA DURING THE LATE QING PERIOD Overseas Chinese political and intellectual activities in Sydney have never been properly studied. This project will fully make use of the Chinese newspapers published in Sydney during the late Qing and early Republican period and to highlight Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, Kang Yu-Wei and Liang Chi-Chao's activities in Australia. Investigators: Professor L.Y. Chiu (Principal) Professor W.P. Liu Dr. H.W.O. Yeung Departments: Chinese School of East Asian Studies, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Source of funding: Hsu Long Sing Research Fund Starting date: 1995.09 RESPONSES TO WESTERN ART IN TWENTIETH CENTURY CHINA To discover when and how awareness of modern western art reached China; to examine the various responses made to that art over time, particularly by artists. Investigator: Dr. D.J. Clarke Department: Fine Arts Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1989.05 HONG KONG IN TRANSITION: A PHOTO-DOCUMENTARY PROJECT To create an archive of photo-documentary images documenting and analyzing aspects of cultural and other changes taking place in the period before and after the transfer of sovereignty. Investigator: Dr. D.J. Clarke Department: Fine Arts Starting date: 1994.12 ENHANCING THE PARTICIPATION OF LAW STUDENTS IN ACADEMIC TUTORIALS To observe, record and characterise the tutorial participation of law students early in their first-year tort law course; to develop students' questioning, answering and discussion skills through work with tort texts on a new English enhancement course, taught for the first time in 1994/95; to observe, record and characterise the tutorial participation of law students late in the first-year tort law course; to refine curricular practice in the light of findings. Investigators: Mr. R.D. Corcos (Principal) Dr. D.M. Allison Mr. D.W. Churchill Dr. A.S.L. Lam Professor D.C. Nunan Department: English Centre Source of funding: University Grants Committee Central Allocation Starting date: 1994.01 Completion date: 1997.06 COMPUTER ASSISTED WRITING SUPPORT FOR FIRST YEAR LLB STUDENTS To establish a bank of texts and exercises aimed at improving the writing skills of 1st year LLB students. These materials are computer-based and will be available to students in the form of individual diskettes. Investigator: Mr. R.D. Corcos Department: English Centre Source of funding: Teaching Development Grants issued by The University Grants Committee of Hong Kong Starting date: 1996.05 A BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER OF CHANTRY PRIESTS IN REFORMATION ENGLAND To produce a biographical register of the several thousand English priests who were serving as chantry chaplains at the time of the dissolution of the English chantries (1547-48) together with a comprehensive list of the chantry foundations. Investigator: Dr. P.A. Cunich Department: History Starting date: 1991.10 A BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER OF THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS IN ENGLAND AND WALES, 1530-1603 To co-ordinate the research efforts of a large group of historians working in the field of sixteenth-century English history in order to produce a comprehensive biographical register of the nine thousand ex-religious in England and Wales after the dissolution of the monasteries (1536-40). Investigator: Dr. P.A. Cunich Department: History Starting date: 1991.10 ACQUISITION AND ALIENATION OF CROWN LAND IN ENGLAND, 1536-1558 To trace patterns of acquisition and alienation of crown land in England during a period in which rapid changes in the land market had a major impact on the income base of the English state. This will allow for a detailed analysis of the relative roles played by the crown lands and other forms of income in the early development of a modern national treasury in England and the impact of these developments on society in general. Investigator: Dr. P.A. Cunich Department: History Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1996.07 EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURY CELTIC LINGUISTICS To trace the development of Celtic linguistics in the British Isles in the 18 and 19C. Investigator: Dr. D.R. Davis Department: English Starting date: 1997.07 THE ATTITUDES OF CONTEMPORARY FRENCH INTELLECTUALS TO THE WAR IN THE PERSIAN GULF Part of long term history of the French intelligentsia and how the concept of the 'left' has been changing. Investigator: Mr. P.F. Deli Department: History Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1991.06 TECHNIQUES IN TEPHRA IDENTIFICATION AND CORRELATION To develop and prove laboratory-based techniques for use in the identification and correlation of andesitic tephras. Investigator: Dr. S.L. Donoghue Department: Earth Sciences Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1995.01 VOLCANIC HISTORY AND TEPHRA CORRELATION STUDIES AT MOUNT RAINIER To elucidate the Holocene eruptive history of Mount Rainier, and to develop a methodology for correlating andesitic tephras. Investigators: Dr. S.L. Donoghue (Principal) Dr. J. Vallance Departments: Earth Sciences Geological Engineering, Geology and Geophysics, Michigan Technological University, U.S.A. Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1995.07 THE GREAT HANSHIN EARTHQUAKE - RECOVERY OPERATIONS AND PLANNING ISSUES To examine specific issues in disaster management, using the Great Hanshin Earthquake as a case example; to document recovery operations in Kobe city; to appraise the nature and effectiveness of both the short- and long-term recovery planning process in the Hanshin region. Investigators: Dr. S.L. Donoghue (Principal) Professor R.T.A. Irving Departments: Earth Sciences School of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Dr. Stephen S.F. Hui Trust Fund Hui Oi Chow Trust Fund Starting date: 1995.07 A VOLCANIC HAZARDS ASSESSMENT AT RUAPEHU VOLCANO To provide an integrated hazards assessment for tephras, lahars, and pyroclastic flows at Ruapehu volcano, based on the distributions, frequencies, and magnitudes of past events, as recorded by deposits preserved near the volcano. Investigator: Dr. S.L. Donoghue Department: Earth Sciences Source of funding: Croucher Foundation Starting date: 1995.12 THE ROAD MOVIE: IDEOLOGY AND THE AMERICAN QUEST To publish a 300 page book. Investigator: Dr. P.B. Erens Department: Comparative Literature Starting date: 1997.07 LEARNER INTERACTIVITY WITH LANGUAGE TEACHING SOFTWARE To improve the learning potential of interactive language learning software by empirically evaluating the relationship between user/software interaction and the quality of learning. Investigator: Mr. D.P. Gardner Department: English Centre Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1994.07 NARRATIVE TRADITIONS IN EARLY BUDDHIST ART: A SELECTIVE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SOUTH, SOUTH EAST AND CENTRAL ASIAN EXAMPLES (CIRCA. 2ND CEN. B.C. - 8TH CEN. A.D.) To investigate and compare select examples of (i) the narrative themes and (ii) the narrative modes in the early Buddhist context of South, South East and Central Asia. To compare the choice of themes, and the process of adoption, adaptation and transformation of these themes, as expressed through the visual medium and (iii) examine the choice of texts for purposes of illustration. The primary focus will be on mural paintings. Investigator: Dr. R. Ghose Department: Fine Arts Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1996.07 RECENT STUDIES IN THE ART, RELIGION AND ARCHAELOGY OF BUDDHISM ALONG THE SILK ROAD WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON TANTRIC ICONIC AND NARRATIVE TRADITIONS To undertake an analytical study of the evolution and development of Central Asian Buddhist iconography; to study its culmination in the complex iconography adopted by the Tantric forms of Buddhism. Investigators: Dr. R. Ghose (Principal) Professor M. Yaldiz Departments: Fine Arts Museum Fur Indische Kunst, Berlin, Germany Source of funding: Germany/Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme Starting date: 1997.02 PERFORMANCE AND NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES To establish a digital archive of original performance and new media technologies materials essential for the continuation of my research and teaching, and to facilitate my current and future research in these fields. Investigator: Dr. H.L. Gilpin Department: Comparative Literature Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1996.11 A UNIFIED SOLUTION TO SOME PARADOXES To produce a technically correct and philosophically adequate solution to certain families of semantical and set-theoretic paradoxes. Investigator: Professor L. Goldstein Department: Philosophy Starting date: 1996.06 THE DEVELOPMENT OF WITTGENSTEIN'S THOUGHT To research the Wittgenstein archive at the University of Bergen, Norway for the purpose of writing a book, The Development of Wittgenstein's Thought. Investigator: Professor L. Goldstein Department: Philosophy Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1996.07 URBAN HISTORY OF HONG KONG To write a book on the urban and economic development process in Hong Kong, emphasizing the dynamic post-war years. Investigator: Mr. J.S. Grant Department: History Starting date: 1993.06 COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING (CALL) PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH FOR CHINESE TERTIARY STUDENTS To enhance and enrich the English vocabulary knowledge of Chinese tertiary students at the University of Hong Kong. Investigator: Mrs. M.M. Hill Department: English Centre Source of funding: Simon K.Y. Lee Research Fund Starting date: 1996.01 Completion date: 1997.06 STUDY OF OCCULT PRECIPITATION To study occult precipitation. Investigators: Professor R.D. Hill (Principal) Dr. W.J. Kyle Dr. M.R. Peart Departments: Ecology and Biodiversity Geography and Geology Source of funding: Woo Ting Sang Agricultural Development Research Fund Starting date: 1989.12 STYLOSANTHES OVERSOWING EXPERIMENT To test the suitability of Stylosanthes, a protein-rich tropical legume, for oversowing into natural grassland. Investigator: Professor R.D. Hill Department: Ecology and Biodiversity Source of funding: Hui Oi Chow Trust Fund Starting date: 1990.11 FARM-BASED FERTILIZER TRIAL OF VETIVER GRASS FOR EROSION CONTROL To set up a farm-based trial of Vetiver grass to control soil erosion on double-cropped sloping land at Luodian, Guizhou, P.R.C. Investigators: Professor R.D. Hill (Principal) Professor X. Chen Departments: Ecology and Biodiversity Guizhou Academy of Argicultural Sciences, People's Republic of China Source of funding: Hui Oi Chow Trust Fund Starting date: 1995.03 BORDERLANDS: WOMEN IN FILM AND THE WOMAN FILMMAKER To investigate the ways in which Hong Kong movies of the 1980s represent and complicate issues of gender and women in society through the study of the films of the woman director-auteur, Ann Hui On Wah (b.1947). Investigator: Dr. E.Y.L. Ho Department: English Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1996.03 SELECTIONS FROM CHINESE RHAPSODIES To compile a set of 4 volumes of books on Chinese Rhapsodies with an introduction and annotations for students of Chinese literature and those who are interested in classical Chinese studies. Investigators: Professor K.P.H. Ho (Principal) Professor W.C. Bi Professor S.L. Hung Departments: Chinese The Chinese Academy of Social Science, People's Republic of China Starting date: 1996.01 A STUDY OF EMPERORSHIP LEARNING IN SONG PERIOD The study of emperorship learning in Song period had long been neglected by scholars. This research is aimed to fill this gap. Investigator: Dr. C.H. Hui Department: Chinese Source of funding: Hsu Long Sing Research Fund Starting date: 1993.03 CONCEPTS OF LANGUAGE To examine (1) the various ways in which language has been and is conceived within linguistic and philosophical research, (2) how these basic conceptions have shaped the research agendas founded upon them, and (3) what is the most promising conception for a new way forward in the light of recent technological advnaces. Investigator: Dr. C.M. Hutton Department: English Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1995.07 LINGUISTICS AND COLONIALISM: THE SCHOLARLY WRITINGS OF MISSIONARIES, COLONIAL ADMINISTRATORS AND POLICE OFFICERS To investigate the linguistic writings of missionaries and colonial officials and to link their writings to the social history of language in Hong Kong and the history of western linguistics in its encounter with Asian languages. Investigators: Dr. C.M. Hutton (Principal) Mr. K.R. Bolton Department: English Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1996.07 THE WRITER AND EMPIRE: LEONARD WOOLF, GEORGE ORWELL AND COLONIAL DISCOURSE To investigate the representations of colonial experience in Asia, and the critique of colonialism, in the work of two English writers. Investigator: Dr. D.W.F. Kerr Department: English Starting date: 1997.07 A PRELIMINARY EVALUATION OF THE IMPACT OF NEW TERRITORIES URBANIZATION ON THE LOCAL CLIMATIC ENVIRONMENT To evaluate the magnitude of the climatic changes which have arisen as a result of the rapid urbanization associated with the New Towns Programme in the New Territories; to document the major climatic processes which have been affected and assess their relative importance; to assess the implications of such changes for environmental quality in the newly urbanized areas of the New Territories. Investigator: Dr. W.J. Kyle Department: Geography and Geology Source of funding: Lau Wong Fat Urbanization Research Fund Starting date: 1991.05 Completion date: 1997.06 LAND USE IN MACAU: CURRENT USE AND CHANGES SINCE 1972 Mapping of current land use in Macau; comparison with earlier (1972 and 1983) surveys to establish patterns; suggestion of directions in which planning should proceed. Investigators: Dr. W.J. Kyle (Principal) Professor R.L. Edmonds Dr. B. Taylor Departments: Geography and Geology University of Macau Source of funding: Hui Oi Chow Trust Fund Starting date: 1994.01 LANDSCAPE IN TRANSITION: HONG KONG, MACAU AN SHENZHEN AND ZHUHAI APPRAISED FROM ABOVE. To provide a multimedia evaluation of the developments in Hong Kong, Macau and Shenzhen in the form of a videocassette suitable for use in Hong Kong secondary school geography courses. Investigators: Dr. W.J. Kyle (Principal) Professor C.Y. Jim Dr. J.J. Wang Dr. D. Zhang Department: Geography and Geology Source of funding: Hui Oi Chow Trust Fund Starting date: 1996.12 BOOK CHAPTER ON ANIMAL RIGHTS To write an article in Chinese on animal rights in a forthcoming edited volume on applied ethics. Investigator: Dr. J.Y.F. Lau Department: Philosophy Starting date: 1996.03 A STUDY OF HONG KONG'S ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT To gain a better understanding of the social, political, economic and cultural conditions under which Hong Kong's environmental movement has emerged and which then sustain and permit it to develop; to assess the transformative capacities of this movem by analyzing its structural bases, cultural orientations, and political strategies. Investigator: Dr. F.Y.S. Lee Department: Geography and Geology Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1996.11 CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS OF CHINESE IN THE DIASPORA AND THE QUESTION OF HYBRIDITY To disclose the similarities and differences, both temporally and spatially, in discursive ways of representing Chinese immigrants in the diaspora. Data includes newspapers, feature and documentary film, television and popular fiction. Investigator: Dr. G.B. Lee Department: Comparative Literature Starting date: 1994.07 THE TIMES The Times Investigator: Librarian Department: Univ Libraries Source of funding: Hong Kong Research Grants Council (Competitive Bid Projects) Starting date: 1993.03 "KING OF SOUTHERN SKY": A STUDY OF CHEN JITANG'S RULE IN GUANGDONG (1929-36) WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO HIS "THREE-YEAR ADMINISTRATIVE PLAN" (1933-35) To study the mentality of a typical reformist warlord and the prospects of socio-economic progress under a paternalistic and militaristic regime. Investigator: Dr. A.H.Y. Lin Department: History Source of funding: Hsu Long Sing Research Fund Starting date: 1997.02 RURAL URBANIZATION IN THE PEARL RIVER DELTA: A CASE STUDY OF NANHAI To identify distinct features of rural industrialization in the delta; to assess the impact of rural industrial development on migration and land use change. Investigators: Dr. G.C.S. Lin (Principal) Dr. Nanjiang Ouyang Departments: Geography and Geology Center for Urban and Regional Studies, Zhongshan University, People's Republic of China Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1995.11 THE HONG KONG-GUANGDONG INTEGRATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN THE NEW TERRITORIES, HONG KONG To investigate the process of economic integration of Hong Kong-Guangdong integraton; to assess its implications for urban development in the New Territories; to recommend policies and planning measures to the local government. Investigator: Dr. G.C.S. Lin Department: Geography and Geology Source of funding: Hui Oi Chow Trust Fund Starting date: 1995.11 TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF HONG KONG INVESTMENT IN GUANGDONG To investigate the growth dynamics and locational characteristics of Hong Kong investment in guangdong Province since 1979, when the open door policy was initiated in mainland China. The purposes are, first, to identify the pattern of growth nd spatial distribution of Hong Kong investment in the mainland and, secondly, to asses the impacts of such investment on the employment structure and urban development in the region. Investigator: Dr. G.C.S. Lin Department: Geography and Geology Source of funding: Hang Seng Bank Golden Jubilee Education Fund for Research Starting date: 1996.01 MACHINE TRANSLATION: CHINESE AND ENGLISH To design software for computer-assisted translation involving Chinese and English. Investigator: Dr. W.C.J. Lin Department: Chinese Starting date: 1987.06 A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF ADVERTISING LANGUAGES IN CHINESE AND ENGLISH To traiblaze the contrastive analysis of advertising languages in Chinese and English in terms of linguistic, literary and cultural features. The findings aim to enrich our knowledge of these two language used for commercial purposes and the courses in language studies, contrastive linquistics as well as translation for specific purposes. Investigator: Dr. W.C.J. Lin Department: Chinese Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1995.07 THE HISTORY OF NEW MUSIC IN CHINA 1885-1985 To study the development of Chinese music under the influence of European music from 1885 to 1985, excluding traditional and folk music. Investigator: Dr. C.C. Liu Department: Centre of Asian Studies Source of funding: Centre of Asian Studies Dr. Stephen S.F. Hui Trust Fund Fulldiamond Ltd. Henderson Land Development Co. Ltd. Hong Kong Ethnomusicological Society Hong Kong Pei Hua Education Foundation Ltd. Hong Kong Sino-British Fellowship Trust Scholars' Foundation Hong Kong Translation Society Madam Lucina Laam King Ying Starting date: 1984.02 THE DEVELOPMENT OF VOCAL MUSIC IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY IN CHINA To study the development of vocal music in the twentieth century in China with special reference to the comparative studies between European style of singing with that of the Chinese style. Investigators: Dr. C.C. Liu (Principal) Ms. B. Fei Department: Centre of Asian Studies Source of funding: Centre of Asian Studies Hong Kong Culture and Art Foundation Starting date: 1991.07 THE DEVELOPMENT OF POPULAR MUSIC IN HONG KONG To study the development of popular music in Hong Kong since the beginning of the 20th century, with special reference to Cantonese popular songs. Investigators: Dr. C.C. Liu (Principal) Mr. J. Wong Department: Centre of Asian Studies Source of funding: Dr. Stanley Ho Madam Lucina Laam King Ying Starting date: 1993.09 MUSIC EDUCATION, MUSICAL ACTIVITIES AND MUSIC COMPOSITION IN HONG KONG 1841-1997 To study music education, musical activities and music composition in Hong Kong during the British rule. Investigator: Dr. C.C. Liu Department: Centre of Asian Studies Source of funding: Centre of Asian Studies Hong Kong Pei Hua Education Foundation Ltd. Starting date: 1994.07 EARLY CHINESE YOGACARA THOUGHT To trace the process of transformation of Indian Yogacara into Chinese Yogacara, with a view to observing the impact of the transformation on the development of Chinese Buddhist thought. Investigator: Professor M.W. Liu Department: Chinese Starting date: 1993.01 EARLY CHINESE YOGACARA THOUGHT: THE TEACHING OF CHING-YING HUI-YÜAN The Yogacara was one of the two main Indian Mahayana doctrinal traditions. The project attempts to examine the early development of Yogacara thought after its introduction into China, focusing on Ching-ying Hui-yüan who was the only early Chinese Yogacarin who had left behind a sizeable amount of writings. Investigator: Professor M.W. Liu Department: Chinese Source of funding: Hsu Long Sing Research Fund Starting date: 1997.05 HISTORY OF CANTON 1905-1925 To identify the loosely termed and ever-changing "feudal ruling class" in China and to study its relationship with the government and with the people. Investigator: Professor A.Y.C. Lui Department: History Source of funding: Centre of Asian Studies Starting date: 1983.10 CENTRALISATION VERSUS REGIONALISM IN LATE CH'ING To study the late Ch'ing government: social forces and the operation of the government machinery both at the capital and in the provinces. Investigator: Professor A.Y.C. Lui Department: History Source of funding: Hang Seng Bank Golden Jubilee Education Fund for Research Starting date: 1986.02 CORRUPTION UNDER THE CH'ING DYNASTY, 1644-1911 To study a field of history which has been hitherto neglected by historians. Investigator: Professor A.Y.C. Lui Department: History Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1990.05 THE IMPACT OF RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY ON CH'ING GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY To make use of primary sources from China and Hong Kong to write an indepth book of over 500,000 words on a topic "The impact of Religion and Philosophy on Ch'ing Government and Society" which has not been fuly research into. Investigators: Professor A.Y.C. Lui (Principal) Professor Rongjin Ge Departments: History People's University, Peking, People's Republic of China Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1993.07 THE EARLY CH'ING EMPERORS - THEIR PUBLIC IMAGE AND PRIVATE LIFE To study the public and private roles of the rulers of China, and assess their correlations; to complete a book on a hitherto neglected area of Ch'ing China. Investigator: Professor A.Y.C. Lui Department: History Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1994.07 CONSTRUCTING A DATABASE OF SPOKEN CANTONESE WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND AN ON-LINE DICTIONARY To build on archive of spoken Cantonese tape recordings, to construct a 200,000 word database on computer, and to compile an on-line dictionary from that database. Investigators: Dr. K.K. Luke (Principal) Mr. O.T. Nancarrow Department: Linguistics Source of funding: Hong Kong Research Grants Council Starting date: 1996.11 SHANGHAI'S PUDONG NEW AREA: ITS HISTORY AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENT An investigation of the historical roots of the Pudong area as one aspect in the problems of national reconstruction and metropolitan growth as well as an attempt to analyze future opportunities in respect of economic development as the plan moves from the "drawing board" into the field of operations. Investigator: Dr. K.L. MacPherson Department: History Source of funding: Urban and Environmental Studies Trust Fund Starting date: 1992.07 Completion date: 1997.06 A HISTORY OF SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES AND HIV/AIDS IN HONG KONG To study not only the universal characteristics of STDS (those operating irrespective of location) but also to show the cultural, social and historical dimension in the management of these diseases in 19th and 20th century Hong Kong. Investigator: Dr. K.L. MacPherson Department: History Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1994.01 POST-WAR URBAN PLANNING IN BEIJING To investigate urban planning efforts and urban design of Beijing during the period 1928-1949, concentrating on the post-war period. Investigator: Dr. K.L. MacPherson Department: History Source of funding: Urban and Environmental Studies Trust Fund Starting date: 1995.06 Completion date: 1997.06 AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF LIRRGA, AN ORALLY COMPOSED GENRE OF ABORIGINAL MUSIC FROM NORTH WEST AUSTRALIA To undertake an analytical study of lirrga (cognate terms include lirra, gunborrg and gunbalany), one of the two main genres of didjeridu-accompanied, public dance-songs from NW Australia; to locate lirrga and the other public didjeridu-accompanied genre, wangga, in the broader context of Australian Aboriginal music. Investigator: Professor A.J. Marett Department: Music Source of funding: Hong Kong Research Grants Council Starting date: 1995.08 Completion date: 1996.12 NEGOTIATION OF MEANING IN SMALL GROUP WORK To describe the interaction of university students in small group discussion. Investigator: Ms. E.R. Martyn Department: English Centre Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1994.07 MISSIONARY STUDIES OF SOUTHERN CHINESE DIALECTS To evaluate the contribution of missionaries to the study of southern Chinese dialects, principally Cantonese and the Southern Min dialects of Amoy and Chauzhou. Investigator: Dr. S.J. Matthews Department: Linguistics Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1996.09 THE MIN DIALECT OF CHAOZHOU AND COMPARATIVE CHINESE GRAMMAR To investigate some grammatical features of the Chaozhou dialect, spoken in Hong Kong and southeast Asia and as well as eastern Guangdong. Topics to be covered include aspect and modality, reduplication, comparative constructions and the syntax of tone change. The project is expected to result in a reference grammar and will contribute to knowledge of the linguistic diversity within varieties of Chinese. Investigators: Dr. S.J. Matthews (Principal) Dr. V. Yip Departments: Linguistics English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Source of funding: Hong Kong Research Grants Council Starting date: 1996.09 ENCOUNTERS WITH CHINESE: THE WESTERN LINGUIST AND THE SINITIC LANGUAGES To analyse and comment on the contributions of western linguists and missionaries to knowledge of the southern Chinese languages during the period 1850-1950: to evaluate the descriptive success and failures of western models confronted with the problems posed by Chinese, and to trace the influence of these works on each other and on western linguistics. Investigator: Dr. S.J. Matthews Department: Linguistics Starting date: 1997.07 LEARNING THROUGH TWO LANGUAGES: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CHINESE (CANTONESE) AND ENGLISH AS LANGUAGES OF PRESENTATION IN TV AND VIDEO PROGRAMMES To investigate the relative effectiveness of Chinese and English as languages of presentation, when used on the soundtrack of video/TV material and in accompanying subtitles. Investigators: Mr. A. McNeill (Principal) Dr. K.K.C. Fung Departments: Curriculum Studies Hong Kong Education Department, Curriculum Development Institute   Source of funding: RGC Fundable Projects (Block Grant Funded) Starting date: 1996.10 CONSUMASIAN (CONSUMPTION IN ASIA RESEARCH NETWORK) Preparation of a series of books and materials for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research about East Asia and Japan. Investigator: Professor B.D. Moeran Department: Japanese Studies Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Special Allocation (HKU Block Grant Funding) Starting date: 1994.02 WOMEN'S MAGAZINES IN JAPAN, HONG KONG, EUROPE AND THE U.S.A. To analyse and compare differing representations of women in selected international women's magazines. Investigator: Professor B.D. Moeran Department: Japanese Studies Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1996.07 MICROCOMPUTER ASSISTED LOGIC LEARNING To produce a suite of computer programs providing a substantial grounding in formal logic; to produce secondary-school oriented computer literacy software. Investigators: Professor F.C.T. Moore (Principal) Professor L. Goldstein Department: Philosophy Source of funding: University Grants Committee Starting date: 1987.06 THE TALE OF TUDBULOL: DOCUMENTING THE CREATION OF THE WORLD To document and investigate the performance of the Philippine Tudbulol epic, an important cultural and literary resource. This epic encodes, through song, the customary law of the Tboli, one of the largest ethno-linguistic groups in Mindanao. This s epic (about 24 hours duration) will be recorded, transcribed and translated in its entirety. In addition, the performance practice and vocational history of the epic singer will be fully documented. More broadly, the project aims to produce for pubation an edited version of the epic for Compact Disc format. In so doing, the project not only contributes to the documentation and preservation of a Southeast Asian epic but makes it uniquely accessible. Investigator: Dr. M. Mora Department: Music Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1996.07 DOCUMENTATION OF LIRRGA AND WANGGA, TWO GENRES OF NORTH AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL MUSIC To collect photographs, audio and videotape recordings of lirrga and wangga performances, to transcribe texts and music for new and archival recordings, and to collect relevant ethnographic and biographical details of performers. Investigators: Dr. M. Mora (Principal) Dr. L.M. Barwick Professor A.J. Marett Department: Music Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1996.07 EXPLORING STRATEGIES FOR STIMULATING AND FOSTERING ENGLISH LANGUAGE USE IN SMALL GROUP WORK IN MONOLINGUAL CANTONESE CLASSES OF YEAR I ENGINEERING STUDENTS To investigate why opportunities for practicing English are not exploited by students (the students views and the teachers views) and then investigate and implement strategies for encouraging more and consistent use of English in small group work. Investigators: Ms. E.A. Mueller (Principal) Mr. R.D. Corcos Miss C.F.K. Lee Department: English Centre Source of funding: University Grants Committee Central Allocation Starting date: 1994.10 PRONNUCIATION AND SPEECH TUTOR - INTERACTIVE CD-ROM PROGRAMME To provide a pronnuciation package delivered by CD-Rom for secondary school and tertiary students. The package provides on-screen tutors who demonstrate English sound formation, explain the IPA, provide instruction and samples of stress and interation. Investigators: Ms. E.A. Mueller (Principal) Ms. E. Samson Department: English Centre Starting date: 1996.07 INVESTIGATIONS INTO CLITIC THEORY To produce a State of the Art monograph for one sub-field of linguistics, namely clitic theory. This will outline the parameters of the field and the main research questions from the establishment of the field in the mid-1970's to the present, as well as highlight relevant interactions with other areas of linguistics. Investigator: Dr. J.A. Nevis Department: Linguistics Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1996.07 MUSIC AT E1 ESCORIAL DURING THE REIGN OF PHILIP II: FRANCISCO GUERRERO (1528-99) AND CRISTOBAL DE MORALES (CA.1500-53). To record a CD of previously unrecorded music which I have discovered, transcribed and edited in the course of my current research into music at E1 Escorial. Investigator: Dr. M.J. Noone Department: Music Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1996.06 MUSIC FOR THE KINGS OF SPAIN: AN ANTHOLOGY OF LATIN POLYPHONY BY MASTERS OF THE ESCORIAL PALACE DURING THE REIGNS OF PHILIP II, III AND IV To publish an anthology of Latin polyphony by composers active at the Escorial palace during the period 1563 to 1665. The anthology is designed as a companion to my book Music and Musicians at the Escorial, 1563 to 1665 (Rochester University Press). Investigator: Dr. M.J. Noone Department: Music Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1996.07 MUSIC, MANUSCRIPTS AND MUSICIANS AT TOLEDO CATHEDRAL IN THE GOLDEN AGE (1539-1603) To construct, from primary sources, biographies of composers and musicians for whom very little information is currently available; to answer specific questions about the ways and contexts within which Spanish Renaissance polyphony was performed at Toledo and elsewhere; to document every significant aspect of the 26 polyphonic manuscript choirbooks at Toledo; to compile a data-base comprising transcriptions of primary source material concerned with the commissioning, copying and production of this set of manuscript choirbooks; to document all known primary source material, both manuscript and printed, relating to the composition and practice of music at Toledo Cathedral; to reconstruct the ways and contexts within whcih music was composed and performed at the Cathedral through close scrutiny of the primary source material, both musical and historical; to publish a thorough and complete study of the Toledo manuscripts; to provide editions of important, unpublished works by significant composers workingt Toledo. Investigator: Dr. M.J. Noone Department: Music Source of funding: Hong Kong Research Grants Council Starting date: 1996.09 ENHANCING MOTIVATION IN SECOND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT To investigate the relationship between student motivation and second language acquisition within a Hong Kong context; to develop a model of second language acquisition which incorporates motivation as a central element; to use the model to identify conditions which facilitate and impede student motivation to improve their English in academic settings; to investigate strategies for enhancing student motivation. Investigator: Professor D.C. Nunan Department: English Centre Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1995.07 SURVEY OF JAPANESE POPULAR CULTURE IN HONG KONG: THE IMPACT OF JAPANESE POPULAR MUSIC ON HONG KONG SOCIETY To examine the process of crafting self identity among pop song listeners in Hong Kong by investigating how and why some Japanese pop songs became popular in Hong Kong; to examine the process of encounter, negotiation and integration between Hong Kong and Japanese popular cultures by investigating how these Japanese pop songs, the songs that were covered by Hong Kong singers in particular, were introduced and re-packaged, (in advertisement, arrangement of music, change of lyricsetc.). Investigator: Mr. M. Ogawa Department: Japanese Studies Starting date: 1997.07 TOURIST CULTURE IN HONG KONG - A SOCIO-HISTORICAL EXAMINATION OF MASS TOURISM To present an in-depth historical and sociological examination of mass tourism in Hong Kong. Investigators: Dr. M. Okano (Principal) Dr. H.W. Wong Department: Japanese Studies Starting date: 1997.07 CULTURAL POLICY IN HONG KONG: 1945-1997 To investigate the various relationships between the social, economic and political elements, especially the effects of the Hong Kong government policy, which have contributed to the development of the arts in Hong Kong. Investigator: Dr. V.C.H. Ooi Department: English Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1994.07 PHILIPPINE HISTORICAL DEMOGRAPHY To examine evidence pertaining to births, marriages and deaths in the late colonial period in the Philippines; and to attempt to explain certain paradoxes of South East Asian history. Investigator: Professor N.G. Owen Department: History Source of funding: Centre of Asian Studies Starting date: 1987.02 THE PHILIPPINE PRINCIPALIA To study the evolution of local clites in the Philippines under colonial rule. Investigator: Professor N.G. Owen Department: History Starting date: 1992.07 ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE MODERN PHILIPPINES To write an economic history of the modern Philippines for publication as part of a project on the Economic History of Southeast Asia, based at Australian National University. Investigator: Professor N.G. Owen Department: History Starting date: 1992.11 AN INVESTIGATION OF BACKGROUND CAESIUM137 LEVELS IN HONG KONG To determine background Cs137 concentrations in the soils of Hong Kong and identification of the controls. Investigator: Dr. M.R. Peart Department: Geography and Geology Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1996.07 VEGETATION AND EROSION IN HONG KONG To examine the effects of harvesting vegetation upon soil erosion. Investigator: Dr. M.R. Peart Department: Geography and Geology Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1996.07 THE AINU LIBRARY To make available to scholars of linguistics, anthropology, religion, history, minorities, and physical anthropology a large number of works in Western languages, which have in many cases been impossible to procure up till now. Investigator: Professor K. Refsing Department: Japanese Studies Source of funding: RGC Fundable Projects (Block Grant Funded) Starting date: 1996.10 RESEARCH ON THE AINU LANGUAGE AND THE HISTORY OF AINU STUDIES To contribute to our knowledge of the Ainu language and culture and to analyse previous Western studies of Ainu and the attitudes of Western scholars towards "exotic" languages in the 19th and early 20th century. Investigator: Professor K. Refsing Department: Japanese Studies Starting date: 1997.07 THE AMERICAN "EASTERN ESTABLISHMENT" AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY U.S. FOREIGN AFFAIRS To complete a two-volume study of the American Eastern Establishment and its influence on twentieth-century U.S. foreign affairs. Investigator: Dr. P.M. Roberts Department: History Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1987.07 WILLIAM L. CLAYTON AND THE RECOGNITION OF CHINA, 1945-66 To study why did other dedicated Atlanticists in the foreign policy elite, such as Dean Acheson, or even George Ball, take a less relaxed attitude towards the recognition of the People's Republic, or alternatively, what made Clayton in particular so committed to the normalization of relations. Thereby elucidate some of the internal forces which affected the making of American policy towards China in the 1950s and 1960s. Investigator: Dr. P.M. Roberts Department: History Source of funding: Hang Seng Bank Golden Jubilee Education Fund for Research Hsu Long Sing Research Fund Starting date: 1993.06 UNDAUNTED DAUGHTERS OF DESIRE: WOMEN, THEIR FAMILY ROMANCES AND NARRATIVE JOURNEYS HOME ACROSS TIME To show how women story-tellers have acquired a heightened sense of identity, purpose, history and community through reconstruction of the original romance not only with the mother or father but the family as a whole. Investigator: Dr. M.A. Sabine Department: Comparative Literature Starting date: 1996.09 THE U.S. AND MILITARISTIC NATIONALISM IN TURKEY, IRAN AND CHINA, 1919-39 To study how the U.S. adjusted to and accommodated militaristic nationalism in the post-colonial world. The investigator hopes to decipher an early transition from a predominantly commercial emphasis in American foreign policy, to a new militaristic emphasis. In all three cases, a militaristic tendency was later realized in massive American military involvement supporting client dictatorships during the 1940s, and, in Iran, Turkey and Taiwan, thereafter. Investigator: Dr. H.R. Schmidt Department: History Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1990.05 Completion date: 1997.02 THE TEXTILE WORKERS OF ST. PETERSBURG, 1881-1905 To write a book, and several articles on the subject. Investigator: Dr. M.B. Share Department: History Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1991.05 HONG KONG IN SINO-SOVIET RELATIONS, 1917-1991 To collect data for article and/or monograph for said title, paying particular emphasis on the post 1949 period. Investigator: Dr. M.B. Share Department: History Source of funding: Hsu Long Sing Research Fund Starting date: 1996.06 EFFECTS OF WRITING CONFERENCES To explore how students' clarifications of the teacher's written comments on their draft essays during writing conferences help them revise their English essays. Investigator: Dr. L. Shi Department: English Centre Starting date: 1997.01 Completion date: 1997.08 CHINESE ETYMOLOGY, CHINESE PALEOGRAPHY, CHINESE PHONOLOGY, CHINESE SEMANTICS AND ANCIENT CHINESE TEXTS To study Chinese etymology, Chinese paleography, Chinese phonology, Chinese semantics and ancient Chinese texts. Investigator: Professor C.Y. Sin Department: Chinese Starting date: 1997.07 ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT ATLAS OF HONG KONG To produce an atlas on the history of development of Hong Kong since 1842. Investigator: Professor V.F.S. Sit Department: Geography and Geology Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1993.07 Completion date: 1997.06 SHENZHEN: THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHINA'S FIRST OPEN CITY To review the new ways and means in city planning in the People's Republic of China under the new ruling philosophy of opening and reform since 1978; to map out the consequences of the new ruling philosophy and the opened and market-oriented approach on the growth and development of Shenzhen; to construct a model of the Chinese city based on the above. Investigator: Professor V.F.S. Sit Department: Geography and Geology Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1996.07 CHINA REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT REPORT To compile a book series titled "China Regional Development Report", which is to become a high-class publication jointly published by the Department and the Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences. This report will provide a working paper for the consideration of the Chinese government in devising more effective regional development policy, and make useful contribution to the international discussion on regional development policy. Investigators: Professor V.F.S. Sit (Principal) Mr. J.M. Cai Dr. F.Y.S. Lee Dr. G.C.S. Lin Mr. W.D. Liu Miss B.P.Y. Loo Professor D.D. Lu Dr. J.J. Wang Departments: Geography and Geology Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, People's Republic of China Source of funding: Hui Oi Chow Trust Fund Starting date: 1996.07 STRANGE ATTRACTORS: STOCHASTICS AND CHAOTICS IN RECENT AMERICAN FICTION To explore the ways in which system theory, stochatics, and chaos theory help to explore some of the issues and explain some of the problems in contemporary American fiction. Investigator: Dr. G.E. Slethaug Department: English Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1995.07 PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS AND POPULAR CULTURE: MOULDING PUBLIC OPINION THROUGH CARTOONS IN PRE-WAR JAPAN To collect cartoons from 1910 to 1945, depicting foreign and domestic affairs; to search for prose writings by or about cartoonists which will provide information on the development of their opinions; and to use the material to analyze and depict ways which consensus emerged in the 1930s out of the pluralism and fractiousness of the previous decade. Investigator: Dr. T.A. Stanley Department: History Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1986.12 Completion date: 1996.12 TWENTIETH CENTURY JAPANESE POPULAR CULTURE TO 1945 To collect and analyse materials which describe Japanese popular culture from 1900 to 1945 as a means of a) comprehending how the masses reacted to and in turn influenced changes in popular culture; and b) how this popular culture interfaced with the political system. Investigator: Dr. T.A. Stanley Department: History Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1990.05 WINDOWS ON JAPAN, PAST AND PRESENT: A MULTI-MEDIA RESOURCE To design and produce the first interactive, multi-media research tool on the history of Japanese culture. This will combine material, and analyses, from the perspectives of the several disciplines of the investigators, clustered around focal theme areas, and designed in such a way as to encourage the end-user (reader/viewer) to explore at will a very wide variety of materials and methodologies relating to the area clusters. Investigators: Dr. T.A. Stanley (Principal) Mr. T. Hara Dr. R.T.A. Irving Dr. P.R. Stanley-Baker Departments: History Fine Arts Geography and Geology Japanese Studies Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Hong Kong Research Grants Council Starting date: 1992.07 UNION CATALOGUE OF HONG KONG RESEARCH RESOURCES IN AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN STUDIES To compile a union catalogue of the extensive collections of source materials, both printed and microfilm, for research on the United States and Europe, which have accumulated in the libraries of the various tertiary institutions of Hong Kong, together with holdings in other locations (government libraries, schools, etc.). Investigators: Dr. T.A. Stanley (Principal) Dr. P.A. Cunich Dr. P.M. Roberts Department: History Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1996.07 WINDOWS ON JAPAN - AN INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA RESOURCE To study windows on Japan - an interactive multimedia resource. Investigator: Dr. P.R. Stanley-Baker Department: Fine Arts Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1992.05 FAIVA (FINE ARTS INTERACTIVE VISUAL ARCHIVE) To design and implement the development and test phases of FAIVA, that is to provide a working system for a digitised fine arts database, accessible via Ethernet by a variety of client stations. Investigator: Dr. P.R. Stanley-Baker Department: Fine Arts Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1994.07 READINGS IN THE TALE OF GENJI To publish a book of collected essays, titled "Readings in the Tale of Genji", and produce a working research computerised graphics database ("Genji Graphics") of materials used in the project. Investigator: Dr. P.R. Stanley-Baker Department: Fine Arts Starting date: 1997.07 DANTE CRITICAL READER To bring to completion a Dante critical reader for Longman's. Investigator: Professor J.C.R. Tambling Department: Comparative Literature Starting date: 1997.07 IDEOLOGY AND LITERATURE: CULTURAL POLICY IN CHINA To examine the relationship between political power and cultural policy in China. Investigators: Dr. Q.S. Tong (Principal) Dr. T.W. Wong Departments: English Comparative Literature Source of funding: Hong Kong Research Grants Council RGC Fundable Projects (Block Grant Funded) Starting date: 1995.10 A HISTORY OF THE HONG KONG GARRISON To write a history of the Hong Kong garrison from the beginning of Hong Kong's existence as a crown colony up to recent times. Investigator: Professor C.M. Turnbull Department: Centre of Asian Studies Source of funding: University Grants Committee Starting date: 1987.10 A SELF-DIRECTED ENGLISH COURSE THROUGH ENGLISH CENTRE SELF-ACCESS: ANALYSING TEACHER-STUDENT INTERACTION IN SELF-ACCESS CONSULTATION To improve the quality of teacher-student interactions in self-access consultation, so that teacher-consultants will become more proficient at giving advice and students will become more proficient at managing their self-directed learning of English. Investigators: Mr. P.W. Voller (Principal) Ms. E.R. Martyn Miss V. Pickard Department: English Centre Source of funding: University Grants Committee Central Allocation Starting date: 1994.10 REFORMISM AND TRADITIONALISM IN TWENTIETH CENTURY CHINESE PAINTING The field of twentieth century Chinese painting history is so young that appropriate materials for teaching the subject to university students have not been published. My aim is to fill this gap by writing an adequate textbook on the topic, focussing the top major artistic trends-reformism and traditionalism and covering most of the important issues, artists, and schools in this history. This work is intended not only for my own students at HKU, but also for students at other universities in theited States and Europe. Investigator: Dr. Q. Wan Department: Fine Arts Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1992.07 CATHOLIC ART IN CHINA (1846-1926) After the Opium War, catholic churches were built first all over Shanghai then other cities. Within that period, workshops were set up to train Chinese apprentices by European catholic missionaries to produce icons and sculptures for churches in Chin One of the earliest workshops appeared in 1850s at Shanghai Tou-se-wei called Tou-se-wei Studio which lasted for 80 years and trained over one hundred Chinese orphans (through six years' apprenticeship). Among the graduates from the Studio, some bec the first generation of Chinese artists of western painting and sculpture and they later established their own studio to have taught innumerable students. This is a virtually unexplored area in field of art history. Due to restraints in time and fung, I can only arrived at a preliminary stage of this research project. Investigator: Dr. Q. Wan Department: Fine Arts Starting date: 1994.08 CATHOLIC ART STUDIOS IN CHINA (1850-1920) To explore the production of painting and sculpture in the Catholic Art Studios from later 19th Century to early 20th Century China and to examine the practice of Western art training in the Studios and its influence on Chinese artists of that time and its significance in Chinese art history. Investigator: Dr. Q. Wan Department: Fine Arts Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1996.07 AN ANALYSIS OF THE HUBBING ROLE OF HONG KONG AND ITS INTEGRATION WITH THE CONTAINER PORT SYSTEM IN SOUTH CHINA To examine the role of inter-modal container transport in the formation of an integrated economic system in Hong Kong-Guangdon region. Investigators: Dr. J.J. Wang (Principal) Dr. D.K.Y. Chu Dr. P.C. Lai Department: Geography and Geology Starting date: 1997.07 THE BRONZE CULTURE OF PREHISTORIC HUNAN, SOUTH CHINA To study the bronze culture in today's Hunan area of South China during the Shang-Zhou period from 1600 BC to 500 BC with regard to its stylistic periodization, ritual significance, and social implication. Investigator: Mr. W. Wang Department: Fine Arts Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1996.11 AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY OF JAPANESE WOMEN WORKING IN HONG KONG To analyse why Japanese women leave Japan in the first place, then why they come to Hong Kong rather than go to the U.S.A. Europe, or other parts of Southeast Asia, and finally how they adapt to Hong Kong society. Investigator: Dr. H.W. Wong Department: Japanese Studies Starting date: 1997.07 HISTORY OF DIFFERENT SECTS IN TAOIST RELIGION To study the important sects in Taoist Religion from the Eastern Han Dynasty (25 - 220) to the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911), to find out the relationship between them and their influences on smaller sects and other aspects of Chinese culture. The domin figures in each sect will be studied as well. Investigator: Professor S.H. Wong Department: Chinese Starting date: 1993.09 TAOIST LITERATURE OF THE JIN AND YUAN DYNASTIES (1115 - 1368) Study will be confined to the literary achievements of the Taoist priests, especially those of the Quan - Zhen sects, which is the most popular and influential Taoist sect in the Jin and Yuan periods. Investigator: Professor S.H. Wong Department: Chinese Starting date: 1994.01 THE CI POETRY OF JIANG KUI (1155 - 1221) To write detailed annotations, appreciation and commentaries on the existing 84 Ci poems of Jiang Kui, one of the greatest Ci writers of the Song dynasty (960 - 1279). A complete bibliography on the study of the Ci poet is also included. Investigator: Professor S.H. Wong Department: Chinese Starting date: 1996.09 TRANSLATION AND ANNOTATION OF WENXIN DIALONG To produce an up-to-date and attractive English translation of this classic in Chinese literary criticism. Investigators: Professor S.K. Wong (Principal) Mr. K.T. Lam Mr. A.C.H. Lo Department: Chinese Starting date: 1995.04 HONG KONG STAMPED POTTERY To conduct an in-depth study of the styles and development of a group of Hong Kong pottery finds which are characterized by stamped decorations. These artefacts are largely datable to the period ranging from the late Neolithic period to the Han dynas Investigator: Mr. C.T. Yeung Department: University Museum and Art Gallery Source of funding: The Lord Wilson Heritage Trust Starting date: 1997.01 CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS AND SUSTAINABLE REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE YANGTZE RIVER DELTA To study the implications of climate change and variability (including extreme events) for sustainable development, and to evaluate alternative response options. Investigator: Dr. Y. Yin Department: Geography and Geology Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1996.07 PESTICIDE EXPOSURE RISK ASSESSMENT IN THE TAIHU LAKE AREA To identify various factors which affect the patterns of pesticide exposure risk; to design and apply geographical information system (GIS), simulation model, and fuzzy pattern recognition method, for the identification of the spatial patterns of pestic de exposure risk under uncertainty. Investigator: Dr. Y. Yin Department: Geography and Geology Starting date: 1997.07 UNDERSTANDING CHARLES SEEGER: PIONEER IN AMERICAN MUSICOLOGY, CURRENTLY UNDER REVIEW BY UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS To study the writings of Charles Seeger, widely recognized as the greatest thinker in musicology of this century. Investigators: Professor B. Yung (Principal) Professor H. Rees Departments: Music UCLA Starting date: 1993.09 HYDROCHEMISTRY OF THE NATURAL WATERS ON TIBETAN PLATEAN To examine pH values, conductivity and chemical concentration of Tibetan waters; to investigate the relationships between water chemistry and high attitude environment. Investigator: Dr. D. Zhang Department: Geography and Geology Starting date: 1997.07