Dean: Hsi-Sheng CH'I, BA, Tunghai Taiwan; MA, PhD, Chicago (Professor of Political Science)
While the institution places emphasis on science, technology and business, the intention is that the University's graduates should be more than narrow soecialists.
They should also be familiar with awide range of intellectual perspectives, soover one- third of all undergraduate programmes are spent on courses outside their major department, including at least 12 credits devoted to studies in humanities and social science.
The role of the School of Humanities and Social Science is twofold. First, its course offerings support the undergraduate students' main specialisations bv illuminat- ing the social, regional and international contexts of science; technology and business enterprise. This is crucial to the education of the reaion's future leaders and innovators in commerce, industry, the professions and public~ervice. Second, the School offer;
studies in the Chinese cultural heritage and in other fields, with the aim of extending students' knowledge and widening their field of vision.
The School comprises two divisions
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the Division of Humanities and the Division of Social Science. It does not offer undergraduate degrees, but both divisions offer postgraduate work by means of taught Master of Arts (MA) degree programmes and the enrolment of research students for the degrees of Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).postgraduate student from the Division of Social Science. With the assistance of a library staff membel;
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DIVISION OF HUMANITIES
Unlike the single-discipline departments in the University, the Division of Humanities offers a range of concentrations, including history, art history, literature, philosophy, religion, and anthropology. In line with the University's aim to produce specialists who will not only excel in their technical expertise but also be equipped with a broad outlook on life and the world, the Division offers a range of courses for undergraduates in science, engineering, and business and management, as well as a focused, integrated curriculum for postgraduates in the humanities. For both, the emphasis is placed on China in the broader, cultural sense to include Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, mainland China, and the Chinese diaspora. Moreover, the Humanities Droaramme is interdisci~linarv and comparative in orientation in both teaching and research. China is apprbach& not only as a region but also in a global context (e.g. in relation to Asia and the West). It is also noteworthy that the Humanities Division is not subdivided into traditional departments. Instead, it emphasises dialogue between the various disciplines of humanities including literature, history, philosophy, anthropology, religion, and art history.
Faculty
Professor and Head of Division:
John C. Y. WANG, BA National Taiwan: MA Minnesota: PhD Cornell Professors:
Chang-Tai HUNG, BA Chinese Univ of Hong Kong; MA, PhD Harvard William TAY, BA National Chengchi; PhD Univ of California, San Diego Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor:
Leonard Kwok-Kou CHAN, BA, MPhil, Cert Ed, PhD Hong Kong; MA Toronto Lecturers/Assistant Professors:
Charles W. H. CHAN, BA, MPhil Chinese UnivofHong Kong; MA Hiroshima; PhD Toronto
Li-Fen CHEN, BA National Taiwan; MA Wake Forest; PhD Univ of Washington Cecilia Lee-Fang CHIEN, BA Michigan; MA, PhD Harvard
Chi-Cheung CHOI, BA National Taiwan; MPhil Chinese Univof Hong Kong; DLitt Tokyo
Tak-Sing KAM. BA National Taiwan; AM, PhD Harvard Bockja KIM, BA Yonsei: MST Yale; PhD Boston
David P. LAWRENCE, BA George Washington; MA, PhD Chicago Hui-Shu LEE, BA, MA National Taiwan; MA PhD Yale
Siu-Leung LI, BA, MPhil Hong Kong; PhD Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst Ling-Tun NGAI, BA Jinan; MA, PhD Univ of Wisconsin, Madison
Jowen TUNG, BA National Taiwan; MA State Univ of New York, Albany, PhD Columbia
Visiting Lecturer/Assistant Professor:
Kam-Ming YIP. BA, MPhil, PhD Chinese Univ of Hong Kong Assistant Lecturers:
Siu-Woo CHEUNG. BA Chinese Univ of Hong Kong; MA Univ of Washington Virgil K. Y. HO. BA Hong Kong; MA Oxford
Tik-Sang LIU. BSocSc. Dip Ed Chinese Univ of Hong Kong
Undergraduate Courses
The Division offers a range of electives in the fields of Chinese history, intellectual history, literature, philosophy, religion, cultural anthropology, and art history.
There are no prerequisitesfor most courses. Lectures, seminars and individual tutorials are utilised in most courses, and students are assessed by course work and/or written examinations.
Postgraduate Programmes and Research
Research programmes lead to the degrees of MPhil and PhD in the fields of early modern and modern Chinese history, South China studies, intellectual history, literature, religion and philosophy. A taught MA programme in Chinese Studies is offered jointly with the Division of Social Science. An MA programme in Humanities is also offered. Candidates for all postgraduate degrees should normally be good honours graduates in relevant disci~lines, and those seekina admission to the PhD Droaramme will generally be registered as MPhil students in t i e first instance, and s;bj;ct to an upgrading review. Candidates for both MPhil and PhD degrees may be asked to attend such preparatory courses as are required, but the greater part of the work for each degree is devoted to the preparation of a research thesis. Students should refer to the section on regulations governing postgraduate studies for course and residence requirements.
Master of Arts (MA) Programme in Chinese Studies
This is an interdisciplinary programme jointly offered with the Division of Social Science. For details, please refer to page 252.
Master of Arts (MA) Programme in Humanities
This MA degree by coursework may be pursued either as an end in itself or as preparation for PhD studies. Students are required to take a minimum of 30 credits, of which at least 24 must be at the postgraduate level. Among these 24 credits, students may take six credits of independent studies under the supervision of a faculty member.
Depending on their state of preparedness, students in the MA programme may be required to attend lecture courses, but essential training takes place in seminars which involve the writing of term papers. Given its emphasis upon comparative and interdis- ciplinary approaches, the Humanities Division is not subdivided into traditional disci- plines such as history, literature, and philosophy. Each studentformulates underfaculty guidance a study plan combining course work within the chosen field of specialisation as well as other disciplines.
Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Programme in Humanities
The primary aim of the MPhil programme is to provide training for students who are intent on a career of teaching and research. It may be pursued either as an end in itself or as preparation for PhD studies. Students are expected to function at the graduate level in at least two languages, take at least 12 credits course work, undertake independent research under faculty supervision, and prepare a thesis. Students may attend such preparatory courses as are required, but the greater part of the work is
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devoted to the preparation of a thesis based upon original research. The thesis must demonstrate bibliographical proficiency with respect to the literature of the field and be orally defended before a thesis examination committee. Students may specialise in literature, history, cultural anthropology, philosophy or religion, but are expected to transcend conventional disciplinary boundaries to cultivate expertise in interdisciplinary research.
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Programme in Humanities
The primary aim of the PhD programme is to provide training for students who are intent on careers in teaching and research. Admission into the programme is contingent upon the possession of an MPhil degree or its equivalent. Students may decide to specialise in literature, history, cultural anthropology, philosophy or religion, but are expected to transcend conventional disciplinary boundaries to cultivate exper- tise in interdisciplinary research. All students are required to fulfil a minimum of 24 credits of course workand to demonstrate a reading knowledge of a language otherthan Chinese and English. After the successful completion of a qualifying examination covering specified areas, the student prepares with approval from the Division a thesis research ~rooosal. Subseauentlv. the candidate's inde~endent research conducted under the'subervision of af&ulty hember aims at the writing and defence of a doctoral thesis.
Students in literature focus primarily on Chinese literature from comparative, interdisciplinary, and theoretical perspectives. Of the24credits in required course work, 9 shall be from the core courses: HUMA 631, Seminar on Comparative Literature, HUMA 525 and 526, Modern Literary Theory I and II, and HUMA 515, Traditional Chinese Literary Theories and Criticism. To become a doctoral candidate, the student must pass a qualifying examination, which covers one major field (i.e., the chosen field of concentration) and one supporting field (e.g. another genre or period).
Students in history have the option of choosing one of the following two areas as their major field of concentration: Late Imperial China (from Ming to ca. 1800) and modern China (since ca. 1800). Approaches to the historical subject can be political, social and economic, intellectual, and comparative. Of the 24 credits in required course work, 9 shall be from the core courses (selected according to the chosen field of concentration) and another 9shall be courses in asupporting field. The supporting field, selected by the student with the approval of the supe~isor,can be in the humanities or anv one area in the social sciences. The aualifvina examination covers the chosen field of concentration, the supporting field, and one o6er field of the student's own choice.
Students in cultural anthropology and social history focus their research primarily on South China. Research areas include not only Guangdong and Fujian, but span ~ a i w a n through Hong Kong and Macau to Hainan and evento overseas Chinese (in Southeast Asia. Ja~an. North America and Europe) and the minorities of south and southwest China (she', Y ~ O , Dan, etc.). Of the 30 credits in course work required, 12 shall be from the core courses: Field Research: Theory and Practice, Study of Archival and Folk Documents, Topics in Cultural Anthropology, andTopics in Social History. The qualifying examination covers three areas: the first focuses on theory and methods in cultural anthropology, the second on modern Chinese social and economic history, and the third on the ethnographical literature and ethnological issues of South China.
Students in philosophy and religion have the option of choosing one of three areas as their major field of concentration: East Asia (e.g.,Chinaand Japan), South Asia (e.g. lndiaand Sri Lanka) orthe West (e.g., France and Germany). These areas, in spite
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of appearances to the contrary, are to be understood, not eidetically as aeopolitical enclosures, but in fluid terms as~historica~l~ constituted cultural formations. course work must be cross-cultural in scope and criticallv self-aware in methodoloav. Therefore. of the 24 credits in required course work, at least half shall involve theory,and philosophies and religions, in areas other than the chosen field of concentration. The qualifying examination covers one major and two minor fields. The major is the field of concentration whereas the minors can be theory, an area of philosophy and religion outside the area of concentration, or another discipline in the humanities and the social sciences. The culmination of the PhD programme in philosophy and religion is a successful oral defence of the thesis which should demonstrate not only originality in research and analysis but also a thorough bibliographical knowledge of relevant scholarly works including those written in a second language.
Faculty Research Interests
Professor John C. Y. WANG, Head of Division
Traditional Chinese narrative; Chinese literary criticism; literary theory.
Professor Chang-Tai HUNG
Modern Chinese history; popular and folk culture; cultural theory.
Professor William TAY
Critical theory, cultural criticism; twentieth-century Chinese literature; film.
Dr Leonard Kwok-Kou CHAN, Senior Lecturer
Classical Chinese literary criticism; classical and modern Chinese poetry and fiction;
theory of literary history.
Dr Charles W. H. CHAN, Assistant Professor
Classical Confucianism; Taoism; Sung and Ming Neo-Confucianism; Tokugawa Japa- nese thought; and Sino-Japanese philosophical and cultural relations.
Dr Li-Fen CHEN, Assistant Professor
Literary theories and criticism; fiction; modern literature.
Dr Cecilia Lee-Fang CHIEN, Assistant Professor
Premodern Chinese political economy, particularly of the Song period; Chinese cities and urbanisation; Chinese monopoly and bureaucracy; Chinese merchants.
Dr Chi-Cheung CHOI, Lecturer
Socio-economic history of China; South China and overseas Chinese settlements, including Hong Kong, Macau and South-east Asia; Chinese festivals and customs;
lineage and business in modern China.
Dr Tak-Sing KAM, Assistant Professor
Ming-Ch'ing history; Inner Asian history; Altaic Philology.
Dr Bockja KIM, Assistant Professor
Comparative philosophy of religion: Christianity and Buddhism; problem of spirituality and ethics; Greek philosophy of Plato and Aristotle; German Idealism; Wittgenstein.
Dr David Peter LAWRENCE, Assistant Professor
Comparative philosophy and philosophy of religion; problems of cross-cultural interpre- tation and relativism; monistic Kashmiri Saivism; Indian linguistic theory; Buddhist logic.
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Dr Hui-Shu LEE, Assistant Professor
Chinese painting, particularly that of the Song dynasty; gender and patronage at the Southem Sona court; 17th century loyalist painting and poetry; modem Chinese art of
Dr Siu-Leung LI, Assistant Professor
Traditional Chinese drama and theatre; comparative drama; gender studies;
postcolonialism; theories of East-West comparative literature.
Dr Ling-Tun NGAI, Assistant Professor
Modern and contemporary Chinese fiction; comparative literature; Chinese literature from Hong Kong and Macau.
Dr Jowen TUNG, Assistant Professor
Gender studies; cultural criticism; classical Chinese literature; modern poetry.
Dr Kam-Ming YIP, Visiting Lecturer
Comparative philosophy of language; history of Chinese philosophy; contemporary Chinese philosophy; methodology of thinking; analytic philosophy.
Siu-Woo CHEUNG, Assistant Lecturer
Ethnicity and ethno-historical processes in southern and southwest China; subject- identity construction and representation; anthropology of tourism; colonial and post- colonial studies.
Virgil K. Y. HO, Assistant Lecturer
Social and cultural history of modern Chinese city; perceptions and aspects of life in Republican Canton; social and cultural transformation in contemporary rural South China, with special reference to the Canton Delta region; historical anthropology of modern China.
Tik-Sang LIU, Assistant Lecturer
Family and kinship, Chinese popular religion and shamanism, marginal cultures and fluid societies, ethnicity, ecological anthropology, and visual anthropology.
Division of Social Science
DIVISION OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
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Division of Social Science seeks to accomplish three primary objectives.First, it aims at offering a rich, relevant and well-rounded body of courses designed to give undergraduate majors in the Schools of Science, Engineering and Business and Management an awareness of how a social science perspective can improve their understanding of the contemporary world. These courses should sharpen students' appreciation of the intricate linkages between science and technology on one hand and the human-ecological environment on the other, and also help them to relate their own career pursuits to the needs of society and the times, and include social, political and cultural considerations in their professional judgements. Second, the Division is building a strong postgraduate programme to equip students with essential theoretical, methodological, and substantive skills to conduct independent research. The faculty provides students with close supervision in their work, guides them in the implementa- tion of their research projects, and helps them to acquire standards of assessing their own workas well as that of others. Third, it is creating a centre of excellence in academic research and scholarly productivity. Faculty members maintain a lively intellectual environment where new ideas are explored, frontiers are pushed, and a genuine commitment made to contribute relevant, innovative, and significant scholarship to the social sciences.
Faculty
Professor and Acting Head of Division:
William T. LIU, BA St Thomas Coll; MA Notre Dame; PhD Florida State Professor:
Hsi-Sheng CH'I, BA Tunghai Taiwan; MA, PhD Chicago
(Dean of Humanities and Social Science, and Professor of Political Science) Visiting Professors:
Andrew G. WALDER, AB Johns Hopkins; PhD Michigan Kung-Chia YEH, LLB National Tsing Hua; PhD Columbia Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor:
Edward Jow-Ching TU, BA Chung-Hsing; MA Pennsylvania; PhD Tennessee Visiting Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor:
Jean C. 01, BA Indiana; PhD Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor Lecturers/Assistant Professors:
Kimberly A. CHANG, BA Hobart & William Smith; MS, MA, PhD Syracuse Jae Ho CHUNG, BA Seoul Nationat, MA Brown; PhD Univof Michigan, Ann Arbor X. L. DING, BS Hefei Polytechnic; MPhil Fudan; MA, PhD Harvard
Irene ENG, BA Univof California, Los Angeles; MS Univof Washington; PhD Univ of California, Los Angeles
Jesus FELIPE, BA UniversidadAutonoma de Madrid; MA lnt'l UnivofJapan; PhD Pennsylvania
Julian M. GROVES, BA Durham; MA, PhD Univ of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Gaochao HE, BA Beijing, MA Southern Illinois; PhD Chicago
Carsten A. HOLZ, Diplom Tuebingen; PhD Cornell
Ying Yi HONG, BA Chinese Univ of Hong Kong; MA, MPhil, PhD Columbia Yu Hung HONG, BBA Northwestern; MA, PhD Massachusetts lnst of Tech
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Alfred KO-Wei HU, BA, MA National Taiwan; PhD Chicago
James Kai-sing KUNG, BA Guelph; MA Queensland; MPhil, PhD Cambridge Yi-Min LIN. BA Huazhona Normal; MA Chi Acadof Social Sciences; MA, MPhil,
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Shiu Hing LO, BA York Univ, Toronto; MA Waterloo; PhD Toronto Zhongdong MA, BS Tsinghua; MA Beijing; PhD McMaster Mark Alan MONTGOMERY, AB Dartmouth C o t MALD, PhD Tufts
Govindan PARAYIL, BSc Calicut; MS Rensselaer Poly; MA American; PhD Viriginia Tech
Gerald R. PATCHELL, BA, MA Western Ontario; PhD Simon Fraser
Barry SAUTMAN, MLS, JD Univ of California, Los Angeles; LLM New York; PhD Columbia
De-Piao TANG, BA Tunghai Taiwan; MA Pennsylvannia; MPhil, PhD Columbia Tim Tian ZHU, BS Tsinghua; MA Beijing; PhD Northwestern
Assistant Lecturer:
Sung-Joon ROH, BSFS Sogang; MA Marquette; PhD Massachusetts lnstof Tech
Undergraduate Courses
The Division offers a range of electives in the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, political science, psychology and sociology. There are no prerequisites for most courses. Lectures, seminars and individual tutorials are utilised in most courses, and students are assessed by course work andlor written examinations.
Postgraduate Programmes and Research
Postgraduate programmes lead to the degrees of MPhil and PhD in the fields of anthropology, Chinese economics, demography, geography, political science, social psychology, and sociology. An MA programme in Social Science and an MA pro- gramme in Chinese Studies are also offered, the latter jointly with the Division of Humanities. Candidates for admission to postgraduate degrees should normally have good honours degrees in relevant disciplines. Those seeking admission to the PhD programme will generally be registered as MPhil students in the first instance, and subject to an upgrading review. Candidates for both MPhil and PhD degrees will attend such preparatory courses as are required, but the greater part of the work for each degree will be devoted to the preparation of a research thesis.
Master of Arts (MA) Programme in Chinese Studies
This is an inter-disciplinary programme jointly offered with the Division of Humanities. For details, please refer to page 252.
Master of Arts (MA) Programme in Social Science
The MA degree programme offers an interdisciplinaly Social Science curricu- lum for those seeking employment in business, government, mass media, and second-
The MA degree programme offers an interdisciplinaly Social Science curricu- lum for those seeking employment in business, government, mass media, and second-