School of Humanities and Social Science Annual Newsletter 2018

Visiting Faculty

New Appointments

AnnuAl

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D e a n ’ s M e s s a g e

F a c u l t y

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fter serving as Head of the Division of Social Science (SOSC) for the past five years, I am honored and re-energized by the

opportunity to lead the School of Humanities and Social Science (SHSS). Since assuming the deanship on July 1, my priority has been to get to know colleagues in the Division of Humanities (HUMA) and the Center for Language Education (CLE), and re-configuring our space to foster school-wide identity and collegiality. The faculty, staff, and students of SHSS bring diverse

strengths to our community. This newsletter provides highlights from the 2017-18 academic year. I look forward to working with you in the forthcoming ones. Stay posted for renovations to our space and more events to bring us together.

Mr Thomas Chan Lecturer II

CLE

Prof Stuart

Gietel-Basten Associate Professor SOSC/PPOL Ms May Liao Lecturer II CLE Dr Xiaolu Ma Assistant Professor HUMA

ProfKira Matus

Associate Professor PPOL/SOSC DrJia Miao Research Assistant Professor SOSC Dr Nicholas Sampson Lecturer I CLE MsKasina Wong Lecturer II CLE Dr Daniel Amos Fulbright Scholar Washington State Department of Health 2 August 2017 - 19 June 2018 Dr Nahum Brown Postdoctoral Fellow University of Macau September 2017 - May 2018 Prof Frederick Damon Professor UVA 19 June-24 July 2018 Dr Guangtian Ha Postdoctoral Research Fellow

School of Oriental and African Studies University of London

Prof Krishan Kumar University Professor UVA

19 June-25 July 2018 Dr Dechao Li PhD, HUMA

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology January - June 2018 Prof Katya Makarova Associate Professor UVA

19 June-25 July 2018 Prof Rehav Rubin Elman Family Visiting Professor,

Hebrew University 27 August - 23 December 2017

Prof Yuzhong Zhao Professor

Honors

Prof Naubahar Sharif

Appointed to the HK Government’s Advisory Committee on Mental Health

Prof Billy So

Appointed HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) Senior Fellow

Prof Agnes Ku

A photo exhibition: Where Time Turns Black

Received a Bronze Prize (Book/Fine Art) in the Tokyo International Foto Awards, 2017

Prof Xiaogang Wu

Appointed inaugural president of the International Chinese Sociological Association

(formerly, the North American Chinese Sociologists Association) Prof Carine Yiu

Awarded a Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholars Fellowship, 2018-2019

Farewell to Faculty

Ms Sue Chang Instructor CLE

Prof Xueliang Ding Professor Emeritus SOSC

Mr Keven Kasten Instructor

CLE

Prof James Kung Professor Emeritus SOSC

Mr Mike Ladao Senior Lecturer CLE

Prof Deborah Sang Professor HUMA Dr Leo West Instructor CLE Dr Claudia Wong Senior Lecturer CLE

Prof Raymond Wong Professor

SOSC

c o n g r a t u l a t i o n s !

Promotions

Prof Yongshun Cai Chair Professor SOSC Ms Delian Gaskell Senior Lecturer CLE Mr Levi Lam Lecturer I CLE

Prof Yi-min Lin Full Professor SOSC MsIvy Sek

Senior Lecturer CLE

Prof Jin Wang

Associate Professor SOSC

Prof Xiaogang Wu

Chair Professor SOSC

Social Network Analysis: Methods and Examples Gao Xingjian and Transmedia Aesthetics

Why Demography Matters Oxford University Press, 2017

Xueliang Ding

政治與中國特色的幽默

Dancing with the Devil: The Political Economy of Privatization in China Oxford University Press, 2017

Yi-min Lin

Polity, 2018 Stuart Gietel-Basten and

Danny Dorling

Oxford University Press, 2017 Jianmei Liu and

Mabel Lee

SAGE, 2017 Song Yang, Franziska B. Keller, Lu Zheng

Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-century German Thought

London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017 Eric S. Nelson

c r e a t i v e a r t s a t s H s s - H i g H l i g H t s

Intimacy of

Creativity 2018

HKUSTMA Curtis Institute of

Music Partnership

Summer Musical 2018

Singin’ in the Rain

Intimacy of Creativity 2018

World Premiere Concert

USIC

Music faculty

M

Prof Jianmei Liu organized a series of creative writing and film events, including

“Science Fiction and its Variations in The Sinophone World” 30 - 31 May 2018

Talks featuring Profs Lianke Yan and Zaifu Liu 2 March 2018

HUMA film course showcase 11 April 2018

c r e a t i v e W r i t i n g

Prof Eva Chen and Ms Irene Ng were awarded the SHSS Teaching Award

at Congregation in November 2017 SHSS has: 286 Graduate students 315 undergraduate majors

t e a c H i n g

Isaac Droscha Lecturer I Matthew Tommasinii

Associate Artistic Director Associate Professor of Humanities Practice in Music Education Ilaria Kalia Lecturer I Bright Sheng

IAS Helmut and Anna Sohmen Professor-at-Large

General Research Fund Projects

Cameron Campbell

SOSC

Family Background Influences on the Appointment and Career Mobility of Qing Officials With Examination Degrees

Ji Yeon Hong

SOSC

Resource-Driven Development and Social Welfare under Dictatorship

Yi-min Lin

SOSC

Contractual Dispute Settlement under Corrupt Court

Jianmei Liu

HUMA

A Visual Poetry: The Aesthetics of Chinese Cine-Poems

Kira Matus

PPOL/SOSC

Innovation and Access to Technology for Sustainable Development: The Role of Public Policy Actors

Jenny Smith

HUMA

Refugee Camps: A Global History

Duoduo Xu

SOSC

Socioeconomic Segregation, School Choice, and Geography of Educational Inequality in Hong Kong

Michelle Yik

SOSC

Do Happiness and Sadness Co-occur in Everyday Life? An Experience-sampling and Cross-cultural Study

F a c u lt y e x t e r n a l

r e s e a r c H g r a n t s

2 0 1 8 - 2 0 1 9

Lawrence Zhang

HUMA

Money and Politics in Late Imperial China: Office Purchase and Career Entry, Promotion, and Exit in the Qing Civil Service

UGC Teaching & Learning Grants

Nigel Huckstep

CLE

Hong Kong Continuing Professional Development Hub - joint project led by HKU

Sean McMinn

CLE

Developing and Promoting Digital Literacies for Effective English Communication: The Multimodal Online Digital Literacy Lab (MODLL) - joint project with HKU

Keith Tong and Elza Tsang

CLE

Language Enhancement for Capstone Projects Using Interactive Apps - joint project led by HKPolyU

Claudia Wong

CLE

Mastering the Technical Vocabulary of STEM - joint project with HKPolyU led by HKUST

Non-UGC Grants

Stuart Gietel-Basten

SOSC

Beat Drugs Fund Association 2017-18

A Multilevel Analysis of the Demography of Drug Abuse in Hong Kong

Professional Services Advancement Support Scheme from the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau of HKSAR

Developing Capacity and International Co-operation in Therapeutic Landscape Architecture for an Ageing Population

20

Research Post-graduate students HUMA

5

MPhil

5

PhD students SOSC

5

MPhil

5

PhD students, including

2

Hong Kong PhD Fellows

214

Taught Post-graduate students

60

MSc Global China Studies students including 14 3+1 students Bachelor’s/MSc pathway from

Nanjing University, Shandong University, Sichuan University, Sun Yat-sen University, and Xiamen University

66

new MA in International Language Education students

23 students concentrating in Teaching English

as Second Language specialized concentration

43 students concentrating in Teaching

Chinese as Second Language

41

new MA in Chinese Culture students

47

new MA in Social Science students

95

Undergraduates

60

new Global China Studies (GCS) and

35

Quantitative Social Analysis (QSA) students joined us in fall 2018

We now have

601

full-time (including beyond-time) UG and PG students, an increase of

73

students from the previous year.

SOSC launched a new UG Major in 2017-18: Quantitative social analysis

Entering 2018 GCS students will have a choice between an Integrated Humanities and Social Science track, or a Social Science track.

M a s t e r s i n

i n t e r n at i o n a l l a n g u a g e

e D u c at i o n ( M a i l e )

SHSS launched a dual degree program in language teaching with the USC Rossier School of Education.

s H s s s u M M e r

g l o b a l s e M i n a r s

125

students enrolled this summer along with 11 secondary school students from St. Paul’s Convent

HKUST

86

China

14

UVA

13

Warwick

10

Leiden

2

10

teachers attended shadow teaching from Shanghai International Studies (SISU)

3

Shanghai Jiaotong U (SJTU)

2

Shandong U (SDU)

2

Beijing Foreign Studies U (BFSU)

2

1

Approximately 300 UG, TPG and RPG students graduated from SHSS in 2018.

This year’s graduating GCS class of 59 students include 5 students with First Class Honors.

Thanks to our International and Mainland Programs and UG Program Service and Advising Offices, as well as the support of an outside donor,

69 percent

of our 2018 UG graduates had a Mainland and/or International learning/internship experience of at least one term abroad.

s t u D e n t g r a D u a t i o n

PhD Program Placement of MPhil Graduates

HuMa Mian Chen History Northwestern University Yiming Ha History UCLA Min Qiao HUMA HKUST Yingfang Wang Philosophy Chinese University of Hong Kong Yiqiao Wang History Chinese University of Hong Kong

Tung Tin Wong

HUMA HKUST Huanyu Yue Comparative Literature Washington University, St. Louis Xiuwen Zhu Law Chinese University of Hong Kong sosc Zheng Fu Sociology Columbia University Xincheng Ge Political Science New York University

Jingyang Huang

SOSC HKUST

Siqin Kang

Politics and Political Administration

University of Hong Kong

Mingtang Liu

Sociology

Johns Hopkins University

Yao Lu Sociology UC Davis Vivien Pong SOSC HKUST Yunzhu Ren SOSC HKUST (HKPFS awardee) Jiaxin Shi Demography

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research Qingyan Wang Political Science University of Georgia

2018 Academic Placements

HuMa graduates

Dr Law Shun Man Humanities

Lecturer

Hong Kong Polytechnic University Dr Rongkun Zhang Philosophy Jiliang University China sosc graduates Mr Huang Bin (MPhil graduate) Research Assistant HKUST

Dr Hoi Wing Chan (PhD graduate) Teaching Assistant HKUST Dr Lingwei Wu Assistant Professor Economics University of Bonn

M a j o r c o n F e r e n c e s / W o r k s H o p s

HUMA hosted a workshop,

“Dignity in Critical and Comparative Perspective” 27 June 2018

SOSC and IEMS co-hosted the 5th Annual Meeting of the International Consortium for China Studies,

“China’s Developmental Challenges and Opportunities 19th Party Congress” 25 - 26 June 2018

SHSS and The Centre for Studies in Demography & Ecology of University of Washington co-hosted a conference,

“China in Time and Space: G. William Skinner’s Ideas Going Forward”

20 - 22 June 2018

HUMA and IAS co-hosted a conference, “Science Fiction and Its Variations in the Sinophone World”

30 - 31 May 2018

Further Academic Study

20 percent of our PG students—including nearly all graduating MPhil students and 3+1 MSc student— go on to further academic study.

In 2018, 18 SHSS MPhil graduates advanced to PhD programs: 8 in USA, 5 at HKUST, 4 at other Hong Kong Universities, and 1 in Germany.

s t u D e n t

p u b l i c a t i o n s

In 2017-2018, SHSS PG students, published articles in scholarly journals, including the International

Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, Stedelijk Studies, and Chinese journals such

as 當代電影. They also published chapters in academic volumes including English language books published by World Scientific and Palgrave Macmillan.

s p e c i a l t H a n k s

2 0 1 8 - 1 9 s H s s e x e c u t i v e c o M M i t t e e

A leader with vision, creativity, and an uncompromising drive for

excellence, Prof James Lee elevated SHSS’s global reputation through new degree programs, creative arts opportunities, international partnerships, and an innovative on-line curriculum in Global China Studies. We are fortunate that Prof Lee will remain on our faculty, jointly appointed in SOSC and HUMA, through 2023.

Mr Mervyn Cheung served with great dedication as School Administrator over the past 29 years. We wish him the best in his retirement.

Kellee Tsai

Dean

School of Humanities and Social Science

Cameron Campbell

Acting Head of Division of Social Science

Christian Daniels

Head of Division of Humanities

Keith Tong

Associate Dean and Director of CLE

Yongshun Cai

Associate Dean for Post-graduate Programs

Joshua Derman

Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education

Stuart Gietel-Basten

Associate Dean for Research

Prof James Lee

Dean of Humanities and Social Science, 2009-2018

s H s s a D M i n i s t r a t i v e s t a F F

Ms Vicky Fu

shvicky@ust.hk

Space (including cyberspace)

Ms Connie Leung shconnie@ust.hk Finance/budgetary issues Dr Bai Lian shbai@ust.hk International/mainland programs Ms Mandy Sin shmandy@ust.hk

Faculty affairs (recruitment, appointments, research, promotion)

Ms Clara So shycs@ust.hk

Scheduling meetings with DHSS

Ms Christine Tang shchristine@ust.hk General administration

F o r t H c o M i n g

New SHSS UG Commons

New SHSS community space by the dean’s suite Searches for full professors and divisional heads HKUST Music Alive!: Meg Sterling (Principal Flute, HKPhil)@HKUST(CYT LTL)

8:00 pm, 8 October 2018

SHSS Graduation Ceremony and Alumni Reunion 2018 (IAS Building Lobby, 5/F Reception Area)

1:00 pm, 15 November 2018

Please join us on

15 November

for the

SHSS Graduation Ceremony and Alumni Reunion,

IAS Atrium, 1pm

HKUST Music Alive!: Bright Sheng and 6-Wire@ HKUST - Celebrating the Naming of the

President of HKUST 8:00 pm, 15 November 2018

HKUST Alumni Reunion: HKUST Summer Musical Performance and Workshop (CYT LTL) 2:30 pm, 24 November 2018

HUMA Music Course Showcase Fall 2018 (featuring students of HUMA3102, 3150, 2103, and 3101) (CYT LTL)