List of Awards for RGC General Research Fund (2011/12)

List of Awards for RGC General Research Fund (2011/12)

Department PI Project Title Award (HK$)
Centre for Applied English Studies Dr. W.L. Tsang The blessing or curse of multilingualism: Cross-linguistic influence amongst Cantonese, English and French 497,499
Centre of Buddhist Studies Ven. H.H. Sik Understanding Guangdong Buddhist Death Ritual in order to bring about a better understanding of the people of Hong Kong 250,360
Chinese Dr. C. Wu Pornography and the origins of early Chinese modernity in the late Ming, 1522-1680. 437,490
Chinese Dr. B. Yang Mediations of Expression: How "Exemplary Women" Wrote Their Emotions in 18th-and-19th-Century China 347,265
English Dr. K.H.Y. Chen Coming home as strangers: A sociolinguistic ethnography of transnational bilinguals in Hong Kong 572,642
English Dr. W.C.H. Gan Middlebrow China: Imagining China in early 20th century Britain 319,228
English Professor E.Y.L. Ho Anglophone Hong Kong Literature: Texts and Contexts 395,850
English Dr. L.L.S. Lim The ecology and evolution of Asian Englishes 391,262
Humanities (Comparative Literature) Dr. S.W. Ang Literary Ethics and the Problem of Race 251,081
Humanities (Comparative Literature) Dr. G. Marchetti Hong Kong Women Filmmakers: Sex, Politics and Cinema Aesthetics, 1997-2010 571,346
Humanities (Comparative Literature) Dr. E.C.M. Yau Transformative Witnessing and Everyday Ethics: A Study of Cultural Memory in Chinese Films and Public Discourse 598,553
Humanities (Fine Arts) Dr. R.L. Hammers Pictures of Tilling and Weaving and the early Qing emperors 259,114
Humanities (Fine Arts) Dr. G.M. Thomas The French and British Reception of Chinese Visual Arts at Yuanming Yuan, 1740-1900 446,668
Humanities (History) Professor F. Dikötter A Social History of the Early People's Republic of China, 1949-57 686,652
Humanities (History) Dr. R.S. Peckham Infective Economies: Plague and the Crisis of Empire 645,106
Humanities (History) Professor M.A. Sabine Twentieth-Century Woman Writer Rumer Godden: British-Indian Pilgrim on the Earth 434,591
Humanities (Linguistics) Dr. O.A. Zayts A Discourse Analytic Study of Telegenetic counseling in Hong Kong 608,918
Humanities (Music) Dr. Y. Kim Convergence and/or Dialogue: Music Theory and Psychology in Fin-de-Siecle Germany 515,000
Humanities (Philosophy) Dr. G.A. Cook Œuvres complètes of J.J. Rousseau--Botany 732,984
Modern Languages & Cultures (Japanese Studies) Dr. Y. Nakano Japanese Memories in Hong Kong: Oral History Interviews with the Pioneers who Introduced Japanese Products and Services to Hong Kong 297,981
Modern Languages & Cultures (Modern China Studies) Professor L.P. Edwards Bodily Movements and Dress Sense: Kinaesthesia and Modernity in China 510,455

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