Visiting researchers play a key role in the Faculty’s global outlook, fostering connections between HKU Arts and institutions worldwide. The Faculty of Arts at HKU warmly welcomes visiting researchers whose work enriches our vibrant intellectual community. Each year, we host scholars from around the world who contribute to our research culture, collaborate with our faculty, and engage with our students.
- Professor Wang Fan-Sen - Sin Wai Kin Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities
- Professor Ma Min
- Professor Dominic Sachsenmaier
- Chair Professor Don Kulick
Professor Wang Fan-sen (王汎森, b. 1958) is a Taiwanese historian specializing in China’s cultural and intellectual history from the late Ming to early Republican periods. He earned his Ph.D. in East Asian Studies from Princeton University and has held key positions at Academia Sinica, including Director of the Institute of History and Philology and Vice President. Since 2022, he serves as President of the Taiwan Comprehensive University System. Wang’s influential publications include Fu Ssu-nien: A Life in Chinese History and Politics and The Genealogy of Modern Chinese Thought. He is an Academician of Academia Sinica and a Humboldt Research Award recipient.
Professor Ma Min is a professor in the Institute of Modern Chinese History, Central China Normal University (Wuhan). He is a historian whose research field is modern Chinese history, including the history of the Revolution of 1911, the history of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, the history of Chinese expositions, and the history of Protestant missions in China. His main publications consist of Between the Government and Merchants: Gentry-Merchants in Social Upheaval in Modern China (1995); Transitional Formation: The Mystery of the Composition of Early Chinese Bourgeoisie (1993); General History of the Chamber of Commerce in China (2015, chief editor); Christianity and the Culture Integration of West and East (2013), etc. At HYI as a visiting scholar, he will work on the project on the history of a female medical missionary in Chengdu whose name is Marian E. Manly, which intends to combine medical missionary history, family history, social history, and oral history to tell a story about the close relationship and mutual love between Chinese and American folks in 1920s-1940s
Dominic Sachsenmaier holds a chair professorship in “Modern China with a Special Emphasis on Global Historical Perspectives”, and he currently serves as the director of the Department for East Asian Studies at Göttingen University. Dominic Sachsenmaier’s main current research interests include China’s transnational and global connections in the past and present. Furthermore, he has published in fields such as Chinese concepts of society, the global contexts of European history and multiple modernities. For instance, he authored the monographs “Global Perspectives on Global History” (Cambridge UP, 2011), and “Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled” (Columbia UP, 2018). Dominic Sachsenmaier serves as the president of the US-based Toynbee Prize Foundation, and he is an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Professor Don Kulick is a Swedish anthropologist and linguist, currently Distinguished University Professor at Uppsala University and Visiting Chair Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He is renowned for his research on language, sexuality, gender, disability, and vulnerability. Kulick’s notable works include Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes, Loneliness and Its Opposite, and A Death in the Rainforest, which examines language loss in Papua New Guinea. His current "Engaging Vulnerability" program explores how vulnerability shapes social life and power. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and is recognized as a leading queer theorist.
