Congratulations to Dr. CHAN Hok Yin being awarded the Collaborative Research Fund 2022/23 under UGC for his cross-institutional large-scale research project

Dr. CHAN Hok Yin, Co-Principal Investigator of the proposed cross-institutional large-scale research project “Lingnan Culture and the World: Construction and Change in the Cultural Landscape of Cantonese Literati from the Late Qing to the Republican Era in China (1821-1949)”, is awarded the Collaborative Research Fund 2022/23 under UGC.  

The project examines the construction and evolution of the Lingnan culture as seen in the lives and experiences of 150 key Cantonese literati and merchant-gentry of the late Qing to Republican era (1821–1949). In the next three years, Dr. CHAN will collaborate with scholars from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, and The Education University of Hong Kong to conduct the research.