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香港中文大學歷史系
Department of History, CUHK
Address: Room 131, 1/F, Fung King Hey Building,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
B.A. Programme:  histug@cuhk.edu.hk

M.A. Programme: 

macph@cuhk.edu.hk
M.Phil. & Ph.D. Programme:  hisdiv@cuhk.edu.hk
General Enquiry: history@cuhk.edu.hk

Research Students

M.Phil. Students 2026-27
CHAN Yuk Hei
Research Interest
  • History of Modern China
  • Mass Media and Social Culture
  • Politics of Emotion and Everyday Life
  • State-Society Relations
CHEUNG Kit Yee
Research Interest
  • China Neolithic Archaeology
  • Pottery Analysis
  • Settlement Archaeology
CHU Hung Kiu
GAO Tianze
Research Interest
  • Ming-Qing Social and Cultural History
  • Chinese Urban History
  • The Jiangnan Region in China’s Modern Transformation
HO Wing Yan
Research Interest
  • History of the Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties
  • History of Political
HU Lei
Research Interest
  • Modern Chinese History
  • Historical Anthropology
  • Overseas Chinese and Local Society in Southeast China
LAI Tak Hei
Research Interest
  • Imperial Examination Studies
  • Studies of Policy Questions and Evidential Research
  • Historical Textual Criticism and Transmission
  • Ming-Qing History
LI Kin Wa
Research Interest
  • Ukrainian Studies
  • Early Modern History
  • History of Christianity
LIN Fung Tat
Research Interest
  • Hong Kong History
  • Cultural History
  • Politics and Tourism
LIU Jiajun
Research Interest
  • Chinese Intellectual History
  • Song Political History
  • Song Reform Movements
LIU Kwan
Research Interest
  • Medieval Studies
  • Byzantine Studies
  • Balkan Studies
NG Ka Fung
Research Interest
  • Hong Kong History 
  • (Mixed) Race Studies 
  • Gender History 
  • East Asian Maritime History
PARDO PEREZ Carlos
Research Interest
  • Iberian empires in East/South-East Asia
  • Early Modern Period/Modern Period
  •  Spain and Philippines Relations
  • Art, Religious and Legal-political Transcultural, Translation and Globalization Interactions
SANG Jinchen
Research Interest
  • Regional Society
  • Modern Chinese Society   
  • Industry and Immigration
WANG Biqing
Research Interest
  • Colonial History of the Dutch East Indies
  • Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia
  • Monetary History
WEN Tianyang
Research Interest
  • Urban Social History of Modern China
  • Historical Anthropology
  • Folk Historical Documents and Local Society of North China
WU Zirui
Research Interest

  • Frontier History of Early Southwest China

  • History of Political Culture and Violence

  • Inter-ethnic Relations

YAO Jin You
Research Interest
  • Conceptual History of Confucianism
  • History of Neo-Confucianism in the Southern Song Dynasty
  • Regional History
YIU Wai Pong
Research Interest
  • Western Zhou History
  • Early Chinese Regional History
  • Ethnic Interactions and Identity
  • Early Chinese Archaeology
ZHANG Xinyao
Research Interest
  • Social and Economic History
  • Japanese History
  • Northeast Asian History in Early Modern Period
  • Diplomacy and International Relations
Ph.D. Students 2026-27
CHEN Junlin
Research Interest
  • Middle Period Chinese Culture and Religious
  • History of Chinese Chan Buddhism
  • History of Tang and Song Dynasties
HOU Menglun
Research Interest
  • History of Mongol-Yuan Period
  • Historical Anthropology
  • Regional History
  • Religions and Rituals in the Mongol-Yuan Period
HUANG Xiadong
Research Interest
  • History of the Indian Ocean
  • Global Tropical Islands
  • History of South China and Southeast Asia
  • Colonial Empires
  • Creolisation
JONG Woan Shieng
Research Interest
  • Song-Jin Diplomatic History
  • Song Political History
  • Malaysian-Singaporean Classical Chinese Poetry History
LI Dongzhi
Research Interest
  • Ming–Qing Social History
  • Regional History of China
  • Chinese Legal History
LI King Kwan
Research Interest
  • History of the Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties
MAO Xiaorui
Research Interest
  • Borderland, Resources, and Immigration
  • Environmental History
  • Qing State and Society
  • Early Modern Period (19th century)
MONTERO Claudia Isabelle Violeta
Research Interest
  • Architecture, Urban, and Planning History
  • Public History
  • Built Heritage, and Heritage Conservation Practice
  • Monuments, Memorials, and Memory Culture
PEI Xiaoshan
Research Interest
  • History of Qing Empire
  • History of Institutions
  • The Animal History
RAMIREZ GONZALEZ Esteban
Research Interest
  • Pre-Modern World History
  • Political Economy
SHU Yue
Research Interest
  • Early Chinese Military and Social History
  • History of Violence
  • Visual Culture Studies
TU Junfeng
Research Interest
  • History of Political Culture in the Ming Dynasty
  • Military History of the Ming Dynasty
  • Research on Ming–Mongol Relations
WATERHOUSE Isaac Joseph
Research Interest
  • History of Hong Kong
  • History of Buddhism
  • Institutional Religion and Society
  • Minnan History and Culture
XIAO Bingyi
Research Interest
  • The French Revolution
  • Cultural History
  • Women’s History
  • Citizenship
XU Suxia
Research Interest
  • Historical Anthropology
  • Regional History
  • Ritual and Institution
XU Yijie
Research Interest
  • Medicine, Medical Technology and Society in Modern China
  • Microhistory
YANG Xinhui
Research Interest
  • Women’s History in Tang and Song China
  • Social History
  • History of the Body
YANG Yunfei
Research Interest
  • History of Song China (960–1279)
  • Chinese Historiography
  • Daoxue (The Learning of Way) and Politics
  • Images and Representations of Historical Figures
ZHANG Junlong
Research Interest
  • History in Contemporary China
  • History in Modern China
  • Military History
ZHU Lizhen
Research Interest
  • Ming and Qing History
  • Regional Society
ZOU Chi
Research Interest
  • Ming and Qing History
  • Historical Anthropology
  • Study of Local Historical Documents
ZOU Ningning
Research Interest
  • Pre-modern World History
  • Comparative History
Address: Room 131, 1/F, Fung King Hey Building,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
B.A. Programme:  histug@cuhk.edu.hk

M.A. Programme: 

macph@cuhk.edu.hk
M.Phil. & Ph.D. Programme:  hisdiv@cuhk.edu.hk
General Enquiry: history@cuhk.edu.hk
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