The Faculty attracts and nurtures outstanding scholars and students from around the world through excellence and innovation in teaching, research and knowledge exchange. It provides a comprehensive, humanities and liberal arts research environment, and its strengths include world-class expertise in China-West studies, highly diverse and international academic staff, and a strong culture- and language-based curriculum.
We offer supervision in a wide range of areas of study, and details of the main areas are given below.
School of Chinese - Major Research Areas
Chinese language:
Phonology, etymology, semantics, grammar and rhetoric; Chinese dialects; language, society and culture.
Chinese literature:
Classical, modern and contemporary Chinese literature, including prose, poetry, fiction, drama; Chinese women’s literature and literary criticism, gender and sexuality in Ming and Qing literature.
Chinese history:
Political and intellectual Chinese history, China-West historical studies, history of Chinese cartography and historiography.
Chinese culture:
Traditional and twentieth-century Chinese culture, cross-cultural exchange, overseas sinology, history of Christianity and Chinese civilisation.
Chinese thought:
Chinese and comparative philosophy, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism.
Translation:
Translation studies, theories, and criticism; the linguistic and cultural dimensions of the translation practice, translators’ strategies, and translations of the Ming-Qing period.
School of English - Major Research Areas
English language and linguistics, and language and communication
Literary studies in English
School of Humanities - Major Research Areas
Comparative Literature
Fine Arts
History
Linguistics
Music
Philosophy
School of Modern Languages and Cultures - Major Research Areas
African Studies
American Studies
China Studies
European Studies
Global Creative Industries
Hong Kong Studies
Japanese Studies
Korean Studies
Centre for the Humanities and Medicine - Major Research Areas
History of medicine and health
Medical humanities
Communication and media
Humanitarian studies
