Welcome to the Anthropology Department
THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
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CURRENT RESEARCH
Research by department members reflects Hong Kong's role as a world entrepot and a hub of the economy and culture of East and Southeast Asia. Research projects focus on cultural life and society in mainland China and on the international and urban culture of Hong Kong, as well as on East and Southeast Asia and on complex societies throughout the world. Recent research includes:
- Hong Kong people's senses
of cultural identity in the years after Hong Kong's return to China:
What does it mean to "belong to a nation"?
- Inter-cultural interaction in China
- The conflict between national
culture and the global cultural supermarket in Japan, the United States,
and Hong Kong
- The generation gap in Japan today: reproducing a shaken social order.
- Chinese economic culture and development
- The origin of agriculture in China
- Prehistoric economic and natural environment in south China
- Selling soap to China: Global consumerism and the sources of desire
- Ainu Culture in transition
- Antiquarianism and cultural relics
- Traditional agricultural techniques and tools in China
- Tourism, conservation, and environmental politics
- Cooking up Hong Kong identity:
A study of tea cafes, yumcha, and Hakka restaurants
- Doufu: A study of beancurd consumption and globalization
- The globalization of Chinese food
- Globalizing local identity: Hong Kong immigrant families in Australia
- Migration and gendered identity:
Minnan women in Hong Kong, China and Southeast Asia
- Lineage, migration, and Chinese
networks: a study of emigrant communities in Quanzhou, Fujian
- Chinese popular religion in South China
- Festivals and religious traditions:
comparative study of the Yongchun Minnan people in China and in Malaysia
- The Tianhou/Mazu temple in the south China cultural sphere
