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People Visiting Scholars

Dr. Diki Sherpa

Dr. Diki Sherpa, is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Knowledge Alternatives, School of Social Sciences, FLAME University, India. She holds a Ph.D. in History from The Chinese University of Hong Kong where she explored how governing …


People Visiting Scholars

Dr. Rosaria Franco

Rosaria Franco is an Assistant Professor in Modern History at the Chinese campus of the University of Nottingham. Her research is situated at the intersection of history of childhood, refugee history, and the history of empires and colonialism. She is …


People Visiting Scholars

Samuel Lai

Samuel Lai is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS, University of London. His research focuses on Hong Kong foodways, in particular caacaanteng (cha chan teng; tea restaurant) and its multiple facades of cuisine, operation, skill …


People Visiting Scholars

Kachun Alex Wong

Kachun Alex Wong is a PhD Candidate in Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto. His dissertation is supported by SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship (2024-6). His dissertation, tentatively titled “Categorizing Housing: Rural, village, and indigenous housing in the New …


People Visiting Scholars

Yuwei Fu

Yuwei FU is currently a PhD student at the history department of Lingnan University, where her research focuses on the shaping of Hong Kong identity in postwar years. Before joining Lingnan University, she received an MSc in History of International …


People Visiting Scholars

Junwei Li

Junwei Li is a PhD student from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research delves into the colonial government’s regulations on density management in 1950s-60s Hong Kong. These regulations and laws significantly shaped the high-density housing landscape we see …


People Visiting Scholars

Ryan Choi

Ryan Choi is a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on Chinese-language collaborationist literature in Japanese-occupied Hong Kong (1941-1945). Through a critical analysis of documentary and literary texts published in newspapers and periodicals, as well as …


Alumni People

Dr. Wai Li Chu

The Cold War and Sino-British negotiations over Hong Kong’s future, 1979-1984

Wai Li Chu obtained his MPhil at the Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University, before coming to study at Bristol. His project examines the wider contexts of the …


Alumni People

Dr. Thomas M. Larkin

I started at Bristol in 2017 as an affiliate of the Hong Kong History Project, funded by the Augustine Heard Studentship. This award provided the support to live and study in the UK, and a generous allowance for overseas research, …


Alumni People

Dr. Josepha C. Richard

Josepha Richard is an art historian and historian of 18-19th century China, with a specific interest in studying the art of Chinese gardens, early Sino-Western interactions and the urban, social and art history of the city of Guangzhou (Canton). Her …


Dr. Diki Sherpa, is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Knowledge Alternatives, School of Social Sciences, FLAME University, India. She holds a Ph.D. in History from The Chinese University of Hong Kong where she explored how governing …


Rosaria Franco is an Assistant Professor in Modern History at the Chinese campus of the University of Nottingham. Her research is situated at the intersection of history of childhood, refugee history, and the history of empires and colonialism. She is …


Samuel Lai is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS, University of London. His research focuses on Hong Kong foodways, in particular caacaanteng (cha chan teng; tea restaurant) and its multiple facades of cuisine, operation, skill …


Kachun Alex Wong is a PhD Candidate in Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto. His dissertation is supported by SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship (2024-6). His dissertation, tentatively titled “Categorizing Housing: Rural, village, and indigenous housing in the New …


Yuwei FU is currently a PhD student at the history department of Lingnan University, where her research focuses on the shaping of Hong Kong identity in postwar years. Before joining Lingnan University, she received an MSc in History of International …


Junwei Li is a PhD student from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research delves into the colonial government’s regulations on density management in 1950s-60s Hong Kong. These regulations and laws significantly shaped the high-density housing landscape we see …


Ryan Choi is a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on Chinese-language collaborationist literature in Japanese-occupied Hong Kong (1941-1945). Through a critical analysis of documentary and literary texts published in newspapers and periodicals, as well as …


The Cold War and Sino-British negotiations over Hong Kong’s future, 1979-1984

Wai Li Chu obtained his MPhil at the Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University, before coming to study at Bristol. His project examines the wider contexts of the …


I started at Bristol in 2017 as an affiliate of the Hong Kong History Project, funded by the Augustine Heard Studentship. This award provided the support to live and study in the UK, and a generous allowance for overseas research, …


Josepha Richard is an art historian and historian of 18-19th century China, with a specific interest in studying the art of Chinese gardens, early Sino-Western interactions and the urban, social and art history of the city of Guangzhou (Canton). Her …