Postgraduate Students’ Research
| Students | Research Topics | Supervisor |
| LIANG, Guang | Constructing Pragmatic Function Map Based on Japanese Apologetic Expressions | Professor Ho Chi Ming |
| LEUNG, Ming Tak Ernest | Method in Madness, Hope in Despair: Planism and the East Asian Social Engineering State – A General Survey, 1906-1960 | Professor Jeremy Yellen |
| GUAN, Yingyin (Joann) | “People’s Diplomacy” in China-Japan Relations 1949-1958 | Professor Jeremy Yellen |
| CHO, Chi Hang (Harry) | The Dissemination and Influence of Mao Zedong Thought in Japan during the Cultural Revolution (1966 – 1976) | Professor Ng Wai Ming |
| Students | Research Topics | Supervisor |
| LEUNG, Po Yan (Adeline) | The Transnational Consumption of Japanese Games: Digital Culture of Animal Crossing New Horizons Players in Hong Kong and Taiwan | Professor Nana Okura Gagne |
| WONG, Chun Hin (Michael) | Yue (Musical) in Tokugawa Confucianism | Professor Ng Wai Ming |
| LAU, Tsui Shuen (Chris) | Imagining Homeland: Landscape, Locality, and Nationhood in Modern Japan,1881-1945 | Professor Jeremy Yellen |
| HUANG, Ying (Wing) | Cultural Production and Fan Consumption in Contemporary China: Navigating State and Market | Professor Lynne Nakano |
| Students | Research Topics | Supervisor |
| CHIU, Wai Keung (Aiden) | Fandom in the Digital Age: The Online Consumption of Japanese Virtual YouTubers | Professor Nana Okura Gagne |
| JIANG, Keyi | Clashing Asianisms: Li Dazhao and Yoshino Sakuzō in China-Japan Relations | Professor Jeremy Yellen |
| CAIRNS-DORAN, David Alexander | Journey to the Clouds: The Practical and Ritual Dimensions of Mountain Use in Japan | Professor Lynne Nakano |
| Students | Research Topics | Supervisor |
| TAN, Tiantian (Tina) | The Localization of Confucian Funeral Rituals in Edo Japan | Prof. Ng Wai Ming |
| LAM, Pui Lim (Anson) | Japanese Theatre in Modern Hong Kong (1980-2019) : A Historical and Anthropological Study | Prof. Ng Wai Ming |
| Students | Research Topics | Supervisor |
| SIU, Ho Ming Jacky | Shintō – Confucian Syncretism in Hayashi Razan’s Thought | Prof. Ng Wai Ming |
| TU, Shiu Hong Simon | Revitalizing Japan’s Periphery through an International Art Festival: A Multi-Sited Ethnography of the Setouchi Triennale | Prof. Lynne Nakano |
| WU, Zeduan (Duan) | A Contrastive Study on Chinese and Japanese Degree-Modifying Strategies in Complaint | Prof. Ho Chi Ming |
| Students | Research Topics | Supervisor |
| LO, Chun Man (Rico) | Acquisition of Japanese conditional by Hong Kong Japanese learners – From elementary to advanced level | Prof. Ho Chi Ming |
| LEE, Wai Kim (William) | On Localization of Romance of the Three Kingdoms in Edo Japan: Case studies on Tsūzoku sangokushi, Ehon Tsūzoku sangokushi, and Fuzoku sangokushi | Prof. Ng Wai Ming |
| Students | Research Topics | Supervisor |
| FAN, Ching Wan, Cirrus (Kumo) | Cheer Groups (Ōendan) in Japanese Universities: Finding Meaning through Discipline, Commitment and Performance | Prof. Lynne Nakano |
| DING, Yiruo (Stella) | Kyokutei Bakin and The Chinese Four Great Masterpieces | Prof. Ng Wai Ming |
| LEUNG, Ming Tak Ernest | The Role of State Socialism in Early Developmentalist East Asia: Nishihara Kamezō’s ‘Strategy for Economic State-Building’ and Beyond | Prof. Jeremy Yellen |
| Students | Research Topics | Supervisor |
| LIN, Chaochun (Chalyn) | Honda Shigeyuki’s Study and Contribution on the History of Chinese Classics | Prof. Ng Wai Ming |
| Students | Research Topics | Supervisor |
| SKUTLIN, John Michael | Japan, Ink(ed): Tattooing as Decorative Body Modification in Japan | Prof. Lynne Nakano |
| LEE, Wilson Wai Shing | Learning from the Rising Sun: The Japanese Presence in Hong Kong in the 1970s and 1980s | Prof. Ng Wai Ming |
| WONG, Yee Lam Elim | Inheritance and the Transformation of the Cantonese Migrants in Yokohama Chinatown from the 1860s to the Present: A Case Study on Shatenki and the Xie Family | Prof. Ng Wai Ming |
| LEE, Lok Hang Phoebe | Lesbian Single Women in Tokyo: Identity, Relationships and Community in a Heteronormative Society | Prof. Lynne Nakano |
| TOMSOVIC, Philip Devin | The Emergence of Men’s Magazines in 1960s Japan | Prof. Jeremy Yellen |
| Students | Research Topics | Supervisor |
| POON, Ka Tsun Keith | Gendered Fantasies and Transcultural Fandoms: Japanese Boys’ Love Subculture in Hong Kong | Prof. Lynne Nakano |
| Students | Research Topics | Supervisor |
| SUN Qing | A New Generation of Young Female Chinese Migrants in Japan: A Study of their Motivations, Challenges, and Plans | Prof. Lynne Nakano |
| CHI Chung-yen | 日本帝國下日本與臺灣之治安法律比較研究：以臺灣人的法律地位為中心 | Prof. Ng Wai Ming |
| TSANG Tsz Wai | Japanese Elite Class Mothers in a Globalized World: A Study of Japanese Expatriate Mothers in Hong Kong | Prof. Lynne Nakano |
| YAO Jie | Images of Japan in the Ming Pao in the Last Two Decades (1994-2014) | Prof. Ng Wai Ming |
| DING Yiruo | 源義經在德川時代的歷史及文藝想像 | Prof. Ng Wai Ming |
| Students | Research Topics | Supervisor |
| John M. SKUTLIN | Turning Goth in Japan: Subcultural Identity, Ritual, and Self-Expression | Prof. Lynne Nakano |
| TAM, Siu Man | Reading Murakami Novels in Hong Kong : The Search for Meaning in an Advanced Capitalist Society | Prof. Lynne Nakano |
| Students | Research Topics | Supervisor |
| LIN Chao Chun | 岡倉天心的中國文化觀:形成, 內涵及亞洲主義的定位 | Prof. Ng Wai MIng |
| WONG Yee Lam | Chinese Education and Changing Cultural Identities among the Overseas Chinese in Modern Japan: A Study of Yokohama Overseas Chinese Women’s Association (YOCWA) in Yokohama Chinatown. | Prof. Ng Wai Ming |
| Students | Research Topics | Supervisor |
| CHANG Haixia | 中国中上级日语专业学生对于改定常用汉字的习得及认知情况 | Prof. Ho Chi Ming |
| LEE Wai Shing | 日治時期香港醫療衛生史的歷史考察: 以香港日報為主要參考 | Prof. Ng Wai Ming |
| Students | Research Topics | Supervisor |
| CHENG Connie | A Study of Hong Kong Young Adults Going to Japan on | Prof. Ng Wai Ming |
| NG Ka Shing | Soka Gakkai in Hong Kong: Localizing a Japanese New Religion in a Chinese Community | Prof. Ng Wai Ming |
| Students | Research Topics | Supervisor |
| SUN Lin | How Young People Find Meaning through Fandom and Consumer Culture | Prof. Lynne Nakano |
| Students | Research Topics | Supervisor |
| WONG Yat Yu | Perceptions of “the Other”: Overseas Experiences of Japanese and Chinese University Students | Prof. Lynne Nakano |
| HE Xiao | In Pursuit of Beauty, Pleasure, and Freedom: The Meanings of Cosplay for Hong Kong Young People | Prof. Lynne Nakano |
| Students | Research Topics | Supervisor |
| IU Yiu | Japanese Voice Goes Global and Local: Globalization and Localization of the Japanese Seiju Culture in an Asian Context | Prof. Ng Wai Ming |
| WONG Ching Wa Alana | Seeking Alternative Identities: Changing Masculinity among Fashionable Young Men in Hong Kong | Prof. Lynne Nakano |
| Students | Research Topics | Supervisor |
| LAM Wing Sze | Adventures in Hong Kong: Migration Decisions, Adaptations and Re-adaptations of Japanese Expatriate Wives | Prof. Lynne Nakano |
Current Postgraduate Research
(research topics are subject to change)
| M.Phil Students | Tentative Thesis Title/ Research Interests | Supervisor |
| SIU, Yu Shing (Ivan) | The Application of Nishida Kitarō’s Philosophy in Kimura Bin’s Psychopathology | Professor Kyle Peters |
| Ph.D. Students | Tentative Thesis Title/ Research Interests | Supervisor |
| KO, Wai Kwan Vivian | Centering Globalization – The Case of Japanese Cooking | Professor Lynne Nakano |
| ZHANG, Jinjin (Kimie) | Envisioning Digital Futures: Technology, Migration, Community, and Lifestyle Changes in Contemporary Japan | Professor Lynne Nakano |
| WU, Ziming (Simon) | Narrating Elysium: The Japanese Garden and Civilizational Discourse in Modern Japan, 1870s-1940s | Professor Jeremy Yellen |
| CHOW, Oi Wah (Peggy) | The Difficulties of Learning Japanese Modality ((shi) souda and youda) for Hong Kong Japanese Language Learners | Professor Ho Chi Ming |
| ZHANG, Ge | A Contrastive Study between Japanese Compound Case Particles and Chinese Prepositions from the Perspective of Semantic Classification | Professor Ho Chi Ming |
| HUNG, Wan Sunny | Refusals in Japanese and Cantonese: A Politeness-Based Pragmatic Analysis | Professor Ho Chi Ming |