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