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Professor Max Xiaobing TANG
Director, Institute of Chinese Studies
Dean, Faculty of Arts
Sin Wai Kin Professor of Chinese Humanities
Phone: 3943 7386
Email: maxtang@cuhk.edu.hk
Office: 106, Institute of Chinese Studies
Professor Max Xiaobing Tang was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Arts in September 2019. He was also named Sin Wai Kin Professor of Chinese Humanities. Since February 2020, Professor Tang began serving as Director of the Institute of Chinese Studies.
From 2008 to 2019, Professor Tang was Helmut F. Stern Professor of Modern Chinese Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Before Michigan, Professor Tang taught at the University of Southern California, the University of Chicago, and the University of Colorado, Boulder, from 1991 to 2008.
Professor Tang’s research and scholarly work focuses on modern and contemporary Chinese literature, visual culture, history of art, sound studies, and cultural politics. His publications include Global Space and the Nationalist Discourse of Modernity: The Historical Thinking of Liang Qichao (Stanford University Press, 1996), Chinese Modern: The Heroic and the Quotidian (Duke University Press, 2000), and Origins of the Chinese Avant-Garde: The Modern Woodcut Movement (University of California Press, 2008). His most recent book is Visual Culture in Contemporary China: Paradigms and Shifts (Cambridge University Press, 2015), which was published in Chinese in 2018 and then in Korean in 2020. The Chinese version of Visual Culture was named “One of Ten Best Books of 2018” by The Southern Metropolitan Daily of Guangzhou in December 2018.
Professor Tang’s Chinese publications include Postmodernism and Theories of Culture: Lectures by Professor Fredric Jameson (Shaanxi Teachers University Press, 1986) and Re-reading: The People’s Literature and Art Movement and Its Ideology (Oxford University Press of [Hong Kong], 1993).
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Professor Ho Che Wah
Associate Director, Institute of Chinese Studies
Choh-Ming Li Professor of Chinese Language and Literature
Phone: 3943 7379
Email: cwho@cuhk.edu.hk
Office: G13, Institute of Chinese Studies
Ho Che Wah is Professor of Chinese at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He also holds concurrent posts as Associate Director of the Institute of Chinese Studies and Director of the D. C. Lau Research Centre for Chinese Ancient Texts. Ho was also awarded Choh-Ming Li Professor of Chinese Language and Literature. Ho received his MPhil and PhD in Chinese from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1988 and 1995 respectively.
Ho’s research focuses on topics in ancient Chinese texts and Chinese textual criticism. His most recent research projects are “A Study of the Intratextuality and Intertextuality of Xunzi: A New Attempt at Dating Ancient Chinese Texts” (a UGC General Research Fund project) and “A Research Project on the Sources of the Xunzi (a Hop Wai Research Grant project of the Institute of Chinese Studies as well as a UGC Research Matching Grant project).
Ho has published extensively, including over 50 authored and edited books such as A Textual Study of Classical Canons: From the Shijing, Shangshu to Shiji (Hong Kong: Research Centre for Chinese Ancient Texts, 2007,) Collected essays on Gao You’s Commentaries on the Lüshi Chunqiu and the Huainanzi (Hong Kong: Research Centre for Chinese Ancient Texts, 2007,) Studies in Zhuangzi and Xunzi (Hong Kong: D.C. Lau Research Centre for Chinese Ancient Texts, 2015,) Lüshi Chunqiu guankui (Hong Kong: Chung Hwa Book Co., 2015,) Zhujian Wenzi yanjiu zhi huigu yu fansi (Beijing: Chung Hwa Book Co., 2019,) and some 30 referred journal papers. He is co-compiler of the outstanding ICS Concordances to Works of Pre-Han and Han Concordance Series and ICS Concordances to Works of Wei-Jin and the Northern and Southern Dynasties Concordance Series. Ho succeeded Professor D. C. Lau in establishing and maintaining the online database of ancient Chinese texts “CHANT Database.” It includes about 87 million characters, consists of seven transmitted and excavated ancient Chinese text databases, and spans the period from the Shang to the Six Dynasties.
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