Doctorial Theses
2025
| Student Name | Thesis Title | Discipline |
|---|---|---|
| LI, Xinyi 李昕怡 |
Exploring Disjunctions in Chinese: A Comprehensive Analysis of Distinctions, Usage, and Historical Development | Linguistics |
| LIN, Ai 林藹 |
State, Market, and Actors in the Consumption Craze for Moutai Liquor in Post-reform China | History and Anthropology |
| LU, Ling 陸玲 |
Beyond Mountains and Basins: Constructing the Landscape of Social Relation Network in Northwest Yunnan | History and Anthropology |
2024
| Student Name | Thesis Title | Discipline |
|---|---|---|
| ENNEN, Timo Hendrik | The Infinity of the Individual: Hegel and Wang Yangming on Life and the Good | Philosophy & Religion |
| JIANG Yuting 蒋玉婷 |
A Typological Study of Disposal Constructions in Sinitic Languages | Linguistics |
| KONG Yin Hei 江彥希 |
A Study of Zhu Xi's Reading Methodology and Confucian Classics Interpretation 朱熹讀書法與經典詮釋研究 |
Philosophy & Religion |
| TANG Yajun 湯雅俊 |
Zhang Junmai’s New Confucianism 張君勱的新儒學 |
Philosophy & Religion |
2023
| Student Name | Thesis Title | Discipline |
|---|---|---|
| ROHNE, Raymond Robert | A Century of Avant Garde to Contemporary Art Collecting and Collectors: Examining Theoretical Elements and Global Shifts in the United States and the Trends to East Asia | History & Anthropology |
| WONG Tung Tin 黃東田 | Rethinking Kantian Political Obligation: Natural Law, Social Contract, and Phenomenology | Philosophy & Religion |
| ZHUANG Muyang 莊沐楊 |
Cinema of Elasticity: Cartoon Visuality in Chinese Film | Literature |
2022
| Student Name | Thesis Title | Discipline |
|---|---|---|
| LIN Zhuyun 林珠云 | Institution, Interaction and Insanity: a Chinese Psychiatric Hospital Inside Out | History & Anthropology |
| PROOI Dennis | A Philosophical and Idea-Historical Examination of the Cultivation of the Self in Kiyozawa Manshi | Philosophy & Religion |
| QIAO Min 喬 敏 | “Chinese Renaissance” as a Method: Literary Renovation and Intellectual Debates in China, 1915-1949 | Literature |
| TSUI Sai Kit 徐世傑 | Beyond Venus: A Critical Study of Yang Zhiquang’s Nude Art | History & Anthropology |
| XU Yifa 徐毅发 | Verbs of Implicit Negation in Mandarin Chinese: An NPI-licensing Perspective | Linguistics |
2021
| Student Name | Thesis Title | Discipline |
|---|---|---|
| LIU Yanghe 劉陽河 | 夢之工廠：《紅樓夢》在晚清民國的接受與再生 Dream Factory: The Receptions and Transformations of Dream of the Red Chamber in Late Qing and Republican China | Literature |
| WEI Yang 魏阳 | Jin Chinese Entering Tones: Acoustics, Types and Evolution | Linguistics |
| CABURAL, Mark Kevin Supnad | Cicero and Wang Chong: On Divination, Philosophy, and Science | Philosophy & Religion |
| CABURAL, Mark Kevin Supnad | Cicero and Wang Chong: On Divination, Philosophy, and Science | Philosophy & Religion |
| LAU Shu Wai 劉樹偉 | Becoming Zoroastrian: The Making of the Global Network of the Parsee Community | History & Anthropology |
| WANG Xinyu 王新宇 | 理學的史學：朱子的個案 Neo-Confucian Philosophy of History, The Case of Zhu Xi | Philosophy & Religion |
2020
| Student Name | Thesis Title | Discipline |
|---|---|---|
| Kin Wing Kevin CHAN 陳健榮 | Coordinating Conjunctions in Sinitic Languages and Beyond: Towards a New Typology | Linguistics |
| Shu CHEN 陳 抒 | Listening Against Disappearance: Radio Aesthetics in 1950s Hong Kong | Literature |
| Hoi Shan CHONG 莊海珊 | The Daodejing and Ecclesiastes on the Meaning of Life | Philosophy & Religion |
| ZHOU Yingyi 周穎異 | The Tonal Typology and Evolution of Northern Gan — A Case Study of Xiushui | Linguistics |
2018
| Student Name | Thesis Title | Discipline |
|---|---|---|
| LAW Shun Man 羅舜文 | 《論禪宗作為一種哲學輔導：一種禪宗哲學的現代詮釋及禪宗式哲學輔導建構之可能》 [On Chan Buddhism as a Kind of Philosophical Counseling: A Possible Way of Modern Interpretation of Philosophy of Chan Buddhism and Construction of Philosophical Counseling of Chan Buddhism] | Philosophy & Religion |
| ZHANG Rongkun 張榕坤 | 《莊子「天」論闡微》 [The Concept of “Heaven” in the Philosophy of Zhuangzi] | Philosophy & Religion |
2017
| Student Name | Thesis Title | Discipline |
|---|---|---|
| KWOK Sai Hang 郭世恒 | From the Question of Time to the Time of Questioning: Husserl and the Ambiguity of Time | Philosophy & Religion |
| LAI Sau Ming 黎秀明 | The Cultural Practice of Hybridity: A Study of Romance in the 1950s Hong Kong | Literature |
| LI Dechao 李德超 | The Historical Evolution of Chinese Tones and Their Splitting and Merger in Contemporary Dialects: The Interaction between Phonation, Duration and Pitch | Linguistics |
| LI Lizhu 李麗珠 | 《朱熹《太極圖說解》、《通書注》研究》 [A Study of Zhu Xi’s Reading of the Taijitu Shuo and the Tongshu] | Philosophy & Religion |
| LIN Qing 林晴 | The Diachrony of Tone Sandhi: Evidence from Southern Min Chinese | Linguistics |
| ZHANG Jingfen 張靜芬 | Tonal Patterns and Tone Evolution in Chaoshan Chinese | Linguistics |
2016
| Student Name | Thesis Title | Discipline |
|---|---|---|
| CHAN Wai Kong 陳偉江 | 《中國佛學中的廣義四句與龍樹四句的哲學解讀──從二諦及四悉檀的觀點看》 [A Philosophical Investigation of Broad Sense Catuskoti and Nagarjuna’s Catuskoti in Chinese Buddhism──From the Perspective of the Two Truths and the Four Siddhanta] | Philosophy & Religion |
| QIU Yue 邱月 | Performing Qiang: Locality Production in Post-disaster Northern Sichuan, China | History & Anthropology |
| SHEN Ruiqing 沈瑞清 | Tonal Variation: A Quantitative Study of Jianyang Min Chinese | Linguistics |
| YAN Zhiadan 閆志丹 | Power of the Minority: Politics of Culture and Identity in a Hui Village in Central China | History & Anthropology |
| ZHANG Ying 張莹 | A Typological Approach to Multifunctional Adverbs in Chinese | Linguistics |
2015
| Student Name | Thesis Title | Discipline |
|---|---|---|
| FAN Xiaolei 范晓蕾 | Tense, Aspect and Modality in Chinese: A Typological Study | Linguistics |
| JIAO Lei 焦磊 | A Parametric Study of Diphthongs in Chinese Dialects | Linguistics |
| LAM Nga Li 林雅莉 | New World, New World Daily and the Culture of Amusement in Early Republican Shanghai | Literature |
| MA Kin Hang 馬健行 | The Survival of a Marginal Occupation: “Nammo” Ritual Specialists in Urban Hong Kong | History & Anthropology |
| QIN Bairong 覃百荣 | “Women Become Ancestors:” Women and Families in Fuxi, North Hunan, China | History & Anthropology |
| WANG Caiyu 王彩豫 | Multi-register Tone Systems and Their Evolution on the Jianghan Plain | Linguistics |