University Research Areas

Environment and Sustainability

The Department is also making important contributions to the University theme of Environment and Sustainability in the areas of ‘Smart and Sustainable Cities‘, ‘Climate Change‘, and ‘Population Studies: Migration, Youth Development and Ageing Management’. Below are some indicative examples of work by Faculty members in this area:

Smart and Sustainable Cities

Climate Change

Population Studies: Migration, Youth Development and Ageing Management

Jette Hansen Edwards has conducted extensive research on youth identity, language, and politics in Hong Kong. Her work in this area has been cited in The Economist. She has also been invited to contribute two articles to the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, based on her research on language, identity, and politics in Hong Kong and China: “Language, identity, and politics in Hong Kong” and “The rise of English in China: A threat to China’s national unity?”. She has published several articles about youth identity in Hong Kong in relation to language and politics including her recent book, The Politics of English in Hong Kong: Attitudes, Identity, and Use (Routledge, 2018)
David Huddart has also written on diasporic identities through their literatures and general cultural formations. As examples, he published a book on the work of Homi Bhabha, a widely-cited humanities scholar, who is particularly associated with the idea of hybridity. Ideas such as hybridity demand that we think carefully about issues of migration and integration, as is clear in terms of human rights discourses, which David Huddart has written on specifically in terms of cultural right
Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales examines different diasporic populations in East Asia, focusing on social factors such as age, identity, and ethnicity. His work has examined an under-documented minority group in the Philippines – the Lannangs, as well as the homeland Chinese Mainland group in Manila. He has published some of his findings in an invited book chapter “Interactions of Sinitic Languages in the Philippines: Sinicization, Filipinization, and Sino-Philippine Language Creation”
Li Ou is working on Romantic poetics in terms of Romantic poets’ stances towards home and country, native language, and poetic tradition. Specifically, she explores Keats’s poetics in relation to home and homelessness, dislocation and diaspora, inheritance and translation of poetic traditions and poetics

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Address	Department of English, 3/F, Fung King Hey Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong
General Enquiries	english@cuhk.edu.hk