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Hugh Elton Felix Racine Laure Dubreuil Rodney Fitzsimons Helen Haines Sharon Hepburn Gyles Iannone Anne Keenleyside Paul Manning Anne Meneley LAM Hon Ming Abhay Kumar Dubey Dr. Reinhard Achenbach Dr. Suman negi Dr. Nirmal Selvamony Dr. Rainer Albertz Dr, N.K Nohanty Dr. T. J. Abraham Dr. P Geetha Rani Dr, S.M.I.A. Zaidi View MorePOON Shuk Wah
Professor
Department of History
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
I am interested in the negotiation between tradition and modernity in 20th-century China and colonial Hong Kong, and the conflicts that arose from this negotiation. I pay particular attention to the various ways in which Western ideas were localised in Chinese society; their incompatibility or amalgamation with traditional Chinese cultural practices, for example, and how common people negotiated modernity in their daily lives. With specific reference to oxen in Republican China, my current research project investigates the entry of animals into China’s modernist and nationalist discourses, and their significance to everyday lives, food culture, national politics, as well as China’s trading and diplomatic relations with Japan.