Recent Publications Our academics are world-renowned researchers who have published monographs with some of the most prestigious university presses and commercial publishers in the world. These include Harvard University Press, Stanford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Columbia University Press, the University of Chicago Press, the University of Hawaii Press, the University of North Carolina Press, and Bloomsbury. We have also had our worked published widely in top academic journal including the American Historical Review, Past and Present, Modern Asian Studies, Urban History, Diplomatic History, and the Journal of Japanese Studies. Here you can explore our publications to get a flavor of the research environment of our department. Authored Books Authored Books Professor Xu Guoqi published Fusions of Civilizations: Chinese laborers in France during the Great War and their role in China's search for Internationalization (Harvard University Press, 2010) 2009 2008
Professor Frank Dikötter published The Age of Openness: China before Mao, with Hong Kong University Press Professor Xu Guoqi published Olympic Dreams: China and Sports, 1895-2008 with Harvard University Press 2007 Professor John Carroll published A Concise History of Hong Kong with Hong Kong University Press Professor Frank Dikötter published Exotic Commodities: Modern Objects and Everyday Life in China with Columbia University Press Professor Xu Guoqi published Wenming de jiao rong: diyi ci shijie dazhan qijian de za fa huagong [Strangers on the Western Front: Chinese Laborers in France during the First World War ] (in Chinese and French with Intercontinental Press in Beijing Dr. Zhou Xun and Francesca Tarocco published Karaoke: the global phenomenon with Reaktion Books and University of Chicago Press 2005 Professor Xu Guoqi published China and the Great War: China's Pursuit of a New National Identity and Internationalization with Cambridge University Press 2010 Dr. Marie-Paule Ha,"Double Trouble: Doing Gender in Hong Kong" in Comparatively Queer: Interrogating Identities Across Time and Cultures. Eds. Jarrod Hayes, Margaret Higonnet, and William Spurlin, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 131-152. 2009 Dr. Marie-Paule Ha, "Double Trouble: Doing Gender in Hong Kong." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society , 34. 2 (Winter 2009): pp. 423-449. Dr. David Pomfret, "'Raising Eurasia': Race, Class and Age in Hong Kong and Indochina," Comparative Studies in Society and History 51, 2 (2009): pp. 314-343. Dr. Priscilla Roberts, “The Transatlantic American Foreign Policy Elite: Its Evolution in Generational Perspective.” Journal of Transatlantic Studies 7:2 (June 2009), pp. 163-183. Dr. Charles Schencking, "The Catastrophe One Confronted in Post Earthquake Japan: Tokyo as a Devastated War and Occupation Zone, 1923." Japanese Studies 29:1 (May 2009). Professor Xu Guoqi, ¡§Chinese Puzzle¡¨, Soccer Journal, vol. 54, No. 1, (January-February 2009), pp. 28-34. Professor Xu Guoqi, ¡§Xiandai Aolinpike yundong yu zhongguo de guoji hua jin cheng¡¨ (Modern Olympic Movement and Process of China's Internationalization), The Twenty-First Century (Chinese University of Hong Kong), (February 2009), pp. 11-18. 2008 Professor Frank Dikötter, 'The racialization of the globe: An interactive interpretation', Ethnic and Racial Studies , 31, no. 8 (Nov. 2008), pp. 1478-1496. Dr. David Pomfret, "'Child Slavery' in French and British Far-Eastern Colonies, 1880-1945",Past and Present 201, 1 (2008): pp. 175-213. Professor Maureen Sabine, "'With my Body I Thee Worship': Joe Wright's Erotic Vision in Pride & Prejudice (2005)," Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 20 (Fall 2008). Dr. Charles Schencking, "The Great Kanto Earthquake and the Culture of Catastrophe and Reconstruction in 1920s Japan." Journal of Japanese Studies 34:2 (Summer 2008), pp. 295-331. Professor Xu Guoqi, ¡§China's National Representation and the Two-China Question in the Olympic Movement,¡¨ China Perspectives vol. 73, No. 1 (in both French and English editions, Spring 2008), pp. 19-28. Professor Xu Guoqi, ¡§How to Understand China: A Historical Analysis,¡¨ Michigan International Lawyer, volume 20, No. 2 (summer 2008). Professor Xu Guoqi, ¡§Sports in China's Internationalization and National Representation: China's Participation in 1932, 1936, and 1948 Olympic Games,¡¨ The Chinese Historical Review, Vol. 15, No. 1 (spring 2008), pp. 1-24. Professor Xu Guoqi, "The Great War and China's Military Expedition Plan," The Journal of Military History Volume 72, No. 1 (January 2008). 2007 Professor Maureen Sabine, "Crashaw and Abjection: Reading the Unthinkable in his Devotional Verse," American Imago 63.4 (2007), pp. 423-43. Dr. Priscilla Roberts, “World War I as Catalyst and Epiphany: The Case of Henry P. Davison.” Diplomacy and Statecraft 18:2 (June 2007), pp. 315-350. Dr. Charles Schencking, "The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 and the Japanese Nation: Responding to an Urban Calamity of an Unprecedented Nature," Education About Asia 12:2 (Fall 2007), pp. 20-25. 2006 Professor John Carroll, "Colonial Hong Kong as a Cultural-Historical Place," Modern Asian Studies , 40.2 (2006), pp. 517-43. Dr. Peter Cunich and Dr. J. R. Ali, ¡¥Halley et les eglises de la reine Anne', in Pour La Science , 341 (Paris, 2006), pp. 10-13. Dr. Marie-Paule Ha, "On Sartre's Critique of Assimilation" Journal of Romance Studies 6.1&2 (2006): pp. 49-60. Dr. Marie-Paule Ha, " Nam et Sylvie : The Indochinese Butterfly Story" East Asian Culture & Modern Literature in Chinese. The International Journal of Study on Modern Chinese Literature in East Asia 2 (2006): pp. 138-146. Professor Maureen Sabine, "Ingrid Bergman - A Modern Magdalene: 'Saint to Whore and Back Again' in Casablanca, The Bells of St. Mary's and The Inn of the Sixth Happiness," Theology and Sexuality 13.1 (2006): pp. 61-76. Dr. Priscilla Roberts, “World War I and Anglo-American Relations: The Role of Philip Lothian and The Round Table.” The Round Table, Vol. 95, issue 383 (January 2006), pp. 113-139. Dr. Charles Schencking, "Catastrophe, Opportunism, Contestation: The Fractured Politics of Reconstructing Tokyo following the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923," Modern Asian Studies 40:4 (October 2006), pp. 833-874. 2005 Professor John Carroll, "Colonialism, Nationalism, and Identity in Pre-1949 Hong Kong," Journal of Oriental Studies 39.2 (September 2005), pp. 18-36. Dr. Peter Cunich and Dr. J. R. Ali, ¡¥How did Halley align his churches? Using geomagnetism, probably', in Astronomy and Physics , 46:6 (Oxford, 2005), p. 6.6. Dr. Peter Cunich and Dr. J. R. Ali, ¡¥The Church East and West: Orienting the Queen Anne Churches, 1711-34', in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 64:1 (Philadelphia, 2005), pp. 56-73. Dr. Mark Frost, "Emporium in imperio: Nanyang networks and the Straits Chinese in Singapore, 1819-1914," Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , 36, 1 (2005), pp. 29-66. Dr. Marie-Paule Ha, "¡¥La Femme française aux colonies': Promoting Colonial Female Emigration at the Turn of the Century" French Colonial History 6 (2005), pp. 205-224. Dr. Priscilla Roberts, “Paul D. Cravath, the First World War, and the Anglophile Internationalist Tradition.” Australian Journal of Politics and History 51:2 (June 2005), pp. 194-215. Professor Xu Guoqi, ¡§China's Great War: An Unwritten Chapter of World History¡¨ The Chinese Historical Review, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring 2005). Professor Xu Guoqi, ¡¨Diyi ci shijie dazhan dui Zhongguo lishi jincheng de yingxiang¡¨ (The Effects of World War I on China's Historical Progress) The Twentieth-First Century (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), August 2005. Professor Xu Guoqi, ¡§Meiguo waijiao zhengce zhong de rouli yu gangli¡¨ (Soft Power and Hard Power in American Foreign Policy), Shijie zhengzhi yu jingji (Journal of World Politics and Economy) (Beijing, September 2005). Professor Xu Guoqi, ¡§Wangdao yu badao: Meiguo waijiao zhengce de beilun¡¨ (Policy-making based on attraction or on coercion: A dilemma in American foreign policy) Dangdai guoji guanxi (Journal of Contemporary International Relations) (Beijing, February 2005). 2010 Dr. Priscilla Roberts edited (with Spencer Tucker et al.) and compiled Volume 5 (Documents Volume), The Encyclopedia of Middle East Wars: The United States in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq Conflicts. 5 vols. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2010). 2009 2008 Dr. Priscilla Roberts edited Volume 4 (Documents Volume) of The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Political, Social, and Military History (ABC-CLIO, 2008) - The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Political, Social, and Military History, and has been awarded Association of Educational Publishers' 2009 Distinguished Achievement Award in the Social Studies, Adult category. 2007 Dr. Priscilla Roberts edited (with He Peiqun) Bonds Across Borders: Women, China, and International Relations in the Modern World. (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2007). x + 300 pp. (Author of “Introduction: Women and International Relations: A Historian’s View,” 1-32.) Dr. Priscilla Roberts edited Bridging the Sino-American Divide: American Studies with Chinese Characteristics. (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2007). xvi + 541 pp. (Author of “Introduction: American Studies with Chinese Characteristics,” 1-39.) Dr. Priscilla Roberts assistant edited (with Spencer Tucker et al.), and complied Volume 5 (Documents Volume). The Encyclopedia of The Cold War: A Political, Social, and Military History. 5 vols. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2007). xxxviii + 1969 pp. Named Editors’ Choice, 2007, by Booklist; Distinguished Book Award, 2007, Society for Military History. [Also published as e-book.] Dr. Priscilla Roberts assistant edited (with Spencer Tucker et al.), and complied Volume 5 (Documents Volume). The Cold War: A Student Encyclopedia. 5 vols. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2007). xxxviii + 2969 pp. Association of Educational Publishers, Distinguished Achievement Award for Social Studies Instruction (Reference Category), June 2008. [Also published as e-book.] Dr. Priscilla Roberts edited (with Spencer Tucker et al.), and compiled Volume 4 (Documents Volume). The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Political, Social, and Military History. 4 vols. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2008). xxviii + 1554 + 26 pp. Named Outstanding Reference Source, 2008, by RUSA-American Library Association; Distinguished Achievement Award for Social Studies Instruction (Reference Category), June 2009; Editors’ Choice, 2008, by Booklist; Best Reference Choice, 2008, by Pennsylvania School Librarians Association. [Also published as e-book.] 2006 Dr. Priscilla Roberts edited Behind the Bamboo Curtain: China, Vietnam, and the World Beyond Asia. (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, and Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006). xviii + 559 pp. (Author of “Introduction: The Vietnam War in Its International Setting,” 1-52.) 2005 Dr. Priscilla Roberts edited (with Spencer Tucker et al.), and compiled Volume 5 (Documents Volume). The Encyclopedia of World War I: A Political, Social, and Military History. 5 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005. xlviii + 1661 pp. Named Outstanding Reference Source, 2005, by RUSA-American Library Association; Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2006; Editors’ Choice, 2006, by Booklist. [Also published as e-book] Dr. Priscilla Roberts edited (with Spencer Tucker et al.), and compiled Volume 5 (Documents Volume). World War I: A Student Encyclopedia. 5 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005. l + 2454 pp. [Also published as e-book] Both print and e-book versions received the American Association of Educational Publishers Distinguished Achievement Award, 2006. Forthcoming 2010 Dr. Peter Cunich, ¡¥The Brothers of Syon, 1420-1695', in E. A. Jones & Alexandra Walsham (eds.), Syon Abbey and its Books: Reading, Writing and Religion, c.1400-1700 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2010), pp. 39-81. Dr. Marie-Paule Ha, "Mission Civilisatrice Revisited" Cahiers de la SIELEC 6, Le Désenchantement colonial , eds. Jean-François Durand, Jean-Marie Seilland and Jean Sévry, (Paris: Kailash, 2010), pp. 476-491. Dr. Victor Zatsepine,"Three Nations in Search of Manchuria's Past," in Gerrit Gong and Victor Teo eds., Reconceptualising the Divide: Identity, Memory, and Nationalism in Sino-Japanese Relations (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010). Dr. Victor Zatsepine,"Russian Explorers, Religious Exiles and White Russians in Xinjiang,'' in Peng De, Du Fachun eds., Western Development and Socio-Economic Change: China-Canada Comparative Studies (Beijing: Intellectual Property Rights Publishing House, 2010). 2009 Dr. Peter Cunich, ¡¥Y.M.C.A. Chaplains and the Chinese Labourers on the Western Front', 1917-18', in Zhang Jianguo (ed.), Chinese Labourers and the First World War (Weihai: Shandong University Press, 2009), pp. 155-177. Professor Frank Dikötter, 'Objects and agency: Material culture and modernity in China' in Karen Harvey (ed.), History and material culture, (London: Routledge, 2009), pp. 158-172. Dr. Mark Frost, "That great ocean of idealism: the Tagore circle and the idea of Asia, 1900-1920," in Indian Ocean Studies: cultural, social and political perspectives , ed. Ashraf Jamal & Shanty Moorthy (New York: Routledge, 2009) Dr. Mark Frost, "The making of the Singapore History Gallery: Some personal reflections," in The Past in the Present: Histories in the Making (Singapore: National Heritage Board, 2009). Dr. Marie-Paule Ha, "Another Barthes" in Roland Barthes: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory , ed. Neil Badmington. (London: Routledge, 2009), pp. 186-209. [Reprint] Dr. Marie-Paule Ha, "Introduction" in La Femme française aux colonies suivi de contes et Légendes de l'Annam by Clotilde Chivas-Baron, edited with introduction and notes by Marie-Paule Ha. (Paris : L'Harmattan, 2009), vii- xxvi. Dr. Marie-Paule Ha, "The Chinese and the White Man's Burden in Indochina" China Abroad: Travels, Subjects, Spaces , eds. Elaine Yee Lin Ho and Julia Kuehn. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009), pp. 191-207. Dr. Priscilla Roberts, "9/11 As Diplomatic Milestone and Turning Point." In Mei Renyi and Fu Meirong, eds., Change and Continuity: America After 9-11. (Beijing, World Knowledge Press, 2009), pp. 34-43. [In Chinese] 2008 Professor John Carroll, "Commemorating History in Colonial and Post-Colonial Hong Kong," in History and Memory: Present Reflections on the Past to Build Our Future (Macao: Macau Ricci Institute Studies, 2008), pp. 227-50. Professor John Carroll, "Ho Kai: A Chinese Reformer in Colonial Hong Kong," in Kenneth J. Hammond and Kristin Stapleton, eds., The Human Tradition in Premodern China (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008), pp. 55-72. Dr. Peter Cunich, ¡¥Archbishop Polding's Idea of a University', in David Daintree (ed.), The Role of Catholic Colleges in the Modern University (Sydney: Anchor Books, 2008), pp. 13-31. Dr. Peter Cunich, ¡¥Archbishop Vaughan and the Empires of Religion in Colonial New South Wales', in Hilary Carey (ed.), Empires of Religion (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. 137-160. Professor Frank Dikötter,'Rassendiskurs in China' in Bea Gomes, Walter Schicho and Arno Sonderegger (eds): Rassismus: Beitrage zu einem vielgesichtigen Phanomen, (Wien: Mandelbaum, 2008), pp. 119-149. Dr. Marie-Paule Ha, "L'Emigration des femmes aux colonies au début du 20ème siècle." Histoire de l'immigration et question coloniale en France . Eds. Nancy L. Green and Marie Poinsot, (Paris: La Documentation française, 2008), pp. 221-226. Dr. Marie-Paule Ha, "Introduction" in Homme jaune et femme blanche by Christiane Fournier. (Paris : L'Harmattan, 2008), vii-xxvi. Dr. Charles Schencking, "Admiral Togo: The Japanese Commander Who Destroyed the Russian Fleet," in Jeremy Black, ed., Great Military Leaders and their Campaigns . (London: Thames & Hudson, 2008), pp. 234-237. Dr. Zhou Xun, "Eat, drink and sing, and be modern and global: food, Karaoke and 'middle class' consumers in China," in Patterns of middle-class consumption in India and China , ed. by Christophe Jaffrelot and Peter van der Veer (Sage Publications, 2008), pp. 170-185. 2007 Dr. Peter Cunich, ¡¥Maurice Chauncy and the Charterhouses of London and Sheen Anglorum', in James Hogg, Alain Girard & Daniel Le Blevec (eds.), Analecta Cartusiana , 86:1 (Salzburg: University of Salzburg, 2007), pp. 1-57. Professor Frank Dikötter, 'China, British imperialism, and the myth of the "opium plague"', co-authored with Lars Laamann and Zhou Xun, in James Mills (ed.), Drugs and empires (Houndsmill: Palgrave, 2007), pp. 19-38. Professor Frank Dikötter, 'Prisons and imprisonment: Chinese law' in Stanley N. Katz (ed.), Encyclopedia of legal history, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007). Dr. Marie-Paule Ha, "Assimilation and Identities in French Indochina" in Diasporas: Movement and Cultures , eds. Nick Hewitt and Dick Geary (Nottingham: Critical, Cultural and Communication Press, 2007), pp. 55-64. Dr. Priscilla Roberts, “All Roads Lead From the American City?’ The Land of the Urban Frontier.” In Peter Swirski, ed., All Roads Lead to the American City. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2007), pp. 7-26, 125-127. Dr. Victor Zatsepine, "Amur: As River, as Border," in Diana Lary, ed., The Chinese State at the Borders (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007). Dr. Zhou Xun, 'Beauty and Health: Medical Imagery from 20th century China', in Globalising Chinese Medicine: A Visual History, ed. by Vivienne Lo and Wang Shumin, (Beijing: Renmin weisheng chubanshe, 2007). 2006 Professor Frank Dikötter, 'Kang Youwei' in Justin Wintle (ed.), New makers of modern culture, (London: Routledge, 2006). Dr. Marie-Paule Ha, "Cultural Identities in the Chinese Diaspora" in Sociology of Diaspora , eds Ajaya K. Sahoo & Brij Maharaj. (New Delhi: Rawat Publication, 2006), pp. 387-395. [Reprint] Professor Maureen Sabine, "'Stranger to the Shining Skies': Traherne's Child and His Changing Attitudes to the World," originally published in Ariel 4: 21-35 and to be reissued in Poetry Criticism, ed. Michelle Lee (Gale Publishers, 2006). 2005 Dr. Bert Becker, 'Deutsche und Schweizer Protestanten in Hongkong (1844-1919)' [German and Swiss Protestants in Hong Kong, 1844-1919] in 40 Jahre Evangelische Gemeinde Deutscher Sprache in Hong Kong (Festschrift) [The 40 Years' Anniversary of the Hong Kong German-speaking Evangelical-Lutheran Congregation], (Hong Kong: Private Print, 2005), pp. 91-137. Dr. Bert Becker, 'Die Gründung der Evangelischen Gemeinde deutscher Sprache in Hongkong im Jahre 1965' [The Founding of the Hong Kong German-speaking Evangelical-Lutheran Congregation in 1965], in 40 Jahre Evangelische Gemeinde Deutscher Sprache in Hong Kong (Festschrift ) [The 40 Years' Anniversary of the Hong Kong German-speaking Evangelical-Lutheran Congregation], (Hong Kong: Private print, 2005), pp. 14-46. Dr. Bert Becker, 'Die Niederlande und die deutsche Einheit 1871 und 1990' [The Netherlands and the German Unifications of 1871 and 1990] in A. Gawrich and H. J. Lietzmann (eds.), Politik und Geschichte: "Gute Politik" und ihre Zeit. [Politics and History: 'Good Politics' and Its Time], (Essen: Dampfboot, 2005), pp. 383-395. Professor John Carroll, "G. B. Endacott and Hong Kong History," introduction to reprint of G. B. Endacott, A Biographical Sketch-book of Early Hong Kong (1963; Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2005), ix-xxvi. Professor Frank Dikötter, 'Minguo shiqi de modeng wanyi, wenhua pincou yu richang shenghuo' [Things modern, cultural bricolage and everyday life in republican China] in Li Xiaoti, Zhongguo de chengshi shenghuo [City life in China], (Taipei: Lianjing, 2005), pp. 477-96. Professor Frank Dikötter, 'Penology and reformation in modern China' in Borge Bakken (ed.), Crime, policing and criminology in China, (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005), pp. 29-63. Professor Frank Dikötter, 'Race in China' in Pal Nyiri and Joana Breidenbach (eds), China inside out: Contemporary Chinese nationalism and transnationalism, (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2005), pp. 177-204. Dr. Marie-Paule Ha, "French Women and the Empire" in France and Indochina: Cultural Representations , eds. Jennifer Yee and Kathryn Robson. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005), pp. 107-120. Dr. Marie-Paule Ha, "Engendering French Colonial History: The Case of Indochina" in The French and the Pacific World, 17th -19th Centuries , ed. Annick Fourcrier. (Hampshire: Ashgate, 2005), pp. 165-195. [Reprint] Dr. David Pomfret, "Lionised and Toothless: Young People and Urban Politics in Britain and France," European Cities, Youth and the Public Sphere in the Twentieth Century, ed. Axel Schildt and Detlef Siegfried (Ashgate, 2005), pp. 27-42. Dr. Priscilla Roberts, “Changing US Perceptions of China from David Bruce to the New Century.” In Danny S. L. Paau and Herbert Yee, eds., Return of the Dragon: US-China Relations in the 21st Century Asia Pacific Horizon (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2005), 61-84. Dr. Priscilla Roberts, “The Limits of Superpower Diplomacy: The View from the Beijing Liaison Office, 1973-1974.” In Malcolm Muir, Jr. and Mark F. Wilkinson, eds., The Most Dangerous Years: The Cold War, 1953-1975 (Lexington, VA: Department of History and John A. Adams ’71 Center for Military History and Strategic Analysis, Virginia Military Institute, 2005), 313-337. Dr. Charles Schencking, "Interservice Rivalry and Politics in Post-War Japan," in John Steinberg et. al., The Russo-Japanese War in a Global Perspective: World War Zero, (London: Brill, 2005), pp. 565-580. Professor John Carroll, English book review editor, Journal of Oriental Studies Dr. Peter Cunich,Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch (2007-11) Dr. Marie-Paule Ha, French Cultural Studies (UK Sage Publications) Dr. Marie-Paule Ha, French Colonial History (Michigan State University Press) Dr. David Pomfret, Planning Perspectives (Routledge/Taylor & Francis), with responsibility for IPHS Section Dr. Priscilla Roberts, Member of H-Diplo Editorial Advisory Board Dr. Priscilla Roberts, Member of ABC-CLIO Military History Advisory Board
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