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Dr. LUK Chi-hung Gary DPhil (Oxon) Postdoctoral Fellow |
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Biographical Sketch
Dr. Gary Chi-hung LUK is a historian of late imperial and modern China, Hong Kong, and overseas Chinese, with thematic interests in the transnational maritime world, frontiers and borderlands, empires and colonialism, race and ethnicity, and war and society.
Dr. Luk received degrees from the University of Oxford, the University of Hong Kong, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Before joining the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chinese Culture, he held a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of History, University of Saskatchewan (Canada) and a junior research fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. He has held visiting positions at the University of Cambridge, the Center for Chinese Studies (Taiwan), and the University of Hong Kong.
Dr. Luk is completing a manuscript converted from his doctoral dissertation, which explores the local, regional, and transnational impact of the Opium War on what he conceptualizes as China’s “littoral borderlands.” In particular, the manuscript will explain how the clashes between the Qing sea frontier and the British littoral frontier ushered in a new era of the Chinese junk trade, piracy, and cooperation with foreigners in the littoral world of southeastern China and beyond. His other research projects include the history of the Chinese in the Canadian Prairies, the history of public markets in urban Hong Kong, the history of Chinese collaboration with the British Expedition during the Opium War, and the history of representations of the boat people in modern China. In the past decade he has conducted research in a variety of archives and libraries in East Asia, Britain, and North America such as the First Historical Archives of China in Beijing, the Guangdong Provincial Archives in Guangzhou, the National Archives and the British Library in London, and the City Archives of Saskatoon in Canada’s Saskatchewan province.
Dr. Luk has edited a volume of essays on Hong Kong before and after the 1997 handover, and a special issue of the Canadian Journal of History titled “Transnational Chinese Passages and the Global Making of Frontiers and Borderlands.” His articles have been published in Modern China (forthcoming), Frontiers of History in China, Saksaha: A Review of Manchu Studies, and Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch. He has reading ability in Manchu, an official language of Qing China. He has previously taught modern Chinese and Japanese history at the University of Saskatchewan, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Oxford.
For more details of Dr. Luk’s academic profile, please visit www.garyluk.net.
Academic Qualifications
- D.Phil. (2016) in Oriental Studies, University of Oxford
- M.Phil. (2011) in History, University of Hong Kong
- B.A. (2007) in History, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Positions Held
- Postdoctoral Fellow in History, University of Saskatchewan (2017-19)
- Economic History Society Tawney Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, University of London (2016-17)
Specialization and Research Interests
- Late imperial and modern China
- Modern Hong Kong
- Overseas Chinese history
- Transnational maritime world
- Frontiers and borderlands
- Empires and colonialism
- Race and ethnicity
- War and society
Fellowships and Grants
- Center for Chinese Studies (Taiwan) Foreign Scholarship (2017)
- Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Doctoral Fellowship (2015-16)
- Swire Cathay Pacific Scholarship (2011-15)
Publications
Book Manuscript in Preparation
- “The Opium War and China’s Littoral Borderlands”
Edited Collections
- Canadian Journal of History 54.3 (2019), Transnational Chinese Passages and the Global Making of Frontiers and Borderlands.
- From a British to a Chinese Colony? Hong Kong before and after the 1997 Handover. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2018.
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters
- “Accommodating Foreigners in a Littoral Borderland: The Case of the Lower Pearl River Delta during the Opium War.” Modern China. (Forthcoming in 2020)
- “Straddling the Handover: Colonialism and Decolonization in British and PRC Hong Kong.” In From a British to a Chinese Colony? Hong Kong before and after the 1997 Handover, 1-49. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2018.
- (With Monica Kin-ian Chang and Eugene Shun-yung Tam) “Heritage in Translation: ‘A Dagur Story’ as Historical Fiction and Sample Text for Learning Manchu—Part Two 翻譯中的遺產: 作為歷史小說與滿文學習範例的 ‘達斡爾故事,’ (下).” Saksaha: A Review of Manchu Studies 14 (2017): 45-56.
- “Occupied Space, Occupied Time: Food Hawking and the Central Market in Hong Kong’s Victoria City during the Opium War.” Frontiers of History in China 11.3 (2016): 400-430. (Converted from the paper that won the Gastronomy Program Prize of the Food and the City Conference at Boston University in February 24-25, 2012)
- “Monopoly, Transaction and Extortion: Public Market Franchise and Colonial Relations in British Hong Kong, 1844-58.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch 52 (2012): 139-187.
Book Review and Editor’s Note
- “Guest Editor’s Note.” Canadian Journal of History 54.3 (2019), Transnational Chinese Passages and the Global Making of Frontiers and Borderlands: 277-285.
- Review of Unruly People: Crime, Communities, and State in Late Imperial South China by Robert J. Antony. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch 57 (2017): 254-257.