Research Projects

Global China Local Cultures (GCLC)

The “Global China, Local Cultures” research team at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences assesses the nature and dynamics of localized cultural interactions on the BRI, by using ethnographic methods to identify how, in local contexts, “Chinese modernity” entangles with local socio-political conditions, networks, values and beliefs.

The Global Society and Sustainability Lab (GSSL)

The Global Society and Sustainability Lab (GSSL) is a platform for collaborations between academic researchers and stakeholders in government, business and civil society, with the aim of bringing social scientific theories, methods and insights into global discourses and practices on environmental sustainability.

ASIAR

Asian Religious Connections (ASIAR) is a research cluster convened by David A. Palmer at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HKIHSS) at HKU. Rooted in strong expertise on religion in Chinese societies, the cluster extends its interest to the broader Asian region, both through the comparison of different Asian contexts and through the study of inter-Asian connections and circulations.

BRINFAITH

Infrastructures of Faith: Religious Mobilities on the Belt and Road (BRINFAITH) seeks to investigate the religious impact of China’s intensification of ties and infrastructures linking it to the rest of Asia and beyond.

YAODAO

The Yao Dao Project (YAODAO) studies the role of Daoism in the communities of the Yao Mun/Lanten Yao society, which straddles the borders between Laos, China, and Vietnam, and for whom Daoist ritual and cosmology are at the core of its collective organisation and culture.

Religious Life in the Chinese World reinterprets Chinese religion with a focus on the personal and social experiences of religious life and the public practices of religious communities.

RELIGIOUS LIFE IN THE CHINESE WORLD