The Sea and Literature

Conferences and Seminars Organized

2025 ACLA seminar “Oceans in World Literature: From the Middle Ages to Modern Times,” May 30-June 1st.

Conference Presentations

2025 “A Whirlpool, an Undercurrent, and an Oceanic Heterotopia in the 18th century Chinese Novel Maritime Adventures,” Charting Maritime East Asia: State-Building, Networks, and Environment. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. May 3.

2024              “The Sea of Treasures: Oceanic Heterotopias and Miraculous Women in the English Play, Island Princess, and the Chinese Novel, Eunuch Sanbao,” panel “Settlement, Trade, and Faith: A maritime View of Southeast Asia,” AAS-in-Asia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, July 9.

Grants

2025-2026 Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme 人文學及社會科學傑出學者獎, RGC, $703,600 

2025-2027. General Research Fund 優配研究金, RGC, $211, 112

2024-2025 LU Direct Grant HKD $100,000