Professor Si-ming Li obtained his BS, MA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the University of Alberta and Queen’s University, Canada, respectively, all in the field of Geography.

Professor Li joined the Department of Geography of Hong Kong Baptist College (now University) in September 1980, advancing steadily from the rank of Lecturer to Senior Lecturer, University Senior Lecturer, Professor and finally Chair Professor in 2005.

In addition to serving as Director of David C Lam Institute of East-West Studies (LEWI), currently he is also Director of the Centre for China Urban and Regional Studies, a post he has held since 2001. Previously, he served as Interim Dean of Social Sciences (February - July 2010), Head of the Department of Geography Department (June 1997 - August 2003), and Course Leader of China Studies (January 2001 - August 2004). In Academic Year 1994-95 he spent his sabbatical as Visiting Professor at the Department of Geography of National Taiwan University, where he helped organize probably the first major conference on China’s regional development in Taiwan. An edited volume based on this conference was published jointly by LEWI and the Population Research Centre of the National Taiwan University. This book has remained a required reading for courses on the topic taught in Taiwan today.

Professor Li is currently a member of the editorial board of China Review and Journal of Geographical Science, and a member of the International Board of Advisers of Housing Studies. He regularly serves as reviewers for premier journals in Geography and Urban Studies, including Urban Geography, Urban Studies, Environment and Planning A, Housing Studies, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and Urban Affairs Review. In 2005 he chaired the Accreditation Panel to review the Geography Programmes at National Taiwan University.

His current research focuses on housing and residential change in urban China. He has authored/edited 14 books and journal special issues and published more than 130 journal articles and book chapters on different aspects of urban and regional development in Hong Kong and mainland China. Many of these articles are among the most frequently cited works on China urban housing. Recent edited volumes include: A New Geography of Hong Kong, Vols. I and II, co-edited with Chi-Yung Jim and Tung Fung (Hong Kong: Agricultural, Fisheries and Conservation Department, Hong Kong SAR Government and Cosmos Press, 2010) and 《巨龍的甦醒：中國改革開放三十年、港澳回歸、與東亞發展新範式》(Awakening of the Dragon: China’s Thirty Years of Reform and Opening, the Return of Hong Kong and Macau, and New Development Paradigms in East Asia) (Macau: University of Macau Publication Centre, 2009).

Cindy Yik-yi Chu took office as the Associate Director of LEWI on January 1, 2011. Chu is Professor of History at Hong Kong Baptist University. She received her doctoral degree in History from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and was a degree fellow of the East-West Center in Honolulu.

Her books include The Catholic Church in China (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, forthcoming); Chinese Communists and Hong Kong Capitalists: 1937-1997 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), The Diaries of the Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong, 1921-1966 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), The Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong, 1921-1969: In Love with the Chinese (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) and its Chinese translation (Hong Kong: Chung Hwa Book Co., 2007), Foreign Communities in Hong Kong, 1840s-1950s (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), China Reconstructs (Lanham: University Press of America, 2003), and Yapian zhanzheng de zai renshi (A Reappraisal of the Opium War) (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2003, in Chinese). Chu has published numerous articles in journals and edited volumes in the United States, Germany, Hong Kong, and Korea.

Chu serves on the editorial boards of Cheng Feng: A Journal on Christianity and Chinese Religion and Culture, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch, and Hong Kong Journal of Modern Chinese History. In 2009 she was a member of the editorial board of the “Foreign Office Files for China, 1949-1980: Complete FO 371 and FCO 21 Files from The National Archives, Kew” produced by Adam Matthew, U.K.

Her research interests include (1)Modern and Contemporary China, (2)Cross-Cultural Studies, (3)Cultural Relations, (4)International History, (5)History of the Catholic Church in China, (6)Chinese Foreign Relations, (7)Sino-Vatican Relations, (8)Sino-American Relations, and (9)Hong Kong History.

She is a Rotary International member and the executive member of the Society for the Study of History of Christianity in China (in Hong Kong).

 

Research Staff
Dr. Perry Johansson, Reserach Assistant Professor
Dr. Shanshan Lan, Reserach Assistant Professor
Dr. Yuen-man Siu, Reserach Assistant Professor
Dr. Jun Wang, Reserach Assistant Professor
Dr. Dong Dong, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr. Allison Hui, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr. Kam-wah Mak, Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Administrative Staff

Executive Officer - Ms. Hidy Ng
Programme Officer - Ms. Alice Lu
Administrative Assistant - Mr. Edwin Ng