I am interested in the negotiation between tradition and modernity in 20th-century China and colonial Hong Kong, and the conflicts that arose from this negotiation. I pay particular attention to the various ways in which Western ideas were localised
...MoreI am interested in the negotiation between tradition and modernity in 20th-century China and colonial Hong Kong, and the conflicts that arose from this negotiation. I pay particular attention to the various ways in which Western ideas were localised in Chinese society; their incompatibility or amalgamation with traditional Chinese cultural practices, and how common people negotiated modernity in their daily lives. My current research projects include:
1. Remapping the Body and Leisure Space: Politics of Swimming and Sea-bathing in 20th Century China
2. Animals, Modernity and Nation-building: Oxen in Republican China
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Tourism and Leisure Studies
