Shuk Man LEUNG 梁淑雯 (Early Career Fellow)
Fields of study:
Modern and Contemporary Chinese fiction, Hong Kong Literature, and Print Media in Hong Kong's Cultural Cold War.
Profile:
Leung Shuk Man received her Ph.D. in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture in the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She is an Assistant Professor in the School of Chinese and the Programme Coordinator of Hong Kong Studies at the University of Hong Kong. She specializes in modern and contemporary Chinese fiction, Hong Kong literature, and print media in Hong Kong’s cultural Cold War. Her first book Utopian Fiction in China: Genre, Print Culture, and Knowledge Formation, 1902–1912 was published by Brill in 2023. Her second book project, titled Identities in the Cold War: The Cultural Revolution Discourse in Hong Kong Print Media, 1966–1977,received funding from the Early Career Scheme (2017–2020) and the General Research Fund (2022–2024). Her major publications appear in Modern China (forthcoming), Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Asian Studies Review, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Cultural Studies, Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese and Comparative Literature Studies, together with Chinese articles published in top-tier CSSCI (Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index) indexed journals. She also won the Hong Kong Publishing Biennial Awards and received funding from the Lord Wilson Heritage Trust in 2021.