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Studies on Contemporary Chinese Intellectuals
Editorial Sub-Committee
The publication policy of the City University of Hong Kong Press was established by the University but follows international publishing practices. An Editorial Subcommittee, established under the University Press Committee, makes the final decision on publication for each submission.
Our Editorial Sub-Committee comprises of scholars from various disciplines of the City University of Hong Kong whose professional and valuable advice help us focus our publishing direction and mission.
Chairman
Prof. CHEN Guanrong (Electrical Engineering Department)
Prof Guanrong (Ron) CHEN has been Chair Professor since the year 2000 and the Shun Hing Education and Charity Fund Chair Professor in Engineering since 2022 at City University of Hong Kong.
Prof. Chen's research mainly involves one of the focus areas in engineering: nonlinear systems control and dynamics, as well as complex networks. He is the (co)author of more than 700 SCI journal papers and 300 conference abstracts, published since 1981, receiving more than 90,000 citations with an h-index of 140 according to Scopus, and is a Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering according to Clarivate Web of Science. He is also the (co)author of 31 technical and edited books.
He has received numerous prestigious awards, particularly the 2011 Euler Gold Medal conferred by the Euler Foundation of Russia; 2008, 2012, and 2016 State Natural Science Awards of China; and 2010 Ho-Leung-Ho-Lee Science and Technology Award.
Members
Prof. CHING May Bo (Chinese and History Department)
CHING May Bo is currently a Professor of History and the Head of the Department of Chinese and History at City University of Hong Kong, as well as the “Distinguished Professor of the Pearl River Scholars” in Guangdong Province (Sun Yat-sen University). She has published extensively on a variety of subjects relating to the social and cultural history of modern China, examining how the regional culture of South China took shape in a trans-regional context. Her monographs include Culture and National Identity: The Shaping of “Guangdong Culture” since the Late Qing (2006, 2018), Encountering Whang Tong: The little people and the big world along the Pearl River estuary in the 18th and 19th centuries (2021, 2022). She compiled and edited the Diaries of Mr. Yuen Jim Fan, the owner of Tai Ping Theatre, 1926-1949 (2023), and co-authored and edited a number of books such as The Popular Culture of Canton-Hong Kong-Macau and Urban Transformation (2017), and Symbols of Authority: Studies on the Chinese Flag Collection held by the National Maritime Museum, London (2023). She has also published numerous journal articles and book chapters in Chinese, English, and Japanese.
Prof. LIN Fen (Media and Communication Department)
Prof. LIN Fen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at City University of Hong Kong. She is also Associate Vice-President (GA) of the Office of the Vice-President (Talent and International Strategy).
Her research interests include media sociology, state-media dynamics, journalism, social movements and collective actions, professionalization and international communication, political sociology, and China.
Prof. DING Chunyan (School of Law)
DING Chunyan joined City University of Hong Kong in July 2010. She obtained her LLB and LLM at Peking University, LLM at University College London, and PhD at The University of Hong Kong. She became a qualified lawyer in the People’s Republic of China in 2001. Before joining the School of Law, Prof. Ding was a Fulbright research fellow at Harvard Law School, where she conducted research on comparative health law and tort law from 2008–09. Her primary areas of research and teaching are medical law, tort law, contract law, and comparative law.