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Interview with Professor Yip Hon Ming

A Retrospective of My Journey of Historical Inquiry

Crossing Academic Boundaries

Date: 22 September, 2016
Location: Room 124, the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS)
Interviewee: Professor Yip Hon Ming, Department of History, CUHK

Interviewer: Professor Lai Chi Tim, Associate Director of the Institute of Chinese Studies
Recorded by: Xu Yanlian, Research Associate, Institute of Chinese Studies

The cover story of this issue of ICS Bulletin is an interview with Professor Yip Hon Ming who speaks on her
experience in studying, teaching and conducting research at CUHK and overseas. Having witnessed the
development of Chinese studies at CUHK, she shares with us her review of the field and hope for the future.

Professor Yip Hon Ming is Adjunct Professor at the Department of History, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK),
where she was formerly Professor and Department Chair. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from CUHK and
obtained her Master’s and PhD degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include
modern and contemporary Chinese social and economic history, the local history of north and south China, the history

of overseas Chinese, Hong Kong-mainland China relations and overseas networks, and women’s/gender history. Her
research topics cover the issues of marginalisation, subordination or subversion and struggles within the categories of
gender, class and race/ethnicity. Her research areas spans various fields of history and traverses time and space, the
modern and the contemporary, the local and the international, as well as gender, class, and other boundaries. In addition
to academic papers, she authored books including In Search of Subjectivities: Historical Studies of Chinese Women and The
Tung Wah Coffin Home and the Global Charity Network: Evidence and Findings from Archival Materials (both in Chinese). She
is editor of Globalization and Gender: The Implications of Global Economic Restructuring for Women in China and Southeast Asia
(in Chinese), co-compiler of Indexes of the Dianshizhai Pictorial, The Emended and Punctuated Dianshizhai Pictorial (both in
Chinese), and Women in China: Bibliography of Available English Language Materials, co-editor of Gender and Women Studies

in Chinese Societies, Gender Awakening: Gender Studies in the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (both in Chinese),
and Tung Chung before and after the New Airport: An Ethnographic and Historical Study of a Community in Hong Kong, and chief
editor of the series New History of Overseas Chinese.

1. Education Background

I majored in History and minored in Sociology during my undergraduate years at CUHK, from 1970 to
1974. The discipline of History at that time was heavily influenced by the social sciences, and I became deeply

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