Academic Staff
Professor Louise Edwards, FAHA, FASSA
Coordinator
Modern China Studies
School of Modern Languages and Cultures
University of Hong Kong
Room 1017, KK Leung Bldg
Tel: (852) 28578611
Fax: (852) 25480487
Email: ledwards@hku.hk
Academic Profile
Professor Edwards has degrees from Auckland (BA), Murdoch (BA Hons) and Griffith Universities (PhD). She is a Fellow of both the Australian Academy of Humanities and the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia. From 2004-2009 Louise served as Convenor of the Australian Research Council’s Asia Pacific Futures Research Network.
Previous Posts
She has held academic positions at the University of Queensland, Australian Catholic University, Australian National University and the University of Technology, Sydney where she lectured variously in China Studies, Chinese Language, Chinese History, Women’s Studies and Asian Studies.
Research Interests
Professor Edwards is currently working on a series of projects around gendered cultures of war in China. She maintains an active research interest in women in Asia, celebrity in China and the politics of dress.
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Publications
Her publications include Gender, Politics and Democracy: Women’s Suffrage in China (Stanford UP 2008); Men and Women in Qing China: Gender in The Red Chamber Dream (Brill 1994, Hawaii UP 2001); Censored by Confucius: Ghost Stories by Yuan Mei, (M. E. Sharpe 1996, with Kam Louie); Celebrity in China (Hong Kong UP 2009, with Elaine Jeffreys) and a series of edited volumes with Mina Roces including Women’s Movements in Asia: Feminisms and Transnational Activism (Routledge 2010); The Politics of Dress in Asia and the Americas (Sussex Academic 2007); Women’s Suffrage in Asia (RoutledgeCurzon 2004); and Women in Asia: Tradition, Modernity and Globalization (Allen and Unwin, Michigan UP 2000).
Dr. Adelyn Lim
Post-doctoral Fellow
Email: adelyn@hku.hk
Academic Profile
Adelyn Lim received a PhD in anthropology from the Australian National University in 2010.
Research Interests
Her current research projects are on the women's movement in post-1997 Hong Kong, as well as the transnational framing of international agendas on women’s rights in China. Her research interests are focused on political economy, social movements, gender, labour and migration in contemporary Chinese societies.
Publications
Her publications include "The Hong Kong Women's Movement: Towards a Politics of Difference and Diversity" in the edited volume Women's Movements in Asia: Feminisms and Transnational Activism (2010) and "Transnational Feminist Practices in Hong Kong: Mobilization and Collective Action for Sex Workers' Rights" in The Asia-Pacific Journal of Anthropology (2008).