JOINTLY OFFERED BY
HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
Hong Kong Baptist University has committed to academic excellence and the development of the whole person, and has gained a reputation as one of Asia’s finest institutions of higher learning.
FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
The Faculty of Social Sciences is the largest faculty in the Hong Kong Baptist University in terms of number of departments, teaching staff and students. The Faculty is committed to nurturing student personal, intellectual and professional development with a liberal arts education. We also share a passion to inspire students to be creative and fulfilled builders of a fair global society and a strong University for the region.
DAVID C. LAM INSTITUTE FOR
EAST-WEST STUDIES
LEWI was established in 1993 with the aim to foster inter-disciplinary social science and humanities research and cultivate collaborative scholarship between the East and the West. Over the years LEWI has made strenuous efforts in performing and reconciling its dual roles as an international consortium of universities and a university-wide research unit.
PEOPLE
PROGRAMME DIRECTOR
Associate Professor
Department of Government and International Studies
RENOWNED SCHOLARS
PROF. ALISTAIR COLE
DPhil (oxon), Oxford University, UK
Head & Professor,
Department of Government and International Studies
Research Funding and Focus:
Alistair Cole has a proven record in obtaining research funding, with 6 grants in last ten years (from the ESRC, AHRC, British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, PALSE-IDEX-ANR and as part of a European Commission Jean Monnet network). Funded projects in the past decade have clustered around questions of trust, transparency, convergence and transfer, each involving conceptualisation in a multi-level and/or transnational context. He will continue to work on these questions that are key to understanding comparative forms of regional integration; intra- and inter-state relationships, civil society and the changing bases of political legitimacy.
PROF. JEAN-PIERRE CABESTAN
Doctorat d'Etat en Droit, Pantheon-Sorbonne University (Paris I)
Professor,
Department of Government and International Studies
Research Interests:
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Chinese Politics
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Chinese Law and Institutions
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Chinese Foreign and Security Policy
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Relations across the Taiwan Strait
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Taiwan Politics
TEACHING TEAM
DR. KANG YI
Ph.D., Yale University, USA
Assistant Professor,
Department of Government & International Studies
DR. YANG XI
Ph.D. University of Hong Kong
Teaching staff,
David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies
DR. CHOU KWOK PING, BILL
Ph.D. University of Hong Kong
Part-time teaching staff,
Department of Government & International Studies
DR. PETER QIU
Ph.D. Eberhad-Karls-University Tuebingen, Germany
Part-time teaching staff,
David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies
DR. TOBIAS ZUSER
Ph.D. Hong Kong Baptist University
Part-time teaching staff,
David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies