Professor Yao-su Hu is the Provost at Hong Kong Shue Yan University. He has worked as an industrial economist at the World Bank and at two of Britain’s leading research institutes: Political and Economic Planning and the Royal Institute of International Affairs. He was the first holder of the Foundation for Management Education (FME) Chair of International Business at the University of Warwick. His research interests include international business, innovation policy and industrial finance.
Prof. Selina Ching Chan
Associate Director
Senior Research Fellow
M.Phil, D.Phil. University of Oxford, U.K.
Professor Selina Ching Chan is Academic Vice President and Professor of Sociology at Hong Kong Shue Yan University. She is an anthropologist who has conducted fieldwork in different Chinese communities in Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and Singapore. Her research interests include: family, lineage, religion, cultural heritage, collective memories and identities.
Dr. NG, Ni Na Camellia is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Hong Kong Shue Yan University, specializing in Chinese Art History. With a Ph.D. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, her research explores cross-cultural exchanges, collecting practices, and digital art. She teaches diverse courses like “Art and Society” and actively publishes on modern Chinese art, including a forthcoming book on late-Qing painters in Japan. Dr. Ng leads projects on cultural identity through graphic narratives and engages in public scholarship, such as creating animation based on classical art. Her work bridges academic research, education, and cultural heritage.
Dr. Jieyi Xie (謝潔怡) is Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Shue Yan University. Situated in critical heritage studies, her work explores how cultural value is made, mobilized, and governed through the World Heritage regime. She analyzes the politics of nomination and post-nomination management, the deployment of World Heritage as soft power, and the multi-scalar knowledge production that shapes the Silk Roads and Maritime Silk Roads. Methodologically, her research draws on ethnography, critical discourse analysis, and comparative, text-based inquiry.
Visiting Research Fellow/Honorary Fellow
Dr. LI Yinguang
Visiting Research Fellow
10 June 2026 – 9 June 2028
Dr. Henry Choi Visiting Research Fellow Apr 2025 – Dec 2026
Prof. Raymond Wing-kam Lau Visiting Senior Research Fellow 3 Dec 2020 – 31 Dec 2026
Dr. Xiuguo Li Fellow 1 September 2019 – 31 August 2023
Mr. Tjun-siang Liang Honorary Fellow 18 Oct 2019 – 17 Oct 2021
Dr. Kee-beng, Ooi Visiting Fellow 9 – 15 May 2019
Dr. Herbert S Yee Visiting Fellow 16 September 2011 – 15 September 2012
Dr. Christian Gudehus Visiting Fellow 1 May 2010 – 31 May 2010