Dr AU, Chung To

Associate Head of Department

Assistant Professor

External Grants (Principal investigator)

GRF

“Hong Kong Modernism in Wenyi Xinchao” (2023/1 – 2024/6)
“The Lyrical Tradition in Hong Kong from the 1970s through the 1990s” (2022/1 – 2022/12)
“Leung Ping-kwan’s Literary Works and Hong Kong Modernism” (2015/1 - 2017/6)

Others

Arts Go Digital Platform Scheme (Hong Kong Arts and Development Council) – “Clicking Hong Kong Literature (Virtual Exhibition)” (2020/9/30-2021/6/30)
Individual Project Grant (Hong Kong Arts and Development Council) – “The Inbetweenness of East and West Matters: A Study of Leung Ping-kwan's Poetics” (2020/1 – 2020/12)
Academic Research Grant (Cultural Affairs Bureau of the MSAR Government, Macao) – “澳門現代主義詩潮論” (A Study of Macanese Modernist Poetry) (2014/3 – 2016/12)

Teaching Development Grants – “Beginning Research in Literature and Cultural Studies: A Companion to Honours Projects” (1/2024 – 12/2024)
Internal Research Grant – “Hong Kong Modernism in Wenyi Xinchao” (2019/8 —2020/8).
Internal Research Grant – “Reversing Memory Loss: Conceptions of the Hong Kong Lyrical Tradition” (4/9/2017 — 3/9/2018).
Internal Research Grant – “The Empire Travels Back: Postcolonial Writing and Ye Si’s Narrative Works” (2013/6 – 2014/9).
Departmental Additional Research Fund – “The Borrowed Non-place: A Study of temporality and spatiality in Hong Kong modernist fiction before 1997” (2013/1 – 2013/12).
Teaching Development Grants – “Reflective Learning of Canons at Practice: A Project Aimed at Lifting the Level of Chinese Language Learning” (2011/6 – 2013/5).
Internal Research Grant – “Semicolonized Modernism: A Study of Shanghai Modernist Poetry in the 1930s and 1940s” (10/1/2011 – 9/1-2012).
Departmental Additional Research Fund – “Comprador Culture: A Study of Hong Kong’s Material Culture Represented in Leung Ping-kwan’s works” (1/1/2012 – 31/12/2012).
Start-up Research Grant – “Food Identity: The Relationship between Food and Identity in Leung Ping-kwan’s Literary Works” (21/3/2011 – 20/3/2012).
Departmental Additional Research Fund – 香港現代主義與殖民城市的關係 (The Relationship between Hong Kong Modernism and Colonial City) (1/9/2010 – 30/4/2011).

《東西之間：梁秉鈞的中間詩學論》(The Inbetweenness of East and West Matters: A Study of Leung Ping-kwan's Poetics), published in 2020 by Chunghwa Book, won the 16th Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature (第十六屆香港中文文學雙年獎).