Christian Pak, MA, BSocSc(Hons)

Area of Study / Keywords

Mediaeval Chinese Literature Early Tang Literature Pre-modern Chinese Literary History Literary Reception Pre-modern Chinese Fiction

About

Christian Pak (MA, Hong Kong, 2022) is appointed to the position of Project Manager for the Consortium for Distributed and Passive Sensing of the Department of Physics, where his responsibilities include assistance with project administrative duties, project deliverables, events coordination, and strategic development works for the Consortium.

He is also a researcher in East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature.  His main research interest lies in mediaeval Chinese (220-979) literature and holds a subsidiary interest is classical Chinese fiction.

Education
MA (with distinction), Chinese Language and Literature, The University of Hong Kong, 2022
BSocSc (Honours), China Studies/Sociology (Minor: Chinese Language and Literature), The Education University of Hong Kong, 2017
ERASMUS+ Abroad Study, Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, 2016

Research

Under the supervision of Dr. Daniel Fried, my thesis is in conjunction between the poetry of Chen Zi'ang (fl. ca. 658–699), an Early Tang poet, with Daoism. My thesis analyses Chen Zi'ang's Daoist' sensibility throughout his literary writings.