Lingnan Culture and the World: Construction and Change in the Cultural Landscape of Cantonese Literati from the Late Qing to the Republican Era in China (1821-1949)

The project examines the construction and evolution of the Lingnan culture as seen in the lives and experiences of 150 key personalities among the Cantonese literati and merchant-gentry of the late Qing and Republican era (1821–1949)—an age of great change in the history of modern China.

Funding Source: RGC - Collaborative Research Fund (CRF)