University of Lethbridge

Biography

Luke attended Chung Chi College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (1966-70). He then studied at the University of Toronto, where he received his M.A in 1973 and his Ph.D. in 1978 in the field of History. He taught at Chung Chi College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 1976 to 1989, at which time he joined the History Department of the University of Lethbridge.

COURSES TAUGHT:
History 1000 - Western Civilization
History 2250 - China in the 19th and 20th Centuries
History 2290 - Main Themes in East Asian History
History 3250 - Reform in Late-Ch'ing China
History 3260 - China and the West
History 4040 - Seminar in East Asian History

Selected Publications

"Cixi xiezhao di xubi" (Cixi's oil portraits), Gugong bowuyuan yuankan (The Palace Museum review) (Beijing), 1:71-81 (2000).

"Chinese Politics at the Crossroads: Reflections on the Hundred Days Reform of 1898," Modern Asian Studies 34.3:663-695 (2000).

"Self and Society in Modern China: Liu E and Laocan youji," T'oung Pao (Paris-Leiden), 87.2:360-92 (2001).

"The Rise of the Linear Perspective on History and Time in Late Qing China (c. 1860-1911)," Past & Present 173:157-190 (November 2001).

"Refurbishing Hong Kong's Image: 1997 and Chinese Nationalism under Deng Xiaoping," European Journal of East Asian Studies 3.1: 171-205 (2004).

"Juwai junei di miwang: Hede Pangguan sanlun duhou" (A study of Sir Robert Hart's Three Treatises by a Bystander), in Zhongguo haiguan yu Zhongguo jindai shehui (The Chinese Maritime Customs and Chinese society in the modern period), ed. Dai Ifeng, et al. (Xiamen, Xiamen daxue chubansh, 2005), pp. 25-45.

"The Chinese Myth of Universal Kingship and Commissioner Lin Zexu's Anti-opium Campaign of 1839," English Historical Review (forthcoming).

Research Interests

The main areas of interest focus on political, intellectual, and cultural history of modern China (19th and 20th centuries), and on historiography and historical method. Current projects deals with reform and late-Ch'ing fiction and with historiography in post-Mao China.

Current Research and Creative Activity

Title	Location	Grant Information	Principal Investigator	Co Researchers
Reform and late-Ch'ing fiction	Lethbridge, AB	Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Grant, $49,000, 1994-97.	Luke S. K. Kwong
The Life and thought of T'an Ssu-t'ung (1865-1898)	Lethbridge, AB	Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Grant, $67,000, 1991-94.	Luke S. K. Kwong