Staff Profile

Biography

Teaching Areas & Research Interests

• Classical Chinese Literature, Classical Chinese Literary Criticism, Ci poetry Studies

Academic & Professional Experience

Funded Project:

2020-2022: PI, Study of Ci Annotation in Republican China (1911-1949) / 民國時期（1911－1949）詞籍注釋研究, HKD $ 310,020, Research Grants Council Faculty Development Scheme. (Ref no. UGC/FDS16/H18/19)

2022-2023: PI,  Quantitative Research on the Relationship between Tonal Prosody and Lyricism of Liu Yong’s Long Song of Ci Poetry, HKD $127,350 , University R&D funding (ref. no. RD/2022/1.15)

2025- 2026: PI, Study on the Relationship between Tonal Prosody and Lyricism of Ci Poetry: Focusing on Liǔ Yǒng, Zhōu Bāngyàn, Jiāng Kuí, Zhāng Yán / 宋詞聲律與抒情關係研究--以柳永、周邦彥、姜夔、張炎為中心, HKD $ 631,220, Research Grants Council Faculty Development Scheme. (Ref no. UGC/FDS16/H34/24)

Award:

HKMU President's Awards for Distinguished Achievement 2023

Selected Publications

Books

• Hung, C. K., & Tsang, C. C. (Eds.). (2020). Heritage and dissemination: Essays on Chinese culture in global contexts. Showwe Information Co., Ltd.

Book Chapters

• Tsang, C. C. (2021). A study of Yang Tiefu and his Annotated commentary on Mengchuang ci. In C. S. Cheng & W. S. Chan (Eds.), Inheritance of literary elegance: Essays on traditional Chinese literature since the early republic (Vol. 2, pp. 529-550). The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
• On the exploration of the characteristics of ci poetry by ci scholars during the Republican period (1911-1949). In Literary criticism and life: Proceedings of the fourth cross-strait Chinese literature conference (pp. 194-203). The Open University of Hong Kong & Ming Pao Monthly.
• Tsang, C. C. (2018). Information technology and the study of ancient Chinese literary theory: A preliminary discussion. In K. K. Tam, M. L. Leung, & C. H. Wong (Eds.), Chinese humanities research in the digital age (pp. 109-120). Showwe Information Co., Ltd.
• Tsang, C. C. (2017). A brief discussion on Long Yusheng's research on Dongpo ci. In C. S. Cheng & W. S. Chan (Eds.), Inheritance of literary elegance: Essays on traditional Chinese literature since the early republic (pp. 859-870). The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Journal Articles

• Tsang, C. C. (2025). The digital transformation of "ci tune studies": The relationship between falling tone leading characters and lyricism in Liu Yong's slow ci as an example. Digital Archives and Digital Humanities, 16. (In press)
• Tsang, C. C. (2025). On Yu Pingbo's poetry annotation and literary criticism. Research on Ancient Literary Theory, 60, 433-458. (CSSCI, AMI Core)
• Tsang, C. C. (2023). A study of annotated ci collections in the Republican period. Republican Literature Research, 2, 133-149. National Library of China Publishing House.
• Tsang, C. C. (2023). Scholarly big data and the development of ci studies: Focusing on ci annotations in the first half of the 20th century. NCHU Journal of Humanities, 70, 1-27. (THCI)
• Tsang, C. C. (2018). The modern transformation of ci criticism: On the evolution of the cihua tradition in the Republican period. Journal of Chinese Literature of Providence University, 13, 37-72. (THCI)
• Tsang, C. C. (2017). Reception and construction of the ci tradition: On Tang Guizhang's research on 'Ci poetry of the two masters of Southern Tang.' New Asia Academic Bulletin, 18, 201-216.
• Tsang, C. C. (2012). On the origins of the "theory of temperament and emotion" in Xie Zhangting's ci studies. Journal of Tsinghua University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), 2012(S1), 32-37. (CSSCI)
• (Conference Presentation) Tsang, C. C. (2025). Study of prosody in Chinese classical poetry from a perspective of digital humanities. British Association for Chinese Studies 2025 Annual Conference. University of Leicester.
• (Conference Proceeding) Tsang, C. C. (2025). On the deficiency of ci prosody research from a digital humanities perspective and research methods for the relationship between ci form and emotion. In Proceedings of the Academic Symposium on Digital Humanities and Ancient Chinese Historical Research. Department of Chinese, Lingnan University.
• (Conference Proceeding) Tsang, C. C. (2025). "Fragrant and tender" or "allegory": On the interpretation of Huajian ci in annotated ci collections of the late Qing and Republican periods. In Academic and literature in a period of rupture: Proceedings of the Academic Symposium on Classical Chinese Poetics in the Late Qing and Republican Periods. Center for Chinese Poetics Research, Anhui Normal University.
• (Conference Proceeding) Tsang, C. C. (2024). "Half a lifetime of withered manuscripts accustomed to autumn sorrow": On Yang Tiefu in Shuangshu Residence Ci and his Hong Kong writings. In Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the China Ci Studies Association and International Academic Symposium on Ci Studies. Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Sun Yat-sen University.
• (Conference Presentation) Tsang Chi Chug(2023) Lyrical Tradition of classical Chinese literature and tonal prosody--Focusing on Ci potery, 18th Biennial Conference of Chinese Studies Association of Australia(CSAA) 2023, University of Sydney, 7-9, December, 2023.
• (Conference Proceeding) Tsang Chi Chung(2020) Canonization of Ci Poetry of Tang and Five Dynasties and the Annotation of Ci Poetry: Focusing on “Hua Jian Ji” （〈唐五代詞經典化與詞籍評注箋釋 ：以《花間集》為中心〉），Conference Proceeding of 4th World Conference of Chinese Studies, p311-324. 19th Intl. Conference on the Pre-modern Chinese Novel & Drama, Academic Press of the USA, European University Press.
• (Conference Presentation) Tsang Chi Chung（2021） A study on the hermeneutics and annotation of Ci poetry in Republican China （1911—1949）, （Panel Chair） The 23rd biennial conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies （EACS）, Leipzig University, Germany, 24–28, August, 2021.
• (Conference Presentation) Tsang Chi Chung（2021） Study on Ci Annotation and its' construction of discourse in Republican China（1911—1949）, 2021 Conference of the British Association for Chinese Studies （BACS）, University of Birmingham, England, September 6—10, 2021.

Selected Professional & Community Services

• Keynote Speaker, "Cheng Ming Humanities Lecture: Yang Tiefu's Ci Poetry and His Hong Kong Writings" at New Asia Research Institute.
• Author for "Chinese Perspective" and "Metropolis and Me" columns in Wen Wei Po; "Teachers' Forum" column in Hong Kong Economic Journal, among others.
• Guest Speaker at Wu Yee Sun College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong: "Language and Culture Table: 'Elaborate Makeup' and 'Light Makeup' in Huajian Ci Poetry."
• Judge for the "Octagonal Debate Competition" at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
• Keynote Speaker on "The Rhythm of Speech" at the Language Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University.
• Final Judge for the "8th Cantonese Impromptu Speech Competition" at the Language Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University.
• Judge for the Inter-collegiate Debate Competition 2023-25.
• Keynote Speaker on topics including "Our Distance from Classical Chinese," "Daily Life in Tang and Song Ci Poetry," "Women's Makeup in Tang and Song Ci," "Hong Kong in the Hong Kong Palace Museum," and others.

Modified Date: 11 Sep, 2025
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