Our PhD students had worked on a wide range of research topics. The following list shows the research topics that our students had explored:
Electronic Theses & Dissertations Collection at CUHK Library
| Graduation Year | Thesis Title | 
| 2025 | Vulnerability in Transnational Informality: Experiences of Itinerant Traders between Ethiopia and China (Fekadu Malede ABITEW) | 
| 2025 | Loving in the Shadow of Race: Chinese Men and White Women in Hong Kong (Gabriella ANGELINI) | 
| 2025 | 食物資源與「中國」的構建 ——公元前二千紀至前一千紀中原及其周邊的飲食與認同考古研究 (CHEN Yutong 陳虞通 ) | 
| 2025 | Wounded Kinship: Social Stratification among Hijras, a ‘Third’ Gender Community in North India (Ina GOEL) | 
| 2024 | Playing Football in Southwest China: Masculine Ambivalence and the Re-Construction of Gendered Ethnicity (GAO Shiyi 高詩怡) | 
| 2024 | The Barakat That Keeps on Giving: Sufi Legacy, Muslim Belonging and Land in Hyderabad, India (PHUA Mei Yen 潘玫燕) | 
| 2024 | Fresh-cut Flower Economy: Value-making and Temporalities in Accelerationist China (SUN Rui 孫睿) | 
| 2024 | Transnational Aspirations and Lived Realities of Zimbabweans and Other Africans in Hong Kong and Mainland China (Phillip THEBE) | 
| 2023 | 臺灣東北角鯖魚漁業的環境政治:過漁危機、資源管理與公共化 (WU Ying-ching 吳映青) | 
| 2022 | Lines of Hope Along Biomedical Technology (Isabel BRIZ HERNANDEZ) | 
| 2022 | Education, Employment and Citizenship: An Anthropological Study on the Aspiration of Yunnanese Youth of the Thai-Burmese Borderland (LAI Siu Hei 黎肇曦) | 
| 2022 | Foreigners’ Place: Reconfigurations of Space, Ethnicity, and Power in Two Foreign Clusters in Guangzhou (Marco MONTAGNER) | 
| 2021 | 尋求有尊嚴的生活:在中國城市養育自閉兒 (AN Mengzhu 安孟竹) | 
| 2021 | Precious Economies: Gems and Value Making in the Pakistan-Afghanistan Borderlands (LIN Ping Hsiu 林炳秀) | 
| 2021 | 磁化的華人性:馬來西亞華人漁民之身份表述與發展困境研究 (LIN Qichun 林綺純) | 
| 2021 | The Happiness Impasse: Exploring Middle-class Women’s Pursuits of Marital Happiness in Urban China and Japan (SUN Lin 孫琳) | 
| 2021 | 與假肢生活:中國的殘障、身體與照護 (WANG Chunchun 汪春春) | 
| 2020 | 地域性層級化的文化治理 : 中國瑤族「耍歌堂」的批判民族誌 [Territorial stratified cultural governance : a critical ethnography of the Yao Shuagetang in China] (CHEN Daina 陳岱娜) | 
| 2020 | 建設中國銅綠山古銅礦考古遺址公園 : 文化遺產、地方營造與集體記憶 [Fabricating an archaeological heritage park of Tonglu shan in Hubei, China : civilisation, place-making and collective memory] (LUO Jingjing 羅晶晶) | 
| 2020 | Cleaning up the local industry : the taming of risk in a Chinese textile town (Elena NICHINI) | 
| 2020 | Responsive piety : Chinese state authority and the politics of Islamic ethics in a Hui town [动态的虔诚 : 中国国家政权与回族小镇的伊斯兰伦理政治] (Ruslan YUSUPOV 尤虎) | 
| 2019 | Chinese Espresso: Immigrant Entrepreneurship and Ethnic Encounters in Bologna, Italy [中式濃縮咖啡 : 義大利波隆那的移民創業和族群相遇] (Deng Ting 鄧婷) | 
| 2019 | Radioactive Citizens: Reassembling Life in Post-Fukushima Japan [輻射公民 : 於後福島核災的日本重組生活] (Tam Man Kei 譚萬基) | 
| 2018 | 以香謀市:中國嶺南地區的傳統再造與社會變遷 [Pricing culture : the invention of tradition and the social transformation in the south of the five ridges of China] (Ding Ling 丁玲) | 
| 2018 | Racial Encounters and Migrant Experiences: How Africans and Chinese Interact in a Globalising China (LIN Dan 林丹) | 
| 2017 | 涼山彝族社會的農政變遷——中國西南高地農業的商品化與資本化 [Agrarian change in Liangshan Yi region : the commercialization of agriculture of the development of capitalism in the highlands of southwest China] (RUAN Chiyin 阮池銀) | 
| 2017 | The Atmosphere of an Ecological Civilizationi: A Study of Ideology, Perception and Action in Chengdu, China [生態文明的大環境 : 有關中國成都市意識形態、感知] (Edwin A Schmitt) | 
| 2016 | Utopian Communities and The Dream of a Better World: an Ethnographic Analysis of Life Chanyuan (China), Christiania (Denmark), and Damanhur (Italy) [乌托邦社团和梦想更加美好的世界 : 关于生命禅园(中国), Christiania(丹麦), Damanhur(意大利)的民族志研究] (Martin Boewe) | 
| 2016 | Seeking a Future for the Past: Negotiating Inner City Redevelopment and Heritage in Qingdao, China [為過去構建未來 : 青島市的舊城改造與文化遺產保護] (Philipp Demgenski) | 
| 2016 | 燕窩之補:燕窩的社會生命與效力 [Birds’ nest as tonic : the social life of birds’ nest and efficacy] (Yu Xin 余昕) | 
| 2016 | 好日子,壞日子 – – 華北弋城安利人的民族志研究 [Cultivating good days (haorizi) : an ethnographic study of Amway Distributors in a northern Chinese city] (Yuan Changgeng 袁長庚) | 
| 2015 | “眼力”的法則:當代中國古玩權威地位的合法化研究 (Wu Huanyu 武洹宇) | 
| 2015 | 垃圾之戰:廣州的綠色治理,反焚運動與科技爭議 [Floating Boundaries: Gender Roles and Identities of Chaoxianzu Transnational Women Migrant Workers] (Zhang Jieying 張劼穎) | 
| 2014 | Nepal Drug Users in Hong Kong: Ethnicity, Transnationalism, and Marginalization (Tang Wai Man 鄧偉文) | 
| 2013 | 流動中的邊界:朝鮮族跨國移工婦女的性別角色與認同. [Floating Boundaries: Gender Roles and Identities of Chaoxianzu Transnational Women Migrant Workers] (Li Nan 李楠) | 
| 2013 | Language, Politics and Identity: The Making of a Taiwanese Language. (Tam Chung Wing 譚宗穎) | 
| 2012 | Adaptation to Schooling and Life: Mainland Chinese and South Asian Teenage Immigrant Students in Hong Kong. (Chee Wai Chi 徐渭芝) | 
| 2012 | 權力、空間與社會關係:寧夏海原縣的”現代化”與民眾反應. [Power, Space and Social Relations: “Modernization” and People’s Response in Haiyuan County, Ningxia, China] (Ma Jianfu 馬建褔) | 
| 2012 | Milk and Modernity: Health and Culinary Heritage in South China. [牛奶與現代性:一項南中國之健康、飲食文化遺產研究] (Mak Sau Wa 麥秀華) | 
| 2011 | 國家統治、地方政治與溫州的基督教. [State Rule, Local Politcs and Christianity in Wenzhou] (Zhu Yujing 朱宇晶) | 
| 2010 | The French in Shanghai: A Study of Cosmopolitan Culture under the Predominance of Anglo-American Globalization. [上海的法國人 – 英美主導的全球化背景下的都市文化研究] (Hou Jing Rong 侯井榕) | 
| 2010 | 迷失的發展:泉州的現代化、城市規劃與文化遺產保護. [Lost in Development: Modernization, Urban Planning and Heritage Preservation in Quanzhou] (Luo Pan 羅攀) | 
| 2010 | 制作”清真” — 魯西南回民的儀式,經濟與地域網絡. [Fabricating Qingzhen: Rituals, Economy and Regional Network among Hui Muslims in Southwest Shandong Province] (Su Min 蘇敏) | 
| 2010 | Cosmetic Surgery in Post-Mao China: State Power, Market Discourse, and the Remaking of the Body. [後毛時代中國的整形美容手術:國家權力、市場話語與身體的重塑] (Wen Hua 文華) | 
| 2009 | 族群、宗教与认同的重建 广州一个维吾尔移民社群的研究. [Ethinicity, Religion and the Reconstructon of Identity – A Research on the Community of Uyghur Migrants in Guangzhou] (Huang Yun 黄云) | 
| 2009 | 緬甸華人——族群、文化政治與公民歸屬 (Being Chinese in Burma: Ethnicity and Cultural Citizenship). (Duan Ying 段穎) | 
| 2005 | Trade and Toursim in Lao Cai, Vietnam: A Study of Vietnamese-Chinese Interaction and Borderland Development. (Chan Yuk Wah 陳玉華) | 
| 2004 | 跨國網絡中的僑鄉海外華人與福建樹兜村的社會變遷 [Transnational Networks and Social Change in an Emigrant Village in Fujian]. (Ding Yuling 丁毓玲) | 
| 2004 | 控制與協同:一家高科技企業組織文化的民族志報告 [Control and Commitment: The Social and Cultural Construction in a Hi-tech Corporation]. (Tian Hongliang 田宏亮 ) | 
| 2004 | 認同之抉擇四川爾蘇人族群認同建構的民族志研究 [Choosing Identities: The Construction of Ethnic Identities Among the Ersu of Sichuan]. (Wu Da 巫達 ) | 
| 2002 | Schooling in the Yao Mountains: An Ethnographic Study of Education among the Tu Tao in Guangxi, China. [瑤山的学校教育 : 中国广西土瑤的民族志研究] (Yuan Tongkai 袁同凱) | 
| 2002 | Between the family and the state : an ethnography of the civil associations and community movements in a Shanghai lilong neighborhood. [國與家之間 : 上海鄰里的市民團體與社區運動的民族] (Zhu Jiangang 朱健剛) | 
| 1999 | Negotiating Social Status: Religion and Ethnicity in a Seui Seuhng Yahn Settlement in Hong Kong. (Liu Tat Fong, Agnes 劉達芳) | 
| 1997 | 再造宗族:福建陽村宗族”復興”的研究 [Remaking Lineage: “Revival” of Lineage in Yang Village, Fujian]. (Zhang Xiaojun 張小軍) | 
| 1996 | 權力與資源:廣東農村幹部研究 [Power and Resources: A Study of Village Cadres in Guangdong]. (Li Yongji李泳集) | 
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