Alice Fung

Overview

Alice’s dissertation investigates the cultural development of postwar Hong Kong, tracing how Western modernism was adopted, reshaped, and embedded in the city’s artistic and institutional life. Rather than treating modernism as a purely aesthetic category, her research examines its role within shifting political, cultural, and colonial formations. By positioning Hong Kong as a key site for rethinking the global history of modernism, her project offers a new perspective on postwar Chinese art that moves beyond the conventional emphasis on socialist contexts. Her writing has appeared in the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. In spring 2026, she will serve as a visiting fellow at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. Alice holds a BA in Chinese and History from City University of Hong Kong and an MA in Art History from Boston University. She also maintains an active interest in Hong Kong cinema.