Overview
Alice’s primary research centers on the cultural development of postwar Hong Kong. Her dissertation examines the transmission, reception, reinvention and institutionalization of Western modernism within the Hong Kong context. Specifically, she investigates how European and American modernisms were translated into Hong Kong and subsequently adopted by local intellectuals, artists, and colonial institutions to serve their respective agendas. By exploring the interplay between modernism, colonialism, and globalization, her work makes a contribution to the growing field of global modernism. It also challenges the historiography of modern Chinese art, which predominantly frames postwar Chinese art through a socialist lens.
Research Focus
Contemporary Hong Kong art and culture.