Dr. Heung Wah Wong
Acting Head, School of Modern Languages and Cultures,
Associate Professor, Global Creative Industries Programme
The University of Hong Kong
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Research Interest:
Anthropology of business, globalization of Japanese popular culture, Western social thought, and comparative study of Japan and China.
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Area of Expertise:
Production of culture, Creative industries in East Asia, Japanese companies and management, Japanese companies in Greater China, Globalization of Japanese popular culture, Hong Kong popular culture
About Me
I am the founder and creator of the Global Creative Industries program (commenced 2012) at the University of Hong Kong, where I am the acting head and associate professor at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the Faculty of Arts. Prior to that, I taught Japanese Studies at the same university for sixteen years.
I read my BA at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, graduating with First Class Honors in Anthropology. I continued my studies in Anthropology at St. Antony’s College at Oxford University, where I did my PhD on Social Anthropology. One of my most inspiring undergraduate teachers was Professor Chen Chi-nan, who taught me the importance of understanding others in their cultural context rather than imposing our own cultural conceptions upon them. Another important mentor for me was Professor Marshall Sahlins. He taught me that culture is a species-specific capacity for Homo Sapiens and cannot be reduced to any practical reason. I also learned from Jean-Paul Sartre that individual behaviors cannot be solely determined by culture. The ultimate challenge for us therefore is to......
