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Dr Kathy Mak

Assistant Professor at Department of Chinese History and Culture, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

About me

Kathy Mak received her degrees from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (MPhil) and the University of California, Los Angeles (PhD). Currently, she is Assistant Professor at the Department of Chinese History and Culture of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research focuses on the representation of landscape in Chinese art, especially in the contexts of nation-building, environmental imaginations, and migration in the post-war Chinese worlds. She also investigates the works of the first-generation modern artists of Hong Kong in a global context.