Academic & Teaching Staff
Dr Lam Hau Ling Eileen
Assistant Professor
Art History, Material Culture, Archaeology of Art
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Dr Lam Hau Ling Eileen
Assistant Professor
Dr. Eileen Lam received her PhD in Chinese art history from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her doctoral research focused on a lavish group of jades discovered in princely tombs of the second century BC in southeastern China. Prior to joining the Department of Cultural and Creative Arts, she was awarded the J. S. Lee Memorial Fellowship and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Art Institute of Chicago, USA. She teaches courses in the areas of material culture and Chinese art history. Her current research focuses on tomb art, and the materiality and representation of ritual objects in ancient China. She has received Early Career Scheme (ECS) and General Research Fund (GRF) grants from the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, and her research works have been published in different international journals and edited volumes.
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PhD (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
BA (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
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Areas of Teaching
Ancient Chinese Material Culture
Art History
History of Chinese Jade
History of Chinese Painting -
Research Interests
Materiality of Art
Ancient Chinese Art and Society
Cultural History of Chinese Jade
Chinese Tomb Art and Afterlife belief
Ritual Object and Celestial Worship -
Selected Outputs
Lam, H. L. E. (2019). Representation of heaven and beyond: the bi disc imagery in the Han burial context. Asian Studies, 7(2), 115-151.
Lam, H. L. E. (2019). Carvings (stone and jade) in pre‐modern China. In H. Fujita & C. Guth (Eds.), Encyclopedia of East Asian design. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Lam, H. L. E. (2018). Dynamic between form and material: the bi disc in Western Han noble burial ritual. In F. Allard, K. Linduff & Y. Sun (Eds.), Memory and agency in ancient China: Shaping the life history of objects (216-239). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lam, H. L. E. (2014). The changes in wearing huang pendants between Western and Eastern Zhou periods and the occurrence of dragon pendants 兩周佩璜方式的轉變與玉龍佩之出現. In Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology & Shanghai Museum (Eds.), The international symposium on Rui state treasures from Hancheng, Shaanxi province (181-188). Shanghai: Shanghai Classics Publishing House.
Lam, H. L. E. (2012). The possible origins of the jade stem beaker in China. Arts Asiatiques, 67, 35-46. -
External Appointments
- Jury Board Member, 2018, Marine Life Drawing Competition, Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department, The Government of HKSAR
- Jury Board Member, 2016 & 2014, BA Graduation Exhibition, The Academy of Visual Arts, HKBU
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Major External Research Grants
- Beyond Imitation: Ritual Objects, Pictorial Representations and Religious Beliefs of Han China, (ECS, 2014-15)
- A Reappraisal of Ancient Glass in the Han period (206 BCE−220 CE), (GRF, 2019-20)
