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Honorary University Fellows

Dr Joseph TING Sun Pao
2012 Honorary University Fellow
Dr Joseph TING Sun Pao
Biography

Dr Joseph Sun Pao Ting was born in Guangzhou and raised in Hong Kong. He majored in Chinese Literature and Chinese History at HKU and graduated with a BA degree in 1974. He was conferred an MPhil in 1979 and a PhD in 1989, also from HKU. 

Dr Ting joined the Hong Kong Museum of Art as an Assistant Curator in 1979 and appointed Chief Curator of the Hong Kong Museum of History in 1995. He retired in 2007 after serving for 28 years, during which he was instrumental in the planning and implementation of the new Hong Kong Museum of History, the Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence and the Dr Sun Yat-sen Museum.

He is currently an Honorary Assistant Professor in the HKU School of Chinese, an Honorary Advisor to the Hong Kong University Museum and Art Gallery, and was an Honorary Research Fellow at the former Centre of Asian Studies. 

Dr Ting is a respected scholar of the history of Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta area, and is the author of award winning books on the cultural heritage of Hong Kong.

He is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Chairman of the Chinese Modern History Society of Hong Kong, and a Member, inter alia, of the Antiquities Advisory Board, the Lord Wilson Heritage Trust and the Education Bureau of Hong Kong.

Dr Ting is an Honorary Advisor to the Hong Kong Museum of Art, the Hong Kong Museum of History, the Shenzhen Museum and the Guangdong Provincial Museum. 

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