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Wong Cheung-wai
Wong Cheung-wai (Chinese: 王章偉; 1965- present) is a Chinese historian, educator and editor. His speciality and research interest are Song Dynasty latromantis and the social history of the Song Dynasty. He is also a student of Jing-shen Tao and Lo Chiu-Ching.

He knows four languages, which are Cantonese, Standard Chinese, English and Japanese.

Early Life
1965, Wong Cheung-wai was born into a poor family in Hong Kong. He and his brother and sister were brought up in Wong Tai Sin.

His parents were illiterate, but they encouraged Wong to study hard as education is the only way out of poverty.

He is now living in Tuen Mun, Hong Kong.

Education
In 1984, Wong Cheung-wai was graduated from Ng Wah Catholic Secondary School, and excelled at the Hong Kong Higher Level Examination.

He studied History at Chinese University of Hong Kong(CUHK) and was graduated in 1988. During his study at CUHK, his adviser was Lo Chiu-ching, who was an expert of the Song Dynasty and a student of Chien Mu. At his final year at CUHK, he met Jing-shen Tao, who went to CUHK as a Professor-At-Large, and Wong became a very close friend with him while being his student.

In 1991, Wong was graduated from Chinese University of Hong Kong with a master degree in Philosophy. His research interests was the social history of the Song Dynasty, and in 1991, Wong wrote his thesis <<河南呂氏家族研究>>, which is the basis of his book <<近代社會的形成：宋代的士族與民間信仰>>.

In 1997, he started his doctoral degree in philosophy at the University of Hong Kong with his friend Lo Kam-yi, who established the Hong Kong Journal of Social Science(Chinese: 香港社會科學學報) together with him in 1993. He was graduated in 2003 with his dissertation <<在國家與社會之間--宋代巫覡信仰研究>>, which was published two years later in 2005 by Zhonghua Book Company. The book was republished and renamed as <<文明世界的魔法師--宋代巫覡信仰研究>> in 2006 by San Min Book.

Career
1991, Jing-shen Tao offered Wong a chance to study abroad in America, but Wong rejected. Then he started teaching Chinese History at St. Teresa Secondary School till present.

1993, he established the Hong Kong Journal of Social Science (Chinese: 香港社會科學學報) together with his friend, Lo Kam-yi (Chinese: 羅金義), from secondary school.

On the 28th of July, 2005, he was invited by Professor Lin Fu-shih to give a keynote speech "淫祠與邪神--宋朝政府對巫覡信仰的重塑" at the Academia Sinica.

2014-2017, he was an adjunct of the Department of Chinese Culture and taught Folk Beliefs and Occult Science at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Works
Representative works:


 * 1) 2004《奇蹟背後――解構東亞現代化》
 * 2) 2005《在國家與社會之間――宋代巫覡信仰研究》(English: A study of Shamanism In Song China) ISBN 9628885146
 * 3) 2006《文明世界的魔法師：宋代的巫覡與巫術》
 * 4) 2017 《近代社會的形成 宋代的士族與民間信仰》(上+下)  ISBN 97898640494869789864049493

Selected works:

1990 《試論張邦昌》史潮

1990 《從原敬看大正政黨政治》史潮

1993《Valerie Hansen, «Changing Gods in Medieval China, 1127-1276》Hong Kong Journal of Social Science

1993 《宋代士族婚姻研究--以河南呂氏家族為例》新史學

1997 《評[許烺光著，王芃、徐隆德、余伯泉譯] 驅逐搗蛋者--魔法、科學與文化》Hong Kong Journal of Social Science

1997 《尋找第三種角度旳香港歷史書寫--以戰前港英社會福利發展為例》Mingpao Monthly

1997 《評[周愚文] 宋代兒童的生活與教育》Hong Kong Journal of Social Science

1998 《評Meir Shahar & Robert P. Weller, “Unruly Gods: Divinity and Society in China”》Hong Kong Journal of Social Science

2003 《曾瑞龍：<經略幽燕--宋遼軍事災難的戰略分析>》Hong Kong Journal of Social Science

2006 《[評]劉黎明：<宋代民間巫術研究>》Hong Kong Journal of Social Science

2014 《妖與靈—宋代邪神信仰初探》九州學林