Professor Alex Cheung Kwong-yue is a renowned scholar who specializes in etymology, paleography, ancient texts, and classical literature of Chinese. He is also an authority in the identification and authentication of inscribed bronzes and bamboo manuscripts of ancient Chinese. Professor Cheung has received various research grants, including the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation Research Grant in Taiwan and other external private funds. Projects include “Research on the Inscribed Bronzes of the Shang-Zhou Period (1300–221 BC),” “Digital Archive of Ancient Chinese Bronzes,” “United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia – Research Project on Inscribed Bronzes,” and “A Comparative Research on the Names of Chinese Medicine Found in Qin-Han Bamboo/Silk Manuscripts and Hong Kong Chinese Herbs.”
He holds concurrent positions at various institutions. He has been appointed as Head and Chair Professor of the Department of Chinese at The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (HSUHK), Honorary Professor of Tsinghua University, Chair Professor of the School of History at Beijing Normal University, Honorary Professor of the School of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong, Honorary Professor of the Institute of Han Language at Anhui University, Academic Consultant of the Institute of Chinese Paleography at Zhongshan University, and Adjunct Professor of the Institute of Chinese Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Prior to joining HSUHK, Professor Cheung had served as Professor of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Adjunct Professor of the Department of Chinese at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. He also served as Consultant of the Municipal Committee for the Authentication of Cultural Relics at the Shanghai Museum, and was a member of the Consultation Committee of Academic Affairs at the Institute of History and Philology of Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He was also invited to the University of Pennsylvania, USA, as Distinguished International Scholar for a semester in 2007, during his visit he gave lecture talks organized by the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilization.