New Books by HKUST Scholars 2026

From August 2025 to July 2026, HKUST scholars published 21 new books: 6 in science and technology, and 15 in business, humanities and social sciences. This year we bring you the whole shelf in one post. Please browse straight through list below to see what's new. Asterisks mark HKUST authors. 

Science & Technology

Handbook of the Metaverse

Edited by Pan Hui*, Peng Yuan Zhou, Lik Hang Lee and Tristan Braud*
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This book provides an introduction to various aspects of the metaverse that are new to common audiences as well as deep insights for related professionals.

生成式人工智能引领法律科技：机遇、挑战与未来之路

By Yike Guo*, Sirui Han*, Jun Song, Ruoxi Li, Yidan Huang and Guoying Lu 
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本书以生成式人工智能为核心议题，系统分析人工智能技术在法律科技(LegalTech)领域的应用现状、发展机遇与制度挑战。内容涵盖法律科技的发展历程、全球法律服务市场的技术变革，生成式人工智能在合同审查、文书生成、知识管理与司法裁判等环节的深度应用，并深入讨论由此带来的伦理风险、算法偏见、数据合规与责任分配等问题。

Federated Edge Learning: Algorithms, Architectures and Trustworthiness

By Yong Zhou, Wenzhi Fang, Yuanming Shi and Khaled B. Letaief*
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This book presents various effective schemes from the perspectives of algorithms, architectures, privacy, and security to enable scalable and trustworthy Federated Edge Learning (FEEL). 

Sharing the Road: Understanding and Facilitating Mixed Traffic with Human-Driven and Autonomous Vehicles 

Edited by Dengbo He*, Xiaotong Sun* and Huan Yu*
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Presented from a team of researchers from different domains offering varying perspectives, this book systematically summarizes the issues and trends of mixed traffic, from the micro (such as vehicle algorithm design) to the macro (including traffic flow optimization and policy) perspectives.

Fields Medal and Wolf Prize Laureates of Chinese Descent 

By Keith Lau*, Todd S. Ing, Susie Q. Lew, Thomas T. Y. Wong and Laurence K. Chan
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Throughout history, Chinese scholars have made profound contributions to mathematics and science, earning global recognition for their exceptional work. This book honours the remarkable achievements of these distinguished individuals, recipients of the Fields Medal and the Wolf Prize, two of the highest honours in their respective fields.

Bayesian Compressive Sensing for Site Characterization 

By Yu Wang, Tengyuan Zhao*, Yue Hu, Zheng Guan and Kok Kwang Phoon
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This book introduces Bayesian compressive sensing or sampling (BCS) as a highly efficient spatial data analytic and simulation method for the efficient modelling of spatial geo- data from sparse measurements, with quantified reliability and uncertainty to further optimize site characterization. It provides the necessary theory and computational tools for setting up and solving a sparse spatial data modeling problem using BCS. 

Business, Social Sciences & Humanities

读懂RWA 

By Yang Wang*, Kani Chen*, Yingzhe Yu, Zhenhang Shang and Yizhou Wen (汪揚, 陈卡你, 喻英哲, 尚振航, 文一舟 著)
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本書作為一本讀懂 RWA 的入門書籍，在內容上面向金融從業者、區塊鏈開發者、企業管理者等入門讀者，闡釋 RWA 通過區塊鏈技術將實體資產映射為鏈上代幣，從而重構資產價值流通的核心邏輯，說明其在提升資產流動性、實現全球化融資等方面的價值，同時強調需在合規框架下開展跨領域協作以平衡風險與發展。

Checking the Fact-Checkers: A Global Perspective

Edited by Celine Yunya Song*, Daya K. Thussu and Drew Margolin 
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This book brings together a global group of leading and emerging scholars to explore industry practices and theoretical approaches to fact-checking.  

Corporate China: Structure and Change

By Yi-min Lin*, Siqin Liu*, Wen Wang* and Xinzhuo Huang*
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This four-volume set surveys the evolving landscape of business organization in China amid institutional reforms and shifting global conditions in the 21st century. It examines the structures and transformations of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs), technology companies, and large corporate groups spanning different organizational forms. Collectively, these accounts offer fresh insights into the dynamics and drivers of China's economic development.

Volume 1. China's business titans : transformation and governance
Volume 2. The remaking of China's SOEs 
Volume 3. Foreign-invested enterprises in China : dynamics of entry and exit
Volume 4. Industrial policy and technology companies in China.

Quantitative History of China: State Capacity, Institutions and Development 

By Zhiwu Chen, Cameron Dougall Campbell* and Debin Ma
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This Open Access book marks the beginning of a new era in the study of Chinese history. This volume showcases a collection of new findings concerning China's political, social, and economic history and typically based on newly constructed large historical datasets. Most of the work has involved an interdisciplinary team of economists, sociologists, political scientists, historians and econometricians, demonstrating how new big data and quantitative methods may be brought to bear on some of the biggest questions related to China's development over the past three millennia and on the implications of distant past events on contemporary China.

Ghost Animation: How Manying Rebuilt Empire in Postwar East Asia 

By Daisy Yan Du*
See details from the University of California Press | Open Access (coming soon)

This is the first book in any language to examine the animated works of the Manchukuo Film Association (株式會社滿洲映畫協會), known as Manying in Chinese, a studio established by Japanese authorities during the occupation of Manchuria. 

點蒼風雲錄：管理學視角下的武俠小説

By Xiaodong Yang* (楊曉冬 著)
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本書以大理國開國皇帝段思平建立大理國的過程為年代背景，以描述大理點蒼派的故事為導引。武俠小說毫無疑問是最具有中國特色的，除了江湖行走、各山頭門派的傳統武俠元素，本書試圖將點蒼派形塑為一個正在努力實踐創新的組織，植入作者熟諳的管理學各個專業知識，包括組織變革、轉型、人才梯隊、戰略、領導力、創新等等，都植入到武俠的故事裡。 

Discourse and Queer Sinophone Male Identities: A Western Immigrant Perspective

By Phil Freestone*
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This Element analyses the sociolinguistic navigation of cultural and ideological influence among queer male-identified individuals in Chengdu and Taipei. By analysing how queer and ethnically Chinese-identified individuals navigate ideological influences, it investigates some of the complexities of culture and identity and their dependence on semiotics and situated communication. 

Karl Popper and the Open Future of the Philosophy of Science 

Edited by Yafeng Shan*
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This volume revisits and explores Popper's legacy for contemporary philosophy of science. It develops Popper's important insights on the methodology and nature of science and investigates new directions in philosophy of science inspired by Popper's work. 

History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences 

Edited by Yafeng Shan*
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This book argues for a new direction of research, namely ‘History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences’ (HPSS). By adding a historical approach to the philosophy of the social sciences, the editor and authors show how fruitful HPSS is and simultaneously sheds new light on many central issues concerning the nature, development, and methodologies of the social sciences.

大學之道：如何成為更好的自己

By Yi Wang* (王一 著)
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本書作者結合自己多年來在高等教育第一線工作的親身經歷和教學經驗，向讀者介紹提高大學學習效率和生活質量的理念和方法。本書旨在為即將步入大學的高中生和處於迷茫階段的大學生提供客觀有益的指引和建議，幫助他們度過充實且有意義的大學生活。 

仲介する日本：ロシアから中国への文化横断とリレー翻訳 (Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia via Japan (1880–1930))

By Xiaolu Ma*, translated by Shun'ichirō Akikusa, Ryōichi Imai and Tomoyuki Takahashi (馬筱璐 著, 秋草俊一郎 , 今井亮一, 高橋知之訳 譯)
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Japanese edition of the book "Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia via Japan (1880–1930)". Drawing on primary sources in all three languages—among others—Xiaolu Ma reveals how Chinese writers translated and appropriated Russian cultural tropes through the intermediary of Japanese writing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Транспространственная модерность : Культурные контакты Китая и России при участии Японии (1880-1930) (Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia via Japan (1880–1930))

By Xiaolu Ma*, translated by Victoria Voroshilova
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Russian edition of the book "Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia via Japan (1880–1930)". Drawing on primary sources in all three languages—among others—Xiaolu Ma reveals how Chinese writers translated and appropriated Russian cultural tropes through the intermediary of Japanese writing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries