Prof. Robert Antony from the Department of History, Faculty of Social Sciences, was earlier appointed visiting researcher in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California at Irvine (UCI). At UCI he conducted research and wrote several chapters for his new book entitled “Crime, State, and Community in Late Imperial South China”, which is under contract with the Hong Kong University Press. UCI’s Department of Criminology, Law, and Society is ranked fifth in the United States by US News and World Report and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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