Loretta Kim is an Associate Professor in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures (SMLC) at the University of Hong Kong. She is a historian of late imperial and modern China and Northeast Asia. Her primary areas of research and teaching include the comparative history of borderlands and frontiers, Sino-Russian cultural relations, and ethnic minority languages and literatures in China and other Asian countries. She is the author of Ethnic Chrysalis: China’s Orochen People and the Legacy of Qing Borderland Administration (2019), The Russian Orthodox Community in Hong Kong: Religion, Ethnicity, and Intercultural Relations (2021), and many articles in international journals. Loretta also works on the preservation of languages with relatively small user populations and support for ethnic and other social identities that reflect the internal diversity of these groups and organic changes to “tradition” that occur in response to political and economic factors through her research.