Professor Hon received a BA in history from the University of Hong Kong, a MA in Asian Studies from the University of Michigan, and a PhD in History from the University of Chicago. He had taught for 25 years in the United States, beginning as an assistant professor in Hanover College in southern Indiana and ending as a full professor in State University of New York at Geneseo. He returned to Hong Kong to teach at City University of Hong Kong from January 2017 to June 2021. Over the four-and-half years, he reestablished academic links with the Chinese academic communities. He joined UIC in August of 2021 and is happy to be a member of the robust BNBU community.

Professor Hon specializes in the study of the Yijing (Book of Changes) and its voluminous commentaries. He has also published books and articles on Neo-Confucianism of the Song-Ming period and modern Chinese thought. Being a global travelor who has moved from city to city, continent to continent, in the last four decades, he is deeply attracted to the transcultural and transnational exchanges that are happening in our world today. In both teaching and research, he makes global perspective alive, enriching, and empowering.