Bio
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Edmund W. Cheng is Associate Professor at the Department of Public Policy at the City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include contentious politics, political sociology, public opinion survey, Hong Kong politics and Global China. He has published in China Quarterly, China Journal, Political Studies, Mobilization, and Social Movement Studies and co-edited An Epoch of Social Movements: The Trajectory of Political Activism in Hong Kong (Chinese University Press, 2018) and The Umbrella Movement: Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong (Amsterdam University Press, 2019).
Between 2015 and 2019, he obtained HKD 6.7 million research grants from various funding agencies to study contentious politics, political trust, public sphere, government performance and well-being. He won the Gordon White Prize from the China Quarterly in 2016 and has implemented the World Values Survey in Hong Kong since 2017. He received his PhD in Government from the London School of Economics in 2015. |
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Professional services |
He is Secretary of Society for Hong Kong Studies at Association for Asian Studies, Secretary of Hong Kong Political Science Association, Secretary of PEN Hong Kong, Principal Investigator for Hong Kong of World Values Survey Association, a research fellow in several universities and a member of editorial board of several academic journals.
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Research interests |
His research interests include comparative politics, contentious politics, political sociology, public sphere, civil society, public opinion survey, and urban governance with a focus on China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Malaysia.
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Current projects |
He is currently leading four Research Grants Council and Central Policy Unit funded projects that respectively study everyday politics in post-movement societies, revisit the spatial-political configurations of public sphere in 20th century China, implement the World Values Survey Wave 7 in Hong Kong, and examine the role of Chinese hometown associations in East and Southeast Asia.
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