Bio
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Edmund W Cheng is an assistant professor at the Department of Government and International Studies and the deputy director of Centre for Comparative Governance and Policy Research at Hong Kong Baptist University.
His recent publications include An Epoch of Social Movements (Chinese University Press, 2018) and The Umbrella Movement: Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong (Amsterdam University Press, 2018) and articles in The China Quarterly, Development and Change, Political Studies and Social Movement Studies. He received his PhD in Government from the London School of Economics in 2015. He also received the 2016 Gordon White Prize for the most original article published in The China Quarterly and the 2017 Outstanding Paper Award in political science from the Academy of Hong Kong Studies. |
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Professional services |
He is Fellow of the Institute of Future Cities at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2015-), Council Member of PEN Hong Kong (2016-), Principal Investigator of World Values Survey in Hong Kong (2016-), Secretary of Society for Hong Kong Studies at Association for Asian Studies (2017-), and the editorial board member of China Perspectives (2018-).
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Research interests |
His research interests include comparative politics, contentious politics, political sociology, public sphere, public opinion, and local governance with a focus on China, Hong Kong and Malaysia.
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Current projects |
He is currently leading three Research Grants Council and Central Policy Unit funded projects that respectively study everyday politics in post-movement societies, examine the spatial-political configurations of counter public sphere in Chinese cities, and implement the World Values Survey Wave 7 in Hong Kong.
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