About me
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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. He holds a PhD in Government from the London School of Economics.
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 China Quarterly, Development and Change, Modern Asian Studies, Political Studies and Social Movement Studies. 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-), and Secretary of Society for Hong Kong Studies at Association for Asian Studies (2017-). |
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Grants and awards |
His research has been supported by the Research Grants Council, the French National Research Agency, the Central Policy Unit and the Hong Kong Education Bureau. He 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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Research interests |
His research interests include comparative politics, contentious politics, political trust, public sphere, the politics of culture heritage and urban governance with a focus on China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Malaysia.
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Current projects |
He is currently leading three Research Grants Council and Central Policy Unit funded projects that respectively trace the diffusion mechanisms of new activism, examine the manifestations of public sphere in Chinese cities, and implement the World Values Survey Wave 7 in Hong Kong.
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