Bio
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Edmund W. Cheng is an Associate Professor of the Department of Public Policy and Associate Director of Political Analysis Lab at the City University of Hong Kong. He has published articles in China Quarterly, China Journal, International Political Science Review, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Political Studies, Mobilization, Social Movement Studies as well as co-edited An Epoch of Social Movements (Chinese University Press, 2018) Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong (Amsterdam University Press, 2019).
Cheng has actively engaged in community outreach and research collaboration internationally and locally. Between 2015 and 2020, he obtained HKD 13 million competitive research grants from University Grants Commission, Research Grants Council, Policy Innovation and Coordination Office, Hong Kong Institute for Data Science, French National Research Agency, and American Political Science Association. He is a frequent commenter of public affairs, whose findings or commentaries have been cited in Asahi Shimbun, BBC, CNN, RTHK, Guardian, LeMonde, MingPao, Spiegel, Strait Times, Financial Times, South China Morning Post, Time, New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal. He received his PhD in Government from the London School of Economics in 2015 and the Gordon White Prize for Best Article in China Quarterly in 2016. |
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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, 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 contentious politics, political sociology, public opinion, comparative historical analysis, survey experiment, Hong Kong politics, and Global China.
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Current projects |
He is currently leading five Research Grants Council, Policy Innovation and Coordination Office and and Hong Kong Institute of Data Science funded projects that respectively study everyday politics in post-movement societies, revisit the social-political configurations of public sphere in 20th century China, examine the role of Chinese hometown associations in East and Southeast Asia, and examine the structure and emotions associated with the networked movements in Hong Kong.
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