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Edmund W. Cheng is an Associate Professor of the Department of Public Policy and the Director of the Political Analysis Lab, and an Associate Director of Centre for Public Affairs and Law at the City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include comparative politics, contentious politics, political sociology, political communication, public health crisis, and research methods, with a focus on Hong Kong, China and Southeast Asia. His current research unites two strands of intertwined political science inquiry: the diffusion of connective and collective actions as a transnational phenomenon, and the resilience of authoritarian regimes penetrating into the everyday life manifested by digital communication technologies.
His work has appeared in China Quarterly, China Journal, Information, Communication & Society, International Political Science Review, Political Studies, Mobilization, and Sociological Methodology. He co-edited with Samson Yuen An Epoch of Social Movements (Chinese University Press, 2018) and with Ma Ngok The Umbrella Movement: Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong (Amsterdam University Press, 2019). He also co-edited with Sebastian Veg “Revisiting the Public Sphere in 20th and 21st Century China” in China Quarterly and with Francis Lee “Organizing without Organizations: Networked Movements in Asia” in Social Movement Studies. Cheng received a PhD in Government from the London School of Economics in 2015 and the Gordon White Prize in 2016. He previously taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Baptist University. |
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Professional services |
He is Secretary of Society for Hong Kong Studies at Association for Asian Studies, Vice President of Hong Kong Political Science Association, Principal Investigator for Hong Kong at 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 collaboration |
He has actively engaged in research collaboration internationally and locally. He obtained numerous research grants from the American Political Science Association, Central Policy Unit, French National Research Agency, Hong Kong University Grants Committee, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, Hong Kong Institute for Data Science, and Policy Innovation and Coordination Office.
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Community outreach |
He is a frequent commenter of public affairs, whose findings or commentaries have been cited in Atlantic, Asahi Shimbun, BBC, CNN, NPR, RTHK, Guardian, LeMonde, MingPao, Spiegel, Strait Times, Financial Times, South China Morning Post, Time Magazine, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, among others.
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