Research

Contentious Politics

Ma, Ngok and Edmund W Cheng*. 2023. “Professional in Revolt: Specialized Networks and Sectoral Mobilization in Hong Kong.” Social Movement Studies.
Thompson, Mark R and Edmund W. Cheng*. 2023. “Transgressing Taboos: The Relational Dynamics of Discursive Radicalization in Hong Kong and Thailand." Social Movement Studies.
Cheng, Edmund W., Francis Lee, Samson Yuen, and Gary Tang. 2022. “Total Mobilization from Below: Hong Kong’s Freedom Summer.” The China Quarterly. 251: 629-659.
Lee, Francis, Edmund W Cheng, Hai Liang, Gary Tang, and Samson Yuen. 2022. “Dynamics of Tactical Radicalization and Public Receptiveness in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Bill Movement.” Journal of Contemporary Asia 52(3):429-451.
Lee, Francis, Samson Yuen, Gary Tang, and Edmund W Cheng*. 2019. “Hong Kong’s Summer of Uprising.” China Review 19(4): 1-32.
Ma, Ngok and Edmund W Cheng. eds. 2019. The Umbrella Movement Revisited: Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, paperback 2020.
Cheng, Edmund W. and Samson Yuen. 2019. “Memory in Movement: Collective Identity and Memory Contestation in Hong Kong’s Tiananmen Vigils.” Mobilization 24(4): 419-437.
Cheng, Edmund W. and Wai-yin Chan. 2017. “Explaining Spontaneous Occupation: Antecedents, Contingencies and Spaces in the Umbrella Movement.” Social Movement Studies 16.2: 222-239.
Yuen, Samson and Edmund W. Cheng*. 2017. “Neither Repression nor Concession? A Regime’s Attrition against Mass Protests.” Political Studies. 65.3: 611-630.
Cheng, Edmund W. 2016. “Street Politics in a Hybrid Regime: The Diffusion of Political Activism in Post-colonial Hong Kong.” The China Quarterly 226: 383-406.

Political Behaviour

Siu-yau Lee, Samson Yuen, Nick Or and Edmund W. Cheng*. 2022. “Pandemic Vulnerability, Policy Feedback, and Support for Immigration: Evidence from Asia.” British Journal of Social Psychology. 61(4): 1124-1143.
Cheng, Edmund W., Hiu-Fung Chung and Ho-wai Cheng. 2022. “Life Satisfaction and the Conventionality of Political Participation: The Moderation Effect of Post-material Value Orientation.” International Political Science Review. 44(2):157-177.
Samson Yuen, Edmund W Cheng, Nick Or, Karen Grepin, and King-wa Fu. 2021. “A Tale of Two City-States: State-Led Versus Civil Society-Led Responses to COVID-19 in Singapore and Hong Kong.” Global Public Health 16 (8-9): 1283-1303.
Nick Or, Edmund W Cheng*, and Samson Yuen. 2021. “Risk Perceptions, Anxiety and the Future of International Trade: A Cross-National Study of Public Trade Preferences in Asia under Covid 19.” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 31 (s1): 25-40.
Tang, Gary and Edmund W Cheng*. 2021. “Affective Solidarity: How Guilt Feelings Enable a Cross-generational Support for Political Radicalization.” Japanese Journal of Political Science. 22(4):198-214.
Tang, Gary and Edmund W Cheng*. 2021. “Post-materialism and the Perceived Quality of Elections: The Moderation Effects of a Critical Event.” Social Indicators Research. 155: 335-354.

Political Communication

Cheng, Edmund W, Elizabeth Liu, and King-wa Fu. 2023. “The Power of Digital Activism for Transnational Advocacy: Leadership, Engagement and Affordance.” New Media & Society.
Zhu, Yuner, Edmund W. Cheng*, Chris Shen and Richard M. Walker. 2022. “An Eye for An Eye? An Integrated Model of Attitudinal Change in Protest Violence.” Political Communication. 39(4):539-463.
Chung, Hiu-Fung, and Edmund W. Cheng*. 2022. "Constructing Patriotic Networked Publics: Conservative YouTube Influencers in Hong Kong." Chinese Journal of Communication 15.3 (2022): 415-430.
Lee, L. F. Francis, Laing Hai, Edmund W. Cheng, Gary Tang, Samson Yuen, 2022. “Affordances, Movement Dynamics and Centralized Communication Platform in Social Mobilization.” Information, Communication & Society. 25(12): 1699-1716.
Fen, Lin, Edmund W. Cheng* and Xi Chen. 2022. “Contextualized Impacts of Infodemics on Vaccine Hesitancy: The Moderating Role of Socioeconomic and Cultural Factors.” Information Processing and Management. 59(5): 103013.
Chen, Xi, Fen Lin, and Edmund W. Cheng. 2022. “Stratified Impacts of Infodemic during Covid-19: A Cross-sectional Survey in Asia.” Journal of Medical Internet Research. 24(3):e31088.

Regional Governance

Yuen, Samson and Edmund W Cheng*. 2020. “Between High Autonomy and Sovereign Control in a Subnational Island Jurisdiction: The Paradox of Hong Kong under One Country, Two Systems.” Island Studies Journal 15(1): 131-150.
Yuen, Samson and Edmund W Cheng*. 2020. “Deepening the State: The Evolution of China’s United Front Work in Hong Kong.” Communist and Post-Communist Studies. 53(4): 136-154.
Cheng, Edmund W. 2020. “United Front Work and the Mechanisms of Counter Mobilization in Hong Kong.” The China Journal 83: 1-33.
Cheng, Edmund W. 2016. “Street Politics in a Hybrid Regime: The Diffusion of Political Activism in Post-colonial Hong Kong.” The China Quarterly 226: 383-406.
Cheng, Edmund W., Anthony Li and Shu-yun Ma. 2014. “Resistance, Engagement and the Voluntary Sector: The Case of Penang in Malaysia.” Modern Asian Studies 48.3: 617-644.
Cheng, Edmund W. and Shu-yun Ma. 2014. “Heritage Conservation through Private Donation.” International Journal of Heritage Studies 15(6): 511-528.

Sociology of Knowledge

Veg, Sebastian and Edmund W. Cheng. 2021. “Alternative Publications, Spaces and Publics. Revisiting the Public Sphere in 20th and 21st Century China.” The China Quarterly. 246: 374-399.
Cheng, Edmund W. 2021. “Loyalist, Dissent and Cosmopolite: The Sociocultural Origins of a Counter Public Sphere in Colonial Hong Kong.” The China Quarterly. 246: 374-399.

Research Methodology

Walker, Richard M, Edmund W Cheng and Jaisheng Zhang. “Puncturing Knowledge Illusion and Political Extremism: A Replication and Extension Study.” Political Psychology.
Yuen, Samson, Gary Tang, and Francis Lee, and Edmund W. Cheng*. 2022.“Surveying Spontaneous Mass Protests: Mixed-mode Sampling and Field Methods.” Sociological Methodology 52(1):75-102.