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

Cheng, Edmund W, Kin-man Wan, Richard M Walker, and Yi-Hui Huang. 2023. “Revisiting Collectivism during the Pandemic: An East-West Comparison of Vaccination and Compliance Behaviour.” Nature Human Behaviour. R&R.
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

Cheng, Edmund. W and Kin-lon Tong. “State Rescaling as an Elite Strategy: Rethinking Centrality-Peripherality in Regional Integration in the Greater Bay Area”. Territory, Politics & Governance. Under Review
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

Zhu, Yuner and Edmund W. Cheng. “Ecology, Diversity and Impact in Political Science: What Fifty Years of Bibliometric Data Tells Us .” Perspectives on Politics. Under Review.
Cheng, Edmund, Yuner Zhu and Samson Yuen. “Knowledge Propagation in the China Field,1950-2020: Who, What, How and with Whom” The China Quarterly. Under Review.
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.