Dr. Liza Kam

Dr. Liza Wing Man Kam is an Assistant Professor in Department of East Asian Studies (Chinese Studies) at University of Vienna. Her research interests include Hong Kong and Taiwan’s colonial architecture and the transmutation in their particular postcolonial settings, postwar …

Dr. Diki Sherpa

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Dr. Diki Sherpa, is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Knowledge Alternatives, School of Social Sciences, FLAME University, India. She holds a Ph.D. in History from The Chinese University of Hong Kong where she explored how governing …

Dr. Rosaria Franco

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Rosaria Franco is an Assistant Professor in Modern History at the Chinese campus of the University of Nottingham. Her research is situated at the intersection of history of childhood, refugee history, and the history of empires and colonialism. She is …

Samuel Lai

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Samuel Lai is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS, University of London. His research focuses on Hong Kong foodways, in particular caacaanteng (cha chan teng; tea restaurant) and its multiple facades of cuisine, operation, skill …

Kachun Alex Wong

Alex Wong

Kachun Alex Wong is a PhD Candidate in Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto. His dissertation is supported by SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship (2024-6). His dissertation, tentatively titled “Categorizing Housing: Rural, village, and indigenous housing in the New …

Yuwei Fu

Yuwei FU is currently a PhD student at the history department of Lingnan University, where her research focuses on the shaping of Hong Kong identity in postwar years. Before joining Lingnan University, she received an MSc in History of International …

Junwei Li

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Junwei Li is a PhD student from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research delves into the colonial government’s regulations on density management in 1950s-60s Hong Kong. These regulations and laws significantly shaped the high-density housing landscape we see …

Ryan Choi

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Ryan Choi is a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on Chinese-language collaborationist literature in Japanese-occupied Hong Kong (1941-1945). Through a critical analysis of documentary and literary texts published in newspapers and periodicals, as well as …

Dr. Wai Li Chu

Wai Li Chu

The Cold War and Sino-British negotiations over Hong Kong’s future, 1979-1984

Wai Li Chu obtained his MPhil at the Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University, before coming to study at Bristol. His project examines the wider contexts of the …