Duncan Ma

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Duncan Ma The Making of Cold War Hong Kong: A Trans-national Cultural Geography Study of the Kai Tak Airport, 1945–1998

Duncan Ma’s research examines the formation of Cold War Hong Kong through the lens of Kai Tak

Ryan Iu

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Imperial Graduates: Mapping Hong Kong’s Elites’ Networks across the British Empire, 1862-1941

Ryan Iu‘s project investigates the Hong Kong Chinese and Eurasian elite in a local, transregional, and intra-imperial context. These were the alumni of either the Government Central …

Lamia Lung

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Hong Kong to Britain: Transnational Families and Migration, c. 1950-1997

Lamia Lung’s project explores the experiences of Hong Kong diaspora in Britain from 1950 to 1997, examining the interplay between transnational family linkages, social mobility and identity construction. Hong …

Phyllis Chan

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Ambiguous Nationality: British Subjects of Chinese Descent, c.1880-1962

Phyllis Chan’s research looks at the legal nationality of people of Chinese descent born  in Hong Kong. Prior to the 1960s, English common law bestowed British subjecthood (which in turn conferred nationality

Alex Cheung

Seeking Home in the Colonial Port: Migration and Settlement of Chinese Workers in Hong Kong, c. 1900-1941

Alex Cheung’s research examines the daily life experience of working-class migrants in early twentieth-century Hong Kong when lower-class Chinese moved across Asian