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Symposium | Seeing Like an Empire: Chinese Political Thought and Practice in Changing Times

The Centre for Chinese Research would like to introduce our symposium for this academic year titled “Seeing Like an Empire: Chinese Political Thought and Practice in Changing Times.” This symposium will cover a wide range of periods and topics from the Late Imperial Period to Xi Jinping. We will be looking at Chinese political thought […]

[Webinar] Enrooting an Emerging Diasporic Identity: The Legacies of Hong Kong Immigrants in Canada’s Migration History

Recent political developments have, without doubt, fostered an unusually strong sense of local identity among Hong Kongers. This is so even among many who have chosen to migrate elsewhere. In this talk, Dr. Miu Chung Yan will examine the history, uniqueness, and legacies of the immigration of Hong Kongers to Canada, and he will explore […]

[Webinar] Voice After Exit: How Transnational Ties Shape Hong Kong Americans’ Political Engagement and Voting Behavior

Dr. Maggie Shum and Prof. Victoria Hui will introduce their on-going project “Hong Kong Voices in the U.S.” that examines how diaspora’s transnational ties with their homeland shape their political attitude and behavior in the host country. Against the backdrop of the recent political turmoil in Hong Kong and the 2020 presidential election in the […]

HKSI Screening and Conversation: Reunification

“Filmed over a 17-year period, this award-winning film gives an insider view on the contemporary Asian American immigrant experience, family psychology, and personal filmmaking. Director Alvin Tsang reflects on his family’s migration from Hong Kong to Los Angeles in the early 1980s – fraught with betrayal from his parents’ divorce, economic strife and communication meltdown […]

Hongkongers’ International Front: The Global Politics of Diaspora during and after the 2019 Anti-Extradition Protest

The flare-up over Hong Kong’s proposed extradition bill in 2019 gave rise to a global wave of organization among overseas Hongkongers, which has persisted after the decline of the protest movement as a result of COVID and government repression. Based on 85 in-depth interviews with overseas activists as well as data drawn from social and […]