• Urbanization, Comparative politics, Chinese politics, Spatial Econometrics

• Direct Grant for Research, 2024/25, Social Science CUHK. [Co-I, ongoing] The Political Geography of Early State-building in Hebei.
• Direct Grant for Research, 2023/24, Social Science CUHK. [Co-I, ongoing] The Developmental Consequences of Local Party-building in China.
• Direct Grant for Research, 2020/21, Social Science CUHK. [Co-I, completed] The Spatial Dynamics of Party-building in China(1949–1987).

• Comparative Politics, Chinese Politics, Public Policy

Publication:

• YANG Hongshan & LI Qin. (2021). “Attention Steering of Policy Experimentation and Adaptive Governance,” Administrative Tribune. 28(3), pp.59-67 (In Chinese). (CSSCI; IF= 5.677)
• ZHAN Jing Vivian & LI Qin. (2024). “From Curse to Cooptation: How Resource Conflicts Drive Social Policies in China,” in progress.
• Presented at the 3rd Conference “New Advances in the Political Economy of Development in Eurasia”, Almaty, Kazakhstan. & 2024 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA.
•  LI Qin & ZHAN Jing Vivian. (2025). “When Will Mining Companies Pay More Taxes? Clientelism and Resource Rents Redistribution in China,” in progress.
• Presented at The Inaugural Asia-Pacific Politics and Public Administration Conference and the 8th Empirical Political Science in Hong Kong Workshop, Hong Kong, China
• LI Qin. (2025) “Local Embeddedness and Fiscal Autonomy: When Will Mining Companies More Broadly Redistribute Resource Rents in China,” in progress.

Grants/ Awards:

• Co-Investigator, CUHK Social Science Faculty Direct Grant for Research, “State Response to Local Resource Curse in China: A Computational Policy Analysis” (2025-2027)
• Team member, Hong Kong Research Grants Council General Research Fund, “Embedded Extraction: Coping with the Local Resource Curse in China” (2022-2025)

• Comparative Politics, Chinese Politics, Methodology, Computational Social Science

Comparative Politics, Computational Social Science, Digital Governance, Social Control.

Chen, D., & Zhan, J. V. (2025). When Does Surveillance Trigger Resistance? Public Response to Escalating Digital Control in China. Journal of Chinese Political Science, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-025-09918-5

Chen, D., & Zhan, J. V. (2025). “Does Digital Surveillance Increase Citizen Compliance? Evidence from China.” World Politics, under review.

Chen, D., & Zhan, J. V. (2025). “The Social Foundation of Digital Control: A Comparative Analysis of Grassroots Surveillance in China.” The China Quarterly, under review.

• Politics of Space
• Politics of Culture
• Political Geography
• Urban Studies
• Law and Society
• Hong Kong Government and Politics

Have contributed to training programmes for government officials of China who implement the country’s ongoing social management reform: Have delivered more than 40 lectures on the topics of community management and governance of civil society to government officials (of the grades of Section Chief, Director, and Director-General) from Guangdong, Shanghai, Chongqing, Guangxi, Jilin, Inner Mongolia, etc.

Have served as invited referee for international journals such as Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Political Geography, etc.

Have been interviewed by international and local media on the politics of Hong Kong’s water supply and China-Hong Kong relations, including Foreign Policy, Wall Street Journal, Radio Free Asia, Freedom Observatory, Ming Pao Daily News, Metro Radio, Now TV, Next Magazine, iSun Affairs, etc.

Have offered talks and speeches in activities and functions organised by academic bodies and youth and social organisations, for example:

• Jul 2012 “One Country, Two Systems – A Contested Concept,” lecture delivered at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
• Oct 2009 “Public Space: Theory and Practice,” public lecture held by Democratic Party (Hong Kong) and Hong Kong Reader.
• Jun 2008 “Politics, Public Space, and Hannah Arendt’s Political Theory,” public lecture organised by Roundtable Community and Hong Kong Reader.
• Dec 2006 “Politics and Space: Why Should We Study Space?” public lecture at the Department of Public Policy and Management, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
• May 2005 “Politics of Space? Space of Politics? ‘The Political’ in the Contemporary Thought on Space,” public lecture at the Department of Social Science, the University of Macau.

• 2014 “Changing Nature of Border, Scale, and the Production of Hong Kong’s Water Supply System since 1959,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol 38.3, 903-21.
• 2011 (with Kai Hon Ng, Wilson W. Wong and others) “The Pattern of Urban Life in Hong Kong: A District Level Community Study of Sham Shui Po,” a consultant report submitted to Central Policy Unit, the HKSAR Government.
• 2010 “Why Has Hong Kong Been Dependent on Water from Dongjiang River? – Rethinking the ‘Story’ of Supplying Water for Hong Kong”, in Po-keung Hui (ed.), Rewriting the History of Hong Kong (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press), pp. 63-73 (in Chinese).
• 2009 “How is a Political Public Space Made? – The Birth of Tiananmen Square and the May Fourth Movement,” Political Geography, Vol. 28, pp. 32-43 (Lead article).
• 2009 “Hong Kong’s Colonial Urbanism Revisited: ‘Sai Gwa Bo’ Street-side Games, and the Children’s Creation of Free Public Space in the High Density City,” in Kit-Wai Ma (ed.) Exploring Chinese Urban Studies (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong), pp. 81-108 (in Chinese).
• 2005 “The Capitalist World System and Its Production of Space,” in Center for Studies of World Modernization Process (ed.) Studies of World Modernization, 3 (Beijing: Commercial Press), pp. 93-136 (in Chinese).

• • • Data Science and Public Policy
    • Data Processing & Intelligent Decision-Making
    • Electronic Customer Relationship Management (e-CRM)
    • Facility Planning and Logistics Analysis
    • Fundamental of Industrial Engineering
    • HR Analytics
    • Industrial Management and Logistics
    • Information Systems / E-commerce
    • Managing Technology and Policy Innovation
    • Principles of Marketing
    • Quantitative Methods for Business
    • Research Methods for Policy Studies
    • Supply Chain Management
    • Systems Modelling and Simulation

His recent research interests include technology adoption and diffusion of new technologies (e.g., VR/AR, s-commerce, smart classes, and telehealth) to boost productivity and well-being and the use of data to make a better decision.

• Yan, M., Kwok, A.P.K.*, Chan, A.H.S., Zhuang, Y.S., Wen, K. and Zhang, K.C. (2022), An empirical investigation of the impact of influencer live-streaming ads in e-commerce platforms on consumers’ buying impulse, Internet Research, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/INTR-11-2020-0625
• Tang, Y. M., Chau, K. Y., Kwok, A. P. K.*, Zhu, T., & Ma, X. (2022). A systematic review of immersive technology applications for medical practice and education – Trends, application areas, recipients, teaching contents, evaluation methods, and performance. Educational Research Review, 35, 100429. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.edurev.2021.100429
• Kwok, A. P. K., Yan, M.*, Deng, X. H., Chen, X. Y., & Huang, Y. T. (2022). Exploring the facilitating and obstructing factors of using virtual reality for 5S training: An exploratory qualitative study from students’ perspectives in an industrial engineering undergraduate course. Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 30, 1072- 1085. https://doi.org/10.1002/cae.22503
• Kwok, A. P. K., Yan, M.*, Huang, Y. T., Gao, C., & Li, W. Z. (2021). What shapes people’s willingness to wear a face mask at the beginning of a public health disaster? A qualitative study based on COVID-19 in China. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 65, 102577. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102577
• Kwok, P. K., Yan, M.*, Qu, T., & Lau, H. Y. K. (2020). User acceptance of virtual reality technology for practicing digital twin-based crisis management. International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2019.06.035 Kwok, P. K.*, & Lau, H. Y. K. (2019). Hotel selection using a modified TOPSIS-based decision support algorithm. Decision Support Systems, 120, 95-105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2019.02.004

(*Corresponding author; Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=V4fvqmMAAAAJ)

• Taiwan Studies, Migration, Comparative Politics

“Enhancement of programme innovation through interdisciplinary blended learning approach: innovative use of visual methods in social policy research” (Co-Investigator)

Teaching Development Grants, The Education University of Hong Kong, 2020-2021.

Selected Academic Publications

• Kwan, C.Y. (2024), Analyzing the Kuomintang’s Plight from the Evaluations of “Party Change” Attempts, Twenty-First Century, (201), 25-34, Hong Kong. (in Chinese)
• Kwan, C.Y. (2023), Chapter 10: The Increasing Chinese Influence in Hong Kong Public Policy after 2019: A Case Studies on Framing and Political Rhetoric in Hong Kong’s Climate Policy, in Research Agendas for East Asian Social Policy, p.85-101, Edward Elgar.
• Kwan, C.Y. (2023), Chapter 3: The Changing National Identity of Taiwan People in Affecting the Party Politics of Taiwan. Rethinking Parties in Democratizing Asia, p.59-77, ed. Julio C. Teehankee, Rey C. Padit and Jung Hoon Park. Routledge.
• Kwan, C.Y. (2021), The Cross-Strait Relation in Post-Trump era, Twenty-First Century, (166), 34-44, Hong Kong. (in Chinese)
• Kwan, T. C. Y., & Fell, D. (2020). Chapter 7: The Relationship between Mainstream and Movement Parties in Taiwan. Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia: Between Entanglement and Contention in Post High Growth, p.167-186, ed. David Chiavacci, Simona Grano, Julia Obinger. Amsterdam University Press.

Non-academic Publications:

• 《書與不確定的世界》Books and the Uncertain World, forthcoming, 蜂鳥出版 (Hong Kong)
• 《重回舊地》 In Retrospect, 2023, 時報出版 (ISBN: 9786263534094; Taiwan)
• 《醒來的世界》Old World in a New Day, 2020, 時報出版 (ISBN: 978957137749; Taiwan)
• 《孤獨課》Learnings from Solitude, 2019, 時報出版 (ISBN: 9789571377490; Taiwan)
• 《孤独课》Learnings from Solitude (Simplified Chinese), 2019, 理想國出版 (ISBN: 9787559821935; China)

• Global Political Economy
• Regionalism and Economic Integration
• International Relations: Asia and the EU

• Dr. Horiuchi received his MA from Georgetown University and PhD from the University of Hong Kong. Prior to his appointment at CUHK, he served as a research fellow at the Japanese Consulate in Hong Kong. His primary research interests include Sino-Japanese relations, Chinese foreign policy, Japanese foreign policy, and security issues in East Asia.

• He, Sylvia, Yannie Cheung, and Sui Tao. 2018. “Travel Mobility and Social Participation among Older People in a Transit Metropolis: A Socio-spatial-temporal Perspective.” Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 118:608-26. DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2018.09.006

  Cheung, Yannie. 2012. “The Expansion and Organization of Higher Education in Asia: A Comparative and Longitudinal Study, 1950 – Present.” PhD dissertation, Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. (http://etheses.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/pdf/920150336.pdf)

  Lui, Andrew K., S. C. Ng, Prabhat Gurung, and Yannie H. Y. Cheung. 2010. “Facilitating Independent Learning with Lego Mindstorms Robots.” ACM Inroads 1(4):49-53. DOI: 10.1145/1869746.1869762

  Lui Andrew K., Yannie H. Y. Cheung, and Siu Cheung Li. 2008. “Leveraging Students’ Programming Laboratory Work as Worked Examples.” ACM SIGCSE Bulletin 40(2): 69-73. DOI: 10.1145/1383602.1383638

• Citizen-State Interaction
• Performance Information
• Collaborative Governance
• Environmental and Sustainability Policy