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Dr Chan Yuk Wah




Tel :(852) 3442-6108
Room No. (Academic Building) : Y7522
Email : yukchan@cityu.edu.hk

 

 

 

 

Qualifications
B.A. (History) (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

M.Phil, PhD (Anthropology) (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

 

Teaching

Introduction to East and Southeast Asia

Theories and Approaches in Development Studies

Rural Development and Urbanisation
Thesis on a Selected Development Issue

 

Research Interests

·       Regional studies of mainland Southeast Asia, South China, and China Vietnam relations

·     Theoretical studies of borderlands, transnationalism, development, tourism, gender and overseas Chinese

·     Cultural and social anthropology of popular cultures and religions

 

Current/Recent Research Projects

·       Ethnic Chinese in Vietnam

·       Outbound Chinese tourists in Asia

·       Vietnamese diaspora

 

Publications

Chan, Yuk Wah (Forthcoming). “Cultural and Gender Politics in Border Tourism in Vietnam,” (book chapter) in Terry King, Mike Parnwell and Mike Hitchcock (eds.) Tourism in Southeast Asia Revisited. London: Routledge.

 

Chan, Yuk Wah (Forthcoming). “Coming of Age of the Chinese Tourists: The Emergence of Non-Western Tourism and Host-Guest Interactions in Vietnam’s Border Tourism,” Tourist Studies.

 

Chan, Yuk Wah (2006). Feature editor, “The Cultural Economy of Regionalisation,” Journal of Contemporary Asia 36(3): 325-405.

 

Chan, Yuk Wah (2006). “Ethnicity and Capital: Changing Relations Between China and Southeast Asia,” (with Vivienne Wee) Journal of Contemporary Asia 36(3): 328-49.

 

Chan, Yuk Wah (2006). Principal Investigator, Research report: “A Survey of the Social Integration of Indonesians in Wan Chai District.” Hong Kong: International Social Services Hong Kong Branch.

 

Chan, Yuk Wah (2005). “Vietnamese or Chinese: Viet-kieu in the Vietnam-China Borderlands.” Journal of Chinese Overseas 1(2): 217-232.

 

Chan, Yuk Wah (2003). “Packaging Tradition: Chinese Death Management in Urban Hong Kong.” Asian Anthropology 2: 139-160.

 

Chan, Yuk Wah (2003). Oxfam in Vietnam in the Last Fifteen Years (in Chinese: 斗笠下的蛻變樂施會在越南十五年). Hong Kong: Oxfam HK.

 

 

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