Recent Grants
- Comparing State-Diaspora Relations: The Evolving Role of Chinese Hometown Associations in East and Southeast Asia, General Research Fund, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, HK$ 875,920. 2019-2021, PI.
- Silence Amidst Voice: An Ethnography of Everyday Politics in Hong Kong, Early Career Scheme, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, HK$ 737,000, 2018-2020, PI.
- China’s Alternative Public Sphere in the 20th Century, Tremplin-ERC Fund, French National Research Agency, EU$ 99, 997, 2017-2019, Co-PI.
- An Empirical Study of Social and Political Trust in Post-Occupy Hong Kong, General Research Fund, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, HK$ 974, 988. 2016-2018, P1.
- World Values Survey Wave 7: Generating Data for Trust Maintenance, Repair, and Better Governance in Hong Kong, Public Policy Research Fund, Central Policy Unit, HK$ 1,025,243, 2016-2018, PI.
- Principal Investigator, The Dynamics of Activism in Post-handover Hong Kong: An Interactive Approach, Faculty Development Scheme, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, HK$ 451, 545, 2014-2016, PI.
Selected Publications
Ma, Ngok and Edmund W. Cheng. eds.
The Umbrella Movement:
Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, hardcover 2019, paperback 2020, 358pp.
鄭煒、袁瑋熙編:《社運年代:香港抗爭政治的軌跡》。香港:中文大學出版社。336 頁.
Cheng, Edmund W. and Samson Yuen. 2020. “Memory in Movement: Collective Identity and Memory Contestation in the Tiananmen Vigils.”
Mobilization 25.1 (2020).
Cheng, Edmund W. 2020. “United Front Work and the Mechanisms of Counter-Mobilization in Hong Kong.”
The China Journal. 83 (2019).
Yuen, Samson and Edmund W. Cheng. “Neither Repression nor Concession? A Regime’s Attrition against Mass Protests.”
Political Studies. 65.3 (2017): 611-630.
Cheng, Edmund W. and Wai-yin Chan. “Explaining Spontaneous Occupation: Antecedents, Contingencies and Spaces in the Umbrella Movement.”
Social Movement Studies 16.2 (2017): 222-239.
Cheng, Edmund W. “Street Politics in a Hybrid Regime: The Diffusion of Political Activism in Post-colonial Hong Kong.”
The China Quarterly 226 (2016): 383-406.