Whether you are a graduate student writing dissertations, a junior or mid-career scholar trying to get published in top journals, or a seasoned authors writing their magnum opuses, you can always benefit from critical and thoughtful interventions by colleagues before publication. Work-in-Progress Workshop provides a supportive and stimulating platform for SHKS members to obtain feedback on their writings and research from fellow academics regardless of disciplines and institutional affiliations. We welcome short think pieces, fully or partially developed papers, research proposals, book chapters and book manuscripts related to Hong Kong Studies. Each workshop will feature a small numbe­­r of works-in-progress, which will be circulated before the meeting to a limited number of pre-registered participants. Without the encumbrance of presentations, these discussion-only workshops will allow for in-depth exchanges among invited discussants, participants and authors.

Participants:

"Eurasianness” and the Making of Multicultural Identity in Treaty-Port Hong Kong, 1890-1945" Matthew Foreman, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Northwestern University

"How Nation Building Backfires: Implicit Beliefs about Group Malleability and Subnational Conflicts in Hong Kong," Siu-yau Lee, Associate Professor, Department of Asian and Policy Studies, Education University of Hong Kong

"Bringing Umbrellas Indoors: Standing in Elections as a Political Consequence of the Umbrella Movement," John Mok, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine

"The Making of a Pro-regime Civil Society: Mass Organizations under China’s United Front in Post-handover Hong Kong" by Samson Yuen, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Lingnan University and Brian Leung, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Washington

Moderator:
Edmund Cheng, Assistant Professor in Politics, Hong Kong Baptist University
Discussants:
Ching-Kwan Lee, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
Mark Thompson, Professor of Politics, City University of Hong Kong