A socio-legal scholar whose work focuses on law and society in Hong Kong and China, socio-legal studies, and law and colonialism.  

She is the author of Lost in China? Law, Culture and Identity in post-1997 Hong Kong (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Criminal Justice in Hong Kong with J Vagg (Routledge, 2007). Her publications on Hong Kong include “Introduction to Taiwan and Hong Kong in comparative perspective: centres–peripheries, colonialism, and the politics of representation” with FL Shih (2014) and “Law, Patriarchies and State Formation in England and Post-Colonial Hong Kong” (Journal of Law and Society, 2001).  

She has held academic positions at the University of Hong Kong and City University of Hong Kong. 

Professor Emeritus of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. She works on action cinema and Inter-Asian cultural studies. 

Her books include Identity Anecdotes: Translation and Media Culture (Sage, 2006). She co-edited Gender, Media and Modernity in the Asia-Pacific (Taylor and Francis, 2015), Instituting Cultural Studies: Creativity and Academic Activism (Hong Kong UP, 2012) and Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema (Duke UP, 2005).  

Other publications include “Cynthia Rothrock: Fame, Style, and the Video Star”, in K Barrowman’s Fighting Stars: Stardom and Reception in Hong Kong Martial Arts Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2024) and “Institutional kung fu: on the arts of making things happen” (Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 2020).  

From 2000 to 2012, she was founding Chair Professor of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

Professor of Comparative Education at the UCL, IOE. His research includes education policy in Hong Kong and East Asia. 

He is the author of Education Policy, Cross-National Tests of Pupil Achievement, and the Pursuit of World-Class Schooling: A Critical Analysis (UCL IOE, 2016). His recent publications on Hong Kong are “The life and death of Liberal Studies: explaining curriculum change in post-handover Hong Kong” with K C A Yan (Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2025) and  “Accelerating Hong Kong’s reeducation: ‘mainlandisation’, securitisation and the 2020 National Security Law”  with E Vickers (Comparative Education, 2022) 

He was Dean of Education at Hong Kong University and, from 2002 to 2007, President of the Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIED). He left Hong Kong following the Commission of Inquiry into allegations relating to academic freedom at HKIED.  

Alexander von Humboldt Professor at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), where she holds the Chair of Human Rights Law. She is an interdisciplinary expert on international human rights law with a special focus on China. 

She is the author of Human Rights in China: A Social Practice in the Shadows of Authoritarianism (Polity, 2018), China’s Human Rights Lawyers: Advocacy and Resistance (Routledge, 2014). She co-edited Comparative Perspectives on Criminal Justice in China with M McConville (Edward Elgar, 2013) and Liu Xiaobo, Charter 08 and the Challenges of Political Reform in China with H Fu and J-P Béja (Hong Kong UP, 2012). Her recent work on Hong Kong includes “The Hong Kong National Security Law and the Struggle over Rule of Law and Democracy in Hong Kong” (Federal Law Review, 2022).  

From 2007 to 2014, she taught at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 

Reader in Development Studies at SOAS, University of London. His research focuses on labour movements, industrial relations, and trade union reform in China and Hong Kong.  

He is the author of Trade Unions in China: The Challenge of Labour Unrest (Routledge, 2011). His publications on Hong Kong include “The Unionisation Wave in Hong Kong: The Noise before Defeat or the Route to Victory?” (Global Labour Journal, 2021) and “A Solidarity Machine? Hong Kong Labour NGOs in Guangdong” (Critical Sociology, 2018).  

From 1996 to 2006, he worked with various labour rights organisations in Hong Kong and mainland China, and he is currently Editor of The China Quarterly.