Y W Chan
Biographic Data
| ID | 26700 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Y W Chan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Y W |
| FAMILY NAME | Chan |
| SIGNATURE | CHAN Y W |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8689-9536 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
In Christ we survive, in Christ we thrive
Among Hong Kong ‘British National (Overseas)’ migrants in the UK, many are Christians. In only a few years, they have developed distinctive religious communities in the UK either by joining local (English or Chinese) churches or establishing Hong Konger churches. Against the backdrop of declining Christianity and aging churches in the UK, the inflows of Christian immigrants from Hong Kong have boosted church attendance and revitalized Christianit…
The returnscape
The discussion of labor return migration has often framed workers’ reintegration and settlement within the migration-development debate, with a particular interest in promoting migrant entrepreneurship. This article extends such discussion beyond the confines of the development frame by providing a dynamic and diverse understanding of return using a bottom-up perspective. Building on the critical scholarship on labor return migration, it stresses…
Global Hong Kong
From politics to poetics of migration
Many scholars have talked about learning from the sporadicity of the human world and the unpredictability of human life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet few have provided fully satisfactory answers for exactly what lessons we have learned or should have learned. This paper revisits the plight of migrant workers during the pandemic, focusing on foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong. Such low-wage workers are usually perceived as under the blanket…
Foodways, social sustainability and the multiscalar foodscape in Asia
Transnational migration, masculinity deficit and differentiated mobilities
In Search of a Greener Pasture? Post-2019 Migrations From Hong Kong
This Special Issue examines various issues concerning the outmigration waves of Hong Kong after 2019, the year when Hong Kong witnessed a series of social protests. In this introduction, we consider Hong Kong as a city of flows: not only because the city continues to receive immigrants and remigrants and produce emigrants, but also because of people's common practice of sojourning between home bases in and beyond Hong Kong. We suggest that the go…
Same God but Different? Politico-Religious Dynamics and the New Hong Kong Christian Diaspora in the United Kingdom
This article examines the impacts of new Christian immigrants from Hong Kong on Chinese Christian churches in the United Kingdom. While the new arrivals have helped boost the vitality of Chinese immigrant churches, they also pose new challenges to the established Chinese Christian communities. Drawing on qualitative data from our fieldwork in different locations in the United Kingdom, we seek to delineate the intra-ethnic dynamics and dilemmas wi…
Double Push and the Contingent Path
Hong Kong (HK) is encountering a new wave of outmigration. Numerous recent surveys and news reports have been recording the escalating effects of migration. However, almost all of these are about HK's majority group-the Chinese Hong Kongers. The city's South Asian minorities are rarely mentioned or included in these records. This article examines South Asian minorities' aspirations and frustration amid the continuous exodus of Hong Kongers, their…
Racialization of xinyimin and their double lives
Home virtuality and the platformized life of Chinese international students in the United Kingdom
This article examines a nascent phenomenon in which a cluster of digital platforms mimicking popular Chinese apps has popped up in various cities in the United Kingdom (UK). They have been eagerly adopted by a strong clientele composed mainly of Chinese international students and young working migrants from China. Drawing on data we gathered from the British city of Manchester, one of the most popular destinations for Chinese international studen…
Producing rice, eating tradition? A multiscalar ricescape in Hong Kong
Hong Kong was not only a place where rice had been widely grown to support its own population, but had also once produced rice for overseas markets. However, rice production had declined rapidly since the 1960s and disappeared in the 1990s. Since the 2010s, there has been a reemergence of rice planting in Hong Kong carried out by conservationists, NGOs and individual farmers. In 2021, an heirloom rice cultivation campaign was launched by the Hong…
Diseasescape and immobility governance
COVID-19 upended both the existing world order and the research agenda of academics. In both cases, one crucial feature was a net shift from an expansive ‘hyper mobile’ world to a strong emphasis on the immobilization of people. With growing anxieties about the risks and dangers involved in human mobility, there was a turn in mobility studies: an ‘immobility turn’ agonized by a rapidly evolving diseasescape shaped at the intersection of a rapidly…
The politics of sanitization
COVID-19 has resulted in new anxieties about the risks and dangers involved in human mobility and forced governments to simultaneously re-engineer policies for temporary health control and longer-term border-crossing and migration policies; characterized by the sanitization of space and mobility. This special issue considers the policies, including health and non-health measures, that have impacts on migrant workers and migration. While COVID con…
Rethinking the migration-development nexus in the post-Covid-19 era
This concluding article serves as an epilogue summing up key issues about migration, labor migrants and development amid a crisis of public health. We predict the forging of an age of sanitization in which different kinds of sanitizing policies will still be in place, especially in Asia, to deal with the sporadic changes of the pandemic. Sanitization politics will continue to intersect with different policy sectors and powers, which will extend b…
Sanitized boundaries, sanitized homes
This paper explores the “sporadic hyper-precarity” encountered by migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong when the city was hit by the Omicron outbreaks in early 2022. Migrant workers have long been suffering from job insecurity and structural vulnerability due to the contractization and flexibilization of work. The paper discusses how this structural vulnerability came to intersect with the health risks induced by the COVID pandemic. Adding to the…
Food contact zones and kitchen politics
Making and sharing food plays an essential role in foreign domestic helpers’ work and leisure life. However, this has seldom been addressed in the voluminous migrant domestic helper literature. In Hong Kong, overseas helpers are employed in over three hundred thousand households. This article explores their food experiences in both their leisure and work spaces. It first examines the “contact zones” in which these workers share food with co-ethni…
Asian food and culinary politics
This introduction outlines the conceptual framework of the special issue. Culinary politics involves a contest over the social organization and cultural meanings of food by a variety of actors: both civil and state, the powerful and the grassroots. In particular, we consider food governance as a form of culinary politics entailing a two-way traffic, in which policies and regulations are set by state actors, while the responses of civil actors oft…
Asian perspectives of migration
This commentary discusses the scope of institutionalization by providing a regional dimension of migration studies. A pivotal weakness of the article is its lack of understanding of Asian migration scholarship which has thrived in the past two decades and has been a great impetus for the development of migration studies
Chinese Encounters in Southeast Asia
Vietnam is my country land, China is my hometown
Studies of Southeast Asian Chinese are voluminous; yet, those about the Chinese in Vietnam are comparatively few. This article provides an updated account of the Chinese Vietnamese with focuses on the Chinese associations in the South of Vietnam and the shifting Chinese identity. Many have discussed the Chinese Vietnamese who fled Vietnam in the 1970s and 1980s, however, little is known about the plights of the Chinese inside Vietnam during those…
New directions for overseas Chinese and migration studies
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book illuminates a new migration landscape with migration cases from a wide variety of Chinese societies. It focuses on China as one prominent site for exploring different manifestations of state–diaspora dynamics. The book describes new conceptual analysis of new Chinese migrations and migration-governance on experiences from …
New Chinese Migrations
Postcolonial cultural governance
This paper seeks to unpack the politics of heritage preservation in post-1997 Hong Kong. Referring to international frameworks on heritage preservation, it seeks to position Hong Kong’s cultural resource management on par with international discourses for the advancement of heritage governance. Debates surrounding heritage are indeed a part of the wider picture of Hong Kong’s cultural and identity politics and the Hong Kong-China relationship. By…
Not merely a border
Coming of age of the Chinese tourists
Unlike most previous tourism research that has focused on Western tourists, this article investigates the interactions between Chinese tourists and Vietnamese hosts in border tourism in Vietnam. It proposes that a study of non-Western tourism between non-Western destinations is long overdue. The last decade has witnessed a massive influx of Chinese tourists into many Asian tourism landscapes. As a category of non-Western tourists, they are certai…
Chinese American Death Rituals
Recycling Migration and Changing Nationalisms
The Vietnamese diasporic population, largely constituted within international and regional political turbulences in the 1970s and early 1980s, has been swiftly recycled over the last decade. Many first- and second-generation overseas Vietnamese have been returning to Vietnam to live and work. This article examines the interactive dynamics between the homeland society and the returning migrants, and the impact of return migration on Vietnamese nat…
Food localism and resistance
Hong Kong, a part of China, yet separated from it by a borderline and a different social system, relies mostly on China for its fresh food. With a high incidence of food contamination, many Hong Kong people have turned to a new food alternative – locally grown organic vegetables. The number of organic growers has risen significantly over the past decade. This paper examines the emergence of local organic food production in Hong Kong since the tur…
Postcolonial cultural governance
This paper seeks to unpack the politics of heritage preservation in post-1997 Hong Kong. Referring to international frameworks on heritage preservation, it seeks to position Hong Kong’s cultural resource management on par with international discourses for the advancement of heritage governance. Debates surrounding heritage are indeed a part of the wider picture of Hong Kong’s cultural and identity politics and the Hong Kong-China relationship. By…
Racialization of xinyimin and their double lives
The politics of sanitization
COVID-19 has resulted in new anxieties about the risks and dangers involved in human mobility and forced governments to simultaneously re-engineer policies for temporary health control and longer-term border-crossing and migration policies; characterized by the sanitization of space and mobility. This special issue considers the policies, including health and non-health measures, that have impacts on migrant workers and migration. While COVID con…
Sanitized boundaries, sanitized homes
This paper explores the “sporadic hyper-precarity” encountered by migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong when the city was hit by the Omicron outbreaks in early 2022. Migrant workers have long been suffering from job insecurity and structural vulnerability due to the contractization and flexibilization of work. The paper discusses how this structural vulnerability came to intersect with the health risks induced by the COVID pandemic. Adding to the…
Vietnamese or Chinese
This article examines the contested identity of a particular group of Viet-kieu, who were born in China and who returned to Vietnam in the 1970s, by looking into their personal histories, descent backgrounds and the political and socio-economic processes they lived through in the past few decades. Unlike other Viet-kieu who returned from the West, the Viet-kieu in the borderlands rarely received any attention from the media or academia. They led …
Ethnicity and capital
This article seeks to debunk the persistent myth of an ethnically-based Chinese capitalism and the culturalist view of an "economic miracle" created by Asians of Chinese descent. This myth claims that Chinese entrepreneurs constitute a closed category with homogenous ethnic attributes and cultural values that have enabled them to achieve economic success. This article disputes such primordialist views and proposes an alternative analysis of the c…
Hybrid diaspora and identity-laundering
Among the overseas Vietnamese around the world, many are Chinese Vietnamese. They fled from Vietnam for different political and economic reasons during the 1970s and the 1980s. Many of them have returned to Vietnam since the 1990s to work, invest or retire. What is interesting about these returned Chinese Vietnamese migrants is the fact that when they left Vietnam they were called by the Vietnamese the Hoa (華, Chinese) or Hoa kiều (華僑, overseas C…
Double Push and the Contingent Path
Hong Kong (HK) is encountering a new wave of outmigration. Numerous recent surveys and news reports have been recording the escalating effects of migration. However, almost all of these are about HK's majority group-the Chinese Hong Kongers. The city's South Asian minorities are rarely mentioned or included in these records. This article examines South Asian minorities' aspirations and frustration amid the continuous exodus of Hong Kongers, their…
Vietnam is my country land, China is my hometown
Studies of Southeast Asian Chinese are voluminous; yet, those about the Chinese in Vietnam are comparatively few. This article provides an updated account of the Chinese Vietnamese with focuses on the Chinese associations in the South of Vietnam and the shifting Chinese identity. Many have discussed the Chinese Vietnamese who fled Vietnam in the 1970s and 1980s, however, little is known about the plights of the Chinese inside Vietnam during those…
Vietnamese-Chinese Relationships at the Borderlands
1. Introduction 2. The Intriguing Vietnam-China Relationship and Border Encounters 3. Trade, Business and Borderland Cultural Economy 4. Chinese Tourists, Borderland Tourism and Joking Relationships 5. Smuggling, Gambling and Borderland Regulation 6. Sex Tourism, Gender Politics and Cross-border Marriage 7. Conclusion: Surfaces of Interaction and Inter-state Relations
Packaging Tradition
2003). Packaging Tradition: Chinese Death Management in Urban Hong Kong. Asian Anthropology: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 139-159
In Search of a Greener Pasture? Post-2019 Migrations From Hong Kong
This Special Issue examines various issues concerning the outmigration waves of Hong Kong after 2019, the year when Hong Kong witnessed a series of social protests. In this introduction, we consider Hong Kong as a city of flows: not only because the city continues to receive immigrants and remigrants and produce emigrants, but also because of people's common practice of sojourning between home bases in and beyond Hong Kong. We suggest that the go…
Same God but Different? Politico-Religious Dynamics and the New Hong Kong Christian Diaspora in the United Kingdom
This article examines the impacts of new Christian immigrants from Hong Kong on Chinese Christian churches in the United Kingdom. While the new arrivals have helped boost the vitality of Chinese immigrant churches, they also pose new challenges to the established Chinese Christian communities. Drawing on qualitative data from our fieldwork in different locations in the United Kingdom, we seek to delineate the intra-ethnic dynamics and dilemmas wi…
Home virtuality and the platformized life of Chinese international students in the United Kingdom
This article examines a nascent phenomenon in which a cluster of digital platforms mimicking popular Chinese apps has popped up in various cities in the United Kingdom (UK). They have been eagerly adopted by a strong clientele composed mainly of Chinese international students and young working migrants from China. Drawing on data we gathered from the British city of Manchester, one of the most popular destinations for Chinese international studen…
Diseasescape and immobility governance
COVID-19 upended both the existing world order and the research agenda of academics. In both cases, one crucial feature was a net shift from an expansive ‘hyper mobile’ world to a strong emphasis on the immobilization of people. With growing anxieties about the risks and dangers involved in human mobility, there was a turn in mobility studies: an ‘immobility turn’ agonized by a rapidly evolving diseasescape shaped at the intersection of a rapidly…
Rethinking the migration-development nexus in the post-Covid-19 era
This concluding article serves as an epilogue summing up key issues about migration, labor migrants and development amid a crisis of public health. We predict the forging of an age of sanitization in which different kinds of sanitizing policies will still be in place, especially in Asia, to deal with the sporadic changes of the pandemic. Sanitization politics will continue to intersect with different policy sectors and powers, which will extend b…
Asian perspectives of migration
This commentary discusses the scope of institutionalization by providing a regional dimension of migration studies. A pivotal weakness of the article is its lack of understanding of Asian migration scholarship which has thrived in the past two decades and has been a great impetus for the development of migration studies
The new consumer politics of food in East Asia
Packaging Tradition
2003). Packaging Tradition: Chinese Death Management in Urban Hong Kong. Asian Anthropology: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 139-159
Vietnamese or Chinese
This article examines the contested identity of a particular group of Viet-kieu, who were born in China and who returned to Vietnam in the 1970s, by looking into their personal histories, descent backgrounds and the political and socio-economic processes they lived through in the past few decades. Unlike other Viet-kieu who returned from the West, the Viet-kieu in the borderlands rarely received any attention from the media or academia. They led …
Coming of age of the Chinese tourists
Unlike most previous tourism research that has focused on Western tourists, this article investigates the interactions between Chinese tourists and Vietnamese hosts in border tourism in Vietnam. It proposes that a study of non-Western tourism between non-Western destinations is long overdue. The last decade has witnessed a massive influx of Chinese tourists into many Asian tourism landscapes. As a category of non-Western tourists, they are certai…
Ethnicity and capital
This article seeks to debunk the persistent myth of an ethnically-based Chinese capitalism and the culturalist view of an "economic miracle" created by Asians of Chinese descent. This myth claims that Chinese entrepreneurs constitute a closed category with homogenous ethnic attributes and cultural values that have enabled them to achieve economic success. This article disputes such primordialist views and proposes an alternative analysis of the c…
Influence of an anti-diabetic foot ulcer formula and its component herbs on tissue and systemic glucose homeostasis
Chinese American Death Rituals
Reviewed by: Chinese American Death Rituals: Respecting the Ancestors Chan Yuk Wah Chinese American Death Rituals: Respecting the Ancestors. Edited by Chung Sue Fawn and Priscilla Wegars. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 307. This volume, edited by Sue Fawn Chung and Priscilla Wegars, contains a number of invaluable reports of archaeological findings on Chinese death-ritual practices in America in the 19th and 20th centuries. It looks at…
Chinese American Death Rituals
Recycling Migration and Changing Nationalisms
The Vietnamese diasporic population, largely constituted within international and regional political turbulences in the 1970s and early 1980s, has been swiftly recycled over the last decade. Many first- and second-generation overseas Vietnamese have been returning to Vietnam to live and work. This article examines the interactive dynamics between the homeland society and the returning migrants, and the impact of return migration on Vietnamese nat…
The Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora
Part I: Revisiting an era of Refugees and Boat People 1. Revisiting the Vietnamese Refugee Era: An Asian Perspective from Hong Kong - Yuk Wah Chan 2. Rethinking the Vietnamese Exodus: Hong Kong in Comparative Perspective - David W. Haines 3. The Boat People Crisis of 1978-1979 and the Hong Kong Experience Examined through the Ethnic Chinese Dimension - Ramses Amer 4. In Search of History: The Chinese in South Vietnam, 1945-1975 - Li Tana Part II:…
Vietnamese-Chinese Relationships at the Borderlands
Ever since China and Vietnam resumed diplomatic contacts and reopened the border in 1991, the borderland region has become part of the vibrant growing economies of both countries and drawn many from the interior provinces to the borderland for new economic adventures. This book examines Chinese-Vietnamese relationships at the borderland through every day cross-border interaction in trade and tourism activities. It looks into the historical underl…
Hybrid diaspora and identity-laundering
Among the overseas Vietnamese around the world, many are Chinese Vietnamese. They fled from Vietnam for different political and economic reasons during the 1970s and the 1980s. Many of them have returned to Vietnam since the 1990s to work, invest or retire. What is interesting about these returned Chinese Vietnamese migrants is the fact that when they left Vietnam they were called by the Vietnamese the Hoa (華, Chinese) or Hoa kiều (華僑, overseas C…
Vietnamese-Chinese Relationships at the Borderlands
1. Introduction 2. The Intriguing Vietnam-China Relationship and Border Encounters 3. Trade, Business and Borderland Cultural Economy 4. Chinese Tourists, Borderland Tourism and Joking Relationships 5. Smuggling, Gambling and Borderland Regulation 6. Sex Tourism, Gender Politics and Cross-border Marriage 7. Conclusion: Surfaces of Interaction and Inter-state Relations
Consoling ghosts
A poetic ethnography of war survivors, the dead, and ghosts, Consoling Ghosts is an extraordinary account of encounters with violence, death, physical and cultural displacement, and reconciliation
Not merely a border
A tale of two borderlands
This article examines post-colonial “development” of cross-border tourism at two border cities of China, Hong Kong and Macao, which returned their sovereignty to China in 1997 and 1999 respectively. Instead of considering such development merely a tourism feature, the author argues that the abundance of Chinese tourists to Hong Kong and Macao has resulted from the problematic growth of China. Transborder tourism space and relations between the tw…
The new consumer politics of food in East Asia
Food localism and resistance
Hong Kong, a part of China, yet separated from it by a borderline and a different social system, relies mostly on China for its fresh food. With a high incidence of food contamination, many Hong Kong people have turned to a new food alternative – locally grown organic vegetables. The number of organic growers has risen significantly over the past decade. This paper examines the emergence of local organic food production in Hong Kong since the tur…
New directions for overseas Chinese and migration studies
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book illuminates a new migration landscape with migration cases from a wide variety of Chinese societies. It focuses on China as one prominent site for exploring different manifestations of state–diaspora dynamics. The book describes new conceptual analysis of new Chinese migrations and migration-governance on experiences from …
New Chinese Migrations
Postcolonial cultural governance
This paper seeks to unpack the politics of heritage preservation in post-1997 Hong Kong. Referring to international frameworks on heritage preservation, it seeks to position Hong Kong’s cultural resource management on par with international discourses for the advancement of heritage governance. Debates surrounding heritage are indeed a part of the wider picture of Hong Kong’s cultural and identity politics and the Hong Kong-China relationship. By…
Chinese Encounters in Southeast Asia
Vietnam is my country land, China is my hometown
Studies of Southeast Asian Chinese are voluminous; yet, those about the Chinese in Vietnam are comparatively few. This article provides an updated account of the Chinese Vietnamese with focuses on the Chinese associations in the South of Vietnam and the shifting Chinese identity. Many have discussed the Chinese Vietnamese who fled Vietnam in the 1970s and 1980s, however, little is known about the plights of the Chinese inside Vietnam during those…
Asian perspectives of migration
This commentary discusses the scope of institutionalization by providing a regional dimension of migration studies. A pivotal weakness of the article is its lack of understanding of Asian migration scholarship which has thrived in the past two decades and has been a great impetus for the development of migration studies
Food contact zones and kitchen politics
Making and sharing food plays an essential role in foreign domestic helpers’ work and leisure life. However, this has seldom been addressed in the voluminous migrant domestic helper literature. In Hong Kong, overseas helpers are employed in over three hundred thousand households. This article explores their food experiences in both their leisure and work spaces. It first examines the “contact zones” in which these workers share food with co-ethni…
Asian food and culinary politics
This introduction outlines the conceptual framework of the special issue. Culinary politics involves a contest over the social organization and cultural meanings of food by a variety of actors: both civil and state, the powerful and the grassroots. In particular, we consider food governance as a form of culinary politics entailing a two-way traffic, in which policies and regulations are set by state actors, while the responses of civil actors oft…
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