K K Cheuk

Biographic Data

ID50634
NAMEK K Cheuk
GIVEN NAMESK K
FAMILY NAMECheuk
SIGNATURECHEUK K K
AFFILIATIONSRice University
ORCID0000-0003-4396-8153
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS16
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Being Sikhs in Hong Kong

    Open AccessK K CheukARTICLESikh Formations2026

    In the late nineteenth century, Sikhs began migrating to Hong Kong, formerly a British colony and now a Special Administrative Region of China, making them one of the oldest Sikh diasporic communities worldwide. Drawing on fieldwork since 2005, this article explores how they navigate their identity within the postcolonial setting. It examines everyday interactions with the local Chinese population and their implications for the public expression …

  • Diasporic convergence, sustained transience and indifferent survival

    K K CheukARTICLEHistory and Anthropology2022

    This paper analyses the way in which Sindhi traders – one of the largest Indian diasporic populations in Asia – have managed to live and work in China as de facto migrants despite their inability to be granted settled immigration status by the Chinese state. Drawing on long-term fieldwork that started in 2010, the paper offers a China-centric ethnographic perspective on how Indian traders, particularly Sindhis in the Chinese county of Keqiao, hav…

  • Funny Money Circulation and Fabric Exports From China to Dubai Through Indian Trading Networks

    Open AccessK K Cheuk, Ka-Kin CheukARTICLEAmerican Behavioral Scientist2022Cited by: 3References: 14

    Chiefly drawing on my ethnographic fieldwork in the district of Keqiao in Zhejiang Province since 2009, I argue that irregular financial transactions-conceptualized as "funny money" in this article-play a significant role in the sustenance of otherwise tenuous business relations between Indian traders and Chinese suppliers in the China-Dubai fabric trade. Much of the fabric exported from Keqiao to Dubai relies on intertwined formal and informal t…

  • Teaching Ethnographic Research Methods in the Time of Covid-19

    Open AccessK K CheukARTICLETeaching and Learning Anthropology2021

    This article presents a detailed description of how I adapted an undergraduate ethnographic research methods course to a fully online format during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on my recent experience designing and teaching a new course titled Ethnographic Research in/of Houston Asia in Fall 2020 at Rice University, I illustrate the virtual learning environment I maintained in this course through ongoing collaboration with members of the Zoroas…

  • Transient migrants at the crossroads of China’s global future

    K K CheukARTICLETransitions Journal of Transient…2019Cited by: 4

    China has witnessed a remarkable growth in its foreign population over the past two decades. Even though they are still quite few in number at the moment, foreigners in China are being increasingly recognized and studied in the broad field of migration studies. Although they have neither the hope nor the desire to become permanent residents of China, most foreigners nonetheless continue to be construed as ‘immigrants’ or ‘migrants’ in both the sc…

  • Everyday Diplomacy among Indian Traders in a Chinese Fabric Market

    Open AccessK K Cheuk, Ka-Kin CheukARTICLEThe Cambridge Journal of…2016Cited by: 9References: 13

    Through an ethnographic study of Indian traders in Keqiao, a municipal Chinese district in Zhejiang Province where China’s largest fabric trade market is located, this article seeks to unpack the ways in which negative stereotypes of Indian traders in China have been historically sustained, culturally represented and, to a significant degree, socially tolerated and justified in a local Chinese market. By invoking the notion of ‘everyday diplomacy…