Dr. CHAN Yuk Wah (陳玉華)

BA MPhil PhDCUHK

Dr Yuk Wah Chan is Chief Editor of the Routledge Series on Asian Migration (https://www.routledge.com/series/RSAM). Her areas of research cover international migration, borderland, tourism, Vietnam-China relations, identity, death and food. She has published two volumes on The Age of Asian Migration: Continuity, Diversity, and Susceptibility (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014, 2015), and The Chinese / Vietnamese Diaspora - Revisiting the Boat People (Routledge, 2011). She is author of Vietnamese-Chinese Relationships at the Borderlands: Trade, Tourism and Cultural Politics (Routledge, 2013). She is also the organizer of the Network for Asian Migration Studies (http://www.nams-research.net/), and a member of the editorial board of the Asian Borderlands Book Series (Amsterdam University Press), and History and Perspectives (the Journal of the Chinese Historical Society of America).

• Culture and Change in Asia
• Asian Migration and Global Diaspora
• Food: Culture, Science and Society

Discipline: Anthropology

• Migration studies
• Asian borderlands
• Vietnamese-Chinese relationships
• Vietnamese and Chinese diaspora
• Outbound Chinese tourism
• Food and culture
• Death studies

 Current/Recent Research Projects

• Asian Migration and Diaspora
• Food Relations in Asia
• Tourism Politics in Asia

Journal Special Issue

• Chan, Yuk Wah and Bill Pritchard, eds. (Dec 2016) Special Issue: Food Politics and Relations in East Asia: Food Safety, Resilience and Sustainability, Asia-Pacific Viewpoint 56(3): 295-408.
• Chan, Yuk Wah and Brantly Womack, eds. (Aug 2016) Special Issue: Borderlands in Asia: Emergent Conditions and Relations, Asian Anthropology 15(2): 95-206.
• Wee, Vivienne and Chan Yuk Wah, eds. (2006) The Cultural Economy of Regionalisation, Journal of Contemporary Asia 36(3): 325-405.