Charles Fung
PhD Student in Sociology
Bio
Charles Fung received his Master of Philosophy in Government and Public Administration at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include state (trans)formation, fiscal politics, identity-making, geopolitics, and governance, focusing on how these processes unfold in the context of colonial/imperial rule. What connects all these research interests is the concern of understanding how the exercise of state power (effectively or otherwise) and bottom-up resistances in the past co-created the present circumstances. In short, he is inclined to approach puzzling phenomena from the historical-sociological lens with archival and comparative-historical methods.