About My Work
My research looks at trans-colonial migration and how migrants create trans-imperial synergy by using urban spaces in identity construction. Specifically, I work on the ‘Portuguese’/ Macanese diaspora in East Asia.
My other research interests include cultural representations of colonial landmarks in East Asia and critique towards global efforts in the preservation of ICH, with a particular focus on the Philippines.
Citations
The Macanese Diaspora in British Hong Kong: A Century of Transimperial Drifting (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021).
‘An Alternative Public Sphere: Macanese Print Media and Freedom of Press in British Hong Kong,’ The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, January 2023 (e-pub ahead of print).
‘Greyhounds in a Sin City: Animal Welfare under Macau’s Gambling Culture,’ Cultural History 12, no. 1 (forthcoming in April 2023).
‘Culture and Identity,’ in M.K. Wong and C.M. Kwong (eds.), Hong Kong History: Themes in Global Perspective (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
(with José Luís de Sales Marques) ‘“Viva Salazar!” Nationalistic Propaganda in Macau under the Estado Novo,’ Anais de História de Além-Mar (accepted for publication).
‘Diverse Cosmopolitan Visions and Intellectual Passions: Macanese Publics in British Hong Kong,’ Modern Asian Studies 56, no. 1 (2022), 350-377.
(with José Luís de Sales Marques) ‘Extradition, Extraterritoriality, and Murder: Managing Portuguese Criminals in Chinese Port Cities,’ e-Journal of Portuguese History 19, no. 1 (2021), 128-146.
‘A ‘Mongrel Race’ or Respectable ‘Europeans’? Portuguese Colonial Culture and Middle-class Luso-Asians in Early Nineteenth-Century Macau,’ Journal of Asian History 55, no. 2 (2021), 303-323.
(with Brian Edgar) ‘Contested Allegiance: The Response of Hong Kong’s Macanese Community to the Challenges of the Japanese Occupation,’ Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 61 (2021), 102-121.
‘Macau martyr or Portuguese traitor? The Macanese communities of Macau, Hong Kong and Shanghai and the Portuguese nation,’ Historical Research 93, no. 262 (2020), 754-768.
‘From Macanese Opium Traders to British Aristocrats: The Trans-imperial Migration of the Pereiras,’ Journal of Migration History 6, no. 2 (2020), 236-261.
‘Belonging to the City: Representations of a Colonial Clock Tower in British Hong Kong,’ Journal of Urban History vol. 45, no. 2 (March 2019; 321-332).
‘At the Edge of Two Worlds: Rethinking the Portuguese Diaspora in British Hong Kong,’ in Clara W.C. Ho, Ricardo K.S. Mak and Yue-him Tam (eds.),Voyages, Migration and the Maritime World: On China’s Global Historical Role (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018), 233-244.
‘Folklore Without a Folk: Questions in the Preservation of the Marinduque Moriones Festival.’ International Journal of Heritage Studies 23, no. 1 (2017; SSCI): 29-40.
'Old Objects in a Futuristic World: Re-Imagining Hong Kong through the Clock Tower in the Eyes of Western Settlers and Local Citizens’ in Cross-Currents E-Journal 15 (June 2015).
Professional Associations
I am a member of the Hong Kong History Project at the University of Bristol and the Society for Hong Kong Studies. I am also a regular participant of conferences organised by the AAS and the IIAS (Leiden University).