Prof. CHAN Catherine See (陳家怡)

Academic & Professional Qualifications

PhD, History, University of Bristol
MPhil, History, Hong Kong Baptist University
BA, History, Hong Kong Baptist University

Books, edited volume and book chapters

1. (co-edited with Tsang Wing Ma) East Asia beyond the Archives: Missing Sources & Marginal Voices (Leiden University Press, 2023).

2. The Macanese Diaspora in British Hong Kong: A Century of Transimperial Drifting (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021).

3. ‘What Joss-Stick Community? Issues in the Selection and Interpretation of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Macau,’ in East Asia beyond the Archives: Missing Sources & Marginal Voices (Leiden University Press, forthcoming in October 2023).

4. ‘Culture and Identity,’ in M.K. Wong and C.M. Kwong (eds.), Hong Kong History: Themes in Global Perspective (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).

5. ‘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.

· Peer-reviewed articles:

1. ‘Greyhounds in a Sin City: Animal Welfare under Macau’s Gambling Culture,’ Cultural History 12, no. 1 (2023), 98-119.

2. ‘An Alternative Public Sphere: Macanese Print Media and Freedom of Press in British Hong Kong,’ The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 51, no. 2 (2023), 244-264.

3. ‘The Future Will Remember: A Historical Approach to Restoring Muffled Voices in Intangible Cultural Heritage Inventory, the Macau Experience,’ heritage 6, no. 3 (2023), 2796-2808.

4. (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).

5. ‘Diverse Cosmopolitan Visions and Intellectual Passions: Macanese Publics in British Hong Kong,’ Modern Asian Studies 56, no. 1 (2022), 350-377.

6. (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.

7. ‘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.

8. (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.

9. ‘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.

10. ‘From Macanese Opium Traders to British Aristocrats: The Trans-imperial Migration of the Pereiras,’ Journal of Migration History 6, no. 2 (2020), 236-261.

11. ‘Belonging to the City: Representations of a Colonial Clock Tower in British Hong Kong,’ Journal of Urban History vol. 45, no. 2 (2019), 321-332.

12. ‘Folklore Without a Folk: Questions in the Preservation of the Marinduque Moriones Festival.’ International Journal of Heritage Studies 23, no. 1 (2017): 29-40.

13. ‘The Currency of History in Hong Kong: Deconstructing Nostalgia through Soybean Milk.’ Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 44, no. 4 (2015): 145-175.

14. ‘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).

15. ‘Narrating the Hong Kong Story: Deciphering Identity through Icons, Images and Trends.’ World History Connected 10, no. 1 (2013), http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/10.1/chan.html.

16. (with Mak, Ricardo K.S.) ‘Icons, Culture and Collective Identity of Postwar Hong Kong.’

Intercultural Communication Studies 12, no. 1 (2013), 158-173.

· Book reviews:

1. Review of Helena F.S. Lopes, Neutrality and Collaboration in South China: Macau during the Second World War (Cambridge University Press, 2023), H-Diplo (forthcoming).

2. Review of Chris Suh, The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion & Exclusion (Oxford University Press, 2023), Journal of Asian Studies (forthcoming).

3. Review of Tim Simpsons, Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China’s Consumer Revolution (University of Minnesota Press, 2023), Current History 122, no. 845 (2023), 238-240.

4. Review of Dawn Bohulano Mabalon, Little Manila Is In The Heart: The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California (Duke University Press, 2013), Itinerario- European Journal of Overseas History 41, special issue 2 (2017), 412-414.

5. Review of Michael Mackley, Saving Lake Tahoe (University of Nevada Press, 2014) Material Culture 47, no. 2 (2015), 66.

6. Review of Colin S.C. Hawes, The Chinese Transformation of Corporate Culture (Routledge, 2012), Journal of International and Global Studies 6, no. 1 (2014), 138-140.

· SELECTED CONFERENCES/PRESENTATIONS

1. ‘Swoop the Mangy Mutts! The Forgotten Anti-Dog Movement, 1970s Hong Kong,’ invited talk, University of Macau (30 November 2023), Macau.

2. ‘Fugitive or Exile? A Filipino Radical in British Hong Kong,’ Blurring Boundaries: Islands, Ports, and Borders in Global History and Literature, University of Macau (26 August 2023), Macau.

3. ‘Finding Freedom in Foreign-Controlled Chinese Port-Cities: Deconstructing the Macanese Diaspora in Modern Hong Kong and Shanghai,’ AAS-in-Asia Conference (24-27 June 2023), Daegu.

4. ‘“I am safer in Hong Kong”: Vicente Sotto between the Philippine Islands and British Hong Kong, 1907- 1914,’ AAS 2023 Annual Conference (16-19 March 2023), Boston.

5. ‘Splintered Bonds: The Macanese Diaspora in British Hong Kong,’ invited talk for the History Seminar, organized by the Department of Archaeology & History, La Trobe University (13 October 2022).

6. ‘Unbroken Bonds: The Macanese Diaspora & British Hong Kong,’ invited talk for the Asian Seminar, organized by the Department of History University of Bristol (26 April 2022).

7. ‘Pulling Imperial Strings: Rivalry between the ‘Portuguese’ Communities in East Asia,’ AAS Annual Conference 2022, organized by the Association for Asian Studies (24-27 March 2022), Honolulu.

8. ‘Shanghai Macanese and Extraterritoriality under the Portuguese Imperial System,’ Conferências da Primavera 2022, organized by Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau (9-12 March 2022), Lisbon.

9. ‘One Macanese Family, Two Convenient Empires: The Transimperial Pereiras between the Portuguese and British Spheres,’ All the Oceans are One: Magellan’s Voyage on its 500th Anniversary, organized by the University of Nottingham (5 January 2022), Ningbo.

10. ‘Macanese Clubbability: The First 100 Years in Hong Kong,’ book talk organized by Club Lusitano (14 December 2021), Hong Kong.

11. ‘Cobwebs and Dust: Exploring the Private Collection of a Macanese Family in Hong Kong,’ Missing Sources & Marginal Voices: Reconstructing Asian Historical Narratives, organized by the Department of History, University of Macau (7 December 2021), Macau.

12. ‘Marginal yet Free: The Macanese in British Hong Kong, 1841-1941,’ book talk at Livraria

Portuguesa (11 November 2021), Macau.

13. ‘Dog racing in Macau: commodification, gambling culture, and the place of non-human animals in the city,’ History Forum, organized by the Department of History, University of Macau (24 September 2021), Macau.

14. ‘Uniting to Divide, Dividing to Unite: The Middle-class ‘Portuguese’ in British Hong Kong, 1865-1900,’ International Convention of Asia Scholars, organized by the International Institute for Asian Studies (24-27 August 2021), organized by the International Institute for Asian Studies, Kyoto.

15. ‘Macanese Elites and the Making of Modern Macau,’ IAS Annual Conference 2021, organized by the Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Macau (5-7 May 2021), Macau.

16. ‘Trans-imperial Cries: Discussing Macau’s Problems in British Hong Kong,’ Managing the Cosmopolitan City: Inter-Asian Strategies of Ethnic Administration, Past and Present, organized by Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (14-15 January 2021), Singapore.

17. ‘Os Portuguese do Oriente:’ Portuguese Diasporic Nationalism in Inter-war Macau and Hong Kong,’ Guest Lecture for the Center for Global Studies, Shantou University, organized by the University of Macau, (14 January 2020), Macau.

18. ‘Hong Kong’s “Portuguese”: The Politics of Being “Not Eurasian,” 1900-1945,’ International Convention of Asia Scholars, organized by the International Institute for Asian Studies (16-19 July 2019), Leiden.

19. ‘“Hong Kong Man”: Anglophile “Portuguese” in Inter-war Hong Kong,’ All Roads Lead to Hong Kong, organized by the University of Bristol and the University of Hong Kong (5-7 June 2019), Hong Kong.

20. ‘Negotiating Informal Racial Divides: The “Portuguese Collaborators” in British Hong Kong, 1840-1880,’ International History of East Asia Seminar Michaelmas Term 2019, organized by the University of Oxford (21 January 2019), Oxford.

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· SELECTED CONFERENCES/PRESENTATIONS

1. ‘Swoop the Mangy Mutts! The Forgotten Anti-Dog Movement, 1970s Hong Kong,’ invited talk, University of Macau (30 November 2023), Macau.

2. ‘Fugitive or Exile? A Filipino Radical in British Hong Kong,’ Blurring Boundaries: Islands, Ports, and Borders in Global History and Literature, University of Macau (26 August 2023), Macau.

3. ‘Finding Freedom in Foreign-Controlled Chinese Port-Cities: Deconstructing the Macanese Diaspora in Modern Hong Kong and Shanghai,’ AAS-in-Asia Conference (24-27 June 2023), Daegu.

4. ‘“I am safer in Hong Kong”: Vicente Sotto between the Philippine Islands and British Hong Kong, 1907- 1914,’ AAS 2023 Annual Conference (16-19 March 2023), Boston.

5. ‘Splintered Bonds: The Macanese Diaspora in British Hong Kong,’ invited talk for the History Seminar, organized by the Department of Archaeology & History, La Trobe University (13 October 2022).

6. ‘Unbroken Bonds: The Macanese Diaspora & British Hong Kong,’ invited talk for the Asian Seminar, organized by the Department of History University of Bristol (26 April 2022).

7. ‘Pulling Imperial Strings: Rivalry between the ‘Portuguese’ Communities in East Asia,’ AAS Annual Conference 2022, organized by the Association for Asian Studies (24-27 March 2022), Honolulu.

8. ‘Shanghai Macanese and Extraterritoriality under the Portuguese Imperial System,’ Conferências da Primavera 2022, organized by Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau (9-12 March 2022), Lisbon.

9. ‘One Macanese Family, Two Convenient Empires: The Transimperial Pereiras between the Portuguese and British Spheres,’ All the Oceans are One: Magellan’s Voyage on its 500th Anniversary, organized by the University of Nottingham (5 January 2022), Ningbo.

10. ‘Macanese Clubbability: The First 100 Years in Hong Kong,’ book talk organized by Club Lusitano (14 December 2021), Hong Kong.

11. ‘Cobwebs and Dust: Exploring the Private Collection of a Macanese Family in Hong Kong,’ Missing Sources & Marginal Voices: Reconstructing Asian Historical Narratives, organized by the Department of History, University of Macau (7 December 2021), Macau.

12. ‘Marginal yet Free: The Macanese in British Hong Kong, 1841-1941,’ book talk at Livraria

Portuguesa (11 November 2021), Macau.

13. ‘Dog racing in Macau: commodification, gambling culture, and the place of non-human animals in the city,’ History Forum, organized by the Department of History, University of Macau (24 September 2021), Macau.

14. ‘Uniting to Divide, Dividing to Unite: The Middle-class ‘Portuguese’ in British Hong Kong, 1865-1900,’ International Convention of Asia Scholars, organized by the International Institute for Asian Studies (24-27 August 2021), organized by the International Institute for Asian Studies, Kyoto.

15. ‘Macanese Elites and the Making of Modern Macau,’ IAS Annual Conference 2021, organized by the Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Macau (5-7 May 2021), Macau.

16. ‘Trans-imperial Cries: Discussing Macau’s Problems in British Hong Kong,’ Managing the Cosmopolitan City: Inter-Asian Strategies of Ethnic Administration, Past and Present, organized by Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (14-15 January 2021), Singapore.

17. ‘Os Portuguese do Oriente:’ Portuguese Diasporic Nationalism in Inter-war Macau and Hong Kong,’ Guest Lecture for the Center for Global Studies, Shantou University, organized by the University of Macau, (14 January 2020), Macau.

18. ‘Hong Kong’s “Portuguese”: The Politics of Being “Not Eurasian,” 1900-1945,’ International Convention of Asia Scholars, organized by the International Institute for Asian Studies (16-19 July 2019), Leiden.

19. ‘“Hong Kong Man”: Anglophile “Portuguese” in Inter-war Hong Kong,’ All Roads Lead to Hong Kong, organized by the University of Bristol and the University of Hong Kong (5-7 June 2019), Hong Kong.

20. ‘Negotiating Informal Racial Divides: The “Portuguese Collaborators” in British Hong Kong, 1840-1880,’ International History of East Asia Seminar Michaelmas Term 2019, organized by the University of Oxford (21 January 2019), Oxford.