Wing Chung Ng
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Wing Chung Ng, Associate Professor of History, received a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Hong Kong and a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. His training is in modern China with emphasis on social and cultural history. His research interest has been in the broad area of the Chinese overseas migration, especially regarding questions of social institutions, community structure, and identity formation. His study of the ethnic Chinese in Malaysia and Singapore and later in Canada has put him among the first cohort of Chinese historians who engaged in a serious examination of the global Chinese Diaspora. Among his major publications are an article in Modern Asian Studies, a chapter in the Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas, and a historical monograph on the Chinese in Vancouver. His current project is on Cantonese opera, a form of regional theater that was highly popular in the Guangzhou-Hong Kong area as well as among Cantonese-speaking Chinese migrants overseas. He intends to foreground the theme of mobility and write a transnational history of Cantonese Opera on a broad global canvas. Dr. Ng has taught courses in Chinese history, World Civilization, Modern Japan, Migration, and Historical Methods. His research interests and teaching experiences place him in an excellent position to make substantial contributions to the proposed Ph.D. program.