Dr Tommy Chung-yin Kwan

Dr. Tommy Chung-yin Kwan, currently splits his time between Hong Kong and Brussels, is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Université libre de Bruxelles.

He works on the AspirE project which examines the decision making of aspiring (re)migrants from Asian countries to selected EU countries. He received his PhD in Politics and International Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, focusing on the relationship between political parties and social movements in Taiwan. He previously taught in the Education University of Hong Kong and used to be a Resident Fellow at the University of Tübingen in Germany and a visiting associate at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. 

Tommy is a writer and a radio programme host. He comments on Taiwan and Hong Kong’s political and cultural scenes. His anthologies, Learnings from Solitude (2019), Old World in a New Day (2020), and In Retrospect (2023), are all published by the China Times Publishing in Taiwan.

Academic publications (selected)

• Kwan, C.Y. (2023), Chapter 10: The Increasing Chinese Influence in Hong Kong Public Policy after 2019: A Case Studies on Framing and Political Rhetoric in Hong Kong's Climate Policy, in Research Agendas for East Asian Social Policy, p.85-101, Edward Elgar.
• Kwan, C.Y. (2023), Chapter 3: The Changing National Identity of Taiwan People in Affecting the Party Politics of Taiwan. Rethinking Parties in Democratizing Asia, p.59-77, ed. Julio C. Teehankee, Rey C. Padit and Jung Hoon Park. Routledge.
• Kwan, C.Y. (2021), The Cross-Strait Relation in Post-Trump era, Twenty-First Century, (166), 34-44, Hong Kong. 後特朗普的兩岸關係 二十一世紀
• Kwan, T. C. Y., & Fell, D. (2020). Chapter 7: The Relationship between Mainstream and Movement Parties in Taiwan. Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia: Between Entanglement and Contention in Post High Growth, p.167-186, ed. David Chiavacci, Simona Grano, Julia Obinger. Amsterdam University Press.

Non-academic publications

• 《重回舊地》 In Retrospect, 2023, 時報出版 (ISBN: 9786263534094)
• 《醒來的世界》Old World in a New Day, 2020, 時報出版 (ISBN: 978957137749; Taiwan)
• 《孤獨課》Learnings from Solitude(Traditional Chinese), 2019, 時報出版(ISBN: 9789571377490; Taiwan)
• 《孤独课》Learnings from Solitude(Simplified Chinese) ,2019, 理想國出版  (ISBN: 9787559821935; China)