Angelina Chin

Angelina Chin’s teaching and research interests revolve around the themes of colonialism, political movements, diaspora, feminism, sexuality, and disability in modern East Asia. Her research focuses on the social histories of marginal people, identities and citizenship, as well as transregional networks in Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and Japan. She is the author of  Unsettling Exiles: Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong and the Southern Periphery During the Cold War (Columbia University Press, 2023) and Bound to Emancipate: Working Women and Urban Citizenship in Early Twentieth-Century China and Hong Kong (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012). Chin is currently working on two projects on disability. The first one, which Chin will focus on during her term at CASBS, is about the blind workers’ labor movements in Hong Kong since the 1960s. The other is a multimedia project on assistive technologies and devices for people with disabilities.  

Chin is professor of history at Pomona College.  You can read more about her here: https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/angelina-chin