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Education and Career
1990-1994 Dartmouth College, NH, USA. B.A. in Geography (modified with Environmental Studies).
1994-1996 University of Minnesota, MN, USA. M.A. in Geography.
1999-2002 University of Bremen, Germany. Dr. rer. pol. in Geography.
2002-2003 Instructor, Department of Geography and Resource Management, CUHK.
2003-present Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Resource Management, CUHK.
Ongoing Research Projects
Overseas Chinese in Germany
Chinese out-bound tourism in Europe
Transnational Chinese families
Skilled migration in Hong Kong
Cultures, identities and heritage in Hong Kong
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Honors
Humboldt Research Fellowship (July 2006 – August 2007), awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany.
Young Researcher Award (Year 2004), awarded by The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Scholarship (Dec 1998 – Aug 2002) scholarship for dissertation research in Germany.
MacArthur Scholarship (Sept 1994 – June 1996), awarded by the MacArthur Interdisciplinary Program on Peace and International Co-operation, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN, USA.
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Publications
Book
Leung, Maggi W.H. (2004) Chinese Migration in Germany: Making Home in Transnational Space. Frankfurt: IKO Verlag.
Journal Articles
Leung, Maggi W.H. (2006) “On being Chinese: Locating the Chinese selves in Germany” in Asian Studies Review, 30(3): 241-256.
Leung, Maggi W.H. (2006) “Teaching and learning ‘sustainable development’” University General Education Bulletin. General Education Research Centre, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, May issue. Pp. 111-118 (In Chinese).
Leung, Maggi W.H. (2005) “Keeping compatriots on the move: A study of ethnic Chinese migrant-owned travel agencies in Germany” in Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 14(1-2): 193-224.
Leung, Maggi W.H. (2003) “Beyond Chinese, beyond food: Unpacking the Chinese catering business in Germany” Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 15(2): 103-118.
Leung, Maggi W.H. (2002) “From four-course Peking Duck to take-away Singapore Rice: An inquiry into the dynamics of the ethnic Chinese catering business in Germany” International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, 8(1/2): 134-147.
Leung, Maggi W.H. (2001) “Get IT going: New ethnic Chinese business: A case of Taiwanese-owned computer firms in Hamburg” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 27(2): 277-294.
Book chapters
Leung, Maggi W.H. (2007) “’Warum sind die so chinesisch?’: Dekonstruktionen von Chinesisch-Sein in Deutschland” (“’Why are they so Chinese?’: Deconstructing Chineseness in Germany”), in Kien Nghi Ha, Nicola Lauré al-Samarai and Sheila Mysorekar (eds) re/visionen: Postkoloniale Perspektiven von People of Color auf Rassismus, Kulturpolitik und Widerstand in Deutschland. Münster: Unrast Verlag (In German)
Leung, Maggi W.H. (2007) “A family transnationalised? A place of nostalgia? A commodity for sale? – Rethinking ‘home’ in diaspora” in Mette Thunø (ed.) Beyond Chinatown: New Chinese Migration and the Global Expansion of China. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press. Pp. 192-225.
Wong, Poh Poh, B.T. Lee and Maggi W.H. Leung (2006) “Hotspots of urbanization and population growth in the Asia-Pacific region” in Nick Harvey (ed.) Global Change and Integrated Coastal Management: The Asia-Pacific Region. Volume 10 of series “Coastal Systems and Continental Margins”. Dordrecht: Springer-Verlag. Pp. 163-195.
Leung, Maggi W.H. (2005) “The working of networking: Ethnic networks as social capital among Chinese migrant businesses in Germany” in Ernst Spaan, Felicitas Hillmann and Ton van Naerssen (eds.) Asian Migrants and European Labour Markets: Patterns and Processes of Immigrant Labour Market Insertion in Europe. London: Routledge, pp. 307-331.
Leung, Maggi W.H. (2005) “Beyond dragon and chop suey: Understanding the regulated Chinese labour migration to Germany” in Thomas Geisen (ed.) Arbeitsmigration. WanderarbeiterInnen auf dem Weltmarkt für Arbeitskraft. Frankfurt: IKO Verlag, pp. 237-257.
Leung, Maggi W.H. (2003) “Notions of home among diaspora Chinese in Germany” in Laurence J. C. Ma and Carolyn L. Cartier (eds.) The Chinese Diaspora: Space, Place, Mobility and Identity. Lanham, MD: Roman and Littlefield, pp. 237-258.
Leung, Maggi W.H. (2000) “Les Chinois d’ Allemagne: Images et identités” (“Chinese in Germany: Images and identities”), in Jean-François Doulet and Marie-Anne Gervais-Lambony (eds.) La Chine et les es Chinois de la diaspora, Paris: Atlande, pp. 217-220. (In French).
Conference Proceedings
Leung, Maggi W.H. (ed.) (2007) Work-family Interface in Women Leadership. 2006 Annual Gender Role Workshop Proceedings. Gender Research Centre, Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (In Chinese).
Leung, Maggi W.H. (ed.) (2006) Beijing Plus Ten. 2005 Annual Gender Role Workshop Proceedings. Gender Research Centre, Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (In Chinese).
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