In Conversation With Angelina Yanyan 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 currently working on two projects on disability. One 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. She has collaborated with social scientists and engineers in Japan, including the Institute of Ars Vivendi at Ritsumeikan University, the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), and the Department of Robotics at the Osaka Institute of Technology (OIT).