Cangbai Wang is Reader in Chinese Studies and founder and Co-leader of HOMELandS (Hub on Migration, Exiles, Languages and Spaces) at the Cangbai Wang is Reader in Chinese Studies and founder and Co-leader of HOMELandS (Hub on Migration, Exiles, Languages and Spaces) at the University of Westminster. His research interests fall in the areas of transnational migration, Chinese diaspora and migration-related museum and cultural heritage studies. He has published widely in peer-reviewed international journals including Asia Pacific Viewpoint, International Journal of Heritage Studies, and China Information. He is the author of Life is Elsewhere: Stories of the Indonesian Chinese in Hong Kong (Centre of Asian Studies, HKU 2006, in Chinese), and Bridging Borders, Creating Spaces: Negotiating Identities, Language and Migration in Global London (co-edited with Terry Lamb, Multilingual Matters, 2024). He is the co-editor of Routledge Research on Museum and Heritage in Asia.
Yow Cheun Hoe is associate professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he is Director of the Chinese Heritage Centre, and Director of the Centre for Chinese Language and Culture. He is a chief editor for Huaren Yanjiu Guoji Xuebao (International Journal of Diasporic Chinese Studies) and book review editor for Journal of Chinese Overseas. His academic areas include Chinese migrants and diaspora, qiaoxiang (Overseas Chinese homelands) ties, and diasporic Chinese literature. He was a Fulbright scholar, visiting the Centre for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California San Diego, 2013; Adviser for Centre for the Phillipines Studies, China Central Normal Univeristy; Visiting Professor, School of Humanities, Tongji University, March 2019-February 2022.
Huimei Zhang is a Research Fellow at Chinese Heritage Centre and Nanyang Centre for Public Administration; and Assistant Director (Research), Chinese Heritage Centre, Nanyang Technological University. Her research interests are Chinese diaspora, the history of the Teochew community, qiaopi and qiaokan, and Chinese business network. She has a certain number of publications in top-ranked journals and books. Her most recent publications include The Qiaopi Trade and Transnational Networks in the Chinese Diaspora (co-edited), Chinese Migrants Write Home: A Dual-Language Anthology of Twentieth-Century Family Letters (co-edited). She is currently an Executive Editor of International Journal of Diasporic Chinese Studies.
