Macau (MNA) – Professor Ming K. Chan, who has developed extensive research about Macau and Hong Kong, has passed away.
Amongst his many research positions, Chan had been recently appointed an International Advisory Board member of the Orient Institute, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal.
In addition to authoring and editing dozens of academic articles and chapters on Chinese history, Sino-foreign relations, and studies on Hong Kong, Macau, and Guangdong, Mr. Chan published three books, namely, The A to Z of the Hong Kong SAR and the Macao SAR (2010), Perspectives on Lingnan Modern History: Guangdong and its Hong Kong Links, 1900-38 (2010), and China’s Macao Transformed: Challenge & Development in the 21st Century (2013).
He also held many teaching and research positions around the globe throughout his academic life, including the University of Hong Kong, Swarthmore, Grinnell, Duke, UCLA, Mount Holyoke, St. Antony’s College at Oxford, and El Colegio de Mexico.
He was also recently an adviser to the University of Toronto’s Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library.
Chan got his Ph.D. in East Asian History from Stanford University in 1975 at age 25, and served as a Hoover Institution Research Fellow from 1976-80 and 1999-2008 and managed its Hong Kong Documentary Archives Project.
He has been affiliated with the Stanford Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) as a visiting scholar and distinguished practitioner for many years.
Although the professor retired in 1997, he maintained an active life of scholarship.
Chan passed away in the San Francisco airport on October 30, when he was en route to a conference in Hong Kong to be held on November 3.
