
Position(s)
- Associate Director (Executive), Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies (HKIAPS), CUHK
- Director, Centre for Social and Political Development Studies, HKIAPS, CUHK
- Co-Convenor, Global China Research Programme, CUHK
- Coordinator, Telephone Survey Research Laboratory, HKIAPS, CUHK
Education
BBA, University of Hong Kong
PhD, University of Hong Kong
Research Expertise
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Entrepreneurship and Chinese family business:
Succession and inheritance, business network and social capital, women entrepreneur, corporate governance, stock market - Hong Kong and Macao’s social history and social indicators:
Social and regional integration, migration and ethnicity, social survey and social policy
Research and Publication
The Individual Visit Scheme and the Course of Integration in Greater China
Dr. Victor ZHENG Wan-tai and Ms. WAN Po-san | 2013 – present
Hong Kong
Individual Visit Scheme
Regional Integration
Public Attitudes towards the Development of Hong Kong and Mainland China
Prof. Fanny CHEUNG Mui-ching, Ms. WAN Po-san, and Dr. Victor ZHENG Wan-tai | 2014 – present
Hong Kong
Key Research Project
Mainland China
Social Attitudes
A Comparative Study of the Social Image of Taiwan and Hong Kong
CUHK team: Ms. WAN Po-san, Prof. Timothy WONG Ka-ying (up to 2011), and Dr. Victor ZHENG Wan-tai (from 2011) | 2009 – present
Hong Kong
Key Research Project
Sense of Belonging
Social Attitudes
Subjective Well-being
Taiwan
A Comparative Study of Mainland China’s Impact on Hong Kong and Taiwan
CUHK team: Dr. Victor ZHENG Wan-tai, Prof. Stephen CHIU Wing-kai (up to 2017), and Ms. WAN Po-san | 2012 – present
Hong Kong
Key Research Project
Mainland China
Regional Integration
Social Attitudes
Taiwan
Voting Behaviour in the 2016 Legislative Council Election
Prof. Fanny CHEUNG Mui-ching, Ms. WAN Po-san, and Dr. Victor ZHENG Wan-tai | 2015 – present
Hong Kong
Key Research Project
Legislative Council Election
Tracing Hong Kong Social History through Streets (3): Bonham Strand
CUHK team: Dr. Victor ZHENG Wan-tai, Prof. WONG Siu-lun | 2019 – present
Bonham Strand
Hong Kong
Key Research Project
Social History
Streets
Education as Soft Power: Hong Kong-trained Non-local University Students’ Connections and Their Career Plan in Hong Kong
Dr. Victor ZHENG Wan-tai, Prof. WONG Siu-lun, Prof. Anthony FUNG Ying-him, Dr Kevin WONG Tze-wai, and Dr. GUO Hua | 2019 – 2020
Education
Hong Kong
Non-local Students
Soft Power
Meso-institution as Agent of Social Mobilization and Consensus Building: The Case of Tongxianghui
Dr. Victor ZHENG Wan-tai, Prof. LEUNG Yuen-sang, Prof. Anthony FUNG Ying-him, Dr Kevin WONG Tze-wai, and Dr. GUO Hua | 2019 – 2020
Hong Kong
Social Mobilization
Tongxianghui
A Study on Advantages and Limitations of the Professionals’ Participations in Public Affairs
Dr. Victor ZHENG Wan-tai and Ms. WAN Po-san | 2019
Hong Kong
Professionals
Public Affairs Participation
Tracing Hong Kong Social History through Streets (2): Hillside Escalator
CUHK team: Dr. Victor ZHENG Wan-tai, Prof. WONG Siu-lun | 2018 – 2019
Hillside Escalator
Hong Kong
Social History
Streets
Voting Behaviour in the 2015 District Council Election
Prof. Fanny CHEUNG Mui-ching, Ms. WAN Po-san, and Dr. Victor ZHENG Wan-tai | 2015 – 2019
District Council Election
Hong Kong
Tracing Hong Kong Social History through Streets (1): Hollywood Road
CUHK team: Dr. Victor ZHENG Wan-tai, Prof. WONG Siu-lun | 2017 – 2018
Hollywood Road
Hong Kong
Social History
Streets
A Study on Hong Kong’s Values
Dr. Victor ZHENG Wan-tai and Ms. WAN Po-san | 2016 – 2018
Hong Kong
Values
A Study on the Struggles of Family Businesses in the Greater China
CUHK team: Dr. Victor ZHENG Wan-tai, Prof. WONG Siu-lun | 2016 – 2017
Chinese Family Businesses
Hong Kong
Mainland China
Taiwan
Public Attitudes towards the 2017 Chief Executive Election
Prof. Fanny CHEUNG Mui-ching, Ms. WAN Po-san, and Dr. Victor ZHENG Wan-tai | 2016 – 2017
Chief Executive Election
Hong Kong
Impact of Social Mobility on the Political Attitudes and Behaviours of Young People: A Comparative Study of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macao
CUHK team: Dr. Victor ZHENG Wan-tai, Prof. Stephen CHIU Wing-kai, Ms. WAN Po-san, and Dr Kevin WONG Tze-wai | 2015 – 2017
Hong Kong
Macao
Political Participation
Social Attitudes
Social Mobility
Taiwan
Voting Behaviour in the 2012 Legislative Council Election
Prof. Fanny CHEUNG Mui-ching, Ms. WAN Po-san, and Dr. Victor ZHENG Wan-tai | 2012 – 2016
Hong Kong
Legislative Council Election
Chinese Financial Families
Dr. Victor ZHENG Wan-tai and Prof. WONG Siu-lun | 2015 – 2016
Chinese Family Businesses
Financial Families
Innovations
Survey on Social and Political Trust in Hong Kong 2013
Dr. Victor ZHENG Wan-tai, Ms. WAN Po-san, and Dr Kevin WONG Tze-wai | 2014 – 2015
Hong Kong
Political Trust
The Seventh Phase of the Study on the Quality of Life in Macao 2011
Hong Kong team: Prof. Fanny CHEUNG Mui-ching (coordinator), Prof. WONG Siu-lun (coordinator), Ms. WAN Po-san, Dr. Victor ZHENG Wan-tai, Prof. MOK Ka-ho, Prof. WONG Chack-kie, and Prof. LAW Wing-kin | 2011 – 2014
Macao
Quality of Life
Voting Behaviour in the 2011 District Council Election
Prof. Fanny CHEUNG Mui-ching, Ms. WAN Po-san, and Dr. Victor ZHENG Wan-tai (from 2011) | 2011 – 2015
District Council Election
Hong Kong
Chinese Family Businesses: Continuity and Sustainability
Dr. Victor ZHENG Wan-tai and Prof. WONG Siu-lun | 2011 – 2014
Chinese Family Businesses
Cotton-spinners
Hong Kong
Shanghai
Chinese Family Businesses: Crisis Operation
Dr. Victor ZHENG Wan-tai and Prof. WONG Siu-lun | 2013 – 2015
Chinese Family Businesses
Crisis Management
Public Opinions towards the Political Reform of 2017
Dr. Victor ZHENG Wan-tai, Ms. WAN Po-san, and Dr Kevin WONG Tze-wai | 2013 – 2015
Hong Kong
Political Reform
Public Opinions towards the Population Policy in Macao 2014
Prof. Fanny CHEUNG Mui-ching, Dr Victor ZHENG Wan-tai, and Ms. WAN Po-san | 2013 – 2015
Macao
Population Policy
Chinese Family Businesses and Women
Dr. Victor ZHENG Wan-tai and Prof. WONG Siu-lun | 2012 – 2015
Chinese Family Businesses
Women
Chinese Family Businesses and the Stock Market: A Haiwangang Collaborative and Comparative Study
Dr. Victor ZHENG Wan-tai and Prof. WONG Siu-lun | 2011 – 2013
Chinese Family Businesses
Hong Kong
Shanghai
Stock Market
Taiwan
Public Attitudes towards the ‘Occupy Central’ Movement
Prof. Fanny CHEUNG Mui-ching, Ms. WAN Po-san, and Dr. Victor ZHENG Wan-tai | 2013 – 2014
"Occupy Central" Movement
Hong Kong
Public Attitudes towards the 2012 Chief Executive Election
Prof. Fanny CHEUNG Mui-ching, Ms. WAN Po-san, and Dr. Victor ZHENG Wan-tai (from 2011) | 2011 – 2013
Chief Executive Election
Hong Kong
A Study on Hong Kong’s Mainstream Core Values
Prof. WONG Chack-kie and Dr. Victor ZHENG Wan-tai | 2011 – 2012
Core Values
Hong Kong
Public Perceptions of Income Inequality in Hong Kong 2011
Prof. WONG Chack-kie, Dr. Victor ZHENG Wan-tai and Ms. WAN Po-san | 2011 – 2012
Hong Kong
Social Inequality
Public Perception of Government-Business Relations in Hong Kong
Prof. Victor ZHENG Wan-tai and Ms. WAN Po-san | 2010 – 2011
Government-Business Relations
Hong Kong
Materialities and corridors: The Chinese diaspora and connected societies
Wang, C., Zheng, V., & Gao, H. |
2020
Chinese Diaspora
The impact of experience and perceptions of social mobility on the life satisfaction of young people in Taiwan and Hong Kong
Hsiao, H. H. M., Wong, K. T. W., Wan, P. S. & Zheng, V. |
2019
Hong Kong
Life Satisfaction
Social Mobility
Taiwan
Youth
Young people’s sense of fairness and social action: A survey analysis of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao
Zheng, V., Hsiao, H. H. M., Wan, P. S. & Wong, K. T. W. |
2019
Fairness
Hong Kong
Macao
Social Action
Taiwan
Youth
Succession, division, and the drive for self-employment: The case of the renowned Hong Kong Restaurant “Yung Kee”
Zheng, V., Wan, P. S., & Wong, S. L. |
2016
Chinese Family Businesses
Hong Kong
Self-employment
Succession
Understanding Chinese entrepreneurship from a historical perspective: What can we learn from our entrepreneurship heritage and how?
Cheung, C., Zheng, V., Kwong, C., & Wong, S. L. |
2016
Chinese Family Businesses
Entrepreneurship
Postcolonial border crossing: British skilled expatriates in post-1997 Hong Kong
Wang, C., Wong, S. L., & Zheng, V. |
2014
Expatriates
Hong Kong
4大方向 低成本改善公廁衞生
張妙清、莊玉惜、鄭宏泰、尹寶珊 |
2020/11/18
Commentary |
Society and Demographic Transition › Health and HygieneCulture and Social History › Social Values and Norms
Health Policy
Hong Kong
公廁不衞生 藉創意「輕推」正確如廁
張妙清、莊玉惜、鄭宏泰、尹寶珊 |
2020/11/12
Commentary |
Society and Demographic Transition › Health and HygieneCulture and Social History › Social Values and Norms
Health Policy
Hong Kong
HK has been mainland’s financial partner for 70 years
Zheng, V., & Luk, K. H. |
2019/09/23
Finance
Hong Kong
Mainland China
Tapping TCM strengths on a global scale
Zheng, V., & Chong, Y. S. |
2019/03/06
Hong Kong
Traditional Chinese Medicine
A bounty of benefits, thanks to ‘BRI factor’
Zheng, V., & Luk, K. H. |
2019/02/20
Belt and Road Initiative
Hong Kong
History offers a lesson for critics of new rail link
Guo, H., & Zheng, V. |
2018/09/24
Hong Kong
Social History
Success of HK housing policies hinges on market segregation
Zheng, V., & Luk, K. H. |
2018/08/17
Hong Kong
Housing Policy
Affordability, not land, at root of housing crisis
Zheng, V., & Luk, K. H. |
2018/05/04
Hong Kong
Housing Policy
Fintech plans require return to basics – what is it for?
Zheng, V., & Luk, K. H. |
2018/03/16
Fintech
Hong Kong
Government meddling in the property sector must stop
Zheng, V., & Luk, K. H. |
2018/02/10
Hong Kong
Housing Policy
Conflicting signals emanating from defense of dollar peg
Zheng, V., & Luk, K. H. |
2017/09/09
Hong Kong
Linked Exchange Rate System
City needs a shift in attitude to lead innovation
Zheng, V., & Luk, K. H. |
2017/08/23
Hong Kong
Innovation
HK, China’s ‘financier’ par excellence
Zheng, V., & Luk, K. H. |
2017/08/09
Finance
Hong Kong
Mainland China
Central fears
Zheng, V., Cheung, F. M. C., & Wan, P. S. |
2013/08/12
Democracy
Hong Kong
Occupy Central
Public Opinion