Florence Mok is a Nanyang Assistant Professor of History at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. She is a historian of colonial Hong Kong and modern China, with an interest in environmental history, the Cold War and state–society relations. She is also the founder of Hong Kong Research Hub at NTU and an Executive Board member of the Society for Hong Kong Studies.

Covert Colonialism: A Conversation with Florence Mok

Covert Colonialism: Governance, Surveillance and Political Culture in British Hong Kong, c. 1966–97 (Manchester University Press, 2023) examines state–society relations in one of the United Kingdom’s last strategically important colonial dependencies, Hong Kong. Using underexploited archival evidence, it explores how a reformist colonial administration investigated Chinese political culture, and how activism by social movements in […]

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