Joseph Cheng

Joseph Cheng Yu-shek, JP (Chinese: 鄭宇碩; born 1949) is a Hong Kong political scientist and democracy activist. He had been the secretary general of the Civic Party and convenor of pro-democratic groups including Power for Democracy and Alliance for True Democracy.

Cheng was educated at the La Salle College and graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 1972 and the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand in 1973 with a bachelor degrees in Social Science and Arts respectively. He later obtain a doctoral degree from the Flinders University of South Australia in 1979.

He had been teaching at the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 1977 to 1989 and the Open Learning Institute of Hong Kong from 1989 to 1991. Between 1991 and 1992, he was hired as a full-time member of the Central Policy Unit, a think tank of the Hong Kong government. He joined the City University of Hong Kong as a chair professor of the Political Science and Coordinator of the Contemporary China Research Project in July 1992. He was specialised in Chinese foreign policy, Hong Kong politics and International politics. He is the founding editor of the Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences and The Journal of Comparative Asian Development and served as the founding president of the Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong from 2005-2007. He had been recently retired in June 2015.

Before he retired, in March 2015 Cheng was demoted by the City University of Hong Kong from the chair professor to a regular professor after an investigation into allegations of him taking the credit for his former research assistant's work in articles published in academic journals more than a decade ago.

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