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Debby Chan

Lecturer

Qualifications

PhD in Politics (University of Hong Kong)

Contact details

Debby Chan is a lecturer in Australian Centre on China in the World and Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. Her research interests concern social responses to China’s economic statecraft. Her work explains economic setbacks of Belt and Road projects in the host countries. Furthermore, Debby also studies political consumerism in non-democratic contexts with a focus on East Asia. Specifically, she underlines politics-driven consumption as an emerging form of political participation.

Debby obtained her doctorate in politics from the University of Hong Kong (HKU). She was formerly a visiting fellow at the Department of Public and International Affairs at the City University of Hong Kong, and a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology at HKU.

Research interests

• China’s economic statecraft • Public diplomacy • Contentious politics

Teaching

POGO 8234 Unpacking Policy Capacity

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