Welcome to my site!
My name is Quinton Huang. I am an MA student in the Department of History, an Institute of Asia Research Fellow in the Centre for Southeast Asian Research, and a Student Associate of the Hong Kong Studies Initiative at the University of British Columbia.
I work on the social history of 20th-century Hong Kong, with a focus on squatter settlements, informal housing, and refugee communities in the early postwar decades. Beyond Hong Kong, I am broadly interested in histories of colonialism and empires, migration, transnational communities, built environments, and the everyday in East and Southeast Asia. I am also developing a future project focusing on the history of information and knowledge production surrounding the early modern South China Sea from the perspective of Chinese, Vietnamese and Malay polities.
I continue to work on non-state diplomacies and transnational civil society between contemporary Canada and the Asia-Pacific, a field of study that I began as a Junior Research Scholar at the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada. I am also on the board of Strait Talk, an international civil society peacebuilding movement that has organized dialogues for young people from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States since 2005.
Beyond my academic interests, I am a Chinese-Canadian settler originally from Kitimat, British Columbia (unceded Haisla territory) and primarily based in Vancouver (unceded Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh territories). I enjoy cooking, gardening, learning new languages, and watching indie film and standup comedy during my spare time.
This is my personal website, where I document things that I’ve done and share what I’m currently working on. On this website, I also maintain resources for Hong Kong history, early modern Asian maritime history, and peace-building resources in the Asia-Pacific Please feel free to browse!
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