Andrew Yu
Thesis title: The Scottish piping culture in former British colonies in the Far East
PhD in Celtic and Scottish Studies
- Celtic & Scottish Studies
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Email: andrew.ck.yu@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Personal website
- Web: ORCID
- Web: Edinburgh Research Explorer profile
PhD supervisors:
Address
- Street
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50 George Square
- City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LH
Qualifications
BA (Hons), MScR, PGCert
Responsibilities & affiliations
- Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society － London, the United Kingdom
- Member of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology－ London, the United Kingdom
- Member of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs－London, the United Kingdom
- Member of Hong Kong Studies Association－London, the United Kingdom
- Member of Society for Hong Kong Studies－Hong Kong
Undergraduate teaching
PLIT08009 - Introduction to Political Data Analysis (School of Social and Political Science)
Postgraduate teaching
PGSP11247 - Political Issues in Public Policy (School of Social and Political Science)
SCAN11027 - People First: The Anthropology of International Development (School of Social and Political Science)
Current research interests
Hong Kong Affairs, Social Policy, British Colonial History, Scottish Music , Freemasonry, ColonialismResearch activities
Current project grants
The Overseas Research Scholarship (GBP 46,000), September 2018 - August 2021
Past project grants
Hong Kong Government Scholarship Fund (HKD 50,000), June 2014 - June 2017
The Hong Kong St. Andrew's Society Scholarship (HKD 30,000), September 2018 - January 2020
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Was Governor MacLehose a great architect of modern Hong Kong?
In:
Asian Affairs, vol. 51, pp. 485-509
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03068374.2020.1798608
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Harmony and discord: Development of political parties and social fragmentation in Hong Kong, 1980-2017
In:
Open Political Science, vol. 2, pp. 53-63
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/openps-2019-0006
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The failure of the welfare ideology and system in Hong Kong: A historical perspective
(10 pages)
In:
Human Affairs: Postdisciplinary Humanities and Social Sciences Quarterly, vol. 31, pp. 99-108
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2021-0009
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The Craft: How the Freemasons made the modern world
In:
Journal of British Studies
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (Accepted/In press) -
The Black Watch in the Great War: Rediscovered histories from the Regimental Family
In:
Journal of British Studies
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (Accepted/In press)