Ka-Kin Cheuk is a doctoral student in the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. He was born and raised in Hong Kong, and earned his MPhil and BSocSci, both in anthropology, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Before coming to Oxford, Ka-Kin worked for a long-term ethnographic project of the Sikh migrants in Hong Kong. His doctoral dissertation research seeks to explore how and why Shaoxing in Zhejiang province, China has recently become a global textile trading hub in which a substantial number of Indian traders can be found. He plans to examine how the Indians in Shaoxing establish themselves as successful entrepreneurs and migrants in China, and whether the state has played significant role in the process.
Personal website: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sant2879/