Daniel F. Vukovich

Daniel F. Vukovich (胡德) is a Professor at Hong Kong University, where he is currently Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature (and cultural studies), and Director of the Faculty of Arts Research Hub on "China, Humanities, and Global Studies." He has also held visiting professorships at South East University (东南大学) in Nanjing and East China Normal University (华东师范大学) in Shanghai, and in a former life was faculty at Hocking College in Appalachian Ohio. He has readers in several fields of the humanities and social sciences. He is the author of three monographs, including the influential *China and Orientalism: Western Knowledge Production and the PRC* (Routledge 2012) and the critically acclaimed *Illiberal China?: The Ideological Challenge of the P.R.C.* (Palgrave 2019). His most recent book is *After Autonomy: A Post-Mortem for Hong Kong’s first Handover, 1997–2019*(Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), that offers a critical account of both the 2019 "anti-ELAB" movement in Hong Kong but also of the SAR's general political, and colonial, situation since its return to the mainland. His motifs are the age-old problems of representation, the politics of discourse (or knowledge), and the dialectics of difference and universality.