I am a political scientist who is interested in contentious politics, conflict processes, public opinion and state-society relations, with a regional focus on China and East Asia. Currently, I am Associate Professor of Political Science at the Department of Government and International Studies of Hong Kong Baptist University. I am also the Director of the Comparative Governance and Policy Research Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University. I have been a visiting fellow in the Australia Centre on China in the World, Australian National University.

My research has been published in Democratization, Geopolitics, Government and Opposition, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Contemporary China, Mobilization, Political Psychology, Political Studies, Social Movement Studies, The China Quarterly, and others. My book, The Making of Leaderful Mobilization: Power and Contention in Hong Kong (coauthored book with Edmund W. Cheng), is published by Cambridge University Press under the Cambridge Series in Contentious Politics.

I serve on the executive committee of the Hong Kong Political Science Association and the editorial board of China Perspectives.

Please contact me at samsonyuen [at] hkbu.edu.hk. You can also visit my webpage at Hong Kong Baptist University.

See my profile on Google Scholar and ResearchGate.