C. K. Martin Chung
Hong Kong Baptist University (visiting 2019-present)
Email: m.chung@qub.ac.uk
Research Interests
Dr. Martin Chung is a political scientist and historian of conflict and peace in contemporary Europe and East Asia. His research interests revolve around the successes and failures of political reconciliation in different historical and relational contexts. His works are interdisciplinary and often comparative, researching at the intersections of politics and religion, collective memory and identity, public apologies and transitional justice. In his first monograph, Repentance for the Holocaust: Lessons from Jewish Thought for Confronting the German Past (Cornell University Press 2017), he explores the role of religious ideas in German Vergangenheitsbewältigung (coming to terms with the past). In Reconciling with the Past: Resources and Obstacles in a Global Perspective (Routledge 2017, co-edited with Annika Frieberg), he analyses the ideas of apology and confession in Chinese and European contexts and the problem of their political application at present. His articles have appeared in Parliamentary Affairs, International Journal of Transitional Justice, British Politics, Jahrbuch des Dubnow-Instituts and Jahrbuch für Politik und Geschichte.
Chung is the principal investigator of two projects funded by Hong Kong's Research Grants Council: ""Reconciliation and Its Resentments: The Suppression of Justice and Truth Recovery in Germany, Northern Ireland, and Western Balkans"" (2023-2026) under the General Research Fund (GRF) scheme, and ""The Politics of Antagonism Revisited: Assessing Northern Ireland's Good Friday Agreement (1998-2018)"" (2018-2022) under the Early Career Scheme (ECS).
Recognitions
Associated Member, Center for Reconciliation Studies, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Ongoing Projects
C. K. Martin Chung, “‘The Soul Can Never Remain a Vacuum’: The Chinese Reception of A. J. Heschel”, European Legacy (T&F), early access 2024, pp. 1-7. DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2024.2322285.
C. K. Martin Chung, “Power-sharing and Memory-sharing in Northern Ireland: A Case Study of Healing Through Remembering during Consociational Volatility”, British Politics (Palgrave Macmillan), Vol. 18 (2023), pp. 420-438. DOI: 10.1057/s41293-022-00209-8.
C. K. Martin Chung, “Abraham Joshua Heschel” in Matthias Grebe and Johannes Grössl (eds.): T&T Clark Handbook of Suffering and the Problem of Evil. London: Bloomsbury 2023, pp. 173-177.
C. K. Martin Chung, “Secularism and Sectarianism in Christianity: The Case of Northern Ireland during the Troubles” in Simone Raudino and Patricia Sohn (eds.): Beyond the Death of God: Religion in 21st Century International Politics. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2022, pp. 120-145.
C. K. Martin Chung, “Facilitated Dialogue: The Political Theology of Fr Alec Reid”, Glencree Journal (Mar. 2021), pp. 62-76. Inaugural Issue: Dealing with the Legacy of Conflict in Northern Ireland through Engagement and Dialogue.
C. K. Martin Chung, “Twenty Years After: Statute of Limitations and the Asymmetric Burdens of Justice in Northern Ireland and Postwar Germany”, Parliamentary Affairs (Oxford University Press), Vol. 74, No. 4 (2021), pp. 979-1004. DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsaa055. [included in the Parliamentary Affairs special collection, “Marking 25 years since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement” by the Hansard Society in the United Kingdom].
C. K. Martin Chung, “Book Review: Negotiating a Settlement in Northern Ireland, 1969-2019, written by John Coakley and Jennifer Todd, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020”, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Jul. 2021), pp. 246-248. DOI: 10.1080/13537113.2021.1913909.
C. K. Martin Chung, “Book Review: Multiple Modernities and Good Governance, edited by Thomas Meyer and José Luís de Sales Marques, London and NY: Routledge, 2018”, The European Legacy, (Aug. 2021), pp. 1-2. DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2021.1974694.
C. K. Martin Chung, “The Triumph of External Freedom: Conflicting Liberties and Modernities in Comparative Perspective” in Thomas Meyer, José Luis de Sales Marques and Mario Telò (eds.): Cultures, Nationalism and Populism: New Challenges to Multilateralism. Series: Globalisation, Europe, and Multilateralism. Abingdon, Oxon and New York: Routledge 2020, pp. 164-180.
C. K. Martin Chung, “The Sieve of Memory: Chinese Coming to Terms with the Past and Parallels in European Cultures of Remembrance” in Andreas Leutzsch (ed.): Historical Parallels, Commemoration and Icons. Abingdon, Oxon and New York: Routledge 2019, pp. 165-189.