Joseph Cheng
鄭宇碩
Election Committee Higher Education Subsector
In office 2006–2016
Personal details
Born	1949 (age 75–76)
Citizenship	Australian
Political party	Civic Party
Other political affiliations	Pan-democratic camp Power for Democracy Alliance for True Democracy
Education	La Salle College University of Hong Kong Victoria University of Wellington Flinders University
Occupation	Professor
Known for	Universal suffrage activism

Joseph Cheng Yu-shek,JP (traditional Chinese:鄭宇碩;simplified Chinese:郑宇硕; born 1949) is a Hong Kong political scientist and democracy activist. He was the secretary general of theCivic Party and convenor of pro-democratic groups includingPower for Democracy andAlliance for True Democracy.

Cheng was educated at theLa Salle College and graduated from theUniversity of Hong Kong in 1972 and theVictoria University of Wellington,New Zealand in 1973 with bachelor's degrees in Social Science and Arts respectively. He later obtained a doctoral degree from theFlinders University of South Australia in 1979.^[1]

He taught at theChinese University of Hong Kong from 1977 to 1989 and theOpen Learning Institute of Hong Kong from 1989 to 1991. Between 1991 and 1992, he was hired as a full-time member of theCentral Policy Unit, a think tank of the Hong Kong government. He joined theCity University of Hong Kong as a chair professor of the Political Science and Coordinator of the Contemporary China Research Project in July 1992. He specialised inChinese foreign policy, Hong Kong politics and International politics. He is the founding editor of theHong Kong Journal of Social Sciences andThe Journal of Comparative Asian Development and served as the founding president of the Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong from 2005 to 2007.^[2] He retired in 2015.^[3]

Shortly before his retirement, Cheng was demoted by the City University of Hong Kong from the chair professor to a regular professor after an investigation into allegations that he took credit for a research assistant's work in articles published in academic journals more than a decade earlier.^[4]

• "China's Relations with theGulf Cooperation Council States: Multilevel Diplomacy in a Divided Arab World."China Review 16.1 (2016): 35-64.
• "The Emergence of Radical Politics in Hong Kong: Causes and Impact."China Review 14.1 (2014): 199-232.
• "The “Chongqing Model”: What It Means to China Today."Journal of Comparative Asian Development 12.3 (2013): 411-42.
• "The2012 Chief Executive Election in Hong Kong and the Challenges for the Chinese Authorities."East Asian Policy 5.2 (2013): 91-103.
• "China's Negotiation Strategy in Recovering Hong Kong."Issues & Studies 48.2 (2012): 127-93.
• "TheShanghai Co-operation Organisation: China's Initiative in Regional Institutional Building."Journal of Contemporary Asia 41.4 (2011): 632-56.
• "The Tiananmen Incident and the Pro-Democracy Movement in Hong Kong."China Perspectives 2 (2009): 91-100.
• "The pro-democracy movement: A lost decade?."European View 7.1 (2008): 53-66.
• "Hong Kong's Democrats Stumble."Journal of Democracy 16.1 (2005): 138-52.
• "The ASEAN‐China Free Trade Area: genesis and implications."Australian Journal of International Affairs 58.2 (2004): 257–77.
• "China's Overseas Chinese Policy in the Globalization Era: Challenges and Responses."Journal of Comparative Asian Development 3.1 (2004): 157–82. (With Ngok Kinglun and Philip Y. K. Cheng)
• "Elections and Political Parties in Hong Kong's Political Development."Journal of Contemporary Asia 31.3 (2001): 346–74.
• "Hong Kong in the Eyes of Chinese Cadres."Asian Affairs 27.2 (2000): 93–109. (with K. L. Ngok)
• "China's Policy Toward Hong Kong: A Taste of “One Country, Two Systems”."Issues & Studies 33.8 (1997): 1–25.
• "What Awaits the People of Hong Kong?."Security Dialogue 28.2 (1997): 237–42.
• Economic and social development in South China. Editor alongside Stewart MacPherson.Edward Elgar Publishing, 1996.
• "The Changing Political Attitudes of the Senior Bureaucrats in Hong Kong's Transition."China Quarterly 147 (1996): 912–37. (with Jane C. Y. Lee)
• "Prospects for Democracy in Hong Kong After theBeijing Massacre."Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs 23 (1990): 161–85.
• "The Post-1997 Government in Hong Kong: Toward a Stronger Legislature."Asian Survey 29.8 (1989): 731–48.
• "Political Modernisation in Hong Kong."Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics 27.3 (1989): 294–320.
• "Hong Kong: The Pressure to Converge."International Affairs 63.2 (1987): 271–83.
• "Elite Participation in Development: Administration in theNew Territories of Hong Kong."Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics 22.3 (1984): 276–302.
• "The Future of Hong Kong: A Hong Kong 'Belonger's' View."International Affairs 58.3 (1982): 476–88.

Cheng was a commentator on political affairs and in the early 1980s witnessed theSino-British negotiations over Hong Kong's sovereignty.^[1]

He was the convenor of thePower for Democracy, a pro-democratic organisation set up in 2002 to co-ordinate thepan-democracy camp in the elections to avoid candidacy clashes. He was the founding secretary general of theCivic Party, in March 2003. Cheng ran for the chairmanship of the Civic Party in 2011, but was narrowly beaten byKenneth Chan Ka-lok, who was backed by most of the party veterans, after a heated campaign that saw some complaining about the fairness of the contest.^[5] He was also director of the New School for Democracy, founded in 2011, and was a member of theElection Committee, a 1,200-member electoral college responsible for electing theChief Executive, representing Higher Education Subsector.

In 2013, he was made convenor of theAlliance for True Democracy, which demanded genuine democracy in the2014–15 constitutional reform proposals. The alliance put forward a three-track proposal to allow the public, political parties and a nominating committee to nominate candidate for the2017 Chief Executive election. The proposal was not accepted as theNational People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC)set limits on the electoral method in its decision on 31 August.^[4]

Cheng is married with one son and one daughter.^[1] He currently lives in Canberra, Australia, where he is a citizen.^[3]

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