Rate My Professor Kevin Carrico

Carrico's key publications include his first monograph, The Great Han: Race, Nationalism, and Tradition in China Today (University of California Press, 2017), which examines a grassroots Han nationalist movement based on extensive fieldwork across China. His second book, Two Systems, Two Countries: A Nationalist Guide to Hong Kong (University of California Press, 2022), provides the first book-length English-language analysis of Hong Kong's independence movement and was translated into Chinese and republished in Taiwan in 2023 as 異國兩制: 從香港民族主義到香港獨立. He has also translated significant works, including Tsering Woeser's Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations against Chinese Rule (Verso Press, 2016) and Guan Jun's Silencing Chinese Media: The Southern Weekly Protests and the Fate of Civil Society in China (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020). His peer-reviewed articles have appeared in journals such as The China Journal, Hong Kong Studies, Nations and Nationalism, Critical Inquiry, and Asian Cinema. As Principal Chief Investigator, he leads Australian Research Council projects on constructing Hong Kong national identity. Carrico was a columnist for Hong Kong's Apple Daily newspaper until its closure in 2021 under political pressure and has contributed to outlets including Foreign Policy, The Age, and Hong Kong Free Press. He accepts PhD students on topics including contemporary Chinese culture and politics, Hong Kong identity, and theories of nationalism.