Catherine S. Chan is a social and urban historian of diaspora, heritage preservation issues, and human-animal relations in modern and postwar Hong Kong, Macau, and Philippines. Currently Research Assistant Professor of History at Lingnan University, she is the author of The Macanese Diaspora in British Hong Kong: A Century of Transimperial Drifting (Amsterdam University Press, 2021) and has published extensively on the Macanese diaspora across the East Asian littoral in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Modern Asian Studies, and Historical Research. She has also written about issues in the framework of Intangible Cultural Heritage and trans-imperial connections between modern Hong Kong and the Philippines. Chan is at present working on a project concerning the more-than-human history of animals in twentieth-century Asia.