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Ching Lin Pang serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology within the Faculty of Social Sciences at KU Leuven. She is affiliated with the Leuven International and European Studies (LINES) unit and maintains an office at Parkstraat 45, box 3615 in Leuven. Her academic role includes membership in the Council of the Faculty of Social Sciences as an invited member and observer roles in the POC Rechten and POC Politieke wetenschappen committees.
Her research program centers on urban anthropology, migration studies, and cosmopolitanism, with particular focus on Chinese-African relations and medical cooperation. She investigates dynamics of urban spaces, home-making practices, and identity negotiation among migrant communities in Brussels and Chinese cities like Guangzhou and Shanghai. Her ethnographic work explores intercultural and interracial relations across transnational contexts including Burundi and Taiwan.
Recent publications (2020-2023) demonstrate consistent engagement with urban transformations and migration networks. Key themes include aesthetic cosmopolitanism in public spaces, South-South migration dynamics, and medical cooperation frameworks. Her work spans diverse settings from Brussels housing estates to jadeite markets on the China-Myanmar border, revealing interconnected global migration patterns.
Dr. Pang currently leads multiple long-term research projects:
- A Floating Medical Network? China-Burundian Medical Cooperation (2020-2025)
- African Student Mobility in China (2018-2025)
- Urban Borderland in Brussels (2013-2025)
- Africans in Guangzhou and Shanghai (2011-2025)
She has supervised doctoral research for C. Bosmans (2023), T. Shi (2021), and H-M. Lin (2020) on topics including urban housing, Hmong identity, and Taiwanese immigrant experiences.
Within the LINES unit, she contributes to interdisciplinary research on global politics through collaborations spanning architecture, urban studies, and cultural anthropology to develop projective scenarios for sustainable urban futures.
