Dr. Rachel CHAN Suet Kay is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnic Studies, National University of Malaysia. She specialises in cultural sociology, having written on cultural capital flows between East Asia and the West, and most recently, cultural heritage. Her latest publications are on Chinese clan associations, English translations of Chinese online fiction, habitus and field in Malaysian cosplay, anti-capital in the Ah Beng subculture, Malaysian manga, and the convergence of cultural values among Chinese-educated and non-Chinese-educated Malaysian Chinese. Her three monographs are “The Convergence of Chinese and Western Values as Global Habitus”, "Ah Beng Subculture and the Anti-Capital of Social Exclusion", and "Chinese Values, Western Values, and the Survival of the Chinese Clan as Social Institution". She is currently the Chief Editor of the UKM Ethnic Studies Paper Series, an editor of KITA Monograph Series, and Managing Editor of the Journal of Ethnic and Diversity Studies (JOEDS) (as Chairperson of the KITA Publication Committee) and welcomes manuscript submissions. Her research agenda is to discover whether there is a hierarchy of cultural goods, relative to value systems. She received her PhD in Sociology and MA in Sociology by Research from the University of Malaya; and a BSc (Hons) in Sociology and Diploma in Economics from the University of London.

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