Summary
Rudolph Ng is Lecturer in Global History at the University of Portsmouth. His research examines global migration in the nineteenth century and its entanglement with humanitarianism and labour rights. He has published on the Chinese migration history of Nicaragua, Cuba, and Venezuela. He has taught widely on the history of East Asia and Latin America at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Before joining Portsmouth, he held positions as Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and Lecturer in Modern Chinese History at Birkbeck, University of London.
Research outputs
2026
‘Si no hay leal, no hay lopa’ [‘No money, no work’]: Chinese migration, exclusion and transnational resistance in Venezuela, 1870s–1940s
Ng, R.
28 Apr 2026, In: Journal of Latin American Studies
Research output: Article
2025
Chinese “Coolies”: hidden drivers of nineteenth-century Cuba’s economic transformation
Ng, R.
1 Aug 2025, In: Itinerario: Journal of Imperial and Global Interactions. 49, 2, p. 357-381, 25p.
Research output: Article
Beating the odds: a survival story of Chinese immigrants in Nicaragua
Ng, R.
1 Jun 2025, In: Journal of World History. 36, 2, p. 205-237, 33p.
Research output: Article