Nicholas Tapp
Under a Chiang Ching-kuo Research Project, ‘Communal Diasporic Voluntary Public Cultures’, Nicholas Tapp examined the impact of returns of overseas Hmong migrants to their Asian homelands, in collaboration with Dr Gary Yia Lee. They worked in China, Thailand, Laos and Australia, as well as France and the USA. An Emeritus Professor of ANU, Nicholas was mainly based in Shanghai where he continued his research on ethnic issues in China and also assisted East China Normal University in Shanghai to develop a new programme of anthropology.
Dr Nicholas Tapp passed away in October 2015.
