Professor Chung holds a First Class B.A. in History from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Ph.D. from the University of Oxford. After teaching at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, she joined Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), where her research and teaching focus on social and economic history.

She served as a board member of the HKSAR Antiquities Advisory Board (2011–2017) and a member of the Council of the Lord Wilson Heritage Trust (2021–2026). She currently serves as Chairperson of the Sub-committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage Items (2015–present) and is a member of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Advisory Committee (2021–present), and a member of the HKSAR Building Appeal Tribunal Panel.

Within academia, she has served as Director of the Modern History Research Centre and has been involved in numerous funded research, commissioned, and consultancy projects, including collaborations with internationally recognised organisations such as John Swire & Sons Limited (London) and the Shaw Foundation (Singapore). Her research explores the material and cultural transformations associated with trade, diasporic communities, religious traditions, and both tangible and intangible heritage over the past two centuries.

She is also a Member of the Panel of Humanities for the Research Assessment Exercise 2026 under the University Grants Committee (UGC), and a member of the Humanities, Social Sciences and Business Studies Selection Panel under the Joint Selection Panel for the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) and Junior Research Fellow Scheme (JRFS), under the Research Grants Council (RGC).

• Social & Economic History
• Trading Diaspora & Heritage Studies
• Photogrammetry & Heritage Information Modelling