DEPT OF SOCIOLOGY



Researcher : Bakken B

List of Research Outputs

Bakken B., "Moral Education", In: David Pong, Encyclopedia of Modern China. Gale/ Cengage Learning, 2009, 466-468.
Bakken B., Victor N. Shaw, Crime and Social Control in Asia and the Pacific: A Cross-Border Study, Lanham, University Press, Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews. 2008, 37: 466-468.
Bakken B., “On Models, Modelling and the Exemplary”, In: Andrew Kipnis, Luigi Tomba, and Jonathan Unger , Contemporary Chinese Society and Politics. London, New York, Routledge, 2009, 36-72.
Bakken B., “The Culture of revenge and the power of politics: A comparative attempt to explain the punitive” , Journal of Power. 2008, Volume 1, Issue 2: 169-189.


Researcher : Chan CSC

List of Research Outputs

Chan C.S.C., Creating a Market in the Presence of Cultural Resistance: The Case of Life Insurance in China., Theory and Society. USA, Springer, 2009, 38(3): 271-305.
Chan C.S.C., Culture and Life Insurance Development in China: Implications for Globalization, Lecture delivered to students and professors from Arizona State University at the Department of Sociology, HKU. 2009.
Chan C.S.C., Culture, State, and Life Insurance Markets in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan , Invited Lecture at Department of Sociology, Taiwan National University, Taiwan. 2008.
Chan C.S.C., Employee’s Health Insurance., Encyclopedia of Modern China. USA, Gale Cengage Learning, 2009, 1: 509-511.
Chan C.S.C., For Life or For Death: Culture, State, and Life Insurance Markets in Hong Kong and Taiwan, The Annual Meeting of Hong Kong Sociological Association, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. 2008.


Researcher : Chiu WK

List of Research Outputs

Chiu W.K., The Right to Remain Silent and Hong Kong Customs, The 12th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Justice Research, August 14-17, 2008.


Researcher : Chu YK

List of Research Outputs

Chu Y.K., A Critical Movement in Youth Development, Ching Chung Jau Po Woon Secondary School. 2009.
Chu Y.K., Chinese Culture and Secret Societies, The 10th Triad Course for Overseas Law Enforcement Officers, Criminal Intelligence Bureau of the Hong Kong Police. 2009.
Chu Y.K., Hong Kong Gangs, Journal of Current Issues in Crime, Law and Law Enforcement. Nova Science Publishers, 2008, 1 (3/4): 289-297.
Chu Y.K., Hong Kong Sex Crime, Hong Kong Taoist College. 2009.
Chu Y.K., International Organised Crime Groups in the 21st Century, The Triad Expert Course, Criminal Intelligence Bureau of the Hong Kong Police. 2008.
Chu Y.K. and Ho K.K., Policing the Transnational Protests in Oriental Context: The WTO Sixth Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong, 2005, The 2009 Annual Conference of Asian Association of Police Studies. Taiwan: Taipei, 2009.
Chu Y.K., Triad Transplantation, The 10th Triad Course for Overseas Law Enforcement Officers, Criminal Intelligence Bureau of the Hong Kong Police. 2009.


Researcher : Ho KK

List of Research Outputs

Chu Y.K. and Ho K.K., Policing the Transnational Protests in Oriental Context: The WTO Sixth Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong, 2005, The 2009 Annual Conference of Asian Association of Police Studies. Taiwan: Taipei, 2009.


Researcher : Huang Y

List of Research Outputs

Kuah-Pearce K.E. and Huang Y., The Flow of Traders’ God: Mazu Worship from Southeast China to the Chinese Diaspora, Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Narratives of Free Trade in Early Sino-American Relations, 15 – 19 June 2009.


Researcher : Kong TSK

List of Research Outputs

Kong T.S.K., "Bodies that Travel: Citizenship Formation of ‘Money Boys’ in Urban China”, The Second International Conference on Sexualities in China, 18-20 June 2009, Renmin People’s University, Beijing. 2009.
Kong T.S.K., "Money, Desire and Citizenship: Negotiating urban citizenship among rural-to-urban migrant male sex workers in China”, The VII IASSCS Conference: Contested Innocence – Sexual Agency in Public and Private Space, 15-18 April 2009, Hanoi, Vietnam. 2009.
Kong T.S.K., "More than a Sex Machine: Accomplishing Masculinity Among Chinese Male Sex Workers", Deviant Behavior (Impact factor: 0.717). 2009, 30: 715-745.
Kong T.S.K., "Risk Factors Affecting Condom Use Among Male Sex Workers Who Serve Men In China: A Qualitative Study", Sexually Transmitted Infections (Impact factor: 2.571). 2008, 84: 444-448.
Kong T.S.K., "Where is My Brokeback Mountain?", Social Transformation in Chinese Societies (Special Focus: Doing Families in Hong Kong). 2009, 4: 135-159.
Kong T.S.K., Chinas Coming-out , Manner (German Lifestyle Magazine) . Berlin, Germany, Bruno Gmunder, 2008.
Wong W...C...W... and Kong T.S.K., "To Determine Factors in an Initiation of a Same-sex Relationship in Rural China: Using Ethnographic Decision Model", The Second International Conference on Sexualities in China, 18-20 June 2009, Renmin People’s University, Beijing. 2009.


Researcher : Kuah-Pearce KE

List of Research Outputs

Kuah-Pearce K.E., 1. Chair of two panels, Return Migration in Asia: Experiences, Ideologies and Politics, July 31– August 1, 2008, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. 2008.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., 2. Chair of panel and specialist discussant, 1st International Conference on Global Diaspora, 5th July - 7th July 2008 Mansfield College, Oxford University. 2008.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., 59. Panel Organiser, Global Religious Supermarkets: Spirituality, Politics and Identities , In: Panel organiser, Fifth International Convention of Asia Scholars, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2 to 5 August 200. 2008.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., Co-organiser, International Symposium on “Migrant Entrepreneurship in Mainland China and the Chinese Diaspora, 13 June 2009, organised by the Centre for Anthropological Research, University of Hong Kong. 2009.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., Co-organiser, International Symposium on “Rising Individuals and the Collective Morality: Social Transformations of Greater China in the Globalisation Age”, 14 April 2009, jointly organised by the Centre for Anthropological Research, University of Hong Kong and The Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. 2009.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., Co-organiser, International Workshop on “Chinese on the move and the making of individual identities”, jointly between Centre for Anthropological Research, University of Hong Kong and University of Paris Diderot, Langues et Civilisations de l'Asie Orientale (LCAO) at the University of Paris Diderot, 29 November 2008.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., Flow of Moral-indebtedness: Chinese Women Feeding their Ancestors, 3rd International Conference on Chinese Sociology and China Studies, Nanjing University, 24-26 October 2008.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., Member of Editorial Board, Contemporary Eastern Asia http://www.eastasia.at/cfp.htm)., 2008.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., Member of the Editorial Board , Asian Anthropology . 2008.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., Superwomen or Women with Super Strength: Mobility and Identity of Chinese Migrant Women Entrepreneurs in the Garment Industry, International Workshop on Chinese on the Move and the Making of Individual Identities, University of Paris Diderot, 29 November 2008.
Kuah-Pearce K.E. and Islam M.N., The Business of Ayurveda in the Global World Today: Selling Feminism, International Symposium on Anthropology of Business, 12 June 2009, jointly organised by the Centre for Anthropological Research and School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Hong Kong. 2009.
Kuah-Pearce K.E. and Huang Y., The Flow of Traders’ God: Mazu Worship from Southeast China to the Chinese Diaspora, Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Narratives of Free Trade in Early Sino-American Relations, 15 – 19 June 2009.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., Transnational Self in the Chinese Diaspora: A Conceptual Framework, 1st International Conference on Global Diaspora, 5th July - 7th July 2008 Mansfield College, Oxford University. 2008.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., “A Strategic Partnership between Buddhism and the State: Delivering Welfare Services in Singapore”, In: Lai Ah Eng, Religious Diversities and Harmony in Singapore . Singapore, ISEAS, 2008, pp. 505-523.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., “Anti-Globalisation Movement as Protest Space in Hong Kong Society” (August 2009)., In: Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce and Gilles Guiheux, Social Movements in China: The Expansion of Protest Spaces. Amsterdam, , Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press,, 2008, pp. 91 - 116.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., “Diversities and Unities: Towards a Reformist Buddhism in Singapore” , , In: Lai Ah Eng, Religious Diversities and Harmony in Singapore . ISEAS, 2008, pp. 195 - 214.


Researcher : Laidler KA

List of Research Outputs

Hunt G., Laidler K.A. and Moloney M., Club Drugs and Asian American Youth, U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse, Community Epidemiology Work Group, San Francisco, CA. . 2009.
Hunt G., Laidler K.A. and Moloney M., Clubbing, Drugs and the Dance Scene: A Global Perspective, Drugs and Culture Conference, OFDT, Paris.. 2008.
Moloney M., Hunt G. and Laidler K.A., The Path and The Promise of Fatherhood for Gang Members, British Journal of Criminology. 2009, 49(1): 305-325.


Researcher : Lau GL

List of Research Outputs



Researcher : Lee MSY

List of Research Outputs

Lee M.S.Y., Book review of 'Chinese human smuggling organizations' , Journal of Chinese Overseas. Brill, 2009, 5(1): 226-227.
Lee M.S.Y., Book review of 'Sexual enslavement of girls and women worldwide'., International Affairs. Oxford, Blackwell, 2009, 85(2): 400-401.
Lee M.S.Y., Carrabine , Cox , South and Plummer , Criminology, 2nd edition, London, Routledge, 2008.
Lee M.S.Y. and South S., Drugs Policing, In: Newburn, T., Handbook of Policing. Cullompton, Willan, 2008, 422-443.
Lee M.S.Y., Drugs and Crime, Times Higher Education. 2008.
Lee M.S.Y. and South N., Drugs, In: Wakefield, A. and Fleming, J. , The Sage Dictionary of Policing . London, Sage, 2009, 94-96.
Lee M.S.Y., Policing Chinese Migrant Sex Workers in Hong Kong, International Migration. 2008, 46: 95-121.


Researcher : Ng CH

List of Research Outputs

Ma K.W., Ng C.H. and Lui T.L., Cultural politics in Hong Kong, In: Ma Kit Wai, Ng Chun Hung, Lui Tai Lok, Hong Kong Cultural Politics. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2009, 1-11.
Ma K.W., Ng C.H. and Lui T.L., In: Ma Kit Wai, Ng Chun Hung, Lui Tai Lok, Hong Kong Cultural Politics. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2009, 237.
Ng C.H., Ng B.S. and Chan K.W., Doing families in Hong Kong: Strategy, morality and emotion, In: special issue editors: Ng Chun Hung, Thomas Wong Wai Pong, Chu Yin Wah, Anita Chan Kit Wa, Social Transformations in Chinese Societies. Netherlands, Brill, 2009, 4: 57-88.
Ng C.H., Wong T.W.P., Chu Y.W. and Chan K.W., Doing families in Hong Kong: Values, relations and strategies, In: special issue editors: Ng Chun Hung, Thomas Wong Wai Pong, Chu Yin Wah, Anita Chan Kit Wa, Social Transformations in Chinese Societies. Netherlands, Brill, 2009, 4: 3-16.
Ng C.H., Wong T.W.P., Chu Y.W. and Chan K.W., special issue on "Doing Families in Hong Kong", In: Ng Chun Hung, Thomas Wong Wai Bong, Chu Yin Wah, Anita Chan Kit Wa, Social Transformations in Chinese Societies. Netherlands, Brill, 2009, 4: 3-190.


Researcher : Palmer DA

List of Research Outputs

Goossaert V. and Palmer D.A., Thematic issue on "Categories et politiques du religieux en Chine" [Categories and Politics of Religion in China], Archives de sciences sociales des religions. 2008, 144.
Palmer D.A., Chinese Redemptive Societies: Historical Phenomenon or Sociological Category?, International Conference on Popular Confucianism and Redemptive Societies, Foguang University, Taiwan, 8-9 June. 2009.
Palmer D.A., Embodying Utopia: Charisma in the Post-Mao Qigong Craze, Nova Religio. 2008, 12(2): 69-89.
Palmer D.A., Francis L.K. Hsu Award for the Best Book in East Asian Anthropology. , Society for East Asian Anthropology, American Anthropological Association.. 2008.
Palmer D.A., Heretical Doctrines, Reactionary Secret Societies, Evil Cults: Labelling Heterodoxy in 20th Century China., In: Mayfair Yang, Chinese Religiosities: the Vicissitudes of Modernity and State Formation.. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2008, 113-134.
Palmer D.A., Issues in the Social Scientific Study of Daoism in the 20th Century, Summit on Chinese Religion and Spirituality, Peking University, 10-11 Oct. . 2008.
Palmer D.A., Les mutations du discours sur les sectes en Chine moderne [Shifting discourses on heterodox sects in modern China]., Archives de sciences sociales des religions. 2008, 144: 31-50.
Palmer D.A., Operationalizing an Anthropological Concept of Spirituality: Implications for Childrens’ Education, Asia-Pacific Conference on Childrens’ Spirituality and Education, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Feb. 2009. Hong Kong.
Palmer D.A., Religion and the evolution of human civilization: rethinking the theories, methods and social engagement of the anthropology of religion], 宗教與人類文明的演變:對宗教人類學的方法,理論與社會參與的重新思考, Department of Philosophy, Shanghai Normal University, June 22-26. 2009.
Palmer D.A., Religiosity and Social Movements in China: Divisions and Multiplications., In: Gilles Guiheux and Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce, Social Movements in China and Hong Kong: The Expansion of Protest Space.. Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2009, 257-282.
Palmer D.A., Sociologie de l’innovation religieuse et nouveaux mouvements religieux: le cas chinois [Sociology of religious innovation and new religious movements: the Chinese case]. , Groupe religions, sociétés, laïcités, CNRS (Paris, France), 30 June . 2009.
Palmer D.A., The Moral Autonomy of Civil Society: Reflections on the Chinese Experience, International Symposium on The Rising Individual and the Collective Morality: Social Transformations of Greater China in Globalisation. Hong Kong University, 14 April. 2009.
Palmer D.A., “Wenming chongtu, wenming duihua, wenming quanqiuhua” [Clash of civilizations, dialogue of civilizations, global civilization]. , 文明衝突、文明對話、文明全球化, Conference on New Paradigms in Chinese Philosophical Discourse, Shandong University. 2009.


Researcher : Sim ASC

List of Research Outputs

Sim A.S.C., Cheap Labour Reserves & the Growth of Cities: Undocumented Migrant Workers in Macau, International Workshop on Gender, Migrant Workers and Citizenship in Greater Mekong Subregion: Economic and Political Perspectives for a World in Crisis. Thailand, 2009.
Sim A.S.C., Dancing to Different Tunes: Performance and Activism among Migrant Domestics in Hong Kong , Women's Studies International Forum. 2009.
Sim A.S.C., Expressing Identity and Spiritualism through Islamic Dress, Veil and Headscarf, Asian Heritages: Values and Symbols, Department of Sociology And Centre for Anthropological Research, University of Hong Kong. 2008.
Sim A.S.C., Introduction. Women, Mobilities, Immobilities and Empowerment. , In: Amy Sim, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, Special Issue (2009).. Philippines, Scalabrini Migration Center, 2009, Special Issue.
Sim A.S.C., Maids, Wives and Seasonal Migrants: Female Migration in East and Southeast Asia, In: Amy Sim, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal. Philippines, Scalabrini Migration Center, 2009, Special Issue.
Sim A.S.C., Sapphic Shadows: Sworn Sisterhoods and Cyber Lesbian Communities in Hong Kong, In: Kuah Khun Eng , Chinese Women and Their Chinese Networks. Hong Kong, Marshall Cavendish International, 2008.
Sim A.S.C., The Cultural Economy of Illegal Migration: Migrant Workers Who Overstay in Hong Kong, In: Melissa Curley and Wong Siu-Loong , Migration and Securitisation in Southeast Asia. U.K., Routlege-Curzon, 2008.
Sim A.S.C. and Wee V., Undocumented Indonesian Workers in Macau, In: Nicole Constable, Critical Asian Studies Journal. U.K., Routledge, 2009, 41:1: 165-188.
Sim A.S.C., Women versus the State: Organizing Resistance and Contesting Exploitation in Indonesian Labour Migration to Hong Kong, In: Amy Sim, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, Special Issue (2009). Philippines, Scalabrini Migration Center, 2009, Special Issue.


Researcher : Wong TWP

List of Research Outputs

Koo A. and Wong T.W.P., Anita Koo & T.W.P. Wong, 'Family in Flux: Benchmarking Family Changes in Hong Kong Society' (forthcoming 2008), , Social Transformations in Chinese Societies. (Officail jouranl of the Hong Kong Sociological Association). 2008.
Ng C.H., Wong T.W.P., Chu Y.W. and Chan K.W., Doing families in Hong Kong: Values, relations and strategies, In: special issue editors: Ng Chun Hung, Thomas Wong Wai Pong, Chu Yin Wah, Anita Chan Kit Wa, Social Transformations in Chinese Societies. Netherlands, Brill, 2009, 4: 3-16.
Ng C.H., Wong T.W.P., Chu Y.W. and Chan K.W., special issue on "Doing Families in Hong Kong", In: Ng Chun Hung, Thomas Wong Wai Bong, Chu Yin Wah, Anita Chan Kit Wa, Social Transformations in Chinese Societies. Netherlands, Brill, 2009, 4: 3-190.
Wong T.W.P., Chu Y.W. and Chan K.W., Introduction: DOing families in Hong Kong: Values, relations and strategies, In: special issue editors: Ng hun Hung, Thomas Wong Wai Pong, Chu Yin Wah, Anita Chan Kit Wa, Social transformations in Chinese Societies. Netherlands, Brill, 2009, 4: 3-16.


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