DEPT OF SOCIOLOGY



Researcher : Adorjan MC

Project Title:Volatile and Contradictory Youth Justice in Hong Kong? Exploring and Advancing the Theory of Rehabilitative ‘Braiding’ Outside of Occidental Contexts
Investigator(s):Adorjan MC
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:03/2010


Project Title:2010 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) The Potential Contribution and Curious Absence of Social Constructionism from Debates over Public Sociology Tethering Rehabilitation and Punishment: The Salience and Ambiguity of Rehabilitative Rhetoric within Canadian Youth Justice Debates
Investigator(s):Adorjan MC
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2010
Completion Date:08/2010


List of Research Outputs

Adorjan M.C., A Question of Trust: Maintaining the Rehabilitative Ideal in Hong Kong, Crime Prevention and Offender Rehabilitation – Prospects and Challenges, Hong Kong. 2011.
Adorjan M.C., Emotions Contests and Reflexivity in the News: Examining Discourse on Youth Crime in Canada, In: Kent Sandstrom, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. United States, Sage, 2010, 40(2): 168-198.
Adorjan M.C., Francis Pakes, Comparative Criminal Justice, 2nd Ed., Asian Journal of Criminology. 2010, 10.
Adorjan M.C., Rehabilitate and Punish: Discursive braiding within debates for lowering the minimum age of criminal responsibility in Canada, Hong Kong Sociological Association, Hong Kong. 2010.
Adorjan M.C., Tethering Rehabilitation and Punishment: The Salience and Ambiguity of Rehabilitative Rhetoric within Canadian Youth Justice Debates, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Division. 2010.
Adorjan M.C., Tethering rehabilitation and punishment: The salience and ambiguity of rehabilitative rhetoric within Canadian youth justice debates, In: Award Committee: Dr Robert Garot (Chair), Dr. Tim Berard, Dr Karen Weiss, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Division, Winner - Graduate Student Paper Award. United States, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2010, 28.
Adorjan M.C., The Potential Contribution and Curious Absence of Social Constructionism from Debates over Public Sociology, Society for the Study of Social Problems. 2010.
Adorjan M.C., book proposal review: Sue Titus Reid, Criminal Justice, 9th Ed., Wiley-Blackwell. Wiley Blackwell, 2010, 8.


Researcher : Bakken B

Project Title:Crime and Punishment in China
Investigator(s):Bakken B
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2007


Project Title:10th Biennial Conference of the Chinese Studies Association of Australia (CSAA) Crime and Punishment in China towards 2020: A Scenario
Investigator(s):Bakken B
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2007


List of Research Outputs

Bakken B., Medicalized and Moralized Dangers of Modernity, ANU China Institute Conference: China Inside Out: Modernity and the Individual Psyche, Australian National University, 16-18 August 2010.


Researcher : Chan CSC

Project Title:An Exploratory Study of the Survival of Traditional Chinese Pharmacy in mainland China
Investigator(s):Chan CSC
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2009


Project Title:Trust and Obligation in Social Ties in Contemporary Chinese Societies
Investigator(s):Chan CSC
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2010


Project Title:Research Output Prize (Faculty of Social Sciences)
Investigator(s):Chan CSC
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Research Output Prize (in Faculty)
Start Date:12/2010


Project Title:The Survival and Legitimacy of the Chinese Pharmaceutical Business: An Institutional Approach
Investigator(s):Chan CSC
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2011


Project Title:Global Society, Cosmopolitism and Human Rights a decade's struggle: ideology, frame transformation, and collective action of the Chinese Falung Gong Movement
Investigator(s):Chan CSC
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2011
Completion Date:06/2011


List of Research Outputs

Chan C.S.C., A Decade’s Struggle: Ideology, Frame Transformation, and Collection Action of the Chinese Falun Gong, International Symposium on Global Society, Cosmopolitism and Human Rights, Association of Italian Sociology, University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy. 2011.
Chan C.S.C., A Decade’s Struggle: Ideology, Frame Transformation, and Collection Action of the Falun Gong, colloquium series of the Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong. 2011.
Chan C.S.C., Divorcing Localization from the Divergent Paradigm: Localization of Chinese Life Insurance Practice and Its Implications, International Sociology . 2011, 26(3): 346-363.
Chan C.S.C., Marketing Death: Culture and the Making of a Life Insurance Market in China, Friday Seminar Series of the Anthropology Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2010.
Chan C.S.C., Marketing Death: Culture and the Making of a Life Insurance Market in China, a half-day Forum with the University of Sydney, Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong. 2010.
Chan C.S.C., Research Output Prize for the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong’s Outstanding Researcher Awards Scheme. 2010.


Researcher : Evans GRJ

Project Title:7th International Conference on Thai Studies
Investigator(s):Evans GRJ
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/1999


Project Title:53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies Do People Still Dream of Kings? The Discourse of Monarchy in Laos
Investigator(s):Evans GRJ
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2001


Project Title:102nd American Anthropological Association Meeting Revival of Buddhist Royal Family Commemorative Ritual in Laos
Investigator(s):Evans GRJ
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2003


Project Title:First International Conference on Lao Studies Tiao Phetsarath and Lao Issara Joking and Lao Social Structure
Investigator(s):Evans GRJ
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff
Start Date:05/2005




Researcher : Jin H

List of Research Outputs

Kuah-Pearce K.E. and Jin H., CO-PAPER PRESENTER - “Premarital Intimacy in Transnational Marriage: Chinese Women Finding the Right South Korean Husband”,, The 5th International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, (2 -5 August 2010), Cambridge University (co-author: Jin Hong). 2010.


Researcher : Kong TSK

Project Title:Gay and Grey: Oral History of Hong Kong Gay Elders
Investigator(s):Kong TSK
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:01/2009


Project Title:The Challenges and Negotiation of Urban Citizenship among Rural-to-urban Migrant Male Sex Workers in China
Investigator(s):Kong TSK
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2010


List of Research Outputs

Kong T.S.K., Sex and Work on the Move: The Case of China’s Rural-to-urban Male Sex Workers [Keynote speech], International Conference on Gender and Policy, 3-4 June 2011, Shantou University, Shantou, China. . 2011.
Kong T.S.K. and Xu J., "The Road of No Return for the Money Boy: The Dilemma of Leaving the Sex Industry for Male Sex Workers in China", International Conference on Gender and Policy, 3-4 June 2011, Shantou University, Shantou, China. . 2011.
Kong T.S.K., "Transnational Queer Labour: The 'Circuit of Desire' of Money Boys in China", English Language Notes. 2011, 49 (1): 139-144.
Kong T.S.K., Book review: Gay and Lesbian Subculture in Urban China [Ho, Loretta Wing Wah]. London: Routledge, 2010. xii, 180 pp.(Tables, figures) , Pacific Affairs 83 (4). 2010.
Kong T.S.K., Chinese Male Homosexualities: Memba, Tongzhi and Golden Boy. London, Routledge, 2010.
Kong T.S.K., Migrant Male Sex Workers in China, An Anthropological Talk, 10 Nov 2010, The Hong Kong Anthropological Society and The Hong Kong Museum of History, Hong Kong. 2010.
Kong T.S.K., The ‘Bare Life’ of Money Boys: Transgression in Sexual Contact Zones of Rural-to-Urban Male Sex Workers in Mainland China, Sexual Boundary Crossing and Sexual Contact Zones in East Asia, Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture, 2 October, 2010, Tokyo, Japan.. 2010.


Researcher : Kuah KE

Project Title:Mother-Superiors and the Business of Globalising Compassion: Mother Teresa and Master Cheng Yen
Investigator(s):Kuah-Pearce KE
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2008
Completion Date:04/2011


Project Title:Emerging Global Compassion: A case study of Medecins Sans Frontieres (A French NGO) in Mainland China
Investigator(s):Kuah-Pearce KE
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:01/2009


Project Title:Rising Dragons, Soaring Bananas International Conference 2009 Chinese Diaspora and the Transnationalisation of Buddhist Philanthropic Culture
Investigator(s):Kuah-Pearce KE
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2009


Project Title:Understanding China’s Emerging Philanthropic Culture
Investigator(s):Kuah-Pearce KE
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2011


Project Title:The 31st Conference of the ISSR Socially-engaged Buddhism as a Global Transformative Force: Understanding Transnational Buddhist Philanthropy
Investigator(s):Kuah-Pearce KE
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2011
Completion Date:07/2011


List of Research Outputs



Researcher : Kuah-Pearce KE

Project Title:Mother-Superiors and the Business of Globalising Compassion: Mother Teresa and Master Cheng Yen
Investigator(s):Kuah-Pearce KE
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2008
Completion Date:04/2011


Project Title:Emerging Global Compassion: A case study of Medecins Sans Frontieres (A French NGO) in Mainland China
Investigator(s):Kuah-Pearce KE
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:01/2009


Project Title:Rising Dragons, Soaring Bananas International Conference 2009 Chinese Diaspora and the Transnationalisation of Buddhist Philanthropic Culture
Investigator(s):Kuah-Pearce KE
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2009


Project Title:Understanding China’s Emerging Philanthropic Culture
Investigator(s):Kuah-Pearce KE
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2011


Project Title:The 31st Conference of the ISSR Socially-engaged Buddhism as a Global Transformative Force: Understanding Transnational Buddhist Philanthropy
Investigator(s):Kuah-Pearce KE
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2011
Completion Date:07/2011


List of Research Outputs

Kuah-Pearce K.E. and Jin H., CO-PAPER PRESENTER - “Premarital Intimacy in Transnational Marriage: Chinese Women Finding the Right South Korean Husband”,, The 5th International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, (2 -5 August 2010), Cambridge University (co-author: Jin Hong). 2010.
Kuah-Pearce K.E. and Tan J., FOCUS EDITORIAL - Educational Governance In East Asia: Responding To Globalisation, In: Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng and Jason Tan, Asia Pacific Journal of Education. United Kingdom, Routledge, 2010, 30(4): 359-360.
Kuah-Pearce K.E. and Tan J., FOCUS ISSUE EDITOR - 13. Asia Pacific Journal of Education – Focus Issue: Educational Governance in East Asia: Responding to Globalisation., United Kingdom, Routledge, 2010, 30(4): 126pp.
Kuah-Pearce K.E. and Tan J..., FOCUS ISSUE EDITOR - Educational Governance in East Asia: Responding to Globalisation, In: Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng and Jason Tan -- editors of this focus journal issue , Asia Pacific Journal of Education. United Kingdom, Routledge, 2010, 30 (4): 126 pp.
Kuah-Pearce K.E. and Fong Y.C., JOURNAL ARTICLE - Identity and sense of belonging in post-colonial education in Hong Kong, In: Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng and Jason Tan, Asia Pacific Journal of Education. United Kingdom, Routledge, 2010, 30(4): 433 - 448.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., PANEL ORGANISER - “Women in the Global Religious Supermarket”, March 31 – April 4, 2011, at the AAS-ICAS International Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.. 2011.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., PAPER PRESENTER - “Carving a niche in Buddhist Philanthropy: Chinese women and transnational religious volunteerism”, Joint AAS-ICAS International Conference, 31 March to 4 April 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii.. 2011.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., PAPER PRESENTER - “Socially-engaged Buddhism as a Global Transformative Force: Understanding Transnational Buddhist Philanthropy”, 31st International Society for the Sociology of Religion Conference, 31 June – 4 July 2011, Aix-en-Provence, France.. 2011.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., PAPER PRESENTER - “The Chinese Diaspora’s New Venture: Buddhist Philanthropy”, International Conference on Chinese Overseas: Culture, Religions and Worldview (21-22 June 2011), organized by the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas and Anthropology Department CUHK.. 2011.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., SOLE-AUTHOR BOOK - Rebuilding the Ancestral Village: Singaporeans in China (2nd Edition), jointly published by HKU Press (January 2011), Amsterdam UP (December 2011) and National University of Singapore Press (May 2011), Hong Kong, Singapore and Amsterdam.. 2011, 279pp.


Researcher : Laidler KA

Project Title:Reducing Hong Kong's serious youth crime through community intervention: an evaluation of operation breakthrough
Investigator(s):Laidler KA
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:11/2003


Project Title:2010 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology Beyond Drugs and Violence: Reflections on Youth Gangs Since the 1980s Consuming Drugs, Constucting Identities: Analysis of an Asian American Youth Culture
Investigator(s):Laidler KA
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2010
Completion Date:11/2010


Project Title:Cocaine Use in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Laidler KA
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2011


List of Research Outputs

Hunt G., Laidler K.A., Moloney M., van der Poel A. and van der Mheen D., Dance Drug Scenes: A Global Perspective, Drugs and Culture: Knowledge, Consumption and Policy. Surrey, UK, Ashgate, 2011, 125-148.
Laidler K.A., Hunt G. and Moloney M., Dance Drug Scenes: A Global Perspective, In: Hunt, G.,; Milhet, M. and Bergson, H., Drugs and Culture. Surrey, UK, Ashgate, 2010.
Laidler K.A., Evaluation Report on the 5th Employment Symposium for the Reintegration of Ex-offenders for Hong Kong Correctional Services Department. , Centre for Criminology, HKU and CSD, HK Government. 2011.
Laidler K.A., Li N.L. and Lau G.L., Rights to Drug Rehabilitation: Lessons to be Learned from Treatment of Heroin Addiction in Hong Kong for treating Young Psychotropic Drug Users, Annual British Society of Criminology Conference: Human Rights and Human Wrongs Conference. Leicester University. 2010.
Laidler K.A., Lau G.L. and Li N.L., Spirituality and Drug Treatment: A Buddhist Principles Based Programme in Hong Kong, International Conference, Crime Prevention and Offender Rehabilitation: Prospects and Challenges. China Prison Association, Society of Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention, Co-sponsored with Centre for Criminology.. 2011.
Laidler K.A., What we learned in the prisons , Preventing Children From Sex Trap Sharing Forum, Sponsored by End Child Abuse. 2010.
Moloney M., Hunt G., Laidler K.A. and MacKenzie K., Young Mothers (in the) Hood: Gang Girls' Negotiation of New Identities, Journal of Youth Studies. 2011, 14: 1-19.
Sanders B., Valdez A., Hunt G., Laidler K.A., Cepeda A. and Moloney M., Gang Youth, Risk Behaviors, and Negative Health Outcomes, In: Sanders, Bill et al., Crime, HIV and Health: Intersections of Criminal Justice and Public Health Concerns. New York, Sp[ringer, 2010.


Researcher : Lau GL

List of Research Outputs

Laidler K.A., Li N.L. and Lau G.L., Rights to Drug Rehabilitation: Lessons to be Learned from Treatment of Heroin Addiction in Hong Kong for treating Young Psychotropic Drug Users, Annual British Society of Criminology Conference: Human Rights and Human Wrongs Conference. Leicester University. 2010.
Laidler K.A., Lau G.L. and Li N.L., Spirituality and Drug Treatment: A Buddhist Principles Based Programme in Hong Kong, International Conference, Crime Prevention and Offender Rehabilitation: Prospects and Challenges. China Prison Association, Society of Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention, Co-sponsored with Centre for Criminology.. 2011.


Researcher : Lee MSY

Project Title:Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology 2010 (ANZSOC 2010) Human Trafficking and Transnational Migration
Investigator(s):Lee MSY
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff
Start Date:09/2010
Completion Date:09/2010


List of Research Outputs

Lee M.S.Y., Human Trafficking and Transnational Migration , Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology . 2010.
Lee M.S.Y., Human Trafficking, Diplomatie. 2011.
Lee M.S.Y., Migration and Control in Hong Kong, University of Hull, UK. 2011.
Lee M.S.Y., Trafficking and Global Crime Control. Sage, 2010.


Researcher : Li NL

List of Research Outputs

Laidler K.A., Li N.L. and Lau G.L., Rights to Drug Rehabilitation: Lessons to be Learned from Treatment of Heroin Addiction in Hong Kong for treating Young Psychotropic Drug Users, Annual British Society of Criminology Conference: Human Rights and Human Wrongs Conference. Leicester University. 2010.


Researcher : Lui TL

Project Title:The 23rd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics The Formation and the Re-formation of a Cultural District: The Case of Dafeng Village in South China
Investigator(s):Lui TL
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2011
Completion Date:06/2011


List of Research Outputs

Lui T.L. and Liu S., A Middle Class Community: Class Formation And The Building Of A Moral Order, 中產小區:階級構成與道德秩序的建立, Sociological Studies. 社會學研究, Beijing, 2010, 150: 25-40.
Lui T.L., Between London and Hong Kong: the coloniality of the MacLehose's Era, 在倫敦與香港之間:麥理浩時代的殖民性, In: Tai-lok Lui, C.H. Ng, and Eric Ma (呂大樂、吳俊雄、馬傑偉), Hong Kong: Everyday Life and Culture. 香港、生活、文化, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Oxford University Press, 2011, 287-301.
Lui T.L., From being the other to becoming the local: Hong Kong's sociological exploration, Workshop on Asian Sociology (held at Korea University). 2010.
Lui T.L. and Ng C.H., In: Tai-lok Lui, C.H. Ng and Eric Ma (呂大樂、吳俊雄、馬傑偉, Hong Kong: Everyday Life and Culture. 香港、生活、文化, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Oxford University Press, 2011, 330.
Lui T.L., Leading Change: The Changing Demographics in Hong Kong, Advanced Cultural Leadership Programme (HKU). 2011.
Lui T.L., On studying social class in a global city: the case of Hong kong, Sociology Department, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, China. 2010.
Lui T.L. and Yep R., Revisiting the golden era of MacLehose and the dynamics of social reform, China Information. London, SAGE Publications, 2010, 24 (3): 249-272.
Lui T.L., Social Transformations in Chinese Societies. 2011.
Lui T.L., The Impact of China on Hong Kong, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. 2011.
Lui T.L., The formation and re-formation of a cultural district: the case of Dafen Village in South China, The 23rd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics . 2011.
Lui T.L., 普及的收藏品:生產與消費的矛盾對立統一 (Popular collectibles: tensions between production and consumption), 中國社會學會2010年年會 (Annual Meeting of China Sociological Association), 2010.


Researcher : Martin JT

Project Title:Cultures of Policing: A Comparison of Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Taipei
Investigator(s):Martin JT
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2010


Project Title:109th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting 2010 The Culture of Policing
Investigator(s):Martin JT
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2010
Completion Date:11/2010


List of Research Outputs

Martin J.T., 'Police Status' in Taiwanese Democracy: Accountability and the Political Life of Civil Force, In: Professor Al McCoy, Joint Conference for Asian Studies & International Convention of Asia Scholars, Panel on Postcolonial Policing in Asia . 2011.
Martin J.T., Commentary on 'Law, Morality and the Politics of Measurement in Early Imperial China', East Asian Perspectives on Legal Order!. 2010.
Martin J.T., Commentary on 'Why Monetary Compensation can Reduce Criminal Penalties', Forum for Young Constitutional Law Scholars. 2011.
Martin J.T., Confucian Corrections? A Taiwanese Case for an East Asian Idea of Police, Crime Prevention and Offender Rehabilitation – Prospects and Challenges. 2011.
Martin J.T., Cultural Dimensions of the Idea of Police, Sun Yat Sen University, Guangzhou . 2011.
Martin J.T., How Chinese Culture Might Inform a Distinctive Kind of Modern Policing, University of Sidney Forum at University of Hong Kong. 2010.
Martin J.T., Policing: Introduction, In: Professor Jerome A. Cohen (New York University School of Law), Taiwan in Comparative Perspective. London, LSE, 2011, 3: 30-32.
Martin J.T., The Culture of Policing, American Anthropological Association, Panel on Cops & Canons: What is the Anthropology of Policing and what is it Good For?. 2010.
Martin J.T., Volunteer Police and the Production of Social Order in a Taiwanese Village, In: Professor Jerome A. Cohen (New York University School of Law), Taiwan in Comparative Perspective. London, LSE, 2011, 3: 33-49.


Researcher : Moore M

Project Title:Chinese entrepreneurship: comparative analysis
Investigator(s):Moore M
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Hang Seng Bank Golden Jubilee Education Fund for Research
Start Date:03/2004




Researcher : Ng CH

Project Title:Development of multi-media project -based socio-cultural education
Investigator(s):Ng CH, Chan SCL
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Teaching Development Grants
Start Date:09/1997


List of Research Outputs

Lui T.L. and Ng C.H., In: Tai-lok Lui, C.H. Ng and Eric Ma (呂大樂、吳俊雄、馬傑偉, Hong Kong: Everyday Life and Culture. 香港、生活、文化, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Oxford University Press, 2011, 330.


Researcher : Palmer DA

Project Title:An anthropological study of volunteering in Chinese urban centres (preliminary phase)
Investigator(s):Palmer DA
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2009
Completion Date:08/2010


Project Title:109th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association The Emergence of a Culture of Volunteerism in Contemporary China: A Preliminary Discussion of Significance and Conceptual Issues
Investigator(s):Palmer DA
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2010


Project Title:Volunteerism in Contemporary China: Moral Discourse and Social Spaces.
Investigator(s):Palmer DA
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2011


List of Research Outputs

Goossaert V. and Palmer D.A., The Religious Question in Modern China, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2011, 464.
Palmer D.A. and Wan Z.Y., A Framework For Interfaith Dialogue In The Context Of Social Development – Reflexions Based On The Baha’i Experience, 社会发展语境中的宗教对话:从巴哈伊的经验说起, In: Institute for Religious Studies, Lanzhou University, Conference on interfaith dialogue. 2011.
Palmer D.A., A preliminary discussion of the Lüshan ritual tradition of Huanghua Township, Yingde County, North Guangdong, 粵北英德市黃花鎮閭山教儀式傳統初談, In: Fujian Provincial Museum and Gutian County CCP Committee, Conference on the Goddess of Linshui. 2010.
Palmer D.A., China’s Religious Danwei: Institutionalizing Religion in the Peoples’ Republic, China Perspectives. 2010, 2009/4.
Palmer D.A., Chinese Redemptive Societies and Salvationist Religion: Historical Phenomenon or Sociological Category?, In: China Academy of Social Sciences Institute of World Religions, Conference on “Development Trends of New Religious Movements”. 2010.
Palmer D.A., Chinese Redemptive Societies and Salvationist Religion: Historical Phenomenon or Sociological Category?, Seventh Symposium of the Social Scientific Study of Religion in China, Renmin University (Beijing). 2010.
Palmer D.A., Culture, religion comme” [Culture, Religion as], In: Régine Azria and Daniele Hervieu-Leger, Dictionnaire des faits religieux [Dictionary of Religious Facts] . Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 2010, 216-220.
Palmer D.A., Current Issues on Religious Freedom in China, In: Consulate General of Canada in Hong Kong, Human Rights Roundtable. 2011.
Palmer D.A., Double Review of Livia Kohn, Chinese Healing Exercises: The Tradition of Daoyin (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2008) and Meir Shahar, The Shaolin Monastery. History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2008), Etudes chinoises. Paris, Association francaise d'etudes chinoises, 2010, 29: 455-461.
Palmer D.A. and Siegler E.T., Dream Trippers at Huashan: Spiritual Tourism and the American Appropriation of a Chinese Daoist Mountain, In: American Anthropological Association, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. 2010.
Palmer D.A., Energy, In: J. Gordon Melton, Martin Baumann, Religions of the World. A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices. Santa Barbara, CA, ABC-Clio, 2011, 3: 921.
Palmer D.A., Heretical Doctrines, Reactionary Secret Societies, Evil Cults: Labelling Religious Heterodoxy in 20th Century China, In: Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Religious Studies, Shenzhen International Symposium on Cultic Studies. 2010.
Palmer D.A., Les danwei religieuses: l'institutionalisation de la religion en Chine populaire, Perspectives chinoises. 2010, 2009/4.
Palmer D.A., Qigong, In: J. Gordon Melton and Martin Baumann , Religions of the World. A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices. Santa Barbara, CA, ABC-Clio, 2011, 5: 2355.
Palmer D.A., Recent Developments of Civil Society in China, In: French Centre for Research on Contemporary China/ Consulate General of France in Hong Kong, Round Table on the 18th Party Congress. 2011.
Palmer D.A., Religion and Human Rights in China, In: European Union Delegation in Hong Kong, Roundtable on Human Rights in China. 2011.
Palmer D.A., Religious Innovation in Post-Mao China : the Case of Zhonggong, In: Adam Y. Chau, Religion in Contemporary China: Revitalization and Innovation. London, Routledge, 2011, 182-202.
Palmer D.A. and Chan K.K., Religious Tests to ‘One Country, Two Systems’ in Hong Kong and Macau, In: EU Delegation in Hong Kong, Briefing for European diplomats organized by the EU Delegation in Hong Kong. 2011.
Palmer D.A., Research design and methodology for the study of religion in China: Reflexions on anthropological, sociological and historical approaches, Chinese Spirituality and Society Program, Renmin University (Beijing). 2010.
Palmer D.A., Review of Richard Madsen, Democracy’s Dharma: Religious Renaissance and Political Development in Taiwan. Berkeley: University of California Press. , China Perspectives. 2010, 2009/4.
Palmer D.A., Teaching ‘Religion, Spirituality and Social Change’ to Undergraduates at Hong Kong University: some preliminary reflections on course design and teaching methods, Summer Institute on the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Renmin University (Beijing). 2010.
Palmer D.A., The Emergence of a Culture of Volunteerism in Contemporary China: A preliminary discussion of significance and conceptual issues., In: American Anthropological Association, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. 2010.
Palmer D.A. and Tam W.L., The Jiao Rituals in Huanghua Township of Yingde City, Guangdong Province, In: HKU Dept of Sociology and Centre for Anthropological Research; CUHK Centre for East Asian Studies, International Workshop on the Comparative Ethnography of Local Daoist Ritual. 2011.


Researcher : Sim A.S.C.

Project Title:Invisible Communities: Undocumented Migrants in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Sim ASC
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2009
Completion Date:09/2010


Project Title:Migrant sexualities: Indonesian and Filipino migrants in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Sim ASC
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:02/2011


Project Title:Association for Asian Studies AAS and International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) Joint Conference Islam, Mobililty and Activism: Organising Indonesian Muslim Women in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Sim ASC
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2011
Completion Date:04/2011


List of Research Outputs

Sim A...S...C..., "Contradictions in Agendas for Social Transformation: The International Alliance of Migrants and Refugees (IAMR) versus The Global Forum for Migration and Development (GFMD)", Organized by the International Migrants Alliance for the International Migrants' Day 2010 event, "A Celebration of Migrants' Struggle in Hong Kong: Advancing the Migrants Movement Amidst the Global Crisis and the Erosion of Migrants Rights", 19 December 2010, Chater Road, Central, Hong Kong . 2010.
Sim A...S...C..., "Islam, Mobililty and Activism: Organising Indonesian Muslim Women in Hong Kong", Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) conference “70 Years of Asian Studies”, 31 March to 3 April 2010, Hawaii, USA. 2011.
Sim A...S...C..., "Struggles of Women Migrants in a Muslim Context: Social Movements and the Possibilities for Globally Comparative Research", The Third Meeting of the International Alliance of Migrants and Refugees. Organized by the International Migrants Alliance, 6-8 November 2010, Mexico City, Mexico. 2010.
Sim A...S...C..., "The Headscarf Debate: Identity and Dress in Islam", For the course YSOC0006 "Asian Heritages: Values and Symbols", Department of Sociology, 19 March 2011. 2011.


Researcher : Sim ASC

Project Title:Invisible Communities: Undocumented Migrants in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Sim ASC
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2009
Completion Date:09/2010


Project Title:Migrant sexualities: Indonesian and Filipino migrants in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Sim ASC
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:02/2011


Project Title:Association for Asian Studies AAS and International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) Joint Conference Islam, Mobililty and Activism: Organising Indonesian Muslim Women in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Sim ASC
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2011
Completion Date:04/2011


List of Research Outputs

Sim A.S.C., The Global Crisis and Its Impact on the Intensification of the State’s Policy to Arrest, Detain and Deport Undocumented Migrants , Asia Pacific Conference of Migrants Service Providers on Undocumented Migrants and the Current Global Economic Crisis . 2010.


Researcher : Smith C

Project Title:Bohemian Tokyo: A Study of Countercultural Youth Activism in Postindustrial Japan
Investigator(s):Smith C
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2010


Project Title:AAS-ICAS Joint Conference 2011 Freeters into Precariat: Counter-spectacle and Counterculture in Dystopic Tokyo
Investigator(s):Smith C
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2011
Completion Date:04/2011


List of Research Outputs

Smith C., Freeters and the Precariat , Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo . 2010.
Smith C., Freeters into Precariat: Alienation and Counterculture in Postindustrial Tokyo, Hong Kong Anthropological Society and the Hong Kong Museum of History. 2010.
Smith C., Freeters into Precariat: Counter-spectacle and Counterculture in Tokyo, Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting . 2011.
Smith C., Review of Jyakunen Hiseiki Koyo no Shakaigaku (The Sociology of Irregular Youth Employment) , In: Hiroshi Ishida, Social Science Japan Journal (Winter 2011). Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, 2010, 14: 92-95.
Smith C., The Resurgence of Counterculture in Postindustrial Tokyo, HKU Department of Sociology Colloquium. 2011.


Researcher : Tang L

Project Title:Artists’ Villages, Postsocialist Spaces, and Power in China
Investigator(s):Tang L
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2010


Project Title:ANU China Institute Signature Conference 2010 Post-70s Artists and the Search for the Self
Investigator(s):Tang L
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2010
Completion Date:08/2010


List of Research Outputs

Tang L., Post-70s Artists and the Search for the Self in China, In: Andrew Kipnis, China Inside Out: Modernity and the Individual Psyche, China Institute Signature Conference, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australia National University, Canberra. 2010.


Researcher : Wong TWP

Project Title:52nd Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Pathways to Success: Life Stories and the Hong Kong Dream
Investigator(s):Wong TWP
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Grants for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2000




Researcher : Xu J

List of Research Outputs

Kong T.S.K. and Xu J., "The Road of No Return for the Money Boy: The Dilemma of Leaving the Sex Industry for Male Sex Workers in China", International Conference on Gender and Policy, 3-4 June 2011, Shantou University, Shantou, China. . 2011.
Xu J., Drive-away policing and situational crime prevention in China: an analysis of motorcycle ban (jinmo) policy in Guangzhou, International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. 2011, DOI: 10.1177/0306624X10395715.
Xu J., Hong Kong, The State Of Criminology, In: S. X. Z. Rosemary Barberet, Cindy J. Smith, Handbook of International Criminology: An International Perspective. London and New York, Routledge, 2011.
Xu J., Iron Fist In A Velvet Glove” Vs. “people-biting Rabbits”: Exploring State-society Relations In The Making Of The Motorcycle Ban Policy In The Pearl River Delta, Hong Kong Sociological Association 12th Annual Conference. Hong Kong Baptist University. 2010.
Xu J., Social Exclusion, Resistance And The Production Of Violence, Sociology-Law Joint Department Seminar, University of Hong Kong. 2010.
Xu J., The “Victim Pool” and Crime Prevention: An Analysis of Robbery of Motorcycle Taxi Drivers in China, Postgraduate Student Conference, Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong. 2011.


Researcher : Yeh KH

List of Research Outputs

Yeh K.H., Wong K...Y... and Wan P...S..., Between Liberal and Substantive Democracy: The Conceptions of Democracy of Hong Kong People and Their Determinants (in Chinese), 在自由主義民主與實用性民主之間:回歸後香港人對民主的理解, Interpreting the Social Ethos of Taiwan and Hong Kong. 解讀臺港社會意向, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, 2011, 213-235.
Yeh K.H. and Wong T...W..., Public Perceived Income Inequality and Its Political Consequences in Hong Kong and Taiwan from 2003 to 2009 (in Chinese), 香港與臺灣民眾的主觀貧富差距及其政治後果:2003至2009年, 2011 Taiwan-Hong Kong Sociology and Social Image Conference, March 11-12, Taipei, Taiwan. 2011台灣-香港社會學與社會意向 研討會, 2011.
Yeh K.H., The Changing Language Usage and Identity: Hong Kong under Re-nationalization (in Chinese), 再國族化工程下的語文與認同變遷:香港的經驗, New Society for Taiwan . 新社會政策雙月刊, Taipei, Taiwan, New Society for Taiwan, 2010, 12: 57-60.
Yeh K.H., The Controversy over Mainland Visitors in Hong Kong and its Lessons for Taiwan (in Chinese), 陸客在香港的旅遊糾紛與對台灣的啟示, New Society for Taiwan . 新社會政策雙月刊, 2011.
Yeh K.H., The Development of Phone-in Programmes in Hong Kong: A State-Society Perspective, Research Postgraduate Conference 2011, May 21, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.. 2011.
Yeh K.H., Wong Y...H... and Li C...K..., The Generation Conversation between Lui Tai-lok and Simon Shen: The reflection of three post-80s scholars.” (in Chinese), 呂大樂與沈旭暉的世代對話:3名80後學人的反省, Before and After 80s: The Imagination beyond Social Movement, Discourse and Generation. 80前後:超越社運論述與世代的想像, Hong Kong, Roundtable Synergy Book, 2010.


Researcher : Zhang H

List of Research Outputs

Zhang H., An Entrepreneurial Party-state and Its ‘City Manager’: The Ningbo Urban Construction Investment Holding Co., Ltd. (NBUCI) and Ningbo’s Tianyi Square Project, Harvard-Yenching Institute Working Paper Series. Cambridge, M.A., USA , The Harvard-Yenching Institute, 2011.
Zhang H., Local Corporatism and Culture-oriented Urban Redevelopment: Transforming a Ferry Terminal into an Art Museum in Ningbo, China , Spaces and Flows Conference 2010: An International Conference on Urban and Extra Urban Studies . Los Angeles, USA, Common Ground Publisher, 2010.
Zhang H., difang tonghe zhuyi yu wenhua daoxiang de chengshi gengxin: cong lunchuan matou dao Ningbo meishuguan” (Local Corporatism and Culture-oriented Urban Redevelopment: Transforming a Ferry Terminal into an Art Museum in Ningbo), 地方统合主义与文化导向的城市更新:从轮船码头到宁波美术馆, Kaifang Shidai (Open Times) . 开放时代, Guangzhou, China, Guangzhou shi shehui kexue yuan, 2011, 103-112.


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