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
Completion Date:03/2012


Project Title:1st Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems Trust and the Rehabilitative Ideal in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Adorjan MC
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2011
Completion Date:08/2011


Project Title:Fear of crime and trust in crime control in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Adorjan MC, Lee MSY
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2012


List of Research Outputs

Adorjan M.C. and Elafros A., 'Conflict diamonds', globalization and consumption: An examination of Kanye West's Diamonds from Sierra Leone, In: Rebecca Ann Lind, Race/Gender/Class/Media 3.0: Considering Diversity across Audiences, Content, and Producers (Third edition). AB-Longman, 2012.
Adorjan M.C. and Chui W.H., Children raping children: Contesting the innocence frame in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Sociological Association Annual Conference, 3 December, 2011, Organized by Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2011.
Adorjan M.C., Emotions Contests and Reflexivity in the News: Examining Discourse on Youth Crime in Canada, Reading Sociology (2nd Ed.). Oxford University Press, 2011.
Adorjan M.C. and Chui W.H., Making Sense of Going Straight: Personal Accounts of Male Ex-prisoners in Hong Kong, British Journal of Criminology. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, 52 (3): 577-590.
Adorjan M.C., The Lens of Victim Contests and Youth Crime Stat Wars, In: Carol Rambo, Symbolic Interaction. 2011, 34(4): 550-571.


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 Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2007


Project Title:Producing Crime in China. Voices from the field on crime management, social exclusion and brutalization. FIELD AREAS: SOCIOLOGY, CRIMINOLOGY, CHINESE STUDIES
Investigator(s):Bakken B
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2010
Completion Date:08/2011


Project Title:Violent Crime in China
Investigator(s):Bakken B
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2011


Project Title:Power in the Making: Governing and Being Governed in Contemporary China 11:50 Børge Bakken/Karl Gerth (Chair: Patricia Thornton) ‘The Chinese surveillance state: on "social management" in China’
Investigator(s):Bakken B
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2012


List of Research Outputs

Bakken B., Culture or Politics: Death Penalty Opinions in China, the International conference: International Conference on Capital Punishment in Asia: Progress and Prospects for Law Reform, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong. 2011.
Bakken B., Medicalized and Moralized Dangers of Modernity, the ANU China Institute Conference: China Inside Out: Modernity and the Individual Psyche, Australian National University, Canberra, . 2011.
Bakken B., The Chinese Surveillance State: On ‘Social Management (社会管理) in China, the Oxford China Centre/Contemporary China Programme at the University of Oxford International conference: “Power in the Making: Governing and being Governed in Contemporary China”, Balliol College, Oxford University. 2012.
Bakken B., The Medicalization of Deviance in China, the Asian Innovations in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Asian Criminological Society 3rd Annual International Conference, National Taipei University. 2011.
Bakken B., The Medicalization of Deviance in China”, in “Asian Innovations in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Proceedings from the Asian Criminological Society 3rd Annual International Conference, National Taipei University. 2011.


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
Completion Date:12/2011


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:American Sociological Association Annual Meeting Invigorating the Content in Social Embeddedness: An Ethnography of Life Insurance Transactions in China Creating a Market in the Presence of Cultural Resistance: The Case of Life Insurance in China
Investigator(s):Chan CSC
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2011
Completion Date:08/2011


List of Research Outputs

Chan C.S.C., Best Scholarly Article Award, American Sociology Association’s Section on Global and Transnational Sociology. 2011.
Chan C.S.C., Best Scholarly Publication by an International Scholar Award, American Sociology Association’s Section on Global and Transnational Sociology. 2011.
Chan C.S.C., Chinese Buying Life Insurance: Multiple Motives but Consistent Preferences, invited lecture at Culture and Society Workshop, Department of Sociology at Northwestern University, October 6. 2011.
Chan C.S.C., Culture and Life Insurance Markets in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, invited lecture at Asian Study Center and Katz School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, October 12. 2011.
Chan C.S.C., Culture and Life Insurance Markets in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, invited lecture at Department of Sociology, Boston University, October 14,. 2011.
Chan C.S.C., Culture and Life Insurance Markets in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, invited lecture at Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, October 19, . 2011.
Chan C.S.C., Culture, State, and Varieties of Capitalism: A Comparative Study of Life Insurance Markets in Hong Kong and Taiwan, British Journal of Sociology . 2012, 63(1): 97-122.
Chan C.S.C., Culture, State, and Varieties of Capitalism: A Comparative Study of Life Insurance Markets in Hong Kong and Taiwan, invited lecture at Organizations and Markets Workshop, University of Chicago Booth Business School, October 5,. 2011.
Chan C.S.C., Editorial Board, Chinese Studies. 2012.
Chan C.S.C., Honorable Mention for Viviana Zelizer Distinguished Scholarship Award , American Sociology Association’s Section on Economic Sociology. 2011.
Chan C.S.C., Marketing Death: Culture and the Making of a Life Insurance Market in China. . New York, Oxford University Press, 2012.
Chan C.S.C., Marketing Death: Culture and the Making of a Life Insurance Market in China, Friday Seminar Series of the Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2011.
Chan C.S.C., Marketing Death: Culture and the Making of a Life Insurance Market in China, half-day Forum with the University of Sydney, Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong. 2011.
Chan C.S.C., Strategies and Discourses of Life Insurance Sales in China, invited paper presentation at Ethnography Working Group, Department of Sociology at UCLA, October 21, . 2011.
Chan C.S.C., The Best Book on Globalization Award, The Global Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. 2012.


Researcher : Evans GRJ

Project Title:7th International Conference on Thai Studies
Investigator(s):Evans GRJ
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support 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 Support 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 Support 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 Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:05/2005




Researcher : Fraser AD

Project Title:Excavating the Walled City: Youth, Space and Order in Hong Kong’s Forbidden Enclave
Investigator(s):Fraser AD
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2012


List of Research Outputs

Fraser A.D., Book Review - What is Criminology? Mary Bosworth and Carolyn Hoyle, Eds. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK , Asian Journal of Criminology - online first. 2012.
Fraser A.D., Book Review - Youth in Crisis? Gangs, Territoriality and Violence, edited by Barry Goldson, London: Routledge, 2011., British Journal of Criminology. UK, Oxford Journals, 2011, 52: 227-230.
Fraser A.D., Gangs and Global Exchange: An Experiment in Comparative Ethnography, Hong Kong Sociological Association. 2011.


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
Completion Date:12/2011


Project Title:International Conference on Gender Research in Chinese Studies Money, Migration, and Market Reform: The case of Male Sex Workers in Contemporary China
Investigator(s):Kong TSK
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2012


Project Title:Understanding Drug Use and Its relation with Risky Sexual Practices among Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Kong TSK, Laidler KA
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2012


List of Research Outputs

Altman D., Aggleton P., Kong T.S.K., Reddy V. and Williams M., "Homophobia", In: C. Beyrer, P. Sullivan, K. Mayer, J. Sanchez, Lancet 2012 MSM Theme Series [Impact factor: 38.278 (2011)]. 2012, forthcoming.
Kong T.S.K., "Chinese male bodies: A transnational study of masculinity and sexuality", In: Bryan Turner, The Routledge International Handbook of Body Studies. London, Routledge, 2012, 289-306.
Kong T.S.K., "Reinventing the Self under Socialism: The Case of Migrant Male Sex Workers in China", Critical Asian Studies [Impact factor: 0.420 (2011)]. 2012, 44 (3): 283-308.
Kong T.S.K., Laidler K.A. and Pang H., "Relationship type, condom use and HIV/AIDS risks among men who have sex with men in six Chinese cities", AIDS Care [Impact factor : 1.603 (2011)]. 2012, 24 (4): 517-528.
Kong T.S.K., "Where Has the Secret Garden Gone? Older Gay Men’s Negotiation of Queer Space in Colonial and Postcolonial Hong Kong", Global Sociology for a Global World, 3 Dec 2011, The Hong Kong Sociological Association 13th Annual Conference, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 2011.
Kong T.S.K., Money, Migration, and Market Reform: The Case of Male Sex Workers in Contemporary China., Invited paper presented at International Conference on Gender Research in Chinese Studies. Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, 9-11 June 2012 . 2012.
Kong T.S.K., Queer Asian Studies: The Case of Money Boys in China, Talk given at Centre for Intimate and Sexual Citizenship, The University of Essex, United Kingdom, 19 October. 2011.
Kong T.S.K., Queer Generation 1: Older Gay Men’s Boundary Crossing in Hong Kong, Invited paper presented at Boundary Crossing: Sex and Gender in Context. Sophia University Institute of Contemporary Comparative Culture, Tokyo, Japan, 10 December. 2011.


Researcher : Kuah KE

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
Completion Date:01/2012


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 Support 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 Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2011
Completion Date:07/2011


Project Title:Understanding Chinas Emerging Philanthropic Culture
Investigator(s):Kuah-Pearce KE
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2012


Project Title:BSA Annual Conference 2012 Religious Compassion and Philanthropy as Agency of Modernity: The Case of Socially Engaged Buddhism in Asia
Investigator(s):Kuah-Pearce KE
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2012
Completion Date:04/2012


List of Research Outputs



Researcher : Kuah-Pearce KE

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
Completion Date:01/2012


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 Support 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 Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2011
Completion Date:07/2011


Project Title:Understanding Chinas Emerging Philanthropic Culture
Investigator(s):Kuah-Pearce KE
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2012


Project Title:BSA Annual Conference 2012 Religious Compassion and Philanthropy as Agency of Modernity: The Case of Socially Engaged Buddhism in Asia
Investigator(s):Kuah-Pearce KE
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2012
Completion Date:04/2012


List of Research Outputs

Kuah-Pearce K.E., 3. “Cyberactivism in Mainland China: The Internet as a Tool and Method for Social Mobilisation” , International Conference on Social Science Methodology: A Special Reference to Social Movements, Centre for Nepal and Asian Studies (CNAS) Tribhuvan University (TU) Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal in November 15-17, 2011.. 2011.
Kuah-Pearce K.E. and Huang Y.D., CHAPTER -“The Flow of Trader’s Goddess: Tianhou in 19th Century America” [Kuah-Pearce 70%; Huang 30%]., in Free Trade and the Sino-America Relationship in the 19th and 20th Century, edited by Kendall Johnson, Hong Kong: HKU Press (December 2011). Hong Kong, HKU Press, 2011, pp. 163 – 176.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., Collective Memories as Cultural Capital: The Experience of Rebuilding the Emigrant Villages by the Chinese Overseas, In: Chiang Bo-wei, Maritime South Minnan (China): Intersection of History and Geography: Preservation and Continuity of Development. Kinmen, Taiwan, Kinmen Cultural Department, 2011, 23-32.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., DISTINGUISHED LECTURE - Collective memories and identity through transnational space (7 October 2011) , Co-hosted by the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (Ho Chi Minh City (vietnam) and Harvard-Yenching Institute (United States), 3 – 8 October 2011: Lecture Series on “Sociological Approaches to Contemporary Chinese Social Issues”. 2011.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., Delivering Compassion to the Villagers: Philanthropic Partnership between Local Government and Buddhist Organisations in China”, , Conference Proceedings of International Workshop on Charities and Legitimacy of Organisation, Law, Accountability, and Transparency, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, 12 – 16 December 2011. 2011.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD, Contemporary Eastern Asia http://www.eastasia.at/cfp.htm)., 2011.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD, Histoire and Anthropologies ASIES (Paris). 2011.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., “Bugis Street in Singapore: Development, Conservation and the Invention of Tourist Cultural Landscape”, Conference Proceedings of the , “International Conference on “Anthropologial and Sociological Perspectives of Tourism”, Yangshuo, Guilin, Guangxi, China, 22-24 October 2011.. 2011.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., “Chinese Women and their Social and Cyber Capitals”, Distinguished Lecture Series: Sociological Approaches to Contemporary Chinese Social Issue”, , co-hosted by the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (Ho Chi Minh City (vietnam) and Harvard-Yenching Institute (United States), 3 – 8 October 2011.. 2011.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., “Collective Memories as Cultural Capital: Chinese Overseas and the Rebuilding of Emigrant Villages in Conference Proceedings of , International Conference on South China Cultures, Kinmen University, Taiwan, 29 – 30 October 2011. (Plenary Lecture). 2011.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., “Collective memories and identity through transnational space”, Distinguished Lecture Series: Sociological Approaches to Contemporary Chinese Social Issue”, , co-hosted by the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) and Harvard-Yenching Institute (United States), 3 – 8 October 2011.. 2011.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., “Lifestyle Heritage as Cultural Memories and Cultural Capital: Fishing Village Lifestyle of Tai O” , Conference Proceedings of International Conference on the Preservation and Development of Intangible Heritage in Contemporary China, Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Culture and Arts and Anthropology Research Institute at Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, 26 – 27 November 2011. . 2011.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., “Locating the Self in the Chinese Diaspora”, [Invited lecture, Regional]. , Anthropology Research Institute, Zhejiang University, 25 November 2011. 2011.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., “Socially-engaged Buddhism as a Global Transformative Force: Understanding Transnational Buddhist Philanthropy”,, International Society for the Sociology of Religion Conference, 31 June – 4 July 2011, Aix-de-Provence, France.. 2011.


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:Girls Behaving Badly?: The Challenges of Youthful Femininity in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Laidler KA
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2010
Completion Date:08/2011


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


Project Title:“Girls in Trouble”: The Challenges of Youthful Femininity in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Laidler KA
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2011


List of Research Outputs

Kong T.S.K., Laidler K.A. and Pang H., "Relationship type, condom use and HIV/AIDS risks among men who have sex with men in six Chinese cities", AIDS Care [Impact factor : 1.603 (2011)]. 2012, 24 (4): 517-528.
Laidler K.A., Evaluation Report of Beat Drugs Master for Barnabas Charitable Association, Hong Kong, HKU Centre for Criminology, 2012.
Laidler K.A. and Hunt G., Moving Beyond the Gang Drug Violence Connection , Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy. 2012, forthcoming.
Laidler K.A., Reprint of “The Lives and Times of Asian Pacific American Women Drug Users: An Ethnographic Study of Their Methamphetamine Use.” , In: Adler, P and Adler, P, Drugs and the American Dream . West Sussex, Wiley and Sons, 2012, forthcoming: 87-93.
Laidler K.A., Hunt G. and Moloney M., Tuned Out or Tuned In”: Spirituality and Youth Drug Use in Global Times, Past and Present. 2012, forthcoming.


Researcher : Lee MSY

Project Title:Female Transnational Migrants in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Lee MSY
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2010
Completion Date:08/2011


Project Title:Home and Away: Female Transnational Professionals in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Lee MSY
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Public Policy Research
Start Date:10/2011


Project Title:Lifestyle Migration in East Asia: A Comparative Study of British and Asian Lifestyle Migrants
Investigator(s):Lee MSY
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:ESRC/RGC JRS
Start Date:01/2012




Researcher : Lui TL

List of Research Outputs

Lui T.L., Changing Opportunity Structures: Political Concerns and Sociological Observations, In: Stephen WK Chiu and Siu-lun Wong , Hong Kong Divided?. Hong Kong, Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, 2011, 65-91.
Lui T.L., Facing the Future: Hong Kong's Return to China and Problems in the Design of One Country Two Systems, 終於需要面對未來:香港回歸及其設計上的錯誤, Reflexion. 思想, Taipei, 聯經, 2011, 19: 89-101.
Lui T.L., Global City and Its Changing Social Structure: The Case of Hong Kong, 全球城市及其轉變中的社會結構:以香港中產階級為例, In: Y.M. Ning, Chinese Urban Studies. 中國城市研究, Beijing, 商務印書館, 2011, 1-12.
Lui T.L. and Chiu S.W.K., Governance Crisis and Changing State-Business Relations: A Political Economy Perspective , In: Stephen WK Chiu and Siu-lun Wong, Repositioning the Hong Kong Government. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2012, 91-122.
Lui T.L., Hong Kong's Middle Class After the Crisis. 中產心事:危機之後, Hong Kong, 上書局, 2011, 142.
Lui T.L., Mind the Gap: Managing Political Inclusion in Hong Kong in the 1970s, Britain and China: Past, Present and Future. Bristol, 2011.
Lui T.L., Reshaping the Post-Crisis World Order: The Social Perspective , 2011 World Youth Leaders Forum. 2011.
Lui T.L., Social Transformations in Chinese Societies. 2012.


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:Police Status and the Social Imagination: Cultural Aspects of Hukou Administration in Contemporary China
Investigator(s):Martin JT
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2011


List of Research Outputs

Martin J.T., Review of Gods, Ghosts & Gangsters, In: Gordon Matthews, Asian Anthropology. Chinese University Press, 2011, 10.
Martin J.T., The Role of the Census in the Organization of Taiwanese Policing, Asian Policing Compared: Traditions, Practices, Capacities. 2011.


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




Researcher : Palmer DA

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., 2011 PROSE Award (American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence) for best book on Religion, for the book The Religious Question in Modern China, American Publishers' Association. 2012.
Goossaert V. and Palmer D.A., Hua Yan Award for Excellence in the Academic Study of Religion, 2011 (for the book The Religious Question in Modern China), 2011年度華岩宗教學術傑出成就獎, International Centre for Buddhist Studies, Renmin University of China. 中國人民大學國際佛學 研究中心, 2011.
Huang C.J., Valussi E. and Palmer D.A., Gender and Sexuality, In: David A. Palmer, Glenn Shive, Philip L. Wickeri, Chinese Religious Life. New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2011, 107-123.
Laliberte A., Palmer D.A. and Wu K.P., Religious Philanthropy and Chinese Civil Society, In: David A. Palmer, Glenn Shive, Philip Wickeri, Chinese Religious Life. New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2011, 139-154.
Palmer D.A., Approaches to Field Research on Chinese Religion, University of Chicago Divinity School. 2012.
Palmer D.A., Chinese Redemptive Societies and Salvationist Religion: Historical Phenomenon or Sociological Category?, 民國救世團體與中國救度宗教:歷史現象還是社會學類別?, In: David A. Palmer, Wang Chien-chuan, Paul R. Katz, Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore. 民俗曲藝, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011, 172: 21-72.
Palmer D.A., Shive G. and Wickeri P.L., Chinese Religious Life, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2011, 296.
Palmer D.A. and Liu X., Dao and Nation. Li Yujie: May Fourth Activist, Daoist Cultivator and Redemptive Society Patriarch in Mainland China and Taiwan, In: Palmer, David A. and Liu, Xun, Daoism in the Twentieth Century: Between Eternity and Modernity. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 2012, 173-195.
Palmer D.A. and Liu X., In: Palmer, David Alexander; Liu, Xun, Daoism in the Twentieth Century: Between Eternity and Modernity. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 2012.
Palmer D.A., Freedom of Religion in China, Human Rights Roundtable, Consulate General of Canada in Hong Kong. 2012.
Palmer D.A., Generating Sacrality in Contemporary Chinese Religion: Traditional Cosmology, Nation Building and Global Forces, University of Chicago Divinity School. 2012.
Palmer D.A., Gift and Market in the Chinese Religious Economy, 中國宗教經濟中的‘禮’與‘市’, In: Fuzhou University; Renmin University, Eighth annual symposium on the social scientific study of religion in China. 2011.
Palmer D.A., Gift and Market in the Chinese Religious Economy, Religion. 2011, 41 no. 4: 1-26.
Palmer D.A., Wang C.C. and Katz P.R., Guest Editor, special issue on "Redemptive Societies and New Religious Movements in Modern China", 救世團體與現代中國的新興宗教運動, In: David A. Palmer, Wang Chien-chuan, Paul R. Katz, Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore. 民俗曲藝, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011, 172.
Palmer D.A., Katz P.R. and Wang C.C., Introduction: Redemptive Societies as Confucian NRMs?, In: David A. Palmer, Wang Chien-chuan, Paul R. Katz, Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore. 民俗曲藝, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011, 172: 1-12.
Palmer D.A. and Liu X., Introduction: the Daoist Encounter with Modernity, In: David A. Palmer, Xun Liu, Daoism in the 20th Century: Between Eternity and Modernity. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 2012, 1-22.
Palmer D.A., Nurturing a Culture of Giving: Preliminary Reflections on the Role of Religion, Conference on Religion and Charity, Shanghai University. 2011.
Palmer D.A., Preliminary Reflections on Religion and Social Governance: the Case of the Baha'i International Community, 关于宗教与社会治理的初步思考:以巴哈伊社区建设的经验为例, In: Renmin University Research Centre on Social Theory and Methods; Yunnan University of Nationalities, Forum on China Social Development. 2011中国社会发展高层 论坛, 2011.
Palmer D.A., Religion and a Culture of Giving. Some Theoretical Reflections Arising from Investigations on the Dongjingyuan Fohui, Conference on Charity and Philanthropy in Republican China. 2011.
Palmer D.A., Religion in Chinese Social and Political History, In: David A. Palmer, Glenn Shive, Philip Wickeri, Chinese Religious Life. New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2011, 155-171.
Palmer D.A., Religion, In: William Tay, Alvin So , Handbook of Contemporary China. Singapore, World Scientific, 2011, 293-326.
Palmer D.A., Review of Kristofer Schipper, La religion de la Chine. La tradition vivante. Paris: Fayard, 2008, T’oung Pao . 2011, 97: 202-207.
Palmer D.A., Ritual Conquests and Socialist Event Productions: An Exorcist Goddess and the Production of Sacrality in Contemporary China, Conference on the Anthropolofy of Religion, China Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing. 2012.
Palmer D.A., The Body: Health, Nation and Transcendence, In: David A. Palmer, Glenn Shive, Philip L. Wickeri, Chinese Religious Life. New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2011, 87-106.
Palmer D.A. and Liu X., The Daoist Encounter with Modernity: Some issues in the History and Sociology of Daoism in the Modern Era, In: Fenggang Yang, Joseph Tamney, Confucianism and Spiritual Traditions in Modern China and Beyond. Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2011.
Palmer D.A., Theoretical Issues in the Social Scientific Study of Chinese Religion, University of Chicago Divinity School. 2012.
Palmer D.A., Transnational Sacralizations: When Chinese Daoist Monks Meet Spiritual Tourists, International Conference on Religion and Ethnicity in China. Singapore, National University of Singapore, 2011.
Palmer D.A., Transnational Sacralizations: When Chinese Daoist Monks Meet Spiritual Tourists, International Conference on Religion and Ethnicity in China, National University of Singapore. Singapore, 2011.
Palmer D.A., Urban Development, Private Property, and Public Activism in China (Review of Zhang Li's In Search of Paradise: Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis), Current Anthropology. 2012, 53/2: 250-251.
Palmer D.A., ‘Ecologies’ and ‘Fields’ in Chinese Religion, Conference on “History, Ritual and Text: Popular Belief and Local Society,” Foguang University (Taiwan). 2011.
Wang C.C., Katz P.R. and Palmer D.A., Introduction: The Emergence of Academic Research on Redemptive Societies, 導言:救世團體研究的回顧, In: David A. Palmer, Wang Chien-chuan, Paul R. Katz, Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore. 民俗曲藝, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011, 172: 13-20.


Researcher : Sim A.S.C.

Project Title:Globalisation and Labour Migration: Case studies of irregular practices in East and Southeast Asia
Investigator(s):Sim ASC
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2010
Completion Date:08/2011


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
Completion Date:06/2012




Researcher : Sim ASC

Project Title:Globalisation and Labour Migration: Case studies of irregular practices in East and Southeast Asia
Investigator(s):Sim ASC
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2010
Completion Date:08/2011


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
Completion Date:06/2012




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
Completion Date:10/2011


Project Title:Freeters into Precariat: Irregular Youth Employment and Counterculture in Postindustrial Tokyo
Investigator(s):Smith C
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2011




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:Transforming Social Spaces: Evolving Notions of "Urban" in the Pearl River Delta
Investigator(s):Tang L
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects
Start Date:07/2011


List of Research Outputs

Tang L., Book review: "Art in Turmoil: The Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976, edited by Richard King", In: Andrew Kipnis; Luigi Tomba, China Journal. 2011, 66.
Tang L., Creativity across borders: The limits of a creative industries discourse for the visual arts in Hong Kong, HKIED Creativity, Culture, and Related Industries Conference. 2012.
Tang L., Post-1970s Artists and the Search for the Self in China, In: Rebecca Lester, Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche. 2011.


Researcher : Tang TSD

Project Title:Youth Suicidality and Female Sexuality: Perspectives of Service Providers in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Tang TSD
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2012


List of Research Outputs

Tang T.S.D., 6.2. Just Click on : Political Participation and Internet Use among Hong Kong Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Communities., 2011.
Tang T.S.D., Conditional Spaces: Hong Kong Lesbian Desires and Everyday Life. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2011, 194.
Tang T.S.D., Gender and Kinship in Hong Kong Independent Cinema, 3rd Asian Film Festival Berlin — Imagine(d) Kinships ( held in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Hong Kong, the China Studies Institute at Freie Universität Berlin). 2011.


Researcher : Tian X

Project Title:Online Networks and Offline Relationships: College Students’ Facebook Use in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Tian X
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2012


List of Research Outputs

Tian X., Private knowledge and public language: The deictics of discretion in online disclosures, HONG KONG SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION THE 13th ANNUAL CONFERENCE. 2011.


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 Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2000




Researcher : Xu J

Project Title:British Society of Criminology Conference 2011 Social Exclusion and the Formation of “Victim Pool”:An Analysis of Robbery of Motorcycle Taxi Drivers in China
Investigator(s):Xu J
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2011
Completion Date:07/2011


Project Title:Social exclusion and production of violence: A case study of illegal taxi-drivers in the Pearl River Delta
Investigator(s):Xu J, Bakken B
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:05/2012


List of Research Outputs

Xu J., Best Phd Thesis , Hong Kong Sociological Association. 2011.
Xu J., Chinese Party-State and the Rise of Soft-authoritarianism: Motorcycle Bans in the Pearl River Delta, Pearl River Delta Social Research Centre & Universities Service Centre for China Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2012.
Xu J., Constrained Crime Prevention Strategies for Migrant Workers in China, Hong Kong Sociological Association 13th Annual conference, Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2011.
Xu J., Contesting Space, Contesting Power: Policing Slogans/Posters in Guangzhou, workshop of Policing the Southern Chinese Seaboard: Histories & Systems in Regional Perspective organized by Policing Study Forum, University of Hong Kong. 2012.
Xu J., Crime and Migrant Workers in China, for course Love, Marriage, and Sex in China, University of Hong Kong. 2011.
Xu J., Li Ka Shing Prizes (2009-10) for Best Ph.D. Thesis in HKU, University of Hong Kong. 2011.
Xu J., Motorcycle taxis: 'crime prevention' and the social exclusion of migrant workers in China, Crimetalk. 2011.
Xu J., Review of Jock Young, The Criminological Imagination, Asian Journal of Criminology. 2012.
Xu J., Review of Susan Trevaskes, Policing Serious Crime in China: From 'Strike Hard' to 'Kill Fewer', Asian Journal of Criminology. 2012.
Xu J., Social Exclusion And Formation Of Victim Pool, British Society of Criminology Conference, Northumbria University, United Kingdom. 2011.
Xu J., The rise of soft authoritarianism? A case study of motorcycle bans in Southern China, Luncheon Colloquium Series, Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong. 2011.
Xu J., Unheard voice: migrant workers and formation of ‘victim pool’ in China, 7th Annual Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Shue Yan University. 2012.


Researcher : Yeh KH

List of Research Outputs

Yeh K.H., Clash and infighting: A Pre-election study of the 2011 District Council Elections in Hong Kong, 「狙擊與混戰:2011年香港區議會選前初步分析」, Election and the Development of Democracy: The Experience of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao, September 24, 2011, Election Study Center, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan . 2011.
Yeh K.H., Why Did Free Radio Movement Fall in Hong Kong? A Case Study of C Station, 13th Annual Conference of Hong Kong Sociological Association, December 3, 2011, Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2011.
Yeh K.H., Why did Free Radio Movement Fail in Hong Kong (in Chinese), 香港的自由電台運動為何失敗? C台的個案研究, Workshop on Reflection of the Modernity in Hong Kong: Culture, Values and Everyday Life,” July 9, 2011,The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 反思香港現代性工作坊, 2011.


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