DEPT OF SOCIOLOGY



Researcher : Adorjan MC

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


Project Title:British Society of Criminology Children Raping Children: Penal Elitism and the Contested Innocence Frame in Hong Kong Examining Elite Discourse on Youth Crime in Hong Kong: Moral Panic and Moral Regulation during Hong Kong's Colonial Era
Investigator(s):Adorjan MC
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2012
Completion Date:07/2012


List of Research Outputs

Adorjan M.C., Afraid of Publics? The Potential Contribution of Social Constructionism to Public Sociology, Special Session: Reconstructing Constructionism, University of Tokyo. 2013.
Adorjan M.C. and Chui W.H., Children Raping Children: Penal Elitism And The Contested Innocence Frame In Hong Kong, British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, 4-6 July, 2012, Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth. Portsmouth, 2012.
Adorjan M.C. and Chui W.H., Children raping children: Penal elitism and the contested innocence frame in Hong Kong, Youth Justice: An International Journal. London, Sage, 2012, 12 (3): 167-183.
Adorjan M.C., Colonial Responses to Youth Crime in Hong Kong: Penal Elitism, Legitimacy and Citizenship, Invited lecture, Masters in Social Science, Criminology course ‘Youth and Delinquency’. 2013.
Adorjan M.C. and Chui W.H., Colonial responses to youth crime in Hong Kong: Penal elitism, legitimacy and citizenship, Qualitative Analysis Conference, 23-25 May, 2013, Organized by Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. 2013.
Adorjan M.C. and Chui W.H., Colonial responses to youth crime in Hong Kong: Penal elitism, legitimacy and citizenship, Theoretical Criminology. London, Sage, 2013, 17 (2): 159-177.
Adorjan M.C., Crime and Safety in Hong Kong: Citizen Perceptions and Challenges for the Police, Policing Challenges in the 21st Century: Hong Kong 2013, Symposium hosted by the Hong Kong Police Force and Centre for Criminology, University of Hong Kong. 2013.
Adorjan M.C. and Chui W.H., Examining elite discourse on youth crime in Hong Kong: Moral panics and moral regulation during Hong Kong’s colonial and post-colonial eras, British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, 4-6 July, 2012, Organized by Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth. Portsmouth, 2012.
Adorjan M.C., Faculty of Social Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award, HK$50,000, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong. 2012.
Adorjan M.C., Igniting Constructionist Imaginations: Social constructionism’s absence and potential contribution to public sociology, In: Larry Nichols, The American Sociologist. 2012, 44(1): 1-22.
Adorjan M.C., Christensen T., Kelly B. and Pawluch D., Stockholm Syndrome as Vernacular Resource, The Sociological Quarterly. 2012, 53(3): 454-474.
Adorjan M.C. and Lee M.S.Y., The 117 from Kowloon: Perceptions of crime and police in Hong Kong, Qualitative Analysis Conference. 2013.
Adorjan M.C., Women’s Views of Policing in Hong Kong: Some Preliminary Results, Realities and Representations of Policing in Hong Kong Conference, Policing Studies Forum, University of Hong Kong, 2012.


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: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




Researcher : Chan CSC

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
Completion Date:12/2012


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 2012 Annual Meeting; A Market of Distrust and Obligation: The Micro-politics of Unofficial Payments for Hospital Care in China/Section on Sociology of Economic Roundtables
Investigator(s):Chan CSC
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2012


Project Title:A Market under the Veil: The Micropolitics of Social Ties and Money in Hospital Care in China
Investigator(s):Chan CSC
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Prestigious Fellowship Scheme under the Humanities and Social Sciences Panel
Start Date:01/2013


List of Research Outputs

Chan C.S.C., A Market of Distrust and Obligation: The Micropolitics of Unofficial Payments for Hospital Care in China, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Denver, Colorado, August. 2012.
Chan C.S.C., Marketing Life Insurance in China: How Culture Matters., The World Financial Review. 2012.
Chan C.S.C., Marketing Life Insurance in China: How Culture Matters, The World Financial Review. 2012.
Chan C.S.C., The Dynamics of Guanxi in Hospital Care in China, The Pearl River Delta Social Research Centre, Department of Sociology & Universities Service Centre for China Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2013.
Chan C.S.C., The Dynamics of Guanxi in Hospital Care in China, the Pearl River Delta Social Research Centre, Department of Sociology & Universities Service Centre for China Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2013.


Researcher : Dean MT

List of Research Outputs

Dean M.T. and Laidler K.A., A New Girl in Town: Exploring Girlhood Identities through Facebook, First Monday. 2013, 18: 1-10.
Dean M.T. and Laidler K.A., Leveling The Playing Field Through Facebook: How Females Construct Online Playspaces, Journal of Youth Studies. 2013, first online: 1-17.


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


Project Title:American Society of Criminology - 68th Annual Meeting; A Tale of Two Second Cities: Gangs and Global Exchange in Glasgow and Chicago
Investigator(s):Fraser AD
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2012


List of Research Outputs

Fraser A.D. and Hagedorn J., A Tale of Two Second Cities: Gangs and Global Exchange in Glasgow and Chicago, American Society of Criminology Conference, Chicago. 2012.
Fraser A.D., Ethnography at the periphery: Redrawing the borders of criminology’s world-map , In: Mary Bosworth and Simon Cole, Theoretical Criminology. UK, Sage, 2013, 17(2): 251-260.
Fraser A.D., Street Habitus: Gangs, Territorialism and Social Change in Glasgow, British Society of Criminology Conference, Portsmouth, July 2012.
Fraser A.D., Street Habitus: Gangs, Territorialism and Social Change in Glasgow, In: Andy Furlong, Journal of Youth Studies. UK, Journal of Youth Studies, 2013, Online First.


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: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


Project Title:Queering Paradigms IV; The Secret Garden: Older Gay Men’s Creation of Queer Counterpublics in Colonial and Post-colonial Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Kong TSK
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2012


Project Title:Purchasing Sex, Consuming Love? A Qualitative Study of Hong Kong Men Who Buy Sex
Investigator(s):Kong TSK
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Public Policy Research
Start Date:10/2012


Project Title:King's/HKU Fellowship Awards 2013-14
Investigator(s):Kong TSK
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:King's/HKU Fellowship Awards
Start Date:06/2013


List of Research Outputs

Kong T.S.K., "Sex Entrepreneurs in the New China", Contexts. 2012, 11(3): 28-33.
Kong T.S.K., "The Secret Garden: Older Gay Men’s Creation of Queer Counterpublics in Colonial and Post-colonial Hong Kong", Queering Paradigms IV, 25-28 July 2012, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2012.
Kong T.S.K., A Fading Queer Heterotopia: Hong Kong Older Gay Men’s Queer Use of Space, Sexualities. 2012, 15 (8): 896-916.


Researcher : Kuah KE

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: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:XIXth Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies; Chinese State and the Emerging Philanthropic Culture
Investigator(s):Kuah-Pearce KE
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:09/2012


List of Research Outputs



Researcher : Kuah-Pearce KE

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: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:XIXth Conference of the European Association of Chinese Studies; Chinese State and the Emerging Philanthropic Culture
Investigator(s):Kuah-Pearce KE
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:09/2012


List of Research Outputs

Kuah-Pearce K.E., 2. Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, 2012, Kaiping Diaolou and the Chinese Diaspora Connection, CD and e-book, 2012.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., 3. Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, 2012, Lifestyle Heritage of Tai-O Fishing Community, CD and e-book , 2012.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., 3. “Chinese State and the Philanthropic Landscape: Policies and Implications”, paper presented at the Policy Studies Conference 2013, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, 8-10 May 2013., 2013.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., 4. “Chinese State and the Emerging Philanthropic Culture: A Case Study of the Hope Schools”, paper presented at the European Asian Studies Council Conference, organized by the University of Paris Diderot, 5 – 8 September 2012., 2012.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., 8. GEO Distinguished Lecture Series, “Chinese Religion, Health and Illness”, presented at the United International College, Hong Kong Baptist University, Zhuhai, China, 26 April 2013. , 2013.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., Chinese Women and the Cyberspace” , 女性與虛擬空間, In: M.S.M. Tam, Yip H.M., Huang H.Z. and Lu J.Y. , Gender Awakening: Gender Studies between the Two Straits and Three Places. 性别觉醒:两岸三地社会 性别研究, Hong Kong, 2012, pp.193 – 211.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., Cyberactivism in China: The Internet as a Tool and Method for Social Mobilisation” , Centre for Nepal and Asian Studies Journal. Centre for Nepal and Asian Studies, Tribhuvan University (TU, 2012, vol. 39: 15 – 34.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., Engendering Buddhist Philanthropy: Chinese Women and Religious Volunteerism”, paper presented at the 32nd International Society for the Sociology of Religion Conference, Turku, Finland, 27 – 21 June 2013., 2013.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., Invited participation and presentation at the Workshop on Values and Ethics, organized by Asia Center, Harvard University, Kyoto, 29 – 31 October 2012., 2012.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng, 2012, Tulou and The Hakka People, CD and e-book , 2012.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., Rebuilding the Ancestral Village: Singaporeans in China. 重建侨乡: 新加坡海外华 人与侨乡的记忆和认同, Singapore and Hong Kong, 2013, 230.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., University of Hong Kong Overseas Internationalisation Fellowship to Oxford University, University of Hong Kong 2012-2013 , University of Hong Kong. 2013.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., “Anthropologists as Tourism’s Cultural Expert” , 人类学家如何成为旅游行业中的文化传家, Tourism Tribune. 旅游学刊, Beijing, 2012, 12: 18 – 20.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., “Buddhist Charity and Distributive Justice”, Asian Vision 21 Conference, Asia Center, Harvard University, Boston, U.S.A, 2-3 May 2013, 2013.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., “Chinese Diaspora’s New Ventures: Buddhist Charity and Religious Volunteerism”, Centre of Migration, Policy and Society, Oxford University, 20 June 2013, 2013.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., “Chinese State, Entrepreneurs and the Emerging Business of Social Responsibility”, Workshop on Values and Ethics, Asia Center, Harvard University, Boston, U.S.A, 1 May 2013, 2013.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., “Cultural Heritage Conservation and Tourism Development: The Case Example of Bugis Street”, 文化遗产保护与旅游发展:以新加坡白沙浮为例, Journal of Guangxi University for Nationalities . 广西民族大学学报, Guangxi, Guangxi University for Nationalities, 2012, 34 (5): 63 – 69.


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: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


Project Title:Gender and Sexualities: Revisioning Drug and Alcohol Research; It's Alot to Live Up to: Girls, Gangs and Femininity
Investigator(s):Laidler KA
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:10/2012


Project Title:How Young People Obtain Psychoactive Drugs in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Laidler KA, Fraser AD
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:12/2012


List of Research Outputs

Dean M.T. and Laidler K.A., A New Girl in Town: Exploring Girlhood Identities through Facebook, First Monday. 2013, 18: 1-10.
Dean M.T. and Laidler K.A., Leveling The Playing Field Through Facebook: How Females Construct Online Playspaces, Journal of Youth Studies. 2013, first online: 1-17.
Laidler K.A. and Li N.L., Evaluation Report Of Barnabas Residential Services, Evaluation report, Barnabas Charitable Association. . Hong Kong, HKU Centre for Criminology, 2013.
Laidler K.A., Evaluation Report on the 6th Employment Symposium for the Reintegration of Ex-offenders for Hong Kong Correctional Services Department. , Centre for Criminology, HKU and CSD, HK Government., 2012.
Laidler K.A. and Hunt G., Its Alot To Live Up To: Gangs, Girls And Femininity, Gender And Sexualities: Revisioning Drug And Alcohol Research, Centre For Alcohol And Drug Research, Aarhus University. 2012.
Laidler K.A. and Hunt G., Unlocking The Spiritual With Club Drugs: A Case Study Of Two Youth Cultures, Substance Use and Misuse. 2013, 48: 1-11.
Lee M.S.Y. and Laidler K.A., Doing criminology from the periphery: Crime and punishment in Asia, Theoretical Criminology. Sage, 2013, 17: 141-157.
Xu J., Laidler K.A. and Lee M.S.Y., Doing criminological ethnography in China: Opportunities and challenges, Theoretical Criminology. Sage, 2013, 17: 271-279.


Researcher : Lee MSY

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


Project Title:Engaging Sociology; In search of a good life: Class, consumption and gated communities in lifestyle migraiton in Asia
Investigator(s):Lee MSY
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2013
Completion Date:04/2013


List of Research Outputs

Adorjan M.C. and Lee M.S.Y., The 117 from Kowloon: Perceptions of crime and police in Hong Kong, Qualitative Analysis Conference. 2013.
Lee M.S.Y., Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Sage, 2013.
Lee M.S.Y., In: Maggy Lee, Crime, Media and Culture: An International Journal. Sage, 2013.
Lee M.S.Y. and Laidler K.A., Doing criminology from the periphery: Crime and punishment in Asia, Theoretical Criminology. Sage, 2013, 17: 141-157.
Lee M.S.Y., Hong Kong Lifestyle Migrants in China, Annual Conference of The Asian Studies Association. 2013.
Lee M.S.Y., In search of a good life: Class, consumption and gated communities in lifestyle migration in Asia, British Sociological Association Annual Conference. 2013.
Lee M.S.Y., Theoretical Criminology. Sage, 2013.
Lee M.S.Y., Women on the Move: Transnational Female Professionals in Hong Kong, 14th Annual Hong Kong Sociological Association Conference. 2012.
Xu J., Laidler K.A. and Lee M.S.Y., Doing criminological ethnography in China: Opportunities and challenges, Theoretical Criminology. Sage, 2013, 17: 271-279.


Researcher : Li NL

List of Research Outputs

Laidler K.A. and Li N.L., Evaluation Report Of Barnabas Residential Services, Evaluation report, Barnabas Charitable Association. . Hong Kong, HKU Centre for Criminology, 2013.


Researcher : Lui TL

List of Research Outputs

Lui T.L., Hong Kong's 1970s. 那似曾相識的七十年代, Hong Kong, 中華書局, 2012, 234.
Lui T.L., Mainland Migrants in Hong Kong, 港漂十味, Hong Kong, 三聯書店, 2013, 215.
Lui T.L., Parents' Anxieties, 家長焦慮症, Hong Kong, 天窗出版, 2013, 188.
Lui T.L., Chiu S.W.K. and Ho K.C., Reforming Health: Contrasting Trajectories of Neoliberal Restructuring in the City-States, In: Bae-Gyoon Park, Richard Child Hill and Asato Saito , Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia. United Kingdom, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, 225-256.


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
Completion Date:12/2012


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


Project Title:Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association; Policing a Modern Confucian Order: Bureaucratizing Virtue and Standardizing Sentiment
Investigator(s):Martin JT
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2012


Project Title:Effects of Political Regime on Informal Solidarity: A Comparative Ethnography of Civil Security in Xiamen and Taichung
Investigator(s):Martin JT
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2013


List of Research Outputs

Martin J.T., How Law Matters to the Taiwanese Police, Anthropology News. 2012, 53: 10.
Martin J.T., Policing a Modern Confucian Order: Bureaucratizing Virtue and Standardizing Sentiment, American Anthropological Association . 2012.
Martin J.T., Policing the Asian Century, Policing in the Southern Chinese Seaboard, Hong Kong Institute of Education . 2013.
Martin J.T., The Hukou and Traditional Virtue: An Ethnographic Note on Taiwanese Policing, Theoretical Criminology. 2013, 17: 261-269.


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


Project Title:2012 Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion The Religious Question in Modern China
Investigator(s):Palmer DA
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2012


List of Research Outputs

Goossaert V. and Palmer D.A., 2013 Levenson Prize for the Best Book on Post-1900 China and Inner Asia , for the book The Religious Question in Modern China, Association for Asian Studies. 2013.
Goossaert V. and Palmer D.A., La question religieuse en Chine. Paris, Editions du CNRS, 2012.
Palmer D.A., Author-meets-critics session on The Religious Question in Modern China, Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, Denver, CO. 2012.
Palmer D.A., Chinese Redemptive Societies: Origins and Contemporary Issues, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, 21 March 2013. . 2013.
Palmer D.A., From ‘Congregations’ to ‘Small Group Community Building’: Localizing the Bahá’í Faith in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China, Chinese Sociological Review. M. E. Sharpe, 2013, 45-2: 78-98.
Palmer D.A., Gift and Market in the Chinese Religious Economy, Religious Issues in China’s Rural Development. 2013.
Palmer D.A., Integration and Diversification in Chinese Religion: a Discussion based on Traditional and Contemporary religious fields, China Faith Forum, East China Normal University, 22 Mar. 2013. 2013.
Palmer D.A., Nurturing a culture of giving: some preliminary thoughts on the role of religion, 培养施与文化:有关宗教作用的初步思考, In: Tao Feiya, Liu Yi, Religious philanthropy and the public interest in China. 宗教慈善与中国社会公 益, Shanghai, Shanghai University Press, 2012, 74-79.
Palmer D.A., Publishing Peer-Reviewed Articles in the Anthropology of Religion, Chinese Spirituality and Society Program Research Training Workshop. 2012.
Palmer D.A., Reconsidering the Concept of Religion: some Thoughts Arising from The Religious Question in Modern China, China Studies Forum, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. 2013.
Palmer D.A., Review of John Lagerwey, China: A Religious State. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010., China Perspectives. 2012, 2012/3: 100-102.
Palmer D.A., Review of Poon Shuk Wah, Negotiating Religion in Modern China: State and Common People in Guangzhou, 1900-1937, Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2011. , The China Journal . 2012, 69: : 232-234.
Palmer D.A., Ritual Conquests and Socialist Event Productions: An Exorcist Goddess and the Production of Sacrality in Contemporary China, Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle (Germany), 28 Oct. 2012. . 2012.
Palmer D.A., Roundtable on The Religious Question in Modern China, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, Georgetown University, 30 Nov. 2012. With Jose Casanova, Richard Madsen, Philip Gorski and Anna Sun. . 2012.
Palmer D.A., Spiritual Capital in the Third Sector, Department of Religious Studies, Fu-jen University, Taiwan. 2013.
Palmer D.A., The Bahá’í Community as a Global Civil Society Organization: Dynamics of Grassroots Action and International Coordination, Conference on Religion in Global Civil Society, Shanghai University. 2013.
Palmer D.A., The Bahá’í Encounter with Western Esotericism in the Early 20th Century, In: Prasenjit Duara, Michael Feener, Conference on “Invisible Connections: Syncretism and Esotericism between Asia and the West in the Modern Era”. Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. 2013.
Palmer D.A., Transnational Daoist Dis-orientations and the Predicament of Modern Spirituality, Max Planck Institute on Ethnic and Religious Diversity, Goettingen (Germany), 1 Nov. 2012. . 2012.
Palmer D.A., Transnational Sacralizations: When Daoist Monks Meet Spiritual Tourists, Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology. Taylor & Francis, 2012.
Palmer D.A., Using Feature Films in Undergraduate Teaching on Religion and Society, 9th Summer Institute for the Scientific Study of Religion, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2012.


Researcher : Smith C

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


Project Title:American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting; Precarious Conditions and the Bohemian Ethic: The Structuring of Non-regular Employment in Recessionary Japan
Investigator(s):Smith C
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2012


List of Research Outputs

Smith C., Of Loss and Reinvention: Freeters and the Cultural Dynamics of Japan’s Neoliberalizing Economy, Stockholm Seminar on Japan: Department of Japanese Studies, Stockholm University, European Institute of Japanese Studies at Stockholm School of Economics, and Swedish Institute of International Affairs. 2013.
Smith C., Precarious Conditions and the Bohemian Ethic: Non-regular employment in Postindustrial Japan, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, November 17, 2012.
Smith C., Shimokitazawa: Precarious Bohemians and World City Development, In: Benedikt Huber and Naomi Hanakata , My Tokyo: A Literary-Photographic Portrait of Tokyo. Stuttgart, Germany, Edition Esefeld & Traub, 2013.


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


Project Title:Second ISA Forum of Sociology Art worlds in transitional societies: An actor-network theory (ANT) perspective on art and social change in China
Investigator(s):Tang L
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2012


List of Research Outputs

Tang L., "Assembling the white cube: an ANT analysis of contemporary art spaces in Beijing.", International Sociological Association (ISA) Buenos Aires 2012.
Tang L., "Collecting Chinese Art in Hong Kong: A Global Phenomenon", "Collecting Chinese Art in Hong Kong: A Global Phenomenon". 2013.
Tang L., Book review: "Creativity and its Discontents: China's Creative Industries and Intellectual Property Rights Offenses, by Laikwan Pang." No. 70 (July 2013)., In: Andrew Kipnis; Luigi Tomba, China Journal. 2012.


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


Project Title:Canadian Sociological Association Annual Congress 2013; Living Intimately: Conditional Spaces for Hong Kong Lesbians
Investigator(s):Tang TSD
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2013


List of Research Outputs

Tang T.S.D., A dialogue on Chinese Male Homosexualities, In: Chua Beng Huat and Younghan Cho, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. 2012, Vol.13, No.4: 639-643.
Tang T.S.D., An Unruly Death: Queer Media in Hong Kong, In: Ming-Yuen S. Ma and Alexandra Juhasz , GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 2012, Vol. 18, No.4: 597-614.
Tang T.S.D., Branding Satire, Being Alternative: Locating Queerness in the Videos of Hong Kong Media Artist Yuen Pui-Man, In: Klaus Mühlhahn and Clemens von Haselberg, Berliner China-Hefte / Chinese History and Society. 2012, Vol.40: 111-126.
Tang T.S.D. and Kam Y.L.L., 「現身」說教—反思香港、台灣及中國大陸的性∕別教學經驗, In: 蔡寶瓊、陳潔華, 教育的性別視角-課堂與教學實證研究, 城市大學, 2012.


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


Project Title:The Third Asian Conference on Cultural Studies; Content vs. Context: Practicing Christian and Medicine in 19th Century China
Investigator(s):Tian X
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:05/2013


List of Research Outputs

Tian X., Content vs. Context: Practicing Christian and Medicine in 19th Century China, 2012 Annual Meeting of American Sociological Assiciation. 2012.


Researcher : To SSC

List of Research Outputs

To S.S.C., Understanding Sheng Nu ('Leftover Women'): Constraints and Strategies in Chinese Professional Women's Marriage Partner Choice, Invited Talk at the Hong Kong Museum of History Ethnographical Talk Series, Hong Kong Anthropological Society . 2013.
To S.S.C., Understanding Sheng Nu (“Leftover Women”): the Phenomenon of Late Marriage among Chinese Professional Women, In: Robert Dingwall, Symbolic Interaction. MA, USA, John Wiley & Sons, 2013, 36(1): 1-20.


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: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
Completion Date:10/2013


List of Research Outputs

Xu J., Laidler K.A. and Lee M.S.Y., Doing criminological ethnography in China: Opportunities and challenges, Theoretical Criminology. Sage, 2013, 17: 271-279.


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