DEPT OF SOCIOLOGY



Researcher : Bakken B

Project Title:Crime and Punishment in China
Investigator(s):Bakken B
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund 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: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 : CHU CSK

List of Research Outputs

CHU C.S.K. and Laidler K.A., The Process of Becoming a Male Client of Compensated Dating, Deviant Behavior. 2016, forthcoming.


Researcher : Chan CSC

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:Deteriorating Doctor-Patient Relationship in China: A Sociological Perspective
Investigator(s):Chan CSC
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2014


Project Title:12th ESA Conference; A Market of Distrust: Unofficial Payments for Hospital Care in China
Investigator(s):Chan CSC
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2015
Completion Date:08/2015


Project Title:Lasting Struggle: Ideology, Frame Transformation, and Collective Action of the Falun Gong Movement
Investigator(s):Chan CSC
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:11/2015


List of Research Outputs

Chan C.S.C., A Market of Distrust: Unofficial Payments for Hospital Care in China, at the 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association. 2015.


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:(Re)Imagining Youth: A Comparative Sociology of Youth Leisure in Scotland and Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Fraser AD
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:ESRC/RGC Joint Research Scheme
Start Date:09/2013
Completion Date:08/2015


List of Research Outputs

Fraser A.D., The Street as Affective Atmosphere’, Theory and Methods in Youth Studies Seminar, University of Newcastle, Australia (July 2015), 2015.
Fraser A.D., ‘Urban Legends: Gang Identity in the Post-Industrial City’, University of Melbourne (July 2015), 2015.


Researcher : Ham J

Project Title:Globalized labour knowledges between the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East
Investigator(s):Ham J
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:03/2016


List of Research Outputs

Ham J., Constructing ‘Asian-ness’ in the Australian and Canadian sex industry, Gender and Change: Transcending Boundaries International Conference. 2015.
Ham J., Motherhood and sex work, East Asia and Tomorrow's Anthropology, South East Asian Anthropology (SEAA) Hong Kong Conference. 2016.
Ham J., Risks, resources and allies: Sex workers’ strategies for working with other sex workers, 'Sociological imagination in a pluralist world', Hong Kong Sociological Association 17th Annual Conference. 2015.
Ham J., Risks, resources and allies: sex workers’ strategies for working with other sex workers, Friday Seminar Series, Department of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2015.
Ham J., Sex work and the non-migrant ‘migrant’, The Hidden Harms of Anti-Trafficking, community forum organized by SWAN Vancouver. 2015.
Ham J., Silence, mobility and ‘national values’: South Korean sex workers in Australia, In: Feona Attwood, Middlesex University, UK Travis S. K. Kong, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Roisin Ryan-Flood, University of Essex, UK, Sexualities. UK, SAGE, 2016, 19: 432-448.


Researcher : Joosse JP

Project Title:Contentious Politics in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Joosse JP
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2016


List of Research Outputs

Joosse J.P., Bucerius S.M. and Thompson S.K., Narratives and Counternarratives: Somali-Canadians on Recruitment as Foreign Fighters to al-Shabaab, British Journal of Criminology. Oxford University Press, 2015, 55: 811-832.


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 Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2012


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


Project Title:Sexualities in the Social World - The 110th ASA Annual Meeting ; Gender and Sexuality in East Asia
Investigator(s):Kong TSK
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2015
Completion Date:08/2015


List of Research Outputs

Kong T.S.K., Interrogating the Sexual in Sociology: The Study of Homosexuality in Contemporary China, Public talk, Department of Sociology, Kyoto University, Japan. 2016.
Kong T.S.K., Romancing the Boundary: Client masculinities in the Chinese sex Industry, Culture, Health and Sexuality . 2015, 17: 810-824.
Kong T.S.K., The Secret Garden: Oral History of Older Gay Men in Hong Kong (Keynote speech), Intersections of Ageing, Gender, Sexualities (i-ages), University of Surrey, UK. 2015.
Kong T.S.K., The Secret Garden: Oral History of Older Gay Men in Hong Kong (Thematic Session on Gender and Sexuality in East Asia), Sexualities in the Social World, American Sociological Association 2015 Annual Meeting, Chicago, US . 2015.
Kong T.S.K., The Sexual in Chinese Sociology: Homosexuality Studies in Contemporary China, Sociological Review . 2016.


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:HKU Overseas Fellowship Awards 2012-13
Investigator(s):Kuah-Pearce KE
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:HKU Overseas Fellowship Awards
Start Date:09/2012


Project Title:Globalisation of Chinese Tea Trade: A Study of the socioeconomic networks between Mainland Anxi and Transnational Chinese
Investigator(s):Kuah-Pearce KE
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:06/2014
Completion Date:06/2016




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:HKU Overseas Fellowship Awards 2012-13
Investigator(s):Kuah-Pearce KE
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:HKU Overseas Fellowship Awards
Start Date:09/2012


Project Title:Globalisation of Chinese Tea Trade: A Study of the socioeconomic networks between Mainland Anxi and Transnational Chinese
Investigator(s):Kuah-Pearce KE
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:06/2014
Completion Date:06/2016




Researcher : Laidler KA

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

CHU C.S.K. and Laidler K.A., The Process of Becoming a Male Client of Compensated Dating, Deviant Behavior. 2016, forthcoming.
Laidler K.A., (The Lack of) Ethnic minority researchers in studies of ethnicity and drugs, International Conference on Ethnic Minority Youth: Drugs, Gangs and Street Life. 2015.
Laidler K.A., Drug Trends in Hong Kong, Delicious Dialogues. 2015.
Laidler K.A. and Li N.L., Evaluation of OSF harm reduction policy training, OSF. 2016.
Lee M.S.Y. and Laidler K.A., Guest Editor for 'The Criminological Imagination in Hong Kong: Its Origins and Possibilities' Special Issue, Social Transformations in Chinese Societies. Emerald, 2016, 12.
Lee M.S.Y. and Laidler K.A., Thirty years of criminology at HKU: themes and trends in crime and its control, Social Transformations in Chinese Societies. Emerald, 2016, 12: 21-36.
Wan T.Y., Chiew T.H., Cheung T.P., Wong K.Y., Tsoi C. and Laidler K.A., Parallel trading and its implications for policing the border, In: Joe-Laidler, K and Lee, M. , Social Transformations in Chinese Societies. 2016, 12: 77-96.


Researcher : Lam OY

List of Research Outputs

Chan C.W.S., Lam O.Y., Teng Y. and Lee M., Making sense of divergent perceptions of racial-ethnic discrimination in Hong Kong , Multicultural Education Review . Routledge, 2015, 7(1-2): 41-58.
Lam O.Y., On the Social Integration of Chinese Immigrants in Post-handover Hong Kong: Rethinking the Making of the Hong Kong Person, OMNES: The Journal of Multicultural Society . 2016, 6, No. 2: 1-34.
Lam O.Y., Positioning of Hong Kong in relation to mainland China , Asia in the World, HKU Summer Institute 2016. 2016.
Lee M., Lam O.Y. and Madyun N., Effects of Different-Race Exposure in School and Neighborhood on the Reading Achievement of Hmong Students in the United States, Urban Education. 2015, 1-29.
Lee M., Lam O.Y., Ju E. and Dean J., Part-Time Employment and Problem Behaviors: Evidence From Adolescents in South Korea, Journal of Research on Adolescence. Society for Research on Adolescence, 2016.
Lee M. and Lam O.Y., The academic achievement of socioeconomically disadvantaged immigrant adolescents: a social capital perspective, International Review of Sociology. Taylor & Francis, 2016, 26(1): 144-173.


Researcher : Lee MSY

Project Title:Neoliberialism and Contemporary Challenges for the Asia Pacific; Asian Migration in a Neoliberal Era: Flows, Actors and Controls
Investigator(s):Lee MSY
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2015
Completion Date:11/2015


List of Research Outputs

Lee M.S.Y. and Laidler K.A., Guest Editor for 'The Criminological Imagination in Hong Kong: Its Origins and Possibilities' Special Issue, Social Transformations in Chinese Societies. Emerald, 2016, 12.
Lee M.S.Y., Journal Associate Editor, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. 2016.
Lee M.S.Y., Journal Associate Editor, Crime, Media and Culture: An International Journal. 2016.
Lee M.S.Y., Journal Associate Editorship, Theoretical Criminology. 2016.
Lee M.S.Y., Migration Control in Asia, Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference Plenary Session. 2015.
Lee M.S.Y., Migration control and gendered discipline of trafficking victims in Asia , CEIFO Seminar on Transnational Migration, Stockholm University. 2016.
Lee M.S.Y., Recording control, disclosing care: ethnographic in(ve)stigations of digital surveillance of, and by, migrant domestic workers, Care and Control in Asian Migrations Conference at Stockholm University. 2016.
Lee M.S.Y. and Laidler K.A., Thirty years of criminology at HKU: themes and trends in crime and its control, Social Transformations in Chinese Societies. Emerald, 2016, 12: 21-36.


Researcher : Martin JT

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




Researcher : Martin SJ

Project Title:Film Industries, Cities, and Soft Power
Investigator(s):Martin SJ
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2016


List of Research Outputs

Martin S.J., Michael Jackson’s Gesamtkunstwerk: Artistic Interrelation, Immersion, and Interactivity From the Studio to the Stage., In: Michael LeVan, Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, v. 11, 5.. 2015, 11: 1-34.
Martin S.J., The Death Narratives of Revitalization: Colonial Governance, China, and the Reconfiguration of the Hong Kong Film Industry, Critical Studies in Media Communication. 2015, 32: 318-332.


Researcher : McDonald T

Project Title:Mobile Money and Migration in China
Investigator(s):McDonald T
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2016


Project Title:Mediatization: Digital Revolution and the Chinese Setting; Mediatizing outsiders: Social media and the stranger in rural China
Investigator(s):McDonald T
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2016
Completion Date:06/2016


List of Research Outputs

Chan J.H., Zhang Y., McDonald T. and Qi X.G., Entrepreneurship in an indigenous community: sustainable tourism and economic development in a newly inscribed UNESCO World Heritage Site, Indigenous People and Economic Development: An International Perspective. Abingdon, Routledge, 2016, 189-204.
Chan J.H., Iankova K., Zhang Y., McDonald T. and Qi X., The role of self-gentrification in sustainable tourism: Indigenous entrepreneurship at Honghe Hani Rice Terraces World Heritage Site, China, Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 2016, 24(8-9): 1262-1279.
McDonald T., Desiring Mobiles, Desiring Education: Mobile Phones and Families in a Rural Chinese Town, In: Lim, Sun Sun, Mobile Communication and the Family: Asian Experiences in Technology Domestication. 2016, 13-32.
McDonald T., Mediatizing outsiders: Social media and the stranger in rural China, 2016 ICA Post-Conference and 14th Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC); “Mediatization: Digital Revolution and the Chinese Setting”. 2016.
McDonald T., Social Media and the 'Stranger' in rural China, HKU Faculty of Social Sciences – Summer Institute: Asia as the Global Future. 2016.
McDonald T., Sociality, UCL Why We Post: Book launch and conference. 2016.
Miller D., Costa E., Haynes N., McDonald T., Nicolescu R., Sinanan J., Spyer J., Venkatraman S. and Wang X., How the World Changed Social Media. London, UCL Press, 2016, 286.


Researcher : McDonald TN

Project Title:Mobile Money and Migration in China
Investigator(s):McDonald T
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2016


Project Title:Mediatization: Digital Revolution and the Chinese Setting; Mediatizing outsiders: Social media and the stranger in rural China
Investigator(s):McDonald T
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2016
Completion Date:06/2016


List of Research Outputs

McDonald T.N., Wallis, Cara. 2013. Technomobility in China: young migrant women and their mobile phones. New York: New York University Press. 288 pp. Hb.: US$45.00. ISBN: 978-0814795262. , Social Anthropology. 2015, 23 (4): 528-529.


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:Daoist Lives: An International Conference of Daoist Studies; The Dao of the Good Life: Daoism and Western Spiritual Individualism
Investigator(s):Palmer DA
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:09/2015
Completion Date:09/2015


List of Research Outputs

Jammes J. and Palmer D.A., “Translingual Practice in a Cao Dai Scripture: Converting Daoist Alchemy and Chinese Millenarianism into French Occultism.”, In: Philip Clart, David Ownby, “International Conference on Texts and Contexts: Redemptive Societies and Religious Movements in Modern China”, University of Hong Kong. 2015.
Palmer D.A., Review of Patrice Fava, Aux portes du ciel: La statuaire taoïste du Hunan: Art et anthropologie de la Chine, Paris: Les Belles Lettres / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient, 2013. , Daoism : Religion, History and Society . 2015, 7: 369-372.
Palmer D.A., 法玄隱道:越南高台教《大乘真經》裡的道教內丹與法國玄學, Sichuan University, 2016.
Siegler E.T. and Palmer D.A., ‘Healing Tao USA’ and Popular American Daoism., In: Gai Jianmin, International Conference on the 30th Anniversity of the Institute for Daoism and Religious Studies, Sichuan University. 2015.


Researcher : Shin KV

List of Research Outputs

Shin K.V. and Chiu W.K.S., Global Distribution Networks, Local Exhibition Alliances: Hollywood's New Map in Hong Kong, Regional Studies. Routledge Journals, 2016, 50(5): 835-847.


Researcher : Tang TSD

Project Title:Celebrity Culture and Civic Engagement: A Case Study of Big Love Alliance
Investigator(s):Tang TSD
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:06/2014
Completion Date:09/2015


Project Title:3rd International Celebrity Studies Conference: Authenticating Celebrity ; Loss or Gain: A study on celebrities and civic engagement in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Tang TSD
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2016


List of Research Outputs

Tang T.S.D., Book review of Queer/Tongzhi China: New Perspectives on Research, Activism and Media Cultures , The book review is published online: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2016/02/09/book-review-queertongzhi-china-new-perspectives-on-research-activism-and-media-cultures-edited-by-elisabeth-l-engebretsen-and-william-f-schroeder/. LSE Review of Books Blog, 2016.
Tang T.S.D., Essential labels? Gender identity Politics on Hong Kong Lesbian Mobile Phone Application Butterfly, In: Larissa Hjorth and Olivia Khoo, Routledge Handbook of New Media in Asia. New York, Routledge, 2015.
Tang T.S.D., Essential labels? Gender identity politics on Hong Kong lesbian mobile phone application Butterfly , Hong Kong Sociological Association 17th Annual Conference. 2015.
Tang T.S.D., Loss or Gain: A study on celebrities and civic engagement in Hong Kong, The 3rd International Celebrity Studies Journal Conference. 2016.
Tang T.S.D., Perspectives of Same-Sex Sexualities and Self-Harm Among Service Providers and Teachers in Hong Kong, 7th Asia Pacific Regional Conference of the International Association for Suicide Prevention. 2016.


Researcher : Tian X

Project Title:Internet versus Tradition: Mothering and Medicine in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Tian X
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2014


Project Title:Symbolic Interaction and Power Dynamics in Online Shopping: A Sociological Investigation of Customer Loyalty on Taobao
Investigator(s):Tian X
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:04/2015


Project Title:Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction 2015 Annual Meetings; Birds of a Feather Flock Together through Social Networking Sites:How online artifacts influence offline interpersonal interaction
Investigator(s):Tian X
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2015
Completion Date:08/2015


Project Title:Birds of a Feather: Cross-group Interaction between Mainland and Local University Students in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Tian X
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Public Policy Research Funding Scheme
Start Date:09/2015


List of Research Outputs

Tian X., Birds of a Feather Flock Together through Social Networking Sites: How online artifacts influence offline interpersonal interaction, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Annual Meeting. 2015.
Tian X., Embodied Versus Disembodied Information: How online artifacts influence offline interpersonal interaction, 2016 International Communication Association Post-conference and the 14th Chinese Internet Research Conference. 2016.
Tian X., Embodied Versus Disembodied Information: How online artifacts influence offline interpersonal interaction, Couch Stone Symposium, Society for the Studies of Symbolic Interaction. 2016.
Tian X., Embodied Versus Disembodied Information: How online artifacts influence offline interpersonal interaction, Workshop on “Revisiting ICT and Social Chang: Potentialities and Limitations. 2016.
Tian X. and Menchik D., On violating one’s own privacy: How N-adic utterances lead to inadvertent disclosures online, In: Laura Robinson , Jeremy Schulz , Shelia R. Cotten , Timothy M. Hale , Apryl A. Williams , Joy L. Hightower, Communication and Information Technologies Annual (Studies in Media and Communications, Volume 11) . Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2016, 11: 3-30.
Tian X., Parasocial interaction in the internet era: a sociological analysis of online literature in China, 互联网时代的类社会互动:中国网络文学的社会学分析, Journal of Tsinghua University (Philosophy and Social Sciences). 清华大学学报(哲学社会 科学版), 2016, 31(1): 173-181.
Tian X., Social Media and Interpersonal Interaction in China, Social and Public Administration School, South China University of Technology. 2016.
Tian X., The difference between online and offline interaction: Symbolic interaction in the digital age, School of Social Development, East China Normal University. 2016.


Researcher : Tse HLT

Project Title:A Comparative Analysis of Creative Industries in Greater China and South Korea - Fashion as Case Study
Investigator(s):Tse HLT
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:10/2014
Completion Date:07/2015


Project Title:Co-creating Fashion in the Post-Industrial Era: Comparative Analysis of the Creative Industries in China and South Korea
Investigator(s):Tse HLT
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Start Date:09/2015


Project Title:Good Work, Bad Life? Demystifying the Glamour of Creative Labor in Advertising Industry
Investigator(s):Tse HLT
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2016


Project Title:The 3rd Celebrity Studies Journal Conference; Crafting and Negotiating Multiple Identities through the Media Systems: In-depth Interviews with Hong Kong Chinese Celebrities and Entertainment Industry Workers
Investigator(s):Tse HLT
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2016
Completion Date:06/2016


List of Research Outputs

Tse H.L.T., "Case 5: Rethinking the Symbiotic Relationships between Celebrity and the Media in the Era of the Korean Wave" - Interview with Patrick Suen (seasoned media worker/Korean celebrity agent), GDBU1855/GDSS1855 Celebrity and Entertainment Business: Case Studies/E-Book. Hong Kong, Centre for Holistic Teaching and Learning (CHTL), HKBU, 2015.
Tse H.L.T., "Case 6: The Vicissitudes of Star Identity: Lingering between the Domestic and Public Spheres" - Interview with Hilary Tsui (Hong Kong actress/fashion blogger/entrepreneur), GDBU1855/GDSS1855 Celebrity and Entertainment Business: Case Studies/E-Book. Hong Kong, Centre for Holistic Teaching and Learning, HKBU, 2015.
Tse H.L.T., "Case 7: Social and political Influences of Celebrity" - Interview with Denise Ho (Cantopop singer/actress/social activist) and Pakho Chau (Cantopop singer-songwriter/actor), GDBU1855/GDSS1855 Celebrity and Entertainment Business: Case Studies/E-Book. Hong Kong, Centre for Holistic Teaching and Learning, HKBU, 2015.
Tse H.L.T., Chan K., Tam D. and Huang A., Adolescents’ Responses To Food And Beverage Advertising In China, Advertising Division, The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Conference, San Francisco, United States, August 6 – 9, 2015.. San Francisco, United States, AEJMC) Conference, 2015.
Tse H.L.T., An Ethnographic Study Of Glocal Fashion Communication In Hong Kong And Greater China, In: Mora, Emanuela, Rocamora, Agnès, and 
Volonté, Paolo, International Journal of Fashion Studies. United Kingdom, Intellect, 2015, 2(2): 245-266.
Tse H.L.T., Beyond Freudian Narcissism And The Cowboy Myth: Queering the Narcissistic Desires in Brokeback Mountain, In: Grzelinska, Jo & Cox, Jill, Ways of Queering, Ways of Seeing. Oxford, United Kingdom, Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2015, 2.
Tse H.L.T., Crafting and Negotiating Multiple Identities through the Media System – In-depth Interviews with Hong Kong Chinese Celebrities and Entertainment Industry Workers, 3rd Celebrity Studies Journal Conference (Routledge), 2016. .
Tse H.L.T. and Shin S., Developing a base for global fashion in Korea: How a budding fashion industry emerged from a big business-driven economy, The Association for Asian Studies 2016 Annual Conference. 2016.
Tse H.L.T., Four Myths of Fashion—An Ethnographic Research on the Fashion Media Industry in Hong Kong and Mainland China, In: Low, Kelvin Department of Sociology, FASS, National University Singapore , The International Sociological Association E-Symposium. Singapore, International Sociological Association, 2016, 33: 1-16.
Tse H.L.T., Chan K., Tam D. and Huang A., Perception of healthy and unhealthy food among Chinese adolescents, In: Brian Young, Barbie Clarke, Richard Whitfield, Diane Richardson, Young Consumers. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2016, 17(1): 32-45.
Tse H.L.T., The Sociocultural Impacts of Information and Communication Technology: The Case of Digital Divides, International Joint Summer School - New Media, Global Communication and Local Knowledge. Hosted by School of Journalism and Communication, Normal University of Inner Mongolia, China. Hohhot, Neimenggu, July 20- August 3, 2015. Sponsored by National Center for Radio and Television Studies, Communication University of China, China; The Communication and Media Research Institute, University of Westminster, UK; School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; and School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Canada.. 2015.
Tse H.L.T., Two Different Tales Of Fashion Media Industry Development In Mainland China And Hong Kong, In: Hancock, Joseph, Clothing Cultures (Special Issue: Transglobal Fashion Narratives & Style Cultures). United Kingdom, Intellect, 2015, Special issue: 257-274.
Tse H.L.T., Chan K., Tam D. and Wong P., What Makes The Food Commercials Sticky With Chinese Adolescents?, The 21st International Conference of the International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies - “Culture, Communication, and Hybridity in an Age of Globalization”, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, July 15 – 18, 2015. .


Researcher : Wang L

Project Title:The Ethnographic State and Multivocal Nationalism: Production of Knowledge on Ethnicity in Republican China, 1912-1949
Investigator(s):Wang L
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:03/2016


Project Title:Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies; Disunifying the Nation: Modern Disciplines and Knowledge Transplantation in China, 1912-1949
Investigator(s):Wang L
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2016
Completion Date:04/2016


List of Research Outputs

Wang L., Adam Smith and A Contextualized Understanding of Political Economy in China, In: The Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Sociology and Adam Smith in China. 2015.
Wang L., Disunifying the Nation: Ethnicity and Knowledge Transplantation in China, 1900-1930, Research Seminar of the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences. 2016.
Wang L., Disunifying the Nation: Ethnicity and Knowledge Transplantation in China, 1900-1930, The Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. 2016.
Wang L., Fei Xiaotong Jiangcun Scholarship (费孝通江村学人计划), Nanjing University. 2016.
Wang L., Social Theory and New Media, Invited Lecture for the New Media School at Peking University. 2015.


Researcher : Wang P

Project Title:Lineage-based drug gangs: how kinship ties facilitate the production and trafficking of illegal drugs in China
Investigator(s):Wang P
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2015


List of Research Outputs

Skarbek D. and Wang P., Criminal rituals, Global Crime. Taylor & Francis Group, 2015, 16: 288-305.
Wang P., East Asian Intelligence and Organized Crime: An Introduction, In: Stephan Blancke, East Asian Intelligence and Organized Crime. Berlin, Verlag Dr. Köster, 2015, 3-10.
Wang P., Organized crime in a transitional economy: the resurgence of the criminal underworld in contemporary China, In: Gregg Barak, The Routledge International Handbook of the Crimes of the Powerful. New York, Routledge, 2015, 401-411.
Wang P., Urban legends: gang identity in the post-industrial city, by Alistair Fraser, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015, 270 pp., £65 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-19-872861-0, Global Crime. Taylor & Francis, 2015.


Researcher : Wong PF

List of Research Outputs

Wong P.F., Representing Local History of Hong Kong through Designing Heritage Tours at Pokfulam (Poster Presentation), Inheriting the City: Approaches to Heritage into the Future. 2016.
Wong P.F. and Chan H.H., The 9th Hong Kong Book Prize, 第九屆香港書獎, In: Gary Wong Miu Chan, Radio Television Hong Kong & Hong Kong Publishing Federation. 香港電台 香港出版總會, 2015.
Wong P.F., Two Exhibitions between Two Major Strikes: Exhibiting Hong Kong at British Empire Exhibition in 1924 and 1925, Hong Kong Sociological Association 17th Annual Conference . 2015.


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 WPT
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2000




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