DEPT OF SOCIOLOGY



Researcher : Adorjan MC

List of Research Outputs

Tian X. and Adorjan M.C., Fandom and Coercive Empowerment: The commissioned production of Chinese online literature, Media, Culture & Society. 2016, 38 (6): 881-900.


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 : 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: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


Project Title:ISA Forum of Sociology AND ISA47/48 Preconference on Social Movements ; Lasting Struggle: ideology, frame transformation, and collective action of the Chinese Falungong movement
Investigator(s):Chan CSC
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2016
Completion Date:07/2016




Researcher : Chan LTJ

List of Research Outputs

Tse H.L.T., Chan L.T.J., Liu H.Y. and Peirson-Smith A., Beyond the social centrality of work and post-work conditions: Creative labour's experience and reaction to the crumbling of meaningful employment in the cultural and creative industries, The 2017 British Sociological Association's Annual Conference, University of Manchester, United Kingdom.. 2017.
Tse H.L.T., Chan L.T.J., Liu H.Y. and Peirson-Smith A., Creative Industries in Flux: A Critical Investigation into the Challenges, Agency and Potential of Cultural and Creative Workers in Hong Kong , British Sociological Association (BSA) Work, Employment and Society Conference 2016 . 2016.
Tse H.L.T., Chan L.T.J., Liu H.Y. and Peirson-Smith A., Creative Industries in Flux: A Critical Investigation into the Challenges, Agency and Potential of Cultural and Creative Workers in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Sociological Association 18th Annual Conference (2016). 2016.


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 : 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


Project Title:"The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World"; Rates, Roses and Donations: Naming Your Price in Sex Work
Investigator(s):Ham J
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2016
Completion Date:07/2016


Project Title:Non-Chinese Sex Workers in Hong Kong and Emerging Sex Work Spaces
Investigator(s):Ham J
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Start Date:09/2016


List of Research Outputs

Ham J., Ethics And Experiences Of Honoraria With Marginalized Groups, Association for Asian Studies (AAS)-in-Asia, Asia in Motion: Beyond Borders and Boundaries. 2017.
Ham J., Immigrant, migrant and racialized sex workers’ use of social difference, Globalizing Social Problems, The Society for the Study of Social Problems 66th Annual Meeting. 2016.
Ham J., Producing Difference, Producing Knowledge, COST Action Prospol Conference, Displacing Sex For Sale. 2017.
Ham J., Producing difference, producing knowledge, Hong Kong Sociological Association, 18th Annual Conference, Coming of Age: Sociology Through the Generations. 2016.
Ham J., Rates, Roses And Donations: Naming Your Price In Sex Work, Gender, Migration and Economies International Conference. 2017.
Ham J., Rates, roses and donations: Naming your price in sex work, The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World, 3rd International Sociological Association (ISA) Forum of Sociology. 2016.
Ham J., Sex work, immigration and social difference. UK, Routledge, 2016, 176 pages.
Ham J., “We all have one”: Exit plans as a professional strategy in sex work, In: Andrew Danford, University of Leicester, UK Melanie Simms, University of Leicester, UK, Work, Employment and Society. UK, SAGE, 2016.
Vecchio F. and Ham J., From subsistence to resistance: Asylum-seekers and the other ‘Occupy’ in Hong Kong, Critical Social Policy. SAGE, 2017, 026101831769916.


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




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:A Trans-local Study of the Processes and Challenges of Identity Formation among Chinese Young Gay Men in Hong Kong, Mainland China and Taiwan
Investigator(s):Kong TSK
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2017


List of Research Outputs

Kong T.S.K., Rethinking Chinese Sociology of Homosexuality in Contemporary China, Symposium on ‘Movements of Desires: Identity Politics, Consumption and Citizen-making in China and Hong Kong’, Chinese University of Hong Kong . 2017.
Kong T.S.K., Sex and Work on the Move: Money Boys in Post-Socialist China, Urban Studies. 2016.
Kong T.S.K., Understanding the Sexual in Chinese Sociology: Homosexuality Studies in Contemporary China, Departmental Seminar, The Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong. 2017.


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




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




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


Project Title:Mobility, Migration and the Family: Establishing the U21 Asia Pacific Graduate Student Network on Family Migration
Investigator(s):Laidler KA
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:U21 Graduate Research Project Grants
Start Date:11/2016


List of Research Outputs

Laidler K.A., Criminological Perspectives, In: Kolind, T. et. al., Handbook on Drug and Alcohol Studies: Social Science Perspectives. Newbury Park, CA, Sage, 2016, forthcoming.
Lee M.S.Y., Laidler K.A. and Wong P.F., Doing criminology on media and crime in Asia, In: Fraser, A., Lee, M. and Tang, D., Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal. Sage, 2017, 135-151.


Researcher : Lee MSY

Project Title:Globalising Social Problems; Researching Surveillance and Domestic Migrant Workers in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Lee MSY
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2016
Completion Date:08/2016


List of Research Outputs

Lee M.S.Y., Associate Editor, Policing and Society. 2017.
Lee M.S.Y., Associate Editor, Theoretical Criminology. 2017.
Lee M.S.Y., Laidler K.A. and Wong P.F., Doing criminology on media and crime in Asia, In: Fraser, A., Lee, M. and Tang, D., Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal. Sage, 2017, 135-151.
Lee M.S.Y. and Adorjan M., Public assessments of the police and policing in Hong Kong, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. Sage, 2016.
Lee M.S.Y. and Adorjan M., Public perceptions of crime and safety in Hong Kong, In: Chui, W.H. and Lo, T.W., Understanding Criminal Justice in Hong Kong. Oxon, Routledge, 2016, 103-117.
Lee M.S.Y., Researching Surveillance and Domestic Migrant Workers in Hong Kong, Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Conference, Seattle, USA. 2016.
Lee M.S.Y., Rethinking migration control in Asia, International Sociological Conference on Critical Approaches to Risk and Security: East, North, South and West. 2017.
Lee M.S.Y., Sex trafficking and control, In: Sanders, T., The Oxford Handbook of Sex Offences and Sex Offenders. Oxford University Press, 2017, 606-624.
Lee M.S.Y., Johnson M. and McCahill M., Smart ethnography and surveillance subjectivities among transnational migrants in Hong Kong, Smart Ethnography Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London. 2016.


Researcher : Liu HY

List of Research Outputs

Tse H.L.T., Chan L.T.J., Liu H.Y. and Peirson-Smith A., Beyond the social centrality of work and post-work conditions: Creative labour's experience and reaction to the crumbling of meaningful employment in the cultural and creative industries, The 2017 British Sociological Association's Annual Conference, University of Manchester, United Kingdom.. 2017.
Tse H.L.T., Chan L.T.J., Liu H.Y. and Peirson-Smith A., Creative Industries in Flux: A Critical Investigation into the Challenges, Agency and Potential of Cultural and Creative Workers in Hong Kong , British Sociological Association (BSA) Work, Employment and Society Conference 2016 . 2016.
Tse H.L.T., Chan L.T.J., Liu H.Y. and Peirson-Smith A., Creative Industries in Flux: A Critical Investigation into the Challenges, Agency and Potential of Cultural and Creative Workers in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Sociological Association 18th Annual Conference (2016). 2016.


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., "Haunted: An Ethnography of the Hollywood and Hong Kong Media Industries", UC Irvine Access Asia Lecture Series. 2016.
Martin S.J., "Haunted: An Ethnography of the Hollywood and Hong Kong Media Industries", UC Riverside Asian Studies Program and Seatrip. 2016.
Martin S.J., Grounded Dreams? Hong Kong and Hollywood Face the Challenges of a Globalizing Movie Economy, In: Natalie Konopinski, Anthropology News - American Anthropological Association. Virginia, US, American Anthropological Association, 2017, 58: 14-16.
Martin S.J., Haunted: An Ethnography of the Hollywood and Hong Kong Media Industries. Oxford University Press, 2016.
Martin S.J., Haunted: An Ethnography of the Hollywood and Hong Kong Media Industries, UCLA Department of Anthropology Series Culture, Power and Social Change and UCLA Center for Chinese Studies Chinese Studies. 2017.
Martin S.J., Outstanding Paper Award, Academy of Hong Kong Studies. U Pennsylvania, Critical Studies in Media Communication, 2017, 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:The social life of digital money in China: behaviours, mobilities and moralities
Investigator(s):McDonald T
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research for Resubmission of GRF/ECS Proposals
Start Date:07/2016
Completion Date:11/2016


Project Title:14th EASA Biennial Conference: Anthropological legacies and human futures; 'Familiar strangers': rethinking kinship through Chinese social media
Investigator(s):McDonald T
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2016
Completion Date:07/2016


List of Research Outputs

McDonald T., "Familiar Strangers: Social Media and the Outsider in Chinese Kinship​" organised by Hong Kong Anthropological Society at the Hong Kong Museum of History. (18/01/2017), 2017.
McDonald T., 'Familiar strangers': rethinking kinship through Chinese social media, 14th EASA Biennial Conference: Anthropological legacies and human futures. 2016.
McDonald T., Between Perseverance and Manipulation: the Art of Accumulation on Social Media in Rural China, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (Departmental Seminar). 2016.
McDonald T., Book launch — Social media in Rural China: Social Networks and Moral Frameworks (McDonald, 2016, UCL Press) at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing. 21/09/2016., 2016.
McDonald T., Book launch — Social media in Rural China: Social Networks and Moral Frameworks (McDonald, 2016, UCL Press) at Department of Philosophy, Sudan University, Shanghai. 23/09/2016., 2016.
McDonald T., Book launch — Social media in Rural China: Social Networks and Moral Frameworks (McDonald, 2016, UCL Press) at Department of Sociology, Peking University. 20/09/2016., 2016.
McDonald T., Book launch — Social media in Rural China: Social Networks and Moral Frameworks (McDonald, 2016, UCL Press) at National Centre for Radio and Television Studies, Communication University of China. 21/09/2016., 2016.
McDonald T., Book launch — Social media in Rural China: Social Networks and Moral Frameworks (McDonald, 2016, UCL Press) at School of Journalism & Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong. 14/09/2016., 2016.
McDonald T., Book launch — Social media in Rural China: Social Networks and Moral Frameworks (Mcdonald, 2016, UCL Press) at School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University. 13/09/2016., 2016.
McDonald T., Hine, Christine. Ethnography for the internet: embedded, embodied and everyday. viii, 221 pp., figs, bibliogr. London: Bloomsbury, 2015. £22.99 (paper), Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 2017, 23: 228-229.
McDonald T., Invited keynote lecture: Unfriendly money? Digital money, trust and sociality amongst rural migrants in China , British Academy Workshop: "Ethnographies of mobile communication practices and infrastructures in Southeast Asia" at Khon Kaen University, Thailand, 6-7 Jan 2017 (Organised by Richard MacDonald, Goldsmiths University, London). 2017.
McDonald T., Making Money Visible: Digital Money and Financial Precarity amongst Chinese Migrant Workers, Anthropology News. 2017.
McDonald T., Nicolescu R. and Sinanan J., Small Places Turned Inside-Out: Social Networking in Small Communities, In: Larissa Hjorth, Heather Horst, Anne Galloway, Genevieve Bell, The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography. New York, Routledge, 2017, 89-101.
McDonald T., Social Media and the Stranger in Rural China, Invited lecture at students' end of semester high table dinner, Morningside College, Chinese University of Hong Kong (1 Dec 2016). Full report: http://www.morningside.cuhk.edu.hk/news/a-chat-about-wechat-at-formal- hall. 2016.
McDonald T., Social Media in Rural China: Social Networks and Moral Frameworks. London, UCL Press, 2016.
McDonald T., ‘Digital money, trust and sociality amongst rural migrants in China’, 15th Chinese Internet Research Conference, held at Texas A&M University School of Law, Fort Worth, TX, USA. 2017.
Miller D., Costa E., Haapio-Kirk L., Haynes N., McDonald T., Nicolescu R., Spyer J., Venkatraman S. and Wang X., Why We Post, Anthropology News. 2016, 57: e44-e47.


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:The social life of digital money in China: behaviours, mobilities and moralities
Investigator(s):McDonald T
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research for Resubmission of GRF/ECS Proposals
Start Date:07/2016
Completion Date:11/2016


Project Title:14th EASA Biennial Conference: Anthropological legacies and human futures; 'Familiar strangers': rethinking kinship through Chinese social media
Investigator(s):McDonald T
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2016
Completion Date:07/2016


List of Research Outputs



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:Daoism, Chinese imperial power and borderland local society: the case of the Lanten Yao in Laos
Investigator(s):Palmer DA
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2017


List of Research Outputs

Cai D.G., Zhuo X.P., Palmer D.A., Lei Y.T. and Yu W.Y., Book co-editor, 巴哈伊文献集成, Jinan, Shandong University Press, 2016, 5 vols..
Ning R.D. and Palmer D.A., 2017 (with Rundong Ning). “The Resurrection of Lei Feng: Rebuilding the Chinese Party-State’s Infrastructure of Volunteer Mobilization.” , International Conference of the Asia Network (Réseau Asie), Sciences Po, Paris, 26 June. . 2017.
Palmer D.A., Chinese Poly-Ontology: Rethinking Religious Pluralism through China, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 8 June. . 2017.
Palmer D.A., Chinese Poly-Ontology: Rethinking Religious Pluralism through China, Max Planck Institute for Ethnic and Religious Diversity, Gottingen, Germany, 19 June. . 2017.
Palmer D.A., Poly-ontological Dynamics in Chinese Religion, International workshop on New Approaches to Religious Pluralism in East Asia, The University of Hong Kong, May 14-19, 2017. . 2017.
Palmer D.A., Religion and the Problem of ‘Civil Society’ in China, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 15 June. . 2017.
Palmer D.A., Religion, Spheres of Solidarity and Civil Society in China, International conference on The Civil Sphere in East Asia, The University of Hong Kong, May 5-6, 2017. . 2017.
Palmer D.A., Religion, Spiritual Principles and Civil Society, International Conference on Marxism and Religion, Zhejiang University, Oct. 8-9, 2016.
Palmer D.A., Socialist Spiritual Civilization: Sacralization of Politics and Desacralization of Religion in Contemporary China, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 8 June. . 2017.
Palmer D.A., The Baha’i Faith and its Critical Engagement with the Discourses and Practices of Development., International Conference on Religion, Values, Ethics and Development, the Amity Foundation, Nanjing, Dec. 12-13. . 2016.
Palmer D.A. and Siegler E.T., The Dao of the Good Life: Daoism and Western Spiritual Individualism, In: Vincent Goossaert and Franciscus Verellen, International Conference on Daoist Lives. 2016.
Palmer D.A., The Individualism of Chinese Altruism: the Ambiguities of Chinese Volunteers’ Moral Discourse, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 16 June. . 2017.
Palmer D.A. and Ning R.D., The Resurrection of Lei Feng: Rebuilding the Chinese Party-State’s Infrastructure of Volunteer Mobilization, International conference on Mobilised Contention: The State-Protest Movement Nexus. University of Hong Kong, Jan. 12-13, 2017. . 2017.
Palmer D.A., Visiting Research Fellow, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. 2017.
Palmer D.A., ‘The Bible of the Great Cycle of Esotericism:’ from the Xiantiandao Tradition to a Cao Dai Scripture in Colonial Vietnam , In: Wong Tai Sin temple, Hong Kong, International Conference on Intangible Cultural Heritage in Asia. 2016.
WINIGER F.V. and Palmer D.A., Chinese Governmentality and the Genealogy of Socialist Spiritual Civilization, International conference on A Secular Age in Asia, National University of Singapore, March 6-7, 2017. . 2017.


Researcher : Tang TSD

Project Title:Hongkongers' Taiwan Dream: Exploring Life Experiences of Hong Kong Immigrants Living in Taiwan
Investigator(s):Tang TSD
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation of International Scholarly Exchange - General Award
Start Date:07/2016


Project Title:Now We Hear Them: A qualitative study of older lesbians in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan
Investigator(s):Tang TSD
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:08/2016


List of Research Outputs

Tang T.S.D., Co-editor of Palgrave MacMillan Book Series, In: Co-editors: Stevi Jackson (The University of York, U.K.), Olivia Khoo (Monash University, Australia). , Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia.. 2016.
Tang T.S.D., Youth work in a changing society: A case study of Hong Kong youth service providers, In: Karen M. Staller Karen Broadhurst, Qualitative Social Work. 2017.


Researcher : Tian X

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
Completion Date:06/2017


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
Completion Date:12/2016


Project Title:Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Annual Meeting; Negotiating Status: Interaction between Customers and Salespersons of Online Shopping In China
Investigator(s):Tian X
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2016
Completion Date:08/2016


Project Title:Why disclose personal information online? Privacy and Face-Work on Chinese Social Media
Investigator(s):Tian X
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:09/2016


Project Title:Doris Zimmern HKU-Cambridge Hughes Hall Fellowships 2016-17
Investigator(s):Tian X
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Doris Zimmern HKU-Cambridge Hughes Hall Fellowships
Start Date:09/2016


Project Title:Demarcation or Integration?: Improving Effectiveness of Traditional Chinese Medicine Use in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Tian X
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Public Policy Research Funding Scheme
Start Date:11/2016


Project Title:Literary websites as civil sphere: popularity of online fictions in contemporary China
Investigator(s):Tian X
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:03/2017


List of Research Outputs

Han X. and Tian X., Institution, Culture, and Corroboration of Everyday Life – Situational Identification of Migrants and their Children in Urban China, 制度、文化、与日常确证 ——外来移民及其子女的情景性身份认同 , Journal of Tsinghua University (Philosophy and Social Sciences). 清华大学学报 (哲学 社会 科学), 2016, 31(6): 175-182.
Tian X., Birds of a Feather: Cross-group Interaction between Mainland and Local University Students in Hong Kong, The Sixth Conference on Governance in Hong Kong. 2016.
Tian X., Embodied Versus Disembodied Information: How online artifacts influence offline interpersonal interaction, Pearl River Delta Social Research Centre (PRDSRC), Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2017.
Tian X., Embodied versus Disembodied Information: How Online Artifacts Influence Offline Interpersonal Interactions, Symbolic Interaction. 2017.
Tian X., Embodied versus disembodied information: How online artifacts influence offline interpersonal interaction, Symbolic Interaction. 2017.
Tian X., Face-Work on Social Media in China: The Presentation of Self on Renren and Facebook, Media Sociology Preconference. 2016.
Tian X. and Adorjan M.C., Fandom and Coercive Empowerment: The commissioned production of Chinese online literature, Media, Culture & Society. 2016, 38 (6): 881-900.
Tian X., Fantasy is more believable: Justice and Solidarity in Chinese Online fiction, The Civil Sphere in East Asia Conference. 2017.
Tian X., Immediate Context, Life Experiences, and Perception: How do rural migrants in urban China perceive an unfair policy? , Chinese Sociological Review. 2017, 49 (2): 138-161.
Tian X., Negotiating Status: Interaction between Customers and Salespersons of Online Shopping In China, Chinese Sociological Association Annual Meeting. 2016.
Tian X. and Menchik D., Outstanding Author Contribution in the 2017 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence, Emerald Publishing. 2016, 11: 3-30.
Tian X., Space and Personal Contacts: Cross-Group Interaction between Mainland and Local University Students in Hong Kong, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. 2017.
Tian X., Symbolic Interaction, Power and Sociality: Online Literature in China, School of Social Development, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. 2016.


Researcher : Tsang LT

List of Research Outputs

Tse H.L.T. and Tsang L.T., From Clicks-and-Bricks to Online-to-Offline: The Evolving E-tail/Retail Space as Immersive Media in Hong Kong and Mainland China, In: Kent, Anthony & Petermans, Ann, Retail Design: Theoretical Perspectives. Abingdon, Oxford, United Kingdom, Routledge, 2016.


Researcher : Tse HLT

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:Creative Industries in Flux: A Critical Investigation into the Challenges, Agency and Potential of Cultural and Creative Workers in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Tse HLT
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Public Policy Research Funding Scheme
Start Date:07/2016


Project Title:The BSA Annual Conference: Recovering the Social: Personal Troubles and Public Issues; Beyond the Social Centrality of Work and Post-Work Conditions: Creative Labour's Experience and Reaction to the Crumbling of Meaningful Employment in the Cultural and Creative Industries
Investigator(s):Tse HLT
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2017
Completion Date:04/2017


List of Research Outputs

Tse H.L.T., Chan L.T.J., Liu H.Y. and Peirson-Smith A., Beyond the social centrality of work and post-work conditions: Creative labour's experience and reaction to the crumbling of meaningful employment in the cultural and creative industries, The 2017 British Sociological Association's Annual Conference, University of Manchester, United Kingdom.. 2017.
Tse H.L.T., Leung V. and Cheng K., Celebrity Culture and the Entertainment Industry in Asia: Use of Celebrity and Its Influence on Society. Bristol, United Kingdom; Chicago, Intellect; University of Chicago Press (distribution), 2017.
Tse H.L.T., Consistent Inconsistency In Fashion Magazines: The Socialization Of Fashionability In Hong Kong, In: Professor Brian Moeran, Journal Of Business Anthropology. Copenhagen, Copenhagen Business School, 2016, 5: 154-179.
Tse H.L.T., Chan L.T.J., Liu H.Y. and Peirson-Smith A., Creative Industries in Flux: A Critical Investigation into the Challenges, Agency and Potential of Cultural and Creative Workers in Hong Kong , British Sociological Association (BSA) Work, Employment and Society Conference 2016 . 2016.
Tse H.L.T., Chan L.T.J., Liu H.Y. and Peirson-Smith A., Creative Industries in Flux: A Critical Investigation into the Challenges, Agency and Potential of Cultural and Creative Workers in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Sociological Association 18th Annual Conference (2016). 2016.
Tse H.L.T. and Tsang L.T., From Clicks-and-Bricks to Online-to-Offline: The Evolving E-tail/Retail Space as Immersive Media in Hong Kong and Mainland China, In: Kent, Anthony & Petermans, Ann, Retail Design: Theoretical Perspectives. Abingdon, Oxford, United Kingdom, Routledge, 2016.


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:Asia in Motion: Beyond Borders and Boundaries; Nation Building and Social Engineering: The Ethnographic Surveys of the Chinese Frontiers in the Early 20th Century
Investigator(s):Wang L
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2017


List of Research Outputs

Wang L., "Ethnic Confrontation and Legal Jurisdictions in Late Imperial Inner Mongolia", Transnational East Asian History Workshop, Department of History, the University of Chicago. 2016.
Wang L., Ethnic Boundaries and Identity Formation in China-Inner Mongolia, 1900-1911, The Social Origin of Group Anxiety and Violence organized by Academia Sinica, Taiwan. 毒藥貓理論:人類集體 恐懼、猜疑與暴力的社 會 根源, 2016.
Wang L., Outstanding Research Output Award for Basic Research, Social Science Faculty, HKU. 2016.
Wang L., Scholars, National Imaginations and Disciplinary Building: The Rise of Sociology and Ethnology in Modern China, 知识人,国族想象与学科构建:以近代社会学和民族学为例, Peking University Education Review. 北京大学教育评论, 2016, 14 (3): 92-105.
Wang L., The Genesis of Ethno-Centrism in Revolutionary China: Explaining the Case of Zhang Binglin (1869-1936), Historical Sociology Lecturers, Tsinghua University. 2017.
Wang L., The Imperial Turn and the Mongol-Manchu Relations, In: Tsinghua Kaifeng Research Institute & Kaifeng Foundation, The Inside and Outside of the Political Order. 2016.
Wang L., “Ethno-Centrism and the Revolutionary Tide: Explaining the Popularity of Han-Centrism in the Late Imperial Qing, 1900-1911.”, Transactions and Values: An International Workshop Inspired by the Life and Work of Fredrik Barth. 2017.
Wang L., “Social Theory and Liberal Arts Education.”, Honored Lecture for the First Year Students at the Department of Sociology, Peking University. 2017.
Wang L., “The Genesis of Ethno-Centrism in Revolutionary China: Explaining the Case of Zhang Binglin (1869-1936).”, An Symposium of Historical Sociology organized by Peking University. 2016.


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
Completion Date:12/2016


Project Title:Explaining the persistence of campaign-style policing against organised crime in mainland China
Investigator(s):Wang P
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research for Resubmission of GRF/ECS Proposals
Start Date:07/2016
Completion Date:11/2016


List of Research Outputs

Wang P., Military Corruption in China: The role of guanxi in the buying and selling of military positions, The China Quarterly. Cambridge Uiversity Press, 2016, 228: 970-991.
Wang P., The Chinese Mafia: Organized Crime, Corruption, and Extra-Legal Protection. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017, 272.


Researcher : Wong PF

List of Research Outputs

Lee M.S.Y., Laidler K.A. and Wong P.F., Doing criminology on media and crime in Asia, In: Fraser, A., Lee, M. and Tang, D., Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal. Sage, 2017, 135-151.
Wong P.F., Christ M...C... and Sin B..., Present, past and future: Collaborative actions for a resilient Pokfulam Village, 10th Conference of the Pacific Rim Community Design Network . 2016.
Wong P.F., The Accidental Reconstruction of Colonial Legacy in Hong Kong: A Sociological Review of Built Heritage Revitalisation since 1997, 89th Annual Meeting of Japan Sociological Society. 2016.
Wong P.F., Travel Grant for Starting Scholars from Overseas, Japan Sociological Society. 2016.
Wong P.F., Working across the Border: The Social Mobility and Geographical Mobility among Hong Kong Young People, 香港青年的社會流動性 與地域流動性研究, Guangzhou, Editorial Department of Youth Exploration, 2016, 205: 103-109.


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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