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 : 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: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:The 13th Conference of the European Sociological Association; Medical Doctors Savaged to Death in China: Whose Fault?
Investigator(s):Chan CSC
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2017
Completion Date:09/2017


Project Title:Undermining Civil Society? The Counter-Protest Movement in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Chan CSC
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2018


List of Research Outputs

Chan C.S.C., Mistrust of Physicians in China: Society, Institution, and Interaction as Root Causes, Developing World Bioethics. 2018, 18: 16-25.


Researcher : Chan LTJ

List of Research Outputs

Tse H.L.T. and Chan L.T.J., A Clown, a Political Messiah or a Punching Bag? Crafting and Negotiating Multiple Celebrity Identities through Social Media , 2017 International Conference on Social Media & Society, Ryenson University, Toronto, Canada. . 2017.


Researcher : Cho L

List of Research Outputs

Wang P., Cho L. and Li R., An Institutional Explanation of Media Corruption in China, Journal of Contemporary China. 2018, 27: 748-762.


Researcher : DENG Y

List of Research Outputs

Tian X. and DENG Y., Organizational Hierarchy, Deprived Masculinity, and Confrontational Practices: Men Doing Women’s Jobs in a Global Factory, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 2017, 46(4): 464-489.


Researcher : Dean MT

List of Research Outputs

McDonald T., Laidler K.A. and Dean M.T., Negotiating the ethics of gendered online spaces in Mainland China and Hong Kong, In: Ron Iphofen, Martin Tolich , The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Ethics. London, Sage, 2018, 526-539.


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 : HUANG D

List of Research Outputs

HUANG D., Overdetermination, Underdetermination and Encounter Materialism -- an Aleatory Swerve in Louis Althusser's Thought, 過度決定、不足決定與相遇唯物主義--阿爾都塞思想的一次偶然偏斜, Marxism and the Reality (CSSCI), 2018, 2.


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 for New Staff
Start Date:03/2016
Completion Date:02/2018


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


Project Title:"Connecting Communities: Participatory Arts and Social Action Research"; Introspective narratives and social action: Participatory videos from Hong Kong’s domestic workers, asylum-seekers and ethnic minorities
Investigator(s):Ham J
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2017
Completion Date:11/2017


List of Research Outputs

Ham J. and Lin V.W., Introspective Narratives and Social Action: Participatory Videos from Hong Kong’s Domestic Workers, Asylum-seekers and Ethnic Minorities, Hong Kong Sociological Association Annual Meeting 2017 - Social Transformations in Chinese Societies. 2017.
Ham J. and Lin V.W., Introspective narratives and social action: Participatory videos from Hong Kong's domestic workers, asylum-seekers and ethnic minorities, Connecting Communities: Participatory Arts and Social Action Research. 2017.
Ham J., Panel - Sex Work at the Crossroads: New Books in the Field, Annual Meeting on Law and Society - Law at the Crossroads. 2018.
Ham J., SWAN Vancouver Society, IM/Migrant Sex Work: Exploring Experience, Policy & Partnership. 2018.
Lin V.W. and Ham J., Sink Or Swim: Participatory Videos Directed By domestic Workers, Refugees/asylum Seekers, And Ethnic Minorities In Hong Kong, Curating Development Seminar Series. 2017.
Mackenzie K., Clancey A. and Ham J., Barriers to Justice for Migrant and Immigrant Sex Workers: A Community-Led Research Project, Annual Meeting on Law and Society - Law at the Crossroads. 2018.


Researcher : Hui PH

List of Research Outputs

Au A. .K. .Y., Hui P.H. and Chen S. .X., Intercultural Relations In Hong Kong, In: John Berry, Mutual Intercultural Relations . University of Cambridge, 2017.
Hui P.H., Advanced Quantitative Research Methods: Event-sampling Method, Multilevel Linear Analysis, And Big Data Analysis., Media, Culture and Creative Cities–Research Methodology Series 2018, Department of Sociology, HKU. . 2018.
Hui P.H., Department of Psychology, Education University of Hong Kong, The Who, When, Why, and Where of the Prosociality to Well-being Link: An Investigation of Individual, Situational, and Cultural Factors. 2017.


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 for New Staff
Start Date:06/2016


Project Title:Developing an analytical framework of operational and inspirational terrorist leadership
Investigator(s):Joosse JP, Palmer DA
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society (TASA)
Start Date:04/2017


Project Title:Reimagining Charisma: From Classical Origins to Contemporary Applications
Investigator(s):Joosse JP
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research for Resubmission of GRF/ECS Proposals
Start Date:07/2017
Completion Date:11/2017


Project Title:American Sociological Association Annual Meeting; Countering Trump: Using Weber to Construct a Typology of Charismatic Counter-roles
Investigator(s):Joosse JP
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2017
Completion Date:08/2017




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


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., Gay & Grey: Participatory Action Research in Hong Kong, Qualitative Research. 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


Project Title:Opening Doors, Creating Pathways - A Qualitative Study of Social Harms and Service Access of Young People from Ethnic Minority Backgrounds in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Laidler KA, Paryani PK
Department:Ctr for Criminology
Source(s) of Funding:Public Policy Research Funding Scheme
Start Date:12/2017


List of Research Outputs

Laidler K.A., Overview Of Regional Drug Threats And Policy Responses In Retentionist States. , United Nations Expert Panel Meetings On Drug Related Offenses, Criminal Justice Responses And The Use Of The Death Penalty In South East Asia.the Office Of The United Nations High Commissioner For Human Rights In Response To Ungass 2016.. 2018.
McDonald T., Laidler K.A. and Dean M., Negotiating The Ethics Of Gendered Online Spaces In Mainland China And Hong Kong, In: Tolich, M. and Ifophen, R., The Sage Handbook in Qualitative Research Ethics. Newbury Park, CA, Sage, 2018, 526-539.
McDonald T., Laidler K.A. and Dean M.T., Negotiating the ethics of gendered online spaces in Mainland China and Hong Kong, In: Ron Iphofen, Martin Tolich , The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Ethics. London, Sage, 2018, 526-539.


Researcher : Lee MSY

List of Research Outputs

Lee M.S.Y., Johnson M. and McCahill M., Race, Gender, and Surveillance of Migrant Domestic Workers in Asia, In: Mary Bosworth, Alpa Parmar and Yolanda Vázquez, Race, Criminal Justice, and Migration Control - Enforcing the Boundaries of Belonging. Oxford University Press, 2018.
Lee M.S.Y., Tang T.S.D. and Fraser A., Special Issue Co-editor, Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal. Sage, 2017.
Stones R., Botterill K., Lee M.S.Y. and O'Reilly K., One World is Not Enough: The Structured Phenomenology of Lifestyle Migrants in East Asia, The British Journal of Sociology. 2018.


Researcher : Li D

List of Research Outputs

McDonald T. and Li D., “Nurturing credit”: Logics and practices of digital money borrowing among Chinese migrant factory workers, Workshop: Migration, Aspirations, Desire and Agency in Global Cities. (Shenzhen University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China). 2018.


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 for New Staff
Start Date:06/2016


Project Title:116th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association; "Stealing Shots: The Heroics and Helplessness of Media Labor"
Investigator(s):Martin SJ
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2017
Completion Date:12/2017


List of Research Outputs

Martin S.J., Behind The Scenes: Transnational Ties Between The Hollywood And Hong Kong Entertainment Industries, Invited Lecture - Public Seminar at University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 2018.
Martin S.J., Stealing Shots: The Heroics and Helplessness of Media Labor, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. 2017.


Researcher : McDonald T

Project Title:Digital Transactions in Asia; Unfriendly money? Digital money, trust and sociality amongst rural migrants in China
Investigator(s):McDonald T
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2017
Completion Date:08/2017


Project Title:Digital money and migration in China: Contemporary monetary practices and imagined economic futures
Investigator(s):McDonald T
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Start Date:10/2017


List of Research Outputs

Chan J.H., Iankova K., Zhang Y., McDonald T. and Qi X.G., The role of self-gentrification in sustainable tourism: Indigenous entrepreneurship at Honghe Hani Rice Terraces World Heritage Site, China, In: Anna Carr, Lisa Ruhanen, Michelle Whitford, Bernard Lane, Sustainable Tourism and Indigenous Peoples. Routledge, 2017, Abingdon.
McDonald T., 'Social money? Digital money and migrant labour in China' (Tom McDonald) at the United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society (UNU-CS), Macao SAR. 14/09/2017. http://cs.unu.edu/events/social-money/, 2017.
McDonald T., Making money visible: Digital money and migration in China, HKU Faculty of Social Sciences – Summer Institute: 3 Campus East Asia Programme. 2017.
McDonald T., Laidler K.A. and Dean M., Negotiating The Ethics Of Gendered Online Spaces In Mainland China And Hong Kong, In: Tolich, M. and Ifophen, R., The Sage Handbook in Qualitative Research Ethics. Newbury Park, CA, Sage, 2018, 526-539.
McDonald T., Laidler K.A. and Dean M.T., Negotiating the ethics of gendered online spaces in Mainland China and Hong Kong, In: Ron Iphofen, Martin Tolich , The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Ethics. London, Sage, 2018, 526-539.
McDonald T., Social money? Digital money and migrant labor in China, Seminar at the Department of Anthropology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile. 2017.
McDonald T., Social money? Digital money and migrant labor in China, Universitas 21 (U21) Early Career Researchers workshop: “Interculturality and Multiculturalism: the challenges for changing societies. 2017.
McDonald T. and Sinanan J., Why We Post and the Anthropology of Social Media: from writing cultures to digital dissemination, Conference: Teaching and learning anthropology and ethnography in Eastern and South-eastern Europe: making sense of cultural difference in familiar and unfamiliar context. (University of Macedonia, Greece). 2018.
McDonald T., ‘Unfriendly money? Digital money, trust and sociality amongst migrants in China’, ‘Digital Transactions in Asia’ symposium, held at The University of Queensland / QUT, Brisbane, Australia. 2017.
McDonald T. and Li D., “Nurturing credit”: Logics and practices of digital money borrowing among Chinese migrant factory workers, Workshop: Migration, Aspirations, Desire and Agency in Global Cities. (Shenzhen University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China). 2018.
Miller D., Costa E., Haapio-Kirk L., Haynes N., McDonald T., Nicolescu R., Sinanan J., Spyer J., Venkatraman S. and Wang X.Y., Why We Post – a team approach to research dissemination, In: Vincent C. H. Tong, Alex Standen and Mina Sotiriou, Shaping Higher Education with Students: Ways to Connect Research and Teaching. London, UCL Press, 2018, 265-269.
Pountney L., Chan H.W. and McDonald T., The Impact of Social Media: Conducting Independent Enquiry About Social Media – Student pack for HKDSE Liberal Studies (May 2018), Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong. 2018.
Pountney L., Chan H.W. and McDonald T., The Impact of Social Media: Conducting Independent Enquiry About Social Media – Teacher pack for HKDSE Liberal Studies (May 2018), Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong. 2018.
Pountney L., Chan H.W. and McDonald T., The Impact of Social Media: Conducting Independent Enquiry About Social Media – Teacher's Slides for HKDSE Liberal Studies (May 2018), Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong. 2018.
Pountney L. and McDonald T., The Impact of Social Media: Student pack for A Level Sociology (January 2018), Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong. 2018.
Pountney L. and McDonald T., The Impact of Social Media: Teacher pack for A Level Sociology (January 2018), Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong. 2018.
Pountney L. and McDonald T., The Impact of Social Media: Teacher's slides for A Level Sociology (February 2018), Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong. 2018.
Sinanan J. and McDonald T., Ethnography, In: Jean Burgess, Alice Marwick, Thomas Poell, The SAGE Handbook of Social Media. London, SAGE, 2017, 179-195.


Researcher : McDonald TN

Project Title:Digital Transactions in Asia; Unfriendly money? Digital money, trust and sociality amongst rural migrants in China
Investigator(s):McDonald T
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2017
Completion Date:08/2017


Project Title:Digital money and migration in China: Contemporary monetary practices and imagined economic futures
Investigator(s):McDonald T
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Start Date:10/2017


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 : Ng TFK

List of Research Outputs

Pun N., Tse H.L.T. and Ng T.F.K., Challenging Digital Capitalism: SACOM’s Campaigns against Apple and Foxconn as Monopoly Capital , In: Professor Brian D. Loader, Information, Communication and Society. 2017.


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
Completion Date:06/2018


Project Title:Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion; Authors Meet Critics: David A. Palmer and Elijah Siegler, _Dream Trippers: Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Spirituality_ (University of Chicago Press, 2017)/Daoist Studies and the “Ontological Turn” in Anthropology
Investigator(s):Palmer DA
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2017


Project Title:Rethinking Spirituality and Religion in China
Investigator(s):Palmer DA
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:NeoUnion ECS Organization
Start Date:01/2018


Project Title:Infrastructures of Faith: Religious Mobility on the Belt and Road (CRF)
Investigator(s):Palmer DA
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding for Strategic Interdisciplinary Research Scheme
Start Date:04/2018


List of Research Outputs

Jammes J. and Palmer D.A., Occulting the Dao: Daoist Inner Alchemy, French Spiritism, and Vietnamese Colonial Modernity in Caodai Translingual Practice, Journal of Asian Studies. 2018, 77:2: 405-428.
Palmer D.A., Authenticity and Authority in the Emergence of a Global Daoist Field, International Conference on Daoist Studies. Beijing, Beijing Normal University, 2018.
Palmer D.A., Author-meets-critics panel on Dream Trippers: Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Spirituality, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion. Boston, American Academy of Religion, 2017.
Palmer D.A., Book talk on Dream Trippers: Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Spirituality, Paris, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, 2018.
Palmer D.A., Book talk on Dream Trippers: Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Spirituality, Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, Dept of Anthropology, 2018.
Palmer D.A., Daoism and Human Rights: Integrating the Incommensurable, In: Joseph Tham, Kai Man Kwang & Alberto Garcia, Religious Perspectives on Bioethics and Human Rights. Cham (Switzerland), Springer, 2017, 139-144.
Palmer D.A., Daoist Studies and the “ontological turn” in anthropology, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion. Boston, American Academy of Religion, 2017.
Palmer D.A. and Siegler E.T., Dream Trippers: Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Spirituality. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Palmer D.A. and Siegler E.S., Healing Tao USA and the History of American Spiritual Individualism, Cahiers d'Extreme-Asie. 2017, 25: 245-265.
Palmer D.A., Is Chinese (Lack of) Religion Exceptional?, In: Ryan Hornbeck and Justin Barrett, Homo Religiosus and the Dragon: Cognitive Studies of Religion in China. Cham (Switzerland), Springer, 2017, 17-34.
Palmer D.A., Isomorphic and Poly-Ontological Pluralism, New Approaches to Religious Pluralism in Asia. Chennai (India), Asian Institute for Cross-Cultural Studies, 2018.
Palmer D.A., Marcel Granet and the Durkheimian Paradigm in the Study of Chinese Religion and Society, Conference on Chinese Minjian Religion. Hong Kong, HKU, 2018.
Palmer D.A., Religion, Spheres of Solidarity and Civil Society in China: A Critical Engagement with Jeffrey Alexander’s Civil Sphere. , Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, Montreal, 13-14 Aug. 2017.
Palmer D.A., Religion, Spiritual Principles and Civil Society, In: Ben Schewel and Geoff Cameron, Religion and Public Discourse in an Age of Transition: Reflections on Baha’i Practice and Thought. Waterloo, ON, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2018, 37-69.
Palmer D.A., Series of three workshops: “How to Formulate Claims and Evidence in Academic Articles;” “How to Write a Conclusion;” “Dealing with R&R.” , Summer School on Academic Writing on the Social Scientific Religion in China, sponsored by the Centre on Religion and Chinese Society, Purdue University, Aug. 7-9. . 2017.
Palmer D.A., The Aporia of the Divided Self: Closet Volunteers and Moral Breakdown in China, Leiden, Leiden University, 2018.
Palmer D.A., The Aporia of the Divided Self: Closet Volunteers and Moral Breakdown in China, China Studies as a Vocation: Celebrating Deborah Davis’ 50-year contributions to scholarship and to CUHK. Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2018.
Palmer D.A., What do Chinese People Believe?, GE Lecture, HKU. Hong Kong, HKU General Education Office, 2018.
Palmer D.A., 巴哈伊文化中的一體觀:從本體論到社會實踐, Beijing, China Academy of Social Sciences, 2018.
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。 中國宗教、法國殖民統治與越南民族認同的構建, Beijing, 北京大學社會學系, 2018.
Palmer D.A., 二十世纪中国反邪教话语系统的演变, 馬克思主義與宗教的當代對 話國際學術研討會。, Hangzhou, Zhejiang University, 2017.
Palmer D.A., 當代華人教派研究的現況與前瞻, 一貫道的全球傳播與影響國 際學術研討會, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2017.


Researcher : Pun N

Project Title:Learning to Labor: Social Media and Migrant Labor Protection in Mainland China
Investigator(s):Pun N
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) - Group Research Project
Start Date:06/2016


Project Title:Digital plateform for migrant labour and gender awareness in China
Investigator(s):Pun N
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:C&A Foundation
Start Date:06/2018


List of Research Outputs

Pun N., Tse H.L.T. and Ng T.F.K., Challenging Digital Capitalism: SACOM’s Campaigns against Apple and Foxconn as Monopoly Capital , In: Professor Brian D. Loader, Information, Communication and Society. 2017.
Pun N., Tse H.L.T. and Ng K., Challenging Digital Capitalism: SACOM’s Campaigns against Apple and Foxconn as Monopoly Capital, In: Professor Brian D. Loader , Information, Communication & Society . United Kingdom, 2017.
Pun N., Class and Precarity: An Unhappy Coupling in China’s Class Formation http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0950017018762276, Work, Employment and Society. 2018.
Pun N., Cooperative Movement and International Experience, In: the Chinese University of Hong Kong, organized by Grass-root Concern Group. 2018.
Pun N., Gendering the new generation of youth workers at the vocational schools in China, In: the University of Oslo, Norway, 6th Conference of the Sino-Nordic Women and Gender Studies Conference Series. 2017.
Pun N. and Zhang H.P., Injury of Class: Compressed Modernity and the Struggle of Foxconn Workers, In: Zhang, Huipeng , Open Edition Journals. 2017.
Pun N., Labor in Asia, In: Doshisha University, Japan, June 23-25 2018, 30th SASE Annual Meeting: Global Reordering Prospects for Equality, Democracy, and Justice. 2018.
Pun N., Regulating Labor Within and Across Borders, In: Doshisha University, Japan, June 23-25 2018, 30th SASE Annual Meeting: Global Reordering Prospects for Equality, Democracy, and Justice. 2018.


Researcher : Shin KV

Project Title:Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference 2018; Power Unrecognized: The Dilemma of Economic Integration between China’s and Hong Kong’s Film Industries
Investigator(s):Shin KV
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2018


Project Title:Surviving Abroad? A Pilot Study of Hong Kong’s Filmmakers in China since 2003
Investigator(s):Shin KV
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2018


List of Research Outputs

Shin K.V., One Network, Three Systems: Misalignment of Institutional Logics in the Global Production Networks of Chinese Movies in the 1990s, 2017 Conference on Global Production at the National University of Singapore. 2017.
Shin K.V., Power Unrecognized: The Dilemma of Economic Integration between China’s and Hong Kong’s Film Industries, Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, 2018.


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


List of Research Outputs

Lee M.S.Y., Tang T.S.D. and Fraser A., Special Issue Co-editor, Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal. Sage, 2017.
Tang T.S.D., All I get is an emoji: dating on lesbian mobile phone app Butterfly , Media, Culture & Society. 2017, 39: 816-832.
Tang T.S.D., Feeling alive: Voices of incarcerated youth in We Are Alive , Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal. 2017, 13: 153-170.
Tang T.S.D., All I get is an emoticon: Intergenerational dating on lesbian mobile phone app Butterfly, Age Agency Ambiguity - gender and generation in times of change. 2017.


Researcher : Tian X

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: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: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
Completion Date:02/2018


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

Tian X., Face-work on Social Media: The Presentation of Self on Renren and Facebook, In: Mike Kent, Katie Ellis and Jian Xu, Chinese Social Media Today: Social, Cultural, and Political Implications. 2017.
Tian X., Fantasy is more believable: Justice and Solidarity in Chinese Online fiction, Chinese Sociological Association Annual Meeting. 2017.
Tian X., Fantasy is more believable: Justice and Solidarity in Chinese Online fiction, Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences, Zhejiang University. 2017.
Tian X. and DENG Y., Organizational Hierarchy, Deprived Masculinity, and Confrontational Practices: Men Doing Women’s Jobs in a Global Factory, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 2017, 46(4): 464-489.


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
Completion Date:08/2017


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
Completion Date:12/2017


Project Title:2017 International Conference on Social Media & Society ; A Clown, a Political Messiah or a Punching Bag? Crafting and Negotiating Multiple Celebrity Identities through Social Media
Investigator(s):Tse HLT
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2017
Completion Date:07/2017


List of Research Outputs

Leung V., Cheng K. and Tse H.L.T., Insiders’ Views: The Current Practice Of Using Celebrities In Marketing Communications In Greater China, In: Joanna Radwanska-Williams, Intercultural Communications Studies. University of Rhode Island, 2018, 27: 96-113.
Pun N., Tse H.L.T. and Ng T.F.K., Challenging Digital Capitalism: SACOM’s Campaigns against Apple and Foxconn as Monopoly Capital , In: Professor Brian D. Loader, Information, Communication and Society. 2017.
Pun N., Tse H.L.T. and Ng K., Challenging Digital Capitalism: SACOM’s Campaigns against Apple and Foxconn as Monopoly Capital, In: Professor Brian D. Loader , Information, Communication & Society . United Kingdom, 2017.
Tse H.L.T. and Chan L.T.J., A Clown, a Political Messiah or a Punching Bag? Crafting and Negotiating Multiple Celebrity Identities through Social Media , 2017 International Conference on Social Media & Society, Ryenson University, Toronto, Canada. . 2017.
Tse H.L.T., Creative Labour As The ‘neo-precariat’? A Critical Investigation Into New Precarious Challenges For Cultural/creative Workers In Hong Kong And Mainland China, HKU-Peking University Global China Workshop, Department of Sociology, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 2017.
Tse H.L.T., From Television To Social Media: Celebrity Culture And The Entertainment Industry In Hong Kong, Hong Kong Sociological Association: Public Lecture Series 2017-2018, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.. 2017.
Tse H.L.T., Gender Stereotypes In The Media: A Screening And Panel Discussion Of The She Objects Documentary, Hong Kong Sociological Association: Public Lecture Series 2017-2018, The Commercial Press Tsimshatsui Book Centre, Kowloon, Hong Kong.. 2018.
Tse H.L.T., The New Orders of Fashion Consumption in Korea and China , In: Arturo Arriagada, Joanne Entwistle, Agnès Rocamora, Cultural Mediators in the Digital Age Symposium, Media, Culture and Creative Industries Department, King's College London.. 2017.


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 for New Staff
Start Date:03/2016
Completion Date:05/2018


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


Project Title:Legal Discrimination and Civilianizing Frontier: A Comparative Study of Criminalization in Gansu (1750s-1850s) and Inner Mongolia (1850-1920)
Investigator(s):Wang L
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Start Date:08/2017


List of Research Outputs

Wang L., The Action-Oriented Education: John Dewey on Liberal Education and Professional Education, 如何培养行动力:杜威论现代教育的双重危机, Peking University Education Review. 北京大学教育评论, 2018, 16 (1): 85-114.


Researcher : Wang P

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:Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Start Date:01/2018


List of Research Outputs

Wang P., Cho L. and Li R., An Institutional Explanation of Media Corruption in China, Journal of Contemporary China. 2018, 27: 748-762.
Wang P. and Wang J., How China promotes its military officers: Interactions between formal and informal institutions, The China Quarterly. Cambridge University Press, 2018, 234: 399-419.


Researcher : Wong PF

List of Research Outputs

Wong P.F., Member of the editorial board, Journal of Media and Popular Culture. 2018.


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




Researcher : Wong WPT

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




Researcher : ZHANG L

List of Research Outputs

ZHANG L., Book Review (in Chinese). Walking out of the Soil: A Conversation with Fei Xiaotong's From the Soil. By Chen Xinxiang. Beijing: SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2017. , Housebook Journal, 2018, 2018 (2): 64-66..
ZHANG L., Pricing Injury and Death: Monetary Compensation in China’s Medical Disputes, The Annual Conference of the British Postgraduate Network for Chinese Studies (BPCS) 2018, held at China Centre, University of Oxford. 2018.


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