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 KT

List of Research Outputs

Wang L. and CHAN K.T., Georg Simmel's Theory on Individuality, 齐美尔论个性, Chinese Journal of Sociology. 社会, 2018.


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: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


Project Title:The Annual Meeting of Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics; Relational Work in Activating Social Networks: Informal Help and Hospital Care in China
Investigator(s):Chan CSC
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2019


Project Title:An Exploratory Study of Changing Household Money Management in China and Taiwan
Investigator(s):Chan CSC
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2019


List of Research Outputs

Chan C.S.C. and Yao Z.L., A Market Of Distrust: Toward A Cultural Sociology Of Unofficial Exchanges Between Patients And Doctors In China, Theory And Society. 2018, 47: 737-772.


Researcher : Chan LTJ

List of Research Outputs

Tse H.L.T., Chan L.T.J., Leung V. and Cheng K., A Clown, a Political Messiah or a Punching Bag? Rethinking the Performative Identity Construction of Celebrity through Social Media , In: Anthony Y.H. Fung, Global Media and China. China, Sage, 2018, 3: 141-157.


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 : Gheorghiu I

List of Research Outputs

Ham J. and Gheorghiu I., Hanging out with Goals: Intimate Economies in Hong Kong, International Conference on Gender, Sexuality and Justice: Resilience in Uncertain Times, CUHK. 2018.
Ham J. and Gheorghiu I., “Intersecting Dignities and Improvising Intimacies by Non-Chinese Women in Hong Kong's Sex Industry”, Law and Society Association 2019 Annual Meeting. 2019.


Researcher : Ham J

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:Global Labor Migration: Past and Present; Reconfiguring family in domestic work labour migration
Investigator(s):Ham J
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2019


List of Research Outputs

Ham J. and Ceradoy A., "God Blessed Me with Employers Who Don’t Starve Their Helpers": Food Deprivation and Dehumanization in Domestic Work, Love's Labour's Cost? Asian Migration, Intimate Labour and the Politics of Gender, National University of Singapore (NUS). 2018.
Ham J., Book review of 'Responding to Human Trafficking: Dispossession, Colonial Violence, and Resistance among Indigenous and Racialized Women', by Julie Kaye, 2017, University of Toronto Press., In: Mary Bosworth, University of Oxford and Monash University Simon A. Cole, University of California, Irvine, USA, Theoretical Criminology. SAGE, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1362480619827640.
Ham J. and Ceradoy A., Dehumanization and capturing harm in domestic work, Global Labour Migration Summit (Amsterdam, The Netherlands). 2019.
Ham J. and Gheorghiu I., Hanging out with Goals: Intimate Economies in Hong Kong, International Conference on Gender, Sexuality and Justice: Resilience in Uncertain Times, CUHK. 2018.
Ham J. and Lestari E., Migrant Domestic Workers Re-framing Anti-trafficking, International Academic Conference on Organized Crime and Gender. 2018.
Ham J., Using difference in intersectional research with im/migrant and racialized sex workers, Theoretical Criminology. 2018, 136248061881980.
Ham J. and Gheorghiu I., “Intersecting Dignities and Improvising Intimacies by Non-Chinese Women in Hong Kong's Sex Industry”, Law and Society Association 2019 Annual Meeting. 2019.
Lin V.W. and Ham J., Sink or Swim: Participatory Videos Directed by Domestic Workers, Refugees/Asylum Seekers, And Ethnic Minorities, Visible Evidence XXVI, Los Angeles, USA. 2019.


Researcher : Hui PH

Project Title:Building a micro-foundation of solidarity: Prosocial behavior predicts working-class solidarity
Investigator(s):Hui PH
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2019


List of Research Outputs

Hui P.H. and Kogan A., Daily ups and downs: An event-sampling study of the mediated moderation of prosocial engagement on well-being, Social Psychological and Personality Science. 2018, 9: 675-688.
Hui P.H., Wu S. and Pun N., Disentangling the effects of empathy components on Internet gaming disorder: A study of vulnerable youth in China, Journal of Behavioral Addictions. 2019, 8: 181-189.
Hui P.H., Pun N., Qiu J. and Koo A., Having Less But Giving More: Work Experience and Prosocial Behavior of Chinese Working-Class Youth, Youth & Society. 2019, 00: 0044118X1984023.
Sun R., Vuillier L., Hui P.H. and Kogan A., Caring helps: Trait empathy is related to better coping strategies and differs in the poor versus the rich, PLOS ONE. 2019, 14: e0213142.


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:American Sociological Association annual meeting; Gender and Charismatic Authority: On the Prospect of the Contemporary Relevance of a Classical Concept
Investigator(s):Joosse JP
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2018
Completion Date:08/2018


Project Title:King's/HKU Fellowship Awards 2018-19
Investigator(s):Joosse JP
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:King's/HKU Fellowship Awards
Start Date:09/2018


Project Title:Reimagining Charisma: From Classical Origins to Contemporary Applications
Investigator(s):Joosse JP
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Start Date:09/2018


Project Title:2018 Research Output Prize (Faculty of Social Sciences)
Investigator(s):Joosse JP
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Research Output Prize (in Faculty)
Start Date:12/2018


List of Research Outputs

Joosse J.P., 2018 American Sociological Association Clifford Geertz Prize for Best Article in the Sociology of Culture, American Sociological Association. 2018.
Joosse J.P., 2018 University of Hong Kong Research Output Prize – Faculty of Social Sciences , University of Hong Kong . 2018.
Joosse J.P., 2019-2020 Universitas 21 Fellowship Award: $50,000 , Universitas 21 . 2019.
Joosse J.P., Countering Trump: Toward a Theory of Charismatic Counter-Roles, Social Forces. 2018, 97: 921-944.
Joosse J.P., King’s College London/HKU Fellowship Award 2018/2019: $50,000, King’s College London/HKU . 2019.


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. and Laidler K.A., The Paradox for chem-fun and gay men: A neoliberal analysis of drugs and HIV/AIDS policies in Hong Kong, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs. 2019.
Kong T.S.K., Tracking Gay and Lesbian/Queer Studies in Sexualities, Sexualities . 2018, 21 (8): 1216-1223.


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 : LIN Z

List of Research Outputs

LIN Z. and Tian X., Audience Design and Context Discrepancy: How Online Debates Lead to Opinion Polarization, Symbolic Interaction. 2019, 42 (1): 70-97.
Tian X. and LIN Z., Top Downloaded Article, Wiley Publishing Company. 2019.


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
Completion Date:08/2019


List of Research Outputs

Coomber R., Moyle L., Belackova V., Decorte T., Hakkarainen P., Hathaway A., Laidler K.A., Murphy S., Scott J. and Stefunkova M., Burgeoning Recognition And Accomodation Of The Social Supply Of Drugs In International Criminal Justice Systems: An 11 Nation Comparative Overview., International Journal of Drug Policy. 2018, 58: 93-103.
Kong T.S.K. and Laidler K.A., The Paradox for chem-fun and gay men: A neoliberal analysis of drugs and HIV/AIDS policies in Hong Kong, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs. 2019.
Laidler K.A., Book Review: Caught Up: Girls, Surveillance and Wraparound Incarceration. By Jerry Flores. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2016., Book review. Law and Society Review, 2018, 52: 1103-1106.
Laidler K.A., Broadening the Criminological Terrain - Public Criminology meets Southern Criminology, Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology. 2018.
Laidler K.A. and Cheung Y.W., From Heroin to Psychotropic Drugs: Historical Transformations in Youth Drug Subcultures, Hong Kong Medical History Group. 2019.


Researcher : Lee MSY

List of Research Outputs

Lee M.S.Y., Johnson M., McCahill M. and Mesina R., Beyond the “All Seeing Eye”: Filipino Migrant Domestic Workers’ Contestation of Care and Control in Hong Kong, Ethnos. London, Taylor and Francis, 2019.
Lee M.S.Y. and Wong W.P.T., From Expatriates to New Cosmopolitans? Female Transnational Professionals in Hong Kong, In: Angela Lehmann and Pauline Leonard, Destination China - Immigration to China in the Post-Reform Era. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 91-119.
Lee M.S.Y., The Changing Nature of Border, Criminalization and Mass Deportation in An Age of Migration Control, The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research Annual Lecture. 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
Completion Date:02/2019


Project Title:117th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting; The State of Entertainment: The U.S. Military and Hollywood Dual Use Technologies
Investigator(s):Martin SJ
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2018


Project Title:117th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting; The State of Entertainment: The U.S. Military and Hollywood Dual Use Technologies
Investigator(s):Martin SJ
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2018
Completion Date:11/2018


Project Title:Operationalizing Hollywood: Storytelling in the Service of the State
Investigator(s):Martin SJ
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Start Date:12/2018




Researcher : McDonald T

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


Project Title:MoneyLab #6: Infrastructures of Money; “Pulling sheep’s wool”: Digital money, online thriftiness and organizational misbehaviour in a Chinese factory
Investigator(s):McDonald T
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2019
Completion Date:03/2019


List of Research Outputs

McDonald T., "Pulling sheep’s wool”: Digital Money, Online Thriftiness and Organizational Misbehaviour in a Chinese Factory, In: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, Netherlands and the Cooperative Research Centre “Media of Cooperation”, Siegen, Germany, Conference: "MoneyLab #6: Infrastructures of Money". 2019.
McDonald T., Embedding digital money amongst Chinese migrant factory workers, In: Athique, Adrian Baulch, Emma, Digital Transactions in Asia: Economic, Informational, and Social Exchanges. Routledge, Routledge, 2019, 139–155.
McDonald T., Friedman, May & SilviaSchultermandl (eds). Click and kin: transnational identity and quick media. viii, 248 pp., map, bibliogrs. Toronto: Univ. Press, 2016. £27.95 (paper), Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 2018, 24(3): 643-644.
McDonald T., Nurturing 'charismatic Credit': The Personification of Digital Borrowing By Chinese Migrant Factory Workers, In: Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics 2019 Conference “Fathomless Futures: Algorithmic and Imagined”. 2019.
McDonald T., Outstanding Teaching Award, Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong. 2018.
McDonald T., Strangership and Social Media: Moral Imaginaries of Gendered Strangers in Rural China, American Anthropologist. 2019, 121(1): 76-88.
McDonald T., Pountney L. and Chan H.W., The Impact of Social Media: Conducting Independent Enquiry About Social Media – Student pack (with Answers) for HKDSE Liberal Studies (May 2019, Traditional Chinese version), 社交媒體的影響: 關於社交媒體的通識教育科 獨立專題探究 教材套(學生版,附參考答案)繁体中文版 2019年05月, Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong. 香港大學社會學系, 2019.
McDonald T., Pountney L. and Chan H.W., The Impact of Social Media: Conducting Independent Enquiry About Social Media – Student pack for HKDSE Liberal Studies (May 2019, Traditional Chinese version), 社交媒體的影響: 關於社交媒體的通識教育科 獨立專題探究 教材套(學生版)繁体中文版 2019年05月, Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong. 香港大學社會學系, 2019.
McDonald T., Pountney L. and Chan H.W., The Impact of Social Media: Conducting Independent Enquiry About Social Media – Teacher pack for HKDSE Liberal Studies (May 2019, Traditional Chinese version), 社交媒體的影響: 關於社交媒體的通識教育科 獨立專題探究 教材套(教師版)繁体中文版 2019年05月, Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong. 香港大學社會學系, 2019.
McDonald T., Pountney L. and Chan H.W., The Impact of Social Media: Conducting Independent Enquiry About Social Media – Teacher's slides for HKDSE Liberal Studies (May 2019, Traditional Chinese version), 社交媒體的影響: 關於社交媒體的通識教育科 獨立專題探究 幻燈片(教師版)繁体中文版 2019年05月, Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong. 香港大學社會學系, 2019.
McDonald T., When Reading News Pays: "Interesting Headlines" and the Technological Reconfiguration of Leisure as Work Amongst Factory Workers in Shenzhen, China, In: HKU-Cornell Global China Program on Labor and Migration, Contemporary China Studies Conference HKU-Cornell Global China Program on Labor and Migration: Technology and Work in China. 2018.
McDonald T., ‘Nurturing credit’: Logics and practices of digital money borrowing among Chinese migrant factory workers, In: Hosted by the School of Social Sciences, UC Irvine, USA, 2018 California-Shanghai Innovation Dialogues “From Fintech to Insurtech in China and the US: Consumer-Facing Financial Innovation and Economic Change”. 2018.
McDonald T., “Nurturing credit”: Logics and practices of digital money borrowing among Chinese migrant factory workers, European Association of Social Anthropologists Biennial Conference: EASA 2018 at a panel on “Moving money and everyday life - understanding debt and the digitalization of credit” (Stockholm University, Sweden). 2018.
McDonald T., “Nurturing credit”: Logics and practices of digital money borrowing among Chinese migrant factory workers, In: Centre for Social Policy and Social Change, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, International Symposium — "Wellbeing and Inequality in the Digital Age: New Challenges and New Possibilities". 2019.
McDonald T., “Pulling sheep’s wool”: Online thriftiness as a form of organizational misbehaviour in a Chinese factory, In: Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Workshop: "Exploring Cre-debt: Ethnographic Perspectives, New Economic Theory (NET) and Contemporary Cashlessness". 2019.
Miller D., Costa E., Haynes N., McDonald T., Nicolescu R., Sinanan J., Juliano S., Venkatraman S. and Wang X., Come il mondo ha cambiato i social media (How The World Changed Social Media [Italian Translation]). London, UCL Press, 2019.
Miller D., Costa E., Haapio-Kirk L., Haynes N., Sinanan J., McDonald T., Nicolescu R., Spyer J., Venkatraman S. and Wang X., Contemporary Comparative Anthropology – The Why We Post Project, Ethnos. 2019, 84(2): 283-300.
Miller D., Costa E., Haynes N., McDonald T., Nicolescu R., Sinanan J., Spyer J., Venkatraman S. and Wang X., दुनिया ने जैसे सामाजिक मीडिया को बदल दिया (How The World Changed Social Media [Hindi Translation]). London, UCL Press, 2019.
Miller D., Costa E., Haynes N., McDonald T., Nicolescu R., Sinanan J., Spyer J., Venkatraman S. and Wang X., உலகம் சமூக ஊடகங்களை எப்படி மாற்றியிருக்கிறது (How The World Changed Social Media [Tamil Translation]). London, UCL Press, 2019.
Pountney L., Chan H.W. and McDonald T., The Impact of Social Media: Conducting Independent Enquiry About Social Media – Student pack (with Answers) for HKDSE Liberal Studies (November 2018, English version), 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 – Student pack for HKDSE Liberal Studies (November 2018, English version), 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 (November 2018, English version), 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 (July 2018, English version), 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 (October 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 (October 2018), Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong. 2018.


Researcher : McDonald TN

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


Project Title:MoneyLab #6: Infrastructures of Money; “Pulling sheep’s wool”: Digital money, online thriftiness and organizational misbehaviour in a Chinese factory
Investigator(s):McDonald T
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2019
Completion Date:03/2019


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: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


Project Title:Daoism, Ethnic Identity and State Socialism: the Lanten Yao on the China-Vietnam-Laos Borderland
Investigator(s):Palmer DA
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:09/2018


Project Title:Daoist Ritual, Local Society and the State: Ethnography, Text and Theory
Investigator(s):Palmer DA
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme
Start Date:12/2018


Project Title:Infrastructures of Faith: Religious Mobility on the Belt and Road
Investigator(s):Palmer DA, Halkias G, Li J, Qian J
Department:HK Institute for Humanities & Soc. Sci.
Source(s) of Funding:Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) - Group Research Project
Start Date:06/2019


List of Research Outputs

Alexander J.C., Palmer D.A., Ku A. and Park S., Book editor, In: Jeffrey Alexander, David A. Palmer, Agnes Ku and Sunwoong Park, The Civil Sphere in East Asia. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Palmer D.A. and Siegler E.T., Authenticity and Authority in the Emergence of a Global Daoist Field, New Haven, CT, Yale University, 2018.
Palmer D.A., Authenticity and Authority in the Emergence of a Global Daoist Field, Hong Kong, Dept of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University, 2018.
Palmer D.A. and Siegler E.T., Book talk on Dream Trippers: Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Spirituality, New York, New School for Social Research, China India Institute, 2018.
Palmer D.A. and Siegler E.T., Daoism, the Crumbling of Tradition, and the Fragility of the Self in China and America, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University, 2018.
Palmer D.A. and Siegler E.T., Doing ethnography in a religious field: interventions, tensions and mediations, New Haven, CT, Yale University, 2018.
Palmer D.A., Dream Trippers: Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Spirituality, China Studies Forum. Shanghai, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, 2018.
Palmer D.A. and Siegler E.T., Enchanting Huashan in the Global Spiritual Circuit: Intersecting Modes of Making Sacred Space, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, 2018.
Palmer D.A., Ritual Conquests and Socialist Event Productions: An Exorcist Goddess and the Production of Sacrality in Contemporary China, Inaugural Conference of the Asian Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Singapore, Singapore Management University, 2018.
Palmer D.A. and WINIGER F.V., Secularization, Sacralization and Subject Formation in Modern China, In: Kenneth Dean and Peter van der Veer , The Secular in South, East, and Southeast Asia. Cham (Switzerland), Palgrave MacMillan, 2018, 83-105.
Palmer D.A., Spheres of Solidarity, Moral Codes and Civil Society in China, New Haven, CT, Yale University, 2018.
Palmer D.A., Spirituality, Transcendence, and the Circulatory History of Modern Asian Religion , Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. 2018, 78:1: 171-180.
Palmer D.A. and Alexander J.C., The Civil Sphere in the Cultural and Political Transformations of Modern East Asia , In: Jeffrey Alexander, David A. Palmer, Agnes Ku and Sunwoong Park , The Civil Sphere in East Asia. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Palmer D.A., Siegler E.T. and Komjathy L., The Dao of the Scholar/practitioner: Academic scholarship and the construction of Daoist authority in China and the West, Providence, RI, Brown University, 2018.
Palmer D.A., Three Moral Codes and Microcivil Spheres in China, In: Jeffrey Alexander, David A. Palmer, Agnes Ku and Sunwoong Park , The Civil Sphere in East Asia. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Palmer D.A., Three Moral Codes and Microcivil Spheres in China, XIXth World Congress of Sociology, International Sociological Association. Toronto, 2018.
Palmer D.A., World-Making: Religion, Anthropology, Fiction: Conversation with David A. Palmer and Stuart McLean, Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong Common Core Lounge, 2018.
Palmer D.A., 華山夢道:全球道教與現代靈性的困境, Taipei, Taiwan Cheng Chi University, 2018.


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

Hui P.H., Wu S. and Pun N., Disentangling the effects of empathy components on Internet gaming disorder: A study of vulnerable youth in China, Journal of Behavioral Addictions. 2019, 8: 181-189.
Hui P.H., Pun N., Qiu J. and Koo A., Having Less But Giving More: Work Experience and Prosocial Behavior of Chinese Working-Class Youth, Youth & Society. 2019, 00: 0044118X1984023.
Pun N., "別讓台灣成為奴工島—從大陸新工人問題反思台灣勞工與移工的苦勞現況", at The Taipei World, Trade Center, Taiwan, February 16., 別讓台灣成為奴工島—從大陸新工人問題反思台灣勞工與移工的苦勞現況, 2019.
Pun N. and Koo A., Double contradiction of schooling: class reproduction and working-class agency at vocational schools in China, British Journal of Sociology of Education. 2019, 40: 50-64.
Pun N., Andrijasevic R. and Sacchetto D., Transgressing North–South Divide: Foxconn Production Regimes in China and the Czech Republic, Critical Sociology. 2019, 089692051882388.
Pun N., “Constructing a Micro-Foundation of Social Values of Working-Class Youth in China”, at Columbia University, United States, April 11., 2019.
Pun N., “International Conference: Social Boundaries of Work: Towards a Micro-Foundation of Working- Class Youth Solidarity: The Case of China”, at University of Gdańsk, Poland, October 25-26., 2018.
Pun N., “Labour Conflicts and Development in the Global South”, at University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, June 25-26., 2019.
Pun N., “New Working Class: Return Of Class Analysis”, At National Chiao Tung University In Hsinchu, Taiwan, February 20., 2019.
Pun N., “New doctoral research on work, society and employment in China” at University of London, United Kingdom, June 27, 2019.
Pun N., “The JASIC Conflagration: Assessing the State of Labor Politics in China”, organized by Cornell University, United States, April 12., 2019.


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
Completion Date:06/2019


Project Title:Annual Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) in New York; Unlocking the Marketization of Transition Economies: The "Deferred" Institutionalization of Market Conventions in China’s Film Industry, 1993-2012.
Investigator(s):Shin KV
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2019
Completion Date:06/2019


List of Research Outputs

Chiu W.K.S. and Shin K.V., Hong Kong’s Film Industry Reconstituted: Pathways to China after the Golden Age, In: Tai-lok Lui; Ray Yep; Stephen Wing-kai Chiu, Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Hong Kong. Abingdon, Oxon, UK, Routledge, 2019.
Shin K.V., Unlocking the Marketization of Transition Economies: The "Deferred" Institutionalization of Market Conventions in China’s Film Industry, 1993-2012, The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) Annual Meeting. 2019.


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




Researcher : Tian X

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: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


Project Title:The Asian Conference on Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences; How Culture Influences Technology Use: Face-Work and Disclosure on Wechat Moments
Investigator(s):Tian X
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2019
Completion Date:03/2019


Project Title:Professional Dilemma and Everyday Redemption: Face and Status of Social Workers in Shanghai
Investigator(s):Tian X
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2019


Project Title:HKU Overseas Fellowship Awards 2019-20
Investigator(s):Tian X
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:HKU Overseas Fellowship Awards
Start Date:06/2019


List of Research Outputs

LIN Z. and Tian X., Audience Design and Context Discrepancy: How Online Debates Lead to Opinion Polarization, Symbolic Interaction. 2019, 42 (1): 70-97.
Tian X., Early-in-Career Award, Society for the Studies of Symbolic Interaction. 2018.
Tian X., Escaping the interpersonal power game: Online shopping in China, Qualitative Sociology. 2018.
Tian X., The Allure of Being Modern: Personal Quality as Status Symbol Among Migrant Families in Shanghai, Chinese Sociological Review. 2019, 51(3): 311-335.
Tian X. and LIN Z., Top Downloaded Article, Wiley Publishing Company. 2019.
Tian X., Top Downloaded Article, Wiley Publishing Company. 2019.


Researcher : Tong KM

List of Research Outputs

Tong K.M., 綠色的動保運動 - 於香港學校推行動保教育的經驗, 文化研究年會 2019 (台 灣), 2019.


Researcher : Tsang LT

List of Research Outputs

Tse H.L.T. and Tsang L.T., Reconceptualising Prosumption beyond the ‘Cultural Turn’: Passive Fashion Consumption in Korea and China , In: Steven Miles, Journal of Consumer Culture. United States, Sage, 2018, 0: 1-21.


Researcher : Tse HLT

Project Title:Cultural/creative labour and ‘neo-precarity’: Emerging challenges and responses of precarious workers in Chinese cultural and creative industries
Investigator(s):Tse HLT
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research for Resubmission of GRF/ECS Proposals
Start Date:07/2018


Project Title:BSA Work, Employment and Society Conference 2018; Stigma of Joblessness, Digitalization, and the 'China Dream': Emerging Challenges and Responses of Cultural/Creative Labour in China
Investigator(s):Tse HLT
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:09/2018
Completion Date:09/2018


List of Research Outputs

Tse H.L.T., Chan L.T.J., Leung V. and Cheng K., A Clown, a Political Messiah or a Punching Bag? Rethinking the Performative Identity Construction of Celebrity through Social Media , In: Anthony Y.H. Fung, Global Media and China. China, Sage, 2018, 3: 141-157.
Tse H.L.T. and Tsang L.T., Reconceptualising Prosumption beyond the ‘Cultural Turn’: Passive Fashion Consumption in Korea and China , In: Steven Miles, Journal of Consumer Culture. United States, Sage, 2018, 0: 1-21.
Tse H.L.T., Stigma Of Joblessness, Digitalization, And The ‘china Dream’: Emerging Challenges And Responses Of Cultural/creative Labour In China, The 2018 British Sociological Association's Work, Employment and Society (WES) Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland. 2018.


Researcher : VON PEZOLD JE

List of Research Outputs

VON PEZOLD J.E., Chinese-Mozambican Fashion Flows, 20th HKSA conference at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2018.
VON PEZOLD J.E., It is Good to Have Something Different’: Mutual Fashion Adaptation in the Context of Chinese Migration to Mozambique, In: Melissa S. Dale, Asia Pacific Perspectives, Vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 34-64.. 2019, Vol. 16: pp. 34-64.
VON PEZOLD J.E., Mögliche Einflüsse Mao Zedongs auf die Strategie des IS [Possible Influences of Mao Zedong on ISIS Strategy], In: In: Hansen, S. and Krause, J. (eds.), Jahrbuch Terrorismus 2017/18 [Terrorism Yearbook 2017/18], Verlag Barbara Budrich, pp 331-347. (In German). Germany, Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2018, 8: 331-347.
VON PEZOLD J.E., Power and Gender Dynamics in Chinese-Mozambican Fashion Exchanges, 'Global Asias 5' at Penn State University. 2019.
VON PEZOLD J.E., Translating Fashion between China and Mozambique, Translation, Fashion and Aesthetics in Belgium, China and Japan’ at the University of Antwerp. 2018.


Researcher : WILLIAMS JM

List of Research Outputs

WILLIAMS J.M., Best Paper Award, University of South Wales conference on Global Governance and Expertise in Policy Making. 2018.
WILLIAMS J.M., Emerging Costs Of China’s Belt And Road Strategy For Transboundary Water In South And Southeast Asia, International Journal of Energy and Water Resources. 2019, 3: 81-92.
WILLIAMS J.M., Stagnant Rivers: Transboundary Water Security in South and Southeast Asia, Water. 2018, 10: 1819.
WILLIAMS J.M., The hydropower myth, Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 2019.
WILLIAMS J.M., Transboundary Water Management of the Indus River: A Repetitive Cycle, In: In: Sun R., Fei L. (eds), Sustainable Development of Water and Environment. ICSDWE 2019. Environmental Science and Engineering. Springer, Cham. pp. 137-152. 2019, 137-152.


Researcher : Wang L

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. and CHAN K.T., Georg Simmel's Theory on Individuality, 齐美尔论个性, Chinese Journal of Sociology. 社会, 2018.


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


Project Title:Guanxi, conflicts of interesta and corruption in the Chinese bureaucracy
Investigator(s):Wang P, Fu H
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research for Resubmission of GRF/ECS Proposals
Start Date:07/2018
Completion Date:11/2018


List of Research Outputs

Varese F..., Wang P. and Wong R... .W. .Y., ‘Why should I trust you with my money?’: Credible commitments in the Informal Economy in China, The British Journal of Criminology. 2019.
Wang P., Red Mafia, In: George Ritzer, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Oxford, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2019, 1-3.


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


List of Research Outputs



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


List of Research Outputs

Lee M.S.Y. and Wong W.P.T., From Expatriates to New Cosmopolitans? Female Transnational Professionals in Hong Kong, In: Angela Lehmann and Pauline Leonard, Destination China - Immigration to China in the Post-Reform Era. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 91-119.


Researcher : ZHANG L

List of Research Outputs

ZHANG L., A Sociological Research on the Reestablishment of Chinese Sociology: Based on the Case of 'Nankai Class' (1981-1982), In: Zhang Long, High-Level Forum on China’s Social Development (Seminar Celebrating 40th Anniversary of the Reestablishment of Chinese Sociology), Department of Sociology, Fuzhou University. 2019.
ZHANG L., The Social Construction of Monetary Compensation: A Case Study Based on the Resolution of Medical Disputes in T City Hospital, In: Zhang Long, The Fifteenth Graduate Seminar on China. 2019.


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