GDRS2010 Quantitative Research Methods in Gender Studies

GDRS3005 (UGEC3203) Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Society

GDRS 4010 Thesis

GDRS5030 Advanced Topics in Gender Studies I

GDRS5040 Advanced Topics in Gender Studies II

GDRS5085 Gender and Work 

GDRS5090 Special Topics in Gender Studies

Jing Song is an Associate Professor in Gender Studies Programme at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. she got her BA and MA in sociology at Peking University (China) and then an MA and PhD in sociology at Brown University (USA). Prof. Song studies gender and family issues with a focus on work and informal economy under macro social changes of migration, urbanization, and market transition. Her research interests include women's employment and entrepreneurship, land development and property rights, cohabitation and marriage, gender relations and political participation. She also studies how people's life chances and family lives are shaped by state and market. She has published in China Quarterly, Urban Studies, Journal of Rural Studies, The China Review, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Housing Studies, Population, Space and Place, Journal of Sociology, Journal of Chinese Sociology, Journal of Comparative Family Studies,  Asian Anthropology, Chinese Journal of Sociology etc. Her book Gender and Employment in Rural China was published by Routledge in 2017.

1. National Science Foundation, China, "Business Startups on Internet: A Study of Spatial and Temporal Structures with a Gender Perspective".
2. Research Grants Council, General Research Fund, “Urbanization, Gender and Property Structures: Top-down and Bottom-up Urbanization in Rural China”. 
3. The Worldwide Universities Network, “Women’s Mobility: Negotiating Work and Family Spheres in Asia”.
   https://wun.ac.uk/wun/research/view/womens-mobility
   http://www.oal.cuhk.edu.hk/202003-43-wun/ 
4. Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC), “A Study on Public Attitudes towards Female Political Leadership”.
5. The Sumitomo Foundation, Japan. “Woman and Entrepreneurship in Japan and China”.

Referred Journal Articles:

Song, Jing, Huimin Du and Si-ming Li. 2020. “Who is the winner? Relocated rural communities and stratification in urbanizing northwestern China”, Journal of Rural Studies.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.04.026

Song, Jing and Yinchun Ji. 2020. “Complexity of Chinese Family Life: Individualism, Familism and Gender”, The China Review, 20(2), 1-17. https://cup.cuhk.edu.hk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=66

Song, Jing and Weiwen Lai. 2020. “Cohabitation and Gender Equality: Ideal and Real Division of Household Labor among Chinese Youths”, The China Review, 20(2), 53-80. https://cup.cuhk.edu.hk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=66

Du, Huiming, Jing Song and Si-ming Li. 2020. “‘Peasants are Peasants’: Prejudice against Displaced Villagers in Newly-built Urban Neighbourhoods in China”, Urban Studies.  https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098020911876 

Li, Lulu, Siyuan Zhou and Jing Song. 2019. “Time Poverty: An Analysis of Chinese Young Female Entrepreneurs.” China Youth Study, 10, 19-26. 

Song, Jing. 2018. “Personal traits, opportunities, and constraints: female cadres and rural politics in China’s modernization.” Asian Anthropology, DOI: 10.1080/1683478X.2018.1458404

Song, Jing, Gina Lai, Odalia Wong, Xiaotian Feng. 2018. “Staying Connected with ICT Tools: Tracking Youth Respondents in a Chinese Context.” Journal of Chinese Sociology 5(1) https://doi.org/10.1186/s40711-018-0070-0.

Song, Jing, Huimin Du and Si-ming Li. 2018. “Mobility and Life Chances in Urbanization and Migration in China: Introduction.” The China Review, 18(1), 1-10.

Song, Jing, Huimin Du and Si-ming Li. 2018. “Smooth or Troubled Occupation Transition? Urbanization and Employment of Former Peasants in Western China.” The China Review, 18(1), 79-105.

Clerge, Orly, Gabriela Sanchez-Soto, Jing Song and Nancy Luke. 2017. “‘I Would Really Like to Go Where You Go’: Rethinking Migration Decision-Making Among Educated Tied-Movers.” Population, Space and Place. 23 (2):e1990. DOI: 10.1002/psp.1990 

Lai, Gina, Jing Song, Odalia Wong, and Xiaotian Feng. 2016. “Transition to Higher Education in Contemporary China: A Study of High School Graduates in Urban Nanjing.” Journal of Sociology, Vol. 52(1), 83-102.

Song, Jing. 2015. “Women and Self-employment in Post-socialist Rural China: Side Job, Individual Career or Family Venture.” The China Quarterly, number 221, 229-242.

Song, Jing. 2015. “Official Relocation and Self-help Development: Three Housing Strategies under Ambiguous Property Rights in China’s Rural Land Development.” Urban Studies, Vol. 52(1) 121–137.

Song, Jing. 2014. “Space to Maneuver: Collective Strategies of Indigenous Villagers in the Urbanizing Region of Northwestern China.” Eurasian Geography and Economics. 55:4, 362-380.

Song, Jing and Nancy Luke. 2014. “Fairy Brides from Heaven: Mate Selection in Rural China, 1949-2000.” Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Volume XLV Number 4, 497-515.

Xu, Yuan, Jing Song and Weishi Zhang. 2014. “Decomposing the Impacts of Time Use on Energy Consumption.” Energy Procedia, 61, 1888-1892.

Song, Jing. 2010. “Moving Purchase and Sitting Purchase: Housing Reform and Transition to Homeownership in Beijing.” Housing Studies. Vol. 25, No. 6, 903-919 

Song, Jing and John Logan. 2010. “Family and Market: Nonagricultural Employment in Rural China.” Chinese Journal of Sociology. Vol. 30, No. 5, 142-163. 

Song, Jing and Yang Shanhua. 2005. “Economic Reform and the Transformation of Village Public Authority.” Social Sciences in China，Vol. 156, No. 6, 129-142.

Book

1. Song, Jing, 2017. Gender and employment in rural China. London; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 149 pages.

Book Chapter

1. Lai, Weiwen and Jing Song. 2019. “Cross-border Household Strategies: A Case Study of Transnational Marriage Between China and Myanmar.” Su-ling Yu and Le-kun Tan eds. Marriage Migrants in Asia: Mobility and Agency. Center for Gender & Women Studies, National Cheng Kung University, 153-166.
2. Song, Jing and Lulu Li, 2017. "Mate Selection in Rural China", in Xiaowei Zang and Lucy Zhao eds. Handbook on the Family and Marriage in China, Edward Elgar Publishing, 75-88.
3. Song, Jing. 2017. “Space to Maneuver: Collective Strategies of Indigenous Villagers in the Urbanizing Region of China.” in Si-ming Li, Shenjing He and Kam Wing Chan eds. Changing China: Migration, Communities and Governance in Cities. Routledge, 115-133.
4. Song, Jing and Yang Shanhua. 2012. “College Students’ Self-positioning and the Mobile Phone Consumption.” In Rodney Wai-chi Chu, Leopoldina Fortunati, Patrick Pui-Lam Law, Shanhua Yang eds. Mobile Communication and Greater China, Routledge, 161-175.

Yiu-tung SUEN (DPhil in Sociology, Swire Scholar, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford) is Associate Professor of Gender Studies, and of Public Health and Primary Care (by courtesy), at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received the Young Researcher Award (2020) of the CUHK, and Exemplary Teaching Award in the Faculty of Social Sciences (2022) of the CUHK, in recognition of excellence in research as well as teaching.

He is a leading researcher in Asia who researches the impact of sexual orientation and gender identity related laws and policies (and the lack thereof) on the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and other sexual and gender minorities (LGBT+) people themselves, the organisations they work in, as well as the societies they live in. He founded and directs the Sexualities Research Programme, the first and foremost research programme in Hong Kong dedicated to studying LGBT+ related laws and social policies.

Since joining GDRS in 2016, he has published 20 first-authored SSCI articles, 2 first-authored SCIE articles, and 2 second-authored SSCI articles, many of which are in top international peer-reviewed journals. He sits on the editorial boards of Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (Sage), Ageing and Society (Cambridge University Press), Sociological Research Online (British Sociological Association and Sage), NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies (Taylor & Francis), and Journal of Men’s Studies (Sage). He has been a keynote speaker for 8 times since being an assistant professor at CUHK, in US at Harvard University and Yale University, in UK at University College London, University of Birmingham, University of Surrey, School of Oriental and African Studies, and in Asia at the Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, and at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He holds 4 General Research Fund projects of the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong as Principal Investigator (2018–2020, 2019–2021, 2021–2022, 2023-24 exercises), achieving 100% success rate since joining Gender Studies of obtaining this research grant, for which the success rate is usually about 25–30%. Throughout his academic career he has won research funding of HKD 3.78 million/ USD 0.5 million in total as Principal Investigator, and HKD 19.2 million/ USD 2.5 million as Co-Investigator.

Outside academia, he has been a consultant and written reports for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), and advised the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for their research. Locally, he led the largest-scale research in Hong Kong Equal Opportunities Commission’s history of commissioned research. He is Adviser and Past Vice-Chairperson of AIDS Concern Hong Kong, the first and longest-running non-governmental organisation working on HIV/AIDS issues in Hong Kong, in addition to giving advice to organisations from numerous sectors on diversity and inclusion informally. Besides, he frequently addresses a wide range of audiences including policy makers, business leaders, lawyers, healthcare professionals, and service providers. He has also been working with a variety of sectors as diverse as business, law, hospitality, fashion and more. Moreover, he has been interviewed by international media outlets such as the AFP, BBC, Bloomberg, Financial Times, New York Times, Reuters, and Washington Post for his research. His research was featured by South China Morning Post as their lead story on page A1. Op-eds have been published in the Guardian, South China Morning Post, China Daily, Hong Kong Economic Journal, and Ming Pao among other diverse outlets.

Associate Director

●Gender Research Centre, the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies

Founding Director

●Sexualities Research Programme, Gender Research Centre, the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies

Adjunct Assistant Professor (by courtesy)

●Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care

Member

●Task Force on Education and Training, Committee Against Sexual Harassment

Associate Editorial Board

●Sociological Research Online

Editorial Board

●Journal of Men's Studies

Vice-Chairperson, Board of Directors

●AIDS Concern Hong Kong

Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme & Department of Psychology (by Courtesy)

Director, Gender Studies Programme

Assistant Dean (Interdisciplinary Programmes), Faculty of Social Science

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

By-Fellow, Churchill College, University of Cambridge

GDRS3003 - Field Study

GDRS3024 (UGEC3225) - Gender Biases in Education and the Workplace

GDRS4012 - Gender Development from a Lifespan Perspective

GDRS5090 - Special Topics

GDRS5640 - Psychology and Gender

Psychology of gender

Gender development

Lifespan development

I specialize in gender development throughout the life span. My particular interests are controversial and intriguing issues that necessitate a scientific understanding of gender, such as gender-typed play, stereotyping and socialization, institutional sex segregation, gender nonconformity, gender identity, and sexual orientation. In my research, I have applied a range of methodologies, including cross-sectional, longitudinal, and experimental designs, and explicit and implicit measurements. I have adopted an eclectic theoretical perspective, drawing mainly upon social learning, cognitive, and hormonal theories. I am also interested in social and developmental phenomena in general, including young children’s understanding of others and parents’ perception of such ability in their children.

Currently, I collaborate closely with researchers from Canada, the Netherlands, the United States and Hong Kong on projects on developmental psychology, gender variance, gender stereotypes, sexual orientation, and school sex segregation. My work has received support from the Gates Cambridge Trust, the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and has been published in leading journals in the fields of Psychology and Gender and Sexuality Studies.

Selected professional activities:

Editing

VanderLaan, D., & Wong, W. I. (Eds.). Springer Focus Series—Gender and Sexuality Development: Contemporary Theory and Findings. Springer.

Editorial board member

Archives of Sexual Behavior 

Journal reviewing

Child Development 

Psychoneuroendocrinology 

Developmental Psychology 

Archives of Sexual Behavior

Journal of Sex Research 

Sex Roles 

International Journal of Behavioral Development 

Cognitive Development 

Social Development 

Journal of Gender Studies 

Infant and Child Development 

Selected Awards and Recognitions

2020 Visiting By-Fellow (by nomination and election), Churchill College, University of Cambridge, UK. 2020 Easter Term and Long Vacation (postponed to 2022)

2016 Invited speaker for the New Investigators session for promising young scholars, Gender Development Research Conference, San Francisco, CA.

2009-2012 Gates Cambridge Scholar

2009 Cambridge International Scholarship (declined in favor of the Gates Scholarship)

2009-2012 St John’s College Learning and Research Fund, University of Cambridge

2006-2007 Serena Yang Oxbridge Exchange Scholarship, University of Hong Kong

2006 Hong Kong University Alumni Prize

Wong, W. I.*, Tsui. W. B. ^, & Siu, T. S. (In press). Empathic accuracy of young boys and girls in ongoing parent-child interactions: Performance and (mis)perception. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

Qian, M. K., Wang, Y., Wong, W. I., Fu, G., Zuo, B., & VanderLaan, D. P. (Accepted). Children’s social appraisals at the intersection of race, gender identity, and gender-typed behavior. Archives of Sexual Behavior.

MacMullin, L. N., Nabbijohn, A. N., Kwan, K. M. W., Santarossa, A., Peragine, D. E., James, H. J.,Wong, W. I.*, VanderLaan, D. P.* (Accepted). Canadian replication study of gender-nonconformity Intervention. Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality.

Nabbijohn, A. N., MacMullin, L. N., Kwan, K. M. W., Santarossa, A., Peragine, D. E., Wong, W. I.*, & VanderLaan, D. P.* (In press). Children's bias in appraisals of gender-variant peers.Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 196, 104865.

Wong, W. I.*, & Yeung, S. P.^ (In press). Preschool gender differences in spatial and social skills and their relations to play and parental socialization in Hong Kong Chinese children. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 48, 1589-1602.

Kwan, M. W. ^, Shi, Y.^, Nabbijohn, A. N., MacMullin, L. N., VanderLaan, D.*, & Wong, W. I*. (2020). Children’s responses towards gender-nonconformity: Developmental pattern and intervention. Child Development, 91, e780-e798.

Wong, W. I.*, & VanderLaan, D. P. (2020). Early sex differences and similarities: Evidence across cultures? In F. M. Cheung & D. F. Halpern (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of International Psychology of Women. Cambridge University Press.

Wong, W. I., van der Miesen, A., Li, T. G. F., MacMullin, L. N., & VanderLaan, D*. (2019). Childhood Social Gender Transition and Psychological Well-Being: A Comparison to Cisgender Gender-Variant Children. Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology (APA), 7, 241-253.

Wong, W.I. & Yeung, S.-P. (2019). Early Gender Differences in Spatial and Social Skills and Their Relations to Play and Parental Socialization in Children from Hong Kong. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 48, 1589-1602. (Article selected as high-impacted by Springer Nature) 

Wong, W. I.*, Shi, S. Y.^*, & Chen, Z. S. (2018). Students from single-sex schools are more gender-salient and more anxious in mixed-sex situations: Results from high school and college samples. Plos ONE, 13(12): e0208707. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0208707

Featured in Times Higher Education 17 Dec 2018

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/students-single-sex-schools-anxious-mixed-universities

Wong, W. I.* (2018). [Invited peer-reviewed book review] GENDER-TYPED PLAY AND ITS STATE-OF-THE-ART SCIENCE Gender Typing Of Children's Toys: How Early Play Experiences Impact Development. Edited by Erica S. Weisgram and Lisa M. Dinella. Washington, DC: APA books, 2018. 341 pp. $ 74.95 (hardcover) ISBN: 978-1-4338-2886-7. Sex Roles, 79, 752-753.

Yeung, S. P.^, & Wong, W. I.* (2018). Gender labels on gender-neutral colors: Do they affect children’s color preferences and play performance? Sex Roles, 79, 260-272. doi: 10.1007/s11199-017-0875-3

Springer press release: http://www.springer.com/gp/about-springer/media/research-news/all-english-research-news/pretty-in-pink-and-boisterous-in-blue-/15327536

Also appeared in sciencedaily.com, asianscientist.com, eurekalert.org, bustle.com, etc.

Li, G., & Wong, W. I.* (2018). Single-sex schooling: Friendship, dating, and sexual orientation. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 47, 1025-1039.

Wong, W. I.* (2018). Sex Differences. In M. H. Bornstein (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.

Wong, W. I.* (2017). The space-math link in preschool boys and girls: Importance of mental transformation, targeting accuracy, and spatial anxiety. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 35, 249-266.

Wong, W. I.* (2017). Digit Ratio. In V. Zeigler-Hill and T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Springer Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. New York, NY: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_742-1

 Li, R. Y. H.^, & Wong, W. I.* (2016). Gender-typed toy play and social abilities in boys and girls: Are they related? Sex Roles, 74, 399-410.

Wong, W. I.*, & Hines, M. (2016). Interpreting digit ratio (2D:4D)-behavior correlations: 2D:4D sex difference, stability, and behavioral correlates and their replicability in young children. Hormones & Behavior, 78, 86-94.

Wong, W. I.*, & Hines, M. (2015b). Preferences for pink and blue: The development of color preferences as a distinct gender-typed behavior. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 44, 1243-1254.

Wong, W. I.*, & Hines, M. (2015a). Effects of gender color-coding on toddlers’ gender-typical toy play. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 44, 1233-1242.

Wong, W. I.*, Pasterski, V., Hindmarsh, P. C., Geffner, M. E., & Hines, M. (2013). Are there parental socialization effects on the sex-typed behavior of individuals with congenital adrenal hyperplasia? Archives of Sexual Behavior, 42, 381-391.