Spring 2024
Co-presented by: Gender Studies Programme and Gender Research Centre, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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3 Apr 2024 (Wed)
Mini-Conference of Thesis of MA in Gender Studies 2024
& Gender Studies RPG & MA Outstanding Thesis Award Presentation Ceremony
Time: 12:30 - 14:00
Venue: LT2, UG/F, Sino Building, CUHK (In person)
Moderator: Prof. Jing SONG, Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Commentator: Prof. Ivy WONG, Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Mini-Conference of Thesis of MA in Gender Studies 2024
1/ Constructing Gendered Fear on Digital Platforms: Understanding Young Women’s Fear of Childbirth (FOC) on Red
Speaker: CHEN Peiwei
Supervisor: Prof. Ling HAN
Abstract:
This study aims to understand the experiences of young female users on Red in constructing FOC discourse, to enrich the understanding of fear of childbirth on digital platforms. The research methods are Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and qualitative interviews. In the first phase, Python is utilized to extract notes related to FOC discourse. Subsequently, CDA is used to explore the underlying message of these FOC discourses. To ground the CDA findings in the experiences of young women, this study recruits 13 participants. These individuals, who are active users of Red and engage in the construction of FOC discourse, belong to the demographic cohorts born in the 1990s and 2000s. Through semi‐structured interviews, this study seeks to explore how FOC discourses are constructed within specific contexts. In order to further explore how digital platforms amplify gendered fear, this study will integrate the results of content analysis and qualitative interviews to examine the social factors influencing the construction of FOC discourse on Red, thereby revealing its uniqueness in the Chinese context.
Biography:
CHEN Peiwei is an MA student in Gender Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include gender and digital platforms, as well as gender dynamics in domestic and intimate spheres.
2/ The Change of Female Image in Chinese Family Films and Its Influence on Contemporary Chinese Female Thought
Speaker: WANG Zijie
Supervisor: Dr. Sonia WONG
Abstract:
In recent years, Chinese film has been booming, and family film as a branch has also shown different changes, in which there are different narratives of women's image in family film. This thesis focuses on Chinese family movies in the 21st century, mainly selecting three movies, Einstein & Einstein (《狗十三》, 2013), Spring Tide (《春潮》, 2019), and Sister (《我的姐姐》, 2021), to study the images of women in them. Female empowerment in family films is analyzed from three perspectives: daughter, sister, and mother. In addition, this thesis reveals the development of Chinese feminism in the film and culture industry by examining the influence of female images in family movies on the audience's thoughts.
Biography:
WANG Zijie, MA student in gender studies program.
3/ The Presentation of Mother-Daughter Relationships in Contemporary Chinese Family Films
Speaker: ZOU Yufei
Supervisor: Dr. Sonia WONG
Abstract:
Since the 21st century, Chinese film creation has been in a new pattern of diversification, differentiation and industrialization, but family films still maintain their prosperous
development trend in the development of the eras. Among all the family relationship, motherdaughter relationship is not only a very important part of family relations, but also a branch of social relations. Exploring the mother‐daughter relationship in women’s family movies can not only reveal women’s psychological structure and understand women’s relationship patterns, but also analyze women’s survival dilemma in patriarchal families and societies. This paper will use 15 films that focus on the mother‐daughter relationship as analysis texts, use text analysis methods to analyze the presentation and characteristics of the mother‐daughter relationship, and briefly explain the reasons for its emergence and shaping.
Biography:
ZOU Yufei, MA student of gender studies programme.
Gender Studies RPG & MA Outstanding Thesis Award
1/ ZHOU Siyuan
PhD Thesis Title: Becoming Insurance Agents in Hong Kong: Career Choices and Social Mobility Among Female Mainland Graduates
Supervisor: Prof. Jing SONG
2/ TANG Xiaolei
MPhil Thesis Title: Empathic Accuracy, Mental Depletion, and Relationship Satisfaction in Romantic Couples
Supervisor: Prof. Ivy Wong
3/ ZHEN Lin
MPhil Thesis Title: 親密關係幻想與數據庫類型：商業化原耽小說中性別叙事的生産與消費機制
Supervisor: Prof. Jia TAN
4/ ZHANG Xunyue
MA Thesis Title: Becoming Online Bloggers on RED: Empowerment and Challenges in the Use of social media by mainland immigrant wives in Hong Kong
Supervisor: Prof. Ling HAN
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13685978
27 Mar 2024 (Wed)
Enacting Mundanity: How Digital Technologies Shape Gendered Transnational Eldercare
Time: 12:30 - 14:00
Venue: LT2, UG/F, Sino Building, CUHK (In person)
Speaker: Ms. HUANG Jiying (MPhil student, Gender Studies Programme, Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Prof. HAN Ling (Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
Scholarship on care has demonstrated the pronounced gendered nature of care and tends to conceptualize humans as sole agents, comprising caregivers and care recipients. Recent research, however, calls for an equal focus on materiality, as its incorporation defines what care itself is. In the context of transnational family practices, the pervasive integration of digital technologies has prompted scholars to acknowledge new care without physical proximity. Bringing technology to the forefront, the study examines what kind of new care it is; how it is shaped by digital technology, and how technology co-created people's gender identity in shaping gendered care. Through in-depth interviews with 39 Chinese transnational families, this study unveils that digital technologies afford the specific content of care through the practice of "enacting mundanity". Video calls emerge as a central practice in constructing mundanity, contingent upon the collaborative engagement of both care parties and the technology itself. In addition, a new intergenerational emotion emerges in the relation between care parties and technology. Masculinity and femininity of offspring acquire their meaning through embeddedness in working technologies to fulfil the emotion expectation.
Speaker's Biography:
Jiying Huang is an MPhil student in the Gender Studies Programme, affiliated with the Sociology department at CUHK. She is also a part-time research assistant at the Gender Research Centre of the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies. Her research interests focus on the material connections between gender and technology, particularly how gender is co-created alongside the use and non-use of digital technologies.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13685772
13 Mar 2024 (Wed)
Complicating the Migrant Maternal Imaginary: Valuation and Parenting Experiences of College-Educated Chinese Stay-at-Home Mothers in Singapore
Time: 12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Zoom (online)
Speaker: Prof. Zheng MU (Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The National University of Singapore)
Moderator: Prof. Jing SONG (Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
The literature on migrant mothers largely focuses on their challenges and constraints. Using semi-structured in-depth interviews with 36 college-educated Chinese stay-at-home mothers in Singapore, studies in this talk aim to complicate the migrant maternal imaginary by showing how skilled migration renders stay-at-home motherhood both limiting and liberating. Drawing on their migration status and relatively privileged educational backgrounds, elite migrant mothers re-imagine and construct values of stay-at-home motherhood by framing their role as productive workers and linking private and public spheres. While the challenges presented by a new institutional background limited their opportunities for career development and support from extended families, Singapore’s tolerance toward and diversity of options related to stay-at-home motherhood made it an acceptable alternative life choice. Studies in this talk highlight the importance of going beyond the separate-spheres ideology in understanding how skilled migrant mothers construct the productive meaning of their stay-at-home motherhood.
Speaker's Biography:
Dr. Zheng Mu’s general research interests focus on trends, social determinants, and consequences of marriage and family behaviors, with a focus on how marriage and family have served as inequality-generating mechanisms. Her ongoing research projects examine how migration, ethnicity, gender, and interactions between ideational and socioeconomic contexts shape individuals’ time use patterns, family experiences, and well-being in China and Singapore.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13683890
6 Mar 2024 (Wed)
Urban and Rural Context of Gender Inequality and Adolescent Dating Violence in China: Tilting Toward a Feminist Poststructural Perspective
Time: 12:30 - 14:00
Venue: LT2, UG/F, Sino Building, CUHK (In person)
Speaker: Prof. Nicole W.T. Cheung, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Prof. Jing SONG (Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
Urban and rural settings in China may make a difference to the effect of gender inequality. The influence of traditional gender norms among urban youth in China may be waning. There is evidence suggesting increasing gender-egalitarian attitudes in urban China, with urban parents being increasingly willing to invest in singleton girls, which eliminates opportunities for parents to discriminate against daughters. The patrilineal culture may render rural girls more vulnerable to partner abuse victimization. Nevertheless, some research on college populations in China found that females are less likely to accept dating violence than their male peers, and this finding did not differ between rural and urban settings. It is possible that Chinese rural girls strive to resist and regain power in a patrilineal culture. This study examines how far urbanity versus rurality matter to gender inequality and the victim-aggressor overlap of dating violence in urban and rural China. Data are drawn from a survey of high school students (N = 5,820) from 32 schools in cities and rural counties in Guangdong and Hunan provinces. Rural girls who endorse traditional gender norms tend to perpetrate dating violence and to be victimized than their male counterparts who endorse traditional gender norms. This pattern is more salient in rural teens than their urban counterparts. These results cast light on the transition from second-wave feminism to third-wave feminism in understanding dating aggression in China.
Acknowledgement: This work was supported by General Research Fund (Ref. No. CUHK14613720) of Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee, Government of Hong Kong SAR.
Speaker's Biography:
Nicole W.T. Cheung is an Associate Professor at Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is also an Associate Dean (Education) of Faculty of Social Science. She specializes in the sociology of crime and deviance, victimology, the sociology of youth, and addiction and health. She has published a wide range of papers on victimization in relation to gender issues, rural-to-urban migration and health, rural life, and victim–offender overlap based on her past research projects in urban and rural China. Her studies were published in Social Science & Medicine, Youth & Society, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Crime & Delinquency, Journal of Youth & Adolescence, Journal of Adolescent Health and Health & Place among others. She recently completed a project “Safe Dates Compromised: Understanding the Social and Situated Correlates of Adolescent Dating Aggression in China”. Relatedly, she has started a new project entitled “Dating Abuse Victimization among Young Adult Dating-App Users in Urban China: Do Status, Beauty and Adolescent Exposure to Violence Matter?”. This current project approaches online dating abuse from the victim’s perspective and focuses on young adult female vulnerability to online dating victimization in urban China.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13683403
28 Feb 2024 (Wed)
When Digital Platforms Become Migrant Destinations: A Case Study of Rural Women’s Creative Entrepreneurship in the Digital China
Time: 12:30 - 14:00
Venue: LT2, UG/F, Sino Building, CUHK (In person)
Speaker: Ms. Danchen LIU (Mphil. Student, Gender Studies Programme and Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Prof. Ling HAN (Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
With the technological changes, deskilling and feminization of creative and cultural industries (CCIs), a growing number of marginalized groups flow into this “middle-class” industry. Especially in post-pandemic China, platformed creative entrepreneurship serves as one critical informal work encouraged by the state and narrated as an egalitarian path. However, existing studies largely concentrate on middle-class and educated creative professionals in urban areas. Some capture the “class difference,” but gender is missed.
Adopted in-depth interviews and digital ethnography, this study investigates how Chinese rural women creators (wanghong) foster their platformed creative entrepreneurship and reinvent their subjectivities. Data was collected by life story interviews with 17 rural women creators, one-year participant observation in their showrooms on Kuaishou, a short-video platform popularized among underclass groups, and two paid training courses targeted at rural women who have platformed creative entrepreneurship dreams.
This research identifies mechanisms shaping their cultural production. Interpersonal networks and patriarchal families cooperate with platforms and the state to empower rural women and paradoxically generate governance. Rather than being passive, rural women creators wield agency to negotiate with various actors in multi-level governance. They develop unique strategies to keep the right to work and reorganize platformed creative entrepreneurship and life. Their practices and narratives emerge from the intersection of platform entrepreneurialism, the growing rural-urban divide, gender, and rural class in China. Moving beyond urban contexts, this study expands the gender politics debates around platformed creative entrepreneurship by providing an alternative perspective from the Global South and embodied experiences of rural women creators.
Speaker's Biography:
LIU Danchen is an MPhil student in Gender Studies affiliated with Sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests focus on platform labor intersecting with gender and class, digital technologies and inequalities, and gender under algorithms.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13683264
21 Feb 2024 (Wed)
Gender Inequality in Academia: Career Development and Promotion Timelines in a University in Hong Kong
Time: 12:30 - 14:00
Venue: LT2, UG/F, Sino Building, CUHK (In person)
Speaker: Prof. Sara Hua ZHONG (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Prof. Haijing DAI (Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
This study aims to examine gender disparities and potential gender inequalities in academia by drawing on life history data of faculty members in one of the Hong Kong universities. Different genders may face different opportunities and obstacles in seeking recognition and promotion regarding their teaching, research, and service, and they often balance their family and career in different ways. The findings will not only shed light on the theoretical understandings on how men and women perform in academia based on their different education and working experiences, but also help policy makers and the public to reflect on how to promote gender equality and encourage diversity and inclusion in academia. The archival life history data are mainly derived from scholars’ resume posted on official or personal websites. After coding by important themes emerged from prior theoretical grounds, the study illustrates the timing patterns of job entry and promotion, and then explore the underlying sociodemographic factors that help to shape their academic performance and life aspirations. The preliminary findings have clearly indicated the persistent existence of the leaky pipeline in this university. That is, the proportion of women at each stage of the academic tenure track continues to decrease. However, such leaky pipeline effects in non-STEM majors are relatively smaller. The results of faculty comparisons further confirm the so-called “survival selectivity”, especially in STEM majors. In other words, those female associate professors who successfully substantiated will be promoted to full professors even faster than their male counterparts. We then try to develop a series of interventions that could be implemented by individuals and organizations to attract and assist female scholars at each stage of this pipeline and to increase gender equality in academia in general.
Speaker's Biography:
Dr. Hua (Sara) Zhong obtained her PhD at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park. Currently she is an associate professor of Department of Sociology and Associate Director of Chinese Law Programme at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has been a visiting scholar at University of California Irvine, Cambridge University and the National Australian University. Her research and teaching interests include criminology, criminal justice, social development, youth studies and gender studies. Currently she has several ongoing projects on social change and trends of homicide/cybercrime/delinquency/substance use by gender, by age and across cultures. Her publications have appeared in Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Journal of Criminal Justice, Feminist Criminology, Journal of Youth and Adolescence and International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology etc.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13682129
7 Feb 2024 (Wed)
How Did East Asia Overtake South Asia on Gender?
Time: 12:30 - 14:00
Venue: LT2, UG/F, Sino Building, CUHK (In person)
Speaker: Dr. Alice EVANS (Senior Lecturer, Department of International Development, School of Global Affairs, Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy, King's College London)
Moderator: Prof. Susanne Yuk-ping CHOI (Professor, Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Co-Director, Gender Research Centre, CUHK)
Abstract:
In 1900, East and South Asia were extremely patriarchal. Women’s chastity was crucial for family honour, so they were closely surveilled. But over the 20th century, East Asian women increasingly undertook paid work in the public sphere, forged solidarity and gained status. South Asian patriarchy is much more persistent. Men continue to be revered as knowledgeable authorities, deserving of deference. To explain this divergence, I introduce “the Honour-Income Trade-Off”. Every patrilineal society faces a trade-off between honour (achieved by social policing) and income (earned by exploiting female labour). East Asian female employment rose rapidly because job-creating economic growth led to higher wages, which compensated for honour. Moreover, East Asians had a weaker preference for female seclusion. Capitalising on job-creating growth, East Asia has become much more gender equal.
Speaker's Biography:
Alice Evans is a Senior Lecturer at King’s College London, she is writing “The Great Gender Divergence” (with Princeton University Press), on how the entire world has become more gender equal and why some societies are more gender equal than others.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13681552
Fall 2023
Co-presented by: Gender Studies Programme and Gender Research Centre, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
More information and registration links for individual seminars will be provided respectively on this website, please check back later. Thank you.
18 Oct 2023 (Wed)
Online Sexual Harassment, Harm and Relationality
Time: 12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Chen Kou Bun Building 109 (CKB 109) (In person)
Speaker: Dr Tangi Yip (Postdoctoral Fellow, Gender Research Centre, HKIAPS, CUHK), Prof. Susanne Choi (Professor, Department of Sociology, CUHK)
Moderator: Professor Song Jing (Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
Cyberspace facilitates the occurrence of sexual harassment and creates new experiences of harms. Although online/offline world is often perceived as separated, we argue that harm induced by online sexual harassment (OSH) transcends cyberspace and interacts with social world. This paper asks 1) what are types of harm produced by OSH; 2) how harm is situated with relational context. In other words, how do different relationships collectively produce victims’ experiences of harm? Our findings were based on data collected through in-depth interviews with 37 young people aged between 19 and 31 who have experienced OSH. Our findings are as follows: first, emotional harm (e.g. feelings of fear and disgust) was the most common among our respondents, followed by psychological harm. Second, when OSH was committed by known harassers, victims often felt uncertain towards their victimization. They might endure the experience and even defend the harassers. Third, when some victims reported their experience to institutions or informally shared with people they trust, they might be held accountable or ridiculed for their victimization. These responses further discouraged them from disclosing the experience or seeking help. Fourth, we found that trusting relationship, and greater gender and sexual awareness could empower victims and reduce their harm. The conclusion and implications will also be discussed.
Speaker's Biography:
Dr. Tangi YIP is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Gender Research Centre, HKIAPS in The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include gender, marriage and family, housing, and cyber violence.
Professor Susanne Yuk Ping Choi is Professor at the Department of Sociology, and Co-Director of the Gender Research Centre at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include migration, gender, family, and sexuality in Chinese societies. She has published over 40 journal articles in world leading journals, including American Journal of Sociology, Sociology, British Journal of Sociology, Journal of Marriage and Family, Sociology of Health and Illness, the China Quarterly, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies etc.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13673219
11 Oct 2023 (Wed)
Marriage Unbound: State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China
Time: 10:30 - 11:30
Venue: Online Only
Speaker: Prof. LI Ke (Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, John Jay College of the City University of New York)
Moderator: Professor Han Ling (Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
On a hot summer day, Wang Guiping attended her divorce trial at the Xiqing People’s Tribunal. Taking an unfaithful spouse to court would, Guiping thought, help her end a hopeless relationship and actualize her lawful rights upon divorce. Later that day, Guiping would find herself betrayed not only by her husband, but by the court system and her own legal counsel. Taking this case as a point of departure, Ke Li recounts decades-long research on divorce litigation in rural China. Ultimately, this talk articulates a firm belief: divorce, seemingly prosaic, offers a unique window onto phenomena of great importance to sociologists, political scientists, sociolegal researchers, and China scholars.
Speaker's Biography:
Ke Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the John Jay College of the City University of New York. Her research focuses on law, legal professions, courts, and women’s rights in China. In 2022, her book, Marriage Unbound: State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China, was published by Stanford University Press. So far, it has won four book awards, issued by the Law and Society Association, the American Political Science Association, and the American Sociological Association, respectively.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13673217
4 Oct 2023 (Wed)
Exploring the role of trauma in underpinning sexualised drug use (‘chemsex’) among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in Singapore
Time: 12:00 - 13:15
Venue: Online Only
Speaker: Dr Rayner Tan (Visiting research fellow, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore)
Moderator: Professor Suen Yiu Tung (Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
Sexualised drug use (SDU) has been identified as a major risk factor for HIV, as well as other mental health comorbidities among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM). We conducted in-depth interviews with 33 purposively-sampled GBMSM with a history of SDU, and seeking treatment for it in Singapore. Participants firstly articulated the positive and desired aspects of SDU. Participants also described how SDU, in contrast, was used as a coping mechanism to deal with emotional and situational ‘precipitants’. Participants also articulated how such precipitants were underpinned by experiences of trauma, including those relating to HIV-related stigma, racism, sexual violence, death and loss, neglect, as well as internalised homophobia. Next, participants illustrated how such trauma were reinforced by ‘preconditions’, including the accessibility of substances, emphasis on sexual capital, and lack of access to mainstream support structures in the gay male community, alongside general barriers to care.
Speaker's Biography:
Dr Rayner Kay Jin Tan received his PhD from the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and trained as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina Project China. He is currently a visiting research fellow at Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, and a visiting research fellow at National Centre for Infectious Diseases in Singapore. Dr Tan has a background in Sociology and is a sociobehavioral researcher by training. His research interests revolve broadly about the social determinants of health, health of vulnerable and minority populations, sexual health and mental health.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13673213
27 Sep 2023 (Wed)
Gender Pattern in Livelihood Choices and Economic Consequences for Rural Households in China
Time: 12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Chen Kou Bun Building 109, CUHK (In person)
Speaker: Professor Yuying TONG (Professor, Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Professor Lynne NAKANO (Professor, Department of Japanese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
Drawing on theories on the gender division of labor, life course, household labor allocation, as well as the implication of key household members. This study goes beyond migration and its consequences by examining both local and non-local livelihood choices from a gender perspective. The study first examines how rural people’s livelihoods have been changing and to what extent the gender gap has been enlarging or shrinking. It then investigates how household economy has been affected by these changes. China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) and China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) have been used for this study. Our study has pointed out a pessimistic trend for rural married women to close the gender gap with men in pursuing non-farming opportunities and expanding their space of work in China. For household economic consequence, our study focuses on household head’s livelihood choices. It shows that migration of household head is overall beneficial to rural household income growth comparing other livelihood choices, although the positive effect is contingent on the household life course and gender.
Speaker's Biography:
Yuying Tong is a Professor of Sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her current research interests focus on 1) Consequences of Migration to Rural Households: in this line of research, she examines migration consequences at both household and individual levels in China, especially from a gender perspective. 2) Migration Integration in Host Society: she studies both adult and children’s adaptation and integration in host societies, by taking into account the factors of members in host societies. 3) Family and Life Course: her focus on this line of research includes both individual key life event transitions and within family intergenerational effect in Mainland China, Hong Kong as well as East Asian area. Lastly, her research in Population Health and Well-being mainly examines the health consequences of migration and family transition, the intersection of health with her interests in migration and family studies.
Language: English (with some discussio in Putonghua if necessary)
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13673209
20 Sep 2023 (Wed)
Emerging New Gendered Roles in Chinese Rural Families among Female Vocational College Students
Time:12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Chen Kou Bun Building 109, CUHK
Speaker: Professor Anita KOO (Professor, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University)
Moderator: Professor SUEN Yiu Tung (Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
The rapid expansion of higher education and the labor market and the emergence of individualistic values allow rural Chinese youths to have more power and freedom in their individualized planning for future development and construction of their identities. This presentation, drawing mainly on data from in-depth interviews with vocational college students from rural households, explores their motivation for higher education and the meaning they attach to education and employment. Analyzing focus is put on the intricacies of educated young women’s gendered subjectivities under the rapid social, cultural, and economic transitions in rural communities. While investigating their strategies for economic empowerment and self-development, a new form of empowered gender subjectivity is identified. By aspiring to provide continuous financial, emotional and physical support for their parents through a smooth school-to-work transition, they aim to transform the devalued role of daughters in the patriarchal system to become valuable daughters for their natal families.
Speaker's Biography:
Anita Koo is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Hong Kong Baptist University. She researches on the impacts of structural inequalities on educational opportunities, youth development, and chances of social mobility among individuals from different classes and gender.Her present research focuses on the educational experiences, gendering process, life chances and the school-to-work transitions among those who study in vocational/professional programs in expanded higher education systems in Hong Kong and China. Her publications appeared in Sociology, Journal of Education Policy, Sociological Review, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Journal of Youth Studies, Chinese Sociological Review, etc.
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13673207
Spring 2023
Co-presented by: Gender Studies Programme and Gender Research Centre, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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12 Apr 2023 (Wed)
Gender Studies RPG & MA Outstanding Thesis Award Presentation Ceremony
12 Apr 2023 (Wed)
Mini-Conference of Thesis of BSSc & MA in Gender Studies 2023
Date: 12 Apr 2023
Time: 11:30-14:00
Venue: Chen Kou Bun Building 123, CUHK (In person only. No online link available.)
Moderator: Prof. HAN Ling (Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Commentor: Prof. WONG Ivy Wang (Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Language: English unless indicated
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13660769
Please refer to this pdf file for abstracts of the presenting theses
22 Mar 2023 (Wed)
Empathic Accuracy, Mental Depletion, and Relationship Satisfaction among Heterosexual Romantic Couples
Date: 22 Mar 2023
Time: 12:30-14:00
Venue: Chen Kou Bun Building 123, CUHK (In person only. No online link available.)
Speaker: Ms. TANG Xiaolei (MPhil Student, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Prof. WONG Ivy Wang (Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Language: English
Abstract:
Empathic accuracy refers to the extent to which people successfully infer others’ thoughts and feelings. With substantial research proved the close association between romantic couples’ empathic accuracy and their relationship satisfaction, scant research has explored factors which could affect one’s performance on empathic accuracy. Besides, no study has probed the effect of perceived self and partner’s empathic accuracy on relationship satisfaction. In the context of heterosexual romantic relationships, whether and how gender would alter the associations between these constructs also needs further inquiry.
The current study extends existing literature by 1) examining how perceived mental depletion and gender are related to people’s empathic accuracy in romantic relationships; 2) exploring how one’s own and partner’s actual and perceived empathic accuracy are related to one’s own and partner’s relationship satisfaction; 3) examining whether these association patterns differ for women and men.
Eighty-seven heterosexual couples (N=174, Agemean=29) completed a set of one-off questionnaires and a 14-day daily diary assessment. Data were analyzed using multilevel modeling. The results showed that higher mental depletion level was associated with lower empathic accuracy, and women and men did not differ in their performance on empathic accuracy. Both one’s own and partner’s actual EA level and the perceived EA level contributed to their relationship satisfaction and gendered association patterns were found.
Biography:
TANG Xiaolei is an MPhil student in Gender Studies (Psychology) at CUHK, and a lab member of the Gender Development Lab at CUHK. Her research interests include the role of gender/sexual identity in shaping people’s behaviors in different social contexts and the psychological well-being of gender/sexual minorities.
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13660767
15 Mar 2023 (Wed)
Sajiao Gong: Intimacy Fantasy and Resignification of Femininity in Danmei Fiction
Date: 15 Mar 2023
Time: 12:30-14:00
Venue: Chen Kou Bun Building 123, CUHK (In person only. No online link available.)
Speaker: Ms. ZHENG Lin (MPhil Student, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Prof. TAN Jia (Associate Professor, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Language: Putonghua
Abstract:
With the development of neoliberal subjects and the rise of feminist consciousness in China, how femininity should be understood and enacted in intimate relationships has become an urgent question for Chinese women. On the one hand, femininity is constantly celebrated as a virtue in the mainstream heteronormative culture, on the other hand, it is frequently stigmatized by misogynistic gender culture; On the one hand, femininity is seen as an essential strategy for women to manage intimacy, on the other hand, it is considered responsible for objectifying and exploiting women in intimate relationships. Meanwhile, modern intimacy seems to become increasingly rational, dull, flat, unattractive, and unworthy of pursuit in women's eyes. The reality of women's plight in intimate relationships goes hand in hand with the growing prevalence of female-dominated intimacy fantasies. As heterosexual female-dominated intimacy fantasies about male-male romance and erotica, danmei reflects women's desire and anxiety and explores alternatives for intimacy experimentally. The intersection and representation of masculinity and femininity in male protagonists have long been the focus of danmei studies. However, previous studies either regard the male protagonists as androgynous, gender-fluid female ideal subjects or focus on the modification of soft masculinity in male protagonists. Femininity, whose significance in intimate relationships has rarely been explored, is still mostly portrayed as a passive trait that needs to be wrapped in masculinity to be expressed without guilt. In recent years, the feminized gong(the inserter during sexual intercourse) has developed from a niche character set to a dominant genre in danmei novels. Through the analysis of 'sajiao gong', one of the representative character sets of the feminized gong genre, this study will examine how femininity is resignified through the cultural and discursive practices of the female online community and how the resignification attempts to respond to the current intimate relationship dilemma.
Biography:
Zheng Lin is a Mphil student from Gender Studies (affiliated with Cultural Studies Department) at the Chinese University of Hong kong. Her current project explores the intimacy imagination, gender narrative as well as production and consumption of commercialized original danmei novels. Her research interests include East Asian popular culture, gender and sexuality, fandom and participatory culture, and emotion and affect.
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13660765
22 Feb 2023 (Wed)
[Cancelled] Burnout Market Feminism: Urban Chinese Businesswomen in the Internet Age
[Cancellation of Feb 22 Wed Seminar on Burnout Market Feminism]
We regret to inform you that our speaker has fallen ill and will no longer be able to present on that date. Therefore, the seminar has to be cancelled.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. We look forward to welcoming you at future events.
Time: 12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Chen Kou Bun Building 123, CUHK (In person only. No online link available.)
Speaker: Dr. TANG Ling (RGC Postdoctoral Fellow, Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University)
Moderator: Prof. HAN Ling (Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
This talk is about my forthcoming DPhil-thesis-based book, currently under contract with MIT Press. Based on a one-year multi-sited ethnography with businesswomen in Shenzhen and Hefei and three-years' working experiences in an online educational platform economy, my book makes two main contributions. Theoretically, by introducing my concept of burnout market feminism, it solves the puzzle of why women in China thrive in business in the Internet age, at a time when there is a state crackdown on feminism. Burnout market feminism is a critical theoretical combination of Chinese feminist Xiaojiang Li’s market feminism and Korean-German cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han’s burnout society. Empirically, this book demonstrates the multiplicities and nuances of businesswomen's lived experiences and negotiations with patriarchy in different social-culture locations. I compare business ideas and business practices, especially in terms of the well-researched male-centred guanxi practices, with intimacy and family practices among three different groups of women.
Speaker's Biography:
Dr TANG Ling (She/They) is an artist academic who considers sociology as art and vice versa. As a Chinese feminist queer scholar, her research interests include platform studies, gender studies, sociology of business, and innovative methods. Besides academic writing, she takes creative writing, music, photography and film as her art media. Ling is currently based at the Academy of Film at HKBU doing her postdoctoral public sociology project Forest and Trees 见树又见林. Their songs can be found on music streaming platforms (e.g. Spotify, 网易云) with the name Lyn Dawn or 唐凌.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13660763
15 Feb 2023 (Wed)
Penalty, Bonus, or Needs: Family Care Responsibilities and Work in Three Labor Regimes of Chinese Societies
Time: 12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Chen Kou Bun Building 123, CUHK (In person only. No online link available.)
Speaker: Prof. DAI Haijing (Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Prof. HAN Ling (Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
In the global care crisis for young children and the ageing, the gendered impact of family care responsibilities on employment and career development of family caregivers has aroused much academic and policy attention, but there still lacks systematic and holistic investigation into the workplace discrimination against caregivers in different social contexts and the current discussion and advocacy are often constrained in the western framework of meritocracy.
Through mixed-methods data and the lens of comparative research, this study investigates how employers evaluate and treat male and female employees with various family care responsibilities in three different labor regimes of Chinese societies – the neo-liberal Hong Kong market under a productivist welfare system, the market-driven private sector of Mainland China struggling with post-COVID economic decline, and the state-supervised public sector of Mainland China with socialist legacies.
We identified four sets of rationales among employers in the three labor regimes of China: a market meritocracy of competence, competitiveness, and efficiency; a moral virtuocracy of family care and responsibilities; a cultural schema of gendered division of labor; and structural resources and constraints embedded in labor protection and family welfare policies. The four sets sometimes corroborate but sometimes contradict one another in different employment contexts, based on which employers construct their evaluations of family caregivers in the labor market. At the core of the inquiries of the study are how the four sets of rationales interactively shape employers’ views and practices in different labor regimes in China, how the resulting struggles and dilemmas of employees with family care duties differ, and how social interventions that address the different sets of employers’ rationales produce varied outcomes in different contexts. Implications for thereotical development and policymaking are also discussed.
Speaker's Biography:
Haijing DAI is an associate professor of social work at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD degree in social work and sociology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research explores how gender and inter-generational dynamics in household division of labor, family care arrangement, and family life interact with socio-economic and welfare-system changes in Chinese societies, and how new patterns of stratification and inequality are constructed in these processes. Her articles have appeared in Social Service Review, British Journal of Social Work, Journal of Social Policy, The China Review, Social Forces, and Journal of Family Issues.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13660761
18 Jan 2023 (Wed)
Tokophobia as Feminist Resistance? Female Netizens’ Reproductive Experiences and Discourses in China’s Cyberspace
Time:12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Zoom
Speaker: Dr. XIE Kailing (Lecturer, International Development, University of Birmingham)
Dr. ZHOU Yunyun (Associate Professor, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo)
Moderator: Prof. LAI Ruby Yuen Shan (Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology & Social Policy, Lingnan University)
Abstract:
One of the unexpected consequences of China’s One Child Policy is a sharp increase of the number of well-educated women in (Xie, 2021). While globally woman’s educational attainment is negatively correlated to fertility rate, the social norm of heteronormative marriage and child-rearing remains a predominant way of life in China. Concerned about the ‘population crisis’ with its dropping birth rate and fast aging population, the Chinese state has turned to pro-natalist policy that encourage married couple to have more children since 2021, despite the lack of supportive maternity and child-care policies. China’s essentialist gender discourse naturalised motherhood that has leads to the so-called ‘widow-style childrearing’, with little input from the paternal side. How do young women react to such reproductive dilemma, with both fear for missing out and the anxiety of being overwhelmed? How do women gain knowledge, exchange ideas about their reproductive choices and experiences? In what way cyberspace communities provide alternative spaces for female-centred discussions that are often marginalised if not silenced? To investigate in these issues, we have compiled a dataset that consists of 3153 posts under the topic ‘What does reproduction mean to women?’ from Douban, a popular forum among China’s young female urbanites from March 2020 to June 2022. As an ongoing project, we are currently coding and analysing the dataset with the aim to understand the general themes, topics, values emerged from these discussions. In this talk, we will share our preliminary findings from the ongoing data analysis, but importantly the significance of such alternative public space online for China’s gender dynamics and feminist movements.
Speaker's Biography:
Dr Kailing XIE is a lecturer in the International Development Department at the University of Birmingham. Kailing takes a critical approach to International Development. Her work investigates the underlying social, cultural and political tensions underpinning China’s economic success through the lens of gender. She aims to uncover real people’s lived experience of different development projects against the backdrop of China’s rise on the global stage. Her recent monography, Embodying middle class gender aspirations: perspectives from China’s privileged young women, illuminates the centrality of heterosexual marriage as a primary institution in the organisation and reproduction of labour for the market economy, imbued with gendered inequality. Her article on ‘Premarital Abortion’ was awarded the 2017 Early Career Researcher Prize by the British Association of Chinese Studies.
Dr Yunyun ZHOU is a feminist researcher, a political sociologist, a Chinese Studies scholar, an ethnographic filmmaker, and associate professor based at the University of Oslo, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages. She positions herself as a fieldwork-based researcher working at the intersection of political sociology, gender studies and cultural studies. Her current research projects cover a range of topics concerning the latest development of Chinese politics and society, such as Chinese women's reproductive choices and discourses, social movements, and media representations. One of her recent publications focuses on the actors and mechanisms behind China's gender lobbying and legislation, which was published in Politics & Gender.
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13659304
Fall 2022
Co-presented by: Gender Studies Programme and Gender Research Centre, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
More information and registration links for individual seminars will be provided respectively on this website, please check back later. Thank you.
16 Nov 2022 (Wed)
The interplay between intimacy and commodification: Exploring family and work lives of lesbians in China
Time:12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Hui Yeung Shing Building G04, CUHK (In person only. No online link available.)
Speaker: Prof. LO Iris (Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Moderator: Prof. SONG Jing (Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
This study examines the ways in which Chinese lesbians' economic and intimate lives are closely intertwined amid neoliberal development in the urban landscape. Previous research on queer urban life has primarily drawn attention to commodified gay neighbourhoods and other sites for sexual consumption, which are often marketised as part of a liberal and queer-friendly urban landscape, in Euro-American contexts. Such a focus is not adequate, however, to capture the complex interplay between intimacy and commodification in contemporary societies. In this seminar, I will show how the market is experienced by Chinese lesbians as a site of queer agency and vulnerability and map the multiple connections between commodified relations and intimate relations. How do lesbians navigate their economic and intimate lives in a (heterosexual-)family-centred context? How do gender and sexuality intersect with the wider socio-cultural and neoliberal climate in shaping Chinese lesbians' economic and intimate lives?
Speaker's Biography:
Iris Lo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She received her PhD degree in Sociology from the University of Oxford. Her research areas include family, gender, sexuality, reproduction, work-family reconciliation, and social policy. She studies the extent and nature of changes to family and work lives and sociological questions around social inequality. She has published articles in top journals in her field, including Sociology, The British Journal of Sociology, Journal of Sociology, Archives of Sexual Behavior, Fertility and Sterility, and The International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy.
9 Nov 2022 (Wed)
Employing domestic workers and gender gap in domestic labor among working parents: An effective strategy?
Time:12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Hui Yeung Shing Building G04, CUHK (In person only. No online link available.)
Speaker: Prof. CHEUNG Adam (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University)
Moderator: Prof. CHOI Susanne Yuk-ping (Professor, Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
This two-stage mixed-method study pulls the literature of domestic outsourcing and intensive parenting together to investigate the role of employing live-in domestic helpers in the time-use patterns of household labor among working parents in Hong Kong. Data from a representative household survey of working parents (N = 791) show that working mothers who hire live-in domestic help spent less time in housework. Yet, the reduction in housework time was partially offset by the managing tasks brought about by the use of live-in help. Working parents, especially mothers, with live-in helpers spent significantly more time on childcare than did working parents without such help. The study also draws on qualitative data from in-depth interviews (N= 20) to unpack the meaning of hiring help and its relationship with the notion and practices of parenting. Our study shows that employing domestic helpers rigidifies instead of closing the gender gap in domestic labor.
Speaker's Biography:
Adam Cheung is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Hong Kong Baptist University. His research interests include gender ideology, division of household labor, family relations, and domestic violence in Hong Kong and other Asian societies. His research appears in Journal of Marriage and Family, Social Science Research, Current Sociology, Journal of Family Issues, Demographic Research, Population Research and Policy Review, Violence Against Women, and other peer-reviewed journals. He received honorable mention in Early Stage Family Scholar Award from the Research Committee on Family Research (RC06) of the International Sociological Association.
5 Oct 2022 (Wed)
Gender Research Centre Orientation Talk: Honour Based Violence: Minority Women as Agents of Change
Time:12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Cheng Yu Tung Building 209A, CUHK
Speaker: Dr. BAIG Raees Begum (Lecturer, Department of Social Work, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Prof. CHENG Sea Ling (Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Abstract:
As a form of gender-based violence, honour-based violence is generally understood as power exertion by close relatives on victims, mostly women and girls, with the belief that they have brought dishonour and shame to the family and community. Mainstream media and political rhetoric in the West have represented Muslim women and girls as passive victims of honour-based violence. This Orientalist framing, often reproduced in transnational feminist discourses, vilifies cultural Others and perpetuates the impulse to “save Brown women”. As a result, young Muslim women have to grapple not only with the patriarchal forces that shape their everyday life, but also the victimizing discourse that circulate in the global arena.This seminar centers young Muslim women as agents of change in relation to honour-based violence. Based on the narratives of non-Chinese Muslim young women in Hong Kong, the discussion will illuminate how they reclaim the discourse on Islam, honour-based violence, and victimhood.This is also the book launch event for the Guidebook on Honour-based Violence - Experiences from Hong Kong, a consortium of cases on honour-based violence in Hong Kong and possible intervention guidelines for frontline professionals. The guidebook is the product of a 2-year project coordinated by Dr. Raees Baig with funding from Equal Opportunities Commission.
Speaker's Biography:
Raees Baig (BSW, PhD HKU) is a lecturer in social work at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She specialises in the study of gender, race and global security in transnational communities. Her published journal articles mainly focus on gender-based violence and women’s empowerment in Muslim communities. Before joining the university, she worked for various local and international organisations, including the United Nations and Amnesty International.In 2018, Raees and her team launched the pioneer project “Muslim Girls and Gender Justice” to explore gender equality issues with non-Chinese communities in Hong Kong. Two books were published under the project, including “Break the Barriers-Inside Stories of Ethnic Minority Muslim Girls in Hong Kong”, and the latest “Guidebook on Honour-based Violence - Experiences from Hong Kong” focuses on imminent situations of honour-based violence in Hong Kong.
21 Sept 2022 (Wed)
Daughters’ Dilemmas: Family Strategies of Highly Educated Rural-Urban Education Migrants in Hubei Province, China
Time:12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Online via Zoom (Zoom link will be provided after registration.)
Speaker: Prof. SIER Willy (Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Utrecht University)
Moderator: Prof. SUEN Yiu-tung (Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
The increased participation of female students from rural backgrounds in China’s higher education system affects the gender dynamics in rural households. In this talk, I will discuss several case studies that illustrate the complex positioning of young women in rural households who become the first person in their family to graduate from university. How do they navigate decisions regarding career and marriage? How can they support their families while building lives they desire without treading on dominant gender ideologies?
Speaker’s Biography:
Willy Sier is an assistant professor in the anthropology department at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She lived in China for seven years as a language student and researcher and is interested in questions of mobility and identity. Her PhD-research focused on the role of higher education in the renegotiation of rural-urban relations in China. Her articles based on this project have appeared in Gender, Place and Culture, the European Journal of Development Research, Pacific Affairs, and Modern China (co-authored with M. Driessen).
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13654832
14 Sept 2022 (Wed)
The Cultural Politics of Intimacy: A Methodological Experiment
Time:12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Online via Zoom (Zoom link will be provided after registration.)
Speaker: Prof. SUN Wanning (Professor, Media and Communication Studies, University of Technology Sydney)
Moderator: Prof. Susanne Yuk-ping Choi (Professor, Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
It is difficult to conduct ethnographic inquiries into how China’s rural migrant individuals make decisions about their bodies and their sexual capital. We therefore have little knowledge about how inequality impacts on the intimate lives of those who live in poverty and in the socio-economic margins. This presentation seeks to address this problem by examining the contradictions, connections, and coalitions between a range of discursive positions in media, popular culture, and public commentary. In doing some it identifies some useful ways in which cultural texts may be mined for valuable ethnographic insights.
Speaker’s Biography:
Wanning Sun is a Professor of Media and Communication Studies at University of Technology Sydney. A fellow of Australian Academy of the Humanities since 2016, she is currently a member of the ARC College of Experts (2020-2022). She is best known for her ethnography of rural-to-urban migration in China. Wanning Sun has produced a significant body of research on the cultural politics of inequality in China. Her work includes Maid in China: Media, Morality and the Cultural Politics of Boundaries (2009), Subaltern China: Rural Migrants, Media and Cultural Practices (2014), and her edited volume Love Stories in China: The Politics of Intimacy in the Twenty-First Century (2020). Her monograph Love Troubles: Inequality and Its Intimate Consequences will be published soon by Bloomsbury.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13654820&done=1
Spring 2022
Co-presented by: Gender Studies Programme and Gender Research Centre, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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13 Apr 2022 (Wed)
Mini-Conference of Thesis of MA in Gender Studies 2022
Time:12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Online via Zoom (Zoom link will be provided after registration.)
Moderator: Prof. SONG, Jing (Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Commentator: Prof. WONG, Wang Ivy (MA programme director, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13646280
Please refer to this pdf file for abstracts of the presenting theses
6 Apr 2022 (Wed)
The Affective Practices of Love: Collective Body and Gendered Bodies on LIHKG in the 2019 Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Movement
Time:12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Online via Zoom (Zoom link will be provided after registration.)
Speaker: Ms. WONG, Ka Hei Cecilia (Mphil. Student, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Prof. Katrien JACOBS (Associate Professor, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
This study attempts to complicate the understanding of a heteronormative and subjective protest body on LIHKG in the Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti-ELAB) movement by beginning with the analysis on the affective discourse of我哋真係好撚鍾意香港 (We really fucking love Hong Kong). Yet, instead of delving into the question of who is loved and who is not, I ponder: how does a ‘coherent’ subjective protest body is imagined, outlined and fantasied through the affective-discursive practices of love? Under what circumstances, an individual body is loved or not? How do embodied individuals make sense of it? By attending to the discourse 今生只嫁前線巴，今世只娶後勤絲 ([I] will only marry off to frontline brother, [I] will only marry supporting sister), this study shows how the heterosexual love of conservative gender role is fantasised as the movement ideal between the valiant/ men/ effective and the non-violent/ women/ less effective while in which is full of fractures and openings; and teases out the ambiguous and dynamic relation between the imagined protest body and individual bodies through understanding how gendered individuals negotiate with the protest body in their communal and relational affective meaning-making process.
Speaker’s Biography:
WONG Ka Hei is a MPhil student in Gender Studies (home department in Cultural Studies) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Having digital activist work experiences in environmental campaigning organisations and trained in journalism, her research interests include digital activism, gender and sexuality, affect and emotion, and social justice issues.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13646278
30 Mar 2022 (Wed)
Analyzing Female-Victim Intimate Partner Homicide in China via Hierarchical Models and Data Mining Methods
Time:12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Online via Zoom (Zoom link will be provided after registration.)
Speaker: Ms. GU, Yuxuan Gloria (Mphil. Student, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Prof. ZHONG, Hua Sara (Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
One of the more important topics in feminist criminology over recent decades has been the impact of varying levels of gender equality on levels of female-victim intimate partner homicide (FV-IPH). The current state of the literature is equivocal. This study proposes a theoretical account that integrates the traditional ameliorative and backlash theses and offers a possible explanation for some of the inconsistent findings. Specifically, the findings illustrate that: 1) the backlash processes are likely to dominate at lower to higher levels of the instrumental dimensions of gender equality; 2) the relationship between the cultural dimension of gender equality and levels of FV-IPH conforms to an inverted U, such that a backlash effect operates in the short-term but is followed by an ameliorative effect in the longer term. Moreover, due to the constraints of homicide data, historically, FV-IPH research in China is relatively scarce. By leveraging detailed information on 11310 homicide cases (using an innovative source of big data--sentencing documents retrieved from the "China Judgements Online" website), this study is a pioneering one that analyzing FV-IPH in mainland China, and presents researchers with an effective method of utilizing text-mining techniques and hierarchical models which explore the integration of structural gender equality and incidental level characteristics.
Speaker’s Biography:
GU Yuxuan Gloria is a year-2 MPhil student in Gender Studies Programme and the Department of Sociology at CUHK. Her research interests include gender-specific violence, crime and deviance, and computational social science. Her MPhil project aims to analyze female-victim intimate partner homicide in mainland China using big data and text-mining techniques.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13646273
23 Mar 2022 (Wed)
Gendered Market Activities among Female Entrepreneurs in China: Case Study from Two Inland Provinces
Time:12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Online via Zoom (Zoom link will be provided after registration.)
Speaker: Ms. LI, Lulu (Ph.D. Candidate, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Prof. SONG, Jing (Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
In the past decades, China's market reforms have given rise to private business sectors as well as female entrepreneurship, but coastal and metropolitan areas are often regarded as having greater entrepreneurial opportunities than their inland counterparts. This study focuses on small inland cities, the commonly assumed lagging areas in China's entrepreneurial dynamics, and examines how women in these areas pursue entrepreneurial aspirations and deal with gendered obstacles. This study draws on 41 in-depth interviews with female entrepreneurs in Henan and Guangxi, and examines the gendered process of doing business. Based on how they are motivated and carry out market activities, the interviewees are categorized into four types: 1) Women who were “aspiring” to embrace market opportunities in small cities despite the lack of local resources. 2) Women who allowed their self-realization to be shaped by family concerns and embraced a “serendipitous” entrepreneurship journey without readily available local resources. 3) Women who were “confident” due to their access to local resources as well as their entrepreneurial ambitions. 4) Women who relied on local resources to try out self-employed opportunities. The findings illustrate how women pursue self-realization by discovering market opportunities and mobilizing local resources in different ways. The findings add to previous studies on professional and business women in more developed areas by shifting the focus to the generally more conservative social environment in inland cities, where women negotiate their unique forms of entrepreneurship under competing ideologies and values.
Speaker’s Biography:
Li Lulu is a PhD candidate in Gender Studies Programme and Sociology at CUHK. Miss Li’s research interests locate in gender, work and family in mainland China, especially the inland areas of China. Her PhD thesis focuses on the gendered work of female entrepreneurs in two inland provinces of China.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13646271
16 Mar 2022 (Wed)
Being Insurance Agents in Hong Kong: Career Choices and Social Mobility among Female Mainland Graduates
Time:12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Online via Zoom (Zoom link will be provided after registration.)
Speaker: Ms. ZHOU, Siyuan (Ph.D. Candidate, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Prof. SONG, Jing (Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
Insurance has been regarded as a highly professional yet service-based occupation in Hong Kong, which has attracted an increasing number of highly educated women who moved from mainland China to Hong Kong based on their cross-border human capital and social capital. Different from female migrant workers who usually take up low-end work in service and caregiving sectors, these highly educated women face new gendered opportunities and obstacles in Hong Kong’s expanding insurance business in the mainland market. This study focuses on female insurance agents who moved from mainland China to Hong Kong and worked under the Immigration Arrangements for Non-local Graduates (IANG). Based on ethnographic observations and in-depth interviews with 32 female insurance agents, this study examines how these women were recruited into the insurance industry, why they made this career choice, and how their work was carried out with mixed feminine and professional characteristics. The findings suggest that despite the seemingly gender-neutral process of recruitment, women tend to be selected into the insurance industry for their assumed feminine characteristics such as empathy and patience, and they may also opt into this workplace due to the evolving gendered social expectations of women’s work and life. These highly educated women struggled to mobilize their cross-border cultural and social capital to develop their professional career, which is meanwhile constrained by their doubly precarious status as female migrants. Their work experiences point to women’s ambiguous position as professional, skilled migrants involved in feminized service work.
Speaker’s Biography:
Ms. ZHOU Siyuan is a Ph.D. candidate in Gender Studies Programme and the Department of Sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include gender and work, migration, and female entrepreneurship. Her doctoral project is about “doing gender” and “doing business” between Hong Kong and mainland China among female IANG insurance agents.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13646269
9 Mar 2022 (Wed)
Single-Sex Schooling and Students’ Interpersonal Development
Time:12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Online via Zoom (Zoom link will be provided after registration.)
Speaker: Ms. SHI, Yun Sylvia (Ph.D. Candidate, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Prof. WONG, Wang Ivy (Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
Gender segregation increases gender-typed behaviors and affects mixed-gender interactions. Single-sex schooling, as one of the most prevalent institutionalized forms of gender segregation, may have important impacts on students’ psychosocial development. While there is heated debate about how single-sex schooling affects the development of gender cognitions and interpersonal relationships, prior studies have largely neglected these outcomes and were usually uncontrolled. This seminar will present recent research findings and new data on gender salience and mixed-gender peer relations of students from single-sex versus coeducational schools. Such findings have important implications because high gender salience leads to gender-stereotyping and more negative views towards other-gender peers, and good relationships with peers of different genders are pertinent for thriving in a mixed-gender world. It is argued that not only the academic performance but also the gender cognition and interpersonal outcomes should be considered in the evaluations of single-sex and coeducational schooling.
Speaker’s Biography:
Ms. SHI Yun Sylvia is a Ph.D. candidate in Gender Studies Programme and the Department of Psychology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She studies gender from the perspective of developmental and social psychology. Her research interests include gender socialization, gender segregation and stereotyping, and gender variance. Her Ph.D. research project is about single-sex schooling and students’ gender cognition and social development.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13646261
16 Feb 2022 (Wed)
Politics of Dating Apps
Time:12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Online via Zoom (Zoom link will be provided after registration.)
Speaker: Prof. CHAN, Lik Sam (Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Prof. WONG, Wang Ivy (Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
Momo, Blued, and Rela. These are some of the most popular mobile dating apps in China today. In this talk, Lik Sam Chan argues that dating apps are not merely a platform for seeking romance or hooking up, but also, and more importantly, an arena where gender and queer politics manifest anew.
Drawing from an interdisciplinary body of literature on gender, queer, and technology studies, Chan foregrounds the interpretations of dating app users and examines how dating app users make use of the affordances of the technologies specific to their social position. He proposes “networked sexual publics” as a unifying concept to capture the dynamics of the emerging dating app culture and suggests ways for scholars and students to further investigate this global phenomenon.
Speaker’s Biography:
Lik Sam Chan is an assistant professor and the coordinator of the global communication undergraduate program at the School of Journalism and Communication, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research takes an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and mixed-methods approach to examine the intricate relationship between digital media, gender, and culture.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13644897
19 Jan 2022 (Wed)
Queering Chinese Kinship: Queer Public Culture in Globalizing China
Time:12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Online via Zoom (Zoom link will be provided after registration.)
Speaker: Prof. SONG, Lin (Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Jinan University)
Moderator: Prof. SUEN, Yiu-tung (Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
This talk discusses Lin Song’s new book Queering Chinese Kinship: Queer Public Culture in Globalizing China (Hong Kong University Press 2021). The book demonstrates that the interactions between queerness and Chinese kinship not only animate transnationally influenced yet locally rooted queer cultures, but also critically shape contemporary Chinese cinematic, popular, and public culture more broadly. Contending that kinship relations must be understood as central to, rather than separate from, any articulation of queer selfhood and culture in China, the book challenges Euro-American centric queer culture’s frequent assumption of the separation of queerness from the blood family, and argues for an alternative approach of “queering Chinese kinship” to underline the vitality and complexity of queerness within Chinese kinship institutions.
Speaker’s Biography:
Lin Song is an Assistant Professor in communication at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. He holds a PhD in gender studies from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Queering Chinese Kinship: Queer Public Culture in Globalizing China (Hong Kong University Press 2021). His other works can be found in journals including Feminist Media Studies, Asian Studies Review, Convergence, and Continuum, and edited books Contesting Chineseness (Springer 2021), Queering Paradigms VII (Peter Lang 2018), and The Cosmopolitan Dream (Hong Kong University Press 2018).
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13644401
Fall 2021
Co-presented by: Gender Studies Programme and Gender Research Centre, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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24 Nov 2021 (Wed)
Combatting Image Based Abuse in Hong Kong
Time:12:45 - 14:15
Venue: Esther Lee Building LT4, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Speaker: Prof.Thomas Crofts (Professor, School of Law and Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, City University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Prof. Yiu-tung Suen (Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, CUHK)
Abstract:
Digital technologies have revolutionised the creation, discovery, gathering and sharing of information. Unfortunately, it has also enabled new forms of abusive behaviours which can violate a person’s sexual dignity and autonomy. These include using a device to view without consent a person’s private parts or a person engaging in a private act (voyeurism), or record images of a person’s private parts (‘upskirting’, ‘downblousing’), or to disseminate or threaten to disseminate intimate images (‘revenge pornography’). This seminar will examine how such behaviours have been dealt with in the criminal justice system in Hong Kong and how they should be dealt with. Drawing on recent reforms in other jurisdictions and general theories of criminalisation, the seminar will also examine the proposed new offences against such behaviour in the Crimes (Amendment) Bill 2021.
Speaker’s Biography:
Professor Crofts holds a joint appointment in the School of Law and the Department of Social and Behavioural Studies at City University. He is former Director of the Sydney Institute of Criminology at the University of Sydney. His research in criminal law, criminology and criminal justice centres on criminalisation and criminal responsibility with a particular focus on the criminalisation and criminal responsibility of children, comparative criminal law, criminal law reform and sexuality and the law.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13639563
10 Nov 2021 (Wed)
Understanding gender difference in perceptions toward transit services across space and time: A social media mining approach
Time: 12:30 - 14:15 
Venue: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Prof. Sylvia He. Associate Professor and Ms. Shuli Luo, PHD Candidate,
Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Moderator: Prof Ivy Wong, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Abstract:
Location-based social media data can offer useful insights on the spatial and temporal dynamics of public attitudes. In this study, we aim to investigate the gendered attitudes toward transit services in China, utilizing the case of Shenzhen. We collected 44,257 Weibo microblogs, a major source of social media data in China, and applied a series of text mining and visualization techniques to examine the gender differences among our focused themes. The microblogs reveal a distinct gender gap in terms of quantity, as nearly 74% are posted by women. While women tend to be more concerned about the comfort of transit environment (e.g., temperature, crowdedness, and safety, especially at night), men tend to be more interested in transit systems’ e-payment services and reporting traffic incidents. Overall, this study presents an innovative methodology framework for researchers and practitioners to gather customer service feedback and build more inclusive service systems.
Speaker’s Biography:
Sylvia He is associate professor in the Department of Geography and Resource Management at CUHK. Her research interests include transport planning and policy, urban and regional studies, spatial analysis/GIS, and urban analytics. She is Associate Editor of Travel Behaviour and Society (Elsevier, SSCI) and Asian Transport Studies (Elsevier). She is Honorary Secretary and Board Member of the Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies, Board Member of the International Association for China Planning, and Fellow of the Regional Studies Association. She obtained her PhD in Policy, Planning and Development from the School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California.
Shuli Luo is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include GIS, transport geography, urban analytics, spatial big data, and social media data. Her works have been published in several leading journals in geography, planning and transport such as Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, Transport Policy, Journal of Transport Geography, and Population, Space and Place.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13640068
（Zoom link will be provided to registered participants）
27 Oct 2021 (Wed)
Gender Shock and Gender Compromise: The Effects of Gender on the Lives of Elite Asian Women Scientists
Time:12:30 - 14:15
Venue: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Prof. Anju Mary Paul, Associate Professor, Sociology and Public Policy, Yale-NUS College
Moderator: Prof. Susanne Yuk-ping Choi, Professor, Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Abstract:
This talk draws on in-depth interviews with 40 Asian women scientists to examine the relative impact of their gender on their scientific training and careers in Asia and the West. The original concept of “gender shock” is used to describe the negative or positive experience of these women when they enter a social space or milieu that has a set of gender norms and values different from the one that they came from and are familiar with. I highlight how Asian women scientists are more likely to experience gender shocks at particular inflection points in their intersecting career and life courses, and how they react to negative gender shocks and ongoing gendered social pressures by making “gender compromises” in one or more domains of their lives. These corrective actions often (but not always) damaged or dampened their career trajectories, or took their life course in an unexpected direction.
Speaker’s Biography:
Anju Mary Paul is an international migration scholar with a research focus on emergent migrations to, from, and within Asia. Her award-winning first book – Multinational Maids: Stepwise Migration in a Global Labor Market (Cambridge University Press 2017) – explored the stepwise international labour migrations of Filipino and Indonesian domestic workers. Her forthcoming book, Asian Scientists on the Move: Changing Science in a Changing Asia (Cambridge University Press 2021) explores the increasing return migrations of Western-trained Asian scientists, the factors behind these returns, and how they are shifting the topography of the global scientific field.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13640064
（Zoom link will be provided to registered participants）
20 Oct 2021 (Wed)
Gender Research Centre Orientation Talk: How Does The Political Right Make Gender 'Irrelevant'?
Time:12:30 - 14:15
Venue: Esther Lee Building LT4, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Speaker: Prof. Susanne Yuk-ping Choi (Professor, Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Prof. Yiu-tung Suen (Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
Right-wing groups have generally been considered gender-conservative or, in some instances, sexist. Given this background, it is a puzzle why young people, particularly women with relatively liberal gender attitudes, support these groups. This paper tries to answer this question by developing the concept of ‘gender irrelevance’, defined as the processes and strategies through which members of these groups render male dominance and gender segregation within their organizations trivial; sexist behaviours of some group members tolerable; and concerns about gender inequalities unimportant, secondary, and ultimately irrelevant in their decisions to support these groups. The paper further illustrates the strategies of ‘gender irrelevance’, which include the misrepresentation, naturalization, individualization, and universalisation of gender inequality and biases; the construction and deployment of the twin discourses of female privilege and male disadvantage; the tendency to compartmentalize gender biases; the argument of compromising gender; and criticism against an allegedly exaggerated, inconsistent, and double-standard feminism. We believe that the concept of ‘gender irrelevance’ has the potential to help us understand the global rise of the Right and anti-feminism political currents.
Speaker’s Biography:
Susanne YP Choi is Professor at the Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and co-Director of the Gender Research Centre. Her lead-authored book Masculine Compromise: Migration, Family and Gender in China won the International Sociological Association’s Sociology of Migration 2018 Best Book Award. Her other works were published in top international journals such as American Journal of Sociology, Journal of Marriage and Family, and British Journal of Sociology. Susanne serves as an editorial board member of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and a member of the International Advisory Board of Asian Population Studies, and an international advisory board member of Bristol University Press’ Gender and Sociology Series.
Language: English (Presentation)+English/Cantonese/Mandarin (Q&A and discussion)
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13640235
6 Oct 2021 (Wed)
Situations and health needs of men who have sex with men who are “pre-exposure prophylaxis tourists”
Time:12:30 - 14:15
Venue: Esther Lee Building LT4, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
(Participants are welcome to attend in person or via Zoom)
Speaker: Prof. Johnson Wang ( Assistant Professor, Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, CUHK)
Moderator: Prof. Yiu-tung Suen (Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, CUHK)
Abstract:
A growing number of local men who have sex with men (MSM) are obtaining pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) from other countries/regions and using it in Hong Kong, they are referred as “PrEP tourists”. We conducted a 3-month longitudinal study to understand situations of 110 local PrEP tourists obtaining PrEP from Bangkok. This presentation will talk about the issues (e.g., high prevalence of sexual risk behaviors and sexually transmitted infections, not taking up the required HIV and renal function testing regularly, combine PrEP with other medication that may affect their safety) and health needs of this group.
Speaker’s Biography:
Prof. Johnson Wang obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in Public Health from JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is working as Assistant Professor in JC School of Public Health and Primary Care. Prof. Wang received the Early Career Award by the International Society of Behavioral Medicine in 2016. He is the Associate Director of the Community Research Program on AIDS. His research interests include inter-disciplinary behavioral health and mental health research.
Language: English (for presentation) + English/Cantonese/Mandarin (for QA and discussion)
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13638777
（Zoom link will be provided to registered participants）
Past Wednesday Gender Seminar
2021
| Term |
Theme |
Date |
Title |
Speaker |
Moderator |
Language |
More Information |
| Spring |
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20/1/2021 |
A "Phoenix" Rising from the Ashes: China's Tongqi, Marriage Fraud, and Resistance
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Prof. Eileen Yuk-Ha TSANG, Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Behavioural Science, CityU |
Prof. Susanne Yuk-Ping CHOI, Professor, Department of Sociology; Co-Director, Gender Reseaerch Centre, CUHK |
English |
Poster |
| Spring |
/ |
3/3/2021 |
The Profile of Risk in Cervical Cancer Prevention in Southwest China |
Ms. WU Yuehan, candidate of PhD in Gender Studies (subject discipline: Anthropology), The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Prof. HUANG Hsuan-Ying, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, CUHK |
English |
Poster |
| Spring |
/ |
17/3/2021 |
Family Matters: Gender and Motivations in Women's Online Entrepreneurship |
Ms. TANG Lin, PhD Candidate in Gender Studies Programme & Department of Sociology, CUHK |
Prof. SONG Jing, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, CUHK |
English |
Poster |
| Spring |
/ |
24/3/2021 |
蕭紅女性書寫研究The Research of Xiao Hong’s Female Writing
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Ms. PENG Yiyi, PhD Candidate, Gender Studies Programme, CUHK |
Prof. HOYAN Hang Fung Carole, Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, CUHK |
Mandarin |
Poster |
2020
| Term |
Theme |
Date |
Title |
Speaker |
Moderator |
Language |
More Information |
| Spring |
/ |
19/2/2020 |
Queering the Legitimacy of Motherhood: Cross-Border Reproductive Travel and Lesbian Family Building in Contemporary China
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ZHONG Xinle, Mphil. in Gender Studies Programme (Anthropology), The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Prof. CHENG Sealing, Associate Professor in Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
English |
Poster |
| Spring |
/ |
26/2/2020 |
Desire for Sale: Live-streaming and DIY Pornography among Chinese Gay Micro-celebrities |
Dr. Lin Song, Postdoctoral Fellow in Communication, University of Macau |
Prof. Jing Song, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
English |
Poster |
| Spring |
/ |
4/3/2020 |
耽美真人CP與自我規訓式審查 |
WANG Yiming, Mphil. in Gender Studies Programme (Cultural Studies), The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Prof. TAN Jia, Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Putonghua |
Poster |
| Spring |
/ |
11/3/2020 |
Women, Heroines, and Women's Sphere: Tianyi and Late Qing Feminist Discourse |
SHENG Zhifan, Mphil. in Gender Studies Programme (Chinese Language & Literature), The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Prof. WONG Nim Yan, Assistant Professor in Department of Chinese Language & Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Putonghua |
Poster |
| Fall |
/ |
23/9/2020 |
'To Shine' or 'To Die'?: 'Womenomics' and Women's Worth to the Economy in Neoliberal Japan |
Prof. HO Swee Lin, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore |
Prof. SONG Jing, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, CUHK |
English |
Poster |
| Fall |
/ |
14/10/2020 |
Email Order Brides under China's Global Rise |
Prof. LIU Monica, Assistant Professor, Department of Justice and Society Studies, University of St. Thomas |
Prof. HAN Ling, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
English |
Poster |
| Fall |
/ |
21/10/2020 |
Premanital Abortion: Reproductive Politics in Post-Socialist China |
Prof. LAI Yuen Shan Ruby, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Lingnan University |
Prof. LING Minhua, Associate Professor and Associate Director, Centre for China Studies, CUHK |
English |
Poster |
| Fall |
/ |
28/10/2020 |
Envisioning the City: Arts-based Reseach with Domestic Workers, Asylum-Seekers and Ethnic Minorities |
Speaker 1: Prof. Julie HAM, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong University
Speaker 2: Ms. Merina SUNUWAR, Research Assistant, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong University
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Moderator: Prof. WONG Wang Ivy, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, CUHK |
English |
Poster |
| Fall |
/ |
11/11/2020 |
Marriage as Filial Duty, Personal Choice or Social Expectation?: Exploring Differences in the Experiences o Single Women in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo |
Prof. Lynne Y. Nakano, Professor, Department of Japanese Studies, CUHK |
PROF. DAI Haijing, Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, CUHK |
English |
Poster |
| Fall |
/ |
18/11/2020 |
"Little Bees Just Have to Keep Moving": Temporary Work. Gendered Skills. and Excessive Mobility in Real Estate Sales Promotion in Urban China |
Prof. Yang Zhan, Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
Dr. Joseph Man Kit CHO, Lecturer, Gender Studies Programme, CUHK |
English |
Poster |
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