THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
Research and Scholarship 2004

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY



Researcher : Broadhurst RG

Project Title:Homicide in three Chinese cities: Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Beijing
Investigator(s):Dr. Broadhurst R.G., Dr. Beh P.S.L.
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Hong Kong Research Grants Council Competitive Earmarked Research Grants
Start Date:10/2000
Abstract:
To examine the nature of homicide in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Beijing. The project aims to provide a medico-criminological dimension often lacking in homicide studies.


Project Title:International crime victim survey - Cambodia
Investigator(s):Dr. Broadhurst R.G., Dr. Bradley R., Dr. Van Kesteren J.
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:AUSAID, Australian Government and United Nations Development Program
Start Date:08/2001
Abstract:
To estimate the prevalence of selected crimes for Cambodia including theft, robbery, sex assault, assault, fraud, car and motorcycle theft.


Project Title:United nations international business crime survey: Hong Kong and Guangzhou
Investigator(s):Dr. Broadhurst R.G., Prof. Guo J.H., Mr. Hodson D.M.
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Block Grant Earmarked for Research
Start Date:10/2002
Completion Date:09/2003
Abstract:
To provide vital information on the differential risk of various business activities.


List of Research Outputs

Broadhurst R.G., Crime Trends in Hong Kong: Another Look at the Safe City, Crime and Its Control in People Republic of China: Proceedings of The Annual Symposia 2000-2002. Hong Kong, Centre for Criminology, The University of Hong Kong, 2004, 133-149.
Broadhurst R.G., Crime and Its Control in People Republic of China: Proceedings of the Annual Symposia 2000-2002. Hong Kong, Centre for Criminology, The University of Hong Kong, 2004, 363 pages, ix.
Broadhurst R.G., Cybercrime in Asia: Emergent Issues, 14th International Congress of Criminology, August 2003. Rio De Janorio, Brazil, International Congress of Criminology.
Broadhurst R.G. and Grabosky P., Global Threat: The Challenge of Cybercrime, South China Morning Post, December 23. Hong Kong, SCMP, 2003, A15.
Broadhurst R.G., Chan C.Y. and Beh S.L., Homicide-Suicide in Hong Kong, 1989-1998: A Preliminary Analysis, Crime and Its Control in People Republic of China. Hong Kong, Centre for Criminology, The University of Hong Kong, 2004, 326-331.
Broadhurst R.G., Introduction: Crime and Its Control in Greater China, Crime and Its Control in People Republic of China: Proceedings of the Annual Symposia 2000-2002. Hong Kong, Centre for Criminology, The University of Hong Kong, 2004, x-xviii.
Broadhurst R.G., The Hong Kong UN Crimes against Business Survey, 1st World Societies of Criminology Conference, Paris, France, May 2004.
Broadhurst R.G., Triads and Transnational Crime, 19th Annaul Conference of the Asutralian and New Zealand Society of Criminology, October 2003. Sydney, Australia, ANZ Society.
Chan C.Y., Beh S.L. and Broadhurst R.G., Homicide-suicide in Hong Kong, 1989-1998, Forensic Science International. 2003, 137(2-3): 165-171.
Lee K.W., Broadhurst R.G. and Beh S.L., Triad-related homicides in Hong Kong 1989-1998: a preliminary description, Crime and its Control in the People's Republic of China (Symposia Proceedings of the University of Hong Kong Centre for Criminology) Editor: R.G. Broadhurst. Hong Kong, Centre for Criminology, HKU, 2004, Part V, Chapter 23: 263-287.


Researcher : Chan AKW

List of Research Outputs

Chan A.K.W., Introduction, Critical Thinking, Creative Teaching: Hong Kong Community Studies. Hong Kong, Centre of Asian Studies, 2004, v-xv.
Chan A.K.W. and Wong W.L., Introduction, Gendering Hong Kong. Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 2004, xvii - xxxix.
Chan A.K.W., The Making of Gender in Families, Gendering Hong Kong. Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 2004, 397-419.


Researcher : Chan CY

List of Research Outputs

Broadhurst R.G., Chan C.Y. and Beh S.L., Homicide-Suicide in Hong Kong, 1989-1998: A Preliminary Analysis, Crime and Its Control in People Republic of China. Hong Kong, Centre for Criminology, The University of Hong Kong, 2004, 326-331.
Chan C.Y., Beh S.L. and Broadhurst R.G., Homicide-suicide in Hong Kong, 1989-1998, Forensic Science International. 2003, 137(2-3): 165-171.


Researcher : Chu YK

Project Title:Triad involvement in economic organised crime in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Dr. Chu Y.K.
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Block Grant Earmarked for Research
Start Date:11/2003
Abstract:
To describe the trends of credit card fraud, pirated compact discs and currency counterfeiting in Hong Kong in the last decade; to analyse how these three counterfeiting products are manufactured and distributed; to assess the role of triads in the operation of these three types of economic organised crime; to exam how to combat economic organised crime from legal, law enforcement, private sector, and community perspectives.


List of Research Outputs

Chu Y.K., Associate Editor, International Journal of Police Science & Management. 2003.
Chu Y.K., Chinese Triads in Italy, Cosa Nostra and the Mafias in the New Millennium International Symposium, Centre for Cultural Initiatives, Palermo, Italy, January 15. 2004.
Chu Y.K., Editor, Asian Policing. Asian Association of Police Studies, 2003.
Chu Y.K., Juvenile Crime in Hong Kong, Prestigious Public Presentation, Regional Crime Prevention Office, New Terrorties North, Hong Kong Police, February 26. 2004.
Chu Y.K., Organised Crime Groups and Intellectual Property Crime in China, Prestigious Public Presentation, Quality Brands Protection Committee (QBPC) Annual Meeting, Xian, China, April 4, . 2004.
Chu Y.K., Perspectives on Elderly Deviance and Crime, Workshop on Deviance and Crime, Hong Kong Social Workers Association, August 9. 2003.
Chu Y.K., Project Polar Star in Hong Kong: An Innovative Police Strategy to Deal with Deviant Juveniles, Asian Policing . South Korea, Asian Association of Police Studies, 2004, 2(1): 54-76.
Chu Y.K., Triads and Other Criminal Organisations, Prestigious Public Presentation, Triad Expert Course, Hong Kong Police, August 8. 2003.


Researcher : Chu YW

List of Research Outputs

Chu Y.W., Book Review in Chan, Ming K. & So, Alvin Y. (eds.), Crisis and Transformation in China's Hong Kong China Perspectives, China Perspectives . 2004, 51 (January-February): 90-91.
Chu Y.W., Book Review in Gordon Mathews & Lui, Tai-lok (eds.), Consuming Hong Kong , Business History Review . 2003, 77 (3/Autumn): 571-573.
Chu Y.W., Discussant: Professor Moon-kwan Kim's "Recent Socio-cultural Development in Korea", Conference on Chang and Continuity in Contemporary Korea, organized by the Center for Asian Pacific Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, April 23. 2004.
Chu Y.W. and Tang J.T.H., The Internet and Civil Society: Environmental and Labor Organizations in Hong Kong , International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 2004.
Chu Y.W., Whose Global City? Rethinking the Connectivity and Intermediary Functions of APS in Hong Kong, International Workshop on Intermediaries of Capital, Knowledge and Labour in Asia: Comparative and Connective Pespectives, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands,and Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia, December 11-13. 2003.


Researcher : Evans GRJ

Project Title:Lao royalty
Investigator(s):Dr. Evans G.R.J.
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Hang Seng Bank Golden Jubilee Education Fund for Research
Start Date:07/2001
Abstract:
To study Lao royalty.


Researcher : Fong YC

List of Research Outputs

Fong Y.C., National & Local Identity Formation in Postcolonial Hong Kong, China - The Impact of Junior Secondary Education, UKFIET "Oxford" International Conference on Education & Development 2003: The State of Education: Quantity, Quality & Outcomes, Oxford, UK, September 9 - 11, 2003.
Fong Y.C., Negotiation of National Identity at a Hong Kong Patriotic School, Research Postgraduate Conference in Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, April 24, 2004.


Researcher : Gao C

List of Research Outputs

Gao C., Commodifying Local Bureaucracy and Nonlocal Entrepreneurship: The Case Study of Suburban Guangzhou, 4th Research Postgraduate Conference, Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, April 24. 2004.
Gao C., Non-local Entrepreneurship and Rationality for Sustenance: The Case of Garment Community in Suburban Guangzhou (in Chinese), Academic Forum for Doctoral Students in China, organized by the Penmin University of China, Beijing, May 27-29. 2004.


Researcher : Kuah-Pearce KE

Project Title:Asia's new regligious movements in the age of globalisation
Investigator(s):Dr. Kuah-Pearce K.E.
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Block Grant Earmarked for Research
Start Date:10/2002
Completion Date:12/2003
Abstract:
To examine the growth of Asia's religious movements and the religious networks in the era of globalisation.


Project Title:Social capital and the development of emigrant villages in South China
Investigator(s):Dr. Kuah-Pearce K.E., Dr. Wang A.H., Dr. Zhou D.M.
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:RGC Projects (Block Grant Funded)
Start Date:07/2003
Abstract:
To explore how village entrepreneurs use social capital in the development of village enterprises in emigrant villages in China and how these economic activities impact on the village social structure, class mobility and consumption patterns of the villagers.


Project Title:Chinese women and their network capital: the use and abuse of the cyber network
Investigator(s):Dr. Kuah-Pearce K.E.
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Block Grant Earmarked for Research
Start Date:11/2003
Abstract:
To explore how young Chinese women use IT to log themselves into existing networks as well as to establish new networks and communities in the cyberspace; to explorehow the cyber culture opens up a new social space for these young women to interact, socialise and put into reality their own thoughts and ideas that were denied to them in a conventional environment.


List of Research Outputs

Kuah-Pearce K.E., "Negotiating Transnational memories: Singapore Chinese in between the Ancestral Village and their Adopted Home" in Panel Theme: Narrating Migration Experiences: Social Memory and Identity in the Chiense Diaspora, Third International Convention of Asian Scholars, Singapore, August 19-22, 2003.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., Book Review on Chinese Femininities and Chinese Masculinities, edited by Susan Brownell and Jeffrey N, In China Perspectives (November-December 2003 issue). Berkeley, University of California Press, 2003, 50: 85-86.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., Member of the Editorial Board , Histoire and Anthropologies ASIES . 2003.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., Member of the Editorial Board , Asian Anthropology . 2003.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., Panel Organiser, Panel Theme: Narrating Migration Experiences: Social Memory and Identity in the Chinese Diaspora, 3rd International Convention of Asian Scholars, Singapore, August 19- 22, 2003. 2003.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., Reconnecting to the Source: A Model for Understanding Transnational Chinese - Qiaoxiang Relationship, Forum jointly organised by Department of Sociology and Centre for Anthropological Research, University of Hong Kong, 26 November 2003.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., The Cultural Politics of Mainland Chinese Migration to Hong Kong, In: Chan, Johannes M.M (ed.), Immigration Laws and Policies in Hong Kong. Hong Kong, Sweet and Maxwell Asia, 2004, 211-226.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., Towards Religious Modernity: Reformist Buddhism in Singapore, International Conference on Tradition and Modernity: Mahayana Buddhism and Its Modern Interpretation, Singapore: Singapore Buddhist Federation, June 26-27. 2004.
Kuah-Pearce K.E., Where Anthropology Meets Diaspora Studies: Some Considerations for Emigrant Village (Qiaoxiang) Studies, In: Zhou Daming and He Guochiang (eds.), New Perspectives on Cultural Anthropology. Hong Kong, International Yenhuang Cultural Publishing House, 2003, 178–192.


Researcher : Laidler KA

Project Title:"Ice" in Hong Kong: past, present and future trends
Investigator(s):Dr. Laidler K.A.J.
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Vice-Chancellor's Development Fund
Start Date:06/1999
Abstract:
To study "Ice" in Hong Kong: past, present and future trends.


Project Title:A study of the psychotropie abuse substance in Hong Kong in relation to women
Investigator(s):Dr. Laidler K.A.J., Dr. Day J.R.
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Narcotics Division, Security Bureau, The Hong Kong SAR Government
Start Date:11/2001
Abstract:
To understand the use by women of psychoactive substences in Hong Kong.


Project Title:Learning and teaching about personal and social identity of HKU undergraduates
Investigator(s):Dr. Laidler K.A.J., Prof. Pearson V.J.
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Wu Jieh-Yee Research Fund
Start Date:01/2002
Abstract:
To profile and examine HKU undergraduates' personal and social identity through their portfolios in a broadening course about culture and values; to use this knowledge about HKU undergraduates to formulate culturally and age relevant curriculum for courses across disciplines from social sciences to medicine.


Project Title:Psychoactive drug use, dance party settings and the global context
Investigator(s):Dr. Laidler K.A.J., Dr. Day J.R.
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:RGC Projects (Block Grant Funded)
Start Date:07/2003
Abstract:
To gain a better understanding of the patterns of psychoactive drug use, the variety of settings in which these drugs may be used, and the relationship between use and settings.


Project Title:Reducing Hong Kong's serious youth crime through community intervention: an evaluation of operation breakthrough
Investigator(s):Dr. Laidler K.A.J.
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Block Grant Earmarked for Research
Start Date:11/2003
Abstract:
To evaluate the impact of a community intervention program on serious young offenders in the NTN over a one-year period. The study will assess: (1) the patterns of arrest and re-arrest piror and subsequent to the intervention, and, (2) the attitudinal changes of serious offenders prior and subsequent to the intervention.


List of Research Outputs

Laidler K.A., Reinventing a New Image: Traditional Chinese Voluntary Associations in Hong Kong and Singapore, Conference on Subethnicity in the Chinese Diaspora, Toronto, Canada, September 12-13, 2003.


Researcher : Lee KW

List of Research Outputs

Lee K.W., Broadhurst R.G. and Beh S.L., Triad-related homicides in Hong Kong 1989-1998: a preliminary description, Crime and its Control in the People's Republic of China (Symposia Proceedings of the University of Hong Kong Centre for Criminology) Editor: R.G. Broadhurst. Hong Kong, Centre for Criminology, HKU, 2004, Part V, Chapter 23: 263-287.


Researcher : Moore M

Project Title:
Investigator(s):Dr. Moore M.
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Hang Seng Bank Golden Jubilee Education Fund for Research
Start Date:03/2004
Abstract:


List of Research Outputs

Moore M., Chinese Media in Transition, Respekt. Prague, Czech Republic, 2004.
Moore M., Chinese Migrants in East Central Eurpoe: Case of the Czech Republic, Poland and Scovakia (in French), Migrations Societe . Paris, France, Centre D'Information, 2003, 15: 181-199.
Moore M., Chinese Migration: History and Presence, Mezinárodní Politika. Prague, The Czech Republic, Institute For International Relations, 2003.
Moore M., Emerging Migration Policies in East Central Europe, Migrations Societe. Paris, France, Centre D'Information, 2003, 16: 61-82.
Moore M., Entrepreneurs by Design or by Default: Exploration of New Chinese Business in East Central Europe, 5th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas, Elsindre, Denmark, 10-14 May . 2004.
Moore M., The Hong Kong Sociological Association Award for the Best Doctoral Thesis for 2003, 2003.


Researcher : Ng CH

Project Title:Development of multi-media project -based socio-cultural education
Investigator(s):Dr. Ng C.H., Dr. Chan S.C.L., Dr. Ma K.W., Dr. Sze M.H.
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Teaching Development Grants issued by The University Grants Committee of Hong Kong
Start Date:09/1997
Abstract:
To promote project-based, inter-departmental and inter-institutional learning and teaching activities; to create a task force unit to plan, organize and implement socio-cultural teaching and learning activities that make creative use of audio-visual media.


Project Title:Female sexuality in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Dr. Ng C.H., Dr. Chan A.K.W., Dr. Cheng S.L.
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Block Grant Earmarked for Research
Start Date:11/2002
Abstract:
To undertake a comprehensive sociological study of female sexuality in Hong Kong.


Project Title:Family in flux: values, relations, and strategies in Hong Kong families
Investigator(s):Dr. Ng C.H., Dr. Chan A.K.W., Dr. Chu Y.W., Dr. Wong T.W.P.
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Hong Kong Research Grants Council Competitive Earmarked Research Grants
Start Date:10/2003
Abstract:
To provide a comprehensive portrait and analysis of the Hong Kong family in the light of the momentous changes that the society has gone through in recent years. We seek to answer the following three sets of questions: 1) Questions on family forms, practices and strategies such as: What new family forms and practices are created? Whate are the family's coping strategies? How do the material circumstances and coping strategies differ among different types of families (e.g. single-parent families versus conventional nuclear families; middle class families versus working class families)? 2) Questions on family relationships such as: To what extent are Hong Kong families an emotional haven? What is the nature of the husband-wife relationship, and the parent-child relationship? How do families deal with intergenerational conflicts? 3) Questions on values and expectations relating to the family such as: What do parents expect from their children and vice versa? What role does the family play in people's livesand how important is this role? What desirable qualities do parents want to see in their sons, as versus their daughters?


Project Title:Family in flux: values, relations, and strategies in Hong Kong families
Investigator(s):Dr. Ng C.H., Dr. Chan A.K.W., Dr. Chu Y.W., Dr. Wong T.W.P.
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:RGC Projects (Block Grant Funded)
Start Date:10/2003
Abstract:
To provide a comprehensive portrait and analysis of the Hong Kong family in the light of the momentous changes that the society has gone through in recent years. We seek to answer the following three sets of questions: 1) Questions on family forms, practices and strategies such as: What new family forms and practices are created? Whate are the family's coping strategies? How do the material circumstances and coping strategies differ among different types of families (e.g. single-parent families versus conventional nuclear families; middle class families versus working class families)? 2) Questions on family relationships such as: To what extent are Hong Kong families an emotional haven? What is the nature of the husband-wife relationship, and the parent-child relationship? How do families deal with intergenerational conflicts? 3) Questions on values and expectations relating to the family such as: What do parents expect from their children and vice versa? What role does the family play in people's livesand how important is this role? What desirable qualities do parents want to see in their sons, as versus their daughters?


List of Research Outputs

Hui D., Ng C.H., Lee F.Y.S., Woo M., Yim W.Y., Au-Yeung S. and Mok K.W., Design, Baseline Study on Hong Kong's Creative Industries: for the Central Policy Unit, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government. Hong Kong: Centre for Cultural Policy Research, HKU, 2003.
Hui D., Ng C.H., Lee F.Y.S., Woo M., Yim W.Y., Au-Yeung S. and Mok K.W., Digital Entertainment, Baseline Study on Hong Kong's Creative Industries. Hong Kong, Centre for Cultural Policy Research, HKU, 2003, 215.
Hui D., Ng C.H., Lee F.Y.S., Woo M., Yim W.Y., Au-Yeung S. and Mok K.W., Film and Video, Baseline Study on Hong Kong's Creative Industries. Hong Kong, Centre for Cultural Policy Research, HKU, 2003, 215.
Hui D., Ng C.H., Lee F.Y.S., Woo M., Yim W.Y., Au-Yeung S. and Mok K.W., Software, Baseline Study on Hong Kong's Creative Industries. Hong Kong, Centre for Cultural Policy Research, HKU, 2003, 215.


Researcher : Shehu AY

List of Research Outputs

Shehu A.Y., An overview of the Nigeria's Anti-Corruption Law: Strategies and Techniques for Implementation, Strategic Planning Workshop for Anti-Corruption Strategy for Nigeria, Lokoja, Nigeria, June 03 . 2004.
Shehu A.Y., Human Trafficking and Corruption , UN Global Programme against Human Trafficking at a Regional Workshop for 3 West African Countries (Benin, Nigeria and Togo), Abuja, Nigeria on June 21-24 . 2004.
Shehu A.Y., The Asian Alternative Remittance System and Money Laundering, Journal of Money Laundering Control. London, Henry Stewart Publications, 2003, 7 (2).


Researcher : Sim SCA

List of Research Outputs

Sim S.C.A. and Wee V., Class, Gender and Agency: The Employment & Abuse of Migrant Domestic Workers in East & Southeast Asia, Workshop on Migration, Ethnicity & Workforce Segmentation in the Asia Pacific, Southeast Asia Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong & Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation, University of Wollongong, NSW, August 2003.
Sim S.C.A., Effects of Short-Term Migration of Foreign Domestic Workers: Some Observations From Hong Kong, World Hakka Culture Conference, Kaoshiung, Taiwan, November 2003.
Sim S.C.A. and Wee V., Labour Migration by Filipino Domestic Workers to Hong Kong: conditions, Processes & Implications, International Workshop on Contemporary Perspectives on Asian Transnational Domestic Workers, Asian META Centre for Population & Sustainable Development Analysis, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singpore, February . 2004.
Sim S.C.A., Organising Discontent: NGOs for Southeast Asian Workers in Hong Kong, Asian Journal of Social Sciences. Leiden, B. Rill, 2003, 31(3): 478-510.
Sim S.C.A., Sexuality in Migration: The Case of Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong, 8th Asian Studies Conference, Institute of Asian Cultural Studies, Tokyo, June. 2004.
Sim S.C.A. and Sim S.C.A., The Rise of Labour Activism amongst Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong: Cultural Logic & Historical Context, ICAS 3 - Third Intrenational Convention of Asia Scholars, August 2003.
Sim S.C.A., Transformations in Migratory Pattrens among Filipino Domestic Workers in Hong Kong, Research Postgraduate Conference, April . 2004.


Researcher : Wong TWP

Project Title:Women and employment: a life history perspective
Investigator(s):Dr. Wong T.W.P.
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Block Grant Earmarked for Research
Start Date:07/1994
Abstract:
To investigate whether and how Hong Kong women are disadvantaged in the labour market by examining their experience of paid employment in the context of their life and family history.


Project Title:Hong Kong oral history archives
Investigator(s):Dr. Wong T.W.P., Dr. Choi P.K., Dr. Luk B.H.K., Dr. Pun N., Dr. Sinn E.Y.Y., Dr. Tsang S., Dr. Yip H.M.
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Block Grant Earmarked for Research
Start Date:06/2001
Abstract:
To systematically building up archives of oral materials relating to the history of Hong Kong.


Project Title:Hong Kong oral history archives
Investigator(s):Dr. Wong T.W.P., Dr. Choi P.K., Dr. Luk B.H.K., Dr. Pun N., Dr. Sinn E.Y.Y., Dr. Tsang S., Dr. Yip H.M.
Department:Sociology
Source(s) of Funding:Hong Kong Research Grants Council Central Allocation Vote
Start Date:06/2001
Abstract:
To systematically building up archives of oral materials relating to the history of Hong Kong.


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