The 8th Annual Conference of Hong Kong Sociological Association

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Conference Programme

Narratives and Perspectives in Sociology: Understanding the Past, Envisaging the Future

Narratives and Perspectives in Sociology:

Understanding the Past, Envisaging the Future

The theme of 8th Annual Conference, Hong Kong Sociological Association, Narratives and Perspectives

in Sociology: Understanding the Past, Envisaging the Future, was chosen because it embodies the

dynamic and diverse nature of the discipline. The Conference is designed to encourage us to reflect upon

emerging trends and futures for sociology and individuals working in the social sciences. One such

possible future may be found in the recent emergence of narrative or story construction as an influential

and integrating perspective in sociology that builds upon the interpretative sociological tradition in

sociology. However, there are other futures that await our exploration. What these will become depends

among other things on the kinds of individuals we manage to attract to the discipline, the quality of our

theories, and the degree to which sociologists co-operate in trying to make sense of the social world - past,

present and future. We have entirely serviceable perspectives and tools at our disposal that have withstood

the test of time. As we more forward into the 21st century it is simply a question how we use them to

continue to produce new theoretical insights and outstanding examples of research. To the extent that the

8th Annual Conference succeeds in promoting a critical discussion of our theoretical and methodological

approach to the practice of sociology we will have contributed to this enterprise.

The 8th Annual Conference is hosted by the Department of Sociology at Hong Kong Shue Yan College.

In addition, the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies and the Centre of Qualitative Social Research,

also at Shue Yan College, have provided invaluable inputs into developing the Conference. We would also

like to take this opportunity to thank Air China for agreeing to serve as sponsor for the Conference.

Organizing Committee:

CHAN Ching, Selina

CHEUNG Siu Keung

TRAVER, Harold

HO Wai Shing

LI Xiuguo

The 8th Annual Conference of Hong Kong Sociological Association Narratives and Perspectives in Sociology: Understanding the Past and Envisaging the Future ……………………………………………………………………………………………

Rediscovering Chinese Society in the Socialist Era:

‘Using the Past to Serve the Present’

Jonathan Unger

Australian National University

The 1950s, 1960s and 1970s witnessed tumultuous social change. Nevertheless, little sociological research

about China was carried out during the period of Mao’s rule, when it was impossible to do so from within

China. If additional research is not done soon, through interview surveys and oral histories, a lot of

potential insights and valuable knowledge about the recent socialist past of Chinese society will be lost

forever. An example, drawing upon the speaker’s recent fieldwork, involves interviews on the social

history of a small urban factory, from before the revolution up to the present day. The employees

developed a “moral economy” type of perspective during the socialist era, and it will be shown how their

situations and attitudes of that time help us to understand the worldview that employees still hold today.

Jonathan Unger, a sociologist, is Director of the Contemporary China Centre at the

Australian National University. He edited The China Journal from 1987 through 2005.

His research interests include rural social and political change, social stratification,

family life, education, industrial relations, and associational activity. He has published

more than a dozen books about China, including Education Under Mao: Class and

Competition in Canton Schools (1982); Chen Village Under Mao and Deng

(co-authored with Anita Chan and Richard Madsen, 1992); and, most recently, The

Transformation of Rural China (2002).

The 8th Annual Conference of Hong Kong Sociological Association Narratives and Perspectives in Sociology: Understanding the Past and Envisaging the Future ……………………………………………………………………………………………

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

08:30-09:30 Venue: Conference Hall

Registration and Opening Ceremony

Venue: H201 Venue: H302 Venue: H303 Venue: H402 Venue: H403 9:45-11:00

Panel 1.1

Development and

Environmental Crisis

Panel 1.2

Language and Education

Panel 1.3

Migration, Work and

Narrative I

Panel 1.4

Making Heritage Space

Panel 1.5

Leisure and Tourism

11:00-11:15 Tea Break

11:15-12:30 Panel 2.1

Civil Society, Political

Activism and Social

Movements

Panel 2.2

Critical Gender Issues

Panel 2.3

Migration, Work and

Narrative II

Panel 2.4

Networks and Social Space

Panel 2.5

Global Commodification of

Asian Traditional Health

Practice

12:30-02:00 Lunch 02:00-03:15 Venue: Conference Hall

Keynote Speaker Section

3:30-04:45 Panel 3.1

Colonial Legacy and Practice

Panel 3.2

Global Empire: Sociology of

Perpetual War

Panel 3.3

Migration Experiences in the

Transnational Space

Panel 3.4

Deviance and Crime I

Panel 3.5

Heath and Social Policy

04:45-5:00 Tea Break

5:00-06:15 Panel 4.1

Identity and Cultural Politics

Panel 4.2

Narrative Sociology and Life

Stories

Panel 4.3

Labour and Transnationalism

Panel 4.4

Deviance and Crime II:

Latest Issues in Chinese

Society

Panel 4.5

Tradition and Social Change

06:15-06:30 Venue: H302

Closing Ceremony

CONFERENCE AGENDA

08:30 -09:00 Registration

Venue: Conference Hall

09:00-09:30 Welcoming Speech

Henry Hu, President of Hong Kong Shue Yan College

Harold Traver, Head, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Shue Yan College

Opening Ceremony

Wong Siu Lun, President of Hong Kong Sociological Association

Taking Group Photos

Venue: Conference Hall

09:45-11:00

Panel 1.1: Development and Environmental Crisis Chair: Graeme Lang, City University of Hong Kong

Differential view of needs and responses: A study on the apprehensive riverbank erosion

displacees in Bangladesh

M Zulfiquar Ali Islam, University of Rajshahi

Development without environment: From past to the future

Muhammad Hasan Imam, University of Rajshahi

Competing values in the world culture: Time to seek a middle ground

Eun-young Song, Korea University

Asian experimental states: A historical comparative study of development strategies in

Taiwan and Hong Kong 1970-1990

Lin Thung-hong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Venue:H201

09:45-11:00

Panel 1.2: Language and Education Chair: Louis Lo, Hong Kong Shue Yan College

‘If I don’t learn English, I’m going to suffer’: Gambian lower basic school children’s

perspectives on the importance of English

Kasper Juffermans, The University of Hong Kong

The effects of family background on university level: Differences between male and

female

Eunsil Jo, Yonsei University

Notes from Macao: Sociology of a new English literature

Christopher Kelen, University of Macau

Comparison of Western and Chinese humour

Waters Dan

Venue:H302

09:45-11:00

Panel 1.3: Migration, Work and Narrative I

Chair: Susanne Y P Choi, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Second generation returnees seeking work in Hong Kong

Janet Salaff, University of Toronto

Mobile communication and resistance of migrant workers in Pearl River Delta area

Peng Yinni, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Gender-colored “health”: The influence of gender identity on health perception of

migrant sex workers in Southwest China

Cao Lida, Chinese University of Hong Kong

The social capital of rural migrants in Shanghai: A preliminary report

Ruan Danching and Gina Lai, Hong Kong Baptist University

Venue:H303

09:45-11:00

Panel 1.4: Making Heritage Space

Chair: Tan Chee Beng, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Making site Islamic: Tourism in Quanzhou in recent decades

Fan Ke, Nanjing University

An alternative approach to capitalizing cultural heritage: The sanctification and

school-founding of the Confucius temple of Zhengzhou

Yang Der-Ruey, Nanjing University

Making place in Taiwan: Cultural imagination and nation building

Selina Chan, Hong Kong Shue Yan College

Venue:H402 09:45-11:00

Panel 1.5: Leisure and Tourism

Chair: Zhao Xudong, China Agricultural University

Tower palace, a space of dualistic representation: Study on space analysis of the

residential complex and the significance of spatial experience"

Eunjin Cho and Jaeyoun Won, Yonsei University

Leisure and rebuilding of life world: Survey research on Shanghai urban leisure

Lu Xiao-cong and Zhang Xiu-feng, The University of Shanghai

A conceptual framework on the studies of consumer culture in Tibet: The

transformation of relationship between Tibet and the outside world

Gelek and Wang Zhao, Centre of Chinese Tibetology

Venue:H403

11:00-11:15

Tea Break

11:15-12:30

Panel 2.1: Civil Society, Political Activism and Social Movements

Chair: Chan Kin Man, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Farmers’ group cooperation in the context of changing state – society relationships：：：：The case of Yun village in Anhui Province, PRC

He Hongguang, Nanjing University

Global constitutionalism and judicial activism in Taiwan

Chu Jou-juo

National Chung Cheng University

An agent-based modeling of labor movement

Jung Woo Seok, Yonsei University

The religious factor in social movement organizing: A case study of the July 1 March in

Hong Kong

Chan Shun-hing, Hong Kong Baptist University

Venue:H201

11:15-12:30 Panel 2.2: Critical Gender Issues

Chair: Day Wong, Hong Kong Baptist University

Hwang Woo Suk and his patriotic egg donors: The mechanism of voluntarism

Kim Sun-hye, Yonsei University

Harassment pattern of the sex workers in Bangladesh: A situational analysis of three

brothels

Mahmudul Hasan, University of Rajshahi

Violence against women in Bangladesh

Kazi Tobarak Hossain, University of Rajshahi

Gender income differential in Hong Kong: An empirical study

Han Jia, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Venue:H302

11:15-12:30 Panel 2.3: Migration, Work and Narrative II

Chair: Susanne Y P Choi, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Out of the shadow: Narratives of Asian migrant women in central Europe

Marketa Moore, City University of Hong Kong

Gender differences in human and social capital among “floating rural populations” in

Tianjin

Du Ping, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Social mobility and the decline of ethnic social capital among Chaozhou and Fujian

migrants in Hong Kong

Susanne Y P Choi, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Venue:H303

11:15-12:30 Panel 2.4: Networks and Social Space

Chair: Grant Evans, The University of Hong Kong

Urbanization and “radicalization of culture” in China: The assertion of a new

imaginary of the city in the city of Quanzhou, 1920s-1930s

Wang Mingming, Peking University

Networks, civil associations and social space: Homeowners’ organizations in a Shanghai

neighborhood

Shi Fayong, National University of Singapore

Gendered effect of marriage on social networks

Gina Lai, Hong Kong Baptist University

Venue:H402

11:15-12:30 Panel 2.5: Global Commodification of Asian Traditional Health Practice

Chair: Md Nazrul Islam and K.E. Kuah-Pearce, The University of Hong Kong

Traditional medicine and health commodification: Impact of globalisation on Ayurvedic

medicine

Md. Nazrul Islam and K.E. Kuah-Pearce, The University of Hong Kong

Commodification of traditional health care: People’s narrative in development

Krishna Soman, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata

Policy gaps in the indigenous knowledge systems and intellectual property regimes: The

case of medicinal plants development in the Philippines

Dennis B. Batangan, Ateneo De Manila University

The increasing commodification of goods and services for pregnancy, childbirth, and

new mothers in Hong Kong

Victoria Caplan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Venue:H403

12:30-02:00 Lunch Venue: Lady Lily Shaw Hall

02:00-03:15 Keynote Speech Chair: Selina Chan, Hong Kong Shue Yan College

Rediscovering Chinese Society in the Socialist Era: ‘Using the Past to Serve the Present’

Jonathan Unger, Australian National University

Venue: Conference Hall

03:30-04:45 Panel 3.1:Colonial Legacy and Practice

Chair: Lee Ming Kwan, Central Policy Unit

A critical review of experiential fieldwork on development studies: Hong Kong university

students in under-developed China

Law Kam-yee, City University of Hong Kong

Cheng Man-lung, Southwest University of Political Science & Law

Constructing ‘criminal tribes’ in colonial India

Rahul Ashok Kamble, Jawaharlal Nehru University

The colonial identity of pro-Japanese intellectuals in Korea

Koh Won Tae, Yonsei University

Venue:H201

03:30-04:45 Panel 3.2: Global Empire: Sociology of Perpetual War

Chair: Cheung Siu Keung, Hong Kong Shue Yan College

Governance as a form of war Fred Moten, University of Southern California Stefano Harney, Queen Mary, University of London

Theofascism and the American empire

Harry Cliadakis, Pace University

The North Korean nuclear crisis and the U.S. hegemony in Northeast Asia

Joseph T H Lee, Pace University

Terrorist bombings and everyday life in a Beirut Suburb

Klas Borell

Venue:H302

03:30-04:45 Panel 3.3: Migration Experiences in the Transnational Space

Chair: Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce and Huang Yedan, The University of Hong Kong

“Burmese Chinese as cultural broker in history and contemporary transnational

contexts: A preliminary research”

Yuan Jianwei, The University of Hong Kong

Home for transnational Chinese migrants: A model

Wang Cangbai, The University of Hong Kong

Hai Gui in the transnational migration flow

Huang Yedan, The University of Hong Kong

Venue:H303

03:30-04:45 Panel 3.4: Deviance and Crime I

Chair: Cheung Yuet Wah, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Risk, fear, and the ambivalent role of the researcher: Some methodological

considerations in researching criminal and deviant communities

Noorman Abdullah, University of Bielefeld

Types of adolescents in terms of delinquency and the factors which make adolescent

belong to each type

Gru Han, Yonsei University

To flee or not to flee: A test of the consistency hypothesis with intimate homicides in

Hong Kong between 1989 and 2002

Chan Ching Yee Aris, The University of Hong Kong

Crime, punishment and colonial rule in Hong Kong

Harold Traver, Hong Kong Shue Yan College

Venue:H402

03:30-04:45 Panel 3.5: Health and Social Policy

Chair: Zhuang Kongshao, Renmin University of China

Need for collecting two-step networks

Yoosik Youm, Yonsei University

Health inequality in the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in South Korea

Lee Kun-Bok, Yonsei University

The effect of bridging positions on carrying legal bills: Based on the affiliation network

of the 16th National Assembly Members in Health and Welfare Standing Committee in

South Korea

Sunny Choi, Yoosik Youm and Lee Kun-Bok, Yonsei University

Venue:H403

04:45-05:00 Tea Break

05:00-06:15 Panel 4.1: Identity and Cultural Politics

Chair: Lui Tai Lok, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Inventing “Taiwaneseness”: Making Taiwanese opera “national drama”

Cheng Hui-Ling, University of Bielefeld

Muslim community in space war:Islamizing the ‘protest’ sphere since the Danish

cartoon controversy

Ho Wai Yip, Hong Kong Institute of Education

Netizens as new voice makers for cultural industry: A case of pro-Japanese controversy

around the Korean movie Blue Swallow

Yukie Hirata, Yonsei University

Cultural consumption: Everyday resistance of the Singapore middle class

Wong Meisen, National University of Singapore

Venue:H201

05:00-06:15 Panel 4.2: Narrative Sociology and Life Stories

Chair: Harold Traver, Hong Kong Shue Yan College

Social mobility for generations in South Korea: Life story and family-based approach

Eunjoo Cho, Yonsei University

Women in absentia? Rethinking history and female migrants’ experiences

Kelvin E.Y. Low, University of Bielefeld

Is social capital a “genuine capital” in the building of worker cooperatives in Hong

Kong?

Wong Shuet Ying, Hong Kong Baptist University

Venue:H302

05:00-06:15 Panel 4.3: Labour and Transnationalism

Chair: Wu Xiaogang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Intervention policies for the worst forms of child laborers in hazardous workplace

environment: A study of Bidi industries in Western Banglades

A H M Zehadul Karim and M Zulfiquar Ali Islam, University of Rajshahi

Transnational migration of Korean nurses: Labor, gender, global migration: Case study of Korean Female Nurses, working in Australia Chung Ga-young, Yonsei University

Transnational mobility of highly skilled professionals in Korea: A field study on migrant

workers in finance service industry

Joo Hee Han, Yonsei University

Structural change of employment and social influence factors of job searching process

Kang Eugene, Yonsei University

Venue:H303

05:00-06:15 Panel 4.4: Deviance and Crime II: Latest Issues in Chinese Society

Chair: Hua Sara Zhong, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Stabilization or brutalization? Making criminological sense of Chinese crime rates

Borge Bakken, The University of Hong Kong

Substance use and situations of violence among Hong Kong prisoners

Karen Joe, Garlum Lau and Leona Li, The University of Hong Kong

Social correlates of adolescent deviant behaviour in Hong Kong: A test of the general

strain theory

Mok Yui-ting, Y W Cheung and Nicole W T Cheung, The University of Hong Kong

Recent trends in women’s violence: A comparison of Hong Kong and Taiwan

Hua Sara Zhong, Chinese University of Hong Kong Venue:H402

05:00-06:15

Panel 4.5: 傳統與社會變遷傳統與社會變遷傳統與社會變遷傳統與社會變遷

主持: 梁永佳, 中國政法大學

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張興傑 、羅天瑩，華南農業大學

會場: H403

06:15-06:30 Closing Ceremony

Wong Siu Lun, President of Hong Kong Sociological Association

Venue:H302

The 8th Annual Conference of Hong Kong Sociological Association Narratives and Perspectives in Sociology: Understanding the Past and Envisaging the Future …………………………………………………………………………………………………….

2006 Sponsor

The 8th Annual Conference of Hong Kong Sociological Association Narratives and Perspectives in Sociology: Understanding the Past and Envisaging the Future ……………………………………………………………………………………………

2006 Sponsor

The 8th Annual Conference of Hong Kong Sociological Association Narratives and Perspectives in Sociology: Understanding the Past and Envisaging the Future ……………………………………………………………………………………………

2006 Sponsor

The 8th Annual Conference of Hong Kong Sociological Association Narratives and Perspectives in Sociology: Understanding the Past and Envisaging the Future ……………………………………………………………………………………………

2006 Sponsor

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Venue for Lunch:

Lady Lily Shaw Hall

Conference Hall

Residential &

Amenities Building

Conference Rooms:

H201 H302

H303 H403

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