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Centre for Social and Political Development Studies | Centre for Social Innovation Studies |
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Gender Research Centre |
Research Centre for Urban and Regional Development |
Chinese Law Programme |
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Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies
When Professional Logic Meets Environmental Discontinuity: Interpreting Organizational Response in the Pandemic Crisis 18 November 2022 | Yasumoto International Academic Park, CUHK & Online |
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Speaker
Prof. Xueguang Zhou |
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, CUHK
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Co-organizers
Faculty of Social Science, CUHK Department of Sociology, CUHK |
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The COVID-19 pandemic is the most serious global public health crisis since the 1918 Spanish Flu,
with far-reaching and still unfolding consequences.
Different countries responded to this crisis in different ways,
which provides a “natural experiment” for social science inquiry.Drawing on the U.S. experience in the Covid-19 pandemic, Prof. Zhou develop the proposition that, of a multitude of contributing factors, the coupling of environmental discontinuity, biased organizational learning, and the limits of professional logic led to a deadly combination, resulting in major misjudgements and consequent delays in the U.S. government’s response to the pandemic. In particular, the significant differences between COVID-19 and previous covid viruses (especially SARS), characteristic of environmental discontinuity, rendered problematic the previous retention of organizational learning and established professional knowledge and practices, and even turned them into obstacles to interpreting and responding to information in the face of the new virus. The professional logic that insists on systematic and reliable data and a belief in the established knowledge exacerbated these tendencies. These lessons have broader implications for rethinking organizational design, professional logic, and public policies in preparation for the next major public health crisis or other types of crises. |
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Centre for Chinese Family Studies
Gender Equality – the Paradox of Fertility: A Theoretical Approach 27 October 2022 | Online |
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Speaker
Prof. Juhua Yang |
Associate Professor at the School of Ethology and Sociology, Minzu University of China |
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Co-organizers
Department of Sociology, CUHK |
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The focus of this talk was on the relationship between fertility and gender equality in both the public and private arenas.
It was argued that gender equality can both reduce and boost the fertility rate or the desire to be fertile,
generating a “gender-equality paradox of fertility”.
In a high-fertility regime,
gender equality in the public sphere facilitates the transition from high to low fertility,
while in the low-fertility context,
gender equality in the public sphere will continue to lead to a reduction in fertility due to demographic inertia and the failure of public policies.
However, gender equality in the private sphere may have an opposite effect on fertility, gradually pushing very low fertility rates back up.
Yet the relationship between fertility and gender equality may not be unidimensional,
but may vary by fertility rate, gender, and other factors. |
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Prof. Cameron Campbell |
Chair Professor, Division of Social Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
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Co-organizer
Department of Sociology, CUHK |
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Prof. Campbell presented a selection of findings from quantitative historical research on the Chinese family that provide context for studying contemporary trends and patterns.
Over the last three decades, analyses of large,
individual-level longitudinal databases constructed from population registers like the China Multigenerational Panel Datasets (CMGPD),
genealogies,
and other sources have transformed the study of the family in historical China in the same way that longitudinal surveys are now transforming the study of the family in contemporary China.
Quantitative studies of marriage, reproduction, households,
and kinship in past times have confirmed, contradicted,
or complicated previous understandings of the traditional Chinese family based on classic ethnographic studies from the early and mid-20th century.
They have been especially important for moving beyond the analysis of norms and modal behaviours to map variations by social and economic status, and household, kin,
and community context. Findings from historical studies of the determinants of timing and the prevalence of marriage and remarriage, assortative mating, and reproduction are especially relevant for understanding contemporary trends and patterns. Despite this, there has been little integration of historical and contemporary research on the Chinese family beyond assessments by James Lee, Wang Feng, Prof. Campbell, and others of the implications of historical reproductive behaviours for understanding contemporary fertility trends. Thus, in addition to identifying specific findings relevant for interpreting contemporary patterns and trends, Prof. Campbell laid out ideas for reintegrating historical and contemporary family studies in China, emphasizing the prospects for contemporary researchers of using publicly available historical data. |
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Historical Comparison of Gender Inequality in Scientific Careers Across Countries and Disciplines
10:00–11:30 | 20 January 2023 | Online |
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Speaker
Dr Junming Huang |
Research Scientist, Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China, Princeton University, United States
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Co-organizer
Gender Research Centre, HKIAPS Computational Social Science Laboratory, CUHK
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There is extensive, yet fragmented, evidence of gender differences in academia suggesting that women are underrepresented in most scientific disciplines,
publish fewer articles throughout a career, and have fewer citations of their work.
This seminar offered a comprehensive picture of longitudinal gender differences in performance through a bibliometric analysis of academic publishing careers.
This was done by reconstructing the complete publication history of over 1.5 million gender-identified authors in 83 countries and 13 disciplines,
whose publishing careers ended between 1955 and 2010. Dr Junming Huang his research team found that, paradoxically, the increase in the participation of women in science over the past 60 years was accompanied by an increase in gender differences in both productivity and impact. Most surprisingly, though, the team uncovered two gender invariants, finding that men and women publish at a comparable annual rate and, career-wise, have an equivalent impact for the same sized body of work. Finally, he demonstrated that differences in publishing career lengths and dropout rates explain a large portion of the reported career-wise differences in productivity and impact, although productivity differences remain. Dr Huang hoped that this comprehensive picture of gender inequality in academia can help rephrase the conversation around the sustainability of women’s careers in academia, with important consequences for institutions and policy makers. | ||||||
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Prof. James Raymo |
Professor, Department of Sociology, Princeton University
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Co-organizer
Department of Sociology, CUHK
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Many studies have demonstrated that later and fewer marriages,
in combination with negligible levels of non-marital childbearing,
are the primary reasons for Japan’s very low total fertility rate.
One surprising omission from the large body of research on the relationship between marriage and fertility is explicit attention to the role of marital dissolution and remarriage.
This is a critical limitation in light of the relatively high prevalence of both divorce and remarriage.
In Japan, one-fourth to one-third of marriages end in divorce and one-fifth of all marriages involve at least one spouse who was formerly married.In this seminar, Prof. Raymo demonstrated that his research team used data from the 2010 and 2015 rounds of the National Fertility Survey to quantify the contributions of marital dissolution and remarriage to period fertility rates. In the absence of non-marital fertility, the team expected marital dissolution to contribute to lower fertility, and remarriage to contribute to higher fertility. The relationship between remarriage and childbearing is a major research focus in Europe and the U.S., but we seem to be the first to examine this question in Japan using large nationally representative data. Preliminary analyses show that the total fertility rate in 2010-15 would have been roughly 5% higher than observed if first-married couples had experienced no divorce and 5% lower if women who did exit first marriages via divorce were not exposed to the risk of fertility in the context of remarriage. In subsequent revisions, Prof. Raymo and his research team will extend their analyses to examine the contributions of divorce and remarriage to changes in the total fertility rate over time. The team will also supplement their simple synthetic cohort analyses with simulations of individual behaviour under alternative assumptions about divorce rates, remarriage rates, and stepfamily fertility rates. | ||||||
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Prof. Susanne Y. P. Choi |
Co-Director, GRC, HKIAPS |
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Co-organizer
GRC, HKIAPS |
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With China’s full-scale insertion into the global capitalist economy since its economic reforms were launched in the late 1970s,
China has emerged as a key player in the global political, social, and cultural realms.
The present seminar examines the global multiple migration experiences of a group of elite Chinese gay men as they mobilized their class-based capital to capitalize on the opportunities that globalization has opened up for Chinese citizens,
including sexual minorities.
Global multiple migration is conceptualized as “a pattern of migration characterized by multiple changes of destination internationally in one’s lifetime”.
It has become a strategy and a form of capital employed by highly educated Chinese who self-identify as gay men to navigate social stigmatization,
negotiate family pressure, circumvent state oppression, and achieve their desired life goals.By examining the intersection between global multiple migration, class, and sexuality, this seminar contributes to the nascent literature on global China by documenting how individuals actively capitalize on the global rise of China and their manoeuvres in transnational fields, as well as how the global manoeuvres of Chinese citizens are underscored by and reproduce existing local class and sexuality inequalities. |
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Centre for Social and Political Development Studies
Story of Old Photos (老照片的故事) 16:30–18:00 | 24 February 2023 | Online |
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Speaker
Mr Dehuai Zou |
Photograph collector |
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Moderator
Dr Victor Zheng |
Associate Director (Executive), HKIAPS |
In this seminar, Mr Zou shared his story of being a young collector of old Chinese photographs.
Mr Zhou has collected more than 100,000 photographs taken from the late-19th century to the first half of the 20th century,
including those related to the Sino-Japanese War, his hometown of Qingdao, the lives of foreigners in China, and celebrities.
Mr Zou also introduced the background story of some well-known photographs.
For example, he shared how he traced the background of a Chinese lady,
Nadine Hwang, whose photograph appeared in newspapers worldwide.
Through this seminar, Mr Zou hoped to show a more interesting way of learning history.
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Lecture Series on “At Home in Hong Kong: Stories of Chinese Immigrants over a Hundred Years” –
Striving to Excel: Shanghai Industrialists in Postwar Hong Kong
15:00–17:00 | 25 February 2023 | Hong Kong Museum of History |
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Prof. Siu-lun Wong |
Honorary Senior Research Fellow, HKIAPS |
Why should we still pay attention to the Shanghai industrialists in Hong Kong?
Prof. Siu-lun Wong began with the new Chinese translation (2022) of his book on Emigrant Entrepreneurs: The Shanghai Industrialists in Hong Kong,
and sketched the background for its writing.
Then, he focused on the Rong family, that is,
the family dynasty founded by Rong Zongjing and Rong Desheng,
as the theme of his presentation. He described, first,
how some members of the Rong family relocated to Hong Kong in the postwar years and established new textile enterprises here.
Second, he examined the rise and fall of Larry Rong, the son of Rong Yiren,
who came to Hong Kong in 1978 and set up CITIC PACIFIC in the territory.
Finally, he discussed the
resilience of another branch of the family, that of Rong Hongqing, and examined how its members coped with the decline of the local cotton spinning industry and vigorously diversified their endeavours. For details: https://hk.history.museum/en_US/web/mh/activities/public-programme-athomeinhongkong-lecture.html |
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Preserve Nature through Pictures: From a Young Boy Who Was Fond of Birds to a Wildlife Photographer（影像保護自然—從愛鳥少年到野生動物攝影師）
16:30–18:00 | 3 March 2023 | Room 505, Esther Lee Building, CUHK & Online |
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Speaker
Mr Zhinong Xi |
Wildlife photographer |
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Moderator
Dr Victor Zheng |
Associate Director (Executive), HKIAPS |
In this seminar, Mr Zhinong Xi, China’s most famous wildlife photographer, shared stories of how,
since the late 1980s,
he set out to devote himself to photographing and protecting wildlife.
Mr Xi was named the Wildlife Photographer of the Year in 2001 by the BBC Wildlife Magazine. He founded Wild China Film (野性中國),
a production and public interest organization that strives to protect nature through the power of imagery.Mr Xi’s campaigns include Animal World, a documentary series that was broadcast by China Central Television. Subsequently, he captured extraordinary images of the scarcely known Yunnan snub-nosed monkey. Publicity from this work led to the preservation of the monkey’s remote habitat in the mountainous regions of southwest China. He has also campaigned to protect Tibetan antelopes, which are under threat from poachers who shoot the animals for their woolly coats. His reports raised awareness of the fur trade, and efforts to protect the animals, which are native to the Tibetan plateau, were stepped up. Mr Xi hopes that the Hong Kong audience will also protect the local natural landscape. Video : 
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Centre for Social Innovation Studies
Plastic-free Hong Kong: Beach clean-up X Social Sculpture Collective Art 4–5 February 2023 | Online |
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Speakers
Prof. Ka-ming Wu |
Director, CSIS |
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Mr Michael Leung
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Artist
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Yeungs
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Beach clean-up expert
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Co-organizer
Centre for Cultural Studies, CUHK |
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Funded by the CUHK’s Social Responsibility & Sustainable Development Office,
the CSIS and the Centre for Cultural Studies co-organized the workshop “Plastic-free Hong Kong: Beach clean-up X Social Sculpture Collective Art”
on 4–5 February 2023.
We had invited a beach clean-up expert – Yeungs,
to share her experiences and introduce the problem of plastic pollution in Hong Kong, and to conduct a beach clean-up in Yuen Chau Tsai.
We also invited artist Michael Leung to lead a social sculpture workshop.
Participants used the waste collected on seashores as resources and reimagined their relationship between the environment and society.
With bits of waste, the participants created a sculpture that resonates with them as well as with society.
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Speakers
Songqiao Yao |
Wildbound |
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Melanir Coerver
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Wildbound
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Mingyi Lu
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Wildbound
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Hahn Chu
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Green Earth
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Leanne Tam
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Greenpeace
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Prof. Ka-ming Wu
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Director, CSIS
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Landfill sites in Hong Kong will be full in 2030.
According to figures from the Environmental Protection Department,
we are sending over one million of municipal solid waste to landfills everyday,
with plastic making up 21% of such waste, the second highest by category.Plastic bottles, cutlery, and food boxes offer convenience in a throw-away culture; at the same time, they have brought severe pollution to the Earth. Plastic has entered the seas and the food chain, causing potential harm to human health. We need to take action, in our daily lives and in communities, to advocate for a plastic-free future. The “Plastic-Free Change Makers Training Workshops” are aimed at training students to become change makers with innovative thinking skills to advocate for a reduction in the amount of plastic used on campus and in communities. In the workshop, the problems of plastic pollution are introduced to the students, along with information on local and international trends, and on the development of different innovative solutions from NGOs. Through the use of facilitation skills and tools, students are equipped with design thinking skills, such as Impact Gap Canvas. They are then able to develop trial solutions to participate in a future practicum – holding change makers workshops in secondary schools. |
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Centre for Urban Innovations
The Age of Resilience Reimagined: Existence on a Rewilded Earth 09:30–11:10 | 14 December 2022 | Online |
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Speaker
Mr Jeremy Rifkin |
President, The Foundation of Economics Trends
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Moderator
Prof. Yuan Xu |
Associate professor, Department of Geography and Resource Management |
In The Age of Resilience,
Rifkin takes us on a new journey beginning with how we reconceptualize time and navigate space.
During the Age of Progress, efficiency was the gold standard for organizing time,
locking our species into the quest to optimize the expropriation, commodification,
and consumption of the Earth’s bounty at ever-greater speeds and in ever-shrinking time intervals,
with the objective of increasing the opulence of human society, but at the expense of the depletion of nature.
Space, observes Rifkin, became synonymous with passive natural resources,
while a principal role of government and the economy was to manage nature as property.
This long adhered to temporal-spatial orientation, writes Rifkin,
has taken humanity to commanding heights as the dominant species on Earth and to the ruin of the natural world. |
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Cohort 1: 3–6 January 2023Cohort 2: 6–9 March 2023 Cohort 3+: 26–29 June 2023 Cohort 3A: 3–6 July 2023 Cohort 3B: 10–13 July 2023 Talent development experts along with JC PROcruit C’s partners have jointly designed a pre-onboarding bootcamp for 600 first-time job-seekers. The bootcamp teaches essential workplace skills including soft skills, digital literacy, and creative problem solving to get first-time job-seekers ready for a new stage in life. |
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JC PROcruit C Group Coaching Programme February 2023–June 2024, bimonthly with six sessions for each of three cohorts
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Talent development experts along with JC PROcruit C’s partners have jointly designed six coaching sessions for 600 first-time job-seekers.
The continuous coaching gives trainees a shot in the arm in developing their own career,
under the themes of work transition, work values & attitudes, personal effectiveness, workplace communication,
interpersonal relationships, and career planning.
The bi-monthly sessions provide regular meet-ups for peer sharing and listening to workplace experiences under the guidance of a career coach,
so that trainees can give each other mutual emotional support,
reflect together, and contribute different perspectives to handle challenges.
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Gender Research Centre
Conversation with Xianzi: #MeToo and Chinese Feminism 12:30–14:00 | 12 January 2023 | LT1, Esther Lee Building, CUHK |
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Speaker
Xianzi (弦子) |
Feminist in China
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Moderator
Prof. Susanne Y. P. Choi |
Co-Director, GRC, HKIAPS
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Co-organizer
Centre for Social Innovation Studies, HKIAPS |
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In this conversation with Chinese feminist Xianzi,
the achievements and challenges of the #MeToo movement in China were discussed.
The conversation was moderated by Prof. Susanne Y. P. Choi, Professor at the Department of Sociology and Co-Director of the Gender Research Centre;
Prof. Ka-ming Wu, Associate Professor at the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies and Director of the Centre for Social Innovation Studies;
and Prof. Kecheng Fang, Assistant Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication. Around 150 participants attended the seminar.
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Tokophobia as Feminist Resistance?
Female Netizens’ Reproductive Experiences and Discourses in China’s Cyberspace 12:30–14:00; | 18 January 2023 | Online |
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Speakers
Dr Kailing Xie |
Lecturer, International Development, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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Dr Yunyun Zhou |
Associate Professor, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, Norway |
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Moderator
Prof. Ruby Y. S. Lai |
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology & Social Policy, Lingnan University |
This was one of the regular seminar sections on which the GRC collaborates with the Gender Studies Programme.
The talk focused on the reproductive experiences and discourses of female netizens in China's cyberspace,
with a discussion of the significance of the alternative public space of the Internet for China’s gender dynamics and feminist movements.
The speaker, Dr Kailing XIE, is a Lecturer in the Department of International Development at the University of Birmingham.
Dr Yunyun Zhou is a feminist researcher,
political sociologist, Chinese scholar, ethnographic filmmaker,
and an Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo.
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Gender, Dating, and Violence in Urban China
12:30–14:00 | 30 January 2023 | Rm 505, Esther Lee Building, CUHK & Online |
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Speaker
Prof. Xiying Wang |
Professor, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, China
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Moderator
Prof. Susanne Y. P. Choi |
Co-Director, GRC, HKIAPS
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This was a book talk organized by the Gender Research Centre.
The book was published by Routledge in 2017 (hardcopy) and 2019 (paperback).
This talk explored young people’s experiences and views on dating, gender, sexuality, and violence in dating relationships,
providing insights into a wide range of issues on gender and sexuality in contemporary China.
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Penalty, Bonus, or Needs:
Family Care Responsibilities and Work in Three Labor Regimes of Chinese Societies 12:30–14:00 | 15 February 2023 | Rm 123, Chen Kou Bun Building, CUHK |
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Speaker
Prof. Haijing Dai |
Co-Director, CCFS, HKIAPS
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Moderator
Prof. Ling Han |
Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, CUHK
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Co-organizer
Gender Studies Programme, CUHK |
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This was one of the regular seminar sections on which the GRC collaborates with the Gender Studies Programme.
Prof. Haijing Dai’s presentation showcased her comparative research on workplace discrimination against caregivers in different social contexts,
highlighting how employers evaluate and treat male and female employees with different family care responsibilities in three different labour regimes in Chinese society.
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Obtaining a Position / Applying for Tenure: Challenges and Strategies of Young Women Academics
14:00–16:00 | 8 March 2023 | Online |
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Speakers
Prof. Mai-har Sham |
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research), CUHK
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Prof. Ruby Y. S. Lai |
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology & Social Policy, Lingnan University |
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Prof. Jia Tan |
Associate Professor, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, CUHK
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Prof. Tianhan Gui |
Associate Professor, School of Public Policy & Management, Tsinghua University, China |
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Moderators
Prof. Susanne Y. P. Choi |
Co-Director, GRC, HKIAPS
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Prof. Lynne Nakano |
Co-Director, GRC, HKIAPS
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Co-organizer
Women Academics Sub-committee, CUHK |
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This was a special workshop held in collaboration with the Women Academics Subcommittee to celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8, 2023.
The workshop focused on the challenges and strategies of young women academics.
Four women academics from Hong Kong and Mainland China who were at different stages in their career were invited to share their knowledge about the process and their experiences on how to “make it through”.
Prof. Susanne Y. P. Choi,
the Co-Director of the GRC from the Department of Sociology,
led the workshop.
Prof. Lynne Nakano, the Co-Director of the GRC from the Department of Japanese Studies, moderated and concluded the discussion.
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Sajiao Gong: Intimacy Fantasy and Resignification of Femininity in Danmei Fiction
12:30–14:00 | 15 March 2023 | Rm 123, Chen Kou Bun Building, CUHK |
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Speaker
Ms Lin Zheng |
MPhil Student, Gender Studies Programme, CUHK
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Moderator
Prof. Jia Tan |
Associate Professor, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, CUHK
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Co-organizer
Gender Studies Programme, CUHK |
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This was one of the regular seminar sections on which the GRC collaborates with the Gender Studies Programme.
The speaker, Lin Zheng, is an MPhil student in Gender Studies (affiliated with the Department of Cultural Studies) at CUHK.
In this seminar, Lin shared insights based on her research on how femininity is resignified through the cultural and discursive practices of the female online community,
and how attempts are made through resignification to respond to current dilemmas in intimate relationships.
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Research Centre for Urban and Regional Development
China’s Policies Strengthen Hong Kong as the Asia-Pacific’s Premier Financial Centre 16:30–18:00 | 13 October 2022 | Online |
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Speaker
Dr David R. Meyer |
Senior Lecturer in Management, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, United States |
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Co-organizer
Department of Geography and Resource Management, CUHK |
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Critics repeatedly claim that China’s sovereign control undermines the city as the leading financial centre in the Asia-Pacific region.
They fail to understand that the city’s financiers and firms are part of sophisticated and complex internal networks.
Major financiers and firms in these networks reach externally throughout Asia and globally to the world’s leading financial centres.
This resilient network remains strong. Mainland Chinese financial and non-financial firms increasingly use Hong Kong as their platform for conducting international business. This enhances the city’s attractiveness because foreign financial firms that operate in the Asia-Pacific region, and especially in China, require access to these firms. China’s policies directly support Hong Kong’s position as the top financial centre in the Asia-Pacific region. China has reorganized its Hong Kong and Macau Office in Hong Kong. A senior government liaison official reports directly to a Vice Premier in Beijing. Therefore, Hong Kong officials and private-sector financial firms benefit from policy support at the top levels of China’s government. The senior Foreign Ministry official in Hong Kong brings the authority of the Beijing ministry to the city’s international affairs. China’s policies, therefore, ensure that the city’s status in Asia-Pacific finance is secure. |
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Chinese Law Programme
Faculty Research Seminar – “Managing Transparency in China’s Courts” & Roundtable on “The Promises and Challenges of Studying China through Large Datasets” 13:15–16:30 | 5 January 2023 | Board Room, Lee Shau Kee Building, CUHK |
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Speaker
Prof. Benjamin Liebman |
Robert L. Lieff Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, United States
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Moderator
Prof. Chao Xi |
Director, Chinese Law Programme, HKIAPS
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Co-organizer
Faculty of Law, CUHK |
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In this talk we present a case study showing how legal information can be managed through the deletion of previously published cases from China’s online public database of court decisions.
Using our own dataset of all 42 million cases that were made public in China between January 1, 2014 and September 2, 2018,
we examine the recent deletion of criminal cases from the China Judgements Online website.
Our data suggest that the decision to remove cases is often reactive and ad hoc.
But, taken together, the decision(s) to remove hundreds of thousands of unconnected cases shapes a narrative about Chinese courts,
Chinese society, and the Chinese state.
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Speaker
Prof. Min Xie |
Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland, United States |
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Co-organizer
Department of Sociology, CUHK |
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To modernize the delivery of public services,
U.S. communities are increasingly relying on a hotline or web-based system, 311,
for residents to request government services.
Research on 311 systems is relatively new,
and there is mixed evidence on whether 311 can be used efficiently to help bridge the gap between disadvantaged communities and governments.
This study draws from research on immigration, race/ethnicity,
and differential engagement to explore the links between immigrant concentration and 311 usage.
By establishing and contextualizing the relationship between immigrant concentration and 311 usage, the study contributes to a deeper understanding of civic participation.
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