Gender Studies in CUHK

Michael Bond, Professor
Department of Psychology
(Ph.D., Stanford University)

He studied Japanese non-verbal behavior at Kwansei Gakuin University and then moved to Hong Kong where he has taught about and researched Chinese social behavior for the last 25 years at the Chinese University. His current work includes an attempt to develop universal models of dominance and association that incorporate gender and cultural effects.

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Joseph Bosco, Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
(Ph.D., Columbia University)

He has done research on family businesses and rural development in Taiwan, focusing especially on the small rural factories typical of Taiwan's economy. He has also done research on Tin Hau (Tianhou, or Mazu), the Goddess of the Sea also known as the Empress of Heaven. His current research is on consumerism.

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Darius Chan, Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
(Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Research interests include attitudes and behavior consistency, health and social behavior, cross-cultural methodology, and sexual harassment. Publications in journals such as Psychology and Health, Public Health Reports, International Journal of Psychology, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, and Psychology of Women Quarterly.

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Cynthia Chan, Associate Professor
Department of Community & Family Medicine
BSc, MD (Manit.); MFM, Grad Dip Fam Med (Monash) & CCFP; FRACGP; FHKAM (Family Medicine).

She has worked in the Department of Community and Family Medicine at CUHK.

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Choi Po-king, Dora, Associate Professor
Department of Educational Administration and Policy
BSoc Sc, MPhil (HKU), DPhil (Oxon)

Research areas: Cultural relationships between Mainland China and Hong Kong, modern Chinese education and politics, Hong Kong popular culture, Hong Kong education, gender studies.

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Ching Mimi Yuet May, Associate Professor
Department of English
B.A. (CUHK), M.A., Ph.D. (Michigan).

Research interests include modernism, romanticism, poetry, and Ezra Pound.

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Fanny Mui-ching Cheung, Professor(Co-Chair, Gender Studies Committee)
Department of Psychology
(Ph.D., University of Minnesota)

Chairman of the Department of Psychology. She founded the Gender Research Programme in 1985, and initiated the Gender Studies Programme when she was the Dean of the Faculty of Social Science in 1995-96. She served as the founding Chairperson of Hong Kong's Equal Opportunities Commission 1996 - 1999. She is currently Director of the Gender Research Centre at the Chinese University, and member of the Hong Kong Government's Women's Commission. Her research interests include gender roles, violence against women, women's health, and gender equality.

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Eleanor Holroyd, Associate Professor
Department of Nursing
Eleanor A. Holroyd, BN, Grad Dip (MID) MSC, Ph.D. (Medical Anthropology)

She has been in the Department of Nursing at CUHK since 1992. Prior to that she was lecturing at Edith Cowan University, Australia. Her research interests include Chinese women's health, Chinese families and social change, role and identity of Chinese women, and women as family caregivers. She has been an active member of CUHK's gender research programme.

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Gwendolyn Gong, Professor
Department of English
(Ph.D., Purdue University)

She co-edits the international journal, Asian Journal of English Language Teaching. She has co-authored (with Sam Dragga) Editing: The Design of Rhetoric (Baywood, 1989), which received the 1990 NCTE Achievement Award for the category of "Best Book of the Year." Her other publications also focus on academic writing and reading She teaches GEE 183B/GRS 1001: Women, Men, and Language, and has created an applied linguistics course for English majors called ENG 3690: Gender and Language...

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Suzanne C. Ho, Professor
Department of Community and Family Medicine
BA (Calif.); MSc (Brown); MPH (Col.); PhD (Sing.); FACE (Fellow of American College of Epidemiology); FACN (Fellow of American College of Nutrition).

Her major research interests include aging, chronic disease, nutritional epidemiology, women's health and osteoporosis.

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Ping Jiang-King, Assistant Professor
Department of Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies
(Ph.D. in linguistics, University of British Columbia)

Her research interests are phonological theories, cross-cultural literature, and cognition. She has published journal articles and book chapters in both Chinese and English, and has presented papers at WCCFL, GLOW and other conferences. Her latest project is "Tonal Asymmetry: An Online Bilingual Database of Chinese Dialects"...

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Jane Jackson, Associate Professor
Department of English
B.T.,B.A.(St.Thomas);M.Ed.(Calg);Ph.D.(OISE/Tor)

Her major research interests include applied linguistics, the teaching and learning of English as an additional language; language acquisition, intercultural communication; English for specific purposes; case-based teaching/learning.

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Lee Ching Kwan, Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
(Ph.D., Univerisity of California)

Her current research and teaching interests cover the areas of gender, labor, ethnographic method and China and socialist transition.

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Eliza Lee, Associate Professor
Department of Government & Public Administration
(Ph.D., Syracuse University)

Her current research interests are public management in Hong Kong, women elites in Hong Kong and gender and development in Hong Kong. She has published numerous articles in a variety of journals including Opportunities on the Basis of Gender in Hong Kong 1996-1997, Research Report No.1, and Asian Journal of Public Administration.

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Lui Tai Lok , Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
(D.Phil., Oxford University, 1991)

Publications include Waged Work at Hong Kong and (co-authored) City-States in the Global Economy. His research interests are in the areas of women and work, economic sociology, and class analysis.

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Eric Kit-Wai Ma, Associate Professor
School of Journalism and Communication
(Ph.D., Goldsmiths College, University of London)

Research interests: cultural production and consumption, media ideologies and cultural identities. He has authored 5 books in Chinese on the popular culture of Hong Kong and a book in English entitled Culture, Politics and Television in Hong Kong (Routledge, 1999). His publications also appear in Gazette: International Journal for Communication Studies, International Journal of Cultural Studies, and Social Text.

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Catherine McBride, Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
(Ph.D., University of Southern California)

Research interests: cognitive and social development, especially reading development and impairment in children. Representative publications include "The ABCs of the ABCs: the development of letter-name and letter-sound knowledge" in Merrill-Palmer Quarterly and "Growth modeling of phonological awareness" (co-author) in Journal of Educational Psychology.

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Gordon Mathews, Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
(Ph.D., Cornell University)

Research interests: culture and identity, global culture, anthropological theory, meanings of life, meanings of masculinity and femininity; geographic areas: Japan, the United States, Hong KongCurrent research projects include: generation gap and societal legitimacy in contemporary Japan; "Meanings of life" in cross-cultural perspective; Hong Kong as "Chinese"/"international" after 1 July 1997.

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Joyce Ma Lai Chong, Professor
Department of Social Work
BSocSc, MSocSc, PhD (HK)

She provided family counselling to families with problems under the Family Social Work Practice and Research Project. Her research interests include: psychosocial aspects of mental health, family therapy research and family education. Current research : evaluating the effectiveness of family therapy in helping Chinese anorexia nervosa patients in Hong Kong.

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Lynne Y. Nakano, Assistant Professor (Head, Undergraduate Minor Programme)
Department of Japanese Studies
(Ph.D. in anthropology, Yale University)

Her research interests include welfare, identity, gender roles, volunteerism and civic society. She is currently researching the life course decisions of single women in Japan and Hong Kong.

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Ngo, Hang-yue, Associate Professor
Department of Management
BSocSc (CUHK); MA, PhD (Chicago)

Research interests: gender and employment; labor and management issues in China; human resource management.

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Cathy Potter, Associate Professor (Head, Graduate Division)
Department of History
(Ph.D., Yale University)

She is currently working on projects on the Russian Church in the 17th century, on corruption and bribery in early modern Russia, and on women in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev years.

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Siumi Maria Tam, Associate Professor (Chair, Gender Studies Committee)
Department of Anthropology
(Ph.D., University of Hawaii at Manoa)

Research interests include cultural identity, gender and profession formation, ethnicity and, migration, culture change in Hong Kong and Chinese societies, and Chinese overseas. She is concurrently a member of the Executive Committee, Gender Research Centre, Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies.

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Catherine Tang, Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
(Ph.D., N. Texas)

Research interests include family violence, violence against women, women's health, gender discrimination, and female substance abuse.

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Tan Chee Beng, Professor
Department of Anthropology
(Ph.D., Cornell)

He is Chairperson of the Department of Anthropology, His research interests include cultural change and identity, ethnic relations, religion, Chinese in diaspora, and indigenous people and development. Geographical areas: Southeast Asia, China.

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Tung Yuan Fang, Associate Professor
Department of Translation
(Ph.D., Harvard University)

She taught at Harvard University and is now Associate Professor in the in the Department of Translation. Her research interests include culture and translation; the interface between literature and sciences; gender and sexuality, especially in fiction and drama. She has published On Li Yu's Sole (sic) Mates: A Dramatic Play and a Short Story; and has included women's writing in TRA 5050/60: Selected reading in Translated Works.

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Sheila Twinn, Senior Lecturer
Department of Nursing
Ph.D., PGCEA, RN, RSCN, RHV

Since joining the Department in 1992 she has continued to develop her work in health promotion and public health, in particular women's health issues. Her research work in women's health has mainly focused on Hong Kong Chinese women's experiences of screening for cervical cancer, particularly factors influencing uptake rates and re-attendance rates for further screening. Future work will continue to focus on women's screening patterns for both cervical and breast cancer, in particular developing a health promotion strategy to encourage attendance amongst older women and hard to reach women.

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Wong Kin Yuen, Professor
Department of Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies
(Ph.D., University of California)

His research interests include aesthetics, literary theories, comparative poetics, cultural studies, intercultural studies, translation theories, hermeneutics, technoculture, and science fiction studies.

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Wong Wai Ching, Associate Professor
Department of Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies
(Ph.D. in Religious Studies, University of Chicago Divinity School)

Her research interests focus on religion and women, Asian theology and feminist Biblical hermeneutics, postcolonialism and Hong Kong Christianity, and gender, nation and religion in Asia.

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Wong Suk Ying, Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
(Ph.D., Stanford University)

Current research and teaching interests: sociology of education, comparative institutions, institutionalism and social organizations, cultures of teaching.

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Yip Hong Ming, Associate Professor
Department of History
Yip Hon Ming earned BA in History from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and MA, CPh and Ph.D. from the University of California Los Angeles.

She joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1987. Her research interested are modern and contemporary Chinese socioeconomic history, local history of north and south China, history of the overseas Chinese and women's / gender history. Virginia Yip, title and Chinese name Department of Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies .Dr. Yip received her Ph.D. from in University of Southern California. Her research interests are second language acquisition and grammatical theory; bilingual development and Cantonese and comparative sinitic grammar.

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Benzi Zhang, Associate Professor
Department of English
(Ph.D., Alberta University)

He did post-doctoral research at Calgary University. His research interests include gender issues in literature. His recent publication is Japanese-American Literature (Greenwood Press, 1996).

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Junsen Zhang, Associate Professor
Department of Economics
(Ph.D., McMaster University)

His research has focused on the economics of family behaviour, including crime, fertility, marriage, education, intergenerational transfers, marital transfers, gender bias, and old age support (pensions). He has published widely and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Population Economics, and Secretary of the Hong Kong Economic Association.