FACULTY PROFILES (and representative publications)

Siumi Maria Tam (Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of Hawaii) siumitam@cuhk.edu.hk

Significant Publications

• 2000. "Modernization from a Grassroots Perspective: Women Workers in Shekou Industrial Zone." In Li Si-ming and Tang Wing-shing, eds., China's Regions, Polity and Economy: A Study of Spatial Transformation in the Post-Reform Era. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press.

• 2000. "Practicing Gender and Practicing Medicine: 'Tradition' and 'Modernity' in Post-colonial Hong Kong." Intersections: Gender History and Culture in the Asian Context, Issue 3. http://www.sshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/issue3/siumi.html

• 1999. Culture and Society of Hong Kong: A Bibliography. (Compiled with Sidney Cheung.) Department of Anthropology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

• 1997. Hong Kong: the Anthropology of a Chinese Metropolis. (Co-editor with Grant Evans.) Surrey: Curzon Press, and Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

• 1997. "Eating Metropolitaneity: Hong Kong Identity in Yumcha." The Australian Journal of Anthropology 8(3): 291-306.

• 1996. "Normalization of 'Second Wives': Gender Contestation in Hong Kong." Asian Journal of Women's Studies 2: 113-132.

Work in Press

• "Heunggongyan Forever: Immigrant life and Hong Kong style yumcha in Australia." In David Wu and Sidney Cheung, eds., The Globalisation of Chinese Food. Surrey: Curzon Press.

• "Lost, and Found?: Reconstructing Hong Kong Identity in the Idiosyncrasy and Syncretism of yumcha." In David Wu and Tan Chee Beng, eds., Changing Chinese Foodways in Asia. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press.

• 港式飲茶和香港人的身份認同。《廣西民族學院學報》。gang xi yin cha he xiang gang ren de shen fen ren tong. "Hong Kong Style Yumcha and Hongkongese Identity." Journal of Guangxi University for Nationalities.

Current Research

• Gender and the professions in Hong Kong: the social construction of gender among accountants, administrative officers, doctors, engineers, and lawyers.

• 'Keeping mistresses' across the Hong Kong-Chinese border.

• Yumcha and Hong Kong identity.

• Gendered migration: Minnan women in Hong Kong, China and the Philippines.

• Coming 'home'?: the cultural identity of former emigrants returning to post-colonial Hong Kong.