Research Interest :
Siumi Maria Tam's research interests include cultural identity, family, and work, especially in relation to migration and concepts of gender in Chinese societies. Her recent research focuses on the ideology and practice of family membership among men and women, as manifested in mistress-keeping across the Hongkong-China border. At present she is editing a book on the women of South China, and another one on the change in Tung Chung before and after the construction of the Chek Lap Kok Airport.
Selected Publications on Women's Health :
1.
Siumi Maria Tam and Yip Hon Ming, editors. Tung Chung
before and after the New Airport: An ethnographic and
historical study of a community in Hong Kong. Hong
Kong: Antiquities and Monuments Office, HKSAR. 2005
2.
Engendering Minnan Mobility: Women sojourners in a
patriarchal world. In Southern Fujian: Reproduction of
Traditions in Post-Mao China. Tan Chee Beng, ed. Hong
Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. 2005
3.
We-women and They-women: Imagining mistresses across
the Hong Kong-China border. In Rethinking and Recasting
Citizenship: Social Exclusion and Marginality in
Chinese Societies. May Tam, Ku Hok-bun, and Travis
Kong, eds. Hong Kong: Centre for Social Policy Studies,
the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. 2005
4.
A Bibliography of Gender Studies in Hong Kong
1998-2003. (compiled by Siumi Maria Tam and Trisha
Leahy). Hong Kong: Gender Research Centre, CUHK. 2005
5.
Tam, Siumi Maria. 2004. (with Trisha Leahy) A Bibliography of Gender Studies in Hong Kong 1998-2003. CD-ROM. Hong Kong: Gender Research Centre, CUHK.
6.
Tam, Siumi Maria. 2004. "Marginalized Bodies in Male Space: Hong Kong Men's Mistresses in a Chinese Special Economic Zoneˇ¨, paper presented at ˇ§Rethinking Women's Rights in Spaces of Urban Lifeˇ¨ Session, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences Inter Congress, Kolkata, India, 12-15 December 2004.
7.
Tam Siu Mi Maria. 2004. (with Mandy Hoi and Fanny Cheung) Gender Differences in the Career Development of Professionals in Hong Kong . Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies Occasional Paper No.152.
