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Dr. Eileen Yuk-ha TSANG (曾玉霞博士)

PhD in Sociology (University of Birmingham, UK)

Associate Professor

Contact Information

Office: Y7409 AC1
Phone: 34428965
Fax: 34420283
Email: eileen@cityu.edu.hk

Research Interests

  • Cultural and political sociology of China’s emerging middle class
  • Sociology of gender and sexualities
  • Sociology of consumption and popular culture
  • Gender, crime, and deviance


Awards and Achievements

  • Jan 2023 “The most downloaded article and high impact ” British Journal of Sociology . The most downloaded article and high impact on sociology of gender and sexualities, 2021-2023.
  • Jan 2023 “The top downloaded article and high impact ” Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography . The top downloaded article and the high impact on sociology of gender and sexualities.
  • Mar 2022 “Top cited journal article from the British Journal of Sociology ” British Journal of Sociology . The article A "phoenix" rising from the ashes: China's Tongqi, marriage fraud, and resistance received the top cited article in 2022. This article generates immediate impact in community on sociology of gender and sexuality.
  • Jan 2022 “Visiting Professor ” Cornell University . Jan 6-August 31, 2022.
  • Jan 2022 “Visiting Professor ” University of South Carolina.
  • Jul 2019 “Visiting scholar ” Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, University of Amsterdam .
  • May 2017 “Visiting Professor ” University of Michigan Ann Arbor .
  • Jun 2016 “Visiting scholar ” Human Trafficking and Social Justice Institute, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA.
  • Jul 2024 “Invited research fellow” Florida State University . Working on the project titled "Selling Motherhood in the Rent-A-Womb Industry: China’s Commercial Surrogacy, Bodywork, and Biopower" .


Research Grants

  • Turning Street Smarts into E-Smarts: How Young Rural Migrants Use Affective Labor to Become Livestreamers in China, SRG-FD-CityU Strategic Research Grant [7006031], City University of Hong Kong , Amount: HKD $100,000, 1 Sep 2023 - 31 Aug 2025, Tsang, EY .
  • When a Professor Becomes a Predator: Sexual Harassment, Symbolic Power, and Students’ Empowerment in China, General Research Fund [9043467], GRF , Amount: HKD $640,000, 1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2026, Tsang EY (PI).
  • Fulfilling Fantasies, Reaping Rewards: The Affective Labor of Male Rural Migrants in China’s Commercial Sexscapes, Strategic Research Grant, City University of Hong Kong , Amount: HKD $100,000, Sep 2021 - Aug 2023, Tsang EY.
  • A “Phoenix” Rising from the Ashes: China’s Tongqi, Resistance, and New Life, General Research Fund (Project., 9043098), Research Grants Council , Amount: HKD $620,000, 1 Jan 2021 - 1 Apr 2024, Tsang, EY (Principal Investigator).
  • The Home as A Barometer of Society: "Practices of Intimacy" to Moderate Family Intergenerational Conflict in Anti-Extradition Law Protests in Hong Kong" , Public Policy Research Funding Scheme, Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office , Amount: HKD $350,000, 17 Apr 2020 - 31 Jan 2021, Tsang, EY (Principal Investigator).
  • From Rigidity to Fluidity: The Transitional Male Gender Role in Today’s Japan, The Sumitomo Foundation Grant for Japan-related Research, Sumitomo Foundation, Japan, 1 Apr 2020 - 31 Mar 2021, Tsang, EY (Principal Investigator).
  • “I’ll Quit Tomorrow” but Tomorrow Never Comes: Time and Space as Barriers to Exiting China’s Commercial Sex Industries, Strategic Research Fund , City University of Hong Kong , Amount: HKD $100,000, 1 Sep 2019 - 31 Aug 2021, Tsang, EY (Principal Investigator).
  • Tales of Manhood: Unpacking Multiple Masculinities in China’s Urban Sex Industry, Strategic Research Grant [7004749], City University of Hong Kong, Amount: HKD $200,000, 1 Sep 2016 - 31 Aug 2018, Tsang, EY. (Principal Investigator).
  • Un-demonizing the ‘Dirty Girl’: Sex Work and Intimate Relationships in Urban China (5 marks), General Research Fund (GRF) No. 11611215, Research Grant Committee, Estimated Amount: HKD $620,000, 1 Nov 2015 - 30 Oct 2018, Tsang, EY(Principal Investigator).
  • China’s AIDS NGOs: A Vehicle of Norm Changes?, The Welcome Trust, London , The Welcome Trust, London , Estimated Amount: HK $70,000, 1 Nov 2014 - 31 Oct 2015, Tsang, EY., Pak K. Lee [PI].
  • Two Generations of “Dam Migrants” in Guangdong: Experiencing Acculturation, Marginalization and Power Structure in Settlements for the Three Gorges Dam Project Relocates , College Research Committee , City University of Hong Kong , Amount: HKD $300,000, 1 Jul 2014 - 30 Jun 2015, Ho Wing Chung (PI), Tsang, EY (Co-I).
  • A Malformed Cosmopolitanism among Overseas Chinese: Shoppers without Politics. , Start Up Research Grant , City University of Hong Kong , Amount: HKD $200,000, 1 Jun 2014 - 31 May 2015, Tsang, EY (Principal Investigator).
  • The Business of Chinese Medicine Today: Commodification and Paradigm, UIC, Hong Kong Baptist University, Amount: RMB $50,000, 2013 - 2015, Islam, Nazrul Md. (PI), Tsang, EY.(Co-I).
  • Individualization and class analysis in post-reform China: Myth or Fact?, UIC, Hong Kong Baptist University, Amount: RMB $100,000, 2011 - 2013, Tsang, EY.
  • Teaching Pedagogy for the New Senior Form of Yijin (毅進) Program on General Education, Federation for Continuing Education in Tertiary Institute, Amount: HKD $400,000, 2010 - 2013, Tsang, EY.
  • The emergence of new class fractions under the dual influence of globalization and economic reforms, The Research and Development Fund, Open University of Hong Kong, Amount: HKD $50,000, 2007 - 2008, Tsang, EY.
  • To develop a bilingual glossary for Module 4 Globalization) of the New Senior Secondary Liberal Studies curriculum, Hong Kong Education Department of the Hong Kong SAR, Amount: HKD $180,000, 2007 - 2008, Tsang, EY.
  • To develop teaching packages predominantly for Module 4 (Globalization) for New Senior Secondary (NSS) Liberal Studies (LS) Curriculum, Hong Kong Education Department of the Hong Kong SAR, Amount: HKD $200,000, 2007 - 2008, Tsang, EY.


Publications Show All Publications Show Prominent Publications


Journal

  • Cheung, CK. & Tsang, EY. (2024). Homosexual/Bisexual Men’s HIV or Sexually Transmitted Infection and Their Heterosexual Wives’ Remarriage in China. Deviant Dehaviour. 45 (2). 169 - 178. doi:10.1080/01639625.2023.2241953
  • Tsang, EY. (2024). What’s Good for the Gander is Even Better for the Goose: Women Buying Commercial Sex in China. British Journal of Sociology. - 1-14.
  • Tsang, EY. (2024). When Rubber Bullets Fly, Family Comes First: How Fathers in Hong Kong Reconciled with Their Activist Children. Journal of Contemporary China. doi:10.1080/10670564.2024.2311909
  • Cheung, CK. & Tsang, EY. (2023). Condition for Social Exclusion to Change Distress in Chinese LGB (lesbian, Gay, Bisexual) People Authors: Chau-kiu Cheung *, Eileen Yuk-ha Tsang. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(10). 5911 doi:10.3390/ijerph20105911
  • Tsang, EY. (2023). Fuel for the Fire: How Emotion Deals with the Social Movement in Hong Kong’s Summer of Dissent. Deviant Behavior. 11 (10). 1570 - 1583. doi:10.1080/01639625.2023.2218526
  • Lo, HH. & Tsang, EY et al.,. (2023). Validating an Adapted Version of the Brief Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire in Hong Kong Chinese. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment. 45 (1). 207 - 220. doi:10.1007/s10862-022-10020-w
  • Tsang, EY. & Wilkinson, JS. (2022). The Home as a Barometer of Society: “Practises of Intimacy” to Moderate Family Intergenerational Conflict in the 2019 Summer Dissent. The China Review. 22. 307 - 334.
  • Tsang, EY. (2021). “Be the Dream Queen”: Gender Performativity, Femininity, and Transgender Sex Workers in China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(21). 11168 doi:10.3390/ijerph182111168
  • Tsang, EY. (2021). A “Phoenix” Rising from the Ashes: China’s Tongqi, Marriage Fraud, and Resistance. British Journal of Sociology. 72 (3). 793 - 807. doi:10.1111/1468-4446.12812
  • Tsang, EY. (2021). A Critical Review on Gay and Bisexual Men in China. Dialogues in Human Geography. 12 (1). 134 - 139.
  • Tsang, EY. (2021). Reciprocating Desire in China: A Comparative Approach between high-end and low-end Sex Workers and their Clients. Deviant Behavior. 41 (8). 917 - 935. doi:10.1080/01639625.2021.1992258
  • Fung, Annis, L.C. , Tsang, EY. & et al. (2021). The Age and Gender Effect on Four Forms of Peer Victimization among Chinese Children and Adolescents. Applied Research in Quality of Life. 16 (6). 2439 - 2456. doi:10.1007/s11482-021-09924-8
  • Tsang, EY. (2021). Transformative Emotional Labour, Cosmetic Surgery, and Masculinity: Rural/Urban Migration in China’s Gay Commercial Sex Industry. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. 42 (3):. 469 - 483.
  • Tsang, EY. (2020). A Sisterhood of Hope: How China’s Transgender Sex Workers Cope with Intimate Partner Violence. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17 (21). 7959 doi:10.3390/ijerph1721795916
  • Tsang, EY. (2020). China’s ‘Money Boys’ and HIV for the Greater Good: The Queer Body and Necropolitics. American Journal of Biomedical Science and Research. 7(4). 221 - 222.
  • Tsang, EY. & et al. (2020). Dead End of the Rainbow: How Environmental and Spatial Factors Create a Necropolis for Gay Sex Workers in China. Deviant Behavior. 42 (8). 993 - 1007. doi:10.1080/01639625.2019.1708662
  • Tsang, EY. (2020). Gay Sex Workers in China's Medical Care System: The Queer Body’s with Necropolitics and Stigma. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17. 8188 doi:10.3390/ijerph17218188
  • Tsang, EY. (2020). Political Economy of China. Oxford Bibliographies-Oxford University Press. Online first. doi:10.1093/OBO/9780199756223-0325
  • Tsang, EY. , Qiao, Shan. , Wilkinson, Jeffrey. S. , Lipeleke, F. & Li, Xiaoming. (2019). “In Zimbabwe there is nothing for us”: Sex work and Vulnerability of HIV infection among male sex workers in Zimbabwe. AIDS Care - Psychology, Health & Medicine - Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies. 31(9). 1124 - 1130. doi:10.1080/09540121.2019.1574334
  • Tsang, EY. (2019). Being bad to feel good: China’s migrant men, displaced masculinity, and the commercial sex industry. Journal of Contemporary China. 29 (122). 221 - 237. doi:10.1080/10670564.2019.1637563
  • Yeung, Jerf. W.K. , Tsang, EY. & Chen, Hui. Fang. (2019). Parental socialization and development of Chinese youths: A multivariate and comparative approach. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 16 (10). 1730 - 1741. doi:10.1080/10670564.2019.1637563
  • Tsang, EY. (2019). Profit-making Disguised as Rehabilitation: The Biopolitics of Homo Sacer in China’s Custody Education Program for Sex Workers. The Prison Journal. 100 (1). 27 - 48.
  • Tsang, EY. (2019). Reciprocating Desires: The Pursuit of Desirable East Asian Femininity in China’s Commercial Sex Industry. Deviant Behavior. 41 (8). 917 - 935. doi:10.1080/01639625.2019.1596454
  • Tsang, EY. & Lowe, J. (2019). Sex Work and the Karmic Wheel: How Buddhism Influences Sex Work in China. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. 63 (13). 2356 - 2377.
  • Tsang, EY. (2018). Erotic Authenticity: Comparing Intimate Relationships between High-End Bars and Low-End Bars in China’s Global Sex Industry. Deviant Behavior. 40 (4). 461 - 475. doi:10.1080/01639625.2018.1431040
  • Lowe, J. & Tsang, EY. (2018). Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement and the Promotion of Deviance. Deviant Behavior. 40 (9). 1068 - 1079. doi:10.1080/14672715.2018.1503550
  • Tsang, EY. & Lowe, J. (2018). Migrant Philippine Teachers in Indonesia: The Nexus between Precarious Skilled Work, Illegal Mobility and the Cosmopolitan. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. 19 (2). 252 - 268.
  • Tsang, EY. , Qiao, Shan. , Wilkinson, Jeff. S. , Fung, Annis. L.C. , Lipeleke, Freddy. & Li, X. M. (2018). Multilayered Stigma and Vulnerabilities for HIV Infection and Transmission: A Qualitative Study on Male Sex Workers in Zimbabwe. American Journal of Men's Health. 13 (1). 1 - 11.
  • Tsang, EY. , Lowe, J. & Wilkinson, J. (2018). Peasant Sex Workers in Metropolitan China and the Pivotal Concept of Money: A Sociological Investigation. Asian Journal of Social Science. 46 (2). 358 - 379.
  • Tsang, EY. (2018). Real Men Get The Best Bar Girls: Performing Masculinities in China's Global Sex Industry. Deviant Behavior. 40 (5). 559-573 doi:10.1080/01639625.2018.1431177
  • Lowe, J. & Tsang, EY. (2018). Securing Hong Kong’s Identity in the Colonial Past: Strategic Essentialism and the Umbrella Movement. Critical Asian Studies. 54 (4). 556 - 571. doi:10.1080/14672715.2018.1503550
  • Tsang, EY. (2018). Selling Sex as an Edgework: Risk Taking and Thrills in China’s Commercial Sex Industry. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. 63 (8). 1306 - 1329. doi:10.1177/0306624X18818925
  • Lowe, J. & Tsang, EY. (2017). Disunited in Ethnicity: The Racialization of Mainlanders in Hong Kong. Patterns of Prejudice. 51 (2). 137 - 158.
  • Tsang, EY. (2017). Finding Hope as a ‘Tempting Girl’ in China: Sex Work, Indentured Mobility, and Cosmopolitan Individuals. Deviant Behavior. 39 (7). 896 - 909.
  • Tsang, EY. (2017). Neither “Bad” nor “Dirty”: High-end Sex Work and Intimate Relationships in Urban China. China Quarterly. 230 (June). 444 - 463.
  • Fung, A.L.C. , Tsang, EY. & etal. (2017). Relationship between Peer Victimization and Reactive-proactive Aggression in School. Psychology of Violence. 9 (3). 350 - 358. doi:10.1037/vio0000125
  • Tsang, EY. & Lee, Pak. K. (2016). Raising Successful Offspring by Chinese Middle-Class Parents: A Sociocultural Approach to the Study of Class Reproduction in Urban China. Asian Journal of Social Science. 44 (1-2). 165 - 187.
  • Cheung, Jacky. C.K. & Tsang, EY. (2015). Political-Economic Coalition Among Entrepreneurs, Professionals, and Cadres in Guangdong, China. Sociological Research Online. 20 (4), November. 1 - 13. doi:10.5153/sro.3798
  • Tsang, EY. (2013). The Quest for Higher Education by the Chinese Middle Class: Retrenching Social Mobility?. Higher Education. 65(4). 653 - 668.
  • Tsang, EY. & Lee, P.K. (2013). Vanguard of Guanxi (Connections) Seeking, Laggard in Promoting Social Causes: The Chinese New Middle Class and Green NGOs in South China?. China: An International Journal. 11(2). 155 - 169.

Book

  • Tsang, EY. (2024). Unlocking the Red Closet: Necropolitics, Male Sex Workers, and Tongqi. New York:  New York University Press.
  • Tsang, EY. (2019). China’s Commercial Sexscapes: Rethinking Intimacy, Masculinity, and Criminal Justice. University of Toronto Press.
  • Tsang, EY. (2015). Understanding Chinese Society: Changes and Transformations. Series on Contemporary China. London and Singapore:  World Scientific Publisher. ISBN: 978-981-4644-85-3.
  • Tsang, EY. (2014). The New Middle Class in China, Consumption, Politics and The Market Economy. Basingstoke:  Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Igoe, M. & Tsang, EY. (2013). Painless Presenting Made Easy. London and Singapore:  McGraw Hill.
  • Tsang, EY. & et, al. (2013). Teaching Pedagogy for the New Senior Form of Yijin (毅進) Program on General Education (Globalization and China Studies Part)in 2012. Hong Kong:  Federation for Continuing Education.
  • Tsang, E.Y.H. & Igoe, M. (2012). Blending East and West: Understanding the Changing Chinese Society. London and Singapore:  McGraw Hill.

Book Chapter

  • Tsang, EY. (2008). Globalization Teaching plan: the impact of globalization on Hong Kong, mainland China and world garment industry case study. New Senior Secondary Curriculum Liberal Studies. Hong Kong: Education Department. Hong Kong. Education Department.
  • Tsang, EY. (2008). Project to Develop a Bilingual Glossary for NSS LS Module 4 Globalization. Hong Kong: Education Department. Hong Kong. Education Bureau.
  • Tsang, EY. et al.,. (2008). Subject: Globalization Teaching plan: Economic dimensions of globalization: a case study of the World Trade Organization. New Senior Secondary Curriculum Liberal Studies. Hong Kong. Education Department.


Last update date : 19 Apr 2024