Dr. Eileen Yuk-ha TSANG (曾玉霞博士)

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.

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