Our MPhil students had worked on a wide range of research topics. The following list shows the research topics that our students had explored:
Electronic Theses & Dissertations Collection at CUHK Library
| Graduation Year |
Thesis Title |
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2019 |
The Self-Presentation of Facebook Users in Hong Kong (AU Wing Lam Vivian 歐詠霖) |
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2019 |
Slow Media in the Viral Age: Urban Renewal and Community Organization in Hong Kong (CHAUNG Wing Yee 張詠儀) |
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2019 |
The Social Life of Candles: A Traditional Craft Industry in Modern Japan (HUI Lok Hang 許樂恆) |
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2019 |
Building Alternative: A Study of Women Workers and the Cooperative Provision of Elderly Care in Hong Kong (YUEN Ka Sin 阮嘉善) |
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2019 |
Love on the Move: Filipina Migrant Workers and Their Same-sex Relationships in Hong Kong (DUAN Yimin 段毅敏) |
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2018 |
The Made and The Making: Double- F Pottery Production and Community Construction in Bronze Age Eastern Lingnan (POH Yi Jia 傅一嘉) |
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2017 |
Arguing The Political, Enacting The Moral: Ordinary Citizens’ Struggle for Social Change in Contemporary Hong Kong (HUANG Xiuwei 黃修瑋) |
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2017 |
Whose University Museums? A Comparative Study of University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, and Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (LAM Ka Ki 林嘉琪) |
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2017 |
Negotiating Life-events in China: An Enthnographic Study of Sichuan – Tibet Long Distance Bicycling (Liu Shuman 劉抒曼) |
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2017 |
At the Edge of Sleep: Insomnia in Hong Kong (Tong Dik Wai 唐廸偉) |
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2017 |
Politics of Vulnerability: Troubling Empire, Whiteness, and Masculinity in Postcolonial Hong Kong (Wo Lai Yuen 胡麗賢) |
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2016 |
Living Pusa: Shamanism in a Small Jiangsu City (Jiang Yan 蔣燕) |
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2016 |
Senses of Life after Death in South China (Kwong Miu Ying 鄺妙盈) |
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2016 |
Leaving the Faith: How Hong Kong Young Ex-Christians Make Sense of Their Lives (Tsang Nai Wang 張廼弘) |
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2015 |
Coming of Age with “Internet Addiction” in China – An Ethnographic Study of Institutional Encounters and Subject Formation (Rao Yichen 饒一晨) |
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2015 |
Guangchang Wu: An Ethnographic Study of Dance in Public Spaces (Wang Qianni 王芊霓) |
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2014 |
八零後中國基督徒－ 一個北京城市教會個案研究 [Post-80s Chinese Christians : a case study of a Three-Self Church in Beijing] (Chan Tan 陳丹) |
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2014 |
Environmental Activists in Hong Kong: Who They Are, How They Live, and Why They Do What They Do (Chun See Ching 秦思正) |
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2014 |
Contesting the “Local”: Identity Politics in Hong Kong (Tse Hiu Hin 謝曉軒) |
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2014 |
Chinese Small Entrepreneurs between South China and Nigeria: Business Strategies, Social Relations and Globalization (Xiao Hai 肖海) |
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2014 |
Chinese Weddings in Hong Kong: Continuities and Social Change (Yu Po Ting 余寶婷) |
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2013 |
Eurasians in Hong Kong : race, ethnicity, and beauty (Deng Yuanye 鄧圓也) |
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2013 |
Accommodating the “Abnormal”: Intellectual Disability in a Gansu Village. (Feng Xiangjun 馮相郡) |
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2013 |
Making Gold: Commodification and Consumption of the Medicinal Fungus Chongcao in China (Liang Yaqian 梁雅茜) |
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2013 |
Hunting Mirages of Success: Dreams of Extralegal South Asians in Hong Kong (Gaurav Murgai) |
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2013 |
Class and Power Dynamics in Urban “Development”: A Case Study of a Community Museum in Hong Kong (Tsang Ching Yi, Gloria 曾靜怡) |
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2013 |
Deceptive Development: Practices and Discourses of Microfinance in Rural China (Xue Cheng 薛誠) |
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2013 |
Between Constraint and Autonomy: How Young White-Collar Women in Hong Kong Express Their Sexuality (Yu Hiu Yan 余曉恩) |
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2012 |
Building “Tang Heritage”: The Wuli Mausoleum and its Transregional Connections (Chan Hiu Ling 陳曉玲) |
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2012 |
Censorship in Cyberspace: Accommodation and Resistance Among Chinese Netizens (Chang Xinyue, Astrid 常欣悅) |
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2012 |
Sham Shui Po: A Marginal Neighbourhood in the Centre of Hong Kong (Cheng Christopher 鄭藝超) |
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2012 |
Dissonance in Harmony: The Cantonese Opera Music Community in Guangzhou (Cheung Ah Li, Leah 張亞里) |
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2012 |
空間、性別與社會變遷: 廣東梅州客家圍龍屋的個案研究 [Space, Gender and Social Change: A case Study of Hakka Settlement in Meizhou, Guangdong] (Luo Jiting 駱吉婷) |
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2012 |
What’s in it for me?: A Study of Motivations for Nonprofit Involvement in Hong Kong (McKay, Scott Alan 麥浩天) |
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2012 |
Beyond Cantonese Cuisine: Chinese Migration and Chinese Restaurants in Sydney (Pang Leo 彭磊) |
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2011 |
The Magic of Modernity: Fengshui in Hong Kong (Chan Hui Ting, Cassandra 陳曉婷) |
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2011 |
Prehistoric Cultural Development at Yung Long. (Lai Pak Kin Patrick 黎柏健) |
| 2011 | Wine Consumption in Hong Kong: Negotiating Identity through Taste. (Siu Kit Wah, Lydia 蕭潔樺) |
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2011 |
Between Two Homes: On the Lives and Identities of Transnational Pakistani Women in Hong Kong. (So Fun Hang 蘇寬衡) |
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2011 |
民族、宗教與藏傳佛教藝術品的買賣：以成都”藏族街”為例. (Song Liyun 宋黎昀) |
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2011 |
China’s Ghost City: Popular Religion, Tourism and Local Development in Fengdu. (Tan Xilin 譚熹琳) |
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2011 |
Concepts of Female Sexuality in Hong Kong. (Wang Guan 王冠) |
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2011 |
Sailing on a Neoliberal Sea: Multinational Seafarers on Container Ships. (Wu Liang 胡亮) |
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2011 |
African Traders in Guangzhou: Why They Come, What They Do, and How They Live. (Yang Yang 楊瑒) |
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2011 |
Potsherds Narrate: Studying the Social Structure of Bronze Age Hong Kong through Pottery Analysis. (Yau Ping Yuen, Charlotte 邱平原) |
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2011 |
Cultural Identity in Hong Kong as Reflected through Demeanor. (Yau Sin Yee, Christine 邱倩儀) |
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2010 |
In Pursuit of Home: An Ethnographic Study of Hong Kong Migrants in the Netherlands. (Chan Hing Yuen 陳慶源) |
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2010 |
Working as a Maid in Shanghai: A Comparative Study of the Lives and Employment of Chinese and Filipina Domestic Helpers. (Chen Yingjun 陳英君) |
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2010 |
飲食，傳統和社會變遷：雲南德宏景頗族飲食方式研究. (Ma Xin 馬欣) |
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2010 |
Islam, Tourism, and Changing Foodways among the Utsat of Hainan Island. (Wu Huanyu 武洹宇) |
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2010 |
尖狀器與香港史前物質文化. (Yang Ke 楊軻) |
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2010 |
犛牛、環境與社會變遷：西藏林芝縣秀巴村的個案研究. [Yaks, Environment and Social Change: A Case Study in Hsiuba Village, Nyingchi Country, Tibet] (Zhou Tao 周濤) |
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2009 |
History Museums as Tourist Attractions: A Comparison of Hong Kong and Macau. (Chan Yee On, Christine 陳怡安) |
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2009 |
Transnational Connections, Local Life, and Identity: A Study of the Sikhs in Hong Kong. (Cheuk Ka Kin 卓嘉健) |
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2009 |
Whose Heritage? – A Study of a Conservation Movement in a Hong Kong Urban Building Complex. (Lee Chui Mei 李翠媚) |
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2009 |
Yoga in Hong Kong: Globalization, Localization, and the Fetishism of the Body. (Lin Kwan Ting, Maggie 連君婷) |
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2009 |
Magic and Modernity: A Study of Shamanism in Hong Kong. (Ng Shuk Kwan 吳淑君) |
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2008 |
Becoming Heunggongyahn- A Study of Female Mainland Immigrants in Hong Kong. (Lau Ying Chui, Janice 劉影翠) |
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2008 |
Ethnic Identity in a Hong Kong Religous Setting: The Kowloon City Swatow Baptist Church and Its Members. (Lin Tat Kit 連達傑) |
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2008 |
Patriotic Education: The Teaching of National Identity in Hong Kong Secondary Schools. (Tse Yuen Man 謝婉雯) |
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2007 |
Modernizing Hong Kong Buddhism: The Case of the Chi Lin Nunnery. (Pong Seong, Teresa 龐裳) |
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2007 |
South Asian Students in Primary School: Minorities and Education in Hong Kong. (Tam Sin Yu, Ophelia 談倩如) |
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2007 |
Mihn Baau: The Localization and Consumption of Bread in Hong Kong. (Tang Lai La 鄧麗娜) |
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2007 |
香港新石器時代中期陶器的製造工藝與文化發展. (Wong Ka Yee 黃家儀) |
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2006 |
The Manufacturing and Functions of Stone Adzes in the Cultural Development of Late Neolithic Sha Ha. (Chan Yuet Wah 陳月華) |
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2006 |
Betel Nut Consumption in Contemporary Taiwan: Gender, Class and Social Identity. (Liu Huwy-min 劉慧敏) |
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2006 |
發展與女工充權：一個香港非政府組織在深圳成立女工合作社的研究 (Poon Man Hon 潘文瀚) |
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2006 |
Restaurants, Class and Consumption in Hong Kong – A Study of a City Block in East Tsim Sha Tsui. (So Wan Suen 蘇韻璇) |
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2006 |
Cultural Conceptions of Intellectual Property: The Pirated Disc Market in Xi’an, China. (Matthew West 西馬特) |
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2006 |
居民、政府和文化遺產保護－福建土樓個案研究 (Yip Ping 葉蘋) |
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2005 |
市場上的性別化身體 – 香港模特兒的民族誌研究 (Chan Shuk Kwan 陳淑筠) |
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2005 |
面對貧窮：香港基層家庭互助會的政府資助家庭之個案研究 [Coping With Poverty: Hong Kong Case Studies of Government Assisted Families of Mutual Help Association of CSSA Families]. (Lai Ning Po 黎玲寶) |
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2005 |
Migration, Culture and Work: A Study of Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong. (So Yuen Man 蘇婉雯) |
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2004 |
Tradition and Local Politics: Case Studies in Po Toi O and Ping Shan. (Cheng Ying Shuet, Alison 鄭映雪) |
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2004 |
從”孤軍”到華人族群 － 泰國北部原國民黨軍隊、眷屬及其後裔族群認同的民族誌研究 [From Wandering Soldiers to Ethnic Chinese: An Ethnographic Study of Ethnic Identity of Kuomintang Soldiers and Their Descendents in Northern Thailand] (Duan Ying 段穎) |
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2004 |
The Aftermath of Abuse – How Abused Women in Hong Kong Reconstruct Their Identities in a Mutual Help Center. (Hui Sio Ieng 許少英) |
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2004 |
Identity Construction at the Hong Kong Museum of History. (Leung Po Cheung 梁寶璋) |
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2004 |
Minority Groups and Ngos in Northwestern Bangladesh: An Anthropological Study of the Santal and the Oraon. (Islam Saiful) |
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2004 |
Qigong in Hong Kong: A Study of Complementary Medicine and Health Consciousness. (Siu Yuen Man, Judy 蕭婉文) |
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2004 |
Identity Negotiation between Religion and Sexuality: A Study of Gay Christians in Hong Kong. (Tang Wai Man, Wyman 鄧偉文) |
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2003 |
From Refugee Camps to City Streets: Young Vietnamese in Hong Kong. (Chan Wai Kwong, Ocean 陳偉光) |
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2003 |
Crazy about the Railroad: Japanese Company Workers Who Live for Their Hobbies. [鐵道癡迷：為嗜好而活的日本上班族。] (Cheung Yuk Man 張彧暋) |
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2003 |
Dead End Work?- Youth in Menial Fast Food Jobs in Hong Kong. (Chow Man Wai 周雯慧) |
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2003 |
Lesbian Masculinity: identity and body construction among tomboys in Hong Kong. (Lai Yuen Ki, Franco 賴婉琪) |
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2003 |
The Pursuit of a Meaningful Life in Old Age: A Hong Kong Study (Lee Shirley 李瑞瑜) |
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2003 |
Nanyin in Quanzhou : a study of a folk musical tradition and cultural identity in Fujian. [泉州南音：一個福建民間音樂傳統與文化認同的研究。] (Wu Sui Chu 吳瑞珠) |
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2003 |
從人類學觀點探討香港廣東話粗口. (Yuen Lap Yee 袁立宜) |
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2002 |
Embodying Gender Politics: A Study of Flight Attendants in Hong Kong. (Li Shuk Wan 李淑韻) |
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2002 |
Seeking an Ideal Wife: Why Hong Kong Men Pursue Mainland Chinese Spouses. (Li Wai Ki 李偉琪) |
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2002 |
“Being Japanese” in a Foreign Place: Cultural Identities of Japanese in Hong Kong (Ayako Sone 曾根禮子) |
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2002 |
Naxi and Ethnic Tourism: A Study of Homestay Tourism in Lijiang Old Town. (Wang Yu 王崳) |
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2001 |
Consumption and Modernity in a Village in South China. (Chow King Mun 鄒景敏) |
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2001 |
Western Food in China: Globalization and Consumption in a Restaurant in Guangzhou. (Ma Fung Shan 馬鳳珊) |
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2000 |
性騷擾在香港：一個公共問題的建構. (Tsang Suet Man 曾雪汶) |
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2000 |
語言.宗教與文化認同：中國涼山兩個彝族村子的個案研究 [Language, Religion and Cultural Identity: A Case Study of two Yi Villages in Liangshan, Sichuan]. (Wu Da 巫達) |
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2000 |
Management of Death in Hong Kong. (Chan Yuk Wah 陳玉華) |
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2000 |
潯埔婦女：一個福建漁村的性別身份建構 [Women in Xunpu: The Construction of Gender Identity in a Fujian Fishing Village]. (Ding Yuling 丁毓玲) |
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2000 |
The Changing Meaning of Being ‘Tang’: A Study of Generation Gap in a Single Surname Village in Rural Hong Kong. (Li Yuen Kwan, Fiona 李婉筠) |
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2000 |
Consuming Designer Fashion in Hong Kong. [名牌服裝在香港的文化意義] (Yeung Lai Yin, Linda 楊麗賢) |
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1999 |
「新移民 」的社會建構：一個社群分類的迷思 [The Social Construction of “New Immigrants”: A Case of Group Differentiation]. (Chan Nga Wing 陳雅詠) |
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1999 |
Beijing Cartoon – A Contested Site of Cultural Production. (Cheung Hiu Wan 張曉芸) |
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1999 |
Identity Construction in the Canadian Context: A Case Study of Hong Kong Migrants in Vancouver. (Hui Tsz Wan, Alison 許子韻) |
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1999 |
Indians in Hong Kong: A Study of Ethnic Associations and Ethnicity. (Law Sin Yee, Noel 羅倩兒) |
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1999 |
Living on the Margin/Living in the Mainstream: The Cultural Milieu of Sex Workers on Un Chau Street, Hong Kong. (Lee Wai Yi 李維怡) |
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1999 |
香港新一代的交流活動與青年人的國家意識 [Young People’s National Consciousness: The Case of Cultural Exchange Activities Between Hong Kong and Mainland China]. (Lo Man Fong, Noel 盧文芳) |
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1999 |
政府與 外來工共同參與的社會舞台：深圳「大家樂」世界的剖析. (Ng Chi Wo 伍志和) |
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1999 |
The Cultural Construction of Festivals in a Cosmopolis: A Comparison of Christmas and the Lunar New Year in Hong Kong. (Tsang Mei Lan 曾美蘭) |
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1998 |
「關係」文化：香港商人在珠江三角洲的投資經驗. (Lam Hiu Yin 林曉燕) |
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1997 |
食物與族群 : 香港潮州人的飲食硏究. (Lee Wai Yee 李偉儀) |
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1997 |
個人，社會與曲藝社：以觀華遊樂社為研究對象. (Tsui Cheuk Yin 徐焯賢) |
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1997 |
婚姻的再詮釋:廣東順德自梳與不落家之女性. (Ng Fung Yee 吳鳳儀) |
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1996 |
香港單親家庭中的母女關係與「女性」的建構. (Tse Ching Man 謝靜雯) |
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1996 |
Migrant Intellectuals in an Emerging South China City: Local Ethnic Relations in Foshan. (Midori Hino 日野綠) |
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1996 |
The Taiwanese Merchants in Mainland China: A Case Study on Ethnicity, Cultural Identity, and Business Behavior. (Chiu Shu Ju, Ann 邱淑如) |
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1995 |
Negotiating daughterhood [electronic resource] : a case study of the female inheritance movement in the New Territories, Hong Kong. (Chan Chong Lai 陳莊麗) |
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1995 |
Religion, Politics, and the Construction of Ethnic Identity in Macao. (Ana Brito) |
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1995 |
The Cultural Construction of Adolescent Feminity – The Case of Tuen Mun School Girls. (Wong Sai Yun 黃世忻) |
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1995 |
香港藝術與香港人－一個族群意識的形成. (Chan Yuen Kwong 陳遠光) |
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1994 |
Mother-daughter relationship in Contemporary Urban China. (Jean K.M. Hung 熊景明) |
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1994 |
宗祠的演變與社會意義. (Zhang Xiaojun 張小軍) |
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1992 |
Hong Kong Elites in Election – The Behaviour, Strategies and Objectives of UDHK. (Law Wun Sheng 羅運承) |
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1990 |
An Anthropological Analysis of the Qing Dynasty’s Policy towards the Pai Yao. (Lam Chun-kwong 林進光) |
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1989 |
Domestic and Communal Worship in Rural Chinese Society: A Field Study in New Territories, Hong Kong. (Leung Chor-on 梁礎安) |
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1989 |
A Study of the Daping Yao Peasant Economy. (So Sung Wan 蘇崇尹) |