CHOI Susanne Yuk-ping
蔡玉萍
Professor
Current Research & Teaching Interests
  • Gender
  • Family
  • Migration
  • Sexuality
Book Monograph
2016 Choi, S.Y.P. & Y.Peng. Masculine Compromise: Migration, Family and Gender in China. University of California Press. (Recipient of the International Sociological Association RC31 2018 Best Book Award)
Selected Journal Articles
Forthcoming Loa SP and Choi, S.Y.P. An Intimacy Field Framework: Class, Habitus, and Capital in Gay Relationships. The Sociological Review. (Equal author)
2022 Choi, S.Y.P. Doing and Undoing Gender: Women on the Frontline of Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Bill Movement. Social Movement Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2022.2086114
2022 Choi, S.Y.P. Global Multiple Migration: Class-Based Mobility Capital of Elite Chinese Gay Men. Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385211073237
2021 Cheung, A.K.L., Chiu, JTY., Choi, S.Y.P. Couples’ self-control and marital conflict: Does similarity, complementarity, or totality matter more? Social Science Research.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102638
2021 Choi, Susanne Y.P.  and Lai, Ruby R.S.  Sex Work and Stigma Management: The Role of State Policy and NGO Advocacy.  The China Quarterly.  https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741021000035
2021 Choi, Susanne YP. and Li, S. Migration, Service Work, and Masculinity in the Global South: Private Security Guards in Post-socialist China. Gender, Work & Organization.  https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12605
2021 Choi, Susanne YP. and Lai Ruby YS.  Birth Tourism and Migrant Children’s Agency: The Double-Not in Post-Handover Hong Kong. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1839397
2020 Choi, S.Y.P.  When Protests and Daily Life Converges: The Space and People of Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Movement. Critical Anthropology. 40(2):277-282. 
2020 Choi, S.Y.P. RRS. Lai., JCL. Pang.  Gender Irrelevance: How Women and Men Rationalise Their Support for the Right. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Vol 45 (2): 473-495. 
2020 Chiu, JTY. & Choi, SYP. 2020. The decoupling of Legal and Spatial Migration of Female Marriage Migrants. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46 (14) 2997-3013.
2019 Lai, RRS. & Choi, SYP. Premarital Sexuality, Abortion and Inter generational  Dynamics in China. Modern China (published online before print https://doi.org/10.1177/0097700419880524), corresponding author.
2019 Choi, S.Y.P.  2019. Migration, Masculinity and Family. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 45 (1): 78–94.
2019 S.Y.P., Yeoh, B. and Lam, T. 2019. Situated Agency in the Context of Research on Children, Migration and Family in Asia. Population, Space and Place, 25 (3): 1-6.
2019 Chiu, J.T.Y. and Choi, S.Y.P. 2019. Frequent Border-Crossing Children and Cultural Membership. Population, Space and Place, 25 (3): e2153.
2018 Choi, S.Y.P.  Masculinity and Precarity: Male Migrant Taxi Drivers in South China. Work, Employment and Society, 32 (3): 493-508.
2016 Choi, S.Y.P. Gender pragmatism and subaltern masculinity in China: Peasant men’s responses to their wives’ labour migration. American Behavioral Scientist, 60(5-6), 565-582.
2016 Choi, S. Y. P. & Cheung, A.K.L. Dissimilar and disadvantaged: Age discrepancy, financial stress, and marital conflict in cross-border marriages. Journal of Family Issues 38 (18), 2521-2544.
2016 Cheung, A.K.L. & Choi, S.Y.P. Non-traditional wives with traditional husbands: Gender ideology and husband-to-wife physical violence in Chinese society. Violence against Women 22 (14), 1704-1724.
2016 Choi, Susanne YP. & Luo Ming. Performative Family: Homosexuality, Marriage and Intergenerational Dynamic in China.  British Journal of Sociology.  67 (2), 260-280.
2015 Lui C.W. & Choi, S.Y.P. Not just mum and dad: The role of children in exacerbating gender inequalities in childcare. Journal of Family Issues. 36(13): 1829-1853. 
2015 Choi, S.Y.P. & Y.Peng. Humanized Management? Capital and Labour at a Time of Labour Shortage in South China. Human Relations. 68(2) 287–304(Equal Author)
2014 Choi, S.Y.P., Cheung, A.K.L., Cheung, Y.W., David, R. Bring the subjective back in: Resources and husband-to-wife physical assault among Chinese couples in Hong Kong.  Violence against Women, 20(12):1428-46.
2014 Cheung, Y.W., Choi, S.Y.P., Cheung, A.K.L. Strain, self-control and spousal violence: A study of husband-to-wife violence in Hong Kong. Violence and Victims, 29 (2),   280-299.
2013 Peng Yinni. & Choi, S.Y.P. Technologies of power and resistance: Mobile phone use among factory migrant workers in south China.  The China Quarterly, 215, 553-571. 
2012 Choi, S. Y. P., Cheung YW., Cheung A.KL. Social Isolation and Spousal Violence: Comparing Marriage Migrants with Local Women. Journal of Marriage and Family, 74 (3):444-461.
2012 Choi, S.Y.P., & David, R. Lustration Systems and Trust: Evidence from Survey Experiments in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland.  American Journal of Sociology, 117 (4):1172-1201.  (Equal author)
2011 Choi, S.Y.P. State Control, Female Prostitution and HIV Prevention in China. The China Quarterly, 205:96-114.
2011 Choi, S.Y.P. Heterogeneous and Vulnerable: The Health Risks Facing Transnational Female Sex Workers. Sociology of Health and Illness, 33 (1):33-49.
2009 David, R. & Choi, S.Y.P. Getting equal without getting even: Retributive desires and Transitional Justice in the Czech Republic. Political Psychology, 31(2), 161-92.
2008 Choi, S.Y.P. & Ting, K. F. Wife Abuse in South Africa: An imbalance theory of family resources and power. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 23 (6), 834-85.
2008 Sung, J.J.Y., Choi, S.Y.P., Chan, F.K.L., Ching, J.Y.L., Lau, J.T.F., & Griffiths, S. Obstacles to colon cancer screening in Chinese: A study based on health belief model. American Journal of Gastroenterology, 103, 974-981.
2008 Choi, S.Y.P., Chen, K.L. & Jiang, Z.Q. Client perpetrated violence and condom failure among female sex workers in south western China. Sexually Transmitted Diseases (The Official Journal of the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association), 35(2), 14-146. 
2007 Choi, S.Y.P., Cheung, Y.W. & Jiang, Z.Q. Ethnicity and risk factors in needle sharing among intravenous drug users in Sichuan Province, China. AIDS Care, 19(1):1-8. 
2007 Choi, S.Y.P.& Holroyd E.  The Influence of Power, Poverty and Agency on Condom Negotiation among Female Sex Workers in Mainland China. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 9(5):489-503. (Most cited article of the journal as at April 2014)
2006 David, R & Choi, S.Y.P. Forgiveness and transitional justice in the Czech Republic. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 50(3), 339-367. 
2006 Choi, S.Y.P.,Cheung, Y.W. & Chen, K.L. Gender and HIV Risk Behaviour among Intravenous Drug Users in Sichuan Province, China. Social Science & Medicine. 62, 1672-1684.
2005 David, R. & Choi, S.Y.P.  Victims on transitional justice: Lessons from the reparation of human rights abuses in the Czech Republic’. Human Rights Quarterly 27(1), 392-435.
2005 Chiu, S., Choi, S.Y.P. & Ting, K. F. ‘Getting Ahead in the Capitalist Paradise: Migration from China and Socio-economic Attainment in Colonial Hong Kong’. International Migration Review, 39 (1):203-227.

 

Edited Volumes
2018 Choi, SYP., Yeoh, B. and Lam, T. (eds.) Children, Migration and Family in Asia. Population, Space and Place.
2017 Choi, S.Y.P. & Fong, E. (eds.) Migration in Post-Colonial Hong Kong. New York: Routledge.
2016 Fong, E., Verkuyten, M., Choi, S.Y.P.(eds.) Migration and identity: Perspectives from Asia, Europe, and North America. American Behavioral Scientist, 60(5-6), 559-790.
Courses
  • SOCI 1001 Introduction to Sociology
  • SOCI 1002 Approaching Sociology
  • SOCI 3208 Gender & Society
  • SOCI 4010 Graduation Thesis I
  • SOCI 4020 Graduation Thesis II
  • SOCI 6004 Advanced Qualitative Methods
  • SOCI 6010 Guided Studies I
  • SOCI 6020 Guided Studies II
Administrative Duties

College Coordinators

  • Shaw College, Department of Sociology

Member

  • Graduate Studies Committee, Department of Sociology

Member

  • Student Affairs Committee, Department of Sociology

Member

  • Scholarships & Awards Committee, Department of Sociology

Member

  • Executive Committee, Gender Research Centre, HKIAPS, CUHK

Appointed Member

  • Task Force on Gender and Family Friendly Policy

Member

  • Panel against Sexual Harrassment
Community and Professional Service

Appointed Board Member

  • HKSAR Equal Opportunities Commission (May 2015-April 2019)

Elected Convenor

  • Policy, Research and Training Committee, Equal Opportunities Commission, HKSAR (May 2015-April 2019)

Elected Convenor

  • Working Group on Anti-Sexual Harassment Campaign, Equal Opportunities Commission, HKSAR (May 2015-April 2019)

Member

  • Editorial Board, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (Jan 2017- Jan 2020)

Elected Associate Board Member

  • Sociology (October 2015-Sept 2018)

Member

  • International Advisory Board, Asian Population Studies (July 2015-June 2018)

Elected Associate Board Member

  • Work, Employment and Society (Jan 2015-Dec 2017)