Social Transformations in Chinese Societies: Volume 12 Issue 2

A night soil collection point: the public toilets in Hong Kong, 1860s-1920s

Yuk-sik Chong

This paper aims to understand the implication of night soil selling at the public toilets for the shared interests between colonial state and business in nineteenth-century Hong…

Road to independence: Looking through the lens of women’s work, business and wills in early Hong Kong society

Victor Zheng, Siu-lun Wong

The paper aims to explore the road to independence of the less-fortunate women in early Hong Kong society and their means in passing of wealth after death. In the 1970s, about 400…

Tension of interaction order: infringement and mobilization of the umbrella movement

Cham Hung Ng

This study aims at exploring the mobilization of the Umbrella Movement and examining how the interplay of emotion and meaning contribute to a mass occupation via the mass media…

Curriculum reform and the social class achievement gap

Trevor Tsz-lok Lee, Stephen Wing-kai Chiu

Through the study of the Liberal Studies reform in Hong Kong, this paper aims to investigate to what extent the curriculum reform makes a difference in the achievement gap between…

Differentiating good from bad: Cultural policy in regulating transnational cultural flows in reform-era China

Lu Chen

The paper aims to reveal how the Chinese government has tried to regulate transnational cultural flows by applying cultural policies.

Sexual harassment of women in China: the role of liberal sexual attitudes

Lake Lui

Sexual liberation for women is often seen as a means of empowerment. Yet challenging the conventional Chinese beliefs of what constitutes a “good woman” might threaten men’s…