CHOI Susanne Yuk-ping | Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

CHOI Susanne Yuk-ping

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DPhil (Oxford University)
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Susanne Yuk Ping Choi is Professor at the Department of Sociology, and Co-Director of the Gender Research Centre at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include migration, gender, family, and sexuality in Chinese societies. She received her D.Phil. in Sociology from Nuffield College, University of Oxford. She was a RGC-Fulbright Senior Award recipient and visiting scholar at Department of Sociology, Harvard University, and a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore.

Her lead-authored book monograph Masculine Compromise: Migration, Family and Gender in China was published by the University of California Press. The book received the Best Book Award of the International Sociological Association’s Sociology of Migration Section (RC31). She received the Chinese University’s Young Researcher’s Award (2012), Exemplary Teaching Award (2016), Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award (2016), Research Excellence Award (2017), and Research Mentorship Award (2018). She served as an appointed member of Hong Kong’s Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) between 2015 and 2021, during which she was elected convener of EOC’s Policy, Research and Training Division, and convener of its Anti-Sexual Harrassment Working Group.

Susanne organizes and leads a ‘Gender and Sexuality Study Group’ with the following members:

Alicia M. Barry (PhD candidate), thesis title: Between Ideals and Intentions: A Comparative Political Economic Analysis of Fertility Decision-making among Highly Educated Couples
Lingxi CHEN (PhD candidate), thesis title: Navigating Motherhood and Work in Post-Reform China
Saoussane Rachel Sarah Ghali (PhD candidate), thesis Title: Building skill and intimacy in France and in Japan: Highly educated international migrants
Wang Jing (PhD candidate), thesis title: Platform Employment in Contention: Transforming Labour Relations in China?
Xiaomin Cai (PhD candidate), thesis title: Inventing New Family Forms with Assisted Reproductive Technologies: The Case of Lesbian and Single Mothers in China
Dr Tangi Yip (postdoctoral fellow), research areas: Gender and housing inequalities, gender and cyber violence

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)