Cheng
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3112 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Cheng |
| APELLIDO | Cheng |
| FIRMA | CHENG |
| AFILIACIONES | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1015-8288 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 151 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Managing death in exile
Managing Death in Exile is a theatrical performance that draws on ethnographic research with long‐term asylum‐seekers from sub‐Saharan Africa in Hong Kong since 2012. The performance told the story of Denise (pseudonym), who had to manage the illness, funeral, cremation, and repatriation of ashes of her good friend, Rosie (pseudonym). Dying in exile means locating one's dead body in a transnational web of conflicting cosmologies, temporalities, k…
Mobilizing Documents
This co‐authored essay builds on a growing anthropological literature that engages critically and creatively with idealized official and popular ideas about documents of/in migration regimes. Documents are often championed as a common and unquestionable good in transnational migration but they are intrinsically tied to inequalities and exclusions. As such they can be the source of hope for migrants, but are frequently also the source of violence,…
Digital infrastructure investment and carbon emissions reduction based on the Broadband China policy
Air pollution and technological innovation
Motivated by the severe threat of air pollution to global sustainable economic growth, particularly in emerging nations such as China, this study examines the impact of air pollution on the technological innovation of Chinese firms. We use multisource heterogeneous data, including air pollution raster data, patent information, and enterprise production data, to examine this issue with empirical methods such as a two-way fixed effects panel model,…
Motherhood and Employment in China
Prior studies have shown a negative effect of motherhood on women's post-maternal employment, yet few have examined how the motherhood employment penalty may vary by living arrangements. Using data from the 2010-2018 waves of the China Family Panel Studies, we applied fixed-effects linear probability models to examine the effects of the number and age of children on the employment status of Chinese women and how multi-generational living arrangem…
Who is using flexible work arrangements among couples? A longitudinal analysis of the disparities between gender, parenthood, and occupations
The rise of flexible work arrangements (FWAs) holds promise for advancing gender equality by enabling both men and women to better manage work and family. However, this expectation hinges on the actual utilization of FWAs by both genders in response to family needs. Drawing on longitudinal dyadic data from the UK (2010-2022), this study examines the disparities in the use of FWAs among couples by gender, parenthood, and occupation. We find that w…
Opportunity or Exploitation? A Longitudinal Dyadic Analysis of Flexible Working Arrangements and Gender Household Labor Inequality
It has been extensively debated over whether the rise of flexible working arrangements (FWAs) may be an "opportunity" for a more egalitarian gender division of household labor or reinforce the "exploitation" of women in the traditional gender division. Drawing on a linked-lives perspective, this study contributes to the literature by using longitudinal couple-level dyadic data in the UK (2010-2020) to examine how couple-level arrangements of flex…
Towards an extended resource theory of marital power
Existing literature on the resource theory of marital power has focused on the relative resources of spouses and overlooked the resource contributions of spouses' extended families. We propose an extended resource theory that considers how the comparative resources of a couple's natal families are directly associated with marital power, net of the comparative resources of the couple. Using data from the China Panel Family Studies, we examine how …
Intra-clan marriage in modern times
Studies have shown a tendency for educational elites to marry within the elite circle in China. However, little research explores how they find a partner and the platforms' roles in the process. We fill this gap by focusing on an online dating platform targeting alumni of elite universities. We interviewed the core staff of the platform to examine its operations. Through thematic analysis, we analyzed users' self-representations in their dating p…
Optimization of underground open intermediary space comfort in TOD complexes
Rapid urbanization drives social development, but at the same time brings sustainable development Rapid urbanization drives social development, but at the same time brings sustainable development advantages of expanding underground space and relieving urban traffic congestion. High quality TOD complexes with natural elements in the intermediary space have been considered as one of the important means to address sustainable urban development. Neve…
A matter of life and death
The poetics of togetherness
This article examines the radical politics of a fragile togetherness on the margins of the state. A small but diverse group of long-term asylum-seekers found themselves in a decade-long limbo in Hong Kong, confronting an increasingly hostile border regime, and met regularly to ‘do something as a group’. Despite the lack of any breakthrough and advice to break away as individual cases, they have persisted in staying ‘as a group’. Drawing on partic…
Echoes of victimhood
The sexually violated woman has become a salient symbol in feminist discourse, government policies, the media and transnational activism at this historical juncture. In this article, I seek to understand the conviction of anti-prostitution activists that all women in prostitution are victims (despite evidence to the contrary), and their simultaneous dismissal or condemnation of those women who identify as sex workers. The analysis identifies the …
Choreography of Masculinity
Sealing Cheng, Choreography of Masculinity: The Pursuit of Marriage by African Men in Forced Displacement in Hong Kong, Feminist Studies, Vol. 47, No. 2, Global Intimacies: China and/in the Global South (2021), pp. 282-311
The Male Malady of Globalization
In this article I analyze how masculinity has been co-constructed with sexual violence within a narrative of national and personal redemption in South Korea. In examining what I identify as phallocentric nationalism, I trace the symbolic construction of the penis-naturalized in its erect, penetrating form and its participation in heterosex-as a source of masculine power within a nationalist discourse of emasculation and recuperation in Korea. Tra…
Pikachu's Tears
216 Feminist Studies 46, no. 1. © 2020 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Sealing Cheng Pikachu’s Tears: Children’s Perspectives on Violence in Hong Kong How do children experience the sudden onset of massive unrest, violence, and police brutality? It has been difficult even for many adults to process how Hong Kong—a cosmopolitan city known for its stability and low crime rate—descended overnight, on June 12, 2019, into tear gas and violent confrontations…
Parental migration and Chinese adolescents' friendship networks in school
This study examines whether and how parental migration may affect adolescents’ friendship networks. Applying random-effects Poisson regression models to survey data collected in Shaanxi province of China in 2017, we provide new evidence that left-behind status has been stigmatized and become a salient attribute in affecting adolescents’ friendship networks. Specifically, current left-behind status has independent, negative effects on the fifth gr…
Sexing the Globe
Women's Education, Intergenerational Coresidence, and Household Decision-Making in China
ObjectiveThis study examines how intergenerational coresidence modifies the association between women's education and their household decision-making power in China.BackgroundPast research on how married women's education increases their decision-making power at home has focused primarily on nuclear families. This article extends prior research by examining how this association varies by household structure. It compares women living with their hu…
A critical engagement with the “pull and push” model
It has now become commonplace to use a set of &s;push-pull factors&s; to talk about cross-border movements, migration, smuggling, and human trafficking. Rooted in modernisation theory, scholars of migration in the 1960s developed the push-pull model to understand migration both within and across countries, as part of broader social, economic, and cultural transformations. This chapter argues that the push-pull model is not only limited in scope i…
Anticipated support from children and later-life health in the United States and China
Wrapped in the Flag of Israel
As someone who learns about the Middle East primarily through news media, Israel-Palestinian hostilities have dominated my imagination of inequality and ethnic violence. So when I saw the subtitle
A lost tribe in the city
The host government should have moral and ethical obligations to attend to the health needs of ASRs. Evidently a number of structural and health system factors have significantly impacted the health of African ASRs in Hong Kong. Changes to current policies regarding how African ASRs are handled whilst in Hong Kong but, more immediately, improvements in healthcare access are needed
Sexual Subjectivity among Adolescent Girls
A risk framework characterizing teenage sexual activities as dangerous, especially for girls, has dominated research on teenage sexuality. Consequently, girls' sexual subjectivity has been virtually unexamined by large-scale quantitative research. We use the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to examine teenage girls' expectations of pleasure during intercourse and sexual self-efficacy, reflecting two key components of sexual subjec…
Making visible the invisible-victimhood, violence, and voice in Tales of the Night Fairies
Multiracial Self-Identification and Adolescent Outcomes
Recent public health research has consistently reported that self-identified multiracial adolescents tend to display more problem behaviors and psychological difficulties than monoracial adolescents. Relying on insights from qualitative analyses using small or clinical samples to interpret these empirical patterns, these studies implicitly assume a pejorative stance toward adolescents' multiracial self-identification. Building on the social psych…
Assuming manhood
The Paradox of Vernacularization
This article extends Sally Merry's idea of "vernacularization" of human rights by examining its paradoxical effects. Specifically, it traces how international norms about trafficking in persons and women's human rights become vernacularized into anti-prostitution policies in South Korea, and how such universal ideas facilitate the re-articulation of authentic national culture and Korean womanhood. As nationhood is gendered with reference to women…
Sexual Subjectivity among Adolescent Girls
A risk framework characterizing teenage sexual activities as dangerous, especially for girls, has dominated research on teenage sexuality. Consequently, girls' sexual subjectivity has been virtually unexamined by large-scale quantitative research. We use the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to examine teenage girls' expectations of pleasure during intercourse and sexual self-efficacy, reflecting two key components of sexual subjec…
Sexual Protection, Citizenship and Nationhood
This article examines the making of two distinct groups of women—'prostituted women' and migrant wives—into citizen-subjects in South Korea at the turn of the twenty-first century. Though the lives of these women barely intersect, they become visible in the public sphere as victims of sexual violence and therefore in urgent need of state protection. Defined as such, prostitutes and migrant wives come under the gaze of the state and civil society …
Opportunity or Exploitation? A Longitudinal Dyadic Analysis of Flexible Working Arrangements and Gender Household Labor Inequality
It has been extensively debated over whether the rise of flexible working arrangements (FWAs) may be an "opportunity" for a more egalitarian gender division of household labor or reinforce the "exploitation" of women in the traditional gender division. Drawing on a linked-lives perspective, this study contributes to the literature by using longitudinal couple-level dyadic data in the UK (2010-2020) to examine how couple-level arrangements of flex…
Women's Education, Intergenerational Coresidence, and Household Decision-Making in China
ObjectiveThis study examines how intergenerational coresidence modifies the association between women's education and their household decision-making power in China.BackgroundPast research on how married women's education increases their decision-making power at home has focused primarily on nuclear families. This article extends prior research by examining how this association varies by household structure. It compares women living with their hu…
The Male Malady of Globalization
In this article I analyze how masculinity has been co-constructed with sexual violence within a narrative of national and personal redemption in South Korea. In examining what I identify as phallocentric nationalism, I trace the symbolic construction of the penis-naturalized in its erect, penetrating form and its participation in heterosex-as a source of masculine power within a nationalist discourse of emasculation and recuperation in Korea. Tra…
Private lives of public women
We mostly learn about women in prostitution through representation by non-sex-workers: activists, policy-makers, journalists, and academics. What comes through are often hypersexualized and essentialized images of sex workers as either victims or agents. This dichotomy not only essentializes their lives but also undermines women as partners for engagement. Against this background, what could be learned from photographs taken by women in prostitut…
Muckraking and stories untold
Anticipated support from children and later-life health in the United States and China
Popularising purity
This paper examines how HIV/AIDS gains its social meanings at the intersection of discourses about gender, sexuality and nationalism in Korea. It examines how a major Korean NGO reinforces media and government construction of HIV/AIDS as a national threat, and mobilises ‘purity’ as an indigenous value to resist the global onslaught. This Purity Campaign successfully draws on pre-existing narratives about Korean society and national development, c…
Towards an extended resource theory of marital power
Existing literature on the resource theory of marital power has focused on the relative resources of spouses and overlooked the resource contributions of spouses' extended families. We propose an extended resource theory that considers how the comparative resources of a couple's natal families are directly associated with marital power, net of the comparative resources of the couple. Using data from the China Panel Family Studies, we examine how …
The poetics of togetherness
This article examines the radical politics of a fragile togetherness on the margins of the state. A small but diverse group of long-term asylum-seekers found themselves in a decade-long limbo in Hong Kong, confronting an increasingly hostile border regime, and met regularly to ‘do something as a group’. Despite the lack of any breakthrough and advice to break away as individual cases, they have persisted in staying ‘as a group’. Drawing on partic…
Questioning Global Vaginahood
Drawing on the author's experience in devising a localized version of The Vagina Monologues in Hong Kong, this paper critically appraises the 'global vaginahood' in the globalization of The Vagina Monologues and the V-Day movement that reproduces a core-periphery relationship in the transnational women's movement. As a theatrical performance and a worldwide movement, these productions are remarkable for the manner in which they raise awareness ab…
Interrogating the Absence of HIV/Aids Interventions for Migrant Sex Workers in South Korea
Sealing Cheng, Interrogating the Absence of HIV/AIDS Interventions for Migrant Sex Workers in South Korea, Health and Human Rights, Vol. 7, No. 2, Sexuality, Human Rights, and Health (2004), pp. 193-204
Motherhood and Employment in China
Prior studies have shown a negative effect of motherhood on women's post-maternal employment, yet few have examined how the motherhood employment penalty may vary by living arrangements. Using data from the 2010-2018 waves of the China Family Panel Studies, we applied fixed-effects linear probability models to examine the effects of the number and age of children on the employment status of Chinese women and how multi-generational living arrangem…
Who is using flexible work arrangements among couples? A longitudinal analysis of the disparities between gender, parenthood, and occupations
The rise of flexible work arrangements (FWAs) holds promise for advancing gender equality by enabling both men and women to better manage work and family. However, this expectation hinges on the actual utilization of FWAs by both genders in response to family needs. Drawing on longitudinal dyadic data from the UK (2010-2022), this study examines the disparities in the use of FWAs among couples by gender, parenthood, and occupation. We find that w…
Intra-clan marriage in modern times
Studies have shown a tendency for educational elites to marry within the elite circle in China. However, little research explores how they find a partner and the platforms' roles in the process. We fill this gap by focusing on an online dating platform targeting alumni of elite universities. We interviewed the core staff of the platform to examine its operations. Through thematic analysis, we analyzed users' self-representations in their dating p…
A matter of life and death
Echoes of victimhood
The sexually violated woman has become a salient symbol in feminist discourse, government policies, the media and transnational activism at this historical juncture. In this article, I seek to understand the conviction of anti-prostitution activists that all women in prostitution are victims (despite evidence to the contrary), and their simultaneous dismissal or condemnation of those women who identify as sex workers. The analysis identifies the …
Choreography of Masculinity
Sealing Cheng, Choreography of Masculinity: The Pursuit of Marriage by African Men in Forced Displacement in Hong Kong, Feminist Studies, Vol. 47, No. 2, Global Intimacies: China and/in the Global South (2021), pp. 282-311
Parental migration and Chinese adolescents' friendship networks in school
This study examines whether and how parental migration may affect adolescents’ friendship networks. Applying random-effects Poisson regression models to survey data collected in Shaanxi province of China in 2017, we provide new evidence that left-behind status has been stigmatized and become a salient attribute in affecting adolescents’ friendship networks. Specifically, current left-behind status has independent, negative effects on the fifth gr…
Assuming manhood
East Asia Section
Interrogating the Absence of HIV/Aids Interventions for Migrant Sex Workers in South Korea
Sealing Cheng, Interrogating the Absence of HIV/AIDS Interventions for Migrant Sex Workers in South Korea, Health and Human Rights, Vol. 7, No. 2, Sexuality, Human Rights, and Health (2004), pp. 193-204
Popularising purity
This paper examines how HIV/AIDS gains its social meanings at the intersection of discourses about gender, sexuality and nationalism in Korea. It examines how a major Korean NGO reinforces media and government construction of HIV/AIDS as a national threat, and mobilises ‘purity’ as an indigenous value to resist the global onslaught. This Purity Campaign successfully draws on pre-existing narratives about Korean society and national development, c…
Muckraking and stories untold
Questioning Global Vaginahood
Drawing on the author's experience in devising a localized version of The Vagina Monologues in Hong Kong, this paper critically appraises the 'global vaginahood' in the globalization of The Vagina Monologues and the V-Day movement that reproduces a core-periphery relationship in the transnational women's movement. As a theatrical performance and a worldwide movement, these productions are remarkable for the manner in which they raise awareness ab…
Multiracial Self-Identification and Adolescent Outcomes
Recent public health research has consistently reported that self-identified multiracial adolescents tend to display more problem behaviors and psychological difficulties than monoracial adolescents. Relying on insights from qualitative analyses using small or clinical samples to interpret these empirical patterns, these studies implicitly assume a pejorative stance toward adolescents' multiracial self-identification. Building on the social psych…
On the Move for Love
Following the lives of a group of migrant Filipinas who worked as entertainers in South Korea and then journeyed to other parts of Asia, Europe, and the U.S., this ethnography provides a look at how work, sex, love, and ambition in migrants' lives intersect with larger issues of transnationalism, identity, and global hierarchies of inequality
Sex work and the city
Sexual Protection, Citizenship and Nationhood
This article examines the making of two distinct groups of women—'prostituted women' and migrant wives—into citizen-subjects in South Korea at the turn of the twenty-first century. Though the lives of these women barely intersect, they become visible in the public sphere as victims of sexual violence and therefore in urgent need of state protection. Defined as such, prostitutes and migrant wives come under the gaze of the state and civil society …
The Paradox of Vernacularization
This article extends Sally Merry's idea of "vernacularization" of human rights by examining its paradoxical effects. Specifically, it traces how international norms about trafficking in persons and women's human rights become vernacularized into anti-prostitution policies in South Korea, and how such universal ideas facilitate the re-articulation of authentic national culture and Korean womanhood. As nationhood is gendered with reference to women…
Making visible the invisible-victimhood, violence, and voice in Tales of the Night Fairies
Private lives of public women
We mostly learn about women in prostitution through representation by non-sex-workers: activists, policy-makers, journalists, and academics. What comes through are often hypersexualized and essentialized images of sex workers as either victims or agents. This dichotomy not only essentializes their lives but also undermines women as partners for engagement. Against this background, what could be learned from photographs taken by women in prostitut…
Sexual Subjectivity among Adolescent Girls
A risk framework characterizing teenage sexual activities as dangerous, especially for girls, has dominated research on teenage sexuality. Consequently, girls' sexual subjectivity has been virtually unexamined by large-scale quantitative research. We use the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to examine teenage girls' expectations of pleasure during intercourse and sexual self-efficacy, reflecting two key components of sexual subjec…
A lost tribe in the city
The host government should have moral and ethical obligations to attend to the health needs of ASRs. Evidently a number of structural and health system factors have significantly impacted the health of African ASRs in Hong Kong. Changes to current policies regarding how African ASRs are handled whilst in Hong Kong but, more immediately, improvements in healthcare access are needed
A critical engagement with the “pull and push” model
It has now become commonplace to use a set of &s;push-pull factors&s; to talk about cross-border movements, migration, smuggling, and human trafficking. Rooted in modernisation theory, scholars of migration in the 1960s developed the push-pull model to understand migration both within and across countries, as part of broader social, economic, and cultural transformations. This chapter argues that the push-pull model is not only limited in scope i…
Anticipated support from children and later-life health in the United States and China
Wrapped in the Flag of Israel
As someone who learns about the Middle East primarily through news media, Israel-Palestinian hostilities have dominated my imagination of inequality and ethnic violence. So when I saw the subtitle
Sexing the Globe
Women's Education, Intergenerational Coresidence, and Household Decision-Making in China
ObjectiveThis study examines how intergenerational coresidence modifies the association between women's education and their household decision-making power in China.BackgroundPast research on how married women's education increases their decision-making power at home has focused primarily on nuclear families. This article extends prior research by examining how this association varies by household structure. It compares women living with their hu…
Pikachu's Tears
216 Feminist Studies 46, no. 1. © 2020 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Sealing Cheng Pikachu’s Tears: Children’s Perspectives on Violence in Hong Kong How do children experience the sudden onset of massive unrest, violence, and police brutality? It has been difficult even for many adults to process how Hong Kong—a cosmopolitan city known for its stability and low crime rate—descended overnight, on June 12, 2019, into tear gas and violent confrontations…
Parental migration and Chinese adolescents' friendship networks in school
This study examines whether and how parental migration may affect adolescents’ friendship networks. Applying random-effects Poisson regression models to survey data collected in Shaanxi province of China in 2017, we provide new evidence that left-behind status has been stigmatized and become a salient attribute in affecting adolescents’ friendship networks. Specifically, current left-behind status has independent, negative effects on the fifth gr…
Echoes of victimhood
The sexually violated woman has become a salient symbol in feminist discourse, government policies, the media and transnational activism at this historical juncture. In this article, I seek to understand the conviction of anti-prostitution activists that all women in prostitution are victims (despite evidence to the contrary), and their simultaneous dismissal or condemnation of those women who identify as sex workers. The analysis identifies the …
Choreography of Masculinity
Sealing Cheng, Choreography of Masculinity: The Pursuit of Marriage by African Men in Forced Displacement in Hong Kong, Feminist Studies, Vol. 47, No. 2, Global Intimacies: China and/in the Global South (2021), pp. 282-311
The Male Malady of Globalization
In this article I analyze how masculinity has been co-constructed with sexual violence within a narrative of national and personal redemption in South Korea. In examining what I identify as phallocentric nationalism, I trace the symbolic construction of the penis-naturalized in its erect, penetrating form and its participation in heterosex-as a source of masculine power within a nationalist discourse of emasculation and recuperation in Korea. Tra…
Sociology (25 obras) · Political science (24 obras) · Gender Studies (16 obras) · Law (13 obras) · Psychology (12 obras) · Sex work and related issues (12 obras) · China (9 obras) · Demography (9 obras) · Politics (9 obras) · Economics (8 obras)