Hong-Zen Wang
Biographic Data
| ID | 221874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hong-Zen Wang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hong-Zen |
| FAMILY NAME | Wang |
| SIGNATURE | WANG H |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Sun Yat-sen University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1287-2741 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 287 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Articulating the Sinicization process in a Taiwan Paiwan Indigenous village: Vusam culture as a resilience pivot
This article examines how the Indigenous Paiwan community in Taiwan negotiates long-term Sinicization pressures through the Vusam system, a foundational cultural institution governing inheritance, authority, and familial continuity. Drawing on in-depth interviews and participant observation in a Vulculj Paiwan village, the study theorizes Vusam as a resilience pivot through which Paiwan families actively articulate, rather than merely resist or p…
Navigating intimacy and queer entrepreneurship: Relational work in Taiwanese lesbian couples’ business endeavors
This study addresses the significant gap in the entrepreneurship literature concerning the experiences of sexual minority groups, particularly Taiwanese lesbian entrepreneurs. The prevailing focus on heterosexual men has overshadowed the distinct motivations and dynamics in queer entrepreneurship. Drawing on Zelizer’s concept of relational work and incorporating feminist perspectives, this investigation explores how Taiwanese lesbian couples enga…
Rival Partners: How Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and Guangdong Officials Forged the China Development Model
Agrobiodiversity, Social Institutions, and Indigenous Farming Practices: A Case Study of the Rukai in Wutai, Taiwan
Agrobiodiversity plays a crucial role in maintaining sustainable agricultural systems and supporting local livelihoods, but its integration into indigenous social institutions and cultures remains under-researched. We used a qualitative approach entailing in-depth interviews and participant observation to conduct research among the Rukai indigenous farmers in Taiwan focusing on: (1) how Rukai farmers practice agrobiodiversity, and (2) how these a…
Discourses on Non‐conforming Marriages: Love in T aiwan
In contemporary T aiwan, arranged marriage seems a remote legend. However, the mainstream ideology of romantic love and marriage is a recent phenomenon that started only half a century ago. The debate on love and marriage that took place a hundred years ago has been reopened in current T aiwanese society on transnational marriage and same‐sex marriage debates, which are regarded as non‐conforming marriages in a specific historical period. We argu…
Navigating the Domestic Violence Protection Law by Vietnamese Immigrant Wives in Taiwan
This article explores the structural factors that hinder Vietnamese immigrant wives from escaping domestic violence by applying an institutional ethnography perspective. Taiwan’s Domestic Violence Prevention Law requires the government to assign professionals to help abused victims, but the law in action shows that abused Vietnamese wives must go through multiple institutions, which put different structural constraints on them, to reach the goal …
The Classing Gaze and its Gendering Effects: Dis)-Respectability, Emotional (in)-Competency, and the Counselling Experiences of Domestically Violent Taiwanese Men
Research on domestically violent men typically takes an oppositional logic of gender. While the significance of class in researching domestically violent men is identified, class and gender are often treated as separate entities that do not complicate each other. Drawing upon group observations and in-depth interviews, this paper identifies how intersections of class and gender manifest in the counselling experiences of domestically violent Taiwa…
Becoming a Migrant: Vietnamese Emigration to East Asia
Since the early 1990s several million men and women from Southeast Asia's lower socioeconomic classes have migrated to East Asia with a temporary worker visa or a spousal visa. This article is based on five years of ongoing fieldwork in migrants' communities of origin in rural Vietnam and in places of destination in Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. The authors make three contributions: first, they argue that the categorization of migrants as either…
Transnationalism from Below: Evidence from Vietnam-Taiwan Cross-Border Marriages
This paper examines marriage migration in Asia through the lens of transnationalism. We pull together results from various studies we conducted on marriage migration in Vietnam and Taiwan between 2004 and 2010, using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Our main contention is that marriage migration constitutes a significant vector of social change for both sending and receiving areas of migrants. We examine the gendered aspects of this …
Politics of Difference in Taiwan
1. Cultural Difference, Social Recognition, and Political Representation in Taiwan Tak-Wing Ngo and Hong-zen Wang 2. Multiculturalism and Indigenism: Contrasting the Experiences of Canada and Taiwan Scott Simon 3. Liminality and Taiwan Tropism in a Postcolonial Context: Schemes of National Identification among Taiwan's Mainlanders on the Eve of Kuomintang's Return to Power Stephane Corcuff 4. The Fabrication of Differences among Kaohsiung Dockwor…
From victims of domestic violence to determined independent women: How Vietnamese immigrant spouses negotiate Taiwan's patriarchy family system
Immigration Trends and Policy Changes in Taiwan
This paper discusses the historical development of Taiwan's immigration policy since 1949, the demographic changes in the past two decades that shaped it, and its impact on female marriage migrants and migrant workers. Taiwan's current immigration policy is based on three ideologies: the patriarchal jus sanguinis principle, population quality, and national security. The result is a contradictory policy for marriage and labor migration. As regards…
Governing Migrant Workers at a Distance: Managing the Temporary Status of Guestworkers in Taiwan
This paper explores how a liberal democratic state keeps migrant workers in temporary status by preventing their permanent settlement. Using Taiwan’s guestworker policy as an example, we argue that through expertise discourses and strategies of “governance at a distance” involving private sector, the Taiwan government has formulated policies and implemented measures that effectively kept guestworkers in temporary status. Analyzing Taiwan’s guestw…
Ethnic diversity and statistics in East Asia: Foreign brides' surveys in Taiwan and South Korea
East Asian nations have become increasingly diverse in their ethnic composition since the 1990s. A large proportion of recent immigrants consists of women from China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines, who migrated following their marriage to male citizens from South Korea and Taiwan. To study this new group of foreign residents, the governments of both Taiwan and South Korea have conducted national surveys since 2000. This paper c…
China's Skilled Labor on the Move: How Taiwan Businesses Mobilize Ethnic Resources in Asia
This paper discusses how Taiwanese overseas investment creates an ethnic Chinese skilled labor market in Asia. Low costs, no language barrier, and the cultural “lived Taiwan experience” are the benefits. Through three different channels–internal corporate transfer, social networks, and placement agencies–skilled labor from the People's Republic is mobilized to work overseas
Taiwanizing female immigrant spouses and materializing differential citizenship
Taiwan holds the Asian record for the proportion of families that involve so-called ‘foreign brides’. Marriage migration has brought close to half a million immigrant spouses into the country over the past decades. Most of these women come from Mainland China, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines. This paper discusses how the Taiwanese state and society have actively pursued the integration of immigrant spouses since 2002, with a set of policie…
Hidden Spaces of Resistance of the Subordinated: Case Studies from Vietnamese Female Migrant Partners in Taiwan
This paper explores how contradictory social structures influence power relations between “Vietnamese brides” and their Taiwanese family members. By analyzing two aspects of interaction between “Vietnamese brides” and their husbands' families, i.e., how the families require them to integrate into Taiwanese society and what strategies they employ to escape from these constraints, we argue that contradictory social relations together with commodifi…
Socially Constructed Ethnic Division of Labour: Labour Control in Taiwanese-Owned Firms in Malaysia and Vietnam
Using fieldwork data from Taiwanese-owned factories in Malaysia and Vietnam, the authors argue that the labour regime based on ethnic division of labour is a function of the degree of proletarianization, which depends on the state's policies and one's social capital. State policy protects native Malay and Vietnamese, and excludes the rights of migrant workers, regardless of whether these migrant workers are skilled or unskilled. Local ethnic Chin…
The Impact of the State on Workers' Conditions—Comparing Taiwanese Factories in China and Vietnam
As Asia has become the fastest industrializing region in the world and as labour rights have become a controversial issue in the world’s trade agenda, the industrial relations of Asian factories that produce labourintensive goods for the global export market have come under scrutiny. Many of these factories have Taiwanese, Korean and Hong Kong owners, who hail from the so-called Newly Industrializing Countries (NICs). Today, these firms occupy a …
Jingji yu shehui: Liang'an sandi shehui wenhua de fenxi (Economy and Society: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of Taiwan, Hong Kong and China) . Zhu Yanhua , Zhang Weian
Class Structures and Social Mobility in Taiwan in the Initial Post-War Period
補正完畢
The Commodification of International Marriages: Cross‐border Marriage Business in Taiwan and Viet Nam
In this article, we attempt to place the issue of international marriage in an institutionalized profit‐oriented social context, which is described as “the commodification process”. The starting point included measuring the scale of the international marriage market in Taiwan. Socio‐demographic change in Taiwan and Viet Nam has created a market for profit‐pursuing marriage agents. Agents scattered in different social spheres have gradually linked…
Social capital or human capital? Professionals in overseas Taiwanese firms
This article seeks to explore the influence of social capital on the decision to hire Chinese professionals to work for Taiwanese companies in Vietnam. We argue that this employment and migration pattern is mainly determined by the social capital of the Chinese professional transient, and is not based solely on economic calculation as push-pull economic theory describes
Ethnicized Social Mobility in Taiwan: Mobility Patterns among Owners of Small- and Medium-Scale Businesses
Taiwan: A New History . Murray A. Rubinstein
The Commodification of International Marriages: Cross‐border Marriage Business in Taiwan and Viet Nam
In this article, we attempt to place the issue of international marriage in an institutionalized profit‐oriented social context, which is described as “the commodification process”. The starting point included measuring the scale of the international marriage market in Taiwan. Socio‐demographic change in Taiwan and Viet Nam has created a market for profit‐pursuing marriage agents. Agents scattered in different social spheres have gradually linked…
Ethnic diversity and statistics in East Asia: Foreign brides' surveys in Taiwan and South Korea
East Asian nations have become increasingly diverse in their ethnic composition since the 1990s. A large proportion of recent immigrants consists of women from China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines, who migrated following their marriage to male citizens from South Korea and Taiwan. To study this new group of foreign residents, the governments of both Taiwan and South Korea have conducted national surveys since 2000. This paper c…
Taiwanizing female immigrant spouses and materializing differential citizenship
Taiwan holds the Asian record for the proportion of families that involve so-called ‘foreign brides’. Marriage migration has brought close to half a million immigrant spouses into the country over the past decades. Most of these women come from Mainland China, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines. This paper discusses how the Taiwanese state and society have actively pursued the integration of immigrant spouses since 2002, with a set of policie…
Governing Migrant Workers at a Distance: Managing the Temporary Status of Guestworkers in Taiwan
This paper explores how a liberal democratic state keeps migrant workers in temporary status by preventing their permanent settlement. Using Taiwan’s guestworker policy as an example, we argue that through expertise discourses and strategies of “governance at a distance” involving private sector, the Taiwan government has formulated policies and implemented measures that effectively kept guestworkers in temporary status. Analyzing Taiwan’s guestw…
Hidden Spaces of Resistance of the Subordinated: Case Studies from Vietnamese Female Migrant Partners in Taiwan
This paper explores how contradictory social structures influence power relations between “Vietnamese brides” and their Taiwanese family members. By analyzing two aspects of interaction between “Vietnamese brides” and their husbands' families, i.e., how the families require them to integrate into Taiwanese society and what strategies they employ to escape from these constraints, we argue that contradictory social relations together with commodifi…
Becoming a Migrant: Vietnamese Emigration to East Asia
Since the early 1990s several million men and women from Southeast Asia's lower socioeconomic classes have migrated to East Asia with a temporary worker visa or a spousal visa. This article is based on five years of ongoing fieldwork in migrants' communities of origin in rural Vietnam and in places of destination in Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. The authors make three contributions: first, they argue that the categorization of migrants as either…
From victims of domestic violence to determined independent women: How Vietnamese immigrant spouses negotiate Taiwan's patriarchy family system
Immigration Trends and Policy Changes in Taiwan
This paper discusses the historical development of Taiwan's immigration policy since 1949, the demographic changes in the past two decades that shaped it, and its impact on female marriage migrants and migrant workers. Taiwan's current immigration policy is based on three ideologies: the patriarchal jus sanguinis principle, population quality, and national security. The result is a contradictory policy for marriage and labor migration. As regards…
Ethnicized Social Mobility in Taiwan: Mobility Patterns among Owners of Small- and Medium-Scale Businesses
Social capital or human capital? Professionals in overseas Taiwanese firms
This article seeks to explore the influence of social capital on the decision to hire Chinese professionals to work for Taiwanese companies in Vietnam. We argue that this employment and migration pattern is mainly determined by the social capital of the Chinese professional transient, and is not based solely on economic calculation as push-pull economic theory describes
Class Structures and Social Mobility in Taiwan in the Initial Post-War Period
補正完畢
Agrobiodiversity, Social Institutions, and Indigenous Farming Practices: A Case Study of the Rukai in Wutai, Taiwan
Agrobiodiversity plays a crucial role in maintaining sustainable agricultural systems and supporting local livelihoods, but its integration into indigenous social institutions and cultures remains under-researched. We used a qualitative approach entailing in-depth interviews and participant observation to conduct research among the Rukai indigenous farmers in Taiwan focusing on: (1) how Rukai farmers practice agrobiodiversity, and (2) how these a…
Transnationalism from Below: Evidence from Vietnam-Taiwan Cross-Border Marriages
This paper examines marriage migration in Asia through the lens of transnationalism. We pull together results from various studies we conducted on marriage migration in Vietnam and Taiwan between 2004 and 2010, using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Our main contention is that marriage migration constitutes a significant vector of social change for both sending and receiving areas of migrants. We examine the gendered aspects of this …
Socially Constructed Ethnic Division of Labour: Labour Control in Taiwanese-Owned Firms in Malaysia and Vietnam
Using fieldwork data from Taiwanese-owned factories in Malaysia and Vietnam, the authors argue that the labour regime based on ethnic division of labour is a function of the degree of proletarianization, which depends on the state's policies and one's social capital. State policy protects native Malay and Vietnamese, and excludes the rights of migrant workers, regardless of whether these migrant workers are skilled or unskilled. Local ethnic Chin…
China's Skilled Labor on the Move: How Taiwan Businesses Mobilize Ethnic Resources in Asia
This paper discusses how Taiwanese overseas investment creates an ethnic Chinese skilled labor market in Asia. Low costs, no language barrier, and the cultural “lived Taiwan experience” are the benefits. Through three different channels–internal corporate transfer, social networks, and placement agencies–skilled labor from the People's Republic is mobilized to work overseas
Navigating the Domestic Violence Protection Law by Vietnamese Immigrant Wives in Taiwan
This article explores the structural factors that hinder Vietnamese immigrant wives from escaping domestic violence by applying an institutional ethnography perspective. Taiwan’s Domestic Violence Prevention Law requires the government to assign professionals to help abused victims, but the law in action shows that abused Vietnamese wives must go through multiple institutions, which put different structural constraints on them, to reach the goal …
Taiwan: A New History . Murray A. Rubinstein
Taiwan's Development Experience: Lessons on the Roles of Government and Market . Erik Thorbecke , Henry Wan
Ethnicized Social Mobility in Taiwan: Mobility Patterns among Owners of Small- and Medium-Scale Businesses
Class Structures and Social Mobility in Taiwan in the Initial Post-War Period
補正完畢
The Commodification of International Marriages: Cross‐border Marriage Business in Taiwan and Viet Nam
In this article, we attempt to place the issue of international marriage in an institutionalized profit‐oriented social context, which is described as “the commodification process”. The starting point included measuring the scale of the international marriage market in Taiwan. Socio‐demographic change in Taiwan and Viet Nam has created a market for profit‐pursuing marriage agents. Agents scattered in different social spheres have gradually linked…
Social capital or human capital? Professionals in overseas Taiwanese firms
This article seeks to explore the influence of social capital on the decision to hire Chinese professionals to work for Taiwanese companies in Vietnam. We argue that this employment and migration pattern is mainly determined by the social capital of the Chinese professional transient, and is not based solely on economic calculation as push-pull economic theory describes
Jingji yu shehui: Liang'an sandi shehui wenhua de fenxi (Economy and Society: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of Taiwan, Hong Kong and China) . Zhu Yanhua , Zhang Weian
The Impact of the State on Workers' Conditions—Comparing Taiwanese Factories in China and Vietnam
As Asia has become the fastest industrializing region in the world and as labour rights have become a controversial issue in the world’s trade agenda, the industrial relations of Asian factories that produce labourintensive goods for the global export market have come under scrutiny. Many of these factories have Taiwanese, Korean and Hong Kong owners, who hail from the so-called Newly Industrializing Countries (NICs). Today, these firms occupy a …
Socially Constructed Ethnic Division of Labour: Labour Control in Taiwanese-Owned Firms in Malaysia and Vietnam
Using fieldwork data from Taiwanese-owned factories in Malaysia and Vietnam, the authors argue that the labour regime based on ethnic division of labour is a function of the degree of proletarianization, which depends on the state's policies and one's social capital. State policy protects native Malay and Vietnamese, and excludes the rights of migrant workers, regardless of whether these migrant workers are skilled or unskilled. Local ethnic Chin…
Hidden Spaces of Resistance of the Subordinated: Case Studies from Vietnamese Female Migrant Partners in Taiwan
This paper explores how contradictory social structures influence power relations between “Vietnamese brides” and their Taiwanese family members. By analyzing two aspects of interaction between “Vietnamese brides” and their husbands' families, i.e., how the families require them to integrate into Taiwanese society and what strategies they employ to escape from these constraints, we argue that contradictory social relations together with commodifi…
China's Skilled Labor on the Move: How Taiwan Businesses Mobilize Ethnic Resources in Asia
This paper discusses how Taiwanese overseas investment creates an ethnic Chinese skilled labor market in Asia. Low costs, no language barrier, and the cultural “lived Taiwan experience” are the benefits. Through three different channels–internal corporate transfer, social networks, and placement agencies–skilled labor from the People's Republic is mobilized to work overseas
Taiwanizing female immigrant spouses and materializing differential citizenship
Taiwan holds the Asian record for the proportion of families that involve so-called ‘foreign brides’. Marriage migration has brought close to half a million immigrant spouses into the country over the past decades. Most of these women come from Mainland China, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines. This paper discusses how the Taiwanese state and society have actively pursued the integration of immigrant spouses since 2002, with a set of policie…
Ethnic diversity and statistics in East Asia: Foreign brides' surveys in Taiwan and South Korea
East Asian nations have become increasingly diverse in their ethnic composition since the 1990s. A large proportion of recent immigrants consists of women from China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines, who migrated following their marriage to male citizens from South Korea and Taiwan. To study this new group of foreign residents, the governments of both Taiwan and South Korea have conducted national surveys since 2000. This paper c…
Politics of Difference in Taiwan
1. Cultural Difference, Social Recognition, and Political Representation in Taiwan Tak-Wing Ngo and Hong-zen Wang 2. Multiculturalism and Indigenism: Contrasting the Experiences of Canada and Taiwan Scott Simon 3. Liminality and Taiwan Tropism in a Postcolonial Context: Schemes of National Identification among Taiwan's Mainlanders on the Eve of Kuomintang's Return to Power Stephane Corcuff 4. The Fabrication of Differences among Kaohsiung Dockwor…
From victims of domestic violence to determined independent women: How Vietnamese immigrant spouses negotiate Taiwan's patriarchy family system
Immigration Trends and Policy Changes in Taiwan
This paper discusses the historical development of Taiwan's immigration policy since 1949, the demographic changes in the past two decades that shaped it, and its impact on female marriage migrants and migrant workers. Taiwan's current immigration policy is based on three ideologies: the patriarchal jus sanguinis principle, population quality, and national security. The result is a contradictory policy for marriage and labor migration. As regards…
Governing Migrant Workers at a Distance: Managing the Temporary Status of Guestworkers in Taiwan
This paper explores how a liberal democratic state keeps migrant workers in temporary status by preventing their permanent settlement. Using Taiwan’s guestworker policy as an example, we argue that through expertise discourses and strategies of “governance at a distance” involving private sector, the Taiwan government has formulated policies and implemented measures that effectively kept guestworkers in temporary status. Analyzing Taiwan’s guestw…
Transnationalism from Below: Evidence from Vietnam-Taiwan Cross-Border Marriages
This paper examines marriage migration in Asia through the lens of transnationalism. We pull together results from various studies we conducted on marriage migration in Vietnam and Taiwan between 2004 and 2010, using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Our main contention is that marriage migration constitutes a significant vector of social change for both sending and receiving areas of migrants. We examine the gendered aspects of this …
Becoming a Migrant: Vietnamese Emigration to East Asia
Since the early 1990s several million men and women from Southeast Asia's lower socioeconomic classes have migrated to East Asia with a temporary worker visa or a spousal visa. This article is based on five years of ongoing fieldwork in migrants' communities of origin in rural Vietnam and in places of destination in Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. The authors make three contributions: first, they argue that the categorization of migrants as either…
Navigating the Domestic Violence Protection Law by Vietnamese Immigrant Wives in Taiwan
This article explores the structural factors that hinder Vietnamese immigrant wives from escaping domestic violence by applying an institutional ethnography perspective. Taiwan’s Domestic Violence Prevention Law requires the government to assign professionals to help abused victims, but the law in action shows that abused Vietnamese wives must go through multiple institutions, which put different structural constraints on them, to reach the goal …
The Classing Gaze and its Gendering Effects: Dis)-Respectability, Emotional (in)-Competency, and the Counselling Experiences of Domestically Violent Taiwanese Men
Research on domestically violent men typically takes an oppositional logic of gender. While the significance of class in researching domestically violent men is identified, class and gender are often treated as separate entities that do not complicate each other. Drawing upon group observations and in-depth interviews, this paper identifies how intersections of class and gender manifest in the counselling experiences of domestically violent Taiwa…
Discourses on Non‐conforming Marriages: Love in T aiwan
In contemporary T aiwan, arranged marriage seems a remote legend. However, the mainstream ideology of romantic love and marriage is a recent phenomenon that started only half a century ago. The debate on love and marriage that took place a hundred years ago has been reopened in current T aiwanese society on transnational marriage and same‐sex marriage debates, which are regarded as non‐conforming marriages in a specific historical period. We argu…
Agrobiodiversity, Social Institutions, and Indigenous Farming Practices: A Case Study of the Rukai in Wutai, Taiwan
Agrobiodiversity plays a crucial role in maintaining sustainable agricultural systems and supporting local livelihoods, but its integration into indigenous social institutions and cultures remains under-researched. We used a qualitative approach entailing in-depth interviews and participant observation to conduct research among the Rukai indigenous farmers in Taiwan focusing on: (1) how Rukai farmers practice agrobiodiversity, and (2) how these a…
Rival Partners: How Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and Guangdong Officials Forged the China Development Model
Navigating intimacy and queer entrepreneurship: Relational work in Taiwanese lesbian couples’ business endeavors
This study addresses the significant gap in the entrepreneurship literature concerning the experiences of sexual minority groups, particularly Taiwanese lesbian entrepreneurs. The prevailing focus on heterosexual men has overshadowed the distinct motivations and dynamics in queer entrepreneurship. Drawing on Zelizer’s concept of relational work and incorporating feminist perspectives, this investigation explores how Taiwanese lesbian couples enga…
Political science (21 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Law (15 works) · Economics (13 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (13 works) · China (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (10 works)