Eileen Yuk-Ha Tsang
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 254685 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Eileen Yuk-Ha Tsang |
| NOMBRES | Eileen Yuk-Ha |
| APELLIDO | Tsang |
| FIRMA | TSANG E Y |
| AFILIACIONES | City University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2353-2769 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 103 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Discovering Real Men Care
The rising phenomenon of stay-at-home husbands (SAHHs) in Hong Kong exemplifies the evolution of masculinities in Asia. The development of emergent masculinities through SAHHs is intertwined with hybrid masculinities to expand the range of visible male roles in an Asian context. The implication of SAHHs is explored through interviews conducted with 31 middle-class SAHHs and 19 wives of SAHHs in Hong Kong. Two key findings are (1) emergent masculi…
From mentor to monster
Sexual harassment (hereafter SH) has emerged as a significant issue in Chinese higher education, particularly among graduate students. SH encompasses a range of behaviors from degrading remarks and unwanted sexual advances to violent sexual assault. It predominantly involves younger female students and older male professors. While existing studies often focus on workplace SH through surveys, the experiences and responses of college graduate stude…
Public Preferences Regarding Equitable Healthcare Rationing Across Gender Identities in China
Public opinion on public healthcare rationing regarding gender identity is crucial for democratic policymaking because of public concern regarding sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression (SOGIE). Based on rationality theory, rationally equitable rationing depends on equity orientations and prioritizing public interest over self-interest. Specifically, equity orientations include those toward equality, need, personal contributio…
Hope for the forgotten poor
In 2020, China's live-streaming industry reached an audience estimated to be 587 million users, which generated 961 billion yuan (Zixun, 2021). This technological transition to online commerce has enabled marginalized rural youth opportunities for career advancement and financial success as livestreamer hosts. This study examines how rural migrants capitalize on their affective labor to successfully engage their fans and supporters. Livestreaming…
The Regulation of Prostitution in China
Commercial Surrogacy Is not a Secret Handshake
In 2023, China introduced regulatory amendments to birth certificates and the hukou (household registration) system, aiming to boost birth rates and offset an aging population. However, the implications of these changes on marriage and family support amidst population policy shifts remain underexplored. One particular area is how commercial surrogacy (CS) impacts gay communities where couples seek surrogate children to maintain intergenerational …
Distress as a Function of Social Exclusion and Assertiveness among Homosexual/Bisexual People
Homosexual (lesbian or gay) and bisexual (i.e., LGB) people tend to suffer from social exclusion and thus distress. To prevent or relieve distress, the people's assertiveness about justice and rights is an advocated means, but its effectiveness is uncertain, considering possible conflict with social exclusion. To clarify the effectiveness, this study analyzed data collected from 189 Chinese LGB adults in Hong Kong, which is a special administrati…
Betrayed, Beaten, Banished
In China, an emerging social issue involves a subset of rural women who, because of family and culture, become inadvertently matched up with and married to closeted men who have sex with men (MSM). These women-referred to as Tongqi -often discover they are in a loveless marriage, but any effort to change their situation results in intense backlash, discrimination, and stigma from families, village communities, and even government and healthcare i…
What's good for the gander is even better for the goose
Research about the commercial sex industry rarely examines the women who are the clients purchasing sexual services. Examining how this challenges gender stereotypes through the undoing gender framework reveals how gender norms can be reshaped through contextual changes. Based on 3 years of ethnographic data from a high-end bar in Tianjin, interviews with 27 female clients and 47 MSWs paint a complex picture of how some women adopted ungendered s…
Homosexual/Bisexual Men's HIV or Sexually Transmitted Infection and Their Heterosexual Wives' Remarriage in China
An emerging social issue engrossing research involves heterosexual wives of homosexual/bisexual men (tongqi in Chinese). These wives often marry without knowing their husbands' homosexuality. When realizing their husbands' HIV or sexually transmitted infection, the wives are likely to substitute for their husbands by remarrying. Meanwhile, homosexual husbands are likely to substitute for their remarrying wives and contract HIV or sexually transmi…
Conditions for Social Exclusion Leading to Distress Change in Chinese Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual (LGB) People
Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people are likely to be at risk of distress because of social exclusion, including the feelings of resentment, resistance, and rejection they might experience from society. Nevertheless, the conditions for social exclusion leading to changes in distress are empirically unclear, especially in Chinese LGB people. To examine these conditions, this study surveyed 303 Chinese LGB people in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and variou…
Fuel for the Fire
Adopting a non-divisive strategy regarding the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti-ELAB) movement transformed Hong Kong’s social movement activities when they began in February 2019. Although issues surrounding the 2019 summer of dissent have been widely documented, the personal stories of the activists have largely gone unnoticed. Drawing on emotion as a conceptual framework in social movement studies, emotion informs two crucial aspects o…
A reflective review on gay and bisexual men in China
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), Treatment as Prevention (TasP), and undetectability affect the experience of gay and bisexual men living with HIV. They also link ‘risk’ and ‘safety’ to raw sex and the use of recreational drugs as they relate to sexual practices among gay and bisexual men. From these insights, we can think about the complex connections between biomedical innovations in the field of HIV, sexual practices, subjectivity, pleasure, s…
Transformative emotional labour, cosmetic surgery, and masculinity
This article draws upon ethnographic data from 101 rural‐to‐urban migrant gay sex workers in northern China to reveal how rural migrants survive in urban China. The interviewees provide evidence that the marginality they experience as sex workers is sometimes related to a spatial narrative. In China, these migrant sex workers are frequently stigmatized by discourses that present them as ‘tropical beings’—from rural and subtropical places in China…
Be the Dream Queen”
An under-researched aspect of transgender sex workers in China pertains to their desires and expressions of femininity. Male-to-Female (MTF) transgender sex workers are a high-risk population prone to depression and stress regarding body image, intimate relationships marked by violence, and social stigma, rendering them vulnerable to hate crimes and discrimination. Ethnographic data from in-depth interviews with 49 MTF transgender sex workers ind…
A "Phoenix" rising from the ashes
There are significant numbers of women in China who have inadvertently married closeted gay men. Women in China who unwittingly marry closeted gay men are known as Tongqi (同妻), and these women often discover their husband's secret only after giving birth to fulfill filial obligations. These women taken into this "marriage fraud" are initially unaware of their husbands' sexual orientation. Because China's divorce law favors men, even if the wife f…
Dead End of the Rainbow
In China, the correlation between environmental space and drug use by gay male sex workers remains an under-researched public health concern. Drugs are commonly used to enhance sexual performance as well as provide feelings of euphoria but they also increase the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV. The spatial and environmental factors that create synergies between drug consumption and sex work are explored through qualitative data ob…
A Sisterhood of Hope
Transgender sex workers (TSWs/TSW) face considerable challenges that affect their mental health and make their situations more vulnerable and precarious. TSWs often experience violence from clients, police, and others, but it is estimated that 50% of these acts of violence are at the hands of their intimate partners. The marginalization of TSWs is fueled by abuse through isolation and shaming which prevents them from seeking help through formal c…
Gay Sex Workers in China’s Medical Care System
The struggles of China's gay sex workers-men who sell sex to other men-illustrate how the multi-layered stigma that they experience acts as a form of necropolitical power and an instrument of the state's discrimination against gay sex workers who are living with HIV. One unintended side effect of this state power is the subsequent reluctance by medical professionals to care for gay sex workers who are living with HIV, and discrimination from Chin…
Reciprocating Desires
This article examines how socioeconomic conditions impact heteronormative sexual desires between high-tier sex workers and their non-Chinese clients in urban South China. Drawing from Hoang's interpretation of 'dealing in desires', Rofel's 'Desiring China', and cultural capital, the article considers how desire circulates in high-end bars and its impact on how workers and clients negotiate their relationships. I move beyond Hoang's and Rofel's fr…
China’s Commercial Sexscapes
This book assesses the intimate relationships between sex workers and clients in post-reform China, where normative ideals concerning masculine and feminine behaviour are the primary goal of these relationships
“In Zimbabwe there is nothing for us”
Male sex workers (MSWs) in Zimbabwe are a vulnerable sub-group at risk of violence, abuse, and HIV infection. This qualitative study examines the practices of male sex workers and vulnerabilities to HIV infection based on interviews among 15 MSWs in Bulawayo. All the interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed with the guidance of grounded theory. The transcripts were translated by the interviewer into English using NVivo 11.0 software fo…
Parental Socialization and Development of Chinese Youths
Parental socialization has been recently reported as a multifaceted concept, which includes parenting practices and family processes. Nevertheless, prior family research generally treated parental socialization tantamount to parenting behavior only and overlooked its different effects on multiple youth outcomes simultaneously, especially in the Chinese population. This study, with a sample of 223 Chinese parent-youth dyads (80.7% mothers; 55.6% m…
Being Bad to Feel Good
The plight of male migrant workers in China warrants critical attention because their diminished opportunity for life success has created a public health issue. To cope with hopelessness and despair they engage in risky behaviors involving paid sex and drugs. This article extends Connell ’s notion of hegemonic masculinity, linking urban migration with a rampant ‘masculinity crisis’ engulfing these single migrant men. Interviews with 100 male migr…
China's Commercial Sexscapes
Disunited in ethnicity
In the current climate of increasing antagonisms and populist discontents surrounding the visible presence of mainland mobilities in postcolonial Hong Kong, there is an acute need to understand how those from Mainland China are racialized. Lowe and Tsang's article provides an examination of the campaign against Mainlanders prevalent in Hong Kong society. The emergent conflicts between Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese migrants overlap with the duali…
A "Phoenix" rising from the ashes
There are significant numbers of women in China who have inadvertently married closeted gay men. Women in China who unwittingly marry closeted gay men are known as Tongqi (同妻), and these women often discover their husband's secret only after giving birth to fulfill filial obligations. These women taken into this "marriage fraud" are initially unaware of their husbands' sexual orientation. Because China's divorce law favors men, even if the wife f…
Finding Hope as a 'Tempting Girl' in China
This article chronicles the experiences which lead some female migrant workers in Dongguan, China, to deliberately transition from factory work to sex work. Their decisions are guided by indentured mobility as well as bounded rational choice. This article presents ethnographic data from 45 streetwalkers in Dongguan who navigated highly competitive and risky urban environments involving pimps, police, and gang members. The Chinese government hukou…
Being Bad to Feel Good
The plight of male migrant workers in China warrants critical attention because their diminished opportunity for life success has created a public health issue. To cope with hopelessness and despair they engage in risky behaviors involving paid sex and drugs. This article extends Connell ’s notion of hegemonic masculinity, linking urban migration with a rampant ‘masculinity crisis’ engulfing these single migrant men. Interviews with 100 male migr…
Erotic Authenticity
Research on the sex industry generally focuses heavily on the economic relationship between sex workers and their clients but typically fails to consider the role and significance of intimacy within these interactions. By drawing upon over 36 months' ethnographic work conducted in high-end and low-end bars in Dongguan from 2008 to 2009 and 2011 to 2017, the article argues that sex workers and their clients are not only involved in pecuniary trans…
Real Men Get the Best Bar Girls
The shifting power relations in China after the global financial crisis are redefining masculinity for both Western and Asian men. Connell (1995) argues that in most societies a hegemonic masculinity usually exists that privileges heterosexual middle-class and economically successful men who exhibit characteristics associated with being masculine. The global financial crisis has led to a new global financial order that has created paths for peopl…
Raising Successful Offspring by Chinese Middle-Class Parents
This article analyses the intergenerational mobility of the Chinese “new middle class” in Shanghai, China. Building on the Bourdieusian concept of social capital, it puts forward a sociocultural approach to explaining the reproduction of the middle class in contemporary urban China. It explores why cultural capital and marketable professional qualification are not enough for younger members of this class to secure their class status and upward mo…
Reciprocating Desires
This article examines how socioeconomic conditions impact heteronormative sexual desires between high-tier sex workers and their non-Chinese clients in urban South China. Drawing from Hoang's interpretation of 'dealing in desires', Rofel's 'Desiring China', and cultural capital, the article considers how desire circulates in high-end bars and its impact on how workers and clients negotiate their relationships. I move beyond Hoang's and Rofel's fr…
Dead End of the Rainbow
In China, the correlation between environmental space and drug use by gay male sex workers remains an under-researched public health concern. Drugs are commonly used to enhance sexual performance as well as provide feelings of euphoria but they also increase the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV. The spatial and environmental factors that create synergies between drug consumption and sex work are explored through qualitative data ob…
Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement and the promotion of deviance
As a social movement demanding universal suffrage, Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement mobilized thousands of young protesters and fomented radical views stridently subversive of mainland China's political interference. The social movement continues to promote further forms of deviance in the form of calling for independence. As the city and former British colony lacks the sovereignty of statehood and democracy, the movement's non-conformity to law nee…
Peasant Sex Workers in Metropolitan China and the Pivotal Concept of Money
This article is a theoretically informed empirical investigation of breadwinning peasant workers in China’s urban metropolis of Guangdong and the values they ascribe to money acquired through sex work. The existing literature about money sits at the very core of modernity, individualisation and mobility providing endless opportunities to explore its variegated meanings in China’s global commercial sex industry. We situate the women’s desires and …
Fuel for the Fire
Adopting a non-divisive strategy regarding the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti-ELAB) movement transformed Hong Kong’s social movement activities when they began in February 2019. Although issues surrounding the 2019 summer of dissent have been widely documented, the personal stories of the activists have largely gone unnoticed. Drawing on emotion as a conceptual framework in social movement studies, emotion informs two crucial aspects o…
Migrant Philippine teachers in Indonesia
This article examines the nexus between the illegal migration of Filipino teachers as a form of precarious skilled employment in conjunction with the mobility of choice and hope found in the adoption of cosmopolitan outlooks. Catering to the aspirations of Indonesia’s rising middle class, privately managed “international” schools actively recruit trained teachers from the Philippines. Many of these teachers are migrants negotiating journeys of fi…
Commercial Surrogacy Is not a Secret Handshake
In 2023, China introduced regulatory amendments to birth certificates and the hukou (household registration) system, aiming to boost birth rates and offset an aging population. However, the implications of these changes on marriage and family support amidst population policy shifts remain underexplored. One particular area is how commercial surrogacy (CS) impacts gay communities where couples seek surrogate children to maintain intergenerational …
Political-Economic Coalition among Entrepreneurs, Professionals, and Cadres in Guangdong, China
As entrepreneurs, professionals, and cadres constitute the middle tier in China, they exhibit extravagance, gifting, and the pursuit of privileges. Particularly, privileges are likely to stem from political-economic coalition within the middle tier. The coalition is also likely to favor the preservation of the political structure. All these features of the middle tier need substantiation with qualitative data. The study gleaned the data from pers…
The New Middle Class in China
Introduction: China Engages the Middle Class Society in the 21st Century? (Re) Framing Class Analysis in Post-Reform China Class Boundaries of the Older Generation of the Chinese New Middle Class Generational Effects in the Chinese New Middle Class Guanxi Networks and the Chinese New Middle Class Middle Class Culture and Political Development Conclusion: A China in the Making with a New Middle Class
The New Middle Class in China
Based on interviews with entrepreneurs, professionals and regional party cadres' from a range of age groups, this book argues that Western class categories do not directly apply to China and that the
Understanding Chinese Society
Political-Economic Coalition among Entrepreneurs, Professionals, and Cadres in Guangdong, China
As entrepreneurs, professionals, and cadres constitute the middle tier in China, they exhibit extravagance, gifting, and the pursuit of privileges. Particularly, privileges are likely to stem from political-economic coalition within the middle tier. The coalition is also likely to favor the preservation of the political structure. All these features of the middle tier need substantiation with qualitative data. The study gleaned the data from pers…
Raising Successful Offspring by Chinese Middle-Class Parents
This article analyses the intergenerational mobility of the Chinese “new middle class” in Shanghai, China. Building on the Bourdieusian concept of social capital, it puts forward a sociocultural approach to explaining the reproduction of the middle class in contemporary urban China. It explores why cultural capital and marketable professional qualification are not enough for younger members of this class to secure their class status and upward mo…
Disunited in ethnicity
In the current climate of increasing antagonisms and populist discontents surrounding the visible presence of mainland mobilities in postcolonial Hong Kong, there is an acute need to understand how those from Mainland China are racialized. Lowe and Tsang's article provides an examination of the campaign against Mainlanders prevalent in Hong Kong society. The emergent conflicts between Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese migrants overlap with the duali…
Peasant Sex Workers in Metropolitan China and the Pivotal Concept of Money
This article is a theoretically informed empirical investigation of breadwinning peasant workers in China’s urban metropolis of Guangdong and the values they ascribe to money acquired through sex work. The existing literature about money sits at the very core of modernity, individualisation and mobility providing endless opportunities to explore its variegated meanings in China’s global commercial sex industry. We situate the women’s desires and …
Migrant Philippine teachers in Indonesia
This article examines the nexus between the illegal migration of Filipino teachers as a form of precarious skilled employment in conjunction with the mobility of choice and hope found in the adoption of cosmopolitan outlooks. Catering to the aspirations of Indonesia’s rising middle class, privately managed “international” schools actively recruit trained teachers from the Philippines. Many of these teachers are migrants negotiating journeys of fi…
Finding Hope as a 'Tempting Girl' in China
This article chronicles the experiences which lead some female migrant workers in Dongguan, China, to deliberately transition from factory work to sex work. Their decisions are guided by indentured mobility as well as bounded rational choice. This article presents ethnographic data from 45 streetwalkers in Dongguan who navigated highly competitive and risky urban environments involving pimps, police, and gang members. The Chinese government hukou…
China’s Commercial Sexscapes
This book assesses the intimate relationships between sex workers and clients in post-reform China, where normative ideals concerning masculine and feminine behaviour are the primary goal of these relationships
“In Zimbabwe there is nothing for us”
Male sex workers (MSWs) in Zimbabwe are a vulnerable sub-group at risk of violence, abuse, and HIV infection. This qualitative study examines the practices of male sex workers and vulnerabilities to HIV infection based on interviews among 15 MSWs in Bulawayo. All the interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed with the guidance of grounded theory. The transcripts were translated by the interviewer into English using NVivo 11.0 software fo…
Parental Socialization and Development of Chinese Youths
Parental socialization has been recently reported as a multifaceted concept, which includes parenting practices and family processes. Nevertheless, prior family research generally treated parental socialization tantamount to parenting behavior only and overlooked its different effects on multiple youth outcomes simultaneously, especially in the Chinese population. This study, with a sample of 223 Chinese parent-youth dyads (80.7% mothers; 55.6% m…
Being Bad to Feel Good
The plight of male migrant workers in China warrants critical attention because their diminished opportunity for life success has created a public health issue. To cope with hopelessness and despair they engage in risky behaviors involving paid sex and drugs. This article extends Connell ’s notion of hegemonic masculinity, linking urban migration with a rampant ‘masculinity crisis’ engulfing these single migrant men. Interviews with 100 male migr…
China's Commercial Sexscapes
Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement and the promotion of deviance
As a social movement demanding universal suffrage, Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement mobilized thousands of young protesters and fomented radical views stridently subversive of mainland China's political interference. The social movement continues to promote further forms of deviance in the form of calling for independence. As the city and former British colony lacks the sovereignty of statehood and democracy, the movement's non-conformity to law nee…
Real Men Get the Best Bar Girls
The shifting power relations in China after the global financial crisis are redefining masculinity for both Western and Asian men. Connell (1995) argues that in most societies a hegemonic masculinity usually exists that privileges heterosexual middle-class and economically successful men who exhibit characteristics associated with being masculine. The global financial crisis has led to a new global financial order that has created paths for peopl…
Erotic Authenticity
Research on the sex industry generally focuses heavily on the economic relationship between sex workers and their clients but typically fails to consider the role and significance of intimacy within these interactions. By drawing upon over 36 months' ethnographic work conducted in high-end and low-end bars in Dongguan from 2008 to 2009 and 2011 to 2017, the article argues that sex workers and their clients are not only involved in pecuniary trans…
A Sisterhood of Hope
Transgender sex workers (TSWs/TSW) face considerable challenges that affect their mental health and make their situations more vulnerable and precarious. TSWs often experience violence from clients, police, and others, but it is estimated that 50% of these acts of violence are at the hands of their intimate partners. The marginalization of TSWs is fueled by abuse through isolation and shaming which prevents them from seeking help through formal c…
Gay Sex Workers in China’s Medical Care System
The struggles of China's gay sex workers-men who sell sex to other men-illustrate how the multi-layered stigma that they experience acts as a form of necropolitical power and an instrument of the state's discrimination against gay sex workers who are living with HIV. One unintended side effect of this state power is the subsequent reluctance by medical professionals to care for gay sex workers who are living with HIV, and discrimination from Chin…
Reciprocating Desires
This article examines how socioeconomic conditions impact heteronormative sexual desires between high-tier sex workers and their non-Chinese clients in urban South China. Drawing from Hoang's interpretation of 'dealing in desires', Rofel's 'Desiring China', and cultural capital, the article considers how desire circulates in high-end bars and its impact on how workers and clients negotiate their relationships. I move beyond Hoang's and Rofel's fr…
Transformative emotional labour, cosmetic surgery, and masculinity
This article draws upon ethnographic data from 101 rural‐to‐urban migrant gay sex workers in northern China to reveal how rural migrants survive in urban China. The interviewees provide evidence that the marginality they experience as sex workers is sometimes related to a spatial narrative. In China, these migrant sex workers are frequently stigmatized by discourses that present them as ‘tropical beings’—from rural and subtropical places in China…
Be the Dream Queen”
An under-researched aspect of transgender sex workers in China pertains to their desires and expressions of femininity. Male-to-Female (MTF) transgender sex workers are a high-risk population prone to depression and stress regarding body image, intimate relationships marked by violence, and social stigma, rendering them vulnerable to hate crimes and discrimination. Ethnographic data from in-depth interviews with 49 MTF transgender sex workers ind…
A "Phoenix" rising from the ashes
There are significant numbers of women in China who have inadvertently married closeted gay men. Women in China who unwittingly marry closeted gay men are known as Tongqi (同妻), and these women often discover their husband's secret only after giving birth to fulfill filial obligations. These women taken into this "marriage fraud" are initially unaware of their husbands' sexual orientation. Because China's divorce law favors men, even if the wife f…
Dead End of the Rainbow
In China, the correlation between environmental space and drug use by gay male sex workers remains an under-researched public health concern. Drugs are commonly used to enhance sexual performance as well as provide feelings of euphoria but they also increase the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV. The spatial and environmental factors that create synergies between drug consumption and sex work are explored through qualitative data ob…
A reflective review on gay and bisexual men in China
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), Treatment as Prevention (TasP), and undetectability affect the experience of gay and bisexual men living with HIV. They also link ‘risk’ and ‘safety’ to raw sex and the use of recreational drugs as they relate to sexual practices among gay and bisexual men. From these insights, we can think about the complex connections between biomedical innovations in the field of HIV, sexual practices, subjectivity, pleasure, s…
Political science (29 obras) · Sociology (28 obras) · Gender Studies (23 obras) · China (22 obras) · Gender Studies (18 obras) · Law (18 obras) · Psychology (18 obras) · Sex work and related issues (18 obras) · Law (15 obras) · Social Psychology (12 obras)