A Song
Biographic Data
| ID | 25472 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Song |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Song |
| SIGNATURE | SONG A |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2098-8875 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“We’re Experiencing Digital Death”: Chinese People Who Used Heroin in Community‐Based Rehabilitation
Digital inclusion is increasingly recognised as a critical dimension of social inclusion, particularly in contexts undergoing rapid technological transformation such as China. Despite the Chinese government’s substantial investment in digital infrastructure, equitable access and meaningful participation remain elusive for many incarcerated lived experiencers. Drawing on narrative interviews with 18 people who used heroin and are navigating commun…
Recovery Capital in Chinese Drug Rehabilitation: Exploring Person‐Centred and Community‐Based Perspectives
Revisiting professional autonomy and structural constraints: Relational work in anti-drug social work
This study re-examines professional autonomy within China’s anti-drug social work by highlighting the role of relational work. Using qualitative case studies of four rehabilitation organisations in two cities, it explores how social workers build trust, networks, and reputation to sustain practice under structural constraints. Findings reveal contrasting paths: a professionalised organisation losing projects due to weak political ties, and a bure…
“New barefoot Doctors”: How social workers navigate HIV care and structural marginality in Yi ethnic minority communities
Social workers play a critical yet underexamined role in HIV prevention and treatment in China’s remote ethnic minority regions. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2024 and 2025 in two Yi-autonomous mountain townships, this study examines how social workers navigate structural inequality and constraints within HIV care. This study identifies three interrelated agentic practices. First, women’s healing workshops provide spaces tha…
Weak chemsex as cultural scripts: Understanding how Chinese gay men narrate sexualised drug use
In recent years, chemsex has attracted growing scholarly attention for its intersections with health, pleasure, and sexuality. Scholarship largely produced in the Global North, has focused on health risks, recreational use, and the emergent meanings of chemsex subcultures. Yet the voices of chemsex participants in contexts marked by drug prohibition and the political silencing of homosexuality remain limited, though equally important to examine. …
‘Breaking through the cracks and pleasing myself’: Employment decisions and meaning-making among women in county-based digital employment in China
Women’s labour experiences have long been central to gender scholarship, yet much literature focuses on the structural constraints women face in balancing work and family. Less attention has been paid to how women exercise agency in making employment decisions and ascribe meaning to work across different stages of life. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in eight counties across economically underdeveloped regions in central and western China and …
Stigmatisation for poppers use is a sexualised mode of governance”: Lived experiences and counter-narratives of gay men who use poppers in mainland China
Be Mom, for Mom”: Anti-Authority Recovery Narratives of Females Who Use Drugs in China
The intersection of gender and drug use places women who experience substance dependence in a particularly vulnerable and often overlooked position. While some studies have examined women's drug use mainly through legal or moral lenses, few have explored how women themselves, especially through the evolving maternal life course, construct meaning and agency in recovery. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 18 women in a coastal Chinese city, th…
Tracing, Stabilizing, Storytelling: How Social Workers Assemble Recovery for People Who Have Mental Health Disorders
In recent years, the Chinese community-based psychiatric rehabilitation (CBPR) policy has been gradually promoted, with social workers emerging as key frontline players. However, existing research has insufficiently addressed the strategic services and institutional constraints faced by social workers in recovery-oriented practice. This article draws on in-depth interviews with 19 social workers involved in CBPR services in Shanghai to explore ho…
“Nothing but...stuff being played with”: Body-constructed narratives of drug-trafficking young girls
In research on females' participation in the drug economy, Chinese scholarship continues to focus predominantly on the roles and division of labor undertaken by females, with the aim of refining law enforcement practices and sentencing procedures. This orientation overlooks females' subjectivities within drug trades and simplifies the complex entanglements between gender, embodiment, and illicit economies. This study centers on three cases from t…
“It's time ... to end everything”: Discontinue medication choices and narratives among elderly HIV-positive Yi women
Elderly Yi women living with HIV have long been caught between the burdens of family responsibilities and the constraints of local medical management policies, which should be considered. Based on an ethnographic study of these people in a mountainous region of southwestern China, this study employs the narrative disruption approach of Narcofeminism to examine their disease narratives and drug-related decisions-particularly their choice to discon…
Making the enforcement rehabilitative: Penal welfarism and emotional labor of police officers in Chinese drug policing
With the recent prioritization of recovery in Chinese drug policy, drug police officers are called upon to adopt humanitarian and rehabilitative principles when dealing with drug offenders. Despite extensive studies on drug policing against the recovery turn, few have interrogated the emotional dimension of drug policing work as police officers are placed in emotional dilemmas of toughness and compassion. Drawing on ethnographic data of drug poli…
Digitalising violence: Decoding management in the rehabilitation of people who use drugs
This article investigates how China's smart drug-control systems, an emerging representation of digital platforms designed for community-based drug rehabilitation, reproduce and amplify structural violence, imposing punishment under the guise of improving the effectiveness of rehabilitation. Drawing on observation and semi-structured interviews conducted in three mainland Chinese cities, we identify three forms of violence embedded in the digital…
Coercive rehabilitation and therapeutic control: How the police navigate the penal-welfare nexus in Chinese drug governance
Framing 'Chemsexism: Chinese Gay Men Navigating Stigma and Labelling
In the gay community, chemsex intersects with multiple stigmas that exacerbate marginalization and create layered disadvantages, particularly in China. Despite this, there is limited understanding among researchers and care practitioners about how individuals counter-narrate and manage stigmatizing stress in contexts involving multiple stigmas. This study addresses this gap by using online semi-structured interviews, drawing on a process-oriented…
No ability to choose freedom’: A qualitative study on people who use drugs’ experiences of compulsory isolation treatment
Drug use disorder and family politics evolution: How can Chinese PWUD families quit drugs
Family plays an essential role in drug-related behavior. Based on a case study of the Lin family, whose members have all taken drugs for almost 20 years but have now completed community rehabilitation, in this study, we attempted to reveal the specific operating mechanisms of the family during the process of rehabilitation. In the analysis process, we divided the drug-use history of this family into three stages from a diachronic dimension: promo…
Criteria for Romanian geniuses’ selection as source for a new heritage tourism product
Cultural heritage constantly evolves, contributes fundamentally to human development, and increases collective life's quality. Cultural assets are considered a treasure that must be protected accordingly and passed on to future generations. Among tourism resources, material and immaterial assets belonging to famous people are essential for this industry and for promoting Romanian cultural values. In this framework, the purpose of the study is to …
Trends and predictors of HIV-positive community attachment among PLWHA
Communities most affected by HIV/AIDS have been instrumental in shaping Australia's responses to the threat of the epidemic. There are recent signs that levels of engagement in communities based around HIV-positivity have changed: a diminished sense of an AIDS crisis, the relative success of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), and an increasing individualization of the HIV experience may be contributing to changes in the way HIV-communi…
Trends and predictors of HIV-positive community attachment among PLWHA
Communities most affected by HIV/AIDS have been instrumental in shaping Australia's responses to the threat of the epidemic. There are recent signs that levels of engagement in communities based around HIV-positivity have changed: a diminished sense of an AIDS crisis, the relative success of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), and an increasing individualization of the HIV experience may be contributing to changes in the way HIV-communi…
Drug use disorder and family politics evolution: How can Chinese PWUD families quit drugs
Family plays an essential role in drug-related behavior. Based on a case study of the Lin family, whose members have all taken drugs for almost 20 years but have now completed community rehabilitation, in this study, we attempted to reveal the specific operating mechanisms of the family during the process of rehabilitation. In the analysis process, we divided the drug-use history of this family into three stages from a diachronic dimension: promo…
Criteria for Romanian geniuses’ selection as source for a new heritage tourism product
Cultural heritage constantly evolves, contributes fundamentally to human development, and increases collective life's quality. Cultural assets are considered a treasure that must be protected accordingly and passed on to future generations. Among tourism resources, material and immaterial assets belonging to famous people are essential for this industry and for promoting Romanian cultural values. In this framework, the purpose of the study is to …
No ability to choose freedom’: A qualitative study on people who use drugs’ experiences of compulsory isolation treatment
Tracing, Stabilizing, Storytelling: How Social Workers Assemble Recovery for People Who Have Mental Health Disorders
In recent years, the Chinese community-based psychiatric rehabilitation (CBPR) policy has been gradually promoted, with social workers emerging as key frontline players. However, existing research has insufficiently addressed the strategic services and institutional constraints faced by social workers in recovery-oriented practice. This article draws on in-depth interviews with 19 social workers involved in CBPR services in Shanghai to explore ho…
“Nothing but...stuff being played with”: Body-constructed narratives of drug-trafficking young girls
In research on females' participation in the drug economy, Chinese scholarship continues to focus predominantly on the roles and division of labor undertaken by females, with the aim of refining law enforcement practices and sentencing procedures. This orientation overlooks females' subjectivities within drug trades and simplifies the complex entanglements between gender, embodiment, and illicit economies. This study centers on three cases from t…
“It's time ... to end everything”: Discontinue medication choices and narratives among elderly HIV-positive Yi women
Elderly Yi women living with HIV have long been caught between the burdens of family responsibilities and the constraints of local medical management policies, which should be considered. Based on an ethnographic study of these people in a mountainous region of southwestern China, this study employs the narrative disruption approach of Narcofeminism to examine their disease narratives and drug-related decisions-particularly their choice to discon…
Making the enforcement rehabilitative: Penal welfarism and emotional labor of police officers in Chinese drug policing
With the recent prioritization of recovery in Chinese drug policy, drug police officers are called upon to adopt humanitarian and rehabilitative principles when dealing with drug offenders. Despite extensive studies on drug policing against the recovery turn, few have interrogated the emotional dimension of drug policing work as police officers are placed in emotional dilemmas of toughness and compassion. Drawing on ethnographic data of drug poli…
Digitalising violence: Decoding management in the rehabilitation of people who use drugs
This article investigates how China's smart drug-control systems, an emerging representation of digital platforms designed for community-based drug rehabilitation, reproduce and amplify structural violence, imposing punishment under the guise of improving the effectiveness of rehabilitation. Drawing on observation and semi-structured interviews conducted in three mainland Chinese cities, we identify three forms of violence embedded in the digital…
Coercive rehabilitation and therapeutic control: How the police navigate the penal-welfare nexus in Chinese drug governance
Framing 'Chemsexism: Chinese Gay Men Navigating Stigma and Labelling
In the gay community, chemsex intersects with multiple stigmas that exacerbate marginalization and create layered disadvantages, particularly in China. Despite this, there is limited understanding among researchers and care practitioners about how individuals counter-narrate and manage stigmatizing stress in contexts involving multiple stigmas. This study addresses this gap by using online semi-structured interviews, drawing on a process-oriented…
“We’re Experiencing Digital Death”: Chinese People Who Used Heroin in Community‐Based Rehabilitation
Digital inclusion is increasingly recognised as a critical dimension of social inclusion, particularly in contexts undergoing rapid technological transformation such as China. Despite the Chinese government’s substantial investment in digital infrastructure, equitable access and meaningful participation remain elusive for many incarcerated lived experiencers. Drawing on narrative interviews with 18 people who used heroin and are navigating commun…
Recovery Capital in Chinese Drug Rehabilitation: Exploring Person‐Centred and Community‐Based Perspectives
Revisiting professional autonomy and structural constraints: Relational work in anti-drug social work
This study re-examines professional autonomy within China’s anti-drug social work by highlighting the role of relational work. Using qualitative case studies of four rehabilitation organisations in two cities, it explores how social workers build trust, networks, and reputation to sustain practice under structural constraints. Findings reveal contrasting paths: a professionalised organisation losing projects due to weak political ties, and a bure…
“New barefoot Doctors”: How social workers navigate HIV care and structural marginality in Yi ethnic minority communities
Social workers play a critical yet underexamined role in HIV prevention and treatment in China’s remote ethnic minority regions. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2024 and 2025 in two Yi-autonomous mountain townships, this study examines how social workers navigate structural inequality and constraints within HIV care. This study identifies three interrelated agentic practices. First, women’s healing workshops provide spaces tha…
Weak chemsex as cultural scripts: Understanding how Chinese gay men narrate sexualised drug use
In recent years, chemsex has attracted growing scholarly attention for its intersections with health, pleasure, and sexuality. Scholarship largely produced in the Global North, has focused on health risks, recreational use, and the emergent meanings of chemsex subcultures. Yet the voices of chemsex participants in contexts marked by drug prohibition and the political silencing of homosexuality remain limited, though equally important to examine. …
‘Breaking through the cracks and pleasing myself’: Employment decisions and meaning-making among women in county-based digital employment in China
Women’s labour experiences have long been central to gender scholarship, yet much literature focuses on the structural constraints women face in balancing work and family. Less attention has been paid to how women exercise agency in making employment decisions and ascribe meaning to work across different stages of life. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in eight counties across economically underdeveloped regions in central and western China and …
Stigmatisation for poppers use is a sexualised mode of governance”: Lived experiences and counter-narratives of gay men who use poppers in mainland China
Be Mom, for Mom”: Anti-Authority Recovery Narratives of Females Who Use Drugs in China
The intersection of gender and drug use places women who experience substance dependence in a particularly vulnerable and often overlooked position. While some studies have examined women's drug use mainly through legal or moral lenses, few have explored how women themselves, especially through the evolving maternal life course, construct meaning and agency in recovery. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 18 women in a coastal Chinese city, th…
Psychology (7 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (5 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Rehabilitation (4 works) · Sex work and related issues (4 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (4 works)