Hongming Cheng
Biographic Data
| ID | 3791735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hongming Cheng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hongming |
| FAMILY NAME | Cheng |
| SIGNATURE | CHENG H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Saskatchewan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3072-3037 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Doing Femininity, Doing Policing, Doing Face
This article explores the gender performances of women police officers in China, focusing on how they navigate femininity within the highly masculinized and culturally specific context of policing. Drawing on Schippers’s framework of hegemonic, pariah, and alternative femininities, alongside the concept of face rooted in Chinese Confucian traditions, the study analyzes interviews with women officers to examine how gender is performed across diffe…
Talented Youths or Dangerous Criminals? Exploring Judicial Attitudes in the Sentencing of Data Crime Cases in Chinese Courts
The focal concerns framework stands as the leading theoretical approach in criminology to account for differences in sentencing outcomes. Despite extensive empirical research, this framework has yet to be thoroughly examined in the context of cybercrime or data crime and in non-Western legal cultures. This study examines the following question: to what degree and in what ways do Chinese judges take into account the original focal concerns of blam…
Understanding the Gendered Landscape of the Police Force in China
This article considers how women police in China construct and negotiate a delicate balance of identities due to societal norms, workplace dynamics, and the weight of tradition. Using data from interviews with 18 women officers, we found patterns suggesting that Chinese women officers are neither willing to be bound by reductive stereotypes, nor willing to abandon the core elements of their feminine identity. As a result, the findings from this s…
Self or children? Navigating intensive mothering ideology and maternal agency for rural-to-urban migrant working mothers in China
Saving or Keeping Face Was Just Part of the Game’
This article introduces the concept of ‘facework corruption’ as a theoretical framework for understanding white-collar crime in Chinese football. Drawing from an analysis of 15 judicial cases and 25 semi-structured interviews with football officials, coaches, and corruption investigators, the study identifies three key mechanisms through which facework facilitates corruption and match-fixing. First, ‘Face as currency’ explores how financial incen…
Policing telecommunication and cyber fraud
Determinants of Citizen Acceptance of White-Collar Crime in China
Existing research on public attitudes toward white-collar crime focuses almost exclusively on Western and Latin American societies. Using data from the seventh wave (2018) of the World Values Survey (WVS) for China, this study confirms the importance of several demographic, value, and belief factors in forming citizens' attitudes toward white-collar crime, yet show some distinguished patterns in the Chinese context, calling for culture-specific a…
Are women less corrupt than men? Evidence from Ghana
Understanding responses to managerialism
The adoption of a corporate style of university management in China has resulted in a context in which performance indicators are the primary means of assessing university faculty members. Most faculty members work under the 'shadow' of managerial control. Drawing on the face culture, this article delineates various complex tactics employed by Chinese university faculty and, more importantly, explores what underpins their behavioral responses. Ba…
Achieving postfeminist ideals
This study investigates how Chinese female wanghongs on Douyin self-frame their image and identity, and how interactions between wanghongs and their followers co-frame the image of contemporary female Internet celebrities. We discovered that the four dominant self-frames of wanghongs are beauty, talent, personality traits, and gender expression through a qualitative coding analysis of the selected 30 female wanghongs' posts and media interview na…
Gender and power in the ivory tower
This article examines how female graduate students in China would perceive their experiences as survivors of sexual harassment by their faculty supervisors. Based on our narrative interviews at Chinese universities, this study has shown that 1) sexual harassment is the supervisor’s expression of gender-based power in Chinese academia; 2) instead of blatant coercion, harassers would use their power strategically to influence and manipulate the stu…
Land Reforms and the Conflicts over the Use of Land
Statutes and policy documents, as well as open-ended interviews in Zhejiang, China, were used to identify key aspects of rural land law reforms in China to help develop the national economy. It has been observed that despite its positive effect on general rural economic development such development is compromised by extensive corruption that harms peasants' interests. Peasants face new forms of exploitation by local governments and businesses, as…
Financial Crime in China
Given China's rapid development, many observers assert that world economic growth and key economic indicators are now depending on the country alone, including the prospects of the dollar, the Euro, o
The Credibility of Oversight and Aggregate Rates of White-Collar Crime
A Comparative Study on Land Rights of Peasants in China and Aboriginal Citizens in Canada and Their Impact on Development
This article examines the relationships between land reform and socio-economic development in rural communities in China and in Aboriginal communities in Canada. Using statutes, legal cases, policy documents produced by government agencies and professional organizations in the two countries, as well as open-ended interviews in Zhejiang, China, and Saskatchewan, Canada, this study analyses the impact of land tenure arrangements on economic develop…
Cheap Capitalism
Journal Article Cheap Capitalism: A Sociological Study of Food Crime in China Get access Hongming Cheng Hongming Cheng * *Ph.D., Department of Sociology, University of Saskatchewan, #1111–9 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5, Canada; [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 52, Issue 2, March 2012, Pages 254–273, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azr078…
Understanding responses to managerialism
The adoption of a corporate style of university management in China has resulted in a context in which performance indicators are the primary means of assessing university faculty members. Most faculty members work under the 'shadow' of managerial control. Drawing on the face culture, this article delineates various complex tactics employed by Chinese university faculty and, more importantly, explores what underpins their behavioral responses. Ba…
Cheap Capitalism
Journal Article Cheap Capitalism: A Sociological Study of Food Crime in China Get access Hongming Cheng Hongming Cheng * *Ph.D., Department of Sociology, University of Saskatchewan, #1111–9 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5, Canada; [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 52, Issue 2, March 2012, Pages 254–273, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azr078…
Achieving postfeminist ideals
This study investigates how Chinese female wanghongs on Douyin self-frame their image and identity, and how interactions between wanghongs and their followers co-frame the image of contemporary female Internet celebrities. We discovered that the four dominant self-frames of wanghongs are beauty, talent, personality traits, and gender expression through a qualitative coding analysis of the selected 30 female wanghongs' posts and media interview na…
Self or children? Navigating intensive mothering ideology and maternal agency for rural-to-urban migrant working mothers in China
Gender and power in the ivory tower
This article examines how female graduate students in China would perceive their experiences as survivors of sexual harassment by their faculty supervisors. Based on our narrative interviews at Chinese universities, this study has shown that 1) sexual harassment is the supervisor’s expression of gender-based power in Chinese academia; 2) instead of blatant coercion, harassers would use their power strategically to influence and manipulate the stu…
Cheap Capitalism
Journal Article Cheap Capitalism: A Sociological Study of Food Crime in China Get access Hongming Cheng Hongming Cheng * *Ph.D., Department of Sociology, University of Saskatchewan, #1111–9 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5, Canada; [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 52, Issue 2, March 2012, Pages 254–273, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azr078…
A Comparative Study on Land Rights of Peasants in China and Aboriginal Citizens in Canada and Their Impact on Development
This article examines the relationships between land reform and socio-economic development in rural communities in China and in Aboriginal communities in Canada. Using statutes, legal cases, policy documents produced by government agencies and professional organizations in the two countries, as well as open-ended interviews in Zhejiang, China, and Saskatchewan, Canada, this study analyses the impact of land tenure arrangements on economic develop…
Financial Crime in China
Given China's rapid development, many observers assert that world economic growth and key economic indicators are now depending on the country alone, including the prospects of the dollar, the Euro, o
The Credibility of Oversight and Aggregate Rates of White-Collar Crime
Land Reforms and the Conflicts over the Use of Land
Statutes and policy documents, as well as open-ended interviews in Zhejiang, China, were used to identify key aspects of rural land law reforms in China to help develop the national economy. It has been observed that despite its positive effect on general rural economic development such development is compromised by extensive corruption that harms peasants' interests. Peasants face new forms of exploitation by local governments and businesses, as…
Are women less corrupt than men? Evidence from Ghana
Understanding responses to managerialism
The adoption of a corporate style of university management in China has resulted in a context in which performance indicators are the primary means of assessing university faculty members. Most faculty members work under the 'shadow' of managerial control. Drawing on the face culture, this article delineates various complex tactics employed by Chinese university faculty and, more importantly, explores what underpins their behavioral responses. Ba…
Achieving postfeminist ideals
This study investigates how Chinese female wanghongs on Douyin self-frame their image and identity, and how interactions between wanghongs and their followers co-frame the image of contemporary female Internet celebrities. We discovered that the four dominant self-frames of wanghongs are beauty, talent, personality traits, and gender expression through a qualitative coding analysis of the selected 30 female wanghongs' posts and media interview na…
Gender and power in the ivory tower
This article examines how female graduate students in China would perceive their experiences as survivors of sexual harassment by their faculty supervisors. Based on our narrative interviews at Chinese universities, this study has shown that 1) sexual harassment is the supervisor’s expression of gender-based power in Chinese academia; 2) instead of blatant coercion, harassers would use their power strategically to influence and manipulate the stu…
Policing telecommunication and cyber fraud
Determinants of Citizen Acceptance of White-Collar Crime in China
Existing research on public attitudes toward white-collar crime focuses almost exclusively on Western and Latin American societies. Using data from the seventh wave (2018) of the World Values Survey (WVS) for China, this study confirms the importance of several demographic, value, and belief factors in forming citizens' attitudes toward white-collar crime, yet show some distinguished patterns in the Chinese context, calling for culture-specific a…
Talented Youths or Dangerous Criminals? Exploring Judicial Attitudes in the Sentencing of Data Crime Cases in Chinese Courts
The focal concerns framework stands as the leading theoretical approach in criminology to account for differences in sentencing outcomes. Despite extensive empirical research, this framework has yet to be thoroughly examined in the context of cybercrime or data crime and in non-Western legal cultures. This study examines the following question: to what degree and in what ways do Chinese judges take into account the original focal concerns of blam…
Understanding the Gendered Landscape of the Police Force in China
This article considers how women police in China construct and negotiate a delicate balance of identities due to societal norms, workplace dynamics, and the weight of tradition. Using data from interviews with 18 women officers, we found patterns suggesting that Chinese women officers are neither willing to be bound by reductive stereotypes, nor willing to abandon the core elements of their feminine identity. As a result, the findings from this s…
Self or children? Navigating intensive mothering ideology and maternal agency for rural-to-urban migrant working mothers in China
Saving or Keeping Face Was Just Part of the Game’
This article introduces the concept of ‘facework corruption’ as a theoretical framework for understanding white-collar crime in Chinese football. Drawing from an analysis of 15 judicial cases and 25 semi-structured interviews with football officials, coaches, and corruption investigators, the study identifies three key mechanisms through which facework facilitates corruption and match-fixing. First, ‘Face as currency’ explores how financial incen…
Doing Femininity, Doing Policing, Doing Face
This article explores the gender performances of women police officers in China, focusing on how they navigate femininity within the highly masculinized and culturally specific context of policing. Drawing on Schippers’s framework of hegemonic, pariah, and alternative femininities, alongside the concept of face rooted in Chinese Confucian traditions, the study analyzes interviews with women officers to examine how gender is performed across diffe…
Political science (14 works) · Law (12 works) · China (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Politics (5 works)