Day Wong
Biographic Data
| ID | 3799294 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Day Wong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Day |
| FAMILY NAME | Wong |
| SIGNATURE | WONG D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Baptist University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Doing Sociology across Borders
Virtual exchange programs represent a relatively novel approach designed to foster a more global perspective and promote discipline-specific learning; however, this approach has not been widely adopted in sociology. This article reports findings on student experiences and learning in a virtual exchange program involving two large introductory sociology classes in Hong Kong and Atlanta. A postsurvey invited students to reflect qualitatively on the…
Embodying place and class habitus
To obtain a nuanced understanding of body transgendering, I draw on a Bourdieusian theory of practice to examine the interplay between habitus and capital, which enables a focus on both the conscious aspects of capital accumulation and the unconscious aspects of the class habitus that underpin passing practices. Specifically, I propose a place-sensitive approach to examine how the making of transgender space embodies the broader socio-spatial pol…
Sexology and the making of sexual subjects in contemporary China
This article examines the role of sociology in the newly emerged interdisciplinary field of sexology in China, the purpose of which is to produce the ideal citizen. Two strands of Chinese sexology are identified, the biomedical and subjective constructionist models. The former promotes sex for pleasure to enhance marital harmony and thus social stability. Through the establishment of new norms of behavior and relations to the self, individuals ar…
Sexual Minorities in China
Asexuality in China’s sexual revolution
This article introduces a multi-faceted approach to the study of asexuality that takes seriously the diverse terrain whence asexuality emerges and takes shape in China today. Intense globalization has facilitated connections between Chinese asexuals and their counterparts in other countries. The surge of dating agencies and websites for asexual marriage in China calls for attention to asexuals’ imaginings of a happy life that reflect not so much …
Doing gender, doing culture
Modernization of Power in Legal and Medical Discourses
The removal of homosexuality from the list of mental disorders and the repeal of restrictive sexual laws deem that Foucault's argument on the discursive control of homosexuality requires refinement to take into consideration the continual modernization and improvement of power. This article examines the multilayered discursive terrain in Hong Kong where homosexuality is created, regulated, and contested in the contemporary era. With the populariz…
Hybridization and the Emergence of "Gay" Identities in Hong Kong and in China
This article examines and compares the emergence of “gay” identities in Hong Kong and in China, with special attention to the linguistic appropriation and creation of identity labels that have incited new modes of sexual subjectivity and politics. It argues that while global queering has been taking place, what “gay” means in New York may not be the same as what it means in Hong Kong or China. More attention should be given to the twists and turn…
Rethinking the coming home alternative
In calling for the need to think about sexuality globally, scholars have given increasing attention to the historical specificities of local contexts. The return to the local, however, may not always be fruitful when the local and the global or the Western and the non‐Western are seen as binary opposites rather than permeable constructs. This paper examines the coming home/coming out controversy and calls into question the understanding of coming…
Beyond Identity Politics
Oral history has long been an important resource for lesbian and other underprivileged groups in advancing identity politics. While there is an increased awareness of social construction of identity and the impact of race and class on the experiences of sexual identities, oral historians have yet to rethink their task in view of poststructuralists' and queer theorists' critique of identity. This paper examines the "Oral History Project of Hong Ko…
Masculinities and Hong Kong Cinema
This collection of exciting essays explores how the representations and the ideologies of masculinities can be productively studied in the context of Hong Kong cinema. It has two objectives: first, to investigate the multiple meanings and manifestations of masculinities in Hong Kong cinema that compliment and contradict each other. Second, to analyze the social and cultural environments that make these representations possible and problematic. Ma…
Social Construction of Women as Legitimate Victims of Violence in Chinese Societies
Analyses of focus group discussions show that Chinese conceptions of women as legitimate victims of violence are constructed through representations of men as sick or being controlled by their impulses and of women as sex objects or naggers who trigger men's impulses or potential for violence. As women's behaviors are seen as precipitating factors, men are thus excused from their acts of violence and do not have to shoulder full responsibility fo…
Exploring how chinese define violence against women
Rethinking the coming home alternative
In calling for the need to think about sexuality globally, scholars have given increasing attention to the historical specificities of local contexts. The return to the local, however, may not always be fruitful when the local and the global or the Western and the non‐Western are seen as binary opposites rather than permeable constructs. This paper examines the coming home/coming out controversy and calls into question the understanding of coming…
Social Construction of Women as Legitimate Victims of Violence in Chinese Societies
Analyses of focus group discussions show that Chinese conceptions of women as legitimate victims of violence are constructed through representations of men as sick or being controlled by their impulses and of women as sex objects or naggers who trigger men's impulses or potential for violence. As women's behaviors are seen as precipitating factors, men are thus excused from their acts of violence and do not have to shoulder full responsibility fo…
Exploring how chinese define violence against women
Doing gender, doing culture
Modernization of Power in Legal and Medical Discourses
The removal of homosexuality from the list of mental disorders and the repeal of restrictive sexual laws deem that Foucault's argument on the discursive control of homosexuality requires refinement to take into consideration the continual modernization and improvement of power. This article examines the multilayered discursive terrain in Hong Kong where homosexuality is created, regulated, and contested in the contemporary era. With the populariz…
Hybridization and the Emergence of "Gay" Identities in Hong Kong and in China
This article examines and compares the emergence of “gay” identities in Hong Kong and in China, with special attention to the linguistic appropriation and creation of identity labels that have incited new modes of sexual subjectivity and politics. It argues that while global queering has been taking place, what “gay” means in New York may not be the same as what it means in Hong Kong or China. More attention should be given to the twists and turn…
Sexology and the making of sexual subjects in contemporary China
This article examines the role of sociology in the newly emerged interdisciplinary field of sexology in China, the purpose of which is to produce the ideal citizen. Two strands of Chinese sexology are identified, the biomedical and subjective constructionist models. The former promotes sex for pleasure to enhance marital harmony and thus social stability. Through the establishment of new norms of behavior and relations to the self, individuals ar…
Beyond Identity Politics
Oral history has long been an important resource for lesbian and other underprivileged groups in advancing identity politics. While there is an increased awareness of social construction of identity and the impact of race and class on the experiences of sexual identities, oral historians have yet to rethink their task in view of poststructuralists' and queer theorists' critique of identity. This paper examines the "Oral History Project of Hong Ko…
Exploring how chinese define violence against women
Social Construction of Women as Legitimate Victims of Violence in Chinese Societies
Analyses of focus group discussions show that Chinese conceptions of women as legitimate victims of violence are constructed through representations of men as sick or being controlled by their impulses and of women as sex objects or naggers who trigger men's impulses or potential for violence. As women's behaviors are seen as precipitating factors, men are thus excused from their acts of violence and do not have to shoulder full responsibility fo…
Masculinities and Hong Kong Cinema
This collection of exciting essays explores how the representations and the ideologies of masculinities can be productively studied in the context of Hong Kong cinema. It has two objectives: first, to investigate the multiple meanings and manifestations of masculinities in Hong Kong cinema that compliment and contradict each other. Second, to analyze the social and cultural environments that make these representations possible and problematic. Ma…
Rethinking the coming home alternative
In calling for the need to think about sexuality globally, scholars have given increasing attention to the historical specificities of local contexts. The return to the local, however, may not always be fruitful when the local and the global or the Western and the non‐Western are seen as binary opposites rather than permeable constructs. This paper examines the coming home/coming out controversy and calls into question the understanding of coming…
Beyond Identity Politics
Oral history has long been an important resource for lesbian and other underprivileged groups in advancing identity politics. While there is an increased awareness of social construction of identity and the impact of race and class on the experiences of sexual identities, oral historians have yet to rethink their task in view of poststructuralists' and queer theorists' critique of identity. This paper examines the "Oral History Project of Hong Ko…
Hybridization and the Emergence of "Gay" Identities in Hong Kong and in China
This article examines and compares the emergence of “gay” identities in Hong Kong and in China, with special attention to the linguistic appropriation and creation of identity labels that have incited new modes of sexual subjectivity and politics. It argues that while global queering has been taking place, what “gay” means in New York may not be the same as what it means in Hong Kong or China. More attention should be given to the twists and turn…
Doing gender, doing culture
Modernization of Power in Legal and Medical Discourses
The removal of homosexuality from the list of mental disorders and the repeal of restrictive sexual laws deem that Foucault's argument on the discursive control of homosexuality requires refinement to take into consideration the continual modernization and improvement of power. This article examines the multilayered discursive terrain in Hong Kong where homosexuality is created, regulated, and contested in the contemporary era. With the populariz…
Asexuality in China’s sexual revolution
This article introduces a multi-faceted approach to the study of asexuality that takes seriously the diverse terrain whence asexuality emerges and takes shape in China today. Intense globalization has facilitated connections between Chinese asexuals and their counterparts in other countries. The surge of dating agencies and websites for asexual marriage in China calls for attention to asexuals’ imaginings of a happy life that reflect not so much …
Sexual Minorities in China
Sexology and the making of sexual subjects in contemporary China
This article examines the role of sociology in the newly emerged interdisciplinary field of sexology in China, the purpose of which is to produce the ideal citizen. Two strands of Chinese sexology are identified, the biomedical and subjective constructionist models. The former promotes sex for pleasure to enhance marital harmony and thus social stability. Through the establishment of new norms of behavior and relations to the self, individuals ar…
Embodying place and class habitus
To obtain a nuanced understanding of body transgendering, I draw on a Bourdieusian theory of practice to examine the interplay between habitus and capital, which enables a focus on both the conscious aspects of capital accumulation and the unconscious aspects of the class habitus that underpin passing practices. Specifically, I propose a place-sensitive approach to examine how the making of transgender space embodies the broader socio-spatial pol…
Doing Sociology across Borders
Virtual exchange programs represent a relatively novel approach designed to foster a more global perspective and promote discipline-specific learning; however, this approach has not been widely adopted in sociology. This article reports findings on student experiences and learning in a virtual exchange program involving two large introductory sociology classes in Hong Kong and Atlanta. A postsurvey invited students to reflect qualitatively on the…
Sociology (12 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · China (4 works) · Criminology (3 works)