Division of Social Science Head of Division: Raymond Sin-Kwok WONG, Professor of Social Science The Division of Social Science seeks to accomplish three primary objectives. First, it aims at offering a rich, relevant and well-rounded body of courses designed to give undergraduate majors in the Schools of Science, Engineering, and Business and Management an awareness of how a social science perspective can improve their understanding of the contemporary world. These courses should sharpen students appreciation of the intricate linkages between science and technology on one hand and the human-ecological environment on the other, help them to relate their own career pursuits to the needs of society and the times, and include social, political and cultural considerations in their professional judgements. Second, the Division is building a strong postgraduate program to equip students with essential theoretical, methodological, and substantive skills to conduct independent research. The faculty provides students with close supervision in their work, guides them in the implementation of their research projects, and helps them to acquire standards of assessing their own work as well as that of others. Third, it is creating a center of excellence in academic research and scholarly productivity. Faculty members maintain a lively intellectual environment where new ideas are explored, frontiers are pushed, and a genuine commitment made to contribute relevant, innovative, and significant scholarship to the social sciences. UNDERGRADUATE COURSES The Division offers a range of undergraduate courses in four subject areas, which have been designed to provide students with a balanced menu of courses in coherent areas of study: - China Studies (primarily developments since mid-century); - Economic and Political Development (the analysis of politics, economies, and their interaction; including international relations and law); - Science, Technology and Society (including environmental issues); and - Social Relations (the human sciences represented by the overlapping fields of sociology, demography, social anthropology, and social psychology) Lectures, seminars and individual tutorials are utilized in most courses, and students are assessed by course work and/or written examinations. Curriculum Description of the curriculum and courses for the following programs are presented online at http://publish.ust.hk/calendar : Undergraduate Minor Program in Social Science Undergraduate Minor Program in China Studies (Joint Minor Program) Undergraduate Minor Program in Liberal Studies (Joint Minor Program) 219
SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMS AND RESEARCH Postgraduate programs lead to the degrees of Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in the fields of anthropology, China s economy, demography, geography, political science, Science, Technology and Society (STS), social psychology, and sociology. A Graduate Diploma and an MA program in Social Science, and two MA programs in China Studies and Liberal Studies are also offered, the latter two jointly with the Division of Humanities. All applicants must meet the general requirements for admission of the University. For admission to the PhD program, applicants who attended educational institutions where the language of instruction was not English and whose first language is not English, a satisfactory score in the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) is required. Curriculum Description of the curriculum and courses for the following programs are presented online at http://publish.ust.hk/calendar : Taught Postgraduate Programs: Graduate Diploma (GD) in Social Science Master of Arts (MA) in Social Science Master of Arts (MA) in China Studies (Joint Degree Program) Master of Arts (MA) in Liberal Studies (Joint Degree Program) Research Postgraduate Programs: Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Social Science Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Social Science FACULTY AND THEIR RESEARCH INTERESTS Chair Professors James LEE ( 李 中 清 ), BA Yale; MA, PhD Chicago (Dean of Humanities and Social Science, and Chair Professor of Humanities) Research Interests: Chinese history (late imperial and contemporary); demography and sociology of populations in the past; genealogical approaches to social science; higher education and social stratification in China. Alvin Yiu-Cheong SO ( 蘇 耀 昌 ), BA Chinese Univ of Hong Kong; MA, PhD Univ of California, Los Angeles Research Interests: Social class, development, East Asia in comparative and historical perspective. 220
David ZWEIG ( 崔 大 偉 ), BA, MA York Univ, Toronto; PhD Michigan (Director of Center on China's Transnational Relations) Research Interests: Rural reform in China; the internationalization of Chinese political economy; overseas students and returned scholars in China. Professors Erik BAARK ( 寶 克 ), MPhil, DrPhil Copenhagen; PhD Lund (Professor of Environment) Research Interests: National innovation systems in Asia and Europe, China's science and technology policy, Hong Kong innovation system and policy, innovation in service industries. X. L. DING ( 丁 學 良 ), Dip Hefei Poly; MPhil Fudan; AM, PhD Harvard Research Interests: Politico-social dimensions of the transition from command to market economies in China and post-communist countries; comparative capitalisms; state-society relations; interaction among the Chinese Mainland-Hong Kong-Taiwan, popular political culture. Carsten A. HOLZ ( 穆 嘉 ), Dipl Tuebingen; PhD Cornell Research Interests: Economic growth in China, quality of Chinese statistics. James Kai-Sing KUNG ( 龔 啟 聖 ), BA Guelph; MA Queensland; MPhil, PhD Cambridge (Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Science) Research Interests: Political economy, economic development, economic history, institutions, China. Raymond Sin-Kwok WONG ( 黃 善 國 ), Dip Hong Kong Baptist Coll; MA Illinois State; PhD Univ of Wisconsin, Madison (Head of Division, and Director of Survey Research Center) Research Interests: Social inequality and stratification, sociology of education, quantitative methods, economic sociology, and comparative sociology. 221
SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Adjunct Professors Andrew G. WALDER ( 魏 昂 德 ), BA Johns Hopkins; PhD Michigan Research Interests: Political sociology, economic sociology, social stratification and mobility, contemporary China. Yu XIE ( 謝 宇 ), BS Shanghai Univ of Tech; MS, MA, PhD Univ of Wisconsin, Madison Research Interests: Social stratification, methods and statistics, demography, sociology of science, Chinese studies. Visiting Professor Donald J. TREIMAN, BA Reed; MA, PhD Chicago Research Interests: Social demography, focused on internal migration in China; social stratification, focused on cross-national and cross-temporal comparisons of status attainment and analysis of transitional societies. Associate Professors Yongshun CAI ( 蔡 永 順 ), MA Nanjing; MPhil Hong Kong Univ of Sc & Tech; PhD Stanford Research Interests: Collective action and social movements, political participation, institution building and regime transition, and Chinese politics. Agnes Shuk-Mei KU ( 谷 淑 美 ), BSocSc Hong Kong; MA, PhD Univ of California, Los Angeles Research Interests: Civil society, cultural sociology, Hong Kong culture and politics, urban space, and gender issues. Yi-Min LIN ( 林 益 民 ), BA Huazhong Normal; MA Chinese Acad of Soc Sc; MA, MPhil, PhD Yale (Associate Director of Survey Research Center) Research Interests: Political economy, organizations and institutions. 222
Zhongdong MA ( 馬 忠 東 ), BS Tsinghua; MA Peking; PhD McMaster Research Interests: Migration and development in developing countries, immigration and human resource development, Geographical Information System. Gerald R. PATCHELL ( 百 察 樂 ), BA, MA Western Ontario; PhD Simon Fraser (Associate Professor of Environment) Research Interests: Territorial and Inter-firm Cooperation; Sustainable Development; Environmental Economic Geography; The Organization of Variety; Business and Environment; Japan. Barry SAUTMAN ( 沙 伯 力 ), MLS, JD Univ of California, Los Angeles; LLM New York; PhD Columbia Research Interests: Ethnic politics, nationalism and ideological discourses in China; China-Africa relations. Ming SING ( 成 名 ), BA, MPhil Chinese Univ of Hong Kong; DPhil Oxford Research Interests: Comparative study on democracies and democratization; comparing political culture; Hong Kong politics. Jow-Ching TU ( 涂 肇 慶 ), BA Chung-Hsing; MA Pennsylvania and West Virginia; PhD Tennessee Research Interests: Population changes and its social and economic implications in Chinese societies; demographic perspectives of family and household dynamics, and theoretical development of demography. Xiaogang WU ( 吳 曉 剛 ), BA Renmin Univ of China; MA Peking; MA, PhD Univ of California, Los Angeles Research Interests: Social stratification and mobility, economic sociology, organization, and statistical methods. Michelle YIK ( 易 靄 儀 ), BSSc, MPhil Chinese Univ of Hong Kong; PhD British Columbia Research Interests: Emotion, ideal affect, happiness, culture and personality. 223
SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Assistant Professors Yun-Chung CHEN ( 陳 允 中 ), BEng, MA National Taiwan; PhD Univ of California, Los Angeles (Associate Director of Center for Cultural Studies) Research Interests: Comparative studies of city-regional innovation system; cultural clusters, creative industries, environment and urban studies. Hye-Jee CHO ( 趙 蕙 智 ), BA Ewha Womans; MA, PhD Univ of California, Los Angeles Research Interests: Political economy of international finance and investment, globalization and development, comparative political economy, international organizations, statistical methods. Li HAN ( 韓 莉 ), BA Xi'an Jiaotong; MA Peking; PhD Harvard Research Interests: Development economics, labor economics, public economics and Chinese economy. Wenkai HE ( 和 文 凱 ), BEng Tsinghua; MSc, PhD Massachusetts Inst of Tech Research Interests: Political economy of development, comparative study of state formation, economic history, comparative historical analysis in social science. Naubahar SHARIF ( 白 立 邦 ), BBA, MPhil Hong Kong Univ of Sc & Tech; MA, PhD Cornell Research Interests: Science, technology and society; innovation and technology development in Hong Kong; integration of Hong Kong's innovation system within the Pearl River Delta; development of the innovation systems conceptual approach. Satoru SHIMOKAWA ( 下 川 哲 ), BA Hokkaido; MS, PhD Cornell Research Interests: Development microeconomics, health economics, applied econometrics, Chinese economy. Kevin Kim-Pong TAM ( 談 儉 邦 ), BSocSc, MPhil, PhD Hong Kong Research Interests: Cultural processes, environmental attitudes and behavior; forensic attitudes and judgments; happiness. 224
Jin WANG ( 王 瑾 ), BA, MA Tsinghua; MRes, PhD London Sch of Econ Research Interests: Development economics, public economics, applied econometrics, Chinese economy. Yi ZHU ( 朱 懌 ), BA Fudan; MPhil Chinese Univ of Hong Kong; PhD Michigan State Research Interests: Development economics, labor and demographic economics, Chinese economy. 225