Chan Hau Nung Annie
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology and Social Policy
Lingnan University (Hong Kong)
Hong Kong
Biography
Professor Annie Chan graduated from Hong Kong University and Oxford University and joined Lingnan University in 1997. Her research areas are gender, sexuality, and personal lives, and her current research projects include singlehood in Chinese cities, female transnational lead migrants and women in Hong Kong’s police force. She is currently the President of the Hong Kong Sociological Association (2016-18) and has been past chairperson and long-time active member of the Association for the Advancement of Feminism. She holds concurrent positions as Associate Dean (Social Sciences, Undergraduate Studies) and Warden of one of the ten student hostels at Lingnan.
Research Interest
Sexuality studies,Gender studies,Domestic work,Hong Kong culture
Publications
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“Si-nais Talking Dirty: Hong Kong Middle Class Working Mothers On- and Off-line†2013, Sexualities, Vol. 16(1/2):61-77
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“Women Police Officers in Hong Kong: Femininity and Policing in a Gendered Organizationâ€, (with Lawrence Ho) Journal of Comparative Asian Development, 2013, Vol. 12(3):489-515.
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“Love in the time of ‘settling’: Forbidden knowledge and modern singles adviceâ€, (with Julian Groves), Journal of Sociology, OnlineFirst 1 August 2017
