Biography

Dr. Cheris Shun-Ching Chan

Department of Sociology

The University of Hong Kong, China

Associate Professor


Email: [email protected]


Qualifications

1998-2004 Ph.D., Northwestern University, Sociology

1992-1994 M.Phil., The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sociology

1987-1990 B.S.W.,The University of Hong Kong


Publications (selected)

  1. Wei H, Chan CS. Working without Wages: Network Structure and Migrant Construction Workers’ Protests in China. The China Quarterly. 2022;252:1140-1161. doi:10.1017/S0305741022000807
  2. Chan, Cheris Shun-ching (2022) : Note from the editor: Economies of favor and informality in diversity, economic sociology. perspectives and conversations, ISSN 1871-3351, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG), Cologne, Vol. 23, Iss. 3, pp. 1-4
  3. Chan, Cheris Shun-ching (2022) : Note from the editor: Global markets and local cultures, economic sociology. perspectives and conversations, ISSN 1871-3351, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG), Cologne, Vol. 23, Iss. 2, pp. 1-4
  4. Chan, C. S., & Junker, A. (2021). Anti-Activism and Its Impact on Civil Society in Hong Kong: A Case Study of the Anti–Falun Gong Campaign. Modern China, 47(6), 765-794. https://doi.org/10.1177/0097700420942153
  5. Chan, Cheris Shun-ching (2021) : Note from the editor: Economic sociology in Asia – from modernization to embeddedness, economic sociology. perspectives and conversations, ISSN 1871-3351, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG), Cologne, Vol. 23, Iss. 1, pp. 1-4
  6. Chan, C.Sc., Yao, Z. A market of distrust: toward a cultural sociology of unofficial exchanges between patients and doctors in China. Theor Soc 47, 737–772 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-018-09332-2
  7. Chan CS-C. Mistrust of physicians in China: society, institution, and interaction as root causes. Developing World Bioeth. 2018; 18: 16–25. https://doi.org/10.1111/dewb.12162
  8. Cheris Shun-ching Chan (2018). For Life or Death. Asia Review, 7(2), 137-162. 10.24987/SNUACAR.2018.02.7.2.E.137
  9. Lau, KNT, Chan, CS, Tseng, CH, Chung, KF, Wing, YK, Lau, EYY (2017) Napping Reduces Attentional Biases for Negative Interpersonal Stimuli in Clinical Depression, The 14th World Sleep Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, 7-11 October 2017. In Sleep Medicine, 2017, v. 40 n. Suppl. 1, p. e179
  10. Chan, C. S. (2014). Paid to Party: Working Time and Emotion in Direct Home Sales. Contemporary Sociology, 43(5), 722-723. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094306114545742pp
  11. Chan, C. S. (2013). Doing Ideology Amid a Crisis: Collective Actions and Discourses of the Chinese Falun Gong Movement. Social Psychology Quarterly, 76(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1177/0190272512467653
  12. Chan, C.S.-c. (2012), Culture, state and varieties of capitalism: a comparative study of life insurance markets in Hong Kong and Taiwan1. The British Journal of Sociology, 63: 97-122. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2011.01395.x
  13. Chan, C. S. (2011). Divorcing localization from the divergence paradigm: Localization of Chinese life insurance practice and its implications. International Sociology, 26(3), 346-363. https://doi.org/10.1177/0268580910392261
  14. Chan, C.Sc. Creating a market in the presence of cultural resistance: the case of life insurance in China. Theor Soc 38, 271–305 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-008-9081-1
  15. Walton, S. P., Li, Z., & Chan, C. (2006). Biological network analyses: computational genomics and systems approaches. Molecular Simulation, 32(3–4), 203–209. https://doi.org/10.1080/08927020600647052
  16. Chan CS. The Falun Gong in China: A Sociological Perspective. The China Quarterly. 2004;179:665-683. doi:10.1017/S0305741004000530
  17. Leung, .L., Leung, .W., Chan, .K. et al. Ruptured adrenocortical carcinoma as a cause of paediatric acute abdomen. Ped Surgery Int 18, 730–732 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00383-002-0782-7
  18. Leung, L., Shu, S., Chan, M. et al. Chondroblastoma of the lumbar vertebra. Skeletal Radiol 30, 710–713 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002560100432
  19. Chan, C. S. (2001). Reenchantment of the Workplace: The Interplay of Religiosity and Rationality. Berkeley Journal of Sociology, 45, 42–70. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41035556
  20. Chan, C. S. C. (2000). The Sacred-Secular Dialectics of the Reenchanted Religious Order - The Lingsu Exo-Esoterics in Hong Kong. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 15(1), 45–63. https://doi.org/10.1080/135379000112134

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