Dr HUNG Po Wah, Eva (孔寶華博士)
BSocSc (HKU)
MPhil (HKU)
PhD (Australian National University)

Associate Professor
Programme Director of MSocSc-PPRG Programme
Director of Centre for Public Policy Research
Department of Social Science

Tel : (852) 3963 5389
Email :
evahung@hsu.edu.hk


Dr Hung received her PhD in East Asian Studies from the Australian National University. With a background training in Sociology, she is generally interested in issues on state-society relations in China and in particular the impacts on the everyday lived experience of the Chinese people. Her newest project looks at cross-border activities in the Pearl River Delta region, paying particular attention to the development and inner workings of a shadow economy. Her research papers have appeared in Journal of Gambling Studies, Social Indicators Research, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, and Modern China, among others.

Major DisciplinesTeaching AreasResearch InterestsCompetitive Research GrantsPublicationsSelected Conference Presentations
TopMajor Disciplines
  • Sociology, China Studies

TopTeaching Areas
  • Chinese Society, Chinese Politics, Civil Society, Labor Studies, Qualitative Research Methods

TopResearch Interests
  • State-Society Relations in China, Contentious Politics, Trust and Risk, Cross-border Exchanges and Shadow Economy

TopCompetitive Research Grants
  • 2016 – 2017. Principal Investigator. Shadow Silk Road: Non-state Flow of Commodity, Capital, and People Across Eurasia. Inter-Institutional Development Scheme, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong (UCG/IIDS14/H01/16). Award: HK$433,650
  • 2014 – 2017. Principal Investigator. Cross-border Exchanges and Shadow Economy in the Pearl River Delta Region. Faculty Development Scheme, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong (UGC/FDS12(14)/H02/14). Award: HK$903,233

TopPublications

Selected Journal Articles

  • Zheng, V. and Hung, E. P. W. (2012), “Evaluating the Economic Impact of Casino Liberalization in Macao.” Journal of Gambling Studies 28: 541-559.
  • Wang, H. and Hung, E. P. W. (2012), “Associational Involvement and Political Participation in Macau: A Path Analysis.” Issues and Studies 48(1): 191-212.
  • Tong, K. K., Hung, E. P. W., and Yuen, S. M. (2011), “The Quality of Social Networks: Its Determinants and Impacts on Helping and Volunteering in Macao.” Social Indicators Research 102(2): 351-361.
  • Hung, E. P. W. (2009), “The Development of the Quality of Life in Macau” (澳門居民生活素質的提升與發展). Journal of Macau Studies (澳門研究) 55: 12-14.
  • Chiu, S. W. K. and Hung, E. P. W. (2004), “Good Governance or Muddling Through? Layoffs and Employment Reform in Socialist China.” Communist and Post-Communist Studies 37: 395-411.
  • Hung, E. P. W. and Chiu, S. W. K. (2003), “The Lost Generation: Life Course Dynamics and Xiagang in China.” Modern China 29(2): 204-236.

 

Selected Academic Book Chapters

  • Hung, E. P. W. and Yeh, K. H. (2014), “The Development of Civic Associations and Civil Society” (社團與公民社會的發展). In Fanny M. Cheung et al. (eds.), Constructing the Future of Macao (構建澳門未來), pp. 45-60. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
  • Choi, A. H. and Hung, E. P. W. (2011), “From Workfare to Cash for All: The Politics of Welfare Reform in Macau.” In Chak Kwan Chan and Kinglun Ngok (eds.), Welfare Reform in East Asia: Towards Workfare?, pp. 60-77. London: Routledge.
  • Choi, A. H. and Hung, E. P. W. (2011), “Labour Regulation in the Liberalised Casino Economy: The Case of the Croupiers.”  In Newman M. K. Lam and Ian Scott (eds.), Gaming, Governance and Public Policy in Macao, pp. 145-161. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
  • Hung, E. P. W. (2011), “Guanxi Networks and Social Resources of the Macau Residents” (關係網絡與社會資源). In Fanny M. Cheung et al. (eds.), The New Face of Macao SAR: Ten Years of Development and Changes (澳門特區新貎:十年發展與變化), pp. 165-197. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
  • Chan, S. U. W., Hung, E. P. W., and Tang, A. O. K. (2011), “The Changing Structure of the Mainland New Migrants in Macau” (內地新移民人口的結構轉型). In Fanny M. Cheung et al. (eds.), The New Face of Macao SAR: Ten Years of Development and Changes (澳門特區新貎:十年發展與變化), pp. 45-67. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
  • Hung, E. P. W. and Zheng, Victor W. T. (2011), “On the Quality of Life in Macau” (論澳門居民的綜合生活素質). In Yufan Hao and Wu Zhiliang (eds.), Annual Report on Economy and Society of Macau 2010-2011 (澳門經濟社會發展報告 2010- 2011), pp. 273-295. Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press.
  • Hung, E. P. W. and Chiu, S. W. K. (2009), “Voices of Xiagang: Naming, Blaming, and Framing.” In Thomas B. Gold et al. (eds.), Laid-Off Workers in a Workers’ State: Unemployment With Chinese Characteristics, pp. 95-114. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Hung, E. P. W. (2009), “Social Capital” (社會資本). In Ka-ying Wong et al. (eds.), The New Face of Macau: Achievements and Challenges (澳門社會新貎:成就與挑戰), pp. 55-92. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

 

TopSelected Conference Presentations
  • Hung, E. P. W. and Ngo, T. W. (2015), “Parallel Trading in the Pearl River Delta Region.” Paper presented at the International Workshop on “Cross-border Exchanges and the Shadow Economy,” International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden, December 14-15.
  • Hung, Eva P. W. and Choi, Alex H. (2012), “From Societal to State Corporatism: The Making of the ‘Uncivil’ Society in Macau.” Paper presented at the conference on “The Dynamics of Civil Society Coalitions in Asia,” Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong, February 10-11.
  • Hung, Eva P. W. and Lam, Wai-man (2010), “Regime Stability: Enterprises as the Locus of Blame.” Invited conference presentation at the International Conference of “China in Transition: Economic Reform and Social Change,” Institute of China Studies, University of Malaya, July 21-22.
  • Hung, Eva P. W. (2010), “Politics Still in Command: The Development of Under-development in Northeastern China.” Invited seminar presentation at the Institute of Sociology, National University of Sun Yat-sen, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, May 31.
  • Choi, Alex H. and Hung, Eva P. W. (2010), “Labour Regulation in the Liberalised Casino Economy: The Case of the Croupiers.” Paper presented at the workshop on “Macao’s Casino Capitalism: Gaming, Governance and Public Policy,” Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Australia, June 17.