Wai Keung Chung

Academic and Professional Qualification

• PhD in Sociology
  University of Washington, USA
• MA in Library and Information Science
  University of Washington, USA
• MA in Chinese Philosophy
  New Asia Institute of Advanced Chinese Studies, Hong Kong

Specialism and Research Interests

• Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship
• Economic Sociology
• Social Problems
• Urban Sociology
• China Studies

Courses

• SOC 107 Understanding Sociology
• SOC 233 Contemporary Social Issues
• SOC 305 Class Status and Power in Chinese Societies
• SOC 310 Social Enterprises in Asia
• SOC 321 Economic Sociology
• SOC 406 Social Innovation: A Tool for Social Change

Selected Publications

Chung, Wai-keung. 2015. “shehui zhili yu zhongguo shehuiggongzuo fazhang de qiji [社会治理与中国社会工作发展的契机 Social Governance and the Turning Point of the Development of Social work in China] 《南方论坛》，中山大学社会与社会工作系. (In Chinese)

Chung, Wai-keung. 2010. “The Sinification of Western Company Forms in Modern China: A Hybridization of Sinospheres and Anglospheres.” Pp. 273-302 in Tsaiman C. Ho and Louella Cheng (eds.) Economic Dynamism in the Sinospheres and Anglospheres: Identities, Integration and Competition. Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong Press.

Chung, Wai-keung and Gary G. Hamilton. 2009. “Getting Rich and Staying Connected: The Organizational Medium of Chinese Capitalists.” Journal of Contemporary China 18(58): 47-67.

Chung, Wai-keung. 2007. “Westernization of Business Organizations in Japan and China. Continuity and Change.” Pp. 239-260 in Japan and Asian Modernities, edited by Rein Raud. London, Kegan Paul.

Chung, Wai-keung. 2005. “Made in China or Made in Hong Kong. ‘National Goods’ and the Hong Kong Manufacturers.” Pp. 185-198 in Colonial Hong Kong in Modern China, edited by Lee Pui-tak. Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong Press.

Chung, Wai-keung. 2005. “Western Corporate Forms and the Social Origin of Chinese Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks.” Pp. 287-311 in Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks, edited by Ioanna Minoglou et al. Oxford, Berg Publisher.

Chung, Wai-keung and Gary G. Hamilton. 2001. “Social Logic as Business Logic. Guanxi, Trustworthiness and the Embeddedness of Chinese Business Practices.” Pp. 325-346 in Rules and Networks. The Legal Culture of Global Business Transactions, edited by Richard P. Appelbaum, William L.F. Felstiner and Volkmar Gessuer. Oxford, Hart Publishing.

Research Projects

• Institutionalization of Social Work in China
• Co-living and Community Development