Dr. Cheris Shun-Ching Chan

Department of Sociology

The University of Hong Kong, China

Associate Professor

Email: cherisch@hku.hk

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. 2012. Marketing Death: Culture and the Making of a Life Insurance Market in China. New York: Oxford University Press.
2. 2012. “Culture, State, and Varieties of Capitalism: A Comparative Study of Life Insurance Markets in Hong Kong and Taiwan.” British Journal of Sociology 63(1):97-122.
3. 2011. “Divorcing Localization from the Divergent Paradigm: Localization of Chinese Life Insurance Practice and Its Implications.” International Sociology 26(3):346-63.
4. 2009. “Invigorating the Content in Social Embeddedness: An Ethnography of Life Insurance Transactions in China.” American Journal of Sociology 115(3):712-54.
   * Winner of the Research Output Prize for the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong’s Outstanding Researcher Awards Scheme, 2009-2010.
   * Honorable Mention for Viviana Zelizer Distinguished Scholarship Award, American Sociology Association’s Section on Economic Sociology, 2011.
5. 2009. “Creating a Market in the Presence of Cultural Resistance: The Case of Life Insurance in China.” Theory and Society 38(3):271-305.
   * Winner of the Best Scholarly Publication by an International Scholar Award, American Sociology Association’s Section on Global and Transnational Sociology, 2011.
   * Co-Winner of the Best Scholarly Article Award, American Sociology Association’s Section on Global and Transnational Sociology, 2011.
6. 2009. “Employee’s Health Insurance.” Encyclopedia of Modern China, vol.1. MI: Gale Cengage Learning. Pp. 509-511.
7. 2009. “Sociological Theory and China.” The Newsletter of the Research Committee on Sociological Theory, International Sociological Association, Autumn/Winter issue (co-authored with Zelin Yao).
8. 2007 “Honing the Desired Attitude: Ideological Work on Insurance Sales Agents.” Pp.229-46 in Ching Kwan Lee (ed.) Working In China: Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation. London: Routledge Curzon, 2007.
9. 2006 “Insurance,” in Roland Robertson and Jan Aart Scholte (eds) Encyclopedia of Globalization. New York: Routledge.
10. 2005 “Scientology.” Pp.825-826 in The Fifties in America. CA: Salem Press, 2005.
11. 2004 “The Falun Gong in China: A Sociological Perspective.” The China Quarterly, 179 (September):665-683.
12. 2002. “July 22, 1999 – China Detains Thousands in Falun Gong, a Religious Group.” Pp.3058-3060 in The Great Events in the Twentieth Century, vol.8. CA: Salem Press.
13. 2002. “Hong Kong in Reenchantment: A Case Study of New Religious Discourse.” Pp.468-515 in Shun-hing Chan (ed.) A Carnival of Gods: Studies of Religions in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press. In Chinese.
14. 2001. “Reenchantment of the Workplace: The Interplay of Religiosity and Rationality.” Berkeley Journal of Sociology 45:42-70.
15. 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.
16. 1999. “The Dynamical Relation between the New Religious Order and the Modern Capitalist Society: A Case Study in Hong Kong.” Asian Profile, 27(2): 107-124.
17. 1999. “Cults in the Sixties.” Pp.204-207 in The Sixties in America. CA: Salem Press.
18. 1998. “New Age Movement.” Pp.2161-2162 in the Encyclopedia of Multiculturalism, Supplement. CA: Marshall Cavendish Corp.
19. 1998. “International Society for Krishna Consciousness.” Pp.2081-2082 in Encyclopedia of Multiculturalism, Supplement. CA: Marshall Cavendish Corp.
20. 1996. “Hong Kong in Reenchantment: A Case Study of New Religious Discourse.” Occasional Paper series #52. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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