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HAN Yuchen WEBSITE
Working Experience:
From January 2016: Full-time Lecturer, General Education Division, School of Humanities and Social Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) (Associate Coordinator of General Education, August 2016-July 2017)
2015.1-2015.12: Full-time Visiting Instructor, Department of Sociology, University of Macau
2014.10-2015.1: Part-time Research Fellow, Faculty of Post-Disaster Reconstruction, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University-Schuan Universiity
2010.3-2010.8: Conference Associate Coordinator, China-Europa Forum, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong & Renmin University of China, Beijing, China & The Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation for Human Progress, Paris, France
2008.12-2009.5: Research Assistant, Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Teaching Courses:
GEC2002 Living Sociology; GED2003 Gender Matters; HSS1006 Introduction to Sociology; GEC3408 Philanthropy and Social Innovation
Professional Services:
Peer reviewer of the academic journals: American Behavioral Scientist (2022), Gender, Work and Organization (2021), Sextant (2020)，Social Inclusion (2019), China Journal of Social Work (2016),
Contemporary China’s social transformation, Globalization, Post/Modernity, Alternative Development, Gender Studies, Qualitative Inquiry, Pedagogy
Selected Publications:
Journal Articles
Han, Yuchen. 2021, The politics of kitchen work: Co-production of a retired man's “hegemonic masculinity” during the COVID-19 quarantine. Gender, Work and Organization. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12713, Online First. SSCI, Q1.
Han, Yuchen. 2020. Bargaining with patriarchy: returned dagongmei's (factory girls') gendered spaces in neoliberalizing China's hinterland, Gender, Place & Culture, DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2020.1825213, Online First. SSCI, Q1.
Shen, Y., Xu, Y. & Han, Y. 2011. Internship or labor abuse? Chinese Workers. 2011(1): 25-28. Beijing, China.
Liu, C. & Han, Y. 2010. New rural pension insurance system in China. China Journal of Social Work. 3(1): 83-87. Scopus.
Liu, Z. & Han, Y. 2009. Post-disaster reconstruction and social work development in the Chinese mainland. China Journal of Social Work. 2(3): 221-223. Scopus.
Book Chapters
HAN, Y., 2024. Practicing intersectional reflexivity in feminist ethnography: understanding migrant women’s lives on return to china’s hinterland. In Sage Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research. SAGE Publications, Ltd., https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529688535
Han, Y. 2012. Chapters of Introduction, 2, 5, Conclusion. In Pun Ngai, Lu Huilin, Shen Yuan & Guo Yuhua (eds). I Am in Foxconn. Intelligent Property Publishing House. Beijing, China. (In Chinese)
Han, Y. 2011. Chapters of Introduction, 5, Conclusion. In Pun Ngai, Lu Huilin, Shen Yuan & Guo Yuhua (eds). The Serial Jumps behind Foxconn’s Success. The Commercial Press. Hong Kong. (In Chinese)
Book Review
Han, Y. 2012. Book Review on Disaster Social Work: Practice and Reflections in China’s Case, China Journal of Social Work, 5(2):184-186, Routledge, UK. Scopus.
Selected Conference Presentations:
August 2020: Panel Organizer, Chair and Presenter, Panel of Creating Gendered Spaces: Women’s Choices, Strategies and Rationales in Contemporary China, Annual Conference of Association of Asian Studies, Kobe, Japan, Online.
December 2018: Negotiating Patrilocality: How Dagongmei Posit Themselves upon Return to Rural Homes? in 2018 Asia Conference of International Chinese Sociological Association, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.
December 2018: Educating Chinese Middle Class Youth on ‘Gender Matters’: A Feminist Anthropological Exploration, in the International Conference on Gender, Sexuality and Justice: Resilience in Uncertain Times, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
December 2018: Educating Middle Class Youth in a Chinese-Foreign Cooperative University on ‘Gender Matters’ in 2018 Institute on General Education cum Teacher and Student Conference, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
July 2018: The Transformative Gender Identities of Returnee Migrant Women: How would the Chinese Rural Nora Return Home? in the 13th International Conference on the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Granada University, Spain.
June 2016: Revisiting the methodological labyrinth of ethnography: A case study on the lived experience of the return migrant women in post-Mao China, in the 7th Annual International Summer School for Young Scholars on Contemporary China Studies, Nanjing University
June 2014: When Migrant Women Workers Return Home: Their Lived Experiences in the Fast-growing China’s Hinterland, in the 7th Conference of Global Studies, Shanghai, China
Invited Talks:
February, April. 2021: “女性主义的历史与今天”，“行走的好奇心——社会调研方法讲座”，大中华地区社会性别与公益教育研习营，见新社会创新教育，云讲座
Dec.2020: “Dagongmei, Transforming China and Qualitative Inquiry”, invited by Higher Education Research Center, Southern University of Science and Technology.
May, June, Sep. 2020: “行走的好奇心——社会调研方法讲座”，大中华地区社会创新与公益金融研习营，见新社会创新教育，云讲座
June 2017: “Reflective Journey on Qualitative Research Method”, invited by Social work department, Beijing Normal University (Zhuhai Campus), Zhuhai
June 2017: “Discovering Consumption in the Era of Globalization from a Feminist Perspective” Invited by Longgang Library, Shenzhen
Oct 2015: “When migrant factory women return home: their lived experiences in fast-growing China’s hinterland” invited by Luncheon Seminar Series, University of Macau, Macau
July 2014: “The Booming African Community Foundation” invited by Shenzhen Charity Association, Shenzhen
