CHOI Susanne Yuk-ping

Susanne Choi Yuk Ping (D.Phil. in Sociology, Nuffield College, University of Oxford), is Professor at the Department of Sociology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She was a Fulbright scholar at Harvard University in 2013. Her current research interests include migration, gender, family, sexuality, and service work. She has written extensively on issues such as migrant labour, cross-border marriages, spousal violence, health issues and violence against female sex workers, and domestic division of labour in Chinese societies. Her lead–authored book Masculine Compromise (published by University of California Press) explores how men’s rural to urban migration shapes gender and family dynamics in post-socialist China. In addition to her research, as a leading expert on gender and family issues in Chinese societies, Susanne has given interviews to local and international media including Mingpao, South China Morning Post, RTHK Radio, China News Service, China Radio International, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and the BBC. She has served as an appointed member of the HKSAR Equal Opportunities Commission since 2015.

2016  Choi, S.Y.P. & Y.Peng. Masculine Compromise: Migration, Family and Gender in China. University of California Press. (Recipient of the International Sociological Association RC31 2018 Best Book Award)