Dr. TSANG, Chung-Kin 曾仲堅博士
Dr. TSANG, Chung-Kin 曾仲堅博士
Assistant Professor
Associate Head
Associate Programme Director, BSSc (Hons) in Arts, Culture and Technology
Contact
Office: Room LC845, Library Complex, Hong Kong Shue Yan University,
12 Wai Tsui Crescent, Braemar Hill, North Point, Hong Kong.
Phone: 2806-5111
Email: soccktsang@hksyu.edu
Academic and Professional Qualification
Ph.D. Communication, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.Phil. Sociology, The University of Hong Kong
B.A. Cultural Studies, Lingnan University
Specialism and Research Interests
Cultural Sociology
Cultural Studies
Economic Culture
Housing Studies
Urban Studies
Digital Culture
Popular Culture and Media Studies
Courses
Courses offered in 2024-2025
SOC208 Hong Kong Society and Culture
SOC312 Popular Culture in Asia
SOC415 Film, Television and Society
GEA105 The Making of Hong Kong Chinese Culture
Courses offered in previous years
SOC333 Urban Sociology
SOC341 Sociology of Development
GEB207 Hong Kong Popular Culture
Selected Publications
Monograph
Tsang, C. K. (2021) Homeownership in Hong Kong: House Buying as Hope Mechanism. London & New York: Routledge.
Book Chapters
Tsang, C. K. (2025) "'Where is the Culture?' – Conjunctural Shift and Radical Contextualism in Hong Kong’s Culture of Homeownership", Davis, A., Erni, J., Hardin, C., Rodman, G. & Slack, J. (eds.) Better Stories: Mapping Cultural Studies with Lawrence Grossberg. Imbricate! Press.
Tsang, C. K. (2023) "Franklin Wong’s Below the Lion Rock Television Series: Community, State and Public/Private Space in 1970s Hong Kong Public Housing". in Palmer, L. (ed.) Home Screens: Public Housing in Global Film & Television. London: Bloomsbury.
Refereed Journal Articles
Lau, Bobo Hi-Po, Eric Ngai-Yin Shum, Alex Pak-Ki Kwok, Ben Chi-Pun Liu, Alex Chi-Keung Chan, Rick Yiu-Cho Kwan, Steve Fu-Fai Fong, Gigi Lam, Chung-Kin Tsang, Daniel Dick-Man Leung, Johnson Chun-Sing Cheung, Jason Tak-Sang Chow, Paulina Pui-Yun Wong, and Stuart Gietel-Basten. (2025). "Revealing the nuances of 'Grey Digital Divide' in Hong Kong: A latent profile analysis". PLoS One 20(7): e0326413. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0326413
Tang, G. K. Y., F. L. F. Lee & Tsang, C. K. (2022) "The construction of investor-subjects in a housing-led growth society: the case of Hong Kong", The Social Science Journal, Pp. 1–18., https://doi.org/10.1080/03623319.2022.2066879
E-Journal Articles
Tsang, C. K. (2023) "Outlining the Hope Mechanism: the case of Hong Kong's culture of homeownership", Critical Asia Archives: Events and Theories. Issue: June 2023.
Tsang, C. K. (2018) “Homeownership in Hong Kong: Historical Formation and Political Effect”, Global-E. Volume 11, Issue 20.
Conference Papers
Lau, Bobo Hi-po, Eric Ngai Yin Shum, Fan Yin-Fong Lui, Gigi Lam, Alex Pak-Ki Kwok, and Chung-Kin Tsang. (2023). "Admiration, skepticism, indecisiveness? Attitudes toward AI in Chinese middle-aged and older adults". Innovation in Aging, Volume 7, Issue Supplement_1, 1176.
Lau, Bobo Hi-po, Eric Ngai Yin Shum, Fan Yin-Fong Lui, Gigi Lam, Alex Pak-Ki Kwok, and Chung-Kin Tsang. (2023). "Where is the digital divide? Intra-generational divide on app usage in post-pandemic Hong Kong". Innovation in Aging, Volume 7, Issue Supplement_1, 1152
Academic Books in Chinese
Tsang, C. K. (eds.) (2025) Hong Kong, Culture, Exploration. Hong Kong: Infolink. (Co-edited with Tang, K.Y. Gary & Li, C. K. Joseph) (in Chinese - 《香港．文化．探索》與鄧鍵一、 李祖喬合編)
Tsang, C. K. (eds.) (2021) Hong Kong Paradigm Shift. Hong Kong: Infolink. (Co-edited with Cheung, S.K. & Tang, K.Y. Gary) (in Chinese - 《香港．格局．變異》與張少強、鄧鍵一合編)
Tsang, C. K. (eds.) (2012) The Hong Kong Popular: reading Hong Kong popular culture 2000 – 2010, Hong Kong: CUHK – HKIAPS. (Co-edited with Ng, C. H. & Cheung, Charles C. W.) (in Chinese - 《普普香港：閱讀香港普及文化2000-2010》與吳俊雄、張志偉合編)
2023-2024
Chinese Heritage Research Grant (CHRG), HKSYU
Project title: Financialization must be “tamed” - Chinese Values and Financialization in Hong Kong TV Heritage (1970s-2000s) (CHRG/22/07)
2023-2025
Institutional Development Scheme Collaborative Research Grant, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong
Project title: Mapping the grey digital divide and diversity in older ICT users post-COVID: A mixed-method research informing service and policy development (Project No. UGC/IDS(C)15/H01/22)
Amount funded: HK$ 4,388,777
As Co-principal Investigator
2021-2023
Institutional Development Scheme Collaborative Research Grant, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong
Project title: Preparing for the launching of Esports: An interdisciplinary and holistic perspective in prevention of teenage gaming addiction problem based on Bronfenbrenner's Bioecological model in the era of Esports (Project No. UGC/IDS(C)15/M01/20)
Amount funded: HK$ 4,260,824
Academic Services
Treasurer, Hong Kong Sociological Association (2021-2025)
Associate Editor, SN Social Sciences. Springer Nature.
Knowledge Transfer
Selected Episodes - Media Studies and Popular Culture
Transformation of Film Industry in Hong Kong
30/06/2021 從港產片到香港電影
https://www.rthk.hk/tv/dtt31/programme/socialsciencenight2021/episode/755193
Celebrity Studies
16/06/2021 時代造星
https://www.rthk.hk/tv/dtt31/programme/socialsciencenight2021/episode/752192
Hong Kong Popular Culture
01/05/2019 今期流行
https://www.rthk.hk/tv/dtt31/programme/socialsciencenight2019/episode/565155
Selected Episodes - Hong Kong Culture and Society
Work Culture
05/08/2021 好鍾意返工
https://www.rthk.hk/tv/dtt31/programme/socialsciencenight2021/episode/760490
Public Housing, Part 2
09/09/2020 窮到住公屋？
https://www.rthk.hk/tv/dtt31/programme/socialsciencenight2020/episode/702593
Public Housing, Part 1
02/09/2020 我要上樓
https://www.rthk.hk/tv/dtt31/programme/socialsciencenight2020/episode/701687
04/09/2019 我要有樓！
https://www.rthk.hk/tv/dtt31/programme/socialsciencenight2019/episode/585291
10/04/2019 重遇本土意識
https://www.rthk.hk/tv/dtt31/programme/socialsciencenight2019/episode/560235