Reconstruction Vol. 15, No. 2

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Contributors

Man-chung Chiu graduated from the Hong Kong University with a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) degree, three Masters of Laws degrees from the People's University of China, the City University of Hong Kong and the University of Strathclyde respectively, also a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Warwick. He previously worked in the Law School of City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Equal Opportunities Commission, the Department of Business and Law of Charles Darwin University (Australia) and the School of Law of James Cook University (Australia). Chiu was appointed as Associate Professor in Law at Hong Kong Shue Yan University in 2007 and became the Head of the Law and Business Department in 2012. Apart from his academic interest in Jurisprudence, Family Law and Gender / Sexuality and Law, Chiu devotes his precious time to public service in both Hong Kong and Mainland China. In 2013, he was appointed as a Member of the Advisory Group on Eliminating Discrimination against Sexual Minorities and a Director of the China Law Society. [article] [introduction]

Man-kit Cho is a lecturer at the Gender Studies Programme of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In addition to being a scholar, he has been at the forefront of the LGBTQ movement for over a decade, endeavoring to keep the dialogue between academic research and social activism alive. His research interest is about sexual modernity and LGBTQ advocacy. Currently, CHO is the executive co-director of Nu Tong Xue She (aka Queer Thoughts and Actions), one of the most active LGBTQ groups in Hong Kong. [article]

Eden Grey (Miami, FL USA) has been composing and producing a diverse range of electronic music for several years. Her albums include E=Orange, Reciprocal Sex Soul, Tree Branches, Matter, and Red Planet of Spring. Originally trained as a classical pianist, she is an electronic composer with many influences, namely German and British styles, thus her music is a melodic mixture of multiple electronic genres, an experimental mix influenced by electro, dub, dnb, techno, ambient and hip-hop. Her music took a major shift towards the collage-based methods of the historical avant-garde while earning her Masters' degree in music technology and after she built her modular synthesizer. Grey is also a poet (work published previously in the "Avant-Garde as Critical Practice" issue of Reconstruction), multimedia artist, and gender modulator extraordinaire. She is now based in London and on the music composition PhD course at Royal Holloway, University of London. [art]

Ya-fei Hsu is Professor of Public Policy at Nan Hua University, where she teaches courses on social policy and gender/sexuality politics. She has published several articles on the regulation of prostitution in Taiwan, including Norms for gender/sexuality and hate crime: the policy regulation of sex work’ (in Chinese) in Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies (2007) and ‘Sterilizing Society: Social Order and Policing Sex Work in Taiwan’ (in English) in Inter-Asia cultural Studies (2013). Currently, she is one of the executive editors of Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, an important Chinese academic journal, and turning to a new research project on the relationship between scientific knowledge and gender/sexual politics. [article]

Ying-ying Huang is associate professor of Sociology Department, executive director of Institute of Sexuality and Gender, Renmin University of China. Her research focuses on FSWs, male clients, women’s body and sexuality, social aspects of HIV/AIDS. She is the author of the book Body, Sexuality and Xinggan (sexiness): Study on Chinese Women’s Daily Lives, coauthor of The changes of sexuality in China: Chinese people’s sexual life in 21st century, and several publications on sex work in China since 1999. Dr. Huang is also one of the key sponsors of biannual international conference on Sexualities in China & National workshop on sexuality research in China, both of which started in 2007. [article]

Chui-ping Iris Kam is working as a Research Fellow at City University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include Critical Theory, Sexuality and Gender, Girl Studies, Popular Culture, Formation of Subjectivities and Critical Pedagogy. Her corresponding email address is iriskamcp@hotmail.com. [article]

George Radics is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore where he teaches Law and Society, Special Topics on Law and Justice, Sociology of Emotions, and Classical Sociological Theory. He received his PhD in Sociology from the National University of Singapore (2008), Juris Doctor with a concentration in Asian law from the University of Washington (2010), and Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Asian American Studies, summa cum laude, from UCLA (2002). After law school, George worked for the Supreme Court of Guam for two years. He is a member of the New York Bar. His articles have been published in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Santa Clara Journal of International Law, and the Philippine Sociological Review. His work involves the judicial system, notions of justice, human rights, minorities, and comparative legal studies. He can be reached at radics@nus.edu.sg. [article]

Jerry Xie earned his J.D. in Law and his M.A. in English from Syracuse University. He earned his Ph.D. in English (Modern Studies) from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. He was an attorney at law (presently inactive) in North Carolina until 2006 when he accepted a college-level teaching post in Nanjing, China. He is the editor of Legal Studies as Cultural Studies: A Reader in (Post)Modern Critical Theory, published in 1995, and more recently is the author of Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak (Of Shenhe), published in 2013. He has also taught at the college level in Mianyang, Sichuan, and he currently teaches in northwestern China. Aside from teaching, he is currently at work on Mo Yan Thought and other writings. [article]

Ya-fei Hsu [article]

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