Lecturer
CAROL TSANG
BA, MPhil, PhD HKU
 | Office: 10.52, Run Run Shaw Tower |
 | cctsang1@hku.hk |
 | http://hku-hk.academia.edu/CarolTsang |
Dr. Carol Tsang is a historian of gender and reproductive health in Hong Kong. She coordinates and teaches courses on gender studies, motherhood, and family. She was the recipient of the HKU Arts Faculty Teaching Excellence Awards (2017-2018).
RESEARCH
Dr. Carol Tsang is a historian of gender and reproductive health in Hong Kong. She coordinates and teaches courses on gender studies, motherhood, and family. She was the recipient of the HKU Arts Faculty Teaching Excellence Awards (2017-2018).
Research Interests
- Hong Kong
- East Asia
- Gender and women’s studies
- Family studies
- Reproductive politics and technologies
- Public health campaigns
- Drug regulation
PUBLICATIONS
Articles
“‘Two Is Enough’: Class, Gender and the Nuclear Family Ideal in Cold War Hong Kong.” Cold War History, 2025, 1–18. https://doi-org.eproxy.lib.hku.hk/10.1080/14682745.2025.2515364
“Historical and Cultural Legacy of Post-One Child Policy: Is China Ready to Embrace Planned Oocyte Cryopreservation?” World Medical & Health Policy, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1002/wmh3.70021 (co-authored with Olivia M.Y. Ngan and Shizuko Takahashi).
“Knowing Chinese Women: Richard Tottenham and Colonial Medicine in Interwar Hong Kong,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Hong Kong Branch 53 (2014): 167-81.
“Searching for an Identity: Debates over Moral and National Education as an Independent Subject in Contemporary Hong Kong,” International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research 11.2 (Spring 2013): 88-97 (co-authored withZardas Shuk-man Lee and Phoebe Y.H. Tang).
“British History in Contemporary Hong Kong,” Twentieth Century British History 23.4 (2012): 563-74 (co-authored with Mark Hampton).
“Empire State of Mind: Articulations of British Culture in the Empire, 1707-1997,” in The British Scholar Society Newsletter, November 2011 (co-authored with Penelope Ching-yee Pang and Zou Yizheng)
Book chapters
“Gender and Family,” in Florence Mok and Charles Fung, eds., A New Documentary History of Hong Kong (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2025).
With Zardas Shuk-man Lee and Phoebe Y. H. Tang, “Searching for an Identity: Debates over Moral and National Education as an Independent Subject in Contemporary Hong Kong,” reprinted in Identity, Trauma and Controversial Issues in History (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015), 25-39.
“Hong Kong’s Floating World: Crime and Disease at the Edge of Empire,” in Robert Peckham, ed., Disease and Crime: A History of Social Pathologies and the New Politics of Health (New York: Routledge, 2013), 21-39.
Interview
“Birthing in Hong Kong,” in Making Babies: How Science, Politics and Social Change Affect Human Reproduction, HKU Bulletin 20.2 (May 2019), 5-6.
Knowledge Exchange and Outreach
Speaker of Women of Influence on the International Women’s Day, American Chamber of Commerce, Regent Hong Kong, 8 March 2024.
Speaker of Tai Kwun Conversations on the exhibition “Gender and Space,” Tai Kwun Hong Kong, 28 November 2022.
Hosting secondary school delegations in CCCH5054, CCCH9067, CCHU5088, and CCHU9043. Past participants include Sing Yin Secondary School (2025-), Tsuen Wan Public Ho Chuen Yiu Memorial College (2024-), The ELCHK Yuen Long Lutheran Secondary School (2021-2023), Christian and Missionary Alliance Sun Kei Secondary School (2021), St. Stephen’s College (2019), Cheung Sha Wan Catholic Secondary School (2018), and Leung Shek Chee College (2017).
