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Zhongxin Sun
Sun Zhongxin (Cindy Sun) is an associate professor of Sociology at Fudan University, and research fellow for the Nordic Center, Human Rights Center, and the Center for Gender Studies of Fudan University. She graduated from East China Normal University in 1997 with a PhD in Sociology, and has been working at Fudan University ever since . Her broad research /teaching interests include: Women's/Gender Studies, Sexuality, Lesbian and Gay Studies, Feminist Research Methods, Urban Middle Class Culture , Youth Studies, Globalization, and Contemporary Chinese Society . In addition to her teaching duties at Fudan University, she has been co-teaching the internet based master's program, "Gender and the Globalization/Transformation Process" hosted by Lund University, Sweden since 2002. She offered the first LGBT course for undergraduate students at Fudan University in Fall 2005.
Sun Zhongxin was a guest professor at the Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies, Lund University, from Feb 2006 to June 2006.
Research Projects:
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Redefining Chinese Female Identity In the Workplace: Gender, Class
and Motherhood in Foreign Companies
This project explores the relationship between female white collar workers' gender identity and their working experiences in foreign companies in China. Since China adopted market reforms and their opening-up policy, more and more foreign companies have launched their businesses in China. At the same time, the social group of white collar workers, as part of the middle class in China, is emerging and attracting prominent attention from both the mass media and ordinary people. Among the white collar workers, women who are called "dragon ladies", "white collar beauties" and/or "successful women", have attracted even more attention. However, people know little about their real life. This project focuses on the women who are experiencing their initial motherhood (child aged from 0-3), with data collected via in-depth interviews, participant observations and focus group discussions, as well as a literature review, and tries to answer these questions: How do the foreign companies function to construct women's gender identity? How do those women handle their motherhood experiences/issues? -
Sexual Identity among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Shanghai
Chinese men who have sex with men have increasingly become more aware of various public discourses of homosexuality, and have created numerous public spaces in which they can make contact with other Chinese MSM. At the same time Chinese in general, as well as MSM themselves, increasingly have also become aware of models of openly tolerated "gay", "homosexual" or "tongzhi" identities popularized through the media, especially internet media. Therefore MSM in large Chinese cities now seem to have more possible models of sexual identification than in the past as well as a more tolerant atmosphere for revealing their sexual identities in various social contexts. This project uses in depth interviews with 30 men who have sex with men in Shanghai to discover how they construct and organize their social identities as MSM. We will examine (1) the terms men use to describe their sexual orientation, including the nuances that accrue to these terms, (2) stories of how men come to identify themselves as MSM, gay or tongzhi, including their assessment of their sexual orientation, and (3) their different patterns of revealing their sexual identities to different members of their social circles. In particular, we discuss some of the sociological factors that seem to influence self-revelation outside the gay circle. And we also discuss the consequences of these patterns of self revelation and concealment for these other types of social relations.
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