Jui-shan Chang Phone: 8344 5933 Email: juisc@unimelb.edu.au Office: John Medley Building Room 435
Background
I grew up in Taiwan and received my BA and MA in sociology from National Taiwan University. After that, I was an executive producer for a TV current affairs program in Taiwan. I then studied at the University of Michigan where I received my PhD in sociology. Before joining in University of Melbourne in July 1997, I had taught and carried out research at University of Michigan, East-West Center (in Hawaii), University of Iowa and University of Tasmania. My core interests are studying social trends and issues from a comparative perspective - historically, cross-culturally, cross-nationally and globally. I am interested in integrating both quantitative and qualitative approaches to study such trends and issues. My research publications have dealt with the life course, manhood/womanhood, marriage, family and sexuality in diverse cultures. I have also developed a notion called 'Trans-cultural Wisdom Bank' in my pedagogy to make cultural diversity and comparative perspective as key resources in teaching and learning. Currently I have two projects. One is 'Sex as Meal versus Sex as Game? -- East West Contrast'. The other is 'When the Local Meets the Global: The Perceptions and Strategies of Intelligentsia in Modulating Cultural Changes in Contemporary China, Hong Kong and Taiwan'. I am a regular contributor in media as well as enjoy creative writing.
Research and Supervision
East West sexuality Meanings of love, sex, marriage and families Marriage arrangements and divorce management Men's studies and women's studies Life course transitions: teenage, middle age and elderly Trans-cultural "Wisdom Bank" regarding life course World religions and capitalist activity Globalism and localism Multi-culturalism and identity Secularisation and modern religions Cultural modulators and intelligentsia Social trends in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China
Subjects Taught
1st year: Globalisation, Self and Society 1st year: Trans-cultural Explorations of Everyday Life 1st year: Doing Sociology 2nd/3rd year: Love, Family and Sexuality: A Comparative Perspective 2nd/3rd year: Quantitative Social Research 2nd/3rd year: Introductory Statistical Analysis for Social Sciences
Recent Publications
Book Chapters Chang, Jui-shan. 2000. “Familial Values, Gender Politics and Meanings of Infidelity: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Extra-Marital Affairs.” Chapter 4 of Section 2 in Miller, R. and S. Browning (eds.) With This Ring: Divorce, Intimacy, and Cohabitation From a Multi-Cultural Perspective. JAI Press. Pp. 185-218. Chang, Jui-shan with Fricke, T. and L. S. Yang. 1994. "Historical and ethnographic Perspectives on the Chinese Family." Chapter 2 in Thornton, A. and H. S. Lin (eds) Social Change and the Family in Taiwan. University of Chicago Press. pp. 22-48. Chang, Jui-shan with Thornton, A., T. Fricke and L. S. Yang. 1994. "Theoretical Mechanisms of Family Change" Chapter 4 in Social Change and the Family in Taiwan. University of Chicago Press. pp. 88-115. Chang, Jui-shan with Thornton, A. and H. S. Lin. 1994. "From Arranged Marriage Toward Love Match." Chapter 6 in Social Change and the Family in Taiwan. University of Chicago Press. pp. 178-201. Chang, Jui-shan with Thornton, A. and L. S. Yang. 1994. "Determinants of Historical Changes in Marital Arrangements, Dating, and Premarital Sexual Intimacy and Pregnancy." Chapter 7 in Social Change and the Family in Taiwan. University of Chicago Press. pp. 225-244. Chang, Jui-shan with Thornton, A., H. S. Lin, and L. S.Yang.1994. "Determinants of Historical Changes in Marital Timing." Chapter 9 in Social Change and the Family in Taiwan. University of Chicago Press. pp. 225-244. Journal Articles Chang, Jui-shan. 2004. "Refashioning Womanhood in 1990s’ Taiwan: An Analysis of Taiwanese Edition of Cosmopolitan Magazine.” Modern China (30)3: 361-397. Chang, Jui-shan. 2003. Book review on "Private Life Under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village 1949-1999." (Authored by Yunxiang Yan. California: Stanford University Press, 2003) American Journal of Sociology 109(3): 783-784. Chang, Jui-shan. 2003. “Encumbered Womanhood.” The Drawing Board: An Australian Review of Public Affairs, 21 May. Chang, Jui-shan. 2000. “Agony-Resolution Pathways: How American Men are Perceived by Women in the Agony Column of Cosmopolitan.” Journal of Men’s Studies 8(3): 285-308. Chang, Jui-shan. 1999. “Do We Need ‘Kinsey Reports’ in Chinese Societies?— An Alternative Paradigm to Study Chinese Sexuality.” Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 31 (Spring issue): 40-42. Chang, Jui-shan. 1999. “Scripting Extra-Marital Affairs: Marital Mores, Gender Politics and Infidelity in Taiwan” Modern China 25(1): 69–99. Chang, Jui-shan, Tsang, A, Lui, P. K. and R. S. Lin. 1997. "Premarital Sexual Mores in Taiwan and Hong Kong: Two Pathways to Permissiveness." Journal of Asian and African Studies Volume 32(3/4): 265-285. Chang, Jui-shan, 1996. "Negotiating Sexual Permissiveness in a Contemporary Chinese Setting: Young People in Taipei." International Journal of Sociology of the Family. 26 (1): 13–36. Chang, Jui-shan, 1996. "What Do Education and Work Mean? --Education, Non familial Work/Living Experiences and Premarital Sex for Women in Taiwan." Journal of Comparative Family Studies XXVII(1): 13–40. Chang, Jui-shan, 1994. "Change and Persistence: Autonomy of Dating, Engagement and Premarital Sex among Women in Taiwan." Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology 30 (2): 132-148. Chang, Jui-shan, 1994. Book review on "Social Research" authored by S. Sarantakos. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology 30 (2): 211–212.