Prof. TANG Tse Shang Denise 鄧芝珊
Professor, Head of Department
Location: Room 119, Ho Sin Hang Building 何善衡樓119室
Phone: (852) 2616 7468
Fax: (852) 2572 5170
Email: [email protected]
Areas of Interest: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Postcolonialism and Decolonization, LGBTIQA+, Transnational Feminism, Digital Intimacy, Queer Histories and Archives
Denise Tse-Shang Tang is an interdisciplinary ethnographer specializing in gender and sexualities with specific focus on lesbian and same-sex desires, transgender and masculinities in an inter-Asian context. Her research interests include colonialism and postcolonialism, decolonization and everyday life, LGBTIQA+ identities and space, inter-Asia queer archives, transnational feminism. Her current book project is on same-sex love and intimacies among older lesbians and bisexual women in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. Present ethnographic focus is on workplace experiences of trans men in Thailand and Hong Kong. Tang is the Co-Producer of the 2024 award-winning film All Shall Be Well 從今以後, which contributes to policy debates in legal recognition of same-sex relationships in Hong Kong. Tang is the recipient of 2023 Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme (Hong Kong) and the Hunt-Simes Visiting Chair of Sexuality Studies at the University of Sydney.
Prior to entering academia, Tang was program manager, California state-certified HIV testing counsellor and treatment advocate for communities including Asian & Pacific Islander LGBTQ, survivors of sexual violence, First Nations women, queer youth and incarcerated Asian youth in San Francisco, Seattle and Vancouver B.C. She continues to provide leadership training workshops and collaborate with community organizations, film festivals and literary events concerned with marginalized groups and issues of intersectionality.
PhD in Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
MA in Educational Studies, The University of British Columbia
BA in Women’s Studies, The University of British Columbia
鄧芝珊, & 伍詠欣 (2024). 同聲同氣：香港年長女同志口述史. 手民出版社 Link
CHUNG, M. Y., & TANG, D. T.-S. (2023). Digital Intimacy in China. In P. AGGLETON, R. COVER, C. H. LOGIE, C. E. NEWMAN, & R. PARKER (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Rights: Second Edition (2nd ed., pp. 174-182). Routledge. Link
Tang, DTS. Everyday Erotics: Ethnographies of Older Lesbians and Bisexual Women in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. (under contract
with Duke University Press)
Tang, DTS. (2023) Tracing Dystopian Insta-Emotions Among Hong Kong
Trans Men. International Journal of Communication. Link
Tang, DTS. (2022) The T Needle. In: Beyes, T., Holt, R., Steinbrügge, B. & Denny, S., (eds) Proof of Stake: Technological Claims. Mailand: Mousse Publishing. A publication for collaborative group exhibit Proof of Stake – Technological Claims with the Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Museum am Rothenbaum. Kulturen und Künste der Welt and University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HFBK).
Pang, B., Tang, D.T.S. & Law, S.F. (2022) Trans*, female bodybuilding and racial equality: narratives from a Hong Kong Chinese gender-fluid bodybuilder. Sport, Education and Society.. Link
Tang, S and Tang, DTS. (2021) Not Man Enough! Masculinity-in-crisis in fieldwork. Journal of Gender Studies. Link
Tang, DTS. (2021) Knowledge Production at a Critical Moment: The Case of Hong Kong. Journal of Historical Sociology. Link
Tang, DTS. (2020) Everyday Erotics in Density: An Urban Ethnography of Older Lesbians and Bisexual Women in Hong Kong. Gender, Place and Culture. Link
Tang, DTS. (2020) Of Longing and Waiting: An inter-Asia theory of love and intimacy among older lesbians and bisexual women. Sexualities. (Online First) October 13, 2020. Link
Khor D, Tang DTS and Kamano S. (2020) Global Norms, State Regulations, and Local Activism Marriage Equality and Same-Sex Partnership, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity Rights in Japan and Hong Kong. In: Bosia MJ, McEvoy SM and Rahman M (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Global LGBT and Sexual Diversity Politics (pp.283-300). New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Tang, D.T.S., Khor, D. & Chen, Y.C. (2019) Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Partnership: A Comparative Study of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan. The Sociological Review. DOI: Link
Yan, K.C. & Tang, D.T.S. (2018) LGBT Youth in Schools: A case study of Hong Kong. In D. Marshall, M.L. Rasmussen and P. Aggleton (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook on Youth and Citizenship . London and New York: Routledge.
Tang, D.T.S. (2017). Feeling Alive: Voices of incarcerated youth in We Are Alive. Crime, Media and Culture. DOI: Link
Tang, D.T.S. (2017). All I get is an emoji: Dating on lesbian mobile phone app Butterfly. Media, Culture & Society. DOI: Link
Tang, D.T.S. (2017). Youth work in a changing society: A case study of Hong Kong youth service providers. Qualitative Social Work. DOI: 10.1177/1473325016680283
Tang, D.T.S. (2016). Essential labels? Gender identity politics on Hong Kong lesbian mobile phone application Butterfly. In L. Hjorth and O. Khoo (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of New Media in Asia (pp.263-274). London and New York: Routledge.
Tang, D.T.S. (2014). Perspectives on same-sex sexualities and self-harm amongst service providers and teachers in Hong Kong. Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 14(4), 444-456.
Tang, D.T.S. (2012) An Unruly Death: Queer Media in Hong Kong. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 18(4), 597-614.
Tang, D.T.S. (2012) Branding Satire, Being Alternative: Locating Queerness in the videos of Hong Kong Media Artist Yuen Pui-Man. Berliner China-Hefte, 40: 111-126.
Tang, D.T.S. (2011) Conditional Spaces: Hong Kong Lesbian Desires and Everyday Life. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
Mapping Links Between Trans and Non-Binary Experiences on Social Media and Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence among Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan Youth. (2026-2028)
Research Grants Council – General Research Fund, HKD 702,560
Not Just Another Guy: Transgender Men in the Workplace (2023-2024) Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme. Research Grants Council (RGC) Fund, HKD$493,500
Digital Intimacy, Young Women, and Social Transformation in Asia (亞洲的社會轉型與年輕女性的數位親密關係)
Research Grants Council – General Research Fund
(Co-Investigators: Tejaswini Niranjana, Ahmedabad University. Ritty Lukose, NYU Gallatin. Audrey Yue, National University of Singapore. Nitya Vasudevan, Azim Premji University. Holly Hou, South China Agricultural University. Bai Meijiadai, Liaoning University.)
HKD $ 854,040
Being Trans and Masculine: A Comparative Ethnography of Trans Men in Bangkok and Hong Kong (2020-2023)
Research Grants Council – General Research Fund, HKD$437,500
Same-Sex Partnership in Hong Kong and Japan: Where Family Studies Meets Queer Studies (2019-2022)
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Principal Investigators: Saori Kamano (National Institute of Population and Social Security Research), Diana Khor (Hosei University)
Collaborator: Denise Tang (Lingnan University)
Funding amount: ¥7,900,000 (approximately HKD$565,373)
Building Inclusive Workplaces for Lesbian and Bisexual Women in Hong Kong’s Financial Services Industry (2019/20)
Innovation and Impact Fund – Knowledge Transfer Programme, HKD$80,000
Now We Hear Them: A qualitative study of older lesbians in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan (2016-2019)
Research Grants Council – General Research Fund, HKD 304,426
A Comparative Study of Marriage Equality in Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan (2016/17)
Sumitomo Foundation Grant, JPY 700,000.
Hongkongers’ Taiwan Dream: Exploring Life Experiences of Hong Kong Immigrants Living in Taiwan (2016-2018)
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, USD 40,000
訪《從今以後》楊曜愷、鄧芝珊 因為一層樓，成就一個男人 Link
專訪《同聲同氣》：50年代生的「壞女人」們，人生比我們想像的更為流動寬闊 Link
年長女同志・專訪｜住院遭醫護誤當男病人 50 後女同志：同志都會老 社會應關注 Link
{女同志研究達人}鄧芝珊 《從今以後》的學者監製 女同電影盼社會同聲氣 Link
同志驕傲｜月年長女同志淡然回看人生：現在有個夾到的人一起生活，support each other多過想結婚
MCS對談節目的第一集 —— 對話鄧芝珊(Denise Tang) 教授 Link
The Cornell Contemporary China Initiative: Everyday Erotics: Older Chinese Lesbians February 21, 2022
Tang, D.T.S., Teng, S., Tan, C., Lam, B., & Yuan, C. (2021) Building Inclusive Workplaces for Lesbians and Bisexual Women in Hong Kong’s Financial Services Industry. Link
Past Festival Director & Curator for Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Guest Programmer for Women Make Waves Film Festival Taiwan and Speaker on Panels Organized by OUT Leadership Asia Summit 2021, 1a space, Mill6 Foundation, The Queer Imaging & Riting Kollective for Elders (Quirk-e), Community Business, Moody’s Analytics, Consulate General of Canada, Hong Kong Sex Cultural Festival, Po Leung Kuk (Victim Support Programme for Victims of Family Violence), Pink Dot.
I am available for postgraduate research supervision in the areas of gender and sexualities, digital platforms and dating apps, transnational feminism, film and media representations, inter-Asia cultural studies, and Hong Kong studies.