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Linda Wong received her Bachelor of Social Science in Social Work and Sociology from University of Hong Kong, her Master in Public and Social Administration from Brunel University, and her Ph.D in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. She has worked as a social worker and social planner before taking up university teaching. She has taught in the Hong Kong Polytechnic before joining City University in 1985. In the Department, she serves as Subject Leader for China Studies and Chair of Research Committee. Her teaching and research interests span the fields of social welfare, comparative social policy and China studies. A long-standing researcher in social welfare and social development in China, she has completed empirical studies on social welfare reform, migrant workers, unemployment, non-state welfare service development, and comparative social policy between Shanghai and Hong Kong. In 2000, she was invited to serve as Senior Social Affairs Officer in the United Nations. Currently she serves in a number of editorial boards for social policy journals and is Guest Professor of Renmin University of China and East China Normal University.

 Recent publications

  • Wong L and Ngok K L,“Social Policy between Plan and Market:‘Xiagang’(Off-Duty Employment) and the Policy of the Re-employment Service Centres in China”, Social Policy and Administration, Vol.40, No. 2, April 2006, pp.158-173.
  • Wong L and Tang J, “Non-state Old Age Homes as Third Sector Organizations in China’s Transitional Welfare Economy”, Journal of Social Policy, Vol.35, April 2006, pp.229-246.
  • Wong L and Poon B, “From Serving Neighbors to Recontrolling Urban Society: the Transformation of China’s Community Policy”, China Information, Vol.19, No.3, 2005, pp.413-442.
  • Wong L, “Market Reform, Globalization and Social Justice in China”, Journal of Contemporary China, 2004, 13(38), 151-171.
  • Wong L., White L, and Gui S. X. (eds), Social Policy Reform in Hong Kong and Shanghai - A Tale of Two Cities, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2004.
  • Wong L and Holliday I, “Social Policy Under One Country, Two Systems: Institutional Dynamics in China and Hong Kong since 1997”, Public Administration Review, May/June 2003, Volume 63, No.3, pp.269-282.

 Research interests
  • Social welfare and social development in China
  • Social policy in East Asia and transitional economies
  • Globalization and social welfare
  • Aging and the third sector in welfare in China
  • Peasant workers in China
 Teaching interests

  • Social policy
  • Social change and social policy in China
  • Comparative social policy in the Asia Pacific Region
 
Prof Linda Wong Lai, Yeuk-lin
BSocSc HKU , MA Brunel , PhD London
Professor

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Email:   linda.wong@cityu.edu.hk
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