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WRAP THESIS Tzeng 2012.Pdf University of Warwick institutional repository: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/wrap A Thesis Submitted for the Degree of PhD at the University of Warwick http://go.warwick.ac.uk/wrap/49816 This thesis is made available online and is protected by original copyright. Please scroll down to view the document itself. Please refer to the repository record for this item for information to help you to cite it. Our policy information is available from the repository home page. Framing Sociology in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore Geopolitics, States and Practitioners Albert Tzeng A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology University of Warwick, Department of Sociology May, 2012 1 Table of Content List of Tables and Figures ............................................................................................................. 4 Acknowledgement ........................................................................................................................... 5 Declaration ......................................................................................................................................... 7 Abstract ................................................................................................................................................ 8 Abbreviation ...................................................................................................................................... 9 Note on Chinese Names ............................................................................................................... 10 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 11 The Project: Definition and Purposes ................................................................. 12 A Historical Portrait ................................................................................................... 19 The Personal Pursuit ................................................................................................. 30 Structure of the Dissertation .................................................................................. 37 Ch1. Theoretical Maps .................................................................................................................. 41 1.1 Sociology as Subject Matter ............................................................................. 44 1.2 Sociology of Knowledge .................................................................................... 50 1.3 Theorizing Sociology in Asia ........................................................................... 61 1.4 World System of Knowledge Network ......................................................... 67 1.5 Colonial Modernity and Asian Sociology .................................................... 71 Summary ........................................................................................................................ 77 Ch2. Methodological Note ........................................................................................................... 79 2.1 Research Design ................................................................................................... 80 2.2 Research Methods ............................................................................................... 85 2.3 Ontological and Epistemological Note ......................................................... 95 2.4 Power Relations between Researcher and Informant ........................ 107 2.5 Confidentiality ................................................................................................... 112 Summary ..................................................................................................................... 119 Ch3 Dispersion of Sociology: .................................................................................................. 121 3.1 The State of Sociology in the Four Powers .............................................. 122 3.2 Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore: Before WWII ................................ 130 3.3 Post-War Geopolitics and the Scholarly Flow ........................................ 139 Summary ..................................................................................................................... 153 Ch4. Institutionalizing Sociology .......................................................................................... 154 4.1 Chinese Sociologists and American Endowments ............................... 155 4.2 The British Colonial Universities ................................................................ 164 4.3 Institutional Expansion .................................................................................. 171 2 4.4 Cohort Structure of Sociologists ................................................................. 177 Summary ..................................................................................................................... 198 Ch5 Domestic Disciplinary Identity: .................................................................................... 200 5.1 Journals ................................................................................................................. 204 5.2. Edited Collection of Social Studies of Domestic Society ................... 211 5.3. Historical and Reflexive Writing of Domestic Sociology................... 216 5.4. Normative-Epistemological Discussion .................................................. 222 5.5. Domestic Disciplinary Identity ................................................................... 231 5.6. Identity Politics ................................................................................................ 247 Summary ..................................................................................................................... 254 Ch6. Sociology and Its Public .................................................................................................. 256 6.1 Public Sociology in Perspective ................................................................... 258 6.2 Singapore ............................................................................................................. 268 6.3 Hong Kong ........................................................................................................... 278 6.4 Taiwan: Vibrant Civil Engagement since 1980s .................................... 290 6.5 Comparative Analysis ...................................................................................... 300 Summary ..................................................................................................................... 315 Ch7, Sociology under Higher Education Reform ............................................................. 317 7.1 Theoretical Approaches to Higher Education Transition ................. 318 7.2. Higher Education Reforms in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore 319 7.3. Intellectual Life under Reform .................................................................... 328 7.4. Scholarly Demography ................................................................................... 334 7.5. Responses of Sociologists ............................................................................. 337 7.6. Impacts on Output ........................................................................................... 343 7.7 Toward a Critique of Managerialism and Academic Globalism ...... 351 Summary ..................................................................................................................... 360 Conclusion ..................................................................................................................................... 363 Outline of Arguments ............................................................................................. 364 World System of Knowledge Network and Colonial Modernity ............ 368 Geopolitics, States and Sociologists .................................................................. 373 Directions for Future Works ................................................................................ 375 Epilogue: The Personal Legacies ........................................................................................... 378 Appendix A: Interview Guideline .......................................................................................... 387 Appendix B: Informants List and Statistics ....................................................................... 389 Appendix C: List of Chinese and Japanese Names .......................................................... 392 Bibliography .................................................................................................................................. 393 3 List of Tables and Figures Table I-1 Comparison of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore 29 Table 1-1 Theorizing Asian Social Science: A Typology of Meta Analyses 62 Table 1-2 Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore: Historical Encounter with Four Imperial Forces 77 Table 2-1 Modes of Constructed Reality 103 Table 2-2 Layers of Social Reality: Inter-Layer Interaction 106 Table 4-1 Key Sociology Institutions and the Size of Professional Community 176 Table 4-2 Sociologists’ Cohort Structure of NUS, HKU, CUHK and Taiwan 193 Table 4-3 General Patterns of Demographic Shifts of Sociologists 196 Table 5-1 Sociology Journals (or Paper Series) 205 Table 5-2 Summary of Bibliographic Resources
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