Professional Activities
International Dialogues
Ping-Chun Hsiung, 2014
De-constructing the Calamity: A Case Study of Policy Failure during China's Great Leap Forward (1958-62)," paper accepted for presentation at the Annual Conference of the Social Science History Association, Toronto, Toronto, Canada, November 6-9, 2014
Ping-Chun Hsiung, 2014
Organizing and chairing "Teaching Qualitative Research as a Transgressive Practice", Panel (I), Tenth Congress on Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 21-24, 2014
Ping-Chun Hsiung, 2014
Organizing and chairing "Teaching Qualitative Research as a Transgressive Practice", Panel (II), Tenth Congress on Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 21-24, 2014
Ping-Chun Hsiung, 2014
"Gender and Development in CIDA's Programs: A Reflection on the Doing of Feminist Collaboration," keynote speech, Transforming Canada-China Educational Coorperation: Significant Legacies and Future Challenges (中加教育合作的转型：辉煌的过去和未来的挑战), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, May 9-10, 2014.
Ping-Chun Hsiung, 2014
"Searching for "the Truth" during China's Great Leap Forward (1958-1962)," Association of Asian Studies annual conference, Philadelphia, USA, March 28, 2014
Ping-Chun Hsiung, 2014
Doing Qualitative Research in a Global Era: A Conversation between a Chinese and an Indigenous Researcher, the Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research, University of Toronto, March 20, 2014
Ping-Chun Hsiung, 2013
"Investigating China's Curriculum Reform in a Global Era," International Association for Comparative Study of China and the West, Peking University, July 12-14, 2013
Ping-Chun Hsiung, 2013
"Doing Investigative Research to Realize a Socialist Utopia," The Ninth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, May 16-18, 2013
Ping-Chun Hsiung, 2013
"Doing Dingxing Yanjiu during China's Great Leap Forward (1958-1962)"
Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, April 12, 2013
Ping-Chun Hsiung, 2013
"Re-searching the Making of Calamity: Doing Investigative Research during China's Great Leap Forward (1958-62)," the 2013 Annual SOYUZ Symposium "Authoritarianism and Beyond? Lessons from Postsocialist Societies," Columbia University, March 22-23, 2013
Visiting Scholar, Graduate Institute for Social Transformation Studies, Shih Hsin University, Taiwan, 2005
Summer Institute on Feminist Pedagogy and Program Development in Women’s Studies, July 2002
“Women Organizing in China,” The Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, Oxford University, England, July 12-16, 1999 (co-organized with C. Milwertz and M. Jaschok)
Seminar Organizer
Xiangming Chen (School of Education, Peking University, China), “Doing Qualitative Research in Chinese Schools,” Asian Institute, University of Toronto, April 5, 2011
Meei-shia Chen (School of Public Health, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan), “The Political Economy of the National Health Insurance in Taiwan,” Asian Institute, University of Toronto, April 15, 2011
Panel Organizer
“Practices and Development of Critical Qualitative Research in East Asia,” Annual Conference, Association of Asian Studies, 2012, Toronto, March15-March 18, 2012
“The Politics and Practices of Knowledge Production in China Studies,” Annual Conference, Association of Asian Studies, 2011, Hawaii, March 31-April3, 2011
Academic Affiliations
- East Asian Studies, University of Toronto, affiliated faculty
- Asian Institute, University of Toronto, affiliated faculty
- Institute of Critical Qualitative Health Research, University of Toronto, affiliated faculty
- Institute of Women’s Studies and Gender Studies, University of Toronto, affiliated faculty
Invited Lectures
“Doing (Critical) Qualitative in China in a Global Era,” Keynote Speech, at the International Conference, “(Be-)Deutungsansprüche in qualitativer Forschung,” Frankfurt, Germany, May 4-5, 2012.
“Doing (Critical) Qualitative in China in a Global Era,” Invited Lecture, Institute of Sociology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany, May 8, 2012-09-02.
“Locally Grounded, Globally Informed: Practicing Qualitative Research in the Periphery,” Department of Sociology, Beijing Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China, June 29, 2011
“Politics and Development Qualitative Research in the Periphery,” Forum on Pedagogies and Praxis of Qualitative Research, Beijing Normal University, July 4, 2011
“Curriculum Development of Qualitative Research in Chinese Social Sciences,” Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, July 5, 2011
“The Practices and Development of Qualitative Research in Global Perspectives,” Department of Social Development, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China, July 6, 2011
“The Praxis of Qualitative Research in Community Organizing,” the Shaanxi Association for Women and Family, Xian, Shaanxi Province, China, July 15, 2011
Professional Affiliations
- American Sociology Association, member (1992-2005)
- Association for Asian Studies, member (2008-present)
- North American Chinese Sociologist Association, member (1992-present)
- Chinese Scholars for Women’s Studies, Co-chair (2003-2005)
- Editorial board—Sociology Compass (member, 2008-present)
- Editorial Board—Social Sciences Research Methods Series, Chongqing University Press (member, 2008-present)