Academic Profile
I was a recipient of the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) Graduate Sabbatical Grant (2023), Academia Sinica Fellowship for Doctoral Candidates in the Humanities and Social Sciences (2022), United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH) Global Health PhD Fellowship (2022), Universities' China Committee in London (UCCL) Doctoral Research Grant (2021) and UCL Hong Kong Scholarship Fund (2019). I was also a former Sino-British Fellowship Trust (SBFT) Scholar (2022) and a Rotary Global Grant Scholar (2019-20). I, moreover, worked as a Fellow at Harvard University Asia Center (2022-23) and was named as one of the world's 100 Global Leadership Challenge (GLC) Emerging Leader by the University of Oxford (Social Sciences Division).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books
Hung J. (2024). Left-Behind Children’s Juvenile Delinquency and Substance Abuse in China: Policy Examination and Analysis. Springer Nature.
Hung, J. (2024). Visiting Sexual Exploitation: How Should Indonesia Strengthen Its Policies to Curb Sex Work in Response to Its Extramarital Sex Criminalisation. ISEAS Publishing.
Hung, J. (2023). Legalising Prostitution in Thailand: A Policy-Oriented Examination of the (De-)Construction of Commercial Sex. Springer Nature.
Hung, J. (2023). Indonesian and Philippine Media on China and COVID-19. New York, N.Y.: Routledge.
Hung, J. (2023). The Socially Constructed and Reproduced Youth Delinquency in Southeast Asia: Advancing Positive Youth Involvement in Sustainable Futures. London: Emerald Group Publishing.
Book Chapters
Hung, J. (2023). How Southeast Asian Countries Can Better Arrange and Deliver Internet Policies So as to Defy Digital Divide. In Danica Radovanovic (eds.), Digital Literacy and Meaningful Connectivity (pp. 61-77). Cham: Springer.
Hung, J. (2023). Digital Education, Academic Performance, and Mental Health: How Can Chinese Students’ Development Be Facilitated While Engaging in E-Learning. In Christine Coombe, Jacqueline Stephen and Georgios Vlasios Kormpas (eds.), Global Perspectives on Higher Education: From Crisis to Opportunity (pp. 485-94). Cham: Springer.
Hung, J. (2022). Adverse Economic Impacts on the Occupationally Insecure Workforce in Thailand amid the Pandemic. In B. Sloboda, & Y. Sissoko (Eds.), Economic Impact and Recovery Following a Global Health Crisis (pp. 77-105). Hershey, P.A.: IGI Global.
Hung, J. (2021). Social Barriers to, and Gender Gaps in, Educational Attainment for Rural Citizens in China. In Theresa Neimann, Jonathan J. Felix, Elena Shliakhovchuk and Lynne Hindman (eds.), Policy and Practice Challenges for Equality in Education (pp. 124-71). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Book Reviews
Hung, J. (2022). How the Application of Satellite Imagery Offers New Opportunities to Explore China’s Urbanisation and Development. Quality and Quantity. DOI: 10.1007/s11135-022-01588-2.
Hung, J. (2022). Critical Review on the Trajectory of Educational Policymaking and How Migrant Children Have Been Affected in China. Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40647-022-00357-7.
Working Papers
Hung, J. (2021). How Will Final-Stage Clinical Trial Results of Chinese COVID-19 Vaccines Impact on China–Indonesia Vaccine Diplomacy. Issues & Insights Vol. 21 Working Paper 11. Washington, D.C.: Pacific Forum.
Hung, J. (2021). The Climate of Civil Disobedience: How Different Parties Have Capitalised on Liberal Studies as a Political Instrument under Hong Kong’s Secondary Education Curriculum. Issues & Insights Vol. 20 Working Paper 1. Washington, D.C.: Pacific Forum.
Journal Articles
Hung, J. (2024). Policy Implications for the Nexus of Climate Change and Gender-Based Issues in Thailand: Case Study of Waste Management. Environmental Reviews. Just-IN https://doi.org/10.1139/er-2024-0050.
Hung, J. (2024). Transitioning to Greener Sino-Thai Belt and Road Initiative: How China Finance Thailand’s Environmental Sustainability. Environmental Health Insights, 18, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1177/11786302241258348.
Hung, J. (2024). Sociological and Policy Examination of Poverty-Led Crime in Indonesia: Case Study of (Child) Prostitution. Journal of Poverty, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/10875549.2024.2379766.
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Hung, J. (2023). Why Legalising Prostitution in Thailand Can Help Bangkok Regulate Commercial Sex and Curb Sex-Trafficking Systematically and Institutionally. Frontiers in Sociology, 8: 1227247. DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2023.1227247.
Hung, J., Chen, J. & Chen, O. (2023). The Practice of Social Protection Policies in China: A Systematic Review on How Left-Behind Children’s Mental Health Can Be Optimised. Perspectives in Public Health. DOI:10.1177/17579139231205491.
Hung, J. (2023). Indonesia’s Anti-Extramarital Sex Legislation: Why and How Should Policymakers Respond to Prostitution. Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 31(3), 417-22.
Hung, J. (2023). The Benefits, Risks and Regulation of Using ChatGPT in Chinese Academia: A Content Analysis. Social Sciences, 12(7): 380. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12070380.
Hung, J. (2023). Is Psychologically Vulnerable Rural-to-Urban Migrants’ Mental Health Further at Stake under China’s Tightened COVID-19 Measures: How Should the Government Respond? Frontiers in Sociology, 8: 1095810. DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2023.1095810.
Hung, J. (2023). Pragmatic Approaches to Control Inbound Sex Tourism and Prostitution in Thailand and Cambodia: The Suggestion of Multifaceted Policy Development. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 43(11/12), 1175-89.
Hung, J., Chen, J., & Chen, O. (2023). Are the Relationship between Mental Health Issues and Being Left-Behind Gendered in China: A Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis. PLoS ONE, 18(4): e0279278. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279278.
Hung, J. (2023). Policy-Oriented Examination of Left-Behind Children’s Health and Wellbeing in China. Sustainability, 15(7), 5977. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15075977.
Hung, J. (2023). Smart Elderly Care Services in China: Challenges, Progress, and Policy Development. Sustainability, 15(1): 178. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15010178.
Hung, J. (2022). Subsets of the Population Benefitting from the Pandemic: What Policies and Practices Should be Arranged to Sustainably Maintain Beneficiaries’ Mental Health. Frontiers in Sociology, 7:1090785.
Hung, J. (2022). Policy Development on Upskilling/Reskilling Older Population Care Staff in China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(15): 9440.
Hung, J. (2022). Digitalisation, Parenting, and Children’s Mental Health: What are the Challenges and Policy Implications? International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(11): 6452.
Hung, J. (2022). Hukou System Influencing the Structural, Institutional Inequalities in China: The Multifaceted Disadvantages Rural Hukou Holders Face. Social Sciences, 11(5): 194.
Hung, J. and Mark Ramsden (2021). The Application of Human Capital Theory and Educational Signalling Theory to Explain Parental Influences on the Chinese Population’s Social Mobility Opportunities. Social Sciences, 10(10): 362.
Hung, J. (2020). Systematic Review on How the Delivery of Vision Care Policies Affects Students’ Academic Performance and Mental Health. Asian Social Science, 16(7), 94-9.
Hung, J. (2020). How Can We Account for Persisting Educational Inequalities in Rural China. Asian Social Science, 16(7), 46-56.
Hung, J. (2020). Cultural Homelessness, Social Dislocation and Psychosocial Harms: An Overview of Social Mobility in Hong Kong and Mainland China. Asian Social Science, 16(5), 1-12.
Hung, J. (2020). Internal Migration in Chinese Cities: An Exploration of Youths’ Experiences of Delinquency. Asian Social Science, 16(2), 1-11.
Hung, J. (2019). Psychosocial Wellbeing among Rural-Urban Migrant Workers in China: Did 2008 Financial Crisis Worsen their Vulnerability? Asian Social Science, 16(1), 54-68.
Hung, J. (2018). Parenting Styles, Academic Demands and Children’s Psychosocial Well-being: Why Today’s Hong Kong Chinese Students Are So Stressed. The Columbia Journal of Global Health, 8(2), 1-5.
Policy Papers
Hung, J. (2021). Under the Hong Kong’s National Security Law, How Can Western Democratic Countries Support Politically Persecuted, Exiled Anti-Beijing Dissidents. Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, 10(1), 133-40.
Hung, J. (2020). COVID-19 and Protests Need Not Cripple Tourism-Heavy Hong Kong. PacNet Commentary, No. 15.
Hung, J. (2020). How Hong Kong Hurts Itself by Financially Excluding Foreign Domestic Workers. PacNet Commentary, No. 5.
Hung, J. (2019). The Prison Crisis in England and Wales: How Those Incarcerated are Psychosocially Harmed? Cornell Policy Review. Retrieved from http://www.cornellpolicyreview.com/the-prison-crisis-in-england-and-wales-how-incarcerated-populations-are-psychosocially-harmed/?pdf=5131
Hung, J. (2018). Immigration Removal Centres in England and Wales: Ensuring the Safety and Well-being of Immigration Detainees. Cornell Policy Review. Retrieved from http://www.cornellpolicyreview.com/immigration-removal-centers/?pdf=4724
Editorial
Hung J (2023) How to Capitalise on Media Communications to Promote Mental Healthcare for Left-Behind Children in China. International Journal of Public Health, 68: 1606023. DOI: 10.3389/ijph.2023.1606023.
Commentaries
Hung, J. (2021). Why Taiwan Should Develop Exclusive Refugee Laws for Hong Kong Political Asylum Seekers as to Defy Beijing’s Interference. Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations, 7(1), 173-85.
Hung, J. (2021). In China’s ‘Vaccine Diplomacy’ with the Philippines, Both Sides Are Taking Big Risks. East-West Wire. Honolulu, H.A.: East-West Centre.
Hung, J. (2020). Civil Liberties Are Rotten in the Aftermath of the Hong Kong’s Social-Political Unrest (2019-20): A Discussion on the City’s Financial (Un)Sustainability. Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations, 6(3), 1445-55.
Other Peer-Reviewed Publications
Hung, J. (2021). Indonesia’s Sinovac Rollout Sets High Stakes for China’s Vaccine Diplomacy. East Asia Forum. Canberra: Australia National University Press.
Hung, J. (2018). Urban Paradise Actually Purgatory for China’s Migrant Workers. East Asia Forum. Canberra: Australia National University Press.
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