Carol TSANG
Lecturer
Student Outreach Representative
Carol is a lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on the social and cultural history of Hong Kong, with particular emphasis on gender and reproductive health. She has published articles in Cold War History, Hong Kong Medical Journal, World Medical & Health Policy, and HKU Press. Her current book project, The Politics of Abortion in Hong Kong, examines how reproductive knowledge and technologies spread across borders in the 20th century, shaped by debates in the US, Britain, and China.
Since 2017, Carol has been active in student outreach, organising secondary school visits and public talks. She contributed to curriculum development as a co-investigator on the 2022 HKU Teaching Development Grant, which integrated public health posters as visual teaching tools in medical and history courses. Her work connects academic research with wider communities, highlighting the relevance of history to contemporary Hong Kong society.
Room 1052, Run Run Shaw Tower
EDUCATION
BA, The University of Hong Kong
MPhil, The University of Hong Kong
PhD, The University of Hong Kong
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Hong Kong and East Asia
Gender, family, and women's studies
Reproductive health and technologies
Public health policies
Books
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BOOK AWARDS
COURSES TAUGHT
- CCCH5054, Mothering China: From the Womb to the Nation (Online)
- CCCH9067, Man Up: Chinese Masculinities in the Making
- CCHU5088, We are Family: Myths, Realities and the Future (Online)
- CCHU9043, Rethinking Women: The Big Debates
FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
- 2022 HKU Teaching Development Grant Co-Investigator: Health by Design: Implementation of public health posters as a multidisciplinary visual teaching device in MBBS, School of Public Health and Department of History (Common Core curriculum development)
EXTERNAL AFFILIATIONS
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- “Medical History of Hong Kong Part 1: Controlling fertility: the intrauterine device and biopolitics in Hong Kong, 1963-1974,” Hong Kong Medical Journal, 2026 Apr; 32(2): 179-82. https://doi.org/10.12809/hkmj-SA202604
- “‘Two Is Enough’: Class, Gender and the Nuclear Family Ideal in Cold War Hong Kong,” Cold War History, 2025, 1–18. https://doi-org.eproxy.lib.hku.hk/10.1080/14682745.2025.2515364
- “Historical and Cultural Legacy of Post-One Child Policy: Is China Ready to Embrace Planned Oocyte Cryopreservation?” World Medical & Health Policy, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1002/wmh3.70021 (co-authored with Olivia M.Y. Ngan and Shizuko Takahashi).
- “Gender and Family,” in Florence Mok and Charles Fung, eds., A New Documentary History of Hong Kong (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2025).
- “Knowing Chinese Women: Richard Tottenham and Colonial Medicine in Interwar Hong Kong,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Hong Kong Branch 53 (2014): 167-81.
- “Searching for an Identity: Debates over Moral and National Education as an Independent Subject in Contemporary Hong Kong,” International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research 11.2 (Spring 2013): 88-97 (co-authored with Zardas Shuk-man Lee and Phoebe Y.H. Tang).
- “Hong Kong’s Floating World: Crime and Disease at the Edge of Empire,” in Robert Peckham, ed., Disease and Crime: A History of Social Pathologies and the New Politics of Health (New York: Routledge, 2013), 21-39.
- “British History in Contemporary Hong Kong,” Twentieth Century British History 23.4 (2012): 563-74 (co-authored with Mark Hampton).
- “Empire State of Mind: Articulations of British Culture in the Empire, 1707-1997,” in The British Scholar Society Newsletter, November 2011 (co-authored with Penelope Ching-yee Pang and Zou Yizheng).
AWARDS
- Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, Faculty of Arts, The University of Hong Kong (2017–18)