Kung, Hsiang-Ming

Title:Associate Professor
E-mail:hmkung@mail.shu.edu.tw
TEL:(02)2236-8225 ext. 3533
Study Room:S604
Education:Ph. D. in Sociology, The State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Specialty:Sociology of Family, Social Gerontology, Environmental Sociology
Positions Held:
  • Associate Professor, Department of Social Psychology, Shih Hsin University. 1994 ~ present
  • Editor-in-Chief, Social Analysis. 2011 ~ 2012
  • Chair, Department of Social Psychology, Shih Hsin University. 2007~ 2010
  • President, National Council on Family Relations, Taiwan Affiliate. 2000 ~ 2006
  • Director, Taipei Family Life Education Association. 2000 ~ 2006
  • Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Millard Fillmore College of SUNY at Buffalo , U.S.A. 1990 ~ 1993
Research Interests:
  • mothers- and daughters-in-law relationships
  • interracial marriage
  • intergenerational relationships
  • gender and mental health
Selected Publications:
  • Kung, Hsiang-Ming (2014)〈Like Mother, Like Daughter:The Effect of Mothers’ Attitudes on the Way Their Daughters Interact with Their Mothers-in-law〉 editor(s): Dudley L. Poston, Jr.,Wen Shan Yang & Cathy Ruey-Ling Chu (eds.), The Family and Social Change in Chinese Societies, pp.131-149, Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Publishing Company.
  • Kung, Hsiang-Ming (2012) Effects of Gender, Marriage, and Family on Psychological Distress: Transitions in Taiwan from 1990 to 2005. Pp.277-324 in Social Change in Taiwan, 1985–2005: Family and Marriage, Taiwan Social Change Survey Symposium Series III, Vol. 1 , edited by Chin-Chun Yi and Ying-Hwa Chang. Taipei: Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica.
  • Kung, Hsiang-Ming (2010) Consolidation, Suppression, or Multicultural Communication? The Cultural Experience and Living Consequence of Southeast Asian Marriage Immigrants in Local Families. Asia-Pacific Forum , 49: 58-84.
  • Yi, Chin-Chun, Hsiang-Ming Kung , Yu-Hua Chen, and Joujuo Chu (2008) The Importance of Social Context in the Formation of the Value of Children for Adolescents: Social Class and Rural Urban Differences in Taiwan. Journal of Comparative Family Studies , 39: 371-392.
  • Kung, Hsiang-Ming (2001) Who Is One of Our Own? The In-group/Out-group Effect on the Relationship between Mother- and Daughter-in-law. Indigenous Psychological Research in Chinese Societies , 16: 43-90.
  • Kung, Hsiang-Ming and Chin-Chun Yi (2001) The Impact of Modernization on Elder-Care: The Case of Taiwan. Pp. 69-80 in Families as Educators for Global Citizenship , edited by Judith A. Myers-Walls, Peter Somlai with Robert N. Rapoport. England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd. .
  • Kung, Hsiang-Ming (1997) The Effect of Gender, Marriage, and Family on Psychological Distress: A Case Study of Taiwan’s Changing Society. Pp.87-121f in Taiwanese Society in 1990s: Taiwan Social Change Survey Symposium Series II (part 2) , edited by Ly-Yun Chang, Yu-Hsia Lu, and Fu-Chang Wang. Taipei: The Preparatory Office of the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica.
Awards and Honors:
Imperial crown Tutorship

  • Shih Hsin University Outstanding Advisor Award, 2015.
  • Shih Hsin University Outstanding Advisor Award, 2001.
  • Shih Hsin University Norminee for Outstanding Advisor Award, 2011.
  • Shih Hsin University Norminee for Outstanding Advisor Award, 2004.

Imperial crown Teaching

  • Shih Hsin University Excellence in Teaching Award, 2014.
  • Shih Hsin University Excellence in Teaching Award, 2011.
  • Shih Hsin University Excellence in Teaching Award, 2009.