Grace Tang
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
Grace Tang is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Essex. Her thesis research lies at the intersection of culture, production, consumption, space, practice, and markets. With a focus on the professional lives of Chinese design practitioners and entrepreneurs, she examines the changes and continuities in their practices, subjective identities, and the processes underlying the growth of design markets. Other research topics she explores are the questions of lifestyles and wellness, global diffusion of practices, social and cultural policy, place-making, and urban regeneration. Grace received a B.A. from the University of Hong Kong, where she also completed her M.Phil in Sociology.
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Cultural sociology and sociology of culture, practices, creative workers, cultural economy
Tang, G. (2023) From ‘take-ism’ to pursuit of newness and originality: Design professionals and models of creativity in contemporary China. Journal of Cultural Economy. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2023.2246984
Tang, G. (2020) Putting creative production in place? Policy, creativity and artist villages. Creative Industries Journal, 13(1):17-35. https://doi.org/10.1080/17510694.2019.1621620
Urban development, arts, social change, social and cultural policy
Tang, G. (2012) Contradictions of the neighbourhoods in cultural production: Art, policy and urban change in Hong Kong. Social Transformations in Chinese Societies, 8(2):101-140.
