From Private Troubles to Public Issues: A Sociologist's Journey Through Chinese Medicine in Hong Kong

On 14th November, 2025 Professor Stephen Chiu delivered a public lecture at the Admiralty campus of HKUSPACE.  Entitled “From Private Troubles to Public Issues: A Sociologist's Journey Through Chinese Medicine in Hong Kong”, the lecture attracted about 60 social science students, in which he recounted his own research journey on the development of Chinese medicine in Hong Kong. Through the sharing, he illustrated how we could all exercise sociological imagination by linking up private troubles to public issues by locating social phenomenon in the intersection of individual biography, social structure and history.  After the lecture, he also introduced Senior Year Entry programmes offered by the Department of Social Sciences and Policy Studies.