CDPGPChinese Drug Policy & Governance Platform
Publications

Articles.

2026

  1. Song, A. & Chen, S. ‘Stigmatisation for poppers use is a sexualised mode of governance’: Lived experiences and counter-narratives of gay men who use poppers in mainland China. International Journal of Drug Policy, 152, 105277.View article ↗
  2. Song, A. ‘New Barefoot Doctors’: How social workers navigate HIV care and structural marginality in Yi ethnic minority communities. Social Science & Medicine, 403, 119356.View article ↗
  3. Sun, G., Jiang, J., & Song, A. Rehabilitation frames: How offenders understand and navigate the penal-welfare nexus in Chinese community corrections. Crime, Media, Culture.View article ↗
  4. Song, A. & Tong, Y. Weak chemsex as cultural scripts: Understanding how Chinese gay men narrate sexualised drug use. Sexualities.View article ↗
  5. Song, A. & Jiang, J. Pride and prejudice: Strategic coupling of punishment and welfare in Chinese community corrections. Theoretical Criminology.View article ↗
  6. Tong, Y., Song, A., & Su, Z. ‘We’re Experiencing Digital Death’: Chinese people who used heroin in community-based rehabilitation. Social Inclusion, 14.View article ↗
  7. Song, A., Ma, L., & Liu, Z. Revisiting professional autonomy and structural constraints: Relational work in anti-drug social work. International Social Work.View article ↗
  8. Song, A. & He, J. ‘Be Mom, for Mom’: Anti-authority recovery narratives of females who use drugs in China. Contemporary Drug Problems.View article ↗
  9. Song, A. & Jiang, J. Surviving in the cracks: How people who use drugs navigate police-led rehabilitation in China. Journal of Drug Issues.View article ↗
  10. Song, A., He, J., & Cui, K. From legal estrangement to legal mobilization: Navigating the processual professional autonomy of antidrug social workers in China. The British Journal of Social Work.View article ↗
  11. Song, A., Dertadian, G. C., & He, J. Recovery capital in Chinese drug rehabilitation: Exploring person-centred and community-based perspectives. Drug and Alcohol Review, 45(1), e70088.View article ↗

2025

  1. He, J., Liu, J., & Song, A. ‘It’s time … to end everything’: Discontinue medication choices and narratives among elderly HIV-positive Yi women. Social Science & Medicine, 383, 118450.View article ↗
  2. Song, A. & Tong, Y. Digitalising violence: Decoding management in the rehabilitation of people who use drugs. Punishment & Society.View article ↗
  3. Song, A. & He, J. Framing ‘Chemsexism’: Chinese gay men navigating stigma and labelling. Journal of Homosexuality.View article ↗
  4. Song, A., He, J., & Liu, Z. Systemic neglect hidden behind tolerance: The reproduction of vulnerability among aging heroin users within community-based rehabilitation. Innovation in Aging, 9(8), igaf066.View article ↗
  5. Song, A. & Jiang, J. Coercive rehabilitation and therapeutic control: How the police navigate the penal-welfare nexus in Chinese drug governance. Policing & Society, 35(9), 1203–1218.View article ↗
  6. Jiang, J. & Song, A. Making the enforcement rehabilitative: Penal welfarism and emotional labor of police officers in Chinese drug policing. Criminology & Criminal Justice.View article ↗
  7. Song, A. & He, J. ‘Nothing but…stuff being played with’: Body-constructed narratives of drug-trafficking young girls. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse.View article ↗
  8. Song, A., Li, K., Han, P., & Yao, H. Tracing, stabilizing, storytelling: How social workers assemble recovery for people who have mental health disorders. Journal of Social Work.View article ↗

2024

  1. Song, A., Zhu, C., & Liu, Z. ‘No ability to choose freedom’: A qualitative study on people who use drugs’ experiences of compulsory isolation treatment. Addiction Research & Theory.View article ↗
  2. Jiang, J., & Song, A. Strong control and weak service: Enforcing drug treatment in China. Journal of Drug Issues, 55(3), 379–400.View article ↗
  3. Song, A. Multiple logics and inconsistent identities of people who use drugs. PKU Journal of Sociology, 3(1), 90.