Kevin (Ze) Hong

Assistant Professor, University of Macau

Kevin (Ze) Hong is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Macau and a research associate in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University.

Written by Kevin (Ze) Hong

A blurred black cat jumps on dirt ground in the foreground, with a distant statue of Pope John Paul II with arms outstretched against the sky in the background

Cultural taboos arise from a basic feature of the human mind

Unquestioned community rules on marriage, dining and even black cats often stem from our hunger to explain random events

by Kevin (Ze) Hong