L Lui
Biographic Data
| ID | 28518 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Lui |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Lui |
| SIGNATURE | LUI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Taiwan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9647-6323 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Why people perceive protest violence differently
Scholars and activists have long debated whether violent protest tactics help or hinder social movements. Recent research suggests, however, that whether a protest is perceived as violent is often a matter of subjective interpretation rather than objective assessment. Building on this perspective, we examine how perceptions of protest violence vary across political contexts by comparing three societies with distinct protest histories and institut…
How heterogeneous social influences affect tolerance of “violent” tactics
Under what conditions do violent tactics receive public support? Focusing on the process of social influence, this article utilizes a survey on the 2019 Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Bill Movement to test how social interactions with people with different orientations toward the movement (opposing, neutral, supportive) relate to individuals’ tolerance of violent tactics. Social interactions with neutral people generated the largest effect, as such i…
Geo-Politics and the Changing Social Imaginaries of Hong Kong Immigrants in Taiwan
Hong Kong Migrants' Divergent Experiences in Australia
This study compares the social field for recent Hong Kong immigrants in the Australian cities of Melbourne, Sydney, and Darwin. We explore how migrants' experience differs in terms of their capital, migration trajectories, and interactions with Australians and in the workplace. Drawing on 31 in-depth interviews, this study features migrants' precarious experience and (self-)selection to cities and regional areas which are shaped by the convertibi…
Outsourcing domestic work
Migration intentions in a politically divided context
This study examines migration intentions in a politically divided context, focusing on the interactive roles of individuals’ and the spouses’ affective polarization and political attitudes. Our study uses Hong Kong as a case study to elucidate migration intentions in the context of political polarization and increasing authoritarianism. We investigate how individuals facing the same political conditions exhibit varying inclinations to migrate. Ou…
Exit-Voice Dynamics
Does people's greater intention to migrate deter them from participating in protests? How does protest participation shape intention to migrate? How does the relationship between migration intention and protest change amidst Hong Kong's transition to authoritarianism? Drawing upon Hirschman's exit-voice theory, this study examines the relationship between protest and migration intentions against the changing context across time. We use a time-ser…
The Personal is Political
This study examines the relationship between political attitudes, affective polarization, and fertility preferences among married couples in Hong Kong. Using dyadic data from a representative household survey (N = 1586 heterosexually married adults), we investigate how individuals’ attitudes toward democracy and levels of affective polarization are associated with their fertility preferences. We also explore the influence of spouses’ political at…
Winning quietly
This study highlights the role of educators in the resistance to Hong Kong's National Security Education (NSE) amidst waves of political repression in the wake of the anti-extradition movement of 2019-2020. Education reforms, teacher training and student assessment used to cultivate students' creativity, critical thinking and independent thinking skills. NSE, which emphasises China's perspective of knowledge construction, has contradicted long-st…
"Comfortably "Western
How do students from Mainland China select Canada for their education? Beyond the customary push-and-pull explanations, we introduce a framework of comparative imaginaries that describes how students' rational strategies are imbued with the imaginaries of their host societies and migration aspirations. Based on longitudinal interviews with 36 Chinese postsecondary students in Vancouver, we find that these students imagine Canada as a safe alterna…
Political efficacy and fertility intentions
Finishing the “unfinished revolution”
Intensive mothering, a classed and gendered practice optimally performed by stay‐at‐home mothers, is a dominant parenting ideology, particularly in developed societies with wide disparities in wealth. Ironically, in these societies, women tend to be well educated and have good employment prospects that are expected to free them from domestic obligations. Facing competing expectations shaped by the institutions of work and the family, how do colle…
Guanxi and Moral Articulation
What explains failures of large-scale anti-corruption campaigns in reducing corruption? Theories on developing country corruption see corruption as either a problem of weak formal institutions that incentivize naturally opportunistic actors or as remnants of traditional behaviors that persist despite changing modern state boundaries and regulations. Neither helps explain how participants continuously strategize to reframe and articulate the moral…
National Security Education and the Infrapolitical Resistance of Parent-Stayers in Hong Kong
This study highlights political parenting after the introduction of National Security Education (NSE) in Hong Kong amid waves of political repression after the anti-extradition movement in 2019–2020. Do parents conform to or resist the new nationalistic, China-focused education curriculum that is inconsistent with their ideals of parenting and children education? How do parents navigate these changes? Based on the interviews with 26 parent-stayer…
Multiple Careers
This article examines the capacity of college-educated young people who pursue in several careers – "slash workers" – to act independently and to make their own choices about their work and life in capitalist Hong Kong. Numerous studies have assumed an unproblematic link between precarious employment and the exploitation of young people's labour. This article offers an alternative understanding of this link from the autonomist Marxist perspective…
Does live-in domestic help reduce unpaid household labor? The paradox of intensive parenting and domestic outsourcing
This two-stage mixed-method study pulls the literature of domestic outsourcing and intensive parenting together to investigate the role of employing live-in domestic helpers in the time-use patterns of household labor among working parents in Hong Kong. In the first stage, regression models are used to analyze data from a representative household survey of working parents ( N = 791). Regression results show that working parents who hire live-in d…
How families affect aspirational migration amidst political insecurity
The migration literature has examined migrants' political motivations separately from their family's mobility strategies in the face of macro‐political uncertainties. Bridging the two bodies of literature, this study analyses how parental status moderates the relationship between individual political considerations and migration intentions in an increasingly tense political climate. Based on the quantitative data on political protests in Hong Kon…
Family policies, social norms and marital fertility decisions
Numerous policy recommendations for increasing fertility in societies with ultralow fertility rates have been made, yet their effectiveness has mostly remained unevaluated. Using a multifactorial vignette design that creates hypothetical policy scenarios, this paper seeks to determine the effects of family‐friendly policies and organizational norms on fertility decisions in Hong Kong. Based on a territory‐wide random sample ( N = 1000), we find a…
Filial Considerations in Mate Selection
This article examines the transformation of filial piety by probing disagreements between parents and children over marriage decisions. Based on field observations and in-depth interviews in Guangdong, this research shows that children’s responses to disagreements vary by gender, generation, and rural or urban background. Collective family economies and intergenerational moral imperatives create a strong patriarchal basis for filial obedience for…
Rural but not rural”
China is woven into the fabric of territorial demarcation between rural and urban space, which shapes people’s life chances. Grounded in the study of rural-urban and local/non-local inequalities, we explore the identity constructions of people-in-between – rural local villagers (commonly named “urban villagers”) in chengzhongcun (villages-in-the-cities). Based on in-depth interviews and participant observations in Shenzhen and Guangzhou, we found…
I wish I were a plumber
This study examines processes of class construction within a transnational community of professionals and managers who are emigrants, returnees, and non-migrants. Building on Bourdieu's class analysis and literature on transnational migration, the article examines how class statuses are supported by moral claims based on varying transnational mobility strategies. The authors draw their results from qualitative interviews with 45 Hong Kong respond…
Gendering the job demands-resources model
Numerous studies show that job demands increase work-to-family conflict (WFC), while job resources have mixed effects on it. Yet the way in which their effects on WFC differ by gender is under-explored in Asian societies, where increasing female labour force participation coexists with traditional gender beliefs. Using data from the Taiwan Social Change Survey (TSCS) ( N = 1,265), we find that mechanisms by which employment and family characteris…
Stay-at-home fathers in Hong Kong
This study examines characteristics of stay-at-home father (SAHF) families in Hong Kong and factors contributing to their increase. Based on two decades of census data (1991–2011), we find father's older (relative) age, lower education relative to their spouse, and lower household income increase the probability of having SAHF arrangements, leading us to believe that some fathers enter SAHF arrangements because of their inability to work or due t…
Marital Power in Inter-Hukou Families in China
China's household registration system ( hukou) that assigns citizens into 'rural' or 'urban' status is a stratifying tool that shapes people's social rights based on parents' place of origin. This ethnographic research on inter- hukou couples suggests that the interlinked institutions of state and patriarchy construct differentiated and uneven marital power dynamics whereby inequalities are reproduced and/or transformed through everyday interacti…
Hiring Domestic Help in Hong Kong
The associating factors of hiring domestic help have not been thoroughly studied in a non-Western context. Using household survey data ( N = 974), this article investigates the interactive role of gender attitude and women's income on the decision to hire domestic help in Hong Kong. Some previous studies fall short in finding a significant association between respondents' gender attitudes and the hiring of domestic help, while wives' income is a …
How families affect aspirational migration amidst political insecurity
The migration literature has examined migrants' political motivations separately from their family's mobility strategies in the face of macro‐political uncertainties. Bridging the two bodies of literature, this study analyses how parental status moderates the relationship between individual political considerations and migration intentions in an increasingly tense political climate. Based on the quantitative data on political protests in Hong Kon…
The 'Gift' of Help
Based on in-depth interviews with 24 working couples who hire domestic helpers in Hong Kong, this article examines the hiring of help as an instance of unequal social exchange in which mothers are expected to give up more than fathers. Men view hiring help as a contractual service and as a 'gift' to their wives that allows them to 'buy out' of housework and childcare. Women, however, are likely to supplement their helper's contributions with thei…
Does live-in domestic help reduce unpaid household labor? The paradox of intensive parenting and domestic outsourcing
This two-stage mixed-method study pulls the literature of domestic outsourcing and intensive parenting together to investigate the role of employing live-in domestic helpers in the time-use patterns of household labor among working parents in Hong Kong. In the first stage, regression models are used to analyze data from a representative household survey of working parents ( N = 791). Regression results show that working parents who hire live-in d…
HukouIntermarriage in China
Most studies on intermarriage between groups rely on the prevalence of intermarriage to assess social boundaries. Yet the characteristics underlying the intermarriage pairings are seldom examined. In this study, I analyze intermarriage across hukou, China’s household registration status of designating people as “rural” or “urban” categories based on parents’ place of origin. Using Chinese General Social Surveys, I show that the intermarriage pair…
Family policies, social norms and marital fertility decisions
Numerous policy recommendations for increasing fertility in societies with ultralow fertility rates have been made, yet their effectiveness has mostly remained unevaluated. Using a multifactorial vignette design that creates hypothetical policy scenarios, this paper seeks to determine the effects of family‐friendly policies and organizational norms on fertility decisions in Hong Kong. Based on a territory‐wide random sample ( N = 1000), we find a…
Marital Power in Inter-Hukou Families in China
China's household registration system ( hukou) that assigns citizens into 'rural' or 'urban' status is a stratifying tool that shapes people's social rights based on parents' place of origin. This ethnographic research on inter- hukou couples suggests that the interlinked institutions of state and patriarchy construct differentiated and uneven marital power dynamics whereby inequalities are reproduced and/or transformed through everyday interacti…
Hiring Domestic Help in Hong Kong
The associating factors of hiring domestic help have not been thoroughly studied in a non-Western context. Using household survey data ( N = 974), this article investigates the interactive role of gender attitude and women's income on the decision to hire domestic help in Hong Kong. Some previous studies fall short in finding a significant association between respondents' gender attitudes and the hiring of domestic help, while wives' income is a …
National Security Education and the Infrapolitical Resistance of Parent-Stayers in Hong Kong
This study highlights political parenting after the introduction of National Security Education (NSE) in Hong Kong amid waves of political repression after the anti-extradition movement in 2019–2020. Do parents conform to or resist the new nationalistic, China-focused education curriculum that is inconsistent with their ideals of parenting and children education? How do parents navigate these changes? Based on the interviews with 26 parent-stayer…
Hong Kong Migrants' Divergent Experiences in Australia
This study compares the social field for recent Hong Kong immigrants in the Australian cities of Melbourne, Sydney, and Darwin. We explore how migrants' experience differs in terms of their capital, migration trajectories, and interactions with Australians and in the workplace. Drawing on 31 in-depth interviews, this study features migrants' precarious experience and (self-)selection to cities and regional areas which are shaped by the convertibi…
Filial Considerations in Mate Selection
This article examines the transformation of filial piety by probing disagreements between parents and children over marriage decisions. Based on field observations and in-depth interviews in Guangdong, this research shows that children’s responses to disagreements vary by gender, generation, and rural or urban background. Collective family economies and intergenerational moral imperatives create a strong patriarchal basis for filial obedience for…
I wish I were a plumber
This study examines processes of class construction within a transnational community of professionals and managers who are emigrants, returnees, and non-migrants. Building on Bourdieu's class analysis and literature on transnational migration, the article examines how class statuses are supported by moral claims based on varying transnational mobility strategies. The authors draw their results from qualitative interviews with 45 Hong Kong respond…
Winning quietly
This study highlights the role of educators in the resistance to Hong Kong's National Security Education (NSE) amidst waves of political repression in the wake of the anti-extradition movement of 2019-2020. Education reforms, teacher training and student assessment used to cultivate students' creativity, critical thinking and independent thinking skills. NSE, which emphasises China's perspective of knowledge construction, has contradicted long-st…
Finishing the “unfinished revolution”
Intensive mothering, a classed and gendered practice optimally performed by stay‐at‐home mothers, is a dominant parenting ideology, particularly in developed societies with wide disparities in wealth. Ironically, in these societies, women tend to be well educated and have good employment prospects that are expected to free them from domestic obligations. Facing competing expectations shaped by the institutions of work and the family, how do colle…
Multiple Careers
This article examines the capacity of college-educated young people who pursue in several careers – "slash workers" – to act independently and to make their own choices about their work and life in capitalist Hong Kong. Numerous studies have assumed an unproblematic link between precarious employment and the exploitation of young people's labour. This article offers an alternative understanding of this link from the autonomist Marxist perspective…
Not Just Mom and Dad
This article investigates how children actively influence the division of childcare between couples in intact families in Hong Kong. Past studies that draw on West and Zimmerman's perspective of 'doing gender' have focused narrowly on the dyadic interactions between couples that produce, reproduce, or challenge the unequal division of household labor, but these studies have left unanswered the question of the role children play in shaping and sus…
Exit-Voice Dynamics
Does people's greater intention to migrate deter them from participating in protests? How does protest participation shape intention to migrate? How does the relationship between migration intention and protest change amidst Hong Kong's transition to authoritarianism? Drawing upon Hirschman's exit-voice theory, this study examines the relationship between protest and migration intentions against the changing context across time. We use a time-ser…
"Comfortably "Western
How do students from Mainland China select Canada for their education? Beyond the customary push-and-pull explanations, we introduce a framework of comparative imaginaries that describes how students' rational strategies are imbued with the imaginaries of their host societies and migration aspirations. Based on longitudinal interviews with 36 Chinese postsecondary students in Vancouver, we find that these students imagine Canada as a safe alterna…
Rural but not rural”
China is woven into the fabric of territorial demarcation between rural and urban space, which shapes people’s life chances. Grounded in the study of rural-urban and local/non-local inequalities, we explore the identity constructions of people-in-between – rural local villagers (commonly named “urban villagers”) in chengzhongcun (villages-in-the-cities). Based on in-depth interviews and participant observations in Shenzhen and Guangzhou, we found…
Gendering the job demands-resources model
Numerous studies show that job demands increase work-to-family conflict (WFC), while job resources have mixed effects on it. Yet the way in which their effects on WFC differ by gender is under-explored in Asian societies, where increasing female labour force participation coexists with traditional gender beliefs. Using data from the Taiwan Social Change Survey (TSCS) ( N = 1,265), we find that mechanisms by which employment and family characteris…
Stay-at-home fathers in Hong Kong
This study examines characteristics of stay-at-home father (SAHF) families in Hong Kong and factors contributing to their increase. Based on two decades of census data (1991–2011), we find father's older (relative) age, lower education relative to their spouse, and lower household income increase the probability of having SAHF arrangements, leading us to believe that some fathers enter SAHF arrangements because of their inability to work or due t…
The 'Gift' of Help
Based on in-depth interviews with 24 working couples who hire domestic helpers in Hong Kong, this article examines the hiring of help as an instance of unequal social exchange in which mothers are expected to give up more than fathers. Men view hiring help as a contractual service and as a 'gift' to their wives that allows them to 'buy out' of housework and childcare. Women, however, are likely to supplement their helper's contributions with thei…
Re-negotiating Gender
Not Just Mom and Dad
This article investigates how children actively influence the division of childcare between couples in intact families in Hong Kong. Past studies that draw on West and Zimmerman's perspective of 'doing gender' have focused narrowly on the dyadic interactions between couples that produce, reproduce, or challenge the unequal division of household labor, but these studies have left unanswered the question of the role children play in shaping and sus…
Gender, Rural-Urban Inequality, and Intermarriage in China
This study examines the marriage market in urban China through the lens of intersectionality, investigating how structural inequalities shape rural-urban inter-marriage preferences and opportunities. Using 134 semistructured interviews with participants from migrant-sending and -receiving regions of China, I find that China’s household registration system ( hukou ), which assigns people to “rural” or “urban,” creates a social hierarchy favorable …
Hiring Domestic Help in Hong Kong
The associating factors of hiring domestic help have not been thoroughly studied in a non-Western context. Using household survey data ( N = 974), this article investigates the interactive role of gender attitude and women's income on the decision to hire domestic help in Hong Kong. Some previous studies fall short in finding a significant association between respondents' gender attitudes and the hiring of domestic help, while wives' income is a …
HukouIntermarriage in China
Most studies on intermarriage between groups rely on the prevalence of intermarriage to assess social boundaries. Yet the characteristics underlying the intermarriage pairings are seldom examined. In this study, I analyze intermarriage across hukou, China’s household registration status of designating people as “rural” or “urban” categories based on parents’ place of origin. Using Chinese General Social Surveys, I show that the intermarriage pair…
Marital Power in Inter-Hukou Families in China
China's household registration system ( hukou) that assigns citizens into 'rural' or 'urban' status is a stratifying tool that shapes people's social rights based on parents' place of origin. This ethnographic research on inter- hukou couples suggests that the interlinked institutions of state and patriarchy construct differentiated and uneven marital power dynamics whereby inequalities are reproduced and/or transformed through everyday interacti…
Gendering the job demands-resources model
Numerous studies show that job demands increase work-to-family conflict (WFC), while job resources have mixed effects on it. Yet the way in which their effects on WFC differ by gender is under-explored in Asian societies, where increasing female labour force participation coexists with traditional gender beliefs. Using data from the Taiwan Social Change Survey (TSCS) ( N = 1,265), we find that mechanisms by which employment and family characteris…
Stay-at-home fathers in Hong Kong
This study examines characteristics of stay-at-home father (SAHF) families in Hong Kong and factors contributing to their increase. Based on two decades of census data (1991–2011), we find father's older (relative) age, lower education relative to their spouse, and lower household income increase the probability of having SAHF arrangements, leading us to believe that some fathers enter SAHF arrangements because of their inability to work or due t…
Rural but not rural”
China is woven into the fabric of territorial demarcation between rural and urban space, which shapes people’s life chances. Grounded in the study of rural-urban and local/non-local inequalities, we explore the identity constructions of people-in-between – rural local villagers (commonly named “urban villagers”) in chengzhongcun (villages-in-the-cities). Based on in-depth interviews and participant observations in Shenzhen and Guangzhou, we found…
I wish I were a plumber
This study examines processes of class construction within a transnational community of professionals and managers who are emigrants, returnees, and non-migrants. Building on Bourdieu's class analysis and literature on transnational migration, the article examines how class statuses are supported by moral claims based on varying transnational mobility strategies. The authors draw their results from qualitative interviews with 45 Hong Kong respond…
How families affect aspirational migration amidst political insecurity
The migration literature has examined migrants' political motivations separately from their family's mobility strategies in the face of macro‐political uncertainties. Bridging the two bodies of literature, this study analyses how parental status moderates the relationship between individual political considerations and migration intentions in an increasingly tense political climate. Based on the quantitative data on political protests in Hong Kon…
Family policies, social norms and marital fertility decisions
Numerous policy recommendations for increasing fertility in societies with ultralow fertility rates have been made, yet their effectiveness has mostly remained unevaluated. Using a multifactorial vignette design that creates hypothetical policy scenarios, this paper seeks to determine the effects of family‐friendly policies and organizational norms on fertility decisions in Hong Kong. Based on a territory‐wide random sample ( N = 1000), we find a…
Filial Considerations in Mate Selection
This article examines the transformation of filial piety by probing disagreements between parents and children over marriage decisions. Based on field observations and in-depth interviews in Guangdong, this research shows that children’s responses to disagreements vary by gender, generation, and rural or urban background. Collective family economies and intergenerational moral imperatives create a strong patriarchal basis for filial obedience for…
Guanxi and Moral Articulation
What explains failures of large-scale anti-corruption campaigns in reducing corruption? Theories on developing country corruption see corruption as either a problem of weak formal institutions that incentivize naturally opportunistic actors or as remnants of traditional behaviors that persist despite changing modern state boundaries and regulations. Neither helps explain how participants continuously strategize to reframe and articulate the moral…
National Security Education and the Infrapolitical Resistance of Parent-Stayers in Hong Kong
This study highlights political parenting after the introduction of National Security Education (NSE) in Hong Kong amid waves of political repression after the anti-extradition movement in 2019–2020. Do parents conform to or resist the new nationalistic, China-focused education curriculum that is inconsistent with their ideals of parenting and children education? How do parents navigate these changes? Based on the interviews with 26 parent-stayer…
Multiple Careers
This article examines the capacity of college-educated young people who pursue in several careers – "slash workers" – to act independently and to make their own choices about their work and life in capitalist Hong Kong. Numerous studies have assumed an unproblematic link between precarious employment and the exploitation of young people's labour. This article offers an alternative understanding of this link from the autonomist Marxist perspective…
Does live-in domestic help reduce unpaid household labor? The paradox of intensive parenting and domestic outsourcing
This two-stage mixed-method study pulls the literature of domestic outsourcing and intensive parenting together to investigate the role of employing live-in domestic helpers in the time-use patterns of household labor among working parents in Hong Kong. In the first stage, regression models are used to analyze data from a representative household survey of working parents ( N = 791). Regression results show that working parents who hire live-in d…
Finishing the “unfinished revolution”
Intensive mothering, a classed and gendered practice optimally performed by stay‐at‐home mothers, is a dominant parenting ideology, particularly in developed societies with wide disparities in wealth. Ironically, in these societies, women tend to be well educated and have good employment prospects that are expected to free them from domestic obligations. Facing competing expectations shaped by the institutions of work and the family, how do colle…
Outsourcing domestic work
Migration intentions in a politically divided context
This study examines migration intentions in a politically divided context, focusing on the interactive roles of individuals’ and the spouses’ affective polarization and political attitudes. Our study uses Hong Kong as a case study to elucidate migration intentions in the context of political polarization and increasing authoritarianism. We investigate how individuals facing the same political conditions exhibit varying inclinations to migrate. Ou…
Exit-Voice Dynamics
Does people's greater intention to migrate deter them from participating in protests? How does protest participation shape intention to migrate? How does the relationship between migration intention and protest change amidst Hong Kong's transition to authoritarianism? Drawing upon Hirschman's exit-voice theory, this study examines the relationship between protest and migration intentions against the changing context across time. We use a time-ser…
The Personal is Political
This study examines the relationship between political attitudes, affective polarization, and fertility preferences among married couples in Hong Kong. Using dyadic data from a representative household survey (N = 1586 heterosexually married adults), we investigate how individuals’ attitudes toward democracy and levels of affective polarization are associated with their fertility preferences. We also explore the influence of spouses’ political at…
Winning quietly
This study highlights the role of educators in the resistance to Hong Kong's National Security Education (NSE) amidst waves of political repression in the wake of the anti-extradition movement of 2019-2020. Education reforms, teacher training and student assessment used to cultivate students' creativity, critical thinking and independent thinking skills. NSE, which emphasises China's perspective of knowledge construction, has contradicted long-st…
"Comfortably "Western
How do students from Mainland China select Canada for their education? Beyond the customary push-and-pull explanations, we introduce a framework of comparative imaginaries that describes how students' rational strategies are imbued with the imaginaries of their host societies and migration aspirations. Based on longitudinal interviews with 36 Chinese postsecondary students in Vancouver, we find that these students imagine Canada as a safe alterna…
Sociology (25 works) · Political science (24 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (10 works)