Elizabeth Lacouture
Biographic Data
| ID | 1255166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Lacouture |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Lacouture |
| SIGNATURE | LACOUTURE E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2884-1760 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Missed-representations of Hong Kong and power in Lee’s The Expatriates and Amazon’s Expats
Erasing Race and Racing Beauty in Asia's Global City
During the summer of 2020, global demands for racial social justice, sparked by the murder of George Floyd, reached Hong Kong, where local activists, protesting police violence in their city, reissued the call that "Black lives matter" as "youth lives matter." Altering #BLM to #YLM, Hong Kong activists erased race from their social justice. At the same time that race was erased from Hong Kong social justice, the bodies of Hong Kong women were bei…
Dwelling in the World: Family, House, and Home in Tianjin, China, 1860–1960
Elizabeth LaCouture considers family, house, and home in Tianjin to explore how everyday life changed with the fall of the Qing Empire and the rise of a colonized city. Dwelling in the World recasts Chinese social and cultural history, offering new lenses on gender and class, colonialism and empire, visual and material culture, and technology.
Translating Domesticity in Chinese History and Historiography
This article examines knowledge about "domesticity" in China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and argues against the naturalization of Euro-American historiographical frameworks around "domesticity." "Domesticity" was not a Chinese concept: although Confucianism had long connected the household to the state through ideology and prescriptive practices, Anglo-American ideas about "domesticity" were translated into Chinese first …
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Translating Domesticity in Chinese History and Historiography
This article examines knowledge about "domesticity" in China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and argues against the naturalization of Euro-American historiographical frameworks around "domesticity." "Domesticity" was not a Chinese concept: although Confucianism had long connected the household to the state through ideology and prescriptive practices, Anglo-American ideas about "domesticity" were translated into Chinese first …
Dwelling in the World: Family, House, and Home in Tianjin, China, 1860–1960
Elizabeth LaCouture considers family, house, and home in Tianjin to explore how everyday life changed with the fall of the Qing Empire and the rise of a colonized city. Dwelling in the World recasts Chinese social and cultural history, offering new lenses on gender and class, colonialism and empire, visual and material culture, and technology.
Missed-representations of Hong Kong and power in Lee’s The Expatriates and Amazon’s Expats
Erasing Race and Racing Beauty in Asia's Global City
During the summer of 2020, global demands for racial social justice, sparked by the murder of George Floyd, reached Hong Kong, where local activists, protesting police violence in their city, reissued the call that "Black lives matter" as "youth lives matter." Altering #BLM to #YLM, Hong Kong activists erased race from their social justice. At the same time that race was erased from Hong Kong social justice, the bodies of Hong Kong women were bei…
Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · China (2 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (2 works) · Japanese History and Culture (2 works)