Ting Hui Lau
Biographic Data
| ID | 144577 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ting Hui Lau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ting Hui |
| FAMILY NAME | Lau |
| SIGNATURE | LAU T H |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6507-468X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Seeing like a surveillance state: Settler colonialism on the China–Myanmar border
"The afterlife of "doing medicine: Birth planning, chronic illness, and regeneration among the Lisu on the China-Myanmar border
Between the late 1970s and 1990s, many indigenous Lisu people in the Nu River Valley, an Eastern Himalayan region of China bordering Myanmar and Tibet, underwent what they referred to as "doing medicine"-abortions, vasectomies, and tubal ligations-as part of China's Birth Planning Policy. Lisu, who endured these procedures, struggle with strength loss, nervousness, and pain. Government discourses diminish the Lisu experience, arguing that the pol…
Conjuring spirits: Melancholic play and refusal among alcohol-drinking Lisu men on the China-Myanmar border
Among the ethnic minority Lisu in the Nu River Valley on the China-Myanmar border, Christian missionization and Chinese development have led to cultural loss by paradoxically erasing and reifying Lisu cultural practices. Responding to loss, non-Christian Lisu men gather regularly to drink alcohol, a practice denigrated by state and Christian discourses. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this article argues that alcohol drinking is a fo…
Conjuring spirits: Melancholic play and refusal among alcohol-drinking Lisu men on the China-Myanmar border
Among the ethnic minority Lisu in the Nu River Valley on the China-Myanmar border, Christian missionization and Chinese development have led to cultural loss by paradoxically erasing and reifying Lisu cultural practices. Responding to loss, non-Christian Lisu men gather regularly to drink alcohol, a practice denigrated by state and Christian discourses. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this article argues that alcohol drinking is a fo…
"The afterlife of "doing medicine: Birth planning, chronic illness, and regeneration among the Lisu on the China-Myanmar border
Between the late 1970s and 1990s, many indigenous Lisu people in the Nu River Valley, an Eastern Himalayan region of China bordering Myanmar and Tibet, underwent what they referred to as "doing medicine"-abortions, vasectomies, and tubal ligations-as part of China's Birth Planning Policy. Lisu, who endured these procedures, struggle with strength loss, nervousness, and pain. Government discourses diminish the Lisu experience, arguing that the pol…
"The afterlife of "doing medicine: Birth planning, chronic illness, and regeneration among the Lisu on the China-Myanmar border
Between the late 1970s and 1990s, many indigenous Lisu people in the Nu River Valley, an Eastern Himalayan region of China bordering Myanmar and Tibet, underwent what they referred to as "doing medicine"-abortions, vasectomies, and tubal ligations-as part of China's Birth Planning Policy. Lisu, who endured these procedures, struggle with strength loss, nervousness, and pain. Government discourses diminish the Lisu experience, arguing that the pol…
Conjuring spirits: Melancholic play and refusal among alcohol-drinking Lisu men on the China-Myanmar border
Among the ethnic minority Lisu in the Nu River Valley on the China-Myanmar border, Christian missionization and Chinese development have led to cultural loss by paradoxically erasing and reifying Lisu cultural practices. Responding to loss, non-Christian Lisu men gather regularly to drink alcohol, a practice denigrated by state and Christian discourses. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this article argues that alcohol drinking is a fo…
Seeing like a surveillance state: Settler colonialism on the China–Myanmar border
Anthropology (2 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (2 works) · China (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works)