Tai-Lok Lui
Biographic Data
| ID | 170347 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tai-Lok Lui |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tai-Lok |
| FAMILY NAME | Lui |
| SIGNATURE | LUI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5057-4630 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 123 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Hong Kong as a Global Business and Financial Hub
The unfinished chapter of Hong Kong's long political transition
In hindsight, that the institutional framework of 'One Country, Two Systems' (OCTS), the political and socio-economic blueprint for ensuring the continuity of Hong Kong as a capitalist economy, with guarantees of freedom of speech and a high degree of autonomy from China's socialist and authoritarian rule after a change of sovereignty in 1997, gets caught in political crossfire is inevitable. OCTS was a historical compromise in the early 1980s wh…
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Hong Kong
Beneath the Appearance of Gentrification
In 'Gentrification in Hong Kong? Epistemology vs. Ontology', Ley and Teo examine what they find to be the absence of identification and naming of gentrification in Hong Kong. They argue for the need to look at urban redevelopment in non-Anglo-American cities, those in Asia Pacific at the very least, in a different light. They query the extent to which the concept of gentrification has been overly stretched to explain urban processes falling outsi…
A missing page in the grand plan of “one country, two systems”
The design of "one country, two systems" was an outcome of political compromise and there are several hidden assumptions in its conception and reception. Such assumptions prepare, or more accurately under-prepare, Hong Kong for its integration with China. Indeed, prior to 1997, Hong Kong was expected to be largely secluded from China in the sense that while its manufacturers were free to invest in the Mainland and to make the best use of resource…
GBCS
In this response to 'A new model of social class?' by Savage et al. (2013) , I take issue with their claim of carrying out an inductive, data-driven approach to the construction of a new class scheme. They emphasize that theirs is not just another occupational- or employment-based class schema. Rather, their objective is to illustrate how cultural and social boundaries are drawn up. Their class classification is multi-dimensional, with the combin…
Opportunities and tensions in the process of educational globalisation
With the rise of Asian economies, university education in the region is no longer just a service to be consumed domestically. It is also perceived as an industry for a rising global city. How to capture the growing market and make the best use of such an opportunity for city building is now on the agenda of many cities in A sia. H ong K ong is a particularly interesting case as it is both a destination for many talented students from C hina and a…
Revisiting the golden era of MacLehose and the dynamics of social reforms
The so-called "MacLehose era" has been fondly remembered as a period marking the turning point in colonial rule in Hong Kong and its socioeconomic development in the postwar decades. This article, however, argues that it was London's initiatives summarized in the document Hong Kong Planning Paper that accounted for the acceleration of social reforms in the 1970s. Contrary to popular perception, MacLehose, who was beholden to local constraints, ap…
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a small city with a big reputation. As mainland China has become an 'economic powerhouse' Hong Kong has taken a route of development of its own, flourishing as an entrepot and a centre of commerce and finance for Chinese business, then as an industrial city and subsequently a regional and international financial centre. This volume examines the developmental history of Hong Kong, focusing on its rise to the status of a Chinese global…
City-branding without content
After much debate, in February 2006 the proposed West Kowloon cultural development project – a kind of cultural flagship initiative put forward by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to develop a landmark for the purposes of city-branding, place-promotion and promoting culture – was shelved, at least temporarily. Though a consultative committee was appointed by the government on 6 April to mark its re-launch, the twists …
Hong Kong, China
1 The Significance of Hong Kong 2: Fleeing the Nation, Creating a Local Home, 1949-1983 3: Rejoining the Nation, 1983-2006 4: Representing the in Hong Kong Mass Media 5: Hong Kong Schools and the Teaching of National Identity 6: Hong Kong People's Changing Comprehensions of National Identity 7: How American, Chinese, and Hong Kong University Students Understand Belonging to a Nation 8: Hong Kong People Encountering the in South China 9: Hong Kong…
Testing the Global City-Social Polarisation Thesis
The literature on the development of global cities suggests that Hong Kong had qualified as a global city by the early 1990s. Using data from the Population Censuses, this paper documents the extent to which the process of social polarisation accompanied Hong Kong's globalisation. As predicted by the global city literature, Hong Kong experienced during the 1990s a process of occupational polarisation and widening income inequality as a result of …
Rearguard Politics
This paper reports on the emergence of the middle class in contemporary Hong Kong First, it gives the historical background of the rise of the middle class in the 1970s. This historical background is important to our understanding of Hong Kong's middle class because it highlights its symbolic significance—the realization of the so‐called Hong Kong dream—in the context of the local society. It is also relevant to our understanding of the shaping o…
Consuming Hong Kong
Consumption forms an essential part of Hong Kong people’s lives today, but until now little serious attention has been paid to it. This book fills this gap, in a fascinating way. The contributors to this volume explore such topics as: - the coming of shopping malls to Hong Kong - tenants’ senses of home in cramped public housing - the experiences of movie-going - alcohol as a marker of social class - the pursuit of fashion - Chinese art and ident…
Consuming Hong Kong
the coming of shopping malls to Hong Kong - tenants' senses of home in cramped public housing - the experiences of movie-going - alcohol as a marker of social class - the pursuit of fashion - Chinese art and identity among Hong Kong collectors - the dream and reality of owning a flat - Lan Kwai Fong and its mystique - the McDonald's Snoopy craze of fall 1998 - cultural identity and consumption in Hong Kong today
Democracy Denied
Working with Class
The Dynamics of Social Movements in Hong Kong
Studies of Hong Kong society have long focused one-sidedly upon economic proserity and political stability. Contributors to this volume redress this imbalance by taking a critical view of Hong Kong’s political development from the perspectives of social conflicts and collective actions. Instead of looking at Hong Kong from the top, this volume documents the active role played by local actors from below (political groups, student activists, trade …
Hong Kong society
People in Hong Kong were restless before and following the handover in 1997. They were in a state of anxiety—a kind of political psychology that was neither resistant nor compliant. Beneath quiescence on the surface, people were groaning and grumbling. This paper is an attempt to probe the political psychology of uneasiness and anxiety among the people of Hong Kong in the transitional year. The objective is to look at the popular mood in Hong Kon…
The Structuring of Social Movements in Contemporary Hong Kong
City-States in the Global Economy
Hong Kong and Singapore in the World Economy * Historical Trajectories: Common Legacies, Different Outcomes * Hong Kong: Locked into Labor-intensive Manufacturing * Singapore: Manufacturing Fortunes in Sunrise and High Noon Industries * Hong Kong versus Singapore: Divergent Paths of Economic Change * Comparing Institutional Legacies and Trajectories * Conclusion
A Tale of Two Industries
In different ways, newly industrialised economies (NIEs) in East Asia are restructuring their industries in response to changes in their comparative advantages and to the changing environment of the global economy. In this paper, an attempt is made to examine the case of Hong Kong through intensive case studies of its garment-making and electronics industries. It is argued that the way the manufacturing industries respond to rising production cos…
Testing the Global City-Social Polarisation Thesis
The literature on the development of global cities suggests that Hong Kong had qualified as a global city by the early 1990s. Using data from the Population Censuses, this paper documents the extent to which the process of social polarisation accompanied Hong Kong's globalisation. As predicted by the global city literature, Hong Kong experienced during the 1990s a process of occupational polarisation and widening income inequality as a result of …
Revisiting the golden era of MacLehose and the dynamics of social reforms
The so-called "MacLehose era" has been fondly remembered as a period marking the turning point in colonial rule in Hong Kong and its socioeconomic development in the postwar decades. This article, however, argues that it was London's initiatives summarized in the document Hong Kong Planning Paper that accounted for the acceleration of social reforms in the 1970s. Contrary to popular perception, MacLehose, who was beholden to local constraints, ap…
The unfinished chapter of Hong Kong's long political transition
In hindsight, that the institutional framework of 'One Country, Two Systems' (OCTS), the political and socio-economic blueprint for ensuring the continuity of Hong Kong as a capitalist economy, with guarantees of freedom of speech and a high degree of autonomy from China's socialist and authoritarian rule after a change of sovereignty in 1997, gets caught in political crossfire is inevitable. OCTS was a historical compromise in the early 1980s wh…
A missing page in the grand plan of “one country, two systems”
The design of "one country, two systems" was an outcome of political compromise and there are several hidden assumptions in its conception and reception. Such assumptions prepare, or more accurately under-prepare, Hong Kong for its integration with China. Indeed, prior to 1997, Hong Kong was expected to be largely secluded from China in the sense that while its manufacturers were free to invest in the Mainland and to make the best use of resource…
A Tale of Two Industries
In different ways, newly industrialised economies (NIEs) in East Asia are restructuring their industries in response to changes in their comparative advantages and to the changing environment of the global economy. In this paper, an attempt is made to examine the case of Hong Kong through intensive case studies of its garment-making and electronics industries. It is argued that the way the manufacturing industries respond to rising production cos…
City-branding without content
After much debate, in February 2006 the proposed West Kowloon cultural development project – a kind of cultural flagship initiative put forward by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to develop a landmark for the purposes of city-branding, place-promotion and promoting culture – was shelved, at least temporarily. Though a consultative committee was appointed by the government on 6 April to mark its re-launch, the twists …
Beneath the Appearance of Gentrification
In 'Gentrification in Hong Kong? Epistemology vs. Ontology', Ley and Teo examine what they find to be the absence of identification and naming of gentrification in Hong Kong. They argue for the need to look at urban redevelopment in non-Anglo-American cities, those in Asia Pacific at the very least, in a different light. They query the extent to which the concept of gentrification has been overly stretched to explain urban processes falling outsi…
The Structuring of Social Movements in Contemporary Hong Kong
Opportunities and tensions in the process of educational globalisation
With the rise of Asian economies, university education in the region is no longer just a service to be consumed domestically. It is also perceived as an industry for a rising global city. How to capture the growing market and make the best use of such an opportunity for city building is now on the agenda of many cities in A sia. H ong K ong is a particularly interesting case as it is both a destination for many talented students from C hina and a…
Hong Kong society
People in Hong Kong were restless before and following the handover in 1997. They were in a state of anxiety—a kind of political psychology that was neither resistant nor compliant. Beneath quiescence on the surface, people were groaning and grumbling. This paper is an attempt to probe the political psychology of uneasiness and anxiety among the people of Hong Kong in the transitional year. The objective is to look at the popular mood in Hong Kon…
A Tale of Two Industries
In different ways, newly industrialised economies (NIEs) in East Asia are restructuring their industries in response to changes in their comparative advantages and to the changing environment of the global economy. In this paper, an attempt is made to examine the case of Hong Kong through intensive case studies of its garment-making and electronics industries. It is argued that the way the manufacturing industries respond to rising production cos…
The Structuring of Social Movements in Contemporary Hong Kong
City-States in the Global Economy
Hong Kong and Singapore in the World Economy * Historical Trajectories: Common Legacies, Different Outcomes * Hong Kong: Locked into Labor-intensive Manufacturing * Singapore: Manufacturing Fortunes in Sunrise and High Noon Industries * Hong Kong versus Singapore: Divergent Paths of Economic Change * Comparing Institutional Legacies and Trajectories * Conclusion
Hong Kong society
People in Hong Kong were restless before and following the handover in 1997. They were in a state of anxiety—a kind of political psychology that was neither resistant nor compliant. Beneath quiescence on the surface, people were groaning and grumbling. This paper is an attempt to probe the political psychology of uneasiness and anxiety among the people of Hong Kong in the transitional year. The objective is to look at the popular mood in Hong Kon…
The Dynamics of Social Movements in Hong Kong
Studies of Hong Kong society have long focused one-sidedly upon economic proserity and political stability. Contributors to this volume redress this imbalance by taking a critical view of Hong Kong’s political development from the perspectives of social conflicts and collective actions. Instead of looking at Hong Kong from the top, this volume documents the active role played by local actors from below (political groups, student activists, trade …
Consuming Hong Kong
Consumption forms an essential part of Hong Kong people’s lives today, but until now little serious attention has been paid to it. This book fills this gap, in a fascinating way. The contributors to this volume explore such topics as: - the coming of shopping malls to Hong Kong - tenants’ senses of home in cramped public housing - the experiences of movie-going - alcohol as a marker of social class - the pursuit of fashion - Chinese art and ident…
Consuming Hong Kong
the coming of shopping malls to Hong Kong - tenants' senses of home in cramped public housing - the experiences of movie-going - alcohol as a marker of social class - the pursuit of fashion - Chinese art and identity among Hong Kong collectors - the dream and reality of owning a flat - Lan Kwai Fong and its mystique - the McDonald's Snoopy craze of fall 1998 - cultural identity and consumption in Hong Kong today
Democracy Denied
Working with Class
Rearguard Politics
This paper reports on the emergence of the middle class in contemporary Hong Kong First, it gives the historical background of the rise of the middle class in the 1970s. This historical background is important to our understanding of Hong Kong's middle class because it highlights its symbolic significance—the realization of the so‐called Hong Kong dream—in the context of the local society. It is also relevant to our understanding of the shaping o…
Testing the Global City-Social Polarisation Thesis
The literature on the development of global cities suggests that Hong Kong had qualified as a global city by the early 1990s. Using data from the Population Censuses, this paper documents the extent to which the process of social polarisation accompanied Hong Kong's globalisation. As predicted by the global city literature, Hong Kong experienced during the 1990s a process of occupational polarisation and widening income inequality as a result of …
Hong Kong, China
1 The Significance of Hong Kong 2: Fleeing the Nation, Creating a Local Home, 1949-1983 3: Rejoining the Nation, 1983-2006 4: Representing the in Hong Kong Mass Media 5: Hong Kong Schools and the Teaching of National Identity 6: Hong Kong People's Changing Comprehensions of National Identity 7: How American, Chinese, and Hong Kong University Students Understand Belonging to a Nation 8: Hong Kong People Encountering the in South China 9: Hong Kong…
City-branding without content
After much debate, in February 2006 the proposed West Kowloon cultural development project – a kind of cultural flagship initiative put forward by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to develop a landmark for the purposes of city-branding, place-promotion and promoting culture – was shelved, at least temporarily. Though a consultative committee was appointed by the government on 6 April to mark its re-launch, the twists …
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a small city with a big reputation. As mainland China has become an 'economic powerhouse' Hong Kong has taken a route of development of its own, flourishing as an entrepot and a centre of commerce and finance for Chinese business, then as an industrial city and subsequently a regional and international financial centre. This volume examines the developmental history of Hong Kong, focusing on its rise to the status of a Chinese global…
Revisiting the golden era of MacLehose and the dynamics of social reforms
The so-called "MacLehose era" has been fondly remembered as a period marking the turning point in colonial rule in Hong Kong and its socioeconomic development in the postwar decades. This article, however, argues that it was London's initiatives summarized in the document Hong Kong Planning Paper that accounted for the acceleration of social reforms in the 1970s. Contrary to popular perception, MacLehose, who was beholden to local constraints, ap…
Opportunities and tensions in the process of educational globalisation
With the rise of Asian economies, university education in the region is no longer just a service to be consumed domestically. It is also perceived as an industry for a rising global city. How to capture the growing market and make the best use of such an opportunity for city building is now on the agenda of many cities in A sia. H ong K ong is a particularly interesting case as it is both a destination for many talented students from C hina and a…
A missing page in the grand plan of “one country, two systems”
The design of "one country, two systems" was an outcome of political compromise and there are several hidden assumptions in its conception and reception. Such assumptions prepare, or more accurately under-prepare, Hong Kong for its integration with China. Indeed, prior to 1997, Hong Kong was expected to be largely secluded from China in the sense that while its manufacturers were free to invest in the Mainland and to make the best use of resource…
GBCS
In this response to 'A new model of social class?' by Savage et al. (2013) , I take issue with their claim of carrying out an inductive, data-driven approach to the construction of a new class scheme. They emphasize that theirs is not just another occupational- or employment-based class schema. Rather, their objective is to illustrate how cultural and social boundaries are drawn up. Their class classification is multi-dimensional, with the combin…
Beneath the Appearance of Gentrification
In 'Gentrification in Hong Kong? Epistemology vs. Ontology', Ley and Teo examine what they find to be the absence of identification and naming of gentrification in Hong Kong. They argue for the need to look at urban redevelopment in non-Anglo-American cities, those in Asia Pacific at the very least, in a different light. They query the extent to which the concept of gentrification has been overly stretched to explain urban processes falling outsi…
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Hong Kong
The unfinished chapter of Hong Kong's long political transition
In hindsight, that the institutional framework of 'One Country, Two Systems' (OCTS), the political and socio-economic blueprint for ensuring the continuity of Hong Kong as a capitalist economy, with guarantees of freedom of speech and a high degree of autonomy from China's socialist and authoritarian rule after a change of sovereignty in 1997, gets caught in political crossfire is inevitable. OCTS was a historical compromise in the early 1980s wh…
Hong Kong as a Global Business and Financial Hub
Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Geography (9 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (9 works) · History (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Art (5 works)