Kin Chi Lau

Biographic Data

ID4258827
NAMEKin Chi Lau
GIVEN NAMESKin Chi
FAMILY NAMELau
SIGNATURELAU K C
AFFILIATIONSProgramme on Cultures of Sustainability at the Centre for Cultural Research and Development; Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China
ORCID0000-0002-6065-7341
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS16
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Cultural Resilience of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Global Health Regime

    Open AccessTsui Sit, Sit Tsui et al.ARTICLEAgrarian South Journal of…2026References: 4

    The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated the Chinese government and people to utilize traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in addressing the crisis. It is not only a question of the effectiveness of herbal treatment but also an alternative philosophy of life, countering capitalist logic based on the survival of the fittest and an orientation toward profit-making. This article argues for the cultural resilience of TCM during the pandemic, then revisits it…

  • Building a Global Feminist Alliance for Peace in East Asia

    Tsui Sit, Sit Tsui et al.ARTICLEpositions asia critique2020

    In an era of vacillations between threats of a nuclear war and promises of peace breakthroughs in East Asia, this article takes examples from public campaigns of women’s peace groups—such as Women’s Peace Walk, Women Cross DMZ (the Demilitarized Zone), Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace, and PeaceWomen Across the Globe—and argues for feminist scholarship to take an interdisciplinary approach and, in particular, to fuse peace studies with cult…

  • China’s Strategic Responses to Crises and for Rural Vitalisation

    Open AccessTsui Sit, Sit Tsui et al.ARTICLESocial Change2019References: 2

    The tyranny of global monopoly-finance capital can be seen in part as monetary geopolitics backed by military power. It directly appropriates, through investment schemes, production gains from the physical and resource economies of developing countries. At the same time, it engages in financial speculation by means of buying long and selling short in capital markets. The end result is the plundering of social wealth. China is not immune to this t…

  • Living in truth” versus realpolitik

    Po-Keung Hui, Kin Chi Lau et al.ARTICLEInter-Asia Cultural Studies2015Cited by: 13

    This paper is concerned with the social context in which the Umbrella Movement emerged in Hong Kong in 2014. It aims to analyze its limitation and transformative potential for Hong Kong. It attempts to review the changing socio-cultural dynamics in the past few years, with a focus on the notion of realpolitik that has significantly disrupted the processes of developing a public vision of an alternative society, as well as undermined people's mutu…

  • Reflections through a local lens on Muto Ichiyo's ideas of alternative practices

    Po-Keung Hui, Kin Chi Lau et al.ARTICLEInter-Asia Cultural Studies2013References: 1

    This paper discusses the views of Muto Ichiyo, an important thinker and social activist in Japan and the Inter-Asian context, on alternative practices through reviewing the actual implementation of several community projects in Hong Kong and mainland China. Many of these community projects are informed by visions and notions of alternative practices of, say, a Muto typeconstructing a new democratic experience, locally rooted and globally connecte…

  • The Movement in Egypt

    Wang Hui, Wánɡ Huī et al.ARTICLEboundary 22012Cited by: 1

    In this dialogue spanning February to May 2011, Samir Amin, one of the most important theorists of dependency theory and a long-time activist in third world social movements, discusses with Wang Hui, Wen Tiejun, and Lau Kin Chi, professors from China, the implications of the political unfolding of the Arab Spring in Egypt. With a consensus that the Egyptian revolution is not a color revolution, Samir Amin examines the components and strategies of…

  • Actions at the Margins

    Kin Chi LauARTICLESigns: Journal of Women in…2011References: 3

    This article shows how the practices of PeaceWomen in mainland China inhabit the margins without succumbing to institutional and cultural violence and how this is a pedagogical process, one of learning to live with differences and diversities here and now in our daily lives in relating to one another and to nature

  • How does Asia mean? (Part II)

    Sun Ge, Hui Shiu-Lun et al.ARTICLEInter-Asia Cultural Studies2000Cited by: 2

    (2000). How does Asia mean? (Part II) Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 319-341

  • Samizdat and designer T-shirts

    Open AccessLau Kin Chi, Kin Chi LauARTICLEIndex on Censorship1992

    The widespread nature of dissent within China is only now coming to light as the government attempts to stamp out the centres of underground resistance