Lok Yin Law
Biographic Data
| ID | 4970650 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lok Yin Law |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lok Yin |
| FAMILY NAME | Law |
| SIGNATURE | LAW L Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Education University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4543-2208 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Tourism as informal political propaganda
This paper examines how tourism served as a vehicle for informal political propaganda in postwar Taiwan under Guomindang (GMD) rule. Following the Second World War, when the GMD began governing Taiwan, the government recognized tourism’s potential for ideological projection and national legitimation. Through analysis of tourism promotional materials, policy documents, and news reports from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia, this paper demonst…
A Department for Containment
The establishment of the Department of Chinese Studies at the University of Malaya in Singapore (later renamed the University of Singapore) was not merely an academic initiative but a calculated strategic response by British colonial authorities to contain communist influence in postwar Malaya. Drawing on previously underutilized archival materials and historical press accounts, this article demonstrates how the department’s creation and curricul…
Top-down rural heritage revitalization and economic development
Tangwei village, located in Dongguan’s rapidly urbanizing Pearl River Delta region, Guangdong, illustrates the challenges and opportunities of balancing heritage preservation with rural revitalization in contemporary China. Designated as a major cultural heritage site in 2006, the village’s preservation strategies reflect the interplay between provincial policies, local government planning, and a broader national emphasis on tourism-driven econom…
Be Water
This paper examines the On Lung Ching Chiu (安龍清醮, Ritual of Settling Down the Dragon for Purification) in Kau Lau Wan village, Hong Kong, analyzing how the boat people have manipulated religious rituals to blur the identity of the original Hakka residents and strengthen their own cultural identity. The research finds that although the On Lung festival originated from Hakka tradition, over the past decades, this ritual has been replaced and recons…
From exotic Orient to city with heritage
Customary and customised
The Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM) is the first museum dedicated to orthodox Chinese history in Hong Kong. Opened in July 2022, the HKPM emerged amid an accelerating integration of the city with mainland China and closely adheres to Chinese nationalist ideologies. However, among museums in Hong Kong and mainland China that foster nation-building, it features conventional yet distinctive presentation strategies. We critically analyse the objects d…
Re-thinking Popular Culture
Chosŏn Interpreters as Cultural Brokers
The yŏnhaengnok 燕行錄: (records of missions to Beijing) are a literary genre that allows the exploration of the entanglement of Chinese and Korean history between the 15th and 19th centuries. As the studies of various records of the yŏnhaengnok have shown, the authors of this genre considered interpreters to be their intermediaries for collecting information or communicating with the Chinese during missions to Beijing. Interpreters were essential t…
Hong Kong citizens’ understanding of Islam
The Hong Kong government consistently emphasizes how Hong Kong is a society marked by cultural pluralism, as all citizens can enjoy freedoms of religion and belief under the Basic Law. Reality is more complex than this. To fulfill the needs of increasing numbers of worshippers, several representatives of Hong Kong's Muslim community suggested, in the early 2000s, the building of a new mosque in Sheung Shui, a rural area of the territory. However,…
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Hong Kong citizens’ understanding of Islam
The Hong Kong government consistently emphasizes how Hong Kong is a society marked by cultural pluralism, as all citizens can enjoy freedoms of religion and belief under the Basic Law. Reality is more complex than this. To fulfill the needs of increasing numbers of worshippers, several representatives of Hong Kong's Muslim community suggested, in the early 2000s, the building of a new mosque in Sheung Shui, a rural area of the territory. However,…
Chosŏn Interpreters as Cultural Brokers
The yŏnhaengnok 燕行錄: (records of missions to Beijing) are a literary genre that allows the exploration of the entanglement of Chinese and Korean history between the 15th and 19th centuries. As the studies of various records of the yŏnhaengnok have shown, the authors of this genre considered interpreters to be their intermediaries for collecting information or communicating with the Chinese during missions to Beijing. Interpreters were essential t…
Re-thinking Popular Culture
Customary and customised
The Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM) is the first museum dedicated to orthodox Chinese history in Hong Kong. Opened in July 2022, the HKPM emerged amid an accelerating integration of the city with mainland China and closely adheres to Chinese nationalist ideologies. However, among museums in Hong Kong and mainland China that foster nation-building, it features conventional yet distinctive presentation strategies. We critically analyse the objects d…
From exotic Orient to city with heritage
Top-down rural heritage revitalization and economic development
Tangwei village, located in Dongguan’s rapidly urbanizing Pearl River Delta region, Guangdong, illustrates the challenges and opportunities of balancing heritage preservation with rural revitalization in contemporary China. Designated as a major cultural heritage site in 2006, the village’s preservation strategies reflect the interplay between provincial policies, local government planning, and a broader national emphasis on tourism-driven econom…
Be Water
This paper examines the On Lung Ching Chiu (安龍清醮, Ritual of Settling Down the Dragon for Purification) in Kau Lau Wan village, Hong Kong, analyzing how the boat people have manipulated religious rituals to blur the identity of the original Hakka residents and strengthen their own cultural identity. The research finds that although the On Lung festival originated from Hakka tradition, over the past decades, this ritual has been replaced and recons…
Tourism as informal political propaganda
This paper examines how tourism served as a vehicle for informal political propaganda in postwar Taiwan under Guomindang (GMD) rule. Following the Second World War, when the GMD began governing Taiwan, the government recognized tourism’s potential for ideological projection and national legitimation. Through analysis of tourism promotional materials, policy documents, and news reports from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia, this paper demonst…
A Department for Containment
The establishment of the Department of Chinese Studies at the University of Malaya in Singapore (later renamed the University of Singapore) was not merely an academic initiative but a calculated strategic response by British colonial authorities to contain communist influence in postwar Malaya. Drawing on previously underutilized archival materials and historical press accounts, this article demonstrates how the department’s creation and curricul…
Socioeconomic Development in Asia (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · China (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Media studies (3 works)