Lucia Siu got her PhD from the University of Edinburgh. She was a Hong Kong journalist in 1994-2001, covering technology, finance and environment issues in four Chinese newspapers. She joined Lingnan University in Jan 2008.

 
Research | Top

1. Consensus and markets
2. Electronic currencies; sociology of money
3. Science, technology and society (STS)
4. Sociology of knowledge and performativity

Lucia's PhD thesis (2008) is the first ethnography conducted in the commodity futures markets of China. It provides field records of the relationship between state structures, quasi-public bodies and the private sector. It shows how social groups align to form capital factions, and how these factions attempt to calculate the actions of each other. In the context of Chinese markets, political power plays a particularly crucial role -- it links up a politicized feedback loop between perception, action and market reality.

In 2008 she is resuming research in Octopus and Mondex, two electronic payment systems in Hong Kong (1996-98, 2002, 08). Her MSc dissertation (2002) was about collective rationality in Hong Kong's dotcom bubble.

 

Publications | Top

Book chapter | Top

Donald MacKenzie, Fabian Muniesa and Lucia Siu (2007), "Introduction" in Do Economists Make Markets? - On the Performativity of Economics, pp1-19, Princeton: Princeton University Press.

 

Edited books | Top

Donald MacKenzie, Fabian Muniesa and Lucia Siu (eds.) (2007), Do Economists Make Markets? -On the Performativity of Economics, 373 pages, Princeton: Princeton University Press.

 C.N. Leung, T.Y. Lo, Kenneth Wong and Lucia Siu (2004), Kwai Tsing: Past and Present, Inheritance and Breakthrough 《葵青：舊貌新顏‧傳承與突破》, 189 pages, Hong Kong: Kwai Tsing District Council.

 A small amount of contribution in Hong Kong Economic Times (2007), Hong Kong, Wake Up! Keeping up amid Competitions and Crises 《香港，醒醒！ - 危機重重 怎保競爭力》, 288 pages, Hong Kong: Hong Kong Economic Times.

 

Conference and Working Papers | Top

Lucia Siu (2008), "The Floor in Red: Shifting gender and occupational identities in a Chinese futures exchange", to be presented in the American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting 2008, San Francisco, 19-23 Nov 2008.

Lucia Siu (2008), "Coercing Consensus: Unintended success of the Octopus electronic payment system", to be presented in the 6th International Conference on Politics and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications (PISTA), Orlando, 29 Jun - 2 Jul 2008.

Lucia Siu (2008), “Cadres in the Markets: the role of state structures in China's commodity futures markets", presented at the 4th Annual Graduate Seminar on China (GSOC), 8-12 January 2008, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Lucia Siu (2007), “Gangs in the Markets: capital factions and network-based rationality", presented at the Early Careers' Researchers Conference (ECRC) on East Asian Studies, 24-26 October 2007, University of Edinburgh.

Lucia Siu (2002), “Octopus and Mondex: the social shaping of money, technology and consensus", working paper in social studies of finance, University of Edinburgh.

 

Dissertations | Top

Lucia Siu (2008), “Cadres, Gangs and Prophets : the commodity futures markets of China", PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.

Lucia Siu (2002), "Swarm, Shadow, Pheromone and Guerilla : clashing rationalities in the dotcom bubble", MSc dissertation, University of Edinburgh.

 

Membership in Professional Organizations | Top

• Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
• British Sociological Association (BSA)
• Hong Kong Sociological Association (HKSA)
• Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union (HKPTU)