Dr. CHAU Leung 周亮
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow
Location: Room 126, Ho Sin Hang Building 何善衡樓126室
Fax: (852) 2572 5170
Email: [email protected]
Areas of Interest: Hong Kong, Writing and Narration, Cultural Identity, Urban Space and Cultural Commons, Ordinary Voice and Everyday Life
PhD in Cultural Studies, The University of Sydney
MA in Colonial and Post-colonial Studies, University of Birmingham
BA in Chinese, Lingnan University
Journal Articles
[Under Review] Zhou, Y., and Chau, L., ‘The War Against Precarity: Cultural Politics of Class Containment in China’s Platform Capitalism’. International Journal of Communication.
[Submitted] Chau, L., and Zhou, Y., ‘The Hidden Injuries of Platform Capitalism: Alienation and Overwork Death in China’s Platform Economy’. European Journal of Cultural Studies.
Edited Book
Pun, N., and Chau, L., 2025. Commoning: Co-building the Community and Co-sharing the Space (Revised) [in Chinese: Commoning: 社群共造和共享空間 (增潤版)]. Hong Kong: Typesetter.
Book Chapters
Chau, L., (Manuscript in Progress). ‘Threads of the Net: Weaving Hong Kong Web Fiction into Cinematic Tapestries’. In: C., Song, and M., Wong, ed. Hong Kong Cinema and Adaptation.
Chau, L., and Ho, K. L., 2025. ‘The commoning potential of alternative bookstores: One Seventh Bookshops’ [in Chinese: 另類書店的commoning可能性——七份一書店]. In: N., Pun, and L., Chau, ed. Commoning: Co-building the Community and Co-sharing the Space (Revised) [in Chinese: Commoning: 社群共造和共享空間 (增潤版)]. Hong Kong: Typesetter.
Chau, L., 2020. ‘The Colonial Education in the 1960s and the First Generation of “Hongkonger”’ [in Chinese: 一九六〇年代殖民教育與「第一代香港人」]. In: S. H., Wong, ed. Hong Kong, the 1960s [in Chinese: 香港．一九六〇年代]. Taipei: Wenhsun.
PI, ‘Floating: Imagining and Re-imagining Hong Kong with the Oceans’’ (01/05/2025-30/04/2026). Faculty Research Grant. LU Research Committee, Lingnan University (LUFRG101956): HKD60,500.
Co-I, ‘Echoes of the Eternal Rest: Cultures of Death among China’s Overworked Platform Workers’ (01/06/2024-30/05/2026). Faculty Research Grant. LU Research Committee, Lingnan University (LUFRG101926): HKD53,000.