Prof LEE, Kai Chun Katon (李啟雋)

Ph.D., History, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
MPhil., History, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
B.A. (First-class Honours), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Fellow (FHEA), Higher Education Academy, UK

 Books:

1. Suit Culture in British Hong Kong: Fashion, Cultural Identities and Chinese Society, 1910-1980 (Contracted with Amsterdam University Press; Expected Publication: Early 2025).
 

Articles:
1. ‘Revisiting Cold War Hong Kong: Chinese Tailors, American Servicemen, and Suit-making Experiences, 1950-1980,’ in Writing beyond the Archives: Marginal Voices and Alternative Narratives in Asian Histories, edited by Catherine Chan and Tsang-wing Ben Ma (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2023), 203-220.

2. ‘Identity Pride and Exclusiveness: Cross-border Craftsmanship and Chinese Tailors in Post-war Hong Kong, 1945-1970,’ Asian Ethnicity, 24, 4 (2023), 571-587.

3. ‘Women’s Body and Subjectivity: Foot-binding and Anti-foot-binding in the Republic of China (1911-1949),’ Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies Occasional Paper Series, No. 231 (January 2016), 1-49.

Book Review:
1. Review of Women’s Lives and Clothes in WW2: Ready for Action by Lucy Adlington, The Journal of Dress History, 5, No.1 (Spring 2021), 135-137.

2. Review of The Chinese and Indian Corporate Economies: A Comparative History of their Search for Economic Renaissance and Globalization by R.A. Brown, Journal of International and Global Studies, 9, No.1 (December 2017), 139-141. 

1.    ‘Fashioning Craftsman Identities and Business Networks: Ningbonese Tailors in Yokohama and Shanghai,’ The 13th International Convention of Asia Scholars, Universitas Airlangga (28 July-1 August 2024), Indonesia.

2.    ‘The Cross-border Suit Culture in the Hong Kong-New York Corridor, 1945-1980,’ Blurred Boundaries: Islands, Ports, and Borders in Global History and Literature, University of Macau (26 August 2023), Macau (Hybrid).

3.    ‘Fashioning ‘Hong Kong-ness’: Chinese Tailors in Hong Kong and America, 1945-1980,’ 2023 AAS-in-Asia Conference, Institute of Humanities Studies, Kyungpook National University (24-27 June 2023), Korea.

4.    ‘Transnational Cultural Exchange and the Fashioning of Identity: An Analysis of Western Suits in the Hong Kong-New York Corridor, 1945-1980,’ An International Conference on Port Cities in Comparative Global History: Potentials and Issues, Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University (15-16 June 2023), Hong Kong.

5.    ‘Wartime Reminiscences: Exploring Memoirs and Oral History of American Servicemen and Chinese Tailors in Cold War Hong Kong, 1950-1980,’ Missing Sources & Marginal Voices: Reconstructing Asian Historical Narratives, Department of History, University of Macau (7 December 2021), Macau (Online).

6.    ‘Fashioning Hong Kong: Suits, Tailors, and Transnational Networks, 1945-1975,’ Historians Say, Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University (25 November 2021), Hong Kong.

7.    ‘Identity Pride and Exclusiveness: Cross-border Craftsmanship and Chinese Tailors in Post-war Hong Kong, 1945-1970,’ Managing the Cosmopolitan City: Inter-Asian Strategies of Ethnic Administration, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (14-15 January 2021), Singapore.

8.    ‘Transnational Hong Kong: Fashioning Human, Cultural and Material Flows, 1950-1970,’ Public Lecture, Department of History, Chinese University of Hong Kong (19 November 2020), Hong Kong.

9.    ‘Negotiating for a Second Life: Indian Migration and Tailoring Businesses in Cold War Hong Kong (1950s-1970s),’ Future Asias, 23rd Biennial Conference of Asian Studies Association of Australia, University of Melbourne (6-9 July 2020), Melbourne, Australia (Conference cancelled due to COVID-19).

10.    ‘Wartime Reminiscences: Hong Kong Suits in the Memoirs and Oral History of American Servicemen in the Vietnam War (1957-1971),’ The HKHP Workshop on Empires of Diversity, University of Bristol (17 January 2020), Bristol, United Kingdom.

11.    ‘“Fashionable” as in “Global”: Chinese Women, Western Apparel and Fashion Magazines in Post-war Hong Kong (1960s-1970s),’ 1st Annual Conference of the Society of Hong Kong Studies, University of Hong Kong (22 June 2019), Hong Kong.

12.    ‘Re-understanding Western Modernity: Chinese White-collar Workers and Popular Engagement with Western Suits in Colonial Hong Kong (1950s-1960s),’ Resistance and Acceptance: Getting China Moving, University of Oxford (23-24 April 2019), Oxford, United Kingdom.

Plus 10 other conferences.