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Prof. LI Cho Kiu Joseph

Prof. LI Cho Kiu Joseph

Research Assistant Professor

PhD (Cultural Studies), Chinese University of Hong Kong
MSSC (Cultural Studies in Asia), National University of Singapore
MPhil (Cultural Studies), Chinese University of Hong Kong
BA (Modern Languages & Intercultural Studies), Chinese University of Hong Kong

About Prof. LI Cho Kiu Joseph

Joseph (Cho-kiu) LI 李祖喬 earned his PhD in Cultural Studies from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He also holds a Master's degree in Social Sciences from the Cultural Studies in Asia programme at the National University of Singapore. He was a recipient of the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship (2017–2019) and the Global Humanities Junior Fellowship, funded by Freie Universität Berlin (2018).

 

His writings have been published in Public Humanities; Theory, Culture & Society; HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory; Radical History Review; global-e; Critical Asia Archives: Events and Theories; Modern China Studies; Hong Kong Studies; and Local Discourses (本土論述), among others. His social and cultural commentaries can be found in various media outlets, including Ming Pao (明報), Initium Media (端傳媒), Sample (樣本), City Magazine (號外), Hong Kong Economic Journal (信報), and Lianhe Zaobao (联合早报) in Singapore.

 

He is interested in exploring public humanities (especially creative pedagogies), as both cultural practices and theories, across contexts of varying scales—a shop, a street, a market, a district, or a tour—within broader areas such as Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area, China, Inter-Asia, and the Global East and South.

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  • Research Interests
    • Public Humanities and Public Culture
    • Community and Commons
    • Hope and Everyday Utopia
    • Small Shops
    • Ordinary Heritage
    • Public Tourism/Travel
    • Foundational Economy
    • Social Economy and Social Innovation
    • Liberal Arts Education
    • Cold War and Decoloniality
    • Everyday Cultures in the Global East and South, Inter-Asia, the Sinosphere, China, the Greater Bay Area, and Hong Kong
  • Recent Research ProjectS
    1. Postfear (Monograph-in-progress)
    2. Cultural Exchanges in the Cold War: Visiting Tours and Affective Connections in Sinophone Asia (1950s-1980s). Funded by Faculty Development Scheme, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, 2022 – 2024.
  • Representative Publications
    1. Li, C. K. Forthcoming. Small-Store Utopianism. Theory, Culture & Society
    2. Li, C. K. Forthcoming. Hospitable Nation and Its Discontents: China’s Sightseeing Tours for Chinese Overseas (1950s–1970s). China Perspectives
    3. Li, C. K. C. Choy, K.L. Tong. Forthcoming. “Hong Kong’s Transcultural Video Game Fandom: Examining the Heritage Preservation of Video Games and Mediated Fans Activities” In Transcultural Media Fandom in the Asia Pacific (Bloomsbury book series Asian Celebrity and Fandom Studies)
    4. Pang, L. and Li, C.J. (2025) ‘Public Humanities at The Chinese University of Hong Kong’, Public Humanities, 1, p. e103. doi:10.1017/S2977017325000209.
    5. Li, C. K. 2025. “Archipelagism”, In: Gary Tang, CK Li, CK Tsang, Hong Kong, Culture, Exploration. Hong Kong: Infolink Publishing.
    6. Li, C. K. 2023. “Curatorial Introduction: Locations of Hope.” Critical Asia Archives: Events and Theories.
    7. Li, C. K. 2021. “Disaffection in a Special Affective Region.” Critical Asia Archives: Events and Theories.
    8. Li, C. K. 2021. Raw Fear in Hong Kong. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 11(3), 1045-1059.
    9. Li, C. K. 2021. Medium and Articulation: Teaching Humanities Classics with Cultural Studies. In C. H. Leung, P. H. Lau & C. H. Li (Eds.), Humanities Classics and Liberal Education, pp. 25-41. Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press.
    10. Li, C. K. 2021. Asia’s Refugee City: Hong Kong in the Cold War. In M. Popescu, Zien, K, & K. Bystrom (Eds.), The Cultural Cold War and the Global South: Sites of Contest and Communitas, pp. 238-251. New York: Routledge.
    11. Li, C. K. 2019. A Hong Kong Intellectual and his Mass Publication During the Cultural Revolutionization: Quotations from Man Yan Kit in the 1967 Riot. Hong Kong Studies, (2)1, 25-35.
    12. Li, C. K. 2019. Freedom as Articulation: Reflections on Liberalism in Hong Kong. global-e, 11(23).
    13. Li, C. K. 2019. A Society with Wronged-Souls: Hong Kong as China’s Heterotopia. Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences, 52, 5-18.
    14. Shen, X. H. & Li, C. K. 2015. The Cultural Side-Effects of the Sino-Soviet Split: The Influence of Albanian Movies in China in the 1960s. Modern China Studies, 22(1), 215-231.
    15. Li, C. K. (2013). The “Port Aspects” of Local Consciousness: So Sau Chong. In C. K. Chan, & W. L. Wong (Eds.), Local Discourse, pp. 125-136. Taipei: AzothBooks.
    16. Li, C. K. (2009). Colonial Spatial Politics in Hong Kong: A Study of Victoria Park. In K. W. Ma (Ed.), Exploring China Urban Studies, pp. 55-79. Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies.
  • Other Projects, Achievements, and/or Awards
    1. Book-length translation. Appearing Demos by Laikwan Pang. Translated with a foreword by CK Li. Typesetter Publisher, 2020.
    2. Book-length translation. The Art of Cloning by Laikwan Pang. Translated by CK Li. The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2017.
    3. Global Humanities Junior Fellowship, funded by Freie Universität Berlin (2018).
    4. Hong Kong PhD Fellowship, funded by Research Grants Council, Hong Kong (2017-2019)