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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

Cho-kiu (Joseph) LI earned his PhD and MPhil in Cultural Studies from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He also holds a Master’s degree in Social Science from the Cultural Studies in Asia program at the National University of Singapore. Before joining CUHK, he taught at Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. His writings are published in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Radical History Review, global-e, Critical Asia Archives: Events and Theories, Modern China Studies, Hong Kong Studies, Local Discourses, and others. Additionally, his social and cultural commentaries can be found in various media outlets, including Mingpao, Initium Media, and Sample.

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  • Research Interests
    • Public Humanities
    • Transformative Tourism/Travel
    • Ordinary Heritage
    • Affect, Emotion, and Memory
    • Community and Commons
    • Cold War and Decoloniality
    • Global East, Asia, Sinosphere, China
    • Hong Kong Intellectual History
  • 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. C. Choy, K.L. Tong. Forthcoming. “Videogame as Cultural heritage: Exhibition, Education, and Research” Conceptual Practice: Research and Pedagogy in Art, Design, Creative Industries, and Cultural Heritage, edited by D Hui. Springer.
    2. Li, C. K. 2025. “Archipelagism”, In: Gary Tang, CK Li, CK Tsang, Hong Kong, Culture, Exploration. Hong Kong: Infolink Publishing.
    3. Li, C. K. 2023. “Curatorial Introduction: Locations of Hope.” Critical Asia Archives: Events and Theories.
    4. Li, C. K. 2021. “Disaffection in a Special Affective Region.” Critical Asia Archives: Events and Theories.
    5. Li, C. K. 2021. Raw Fear in Hong Kong. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 11(3), 1045-1059.
    6. 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.
    7. 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.
    8. Li, C. K, K.L Tong. 2020. “We Are Safer without the Police”: Hong Kong Protesters Building a Community for Safety. Radical History Review 137.
    9. 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.
    10. Li, C. K. 2019. Freedom as Articulation: Reflections on Liberalism in Hong Kong. global-e, 11(23).
    11. Li, C. K. 2019. A Society with Wronged-Souls: Hong Kong as China’s Heterotopia. Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences, 52, 5-18.
    12. 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.
    13. 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.
    14. 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)