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Biography
K.C. Lo received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University and has taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology before joining HKBU in 1998. His research interests are Environmental Humanities, Cultural Studies, Creative Writing, Film Studies, Ethnic Studies, East-West Comparative Studies, Literary Theory, and Psychoanalysis. He has recently completed a book manuscript on China’s ethnic minority cinema.
Research Interests
Anthropocene Studies, Environmental Humanities, Cultural Studies, Creative Writing, Film Studies, Ethnic Studies, East-West Comparative Studies, Literary Theory, Critical Theory, Continental Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
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Minority Ethnicity Environmental Cinema in China: In Search of Different Imaginaries of Ecological Civilization
LO, K. C. (PI)
1/01/22 → 31/12/23
Project: Research project
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Constructing a Multiethnic China: A Book Project on Ethnic Minority Cinema as Indicator of Socio-Political Conditions of Modern Nation-Building
LO, K. C. (PI)
1/01/18 → 30/06/19
Project: Research project
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"Rethinking Asianism As Alternatives: Film, Cultural Production, and Non-State Agency"
LO, K. C. (PI)
1/01/12 → 31/12/14
Project: Research project
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Other Chinese(s): Investigating Ethnic Minority Film of China
LO, K. C. (PI)
1/10/09 → 30/06/12
Project: Research project
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Entangled Waterscapes in Asia
Lo, K. C. (Editor) & Li, H.-C. (Editor), 24 Feb 2025, Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill. 205 p. (African and Asian Anthropocene: Studies in the Environmental Humanities; vol. 1)Research output: Book/Report › Book or report › peer-review
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Ethnic Minority Cinema in China’s Nation-State Building
Lo, K. C., Feb 2025, University of Michigan Press. 302 p. (China Understandings Today)Research output: Book/Report › Book or report › peer-review
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Introduction: The Contexts, Subjects, and Politics of Waterscapes Entangled in Asia
Lo, K. C., 24 Feb 2025, Entangled Waterscapes in Asia. Lo, K. C. & Li, H.-C. (eds.). Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill, p. 1-13 13 p. (African and Asian Anthropocene: Studies in the Environmental Humanities; vol. 1).Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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The Water That Breaks and Connects: Entangled Infrastructures of Hong Kong and China
Lo, K. C., 24 Feb 2025, Entangled Waterscapes in Asia. Lo, K. C. & Li, H.-C. (eds.). Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill, p. 181-199 19 p. (African and Asian Anthropocene: Studies in the Environmental Humanities; vol. 1).Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Activities
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Book Launch: On Lo Kwai Cheung’s Recording a Journey in the Dark: Collected Stories
LO, K. C. (Speaker)
28 May 2023Activity: Conference/talk/lecture/symposium/speech/workshop, etc › Event organized by non-HKBU units
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Feeling in Control of Happiness: Watering Down Xiong’an, the Utopian City in China
LO, K. C. (Speaker)
1 Jun 2023 → 2 Jun 2023Activity: Conference/talk/lecture/symposium/speech/workshop, etc › Event organized by HKBU
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The Eternal Return of War in Authoritarianism
LO, K. C. (Speaker)
9 Jun 2023 → 11 Jun 2023Activity: Conference/talk/lecture/symposium/speech/workshop, etc › Event organized by non-HKBU units
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the 5th Hong Kong Digital Advertising Start-ups X Publishing (Writers) Promotion Support Scheme (External organisation)
LO, K. C. (Others)
Jan 2023 → …Activity: Membership › Other types of membership
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Invited Speaker in an Intellectual Dialogue on “Post.” The transcript appears as
LO, K. C. (Speaker)
Dec 2022 → …Activity: Conference/talk/lecture/symposium/speech/workshop, etc › Event organized by non-HKBU units