Introduction/bio:

Dr. Kam received her M.Phil and Ph. D in Gender Studies from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include gender and sexuality in Chinese societies, queer migration, ethnography, and queer popular culture in East Asia. She is the author of Shanghai Lalas: Female Tongzhi Communities and Politics in Urban China (2013, Chinese edition: 《上海拉拉：中國都市女同志社群與政治》, 2015). Her current projects are the transnational mobility of queer women from China and Hong Kong and queer Asian popular culture.

Teaching areas:

Gender and sexuality; Migration and mobility; Love and humanities; Hong Kong studies; Personal and creative writing.

Courses Taught at HKBU since 2011(by subject areas) :

(*: Courses taught in Chinese. The rest was taught in English.)

Creative writing: WRIT7070 Writing Gender*; WRIT3017 Special Topic in Chinese Creative Writing: Reading and Writing Cities*; LCS3310 A History of Personal Writings*; LCST3115 Creative Writing in Practice*

Gender studies: HUM3130 Special Topic in Humanities: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary China*; LCST3025 Love and Humanities*; LCST4125 Sex and Gender in the Media*; LCST2115 Introduction to Gender and Sexuality; GEND3005 Gender, Society, Culture; HUMN3210 Body Cultures; HUMN2025 Gender: Theory and Culture

Hong Kong studies: LCST3045 Hong Kong Studies*

Humanities: HUMN2006 Human Self-Discovery, HUMN4007/4008 Honours Project, LCST4008/4009 Honours Project

Media and popular culture: HUMN4036 Special Topic in Media and Cultural Studies: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies in a Transnational Age; LCST2365/CSCI3285 Popular Culture and Creative Industries in Asia

Migration studies: LCST4145 Migration and Mobility in Contemporary Society

Youth studies: LCST3255 Changing Youth, Changing Times

Research Interests:
Gender and Sexuality Studies; Hong Kong Studies; Transnational Chinese Studies; Queer Migration Studies; Queer Popular Culture; Ethnography

Research Grants Obtained:

1. General Research Fund (Hong Kong) 2015-17: Principal Investigator, Project title: “Queer Mobility of Chinese Women: An Ethnographic Study”
2. Institute of Creativity Project and Research Fund (HKBU) 2015-17: Co-investigator, Project title: “Youth’s Self-imaging of Body and Gender”
3. Institute of Creativity Project and Research Fund (HKBU) 2016-17: Co-investigator, Project title: “Understanding Night Life Culture of Hong Kong Female Youths”

International Joint Research Projects:

1. 2026-2030: Partner Investigator, Project title: “Queer Voices in the Arts”, Principal Investigator: Dr. Gavin Lee (University of Sydney, Australia)
2. 2014-2018: Co-investigator, Project title: “Practices of Intimacy and Distancing: Adult Daughters and Their Mothers in East Asia,” Principal Investigator: Prof. Diana Khor (Hosei University, Japan) and Prof. Saori Kamano (National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Japan)

For full publication list, please go to Full Curriculum Vitae.

1) Single-authored Book:

• Kam, Lucetta (2013). Shanghai Lalas: Female Tongzhi Communities and Politics in Urban China, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
• Chinese edition (2015). Translated by Karen Liao. Title: 上海拉拉：中國都市女同志社群與政治. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.

2) Book Chapters/Journal Articles:

• Kam, Lucetta. (in print). “Diasporic Hong Kong,” The Routledge Encyclopedia of Sinophone Culture, edited by Howard Chiang and Alison Groppe. Routledge.
• Ip, Tsz Ting Penn and Kam, Lucetta (2026) “Diversification, Commercialization, and Politicization: Sexuality in China’s Cities since the 1990s,” in Lisa M. Hoffman, Jennifer Hubbert and Zhilin Liu (eds) The Sage Handbook of Urbanization in China. Los Angeles, CA: Sage publications.
• Kam, Lucetta and Carol Chow (2025) “The Making of Keung To Bay: Fandom, Urban Space and Affective Alliance in Hong Kong,” in Lucie Bernroider, Anthony Miro Born, Christy Kulz, Sung Un Gang (eds) Intersectionality and the City: Exploring Violence and Inequality in Urban Space. Routledge.
• Kam, Lucetta. (2025). “Queer Exploration of a Mobile China: The Transnational Journey of Queer Women from China,” in Feminist Explorations of Urban China edited by Penn Tsz Ting Ip. Oxon, New York: Routledge.
• Kam, Lucetta. (2024). “Moving with Precarity: Transnational Mobility of Chinese Queer ‘Single’ Women,” in Being Single in the City: Cultural Geographies of Gendered Urban Space in Asia edited by Christiane Brosius, Jeroen de Kloet and Laila Abu-Er-Rub. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup
• In Chinese: Kam, Lucetta (2022) “Queer Resistance in Popular Music.”（酷兒的聲音）. Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies, Autumn 2022 No. 35, p.29-48.
• Kam, Lucetta (2021) “Coming Out and Going Abroad: The Chuguo Mobility of Queer Women in China.” Lives that Resist Telling: Migrant and Refugee Lesbians. Edited by Eithne Luibheid. London and New York: Routledge.
• Kam, Lucetta (2020) “Transcultural Desires and Lesbian Fandom: Takarazuka Revue in Taiwan.” In Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies edited by Howard Chiang and Alvin K. Wong. London and New York: Routledge, p.132-152.
• Kam, Lucetta (2020) “Coming Out and Going Abroad: The Chuguo Mobility of Queer Women in China.” In L “Migrant and Refugee Lesbians: Lives That Resist the Telling” in Journal of Lesbian Studies, Vol. 24, Issue 2, p.126-139.
• Kam, Lucetta (2019) Co-authored with Joseph M. K. Cho and Trevor Y. T. Ma. “Feminist Activism in Hong Kong.” In Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies edited by Jieyu Liu and Junko Yamashita. Routledge.
• Kam, Lucetta (2019) Co-authored with Joseph M. K. Cho. “Same-sex Marriage in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan: Ideologies, Spaces and Developments.” Fu-Lai Tony Yu and Diana S. Kwan (eds.) Contemporary Issues in International Political Economy. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, p.289-306.
• In Chinese: Kam, Lucetta (2018) Co-authored with Joseph M. K. Cho and Lai Yuen Kei. 2000 後的香港同志運動圖像：連結、衝突和限制 (“Hong Kong LGBTQI Movement After 2000: Connection, Conflicts and Confines”). In 社會運年代：香港抗爭政治的軌跡 (Era of Social Movement: Trajectory of Politics of Resistance in Hong Kong) edited by Cheng Wai, Edmund. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, p.115-140.
• Kam, Lucetta (2017) “Return, Come Out: Queer Lives in Postcolonial Hong Kong.” Y. W. Chu (ed.) Hong Kong Culture and Society in the New Millennium: Hong Kong as Method. Singapore: Springer, p.165-178.

3) Edited Journal/ Book:

• Kam, Lucetta (2021) Co-edited with Michelle Ho and Eva Cheuk-Yin Li. Special issue of “Androgynous bodies and cultures in Asia.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Vol. 22, Issue 2. (With an introduction by the editors.)
• Kam, Lucetta (2006) Co-edited with James Welker, “Of Queer Import(s): Sexualities, Genders, and Rights in Asia”, a special issue for Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context, Issue 14, Autumn 2006. http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue14_contents.htm

4) Book Review:

• Kam, Lucetta (2021) Book review of Caring in Times of Precarity: A Study of Single Women Doing Creative Work in Shanghai by Yiu Fai Chow. China Review International, Volume 26, Number 4, 2019, pp.260-263.
• Kam, Lucetta (2019) Book review of Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema by Arnika Fuhrmann. Feminist Review, Issue 123, November 2019, pp.146-148.
• Kam, Lucetta (2016) Book review of Queer Women in Urban China: An Ethnography by Elisabeth L. Engebretsen. The China Quarterly, Vol. 226, Issue 2, June 2016.
• Kam, Lucetta (2015) Book review of Mobilizing Gay Singapore: Rights and Resistance in an Authoritarian State by Lynette J. Chua. China Information. Vol. 29, No. 1. London: Sage Publications, p.116-117.
• Kam, Lucetta (2013) Book review of People’s Pornography: Sex and Surveillance on the Chinese Internet by Katrien Jacobs. China Information. Vol. 27, No. 3. SAGE Publications, p.393-394.

For full publication list, please go to Full Curriculum Vitae.

1. In Chinese: Kam, Lucetta (2017) Co-edited with Joseph M. K. Cho and Francisca Y. K. Lai. Gender and Sexuality in Everyday Hong Kong (《我城我性：香港性／別日常》). Hong Kong: Roundtable.
2. In Chinese: Kam, Lucetta (2001) Editor and illustrator. 月亮的騷動──她她的初戀故事：我們的自述 (Lunar Desires: Her First Same-sex Love in Her Own Words ). Hong Kong: Cultural Act Up.
3. In Chinese: Kam, Lucetta (2000) Co-edited with King, Mary Ann and Wong, Chun Pang. 雙性情慾 (Bisexuality ) (authored by Anson Mak). Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Women Christian Council.