Academic Staff
Dr. LAU Kai Yiu
Lecturer
Intellectual History in Republican China, Chinese martial arts history.
- HJ609
- +852 3400 8935
- kaiyiu.lau@polyu.edu.hk
Research Overview
The transformation into modern China is the topic that I am most concerned about. Through the aspects of Chinese intellectual history and the history of Chinese martial arts, I study how scholars and martial art masters, after the late Qing period, interpreted the values Chinese culture and their continuation in the modern world.
Education and Academic Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (2012 – 2015), Hong Kong Baptist University
- Master of History (2007 – 2010), Tsinghua University, Beijing
- Bachelor of China Studies- History Option (Hons.) (2004 – 2007), Hong Kong Baptist University
Research Interests
Research Output
- (Co-authored) The Invention of Chinese Martial Arts Tradition (Hong Kong: Joint Publishing (H.K), 2022)
- (Co-authored) The Study of Hakka Unicorn Dance (Hong Kong: The Commercial Press, 2018)
- (Co-authored) “Revisiting of Martial Art History on Republican China——Sun Yat-sen and JingWu Sports Association,” 중국사연구 103(2016.8):245-262.
- “Aspire to the Way by Literature and Martial arts,” 동서인문 4(2015.10):79-106.
- “A Preliminary Study of Qian Mu's Comments on the Order of Learning in The Analects and His Ideas on ‘Heart of History, Heart of Culture’,” Cheng Kung Journal of Historical Studies 48(2015.6):243-280.
- “The Study of Sun LuTang, the interpretation of the Martial Arts and Self-cultivation ,” 중국사연구 87(2013.12):239-264.
- “The Study of Qian Mu on Zhang Xuecheng,” Soochow Journal of History 24(2010.12): 109-147.
- “Chinese Martial Arts.” In Wong Man Kong and Kwong Chi Man ed., Hong Kong History: Themes in Global Perspective. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, pp241-260.
- “The study of Chinese martial arts and Neo-Confucianism,” in Chow Kai Wing and Fan Wing Chung, The World of East Asia (Hong Kong: Joint Publishing, 2014), pp.322-335.
- “The National Body of Modern Chinese Martial Arts: Cultivating the Nationals and the National Spirit with Martial Arts”, presented at “International Conference on Ming and Qing Studies,” organized by The Committee for Promotion of Ming-Qing Studies, Academia Sinica, Taipei, December 15-17, 2021.
- “The Study of Chinese martial arts and Confucianism, after late Qing” presented at “International Conference on the Intellectual History after Middle Qing,” organized by Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei, November 12-13, 2020.
- “Urbanization and Hakka Unicorn” presented at “International Conference on History, Custom and Intangible Cultural Heritage in Southern China,” organized by the Centre for Hong Kong History and Culture Studies, Chu Hai College of Higher Education and Siksikyuen, Hong Kong, March 9-10, 2018.
- “The Study of the life of Tang Wenzhi” presented at “5th Yong Scholars’ Conference,” organized by Advanced Institute for Contemporary China Studies and MSocSc in Contemporary China Studies Programme, Hong Kong, December 18-19, 2017.
- “The Education thought of Tang Wenzhi” presented at “International Conference on the Tang Wenzhi,” organized by School of Humanities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Association for Confucianism Studies, Shanghai, Shanghai, April 8-9, 2017.
- “Aspire to the Way by Literature and Martial arts, the study of Tang Wenzhi and Sun Lutang” presented at “The Forum of Ph.D candidates on,” organized by School of History Culture and Ethnology, Southwest University, Zhongqing, November 14-17, 2014.
- “The Study of Qianmu” presented at “International Conference on the North-South Cultural Transplantation in 20th Century China,” organized by Hong Kong Shu Yan University, New Asia Institute of Advanced Chinese Studies and National Central University, Hong Kong, August 28-31, 2013.
- “Philisophy of War and Martial Arts: The Development of Chinese Martial Arts from the Late Qing to Republican China” presented at Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence, Hong Kong, March 10, 2018.
- “‘Warrior spirit’ of Sun Yat-sen and the Development of JingWu Sports Association” presented at Dr Sun Yat-sen Museum, Hong Kong, July 22, 2017.
(Co-authored) The Invention of Chinese Martial Arts Tradition (Hong Kong: Joint Publishing (H.K), 2022)
“Chinese Martial Arts.” In Wong Man Kong and Kwong Chi Man ed., Hong Kong History: Themes in Global Perspective. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, pp241-260.
(Co-authored) The Study of Hakka Unicorn Dance (Hong Kong: The Commercial Press,2018)
“Aspire to the Way by Literature and Martial arts,” 동서인문 4(2015.10): 79-106.
“A Preliminary Study of Qian Mu's Comments on the Order of Learning in The Analects and His Ideas on ‘Heart of History, Heart of Culture’,” Cheng Kung Journal of Historical Studies 48(2015.6):243-280.
“The Study of Sun LuTang, the interpretation of the Martial Arts and Self-cultivation ,” 중국사연구 87(2013.12):239-264.
