Faculty Profiles - CHEE Liz Pui Yee | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Liz Pui Yee CHEE
朱佩儀

PhD in History and Social Anthropology
The University of Edinburgh / National University of Singapore, 2016

Assistant Professor
Division of Humanities

(852) 2358 7798
hmlizchee@ust.hk
Room 2353
Personal Web

ORCID

0000-0001-9465-0773

Scopus ID

55909384000

Research Interest Publications Projects Teaching Assignment

Research Interest

Chinese cultural history
History of technology
Social and cultural history of modern China
Environmental history
Modern Chinese history

Publications

All Years 13 2026 0 2025 2 2024 2 2023 0 2022 3 2021 1 2020 5

2025 2

Animals and the History of Medicine and Health

Environmental History
CHEE, Pui Yee
Article

Traditionality and Lab-Work: Chinese Anti-Cancer Drug Research and the Cultural Revolution

Bulletin of the History of Medicine
CHEE, Pui Yee
Article

2024 2

Heat and the city: Thermal control, governance and health in urban Asia

Urban Studies, v. 61, (15), p. 2857-2867
Clancey, Gregory; Chang, Jiat Hwee; Chee, Liz P.Y.
Article

Heat, cold and climatic determinism in China’s urban epidemics

Urban Studies, v. 61, (15), p. 2995-3011
Chee, Liz P.Y.; Zou, Dongxin; Clancey, Gregory
Article

2022 3

Discovering new drugs in "traditional" Chinese medicine: Inside Guangzhou Huahai pharmaceuticals

Asian Medical Industries / Taylor and Francis Inc., 2022, p. 31-50
Chee, Liz P.Y.
Book chapter

Formulating “New Drugs” within Traditional Chinese Medicine: Inside Guangzhou Huahai Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd

Asian Medical Industries: Contemporary Perspectives on Traditional Pharmaceuticals / Routledge, 2022,
Chee, Liz P.Y.
Book chapter

Health and medicine: Accounting for the animals: Faunal medicalisation in modern China

Cultural China 2021 / University of Westminster Press, 2022, p. 16-18
Chee, Liz P.Y.
Book chapter

2021 1

Mao's Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China

Chee, Liz P.Y.
Book

2019 1

“Health products” at the boundary between food and pharmaceuticals: The case of fish liver oil

Circulation and Governance of Asian Medicine / Taylor and Francis, 2019, p. 103-117
Chee, Liz P.Y.
Book chapter

2018 2

‘To Cure a Hundred Diseases’: Animal Blood Therapies in Mao’s China

Science, Technology and Society, v. 23, (2), p. 195-213
Chee, Liz P.Y.
Article

Introduction: Cultures of Medicine and Health in East and Southeast Asia

Science, Technology and Society, v. 23, (2), p. 189-194
Chee, Liz P.Y.; Clancey, Gregory
Article

2016 1

“Down with Shark Fin!”: The Politics of Eating Shark Fin and Its Shifting Nationality in Republican China

Paper presented at Proceedings of the 2016 Food & Society Conference in Bangi, Malaysia, p. 21-27
Chee, Liz P.Y.
Conference paper

2013 1

The Human Proteome and the Chinese Liver

Science, Technology and Society, v. 18, (3), p. 307-319
Chee, Liz P.Y.; Clancey, Gregory
Article

Article 2

Animals and the History of Medicine and Health

Environmental History
CHEE, Pui Yee

Traditionality and Lab-Work: Chinese Anti-Cancer Drug Research and the Cultural Revolution

Bulletin of the History of Medicine
CHEE, Pui Yee

Article 2

Heat and the city: Thermal control, governance and health in urban Asia

Urban Studies, v. 61, (15), p. 2857-2867
Clancey, Gregory; Chang, Jiat Hwee; Chee, Liz P.Y.

Heat, cold and climatic determinism in China’s urban epidemics

Urban Studies, v. 61, (15), p. 2995-3011
Chee, Liz P.Y.; Zou, Dongxin; Clancey, Gregory

Book chapter 3

Discovering new drugs in "traditional" Chinese medicine: Inside Guangzhou Huahai pharmaceuticals

Asian Medical Industries / Taylor and Francis Inc., 2022, p. 31-50
Chee, Liz P.Y.

Formulating “New Drugs” within Traditional Chinese Medicine: Inside Guangzhou Huahai Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd

Asian Medical Industries: Contemporary Perspectives on Traditional Pharmaceuticals / Routledge, 2022,
Chee, Liz P.Y.

Health and medicine: Accounting for the animals: Faunal medicalisation in modern China

Cultural China 2021 / University of Westminster Press, 2022, p. 16-18
Chee, Liz P.Y.

Book 1

Mao's Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China

Chee, Liz P.Y.

Book chapter 1

“Health products” at the boundary between food and pharmaceuticals: The case of fish liver oil

Circulation and Governance of Asian Medicine / Taylor and Francis, 2019, p. 103-117
Chee, Liz P.Y.

Article 2

‘To Cure a Hundred Diseases’: Animal Blood Therapies in Mao’s China

Science, Technology and Society, v. 23, (2), p. 195-213
Chee, Liz P.Y.

Introduction: Cultures of Medicine and Health in East and Southeast Asia

Science, Technology and Society, v. 23, (2), p. 189-194
Chee, Liz P.Y.; Clancey, Gregory

Conference paper 1

“Down with Shark Fin!”: The Politics of Eating Shark Fin and Its Shifting Nationality in Republican China

Paper presented at Proceedings of the 2016 Food & Society Conference in Bangi, Malaysia, p. 21-27
Chee, Liz P.Y.

Article 1

The Human Proteome and the Chinese Liver

Science, Technology and Society, v. 18, (3), p. 307-319
Chee, Liz P.Y.; Clancey, Gregory

2019 1

“Health products” at the boundary between food and pharmaceuticals: The case of fish liver oil

Circulation and Governance of Asian Medicine / Taylor and Francis, 2019, p. 103-117
Chee, Liz P.Y.
Book chapter

2018 2

‘To Cure a Hundred Diseases’: Animal Blood Therapies in Mao’s China

Science, Technology and Society, v. 23, (2), p. 195-213
Chee, Liz P.Y.
Article

Introduction: Cultures of Medicine and Health in East and Southeast Asia

Science, Technology and Society, v. 23, (2), p. 189-194
Chee, Liz P.Y.; Clancey, Gregory
Article

2016 1

“Down with Shark Fin!”: The Politics of Eating Shark Fin and Its Shifting Nationality in Republican China

Paper presented at Proceedings of the 2016 Food & Society Conference in Bangi, Malaysia, p. 21-27
Chee, Liz P.Y.
Conference paper

2013 1

The Human Proteome and the Chinese Liver

Science, Technology and Society, v. 18, (3), p. 307-319
Chee, Liz P.Y.; Clancey, Gregory
Article

No Publications

Teaching Assignment

2025-26 Winter 0 2025-26 Fall 0 2024-25 Summer 1 2024-25 Spring 1 2024-25 Winter 0 2024-25 Fall 1

HUMA1622

Science, Technology and Society: Historical and Cultural Approaches

HMMA5005

Modern Chinese History

HUMA5697

Animals and Society: Biodiversity, Conservation, and Ethics

No Teaching Assignments

Projects

From January 2024 to December 2026

All Projects 1

No Projects.
The History of the Use and Trade of Animal-Based Pharmaceuticals in Hong Kong

香港動物藥物的使用和貿易歷史 Leading

RGC - Early Career Scheme
Project Team (HKUST)
CHEE Liz Pui Yee (Lead)
2025 -

Research Interest

Publications

2025 2

2024 2

2022 3

2021 1

2019 1

2018 2

2016 1

2013 1

Article 2

Article 2

Book chapter 3

Book 1

Book chapter 1

Article 2

Conference paper 1

Article 1

2019 1

2018 2

2016 1

2013 1

Teaching Assignment

Projects

From January 2024 to December 2026

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