Faculty Profiles - ZHANG Lok Cheung Lawrence | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Lok Cheung Lawrence ZHANG
張樂翔

PhD in History and East Asian Languages
Harvard University, 2010

Associate Professor
Division of Humanities

(852) 2358 7825
hmlczhang@ust.hk
Room 3337
Personal Web

ORCID

0000-0003-3909-9928

Research Interest Publications Projects Teaching Assignment RPG Supervision Space used

Research Interest

Chinese business history
Chinese history
Chinese political and intellectual history
Chinese social and economic history
China-Burma-India theatre in WWII

Publications

All Years 17 2024 0 2023 2 2022 1 2021 0 2020 0 2019 1 2018 13

2023 2

Shangyu Tiaoli and the Study of Qing Central Government Legislative Agendas

Late Imperial China, v. 44, (2), December 2023, p. 1-23
Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence; Li, Chong
Article

Power for a Price: The Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China

Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence
Book

2022 1

Locating Meritocracy in Early Modern Asia: Qing China and Mughal India

Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present / edited by Tarun Khanna and Michael Szonyi. Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2022, p. 85-117, Ch. 4
Sheth, Sudev; Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence
Book chapter

2019 1

Becoming Healthy: Changing Perception of Tea's Effects on the Body

Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia / Angela K.C. Leung & Melissa L. Caldwell, editor(S). Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2019, p. 201-220
Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence
Book chapter

2017 1

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World [Book review]

Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies, v. 17, (3), Fall 2017, p. 108-109
Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence
Book review

2016 2

A Foreign Infusion: The Forgotten Legacy of Japanese Chadō on Modern Chinese Tea Arts

Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies, v. 16, (1), February 2016, p. 53-62
Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence
Article

Becoming Healthy: Changing Views on Tea in East Asia

Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence
Conference paper

2014 2

Reading Tea Leaves: How Taiwan and Fujian Tea Production Diverged in the Early 20th Century

Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence
Conference paper

The Toxic Infusion: The Ills of Drinking Tea

Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence
Conference paper

2013 3

Legacy of success: Office purchase and state-elite relations in Qing China

Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, v. 73, (2), December 2013, p. 259-297
Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence
Article

Drink this, it’s good for you! The Historical Image of Tea as a Beneficial Drink

Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence
Conference paper

Pass Me the Cup: Taiwan as Conduit in the Transmission of Tea Practices in East Asia

Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence
Conference paper

2012 1

A Tea with Many Makers: Colonial Taiwanese Tea Industry and the Creation of Oriental Beauty Tea

Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence
Conference paper

2011 2

A Quintessential Invention: Genesis of a Cultural Orthodoxy in East Asian Tea Appreciation

Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence
Conference paper

Examinations, Titles, and Wealth: New Perspectives on Meritocracy in Qing China

Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence
Conference paper

2010 1

Inheriting Wealth and Status: Sale of Offices and Elite Families in Qing China

Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence
Conference paper

2007 1

Lost Modernities: China, Vietnam, Korea, and the Hazards of World History [Book review]

Newsletter for Research in Chinese Studies, v. 26, (4), 2007, p. 52-53
Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence
Book review

Article 1

Shangyu Tiaoli and the Study of Qing Central Government Legislative Agendas

Late Imperial China, v. 44, (2), December 2023, p. 1-23
Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence; Li, Chong

Book 1

Power for a Price: The Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China

Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence

Book chapter 1

Locating Meritocracy in Early Modern Asia: Qing China and Mughal India

Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present / edited by Tarun Khanna and Michael Szonyi. Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2022, p. 85-117, Ch. 4
Sheth, Sudev; Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence

Book chapter 1

Becoming Healthy: Changing Perception of Tea's Effects on the Body

Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia / Angela K.C. Leung & Melissa L. Caldwell, editor(S). Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2019, p. 201-220
Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence

Book review 1

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World [Book review]

Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies, v. 17, (3), Fall 2017, p. 108-109
Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence

Article 1

A Foreign Infusion: The Forgotten Legacy of Japanese Chadō on Modern Chinese Tea Arts

Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies, v. 16, (1), February 2016, p. 53-62
Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence

Conference paper 1

Becoming Healthy: Changing Views on Tea in East Asia

Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence

Conference paper 2

Reading Tea Leaves: How Taiwan and Fujian Tea Production Diverged in the Early 20th Century

Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence

The Toxic Infusion: The Ills of Drinking Tea

Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence

Article 1

Legacy of success: Office purchase and state-elite relations in Qing China

Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, v. 73, (2), December 2013, p. 259-297
Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence

Conference paper 2

Drink this, it’s good for you! The Historical Image of Tea as a Beneficial Drink

Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence

Pass Me the Cup: Taiwan as Conduit in the Transmission of Tea Practices in East Asia

Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence

Conference paper 1

A Tea with Many Makers: Colonial Taiwanese Tea Industry and the Creation of Oriental Beauty Tea

Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence

Conference paper 2

A Quintessential Invention: Genesis of a Cultural Orthodoxy in East Asian Tea Appreciation

Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence

Examinations, Titles, and Wealth: New Perspectives on Meritocracy in Qing China

Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence

Conference paper 1

Inheriting Wealth and Status: Sale of Offices and Elite Families in Qing China

Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence

Book review 1

Lost Modernities: China, Vietnam, Korea, and the Hazards of World History [Book review]

Newsletter for Research in Chinese Studies, v. 26, (4), 2007, p. 52-53
Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence

2017 1

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World [Book review]

Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies, v. 17, (3), Fall 2017, p. 108-109
Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence
Book review

2016 2

A Foreign Infusion: The Forgotten Legacy of Japanese Chadō on Modern Chinese Tea Arts

Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies, v. 16, (1), February 2016, p. 53-62
Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence
Article

Becoming Healthy: Changing Views on Tea in East Asia

Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence
Conference paper

2014 2

Reading Tea Leaves: How Taiwan and Fujian Tea Production Diverged in the Early 20th Century

Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence
Conference paper

The Toxic Infusion: The Ills of Drinking Tea

Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence
Conference paper

2013 3

Legacy of success: Office purchase and state-elite relations in Qing China

Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, v. 73, (2), December 2013, p. 259-297
Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence
Article

Drink this, it’s good for you! The Historical Image of Tea as a Beneficial Drink

Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence
Conference paper

Pass Me the Cup: Taiwan as Conduit in the Transmission of Tea Practices in East Asia

Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence
Conference paper

2012 1

A Tea with Many Makers: Colonial Taiwanese Tea Industry and the Creation of Oriental Beauty Tea

Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence
Conference paper

2011 2

A Quintessential Invention: Genesis of a Cultural Orthodoxy in East Asian Tea Appreciation

Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence
Conference paper

Examinations, Titles, and Wealth: New Perspectives on Meritocracy in Qing China

Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence
Conference paper

2010 1

Inheriting Wealth and Status: Sale of Offices and Elite Families in Qing China

Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence
Conference paper

2007 1

Lost Modernities: China, Vietnam, Korea, and the Hazards of World History [Book review]

Newsletter for Research in Chinese Studies, v. 26, (4), 2007, p. 52-53
Zhang, Lok Cheung Lawrence
Book review

No Publications

Teaching Assignment

2024-25 Fall 1 2023-24 Summer 0 2023-24 Spring 2 2023-24 Winter 0 2023-24 Fall 1 2022-23 Summer 0

HUMA1440

Modern China

CTDL1901	Cognitive Foundations of University Education: Critical Thinking and Data Literacy
HUMA5516	Research Methods and Sources in Qing History

HUMA1440

Modern China

No Teaching Assignments

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2021 to December 2024 (As of 21 November 2024)

Current RPGs

Doctor of Philosophy

LI, Chong
Humanities

Projects

From January 2022 to December 2024

All Projects 3 Leading Projects 2 Participating Projects 1

Neither Green nor Black: The History of the Tea Industry in Taiwan

在綠茶與紅茶之間: 臺灣茶業技術史 Leading

RGC - General Research Fund
Project Team (HKUST)
ZHANG Lok Cheung Lawrence (Lead)
2024 -
Disasters and Official Careers in the Qing Civil Service, 1830-1912

自然災害對清代官員仕途的影響,1830-1912 Participating

RGC - General Research Fund
Project Team (HKUST)
CAMPBELL Cameron Dougall (Lead)

LEE James

ZHANG Lok Cheung Lawrence
2021 - 2024
Money and Politics in Late Imperial China: Office purchase and career entry, promotion, and exit in the Qing civil service

清代捐納制度與官員陞遷研究 Leading

RGC - General Research Fund
Project Team (HKUST)
ZHANG Lok Cheung Lawrence (Lead)
2019 - 2022

Research Interest

Publications

2023 2

2022 1

2019 1

2017 1

2016 2

2014 2

2013 3

2012 1

2011 2

2010 1

2007 1

Article 1

Book 1

Book chapter 1

Book chapter 1

Book review 1

Article 1

Conference paper 1

Conference paper 2

Article 1

Conference paper 2

Conference paper 1

Conference paper 2

Conference paper 1

Book review 1

2017 1

2016 2

2014 2

2013 3

2012 1

2011 2

2010 1

2007 1

Teaching Assignment

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2021 to December 2024 (As of 21 November 2024)

Current RPGs

Projects

From January 2022 to December 2024

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