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Shuk Mei Agnes KU
谷淑美

PhD in Sociology
University of California, Los Angeles, 1995

Associate Professor
Division of Social Science

(852) 2358 7784
soagnes@ust.hk
Room 3369
Personal Web

ORCID

0000-0001-9034-5560

Scopus ID

7005556370

Research Interest Publications Projects Teaching Assignment Space used

Research Interest

Cultural sociology
Civil society
Hong Kong culture

Publications

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2025 1

Reading Hong Kong literarily across two generations: localism and translocality

American Journal of Cultural Sociology, v. 13
Ku, Agnes Shuk mei
Article

2023 1

Hong Kong Society: High-Definition Stories beyond the Spectacle of East-Meets-West

China Journal, v. 90, p. 253-255
Ku, Shuk Mei Agnes
Article

2022 1

Cultural sociology in East Asia: three trajectories in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea

American Journal of Cultural Sociology, v. 10, (3), p. 516-534
Ku, Agnes Shuk mei; Wang, Horng luen; Choi, Jongryul
Article

2021 1

The Umbrella Movement: Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong [Book review]

China Journal, v. 85, p. 247-249
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Article

2020 2

New forms of youth activism–Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Bill movement in the local-national-global nexus

Space and Polity, v. 24, (1), p. 111-117
S. Ku, Agnes
Article

Take Back Our Future: An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement [Book review]

China Quarterly, v. 243, p. 874-876
Ku, Shuk Mei Agnes
Article

2019 4

In search of a new political subjectivity in hong kong: The umbrella movement as a street theater of generational change

China Journal, v. 82, (1), p. 111-132
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Article

The civil sphere in East Asia

Alexander, Jeffrey C.; Palmer, David A.; Park, Sunwoong; Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Book

Performing civil disobedience in Hong Kong

The Civil Sphere in East Asia / Cambridge University Press, 2019, p. 84-103
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Book chapter

Performing Civil Disobedience in Hong Kong.” In The Civil Sphere in East Asia

The Civil Sphere in East Asia / Cambridge University Press, 2019, p. 84-103
KU, Shuk Mei Agnes
Book chapter

2018 2

City Dwellings in Hong Kong: A Photo Book Review Essay

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong, v. v. 58, p. 230-248
KU, Shuk Mei Agnes
Article

Identity as politics: Contesting the local, the national and the global

Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Hong Kong / Taylor and Francis, 2018, p. 451-461
Ku, Agnes Shuk mei
Book chapter

2017 3

流光.時黑

谷淑美, Shuk Mei Agnes
Book

From civil disobedience to institutional politics: Conflict over the Public Order Ordinance in 2000

Civil Unrest and Governance in Hong Kong / Taylor and Francis, 2017, p. 163-178
Ku, Agnes Shuk mei
Book chapter

Performing Civil Disobedience in Hong Kong

Ku, Shuk Mei Agnes
Conference paper

2015 1

Making cultures and places from below: New urban activism in Hong Kong

Making Cultural Cities in Asia / Taylor and Francis Inc., 2015, p. 191-203
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Book chapter

2013 1

Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong [Book review]

Contemporary Sociology, v. 42, p. 407-408
Ku, Agnes S.
Article

2012 2

Remaking places and fashioning an opposition discourse: Struggle over the Star Ferry pier and the Queen's pier in Hong Kong

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, v. 30, (1), p. 5-22
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Article

The development of citizenship in Hong Kong: Governance without democracy

Repositioning the Hong Kong Government / Hong Kong University Press, HKU, 2012, p. 123-145
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Book chapter

2011 3

Negotiating law, rights, and civil autonomy: From the colonial to the post-colonial regimes

Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong / Taylor and Francis, 2011, p. 141-156
Ku, Agnes S.
Book chapter

香港城市保育運動的文化政治: 歴史, 空間, 及集體回憶

香港・生活・文化 / 2011,
谷淑美, Shuk Mei Agnes
Book chapter

Rethinking Space and Discourse in the Process of Place-Making: A Study of Urban Activism

Paper presented at International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities
Ku, Agnes
Conference paper

2010 2

Making heritage in Hong Kong: A case study of the central police station compound

China Quarterly, (202), p. 381-399
Shuk-Mei Ku, Agnes
Article

The Politics of the Global City and Local Space in Hong Kong

Paper presented at Urban Representations in Hong Kong: Local and Comparative Perspectives, organized by HKUST, Northwestern University, HKU, Sophia University
Ku, Agnes
Conference paper

2009 7

Contradictions in the development of citizenship in Hong Kong: Governance without democracy

Asian Survey, v. 49, (3), p. 505-527
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Article

Hong Kong, China: Learning to Belong to a Nation [Book review]

China Journal, p. 258-259
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Article

Uneasy Reunions: Immigration, Citizenship, and Family Life in Post-1997 Hong Kong [Book review]

China Journal, p. 186-187
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Article

從移民政策的歷史軌跡看香港身分認同的構成（1950-80）

本土論述
谷淑美, Shuk Mei Agnes
Article

Social Stratification in Chinese Societies: Social Stratification in Chinese Societies

Chan, Kwok Bun; Chu, Yin Wah; Ku, Shuk Mei Agnes; Wu, Xiaogang
Book

Civil Society’s Dual Impetus: Mobilizations, Representations and Contestations over the July 1 March in 2003

Politics and Government in Hong Kong: Crisis under Chinese Sovereignty / 2009,
Ku, Shuk Mei
Book chapter

一場新社區運動帶來的啓廸: 從「忽然」文化說起

香港文化政治 / 2009,
谷淑美, Shuk Mei Agnes; 徐匡慈
Book chapter

2008 4

Hong Kong Mobile: Making a Global Population

Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei; Siu, Helen F.
Book

The "Global City" as a Cultural Project: The Case of the West Kowloon Cultural District

Hong Kong Mobile: Making a Global Population / 2008,
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei; Tsui, Clarence Hon-chee
Book chapter

The Cultural Politics of 'Time' and 'Space': Preservation Movements in Hong Kong

Paper presented at Hong Kong's Cultural Politics, organized by the Department of Journalism and Communication
Ku, Agnes S.M.
Conference paper

The Cultural Politics of Preservation in Hong Kong: Space, Identity and Collective Memory

Paper presented at Conference on Chinese Sociology in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, organized by Tsing Hua University
Ku, Agnes S.M.
Conference paper

2007 3

Constructing and Contesting the 'Order' Imagery in Media Discourse: Implications for Civil Society in Hong Kong

Asian Journal of Communication
KU, Shuk Mei Agnes
Article

State Power, Political Theatre and Reinvention of the Pro-Democracy Movement in Hong Kong: The March on 1 July 2003

Staging Politics: Power and Performance in Asia and Africa / 2007,
KU, Shuk-mei Agnes
Book chapter

邁向強勢管治的弔詭: 後九七公民權何去何從?

從九七算起: 公民社會的第一個十年 / 2007,
谷淑美, Shuk Mei Agnes
Book chapter

2006 3

創做不一樣的公共空間: 香港婦女運動發展的空間政治

香港・文化・研究 / 2006,
谷, 淑美
Book chapter

Changing Conceptions of Governance and Citizenship

Paper presented at Conference on the Role of the Government in Hong Kong, co-organized by the Central Policy Unit (HKSAR), Hong Kong Sociological Association, and Public Policy Research Centre, CUHK
Ku, Shuk-mei Agnes
Conference paper

The ‘Global City’ as a Cultural Project

Paper presented at The Conference on Rethinking Hong Kong’s Human Resources and Competitiveness: A Pre-policy Study,” organized by the Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong
Ku, Shuk-mei Agnes; Tsui, Hon-chee Clarence
Conference paper

2005 6

Body Disabled? Rethinking Disability and Social Integration in Hong Kong

Social Transformations in Chinese Societies
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Article

「救濟」論述的形成與延續: 香港社會工作的文化和政治意涵

本質與典範: 社會工作的反思 / 2005,
谷, 淑美
Book chapter

Masculinities in Self-invention: Critics' Discourses on Kung Fu-action Movies and Comedies

Masculinities and Hong Kong cinema / 2005,
Ku, Shuk-mei Agnes
Book chapter

In Search of a Community Vision of Cultural Development in Hong Kong

Paper presented at The (Second) Conference on Hong Kong Culture and Society, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Ku, Shuk Mei; Tsui, Hon-chee Clarence
Conference paper

Theatre, Discourse, and Civil Society

Paper presented at Inaugural Conference of the Centre for Cultural Sociology, Yale University.
Ku, Shuk-mei Agnes
Conference paper

Whose Political Theatre? Rethinking Civil Society in Hong Kong

Paper presented at the 37th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Stockholm
Ku, Shuk-mei Agnes
Conference paper

2004 9

Hegemonies Compared: State Formation and Chinese School Politics in Postwar Singapore and Hong Kong [Book review]

台灣社會學, v. 7, p. 209-211
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Article

Immigration policies, discourses, and the politics of local belonging in Hong Kong (1950-1980)

Modern China, v. 30, (3), p. 326-360
Ku, Agnes S.
Article

Negotiating the space of civil autonomy in Hong Kong: Power, discourses and dramaturgical representations

China Quarterly, (179), p. 647-664
Ku, Agnes S.
Article

Toward Critical Patriotism: Student Resistance to Political Education in Hong Kong and China [Book review]

China Quarterly, v. 178, p. 521-523
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Article

Understanding the Political Culture of Hong Kong: The Paradox of Activism and Depoliticization [Book review]

China Quarterly, v. 180, p. 1108-1109
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Article

Introduction: Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong

Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong: Community, Nation, and the Global City / 2004,
Ku, Shuk-mei Agnes
Book chapter

Negotiating Law, Rights, and Civil Autonomy: From the Colonial to the Post-Colonial Regimes

Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong: Community, Nation, and the Global City / 2004,
Ku, Shuk-mei Agnes
Book chapter

'Whose Political Theatre? Rethinking Citizenship and State-Civil Society Relations in Hong Kong.'

Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Hong Kong Sociological Association, Hong Kong.
Ku, Shuk-mei Agnes
Conference paper

State Power, POlitical Theatres, and Reinvention of the Pro-Democracy Movement in Hong Kong: The March on the First of July in 2003

Paper presented at Conference: Theatre Politics in Asian and Africa II: Contestation, Collusion, and Control, organized by the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Ku, Agnes
Conference paper

2003 7

「公民社會」和「社會資本」是相關的嗎？: 對布特林的論點的反思

青年研究學報
谷淑美, Shuk Mei Agnes
Article

Formation and Transformation of Citizenship in Hong Kong - A Theoretical Exploration

SOCIETAS: A Journal for Philosophical Study of Public Affairs
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Article

Paradoxical conception of "Civil society without Citizenship"

Sotsiologicheskie ISSLEDOVANIYA, (12), 2003, p. 11-20
Ku, A.
Article

The First Tung Chee-hwa Administration: The First Five Years of the Hong Kong Special Administration Region [Book review]

China Journal, v. 50, p. 220-221
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Article

The Making and Unmaking of Civic Solidarity: Comparing the Coping Responses of Civil Societies in Hong Kong and Taiwan during the SARS Crises

Asian Perspective
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei; Wang, Horng-Luen
Article

Creating a Different Public Sphere - A Review of Women's Movement in Hong Kong

Paper presented at Conference: Hong Kong Culture and Society, organized by the Department of Communications, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Ku, Shuk-Mei
Conference paper

Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong: Community, Nation, and the Global City

Paper presented at Conference: Citizenship and Social Marginality, organized by the Dept of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Ku, Agnes
Conference paper

2002 6

Beyond the paradoxical conception of 'civil society without citizenship'

International Sociology, v. 17, (4), p. 529-548+574
Ku, Agnes S.
Article

On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction: Preliminary Studies in the Theory of Communicative Action [Book review]

Contemporary Sociology, v. 31, p. 98-100
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Article

Post-colonial Cultural Trends in Hong Kong: Imagining the Local, the National and the Global

Crisis and Transformation in China's Hong Kong / 2002,
Ku, Shuk-Mei Agnes
Book chapter

文化、身份與政治

我們的地方, 我們的時間: 香港社會新編 / 2002,
谷淑美, Shuk Mei Agnes
Book chapter

Discourse, Dramaturgy, and Collective Action.

Paper presented at World Congress of Sociology, Brisbane
Ku, Shuk-Mei Agnes
Conference paper

Making Citizenship in Hong Kong

Paper presented at Hong Kong Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Hong Kong
Ku, Shuk-Mei Agnes
Conference paper

2001 5

Civil Society - Policy, System, and Culture in Hong Kong (Chinese)

Policy Watch
Ku, Shuk Mei Agnes; Lee, Wai Yee
Article

Hegemonic Construction, Negotiation and Displacement - Struggle over Right of Abode in Hong Kong

International Journal of Cultural Studies
Ku, Shuk Mei Agnes
Article

Hegemonic construction, negotiation and displacement: The struggle over right of abode in Hong Kong

International Journal of Cultural Studies, v. 4, (3), p. 259-278
Ku, Agnes S.
Article

The 'public' up against the state: Narrative cracks and credibility crisis in postcolonial Hong Kong

Theory, Culture and Society
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Article

Towards A Post-Liberal Theory of Civil Society

Paper presented at American Sociological Association Annual Conference
Ku, Shuk Mei Agnes
Conference paper

2000 2

“The Changing Support Strategies of Chinese Families in the Midst of Rapid Social and Economic Transitions

Asian Pacific Journal of Social Work
Angelina, W.K.; Ho, Denny K.L.; Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei; Tsang, Yuen
Article

Revisiting the notion of "public" in Habermas's theory - Toward a theory of politics of public credibility

Sociological theory, v. 18, (2), 2000, JUL, p. 216-240
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Article

1999 1

Narratives, Politics and the Public Sphere: Struggles Over Political Reform in the Final Transitional Years in Hong Kong (1992-1994)

Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Book

1998 1

Boundary Politics in the Public Sphere − Openness, Secrecy and Leak

Sociological Theory
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Article

Article 1

Reading Hong Kong literarily across two generations: localism and translocality

American Journal of Cultural Sociology, v. 13
Ku, Agnes Shuk mei

Article 1

Hong Kong Society: High-Definition Stories beyond the Spectacle of East-Meets-West

China Journal, v. 90, p. 253-255
Ku, Shuk Mei Agnes

Article 1

Cultural sociology in East Asia: three trajectories in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea

American Journal of Cultural Sociology, v. 10, (3), p. 516-534
Ku, Agnes Shuk mei; Wang, Horng luen; Choi, Jongryul

Article 1

The Umbrella Movement: Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong [Book review]

China Journal, v. 85, p. 247-249
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei

Article 2

New forms of youth activism–Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Bill movement in the local-national-global nexus

Space and Polity, v. 24, (1), p. 111-117
S. Ku, Agnes

Take Back Our Future: An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement [Book review]

China Quarterly, v. 243, p. 874-876
Ku, Shuk Mei Agnes

Article 1

In search of a new political subjectivity in hong kong: The umbrella movement as a street theater of generational change

China Journal, v. 82, (1), p. 111-132
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei

Book 1

The civil sphere in East Asia

Alexander, Jeffrey C.; Palmer, David A.; Park, Sunwoong; Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei

Book chapter 2

Performing civil disobedience in Hong Kong

The Civil Sphere in East Asia / Cambridge University Press, 2019, p. 84-103
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei

Performing Civil Disobedience in Hong Kong.” In The Civil Sphere in East Asia

The Civil Sphere in East Asia / Cambridge University Press, 2019, p. 84-103
KU, Shuk Mei Agnes

Article 1

City Dwellings in Hong Kong: A Photo Book Review Essay

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong, v. v. 58, p. 230-248
KU, Shuk Mei Agnes

Book chapter 1

Identity as politics: Contesting the local, the national and the global

Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Hong Kong / Taylor and Francis, 2018, p. 451-461
Ku, Agnes Shuk mei

Book 1

流光.時黑

谷淑美, Shuk Mei Agnes

Book chapter 1

From civil disobedience to institutional politics: Conflict over the Public Order Ordinance in 2000

Civil Unrest and Governance in Hong Kong / Taylor and Francis, 2017, p. 163-178
Ku, Agnes Shuk mei

Conference paper 1

Performing Civil Disobedience in Hong Kong

Ku, Shuk Mei Agnes

Book chapter 1

Making cultures and places from below: New urban activism in Hong Kong

Making Cultural Cities in Asia / Taylor and Francis Inc., 2015, p. 191-203
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei

Article 1

Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong [Book review]

Contemporary Sociology, v. 42, p. 407-408
Ku, Agnes S.

Article 1

Remaking places and fashioning an opposition discourse: Struggle over the Star Ferry pier and the Queen's pier in Hong Kong

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, v. 30, (1), p. 5-22
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei

Book chapter 1

The development of citizenship in Hong Kong: Governance without democracy

Repositioning the Hong Kong Government / Hong Kong University Press, HKU, 2012, p. 123-145
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei

Book chapter 2

Negotiating law, rights, and civil autonomy: From the colonial to the post-colonial regimes

Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong / Taylor and Francis, 2011, p. 141-156
Ku, Agnes S.

香港城市保育運動的文化政治: 歴史, 空間, 及集體回憶

香港・生活・文化 / 2011,
谷淑美, Shuk Mei Agnes

Conference paper 1

Rethinking Space and Discourse in the Process of Place-Making: A Study of Urban Activism

Paper presented at International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities
Ku, Agnes

Article 1

Making heritage in Hong Kong: A case study of the central police station compound

China Quarterly, (202), p. 381-399
Shuk-Mei Ku, Agnes

Conference paper 1

The Politics of the Global City and Local Space in Hong Kong

Paper presented at Urban Representations in Hong Kong: Local and Comparative Perspectives, organized by HKUST, Northwestern University, HKU, Sophia University
Ku, Agnes

Article 4

Contradictions in the development of citizenship in Hong Kong: Governance without democracy

Asian Survey, v. 49, (3), p. 505-527
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei

Hong Kong, China: Learning to Belong to a Nation [Book review]

China Journal, p. 258-259
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei

Uneasy Reunions: Immigration, Citizenship, and Family Life in Post-1997 Hong Kong [Book review]

China Journal, p. 186-187
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei

從移民政策的歷史軌跡看香港身分認同的構成（1950-80）

本土論述
谷淑美, Shuk Mei Agnes

Book 1

Social Stratification in Chinese Societies: Social Stratification in Chinese Societies

Chan, Kwok Bun; Chu, Yin Wah; Ku, Shuk Mei Agnes; Wu, Xiaogang

Book chapter 2

Civil Society’s Dual Impetus: Mobilizations, Representations and Contestations over the July 1 March in 2003

Politics and Government in Hong Kong: Crisis under Chinese Sovereignty / 2009,
Ku, Shuk Mei

一場新社區運動帶來的啓廸: 從「忽然」文化說起

香港文化政治 / 2009,
谷淑美, Shuk Mei Agnes; 徐匡慈

Book 1

Hong Kong Mobile: Making a Global Population

Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei; Siu, Helen F.

Book chapter 1

The "Global City" as a Cultural Project: The Case of the West Kowloon Cultural District

Hong Kong Mobile: Making a Global Population / 2008,
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei; Tsui, Clarence Hon-chee

Conference paper 2

The Cultural Politics of 'Time' and 'Space': Preservation Movements in Hong Kong

Paper presented at Hong Kong's Cultural Politics, organized by the Department of Journalism and Communication
Ku, Agnes S.M.

The Cultural Politics of Preservation in Hong Kong: Space, Identity and Collective Memory

Paper presented at Conference on Chinese Sociology in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, organized by Tsing Hua University
Ku, Agnes S.M.

Article 1

Constructing and Contesting the 'Order' Imagery in Media Discourse: Implications for Civil Society in Hong Kong

Asian Journal of Communication
KU, Shuk Mei Agnes

Book chapter 2

State Power, Political Theatre and Reinvention of the Pro-Democracy Movement in Hong Kong: The March on 1 July 2003

Staging Politics: Power and Performance in Asia and Africa / 2007,
KU, Shuk-mei Agnes

邁向強勢管治的弔詭: 後九七公民權何去何從?

從九七算起: 公民社會的第一個十年 / 2007,
谷淑美, Shuk Mei Agnes

Book chapter 1

創做不一樣的公共空間: 香港婦女運動發展的空間政治

香港・文化・研究 / 2006,
谷, 淑美

Conference paper 2

Changing Conceptions of Governance and Citizenship

Paper presented at Conference on the Role of the Government in Hong Kong, co-organized by the Central Policy Unit (HKSAR), Hong Kong Sociological Association, and Public Policy Research Centre, CUHK
Ku, Shuk-mei Agnes

The ‘Global City’ as a Cultural Project

Paper presented at The Conference on Rethinking Hong Kong’s Human Resources and Competitiveness: A Pre-policy Study,” organized by the Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong
Ku, Shuk-mei Agnes; Tsui, Hon-chee Clarence

Article 1

Body Disabled? Rethinking Disability and Social Integration in Hong Kong

Social Transformations in Chinese Societies
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei

Book chapter 2

「救濟」論述的形成與延續: 香港社會工作的文化和政治意涵

本質與典範: 社會工作的反思 / 2005,
谷, 淑美

Masculinities in Self-invention: Critics' Discourses on Kung Fu-action Movies and Comedies

Masculinities and Hong Kong cinema / 2005,
Ku, Shuk-mei Agnes

Conference paper 3

In Search of a Community Vision of Cultural Development in Hong Kong

Paper presented at The (Second) Conference on Hong Kong Culture and Society, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Ku, Shuk Mei; Tsui, Hon-chee Clarence

Theatre, Discourse, and Civil Society

Paper presented at Inaugural Conference of the Centre for Cultural Sociology, Yale University.
Ku, Shuk-mei Agnes

Whose Political Theatre? Rethinking Civil Society in Hong Kong

Paper presented at the 37th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Stockholm
Ku, Shuk-mei Agnes

Article 5

Hegemonies Compared: State Formation and Chinese School Politics in Postwar Singapore and Hong Kong [Book review]

台灣社會學, v. 7, p. 209-211
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei

Immigration policies, discourses, and the politics of local belonging in Hong Kong (1950-1980)

Modern China, v. 30, (3), p. 326-360
Ku, Agnes S.

Negotiating the space of civil autonomy in Hong Kong: Power, discourses and dramaturgical representations

China Quarterly, (179), p. 647-664
Ku, Agnes S.

Toward Critical Patriotism: Student Resistance to Political Education in Hong Kong and China [Book review]

China Quarterly, v. 178, p. 521-523
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei

Understanding the Political Culture of Hong Kong: The Paradox of Activism and Depoliticization [Book review]

China Quarterly, v. 180, p. 1108-1109
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei

Book chapter 2

Introduction: Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong

Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong: Community, Nation, and the Global City / 2004,
Ku, Shuk-mei Agnes

Negotiating Law, Rights, and Civil Autonomy: From the Colonial to the Post-Colonial Regimes

Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong: Community, Nation, and the Global City / 2004,
Ku, Shuk-mei Agnes

Conference paper 2

'Whose Political Theatre? Rethinking Citizenship and State-Civil Society Relations in Hong Kong.'

Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Hong Kong Sociological Association, Hong Kong.
Ku, Shuk-mei Agnes

State Power, POlitical Theatres, and Reinvention of the Pro-Democracy Movement in Hong Kong: The March on the First of July in 2003

Paper presented at Conference: Theatre Politics in Asian and Africa II: Contestation, Collusion, and Control, organized by the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Ku, Agnes

Article 5

「公民社會」和「社會資本」是相關的嗎？: 對布特林的論點的反思

青年研究學報
谷淑美, Shuk Mei Agnes

Formation and Transformation of Citizenship in Hong Kong - A Theoretical Exploration

SOCIETAS: A Journal for Philosophical Study of Public Affairs
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei

Paradoxical conception of "Civil society without Citizenship"

Sotsiologicheskie ISSLEDOVANIYA, (12), 2003, p. 11-20
Ku, A.

The First Tung Chee-hwa Administration: The First Five Years of the Hong Kong Special Administration Region [Book review]

China Journal, v. 50, p. 220-221
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei

The Making and Unmaking of Civic Solidarity: Comparing the Coping Responses of Civil Societies in Hong Kong and Taiwan during the SARS Crises

Asian Perspective
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei; Wang, Horng-Luen

Conference paper 2

Creating a Different Public Sphere - A Review of Women's Movement in Hong Kong

Paper presented at Conference: Hong Kong Culture and Society, organized by the Department of Communications, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Ku, Shuk-Mei

Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong: Community, Nation, and the Global City

Paper presented at Conference: Citizenship and Social Marginality, organized by the Dept of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Ku, Agnes

Article 2

Beyond the paradoxical conception of 'civil society without citizenship'

International Sociology, v. 17, (4), p. 529-548+574
Ku, Agnes S.

On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction: Preliminary Studies in the Theory of Communicative Action [Book review]

Contemporary Sociology, v. 31, p. 98-100
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei

Book chapter 2

Post-colonial Cultural Trends in Hong Kong: Imagining the Local, the National and the Global

Crisis and Transformation in China's Hong Kong / 2002,
Ku, Shuk-Mei Agnes

文化、身份與政治

我們的地方, 我們的時間: 香港社會新編 / 2002,
谷淑美, Shuk Mei Agnes

Conference paper 2

Discourse, Dramaturgy, and Collective Action.

Paper presented at World Congress of Sociology, Brisbane
Ku, Shuk-Mei Agnes

Making Citizenship in Hong Kong

Paper presented at Hong Kong Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Hong Kong
Ku, Shuk-Mei Agnes

Article 4

Civil Society - Policy, System, and Culture in Hong Kong (Chinese)

Policy Watch
Ku, Shuk Mei Agnes; Lee, Wai Yee

Hegemonic Construction, Negotiation and Displacement - Struggle over Right of Abode in Hong Kong

International Journal of Cultural Studies
Ku, Shuk Mei Agnes

Hegemonic construction, negotiation and displacement: The struggle over right of abode in Hong Kong

International Journal of Cultural Studies, v. 4, (3), p. 259-278
Ku, Agnes S.

The 'public' up against the state: Narrative cracks and credibility crisis in postcolonial Hong Kong

Theory, Culture and Society
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei

Conference paper 1

Towards A Post-Liberal Theory of Civil Society

Paper presented at American Sociological Association Annual Conference
Ku, Shuk Mei Agnes

Article 2

“The Changing Support Strategies of Chinese Families in the Midst of Rapid Social and Economic Transitions

Asian Pacific Journal of Social Work
Angelina, W.K.; Ho, Denny K.L.; Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei; Tsang, Yuen

Revisiting the notion of "public" in Habermas's theory - Toward a theory of politics of public credibility

Sociological theory, v. 18, (2), 2000, JUL, p. 216-240
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei

Book 1

Narratives, Politics and the Public Sphere: Struggles Over Political Reform in the Final Transitional Years in Hong Kong (1992-1994)

Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei

Article 1

Boundary Politics in the Public Sphere − Openness, Secrecy and Leak

Sociological Theory
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei

2020 2

New forms of youth activism–Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Bill movement in the local-national-global nexus

Space and Polity, v. 24, (1), p. 111-117
S. Ku, Agnes
Article

Take Back Our Future: An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement [Book review]

China Quarterly, v. 243, p. 874-876
Ku, Shuk Mei Agnes
Article

2019 4

In search of a new political subjectivity in hong kong: The umbrella movement as a street theater of generational change

China Journal, v. 82, (1), p. 111-132
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Article

The civil sphere in East Asia

Alexander, Jeffrey C.; Palmer, David A.; Park, Sunwoong; Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Book

Performing civil disobedience in Hong Kong

The Civil Sphere in East Asia / Cambridge University Press, 2019, p. 84-103
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Book chapter

Performing Civil Disobedience in Hong Kong.” In The Civil Sphere in East Asia

The Civil Sphere in East Asia / Cambridge University Press, 2019, p. 84-103
KU, Shuk Mei Agnes
Book chapter

2018 2

City Dwellings in Hong Kong: A Photo Book Review Essay

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong, v. v. 58, p. 230-248
KU, Shuk Mei Agnes
Article

Identity as politics: Contesting the local, the national and the global

Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Hong Kong / Taylor and Francis, 2018, p. 451-461
Ku, Agnes Shuk mei
Book chapter

2017 3

流光.時黑

谷淑美, Shuk Mei Agnes
Book

From civil disobedience to institutional politics: Conflict over the Public Order Ordinance in 2000

Civil Unrest and Governance in Hong Kong / Taylor and Francis, 2017, p. 163-178
Ku, Agnes Shuk mei
Book chapter

Performing Civil Disobedience in Hong Kong

Ku, Shuk Mei Agnes
Conference paper

2015 1

Making cultures and places from below: New urban activism in Hong Kong

Making Cultural Cities in Asia / Taylor and Francis Inc., 2015, p. 191-203
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Book chapter

2013 1

Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong [Book review]

Contemporary Sociology, v. 42, p. 407-408
Ku, Agnes S.
Article

2012 2

Remaking places and fashioning an opposition discourse: Struggle over the Star Ferry pier and the Queen's pier in Hong Kong

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, v. 30, (1), p. 5-22
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Article

The development of citizenship in Hong Kong: Governance without democracy

Repositioning the Hong Kong Government / Hong Kong University Press, HKU, 2012, p. 123-145
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Book chapter

2011 3

Negotiating law, rights, and civil autonomy: From the colonial to the post-colonial regimes

Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong / Taylor and Francis, 2011, p. 141-156
Ku, Agnes S.
Book chapter

香港城市保育運動的文化政治: 歴史, 空間, 及集體回憶

香港・生活・文化 / 2011,
谷淑美, Shuk Mei Agnes
Book chapter

Rethinking Space and Discourse in the Process of Place-Making: A Study of Urban Activism

Paper presented at International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities
Ku, Agnes
Conference paper

2010 2

Making heritage in Hong Kong: A case study of the central police station compound

China Quarterly, (202), p. 381-399
Shuk-Mei Ku, Agnes
Article

The Politics of the Global City and Local Space in Hong Kong

Paper presented at Urban Representations in Hong Kong: Local and Comparative Perspectives, organized by HKUST, Northwestern University, HKU, Sophia University
Ku, Agnes
Conference paper

2009 7

Contradictions in the development of citizenship in Hong Kong: Governance without democracy

Asian Survey, v. 49, (3), p. 505-527
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Article

Hong Kong, China: Learning to Belong to a Nation [Book review]

China Journal, p. 258-259
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Article

Uneasy Reunions: Immigration, Citizenship, and Family Life in Post-1997 Hong Kong [Book review]

China Journal, p. 186-187
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Article

從移民政策的歷史軌跡看香港身分認同的構成（1950-80）

本土論述
谷淑美, Shuk Mei Agnes
Article

Social Stratification in Chinese Societies: Social Stratification in Chinese Societies

Chan, Kwok Bun; Chu, Yin Wah; Ku, Shuk Mei Agnes; Wu, Xiaogang
Book

Civil Society’s Dual Impetus: Mobilizations, Representations and Contestations over the July 1 March in 2003

Politics and Government in Hong Kong: Crisis under Chinese Sovereignty / 2009,
Ku, Shuk Mei
Book chapter

一場新社區運動帶來的啓廸: 從「忽然」文化說起

香港文化政治 / 2009,
谷淑美, Shuk Mei Agnes; 徐匡慈
Book chapter

2008 4

Hong Kong Mobile: Making a Global Population

Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei; Siu, Helen F.
Book

The "Global City" as a Cultural Project: The Case of the West Kowloon Cultural District

Hong Kong Mobile: Making a Global Population / 2008,
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei; Tsui, Clarence Hon-chee
Book chapter

The Cultural Politics of 'Time' and 'Space': Preservation Movements in Hong Kong

Paper presented at Hong Kong's Cultural Politics, organized by the Department of Journalism and Communication
Ku, Agnes S.M.
Conference paper

The Cultural Politics of Preservation in Hong Kong: Space, Identity and Collective Memory

Paper presented at Conference on Chinese Sociology in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, organized by Tsing Hua University
Ku, Agnes S.M.
Conference paper

2007 3

Constructing and Contesting the 'Order' Imagery in Media Discourse: Implications for Civil Society in Hong Kong

Asian Journal of Communication
KU, Shuk Mei Agnes
Article

State Power, Political Theatre and Reinvention of the Pro-Democracy Movement in Hong Kong: The March on 1 July 2003

Staging Politics: Power and Performance in Asia and Africa / 2007,
KU, Shuk-mei Agnes
Book chapter

邁向強勢管治的弔詭: 後九七公民權何去何從?

從九七算起: 公民社會的第一個十年 / 2007,
谷淑美, Shuk Mei Agnes
Book chapter

2006 3

創做不一樣的公共空間: 香港婦女運動發展的空間政治

香港・文化・研究 / 2006,
谷, 淑美
Book chapter

Changing Conceptions of Governance and Citizenship

Paper presented at Conference on the Role of the Government in Hong Kong, co-organized by the Central Policy Unit (HKSAR), Hong Kong Sociological Association, and Public Policy Research Centre, CUHK
Ku, Shuk-mei Agnes
Conference paper

The ‘Global City’ as a Cultural Project

Paper presented at The Conference on Rethinking Hong Kong’s Human Resources and Competitiveness: A Pre-policy Study,” organized by the Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong
Ku, Shuk-mei Agnes; Tsui, Hon-chee Clarence
Conference paper

2005 6

Body Disabled? Rethinking Disability and Social Integration in Hong Kong

Social Transformations in Chinese Societies
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Article

「救濟」論述的形成與延續: 香港社會工作的文化和政治意涵

本質與典範: 社會工作的反思 / 2005,
谷, 淑美
Book chapter

Masculinities in Self-invention: Critics' Discourses on Kung Fu-action Movies and Comedies

Masculinities and Hong Kong cinema / 2005,
Ku, Shuk-mei Agnes
Book chapter

In Search of a Community Vision of Cultural Development in Hong Kong

Paper presented at The (Second) Conference on Hong Kong Culture and Society, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Ku, Shuk Mei; Tsui, Hon-chee Clarence
Conference paper

Theatre, Discourse, and Civil Society

Paper presented at Inaugural Conference of the Centre for Cultural Sociology, Yale University.
Ku, Shuk-mei Agnes
Conference paper

Whose Political Theatre? Rethinking Civil Society in Hong Kong

Paper presented at the 37th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Stockholm
Ku, Shuk-mei Agnes
Conference paper

2004 9

Hegemonies Compared: State Formation and Chinese School Politics in Postwar Singapore and Hong Kong [Book review]

台灣社會學, v. 7, p. 209-211
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Article

Immigration policies, discourses, and the politics of local belonging in Hong Kong (1950-1980)

Modern China, v. 30, (3), p. 326-360
Ku, Agnes S.
Article

Negotiating the space of civil autonomy in Hong Kong: Power, discourses and dramaturgical representations

China Quarterly, (179), p. 647-664
Ku, Agnes S.
Article

Toward Critical Patriotism: Student Resistance to Political Education in Hong Kong and China [Book review]

China Quarterly, v. 178, p. 521-523
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Article

Understanding the Political Culture of Hong Kong: The Paradox of Activism and Depoliticization [Book review]

China Quarterly, v. 180, p. 1108-1109
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Article

Introduction: Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong

Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong: Community, Nation, and the Global City / 2004,
Ku, Shuk-mei Agnes
Book chapter

Negotiating Law, Rights, and Civil Autonomy: From the Colonial to the Post-Colonial Regimes

Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong: Community, Nation, and the Global City / 2004,
Ku, Shuk-mei Agnes
Book chapter

'Whose Political Theatre? Rethinking Citizenship and State-Civil Society Relations in Hong Kong.'

Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Hong Kong Sociological Association, Hong Kong.
Ku, Shuk-mei Agnes
Conference paper

State Power, POlitical Theatres, and Reinvention of the Pro-Democracy Movement in Hong Kong: The March on the First of July in 2003

Paper presented at Conference: Theatre Politics in Asian and Africa II: Contestation, Collusion, and Control, organized by the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Ku, Agnes
Conference paper

2003 7

「公民社會」和「社會資本」是相關的嗎？: 對布特林的論點的反思

青年研究學報
谷淑美, Shuk Mei Agnes
Article

Formation and Transformation of Citizenship in Hong Kong - A Theoretical Exploration

SOCIETAS: A Journal for Philosophical Study of Public Affairs
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Article

Paradoxical conception of "Civil society without Citizenship"

Sotsiologicheskie ISSLEDOVANIYA, (12), 2003, p. 11-20
Ku, A.
Article

The First Tung Chee-hwa Administration: The First Five Years of the Hong Kong Special Administration Region [Book review]

China Journal, v. 50, p. 220-221
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Article

The Making and Unmaking of Civic Solidarity: Comparing the Coping Responses of Civil Societies in Hong Kong and Taiwan during the SARS Crises

Asian Perspective
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei; Wang, Horng-Luen
Article

Creating a Different Public Sphere - A Review of Women's Movement in Hong Kong

Paper presented at Conference: Hong Kong Culture and Society, organized by the Department of Communications, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Ku, Shuk-Mei
Conference paper

Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong: Community, Nation, and the Global City

Paper presented at Conference: Citizenship and Social Marginality, organized by the Dept of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Ku, Agnes
Conference paper

2002 6

Beyond the paradoxical conception of 'civil society without citizenship'

International Sociology, v. 17, (4), p. 529-548+574
Ku, Agnes S.
Article

On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction: Preliminary Studies in the Theory of Communicative Action [Book review]

Contemporary Sociology, v. 31, p. 98-100
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Article

Post-colonial Cultural Trends in Hong Kong: Imagining the Local, the National and the Global

Crisis and Transformation in China's Hong Kong / 2002,
Ku, Shuk-Mei Agnes
Book chapter

文化、身份與政治

我們的地方, 我們的時間: 香港社會新編 / 2002,
谷淑美, Shuk Mei Agnes
Book chapter

Discourse, Dramaturgy, and Collective Action.

Paper presented at World Congress of Sociology, Brisbane
Ku, Shuk-Mei Agnes
Conference paper

Making Citizenship in Hong Kong

Paper presented at Hong Kong Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Hong Kong
Ku, Shuk-Mei Agnes
Conference paper

2001 5

Civil Society - Policy, System, and Culture in Hong Kong (Chinese)

Policy Watch
Ku, Shuk Mei Agnes; Lee, Wai Yee
Article

Hegemonic Construction, Negotiation and Displacement - Struggle over Right of Abode in Hong Kong

International Journal of Cultural Studies
Ku, Shuk Mei Agnes
Article

Hegemonic construction, negotiation and displacement: The struggle over right of abode in Hong Kong

International Journal of Cultural Studies, v. 4, (3), p. 259-278
Ku, Agnes S.
Article

The 'public' up against the state: Narrative cracks and credibility crisis in postcolonial Hong Kong

Theory, Culture and Society
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Article

Towards A Post-Liberal Theory of Civil Society

Paper presented at American Sociological Association Annual Conference
Ku, Shuk Mei Agnes
Conference paper

2000 2

“The Changing Support Strategies of Chinese Families in the Midst of Rapid Social and Economic Transitions

Asian Pacific Journal of Social Work
Angelina, W.K.; Ho, Denny K.L.; Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei; Tsang, Yuen
Article

Revisiting the notion of "public" in Habermas's theory - Toward a theory of politics of public credibility

Sociological theory, v. 18, (2), 2000, JUL, p. 216-240
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Article

1999 1

Narratives, Politics and the Public Sphere: Struggles Over Political Reform in the Final Transitional Years in Hong Kong (1992-1994)

Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Book

1998 1

Boundary Politics in the Public Sphere − Openness, Secrecy and Leak

Sociological Theory
Ku, Agnes Shuk Mei
Article

No Publications

Teaching Assignment

2025-26 Winter 0 2025-26 Fall 3 2024-25 Summer 0 2024-25 Spring 4 2024-25 Winter 0 2024-25 Fall 2

SHSS4991	Capstone Project
SHSS4992	Honors Thesis
SOSC3130	Hong Kong Culture

SHSS4991	Capstone Project
SHSS4992	Honors Thesis
SHSS4993	Honors Research
SOSC1850	Understanding Society

SHSS4991	Capstone Project
SHSS4992	Honors Thesis

No Teaching Assignments

Projects

From January 2024 to December 2026

All Projects 1

No Projects.
Youths, Identity Consciousness and Generational Change

青年、身份意識、及世代改變 Leading

RGC - General Research Fund
Project Team (HKUST)
KU Shuk Mei Agnes (Lead)
2022 - 2025