Books
Hong Kong’s Built Heritage
Chu, C.L. Hong Kong’s Built Heritage. Hong Kong Matters Series, Hong Kong University Press (forthcoming 2024).
Building Colonial Hong Kong: Speculative Development and Segregation in the City. Planning, History and Environment Series
Chu, C.L. Building Colonial Hong Kong: Speculative Development and Segregation in the City. Planning, History and Environment Series, Routledge, 2022.
The Speculative City: Emergent Forms and Norms of the Built Environment
Chu, C.L. and He, S., eds., The Speculative City: Emergent Forms and Norms of the Built Environment. University of Toronto Press, 2022.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
“Concrete”
Woodworth, M.D. and Chu, C.L. eds. “Concrete.” Roadsides 11 (2024): 1-94.
The Afterlives of Modern Housing
Chu, C.L. “The Afterlives of Modern Housing.” In Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History, edited by Duanfang Lu, 127-143, Routledge, 2023.
Beyond the Sunday Spectacle: Foreign Domestic Workers and Emergent Civic Urbanisms in Hong Kong
Chu, C.L. and Catalan, M.E. “Beyond the Sunday Spectacle: Foreign Domestic Workers and Emergent Civic Urbanisms in Hong Kong.” In Cities After Development: Emerging Civic Urbanisms in Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul and Singapore, edited by I.S. Cho, B. Kriznik and J., 245-266. Amsterdam University Press, 2022.
Living Heritage Vs. Dead Relics? Place Meanings and Boundary-Making in the Politics of Heritage in Postcolonial Hong Kong
L. Barber and C.L. Chu “Living Heritage Vs. Dead Relics? Place Meanings and Boundary-Making in the Politics of Heritage in Postcolonial Hong Kong.” In Place Meaning and Attachment: Authenticity, Heritage, and Preservation, edited by D. Kopec and A. Bliss, 182-193. Routledge, 2020.
Tianyuan Dushi: Garden City, Urban Planning, and Visions of Modernization in Early 20th Century China
Chu, C.L. and Z. Liang. “Tianyuan Dushi: Garden City, Urban Planning, and Visions of Modernization in Early 20th
Century China.” Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review 31, 1 (2019): 39-54.
Envisioning Future Pasts: Heritage and Emergent Activism in Postcolonial Macau and Hong Kong
Chu, C.L. “Envisioning Future Pasts: Heritage and Emergent Activism in Postcolonial Macau and Hong Kong.” In Urban Asias: Essays on Futurity Past and Present, edited by T. Bunnell and D.P.S. Goh, 64-76. Jovis Verlag, 2018.
Placing ‘Asia’ against the ‘West’: Occidentalism and the Production of Architectural Images in Shanghai and Hong Kong
Chu, C.L. “‘Placing ‘Asia’ against the ‘West’: Occidentalism and the Production of Architectural Images in Shanghai and Hong Kong.” Architectural Theory Review 22, 3 (2018): 309-337.
Constructing a New Domestic Discourse: The Modern Home in Architectural Journals and Mass Market Texts in Early 20th Century China
Chu, C.L. “Constructing a New Domestic Discourse: The Modern Home in Architectural Journals and Mass Market Texts in Early 20th Century China.” Journal of Architecture 22, 6 (2017): 1066-1091.
Narrating the Mall City
Chu, C.L. “Narrating the Mall City.” In Mall City: Hong Kong’s Dreamworlds of Consumption, edited by S. Al, 83-90. Hong Kong University Press, 2016.
Spectacular Macau: Visioning Futures for A World Heritage City
Chu, C.L. “Spectacular Macau: Visioning Futures for A World Heritage City.” Geoforum 65 (2015): 440-450.
Shanzheng (善政) and Gongde (公德): Moral Regulation and Narratives of ‘Good Government’ in Colonial Hong Kong
Chu, C. “Shanzheng
(善政) and Gongde (公德): Moral Regulation and Narratives of ‘Good Government’ in Colonial Hong Kong.” Journal of Historical Geography 42 (2013): 180-192.
Combating Nuisance: Sanitation, Regulation, and the Politics of Property in Colonial Hong Kong
Chu, C. “Combating Nuisance: Sanitation, Regulation, and the Politics of Property in Colonial Hong Kong.” In Imperial Contagions: Medicine and the Cultures of Planning in Asia, edited by R. Peckham and D. Pomfret, 17-36. Hong Kong University Press, 2013.
Between Typologies and Representation: The Tong Lau and the Discourse of the ‘Chinese House
Chu, C. “Between Typologies and Representation: The Tong Lau and the Discourse of the ‘Chinese House.’” In Colonial Frames, Nationalist Histories, edited by M. Rajagopalan and M. Desai, 253-83. Ashgate, 2012.
People Power as Exception: Three Controversies Over Privatization in Posthandover Hong Kong
Chu, C. “People Power as Exception: Three Controversies Over Privatization in Posthandover Hong Kong.” Urban Studies 47, 8 (2010): 1773-1792.