Participant Info
- First Name
- Elizabeth
- Last Name
- LaCouture
- Country
- Hong Kong
- State
- elac@hku.hk
- Affiliation
- University of Hong Kong
- Website URL
- Keywords
- China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Asia, gender, sexuality, race, beauty, cosmetics, architecture, domesticity, middle class, property, material culture
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Elizabeth LaCouture is the inaugural director of the new Gender Studies Programme at the University of Hong Kong and a historian of gender, race and everyday life in the Chinese world (China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the diaspora). She is interested in a broad range of topics related to women, gender, sexuality, class, and race in China and Asia. She has lived and conducted research across East Asia in China, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan, and has lived in Hong Kong since 2017.
- Recent Publications
“Inventing the ‘Foreignized’ Chinese Carpet in Treaty-port Tianjin, China”, Journal of Design History, February 2017
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- China
- Expertise by Geography
- Asia, China, East Asia, Southeast Asia
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Family, Gender, Museums, Pedagogy, Race, Sexuality, Technology, Women
