Staff Profile

Teaching Areas & Research Interests

• African Anglophone Literature
• Joseph Conrad Studies

Selected Publications

Books

• Chan, Kelly K. Y., and C. S. Garfield Lau, eds. Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern and Premodern China: Global Networks, Mediation, and Intertextuality. Singapore: Springer Nature, 2022. 197 pp.
• Chan, Kelly K. Y., and C. S. Garfield Lau, eds. Chinese Culture in the 21st Century and its Global Dimensions: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Singapore: Springer Nature, 2020. 216 pp.
• Lau, Chi Sum Garfield. Family, Violence and Gender in African Anglophone Novels and Contemporary Terrorist Threats. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2017. 153 pp.

Book Chapters

• Lau, Chi Sum Garfield. “At the Junction of Desire and Obligation: Analyzing Stefan Zweig’s Letter from an Unknown Woman and its Two Adaptations” in Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern and Premodern China: Global Networks, Mediation, and Intertextuality. Singapore: Springer, 2022. pp.97-111.
• Lau, Chi Sum Garfield. “The Evolution of Chinese Women: From Confucian Obligations to Modern Resistance” in Chinese Culture in the 21st Century and its Global Dimensions: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Singapore: Springer, 2020. pp.3-16.
• Lau, Chi Sum Garfield. “From Gogol to Lu Xun and After: Politics, Culture and Reception” in Culture in Translation: Reception of Chinese Literature in the Comparative Perspective. Hong Kong: OU Press, 2012. pp.151-162.

Journal Articles

• Lau, Chi Sum Garfield. “Celebrating the Love of Memories: Analysing Mary McCarthy’s and J.M. Coetzee’s Autobiographies of Childhood” Journal of Philology and Intercultural Communication. (Department of Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication of the Military Technical Academy, Bucharest, Romania). Vol. 6, No. 2 (2022) pp.6-15.
• Lau, Chi Sum Garfield. “Modern Family and Subversions in Yasunari Kawabata’s The Sound of the Mountain”. Comparative Literature: East and West (Sichuan University Press, Sichuan) No. 1, Vol. 24 (Spring/Summer 2016) pp. 43-52.
• Lau, Chi Sum Garfield. “Feminism for students in Hong Kong through Literature” Khon Kaen University International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (Khon Kaen University, Thailand). No. 11, Vol. 1 (Jan/Apr 2021) pp.126-141.
• Lau, Chi Sum Garfield. “The Development of Hong Kong Anglophone Literature in the Age of Globalization” Khon Kaen University International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (Khon Kaen University, Thailand) No. 9, Vol. 1 (Jan/Apr 2019) pp.1-12.

Modified Date: 16 Nov, 2022
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