Professor Lai Yuen Shan, Ruby

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Book Monograph

Lai, Y. S. (2023). Premarital Abortion in China: Intimacy, Family and Reproduction. Oxon and New York: Routledge. 

Journal Articles

Lai, Y. S. 2024. Political polarization and intimate distance: Negotiating family conflicts during a high-risk protest movement. Current Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/00113921241232409

Lai, Y. S. 2023. Home as a Site of Resistance/Repression? The Intersection of Family, Politics, and the Hong Kong 2019 Protest Movement. The Sociological Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261231175226

Lai, Y. S. 2022. Every Medicine Is Somewhat Poisonous”: Understanding the Reluctance to Use Oral Contraceptives Among Unmarried Women Seeking Abortion in China. Contraception. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.contraception.2022.11.008

Lai, Y. S. 2021. From# MeToo to# ProtestToo: How a Feminist Movement Converged with a Pro-democracy Protest in Hong Kong. Politics & Gender, 17(3), 500-507. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X21000246

Choi, S. Y. P. and Lai, Y. S. 2021. Sex Work and Stigma Management: The Role of State Policy and NGO Advocacy. China Quarterly, 247, 855-874. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741021000035

Choi, S. Y. P. and Lai, Y. S. 2020. Birth Tourism and Migrant Children’s Agency: The ‘Double Not’ in Post-Handover Hong Kong, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 48(5), 1193-1209. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1839397

Choi, S. Y. P., Lai, Y. S. and Pang, C. L. 2020. ‘Gender Irrelevance': How Women and Men Rationalise Their Support for the Right. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 45(2), 473-496. https://doi.org/10.1086/705006

Lai, Y. S. and Choi, S. Y. P. 2019. Premarital Sexuality, Abortion, and Intergenerational Dynamics in China. Modern China, 47(3), 239-265. https://doi.org/10.1177/0097700419880524

Book Chapter

Lai, Y. S. 2023. The Transformation of Abortion Law in China. Research Handbook on International Abortion Law, edited by Mary Ziegler. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

Selected Conference Presentations

Lai, Y. S. The Spatiality of Motherhood: Migrant Mothers Living in Subdivided Units in Hong Kong. Paper presented at the 24th Annual Conference of the Hong Kong Sociological Association, Hong Kong, December 2, 2023.

Lai, Y. S. Deliberative Harmony? Negotiating Family Conflicts during High-Risk Social Movements. Paper presented at the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, June 25 - July 1, 2023.

Lai, Y. S. and Chan, C. Y. Repressive Home Space and Well-being: A mixed-method study of Families living in Informal Cubicle Apartments in Hong Kong. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the British Sociological Association, Manchester, UK, April 13-15, 2023.

Lai, Y. S. Compressed Home and Spatial Strategies: Doing Family in a Cubicle Apartment. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Honolulu, Hawai'I and Virtually, March 24-27, 2022.

Other Publications

Books

Lai, Y. S., Cheng, M. C., Tam, V and Chan, C. (2018). Out of the Shadow: Stories of Fathers with Autistic Children (開門有光—十個自閉孩子與爸爸). Hong Kong: Joint Publishing. (In Chinese)

Lai, Y. S. (2017). Colours of Justice: The Biography of Fermi Wong, the Founder of Hong Kong Unison (公義的顏色：王惠芬與少數族裔的平權路). Hong Kong: Joint Publishing. (In Chinese) (Recipient of the 2019 Hong Kong Publishing Biennial Awards (Social Science))