{"id":2505,"date":"2026-02-03T13:13:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/people\/dr-lee-ka-kiu-nelson\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T13:13:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:13:03","slug":"dr-lee-ka-kiu-nelson","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/sc\/people\/dr-lee-ka-kiu-nelson\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. LEE Ka Kiu, Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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BSSc., MPhil and PhD (CUHK)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nelson Lee is an expert in political geography and urban politics. His academic works are published in flagship disciplinary journals including\u00a0Political Geography<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0International Journal of Urban<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Regional Research<\/em>. He serves as an invited referee for the leading academic journals in the disciplines. He is frequently interviewed by media such as\u00a0Foreign Policy<\/em>,\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/em>,\u00a0Radio Free Asia<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Ming Pao Daily News<\/em>. He has been invited to give lectures to senior Chinese government officials from across the country.<\/p>\n

Lee\u2019s teaching covers the areas of politics of space, political geography, urban studies, cultural politics, Hong Kong politics, law and society etc. In 2014, Lee was awarded the\u00a0Exemplary Teaching Award of the Faculty of Social Science for his outstanding performance in teaching. He is a devoted teacher who insists in nourishing students to be a well-rounded person.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n \n

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    • Politics of Space<\/li>\n
    • Politics of Culture<\/li>\n
    • Political Geography<\/li>\n
    • Urban Studies<\/li>\n
    • Law and Society<\/li>\n
    • Hong Kong Government and Politics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/ul>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n \n
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      Have contributed to training programmes for government officials of China who implement the country\u2019s ongoing social management reform: Have delivered more than 40 lectures on the topics of community management and governance of civil society to government officials (of the grades of Section Chief, Director, and Director-General) from Guangdong, Shanghai, Chongqing, Guangxi, Jilin, Inner Mongolia, etc.<\/p>\n

      Have served as invited referee for international journals such as Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Political Geography, etc.<\/p>\n

      Have been interviewed by international and local media on the politics of Hong Kong\u2019s water supply and China-Hong Kong relations, including Foreign Policy, Wall Street Journal, Radio Free Asia, Freedom Observatory, Ming Pao Daily News, Metro Radio, Now TV, Next Magazine, iSun Affairs, etc.<\/p>\n

      Have offered talks and speeches in activities and functions organised by academic bodies and youth and social organisations, for example:<\/p>\n

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      • Jul 2012<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cOne Country, Two Systems \u2013 A Contested Concept,\u201d lecture delivered at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.<\/li>\n
      • Oct 2009<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cPublic Space: Theory and Practice,\u201d public lecture held by Democratic Party (Hong Kong) and Hong Kong Reader.<\/li>\n
      • Jun 2008<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cPolitics, Public Space, and Hannah Arendt\u2019s Political Theory,\u201d public lecture organised by Roundtable Community and Hong Kong Reader.<\/li>\n
      • Dec 2006<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cPolitics and Space: Why Should We Study Space?\u201d public lecture at the Department of Public Policy and Management, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.<\/li>\n
      • May 2005<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cPolitics of Space? Space of Politics? \u2018The Political\u2019 in the Contemporary Thought on Space,\u201d public lecture at the Department of Social Science, the University of Macau.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n \n
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        • GPAD 1000 Learning GPA<\/li>\n
        • GLAW 1010 Law and Society<\/li>\n
        • GPAD 1050 Hong Kong Government<\/li>\n
        • GPAD 1077 Critical Debates in Hong Kong<\/li>\n
        • GPAD 1100 Politics, Law and Society<\/li>\n
        • GPAD 2015 Selected Topics in Hong Kong Politics<\/li>\n
        • GPAD 2020 Politics of Culture<\/li>\n
        • GPAD 3220 Politics of Space<\/li>\n
        • GPAD 4130 Theories in Comparative Politics (Graduate level)<\/li>\n
        • GPGC 5002 Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan in Comparative Perspectives (Graduate level)<\/li>\n
        • MPUP 5321 NGOs and Government (Graduate level)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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          • Since 2013\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cPublic Space, Social Capital and Urban Governance: An Empirical Study,\u201d General Research Fund, University Grants Committee, Hong Kong. Co-investigator.<\/li>\n
          • 2010 \u2013 2012\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cThe Pattern of Urban Life in Hong Kong: A District Level Community Study of Sham Shui Po,\u201d commissioned by the Central Policy Unit, HKSAR Government. Co-Investigator.<\/li>\n
          • 2009 \u2013 2010\u00a0<\/strong>\u201c2010 Shanghai\u2019s World\u2019s Exposition: Mega-event, Urban Boosterism and Urban Spatial Politics in Contemporary China,\u201d supported by the Direct Grant, CUHK \u2013 project code\u00a02020957,\u00a0and Chiap Hua Cheng\u2019s Foundation Fund, Ref. no. 108180. Principal Investigator.<\/li>\n
          • 2008 \u2013 2011<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cPolitics of Heritage Preservation: The Case of Macao\u2019s Application to UNESCO World Heritage Listing,\u201d supported by the Direct Grant, CUHK \u2013 project code\u00a02020921.\u00a0Principal Investigator.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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            Selected Publications<\/h4>\n \n
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            • 2014<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cChanging Nature of Border, Scale, and the Production of Hong Kong\u2019s Water Supply System since 1959,\u201d\u00a0International Journal of Urban and Regional Research<\/em>, Vol 38.3, 903-21.<\/li>\n
            • 2011<\/strong>\u00a0(with Kai Hon Ng, Wilson W. Wong and others) \u201cThe Pattern of Urban Life in Hong Kong: A District Level Community Study of Sham Shui Po,\u201d a consultant report submitted to Central Policy Unit, the HKSAR Government.<\/li>\n
            • 2010<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cWhy Has Hong Kong Been Dependent on Water from Dongjiang River? \u2013 Rethinking the \u2018Story\u2019 of Supplying Water for Hong Kong\u201d, in Po-keung Hui (ed.),\u00a0Rewriting the History of Hong Kong\u00a0<\/em>(Hong Kong: Oxford University Press), pp. 63-73 (in Chinese).<\/li>\n
            • 2009<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cHow is a Political Public Space Made? \u2013 The Birth of Tiananmen Square and the May Fourth Movement,\u201d Political Geography, Vol. 28, pp. 32-43 (Lead article).<\/li>\n
            • 2009<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cHong Kong\u2019s Colonial Urbanism Revisited: \u2018Sai Gwa Bo<\/em>\u2019 Street-side Games, and the Children\u2019s Creation of Free Public Space in the High Density City,\u201d in Kit-Wai Ma (ed.)\u00a0Exploring Chinese Urban Studies<\/em>\u00a0(Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong), pp. 81-108 (in Chinese).<\/li>\n
            • 2005<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cThe Capitalist World System and Its Production of Space,\u201d in Center for Studies of World Modernization Process (ed.)\u00a0Studies of World Modernization<\/em>, 3 (Beijing: Commercial Press), pp. 93-136 (in Chinese).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"featured_media":2506,"menu_order":46,"template":"","people_category":[49],"department":[],"class_list":["post-2505","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","people_category-academic-staff"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/2505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/people"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"people_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people_category?post=2505"},{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgps.visibleone.dev\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=2505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}