Christine is a published author of many types of works, ranging from short Op-Eds to extensive commissioned research for commercial and professional institutions to policy reports and academic publications. She is also the author and editor of several books.
Op-Eds
Books
Articles
Op-Eds & Podcasts
Climate Change, Sustainability & Green Finance
- Can government revamp bring Hong Kong closer to achieving its climate goals? (May 2022)
- Investment Symposium Series – Christine Loh on China’s approach to climate change and biodiversity (Podcast 28 Jan 2022)
- For Hong Kong to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, commercial buildings must cut energy use (Dec 2021)
- A carbon-neutral Northern Metropolis. Now that’s a plan worth executing (07 Nov 2021)
- Why Hong Kong needs all hands on deck to meet the climate change challenge (20 Aug 2021)
- Will shared concerns on climate change and the environment help improve relations between China and the international community? (July 2021)
- How Hong Kong can take its 2035 Clean Air Plan further (15 July 2021)
- In brokering US-China climate cooperation, Xie Zhenhua and John Kerry deserve much credit (10 May 2021)
- Carbon neutrality needs major shift in thinking (26 April 2021)
- Hong Kong has staked a claim a claim to be Asia’s green finance hub. Here is what needs to happen next (20 January 2021)
- Asia’s climate optimism (co-authored 18 January 2021)
- China’s Carbon Neutrality Pledge: A New Development Agenda – HKUST Business School’s Featured Story (13 January 2021)
- Toward a more open and collaborative climate change policy framework in Hong Kong and Macao within the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (September 2020)
US-China Relations & Hong Kong
- The U.S. and China Need Couples Therapy, Not a Divorce Lawyer (10 September 2021)
- The best books about the Chinese Communist Party and Hong Kong (August 2021)
- The power of perspective: An insight on to ongoing fractured relationship between Beijing and Hong Kong (26 March 2021)
- Hong Kong election reform: Beijing is demanding loyalty because trust is lacking (19 March 2021)
- The US needs to better understand China’s culture and politics, for sake of peace (19 September 2020)
- Rather than decouple, China and the US must find ways to co-exist (21 June 2020)
- No room for coronavirus conceit from US or China as world has its hands full fighting pandemic (22 March 2020)
US-China Relations
- US provocation of China over Taiwan (9 March 2022)
- The CCP at 100: How a Marxist party learnt to change with the times (1 July 2021)
- Xinjiang ‘genocide’ claims and coronavirus origins: beware of spin and disinformation amid rising US-China tension (19 June 2021)
- Giants on collision course (21 May 2021)
- Is America Finished? Crisis of Democracy and Governance (Podcast 10 July 2020)
- Let the US and China trade punches, then let the dust settle (9 January 2019)
Politics of Moderation & Hong Kong
- Macao, Hong Kong must fundamentally rethink tourism trade (May 26 2022)
- Beijing’s stance on Covid-19 and Ukraine magnifies Hong Kong’s dilemma over East vs West narratives (08 March 2022)
- HK has much to offer nation in long-term planning process (05 September 2021)
- White Man’s Media: leaving the colonial mindset behind (26 August 2021)
- What is happening in Hong Kong on security laws and should the UK be concerned? (May 2021)
- Will those in the political middle please step forward to bridge the great divide and save Hong Kong (11 September 2019)
- Hong Kong People Know That They Are Better Than Their Current Politics (23 August 2019)
- Hong Kongers want and deserve a fair society: China needs to take risks and accept the “political middle” (20 August 2019)
- Hong Kong has been warned: come together and stop the city’s descent into chaos (31 July 2019)
- Can a grand dialogue help people reflect and heal a divided Hong Kong? Maybe. Dare we hold one? Probably not (8 July 2019)
- Hong Kong has a role to play in creating the ‘Chinese dream’ – if it can tread the middle ground (8 April 2018)
China’s Environment & Climate Change
- How can the UK and China strengthen cooperation on climate change and biodiversity? (May 22)
- Non-stop self-improvement (21 July 2021)
- How China and Britain can lead the biodiversity and climate debate in the Covid-19 era (26 April 2020)
- Cold war on a hot planet (co-authored 12 June 2019)
- Xi Jinping knows China can’t be great without taking care of its environment (3 November 2017)
- Green policies in focus as China’s rise to an ecological civilisation continues apace (11 October 2017)
Books
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Getting Heard: A Handbook for Hong Kong Citizens (2002)
A practical guide to help Hong Kong people participate more effectively in public affairs. This is a “how to do it” book that is now somewhat out of date on the details but the general principles remain valid.
Read Building Democracy: Creating Good Government for Hong Kong (2003)
Contains a range on essays about governance and democracy, including by Christine Loh. This remains relevant as a reference for what scholars thought about constitutional reform in the early 2000s.
Read At The Epicentre – Hong Kong and the SARS Outbreak (2004)
Provides a record of what happened when SARS struck Hong Kong and how the city came together and survived. The book includes chapters from Christine Loh and other authors with expertise in different fields, as well as a record of the community response. This book is a good source reference with extensive footnotes.
Read Functional Constituencies – A Unique Feature of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (2006)
Provides a thorough study of functional constituencies. It has become an essential text to understand this feature of Hong Kong’s political system. The book remains relevant for people who want to understand functional constituencies. This book is a good source reference with extensive footnotes.
Read No Third Person: Rewriting the Hong Kong Story (2018)
Being Here – Shaping A Preferred Future (2006) – this is an autobiography the first half of which is about my heritage – that is my Shanghainese and Cantonese families, my Danish stepfather, and my nanny from Shunde, and how their experiences shaped my life. The second half is about how I became involved in public affairs and then my political life up until 2005. The publisher was SCMP Books, and it is now out of print but seems to be available from libraries in Hong Kong.
Underground Front: The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong
A pioneering examination of the role that the Chinese Communist Party has played in Hong Kong since the creation of the party in 1921 till 2017. The 1st Edition was published in 2010 (has a Chinese translation with a postscript) and the 2nd Edition was published in 2018. The 1st Edition has details on events between 1997-2009, while the 2nd Edition goes into greater depth on the party’s view on “one country, two systems”, “patriotism”, and “elections”. The introduction was extensively revised and the concluding chapter has been completely rewritten in order to give a thorough account of the post-1997 governance and political system in Hong Kong, and where challenges lie.
Read No Third Person: Rewriting the Hong Kong Story (2018)
No Third Person: Rewriting the Hong Kong Story (2018) was co-authored by Christine Loh and Richard Cullen. British Hong Kong had a good story in the run-up to 1997. Today, they have no compelling narrative that joins the past and the future, at a time when mainland China rises in the world. This book is based on our thoughts of what a new Hong Kong story might be. The publisher, Abbreviated Press, has made the book available on-line www.abbrv.press/nothirdperson.html and hard copies can also be purchased from on-line booksellers. A Chinese version will be published by City University Press, Hong Kong in 2021.
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Research & Special Commissioned Research
CLSA Emerging Markets
October 2002
Civic Exchange and Singapore Institute of International Affairs
December 2007
ACCA Publications
October 2012
Journal of Environmental Management
October 2018
