Karen P.Y. Lai 黎碧瑶

Journal Articles

Lai, Karen P.Y. (2012) ‘Differentiated markets: Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong in China’s financial centre network‘, Urban Studies, Vol 49, No. 6, pp. 1275-1296. 

Lai, Karen P.Y. (2011) Marketisation through contestation: Reconfiguring China’s financial markets through knowledge networks, Journal of Economic Geography, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 87-117.

Lai, Karen (2009) New Spatial Logics in Global Cities Research: Networks, Flows and New Political Spaces, Geography Compass, Vol. 4.

Lai, Karen P.Y. (2006) ‘Imagineering’ Asian Emerging Markets: Financial Knowledge Networks in the Fund Management Industry, Geoforum, Vol. 37, pp. 627-642.

Lai, Karen P.Y. and Yeung, Henry W.C. (2003) Contesting the State: Discourses of the Asian Economic Crisis and Mediating Strategies of Electronic Firms in Singapore, Environment and Planning A, Vol. 35, pp. 463-488

Book & Book Chapters

Lai, Karen (2012) ‘From “Paris of the East” to “New York of Asia”? The (re)development of Shanghai as a financial centre’ in Peter Daniels, K.C. Ho and Tom Hutton (eds.) New Economic Spaces of Asian Cities: From Industrial Restructuring to the Cultural Turn, London: Routledge.

Lai, Karen P.Y. (2011) ‘Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong within a financial centre network’ in Ben Derudder, Michael Hoyler, Peter J. Taylor and Frank Witlox (eds.) The International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities, Cheltanham: Edward Elgar.

French, Shaun, Lai, Karen and Leyshon, Andrew (2010) ‘Banking on financial services’, in Andrew Jones and Neil Coe (eds.) Economic Geography of the UK, London: Sage

Yeoh, Brenda S.A, Teo, Peggy, Ooi, Giok Ling, and Lai, Karen P.Y. (2004) Changing Landscapes of Singapore, Singapore: McGraw-Hill.

Yeoh, Brenda S.A., Lai, Karen P.Y. Charney, Michael W. and Tong, Chee Kiong (2003) ‘Approaching Transnationalisms’ in Yeoh, Brenda S.A., Charney, Michael W., and Tong, Chee Kiong (eds.) Approaching Transnationalisms: Studies on Transnational Societies, Multicultural Contacts, and Imaginings of Home, Massachusetts: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 1-13.

Reviews & Reports

Lai, Karen (2011) Globalization: key thinkers by Andrew Jones. Reviewed in: Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 274-276.

Lai, Karen (2010) Liquidated: an ethnography of Wall Street by Karen Ho. Reviewed in: Journal of Economic Geography, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 788-790.

Lai, Karen (2008) Globalization Theory: Approaches and Controversies. Polity edited by David Held, and Anthony McGrew. Reviewed in: Economic Geography Research Group, http://www.egrg.org.uk/bkreview2008_8.html

French, Shaun, Lai, Karen and Leyshon, Andrew (2008) The Place of Nottingham as a Financial Centre, report prepared for Nottingham City Council, March 2008. [Download PDF]

Lai, Karen (2008) Geographies of the New Economy: Critical Reflections edited by Peter Daniels, Andrew Leyshon, Mike Bradshaw and Jonathan Beaverstock. Reviewed in: Economic Geography Research Group, http://www.egrg.org.uk/bkreview.html

Lai, Karen (2007) Global Shift (Fifth ed.) by Peter Dicken. Reviewed in: Economic Geography Research Group, http://www.egrg.org.uk/bkreview.html

Lai, Karen P.Y. (2006) ‘Developing Shanghai as an International Financial Centre: Progress and Prospects’, Discussion Paper 4, China Policy Institute, http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cpi/publications/discussion-papers/2006/index.aspx