# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lau-siu-kai
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:38:42.574Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lau-siu-kai"
name: "Lau Siu Kai"
slug: "lau-siu-kai"
description: "Lau Siukai, GBS, is a sociologist from Hong Kong. He graduated from the University of Hong Kong, and taught at the Department of Sociology of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he is emeritus professor of sociology, after earning a PhD degree from the University of Minnesota. During his tenure at CUHK he was also associate director of the university's Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies. He is also a former vice president of the Chinese Association of Hong Kong and Macao Studies, Beijing's top think tank on Hong Kong affairs, and continues to hold a consultant role in that organization as of November 2023."
tagline: "Chinese politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lau_Siu-kai_2021.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1947-06-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.78
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.287510666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siu-Kai_Lau"
    title: "Siu-Kai Lau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lau_Siu-kai"
    title: "Lau Siu-kai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lau_Siu-kai"
    title: "Lau Siu-kai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8A%89%E5%85%86%E4%BD%B3"
    title: "劉兆佳"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lau_Siu-kai"
    title: "Lau Siu-kai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8A%89%E5%85%86%E4%BD%B3"
    title: "劉兆佳"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3485539"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump