Publications
Ethnic Minorities, Media and Participation in Hong Kong: Creative and Tactical Belonging
2021
by Lisa Leung
Second and third generation South and Southeast Asian minorities in Hong Kong, being marginalized from mainstream social and political affairs, have developed an ambivalent sense of belonging to their host society. Unlike their forefathers who first settled in Hong Kong under British colonial rule, these younger generations have spent their formative years in the territory. As such, they have increasingly engaged in the public and political realms of society, partly in response to the territory’s rapid political changes. Leung discusses and analyses the complex and diverse engagement of migrant and minority youths in Hong Kong - and their struggle for recognition, while desiring to 'be-long' to a place they call home. Some are joining the calls for democratic changes in the territory. In particular, she argues that much of this struggle can be seen in minorities’ involvement in creative sectors of society.
While it will be of especial interest to scholars with an interest in Hong Kong, this book presents a compelling case study for anyone interested in the dynamics of migrant and minority engagement in the creative sector as a strategy for engagement.
2021
by Lisa Leung
Second and third generation South and Southeast Asian minorities in Hong Kong, being marginalized from mainstream social and political affairs, have developed an ambivalent sense of belonging to their host society. Unlike their forefathers who first settled in Hong Kong under British colonial rule, these younger generations have spent their formative years in the territory. As such, they have increasingly engaged in the public and political realms of society, partly in response to the territory’s rapid political changes. Leung discusses and analyses the complex and diverse engagement of migrant and minority youths in Hong Kong - and their struggle for recognition, while desiring to 'be-long' to a place they call home. Some are joining the calls for democratic changes in the territory. In particular, she argues that much of this struggle can be seen in minorities’ involvement in creative sectors of society.
While it will be of especial interest to scholars with an interest in Hong Kong, this book presents a compelling case study for anyone interested in the dynamics of migrant and minority engagement in the creative sector as a strategy for engagement.
African Transnational Mobility in China : Africans on the Move
2021
by Roberto Castillo
Considering the African presence in China from an ethnographic and cultural studies perspective, this book offers a new way to theorise contemporary and future forms of transnational mobilities while expanding our understandings around the transformations happening in both China and Africa. The author develops an original argument and new theoretical insights about the significance of the African presence in Guangzhou, and presents an invaluable case study for understanding particular modes of transnational mobility. More broadly, it challenges forms of (re)presenting and producing knowledge about subjects on the move; and transforms existing theorisations and critical understandings of mobility and its shaping power. Through an ethnographic approach, the book brings us closer to a number of practices, features and objects that, while characterising the lives of Africans in Guangzhou, are also evidence of the interplay between individual aspirations, and the structural constraints embedded in contemporary regimes of transnational mobility. Raising critical questions about ways of (un)belonging in the precarious settings of neoliberal modernity and the future of African mobilities, this book will be of interest to scholars of transnational, African and Chinese Studies.
2021
by Roberto Castillo
Considering the African presence in China from an ethnographic and cultural studies perspective, this book offers a new way to theorise contemporary and future forms of transnational mobilities while expanding our understandings around the transformations happening in both China and Africa. The author develops an original argument and new theoretical insights about the significance of the African presence in Guangzhou, and presents an invaluable case study for understanding particular modes of transnational mobility. More broadly, it challenges forms of (re)presenting and producing knowledge about subjects on the move; and transforms existing theorisations and critical understandings of mobility and its shaping power. Through an ethnographic approach, the book brings us closer to a number of practices, features and objects that, while characterising the lives of Africans in Guangzhou, are also evidence of the interplay between individual aspirations, and the structural constraints embedded in contemporary regimes of transnational mobility. Raising critical questions about ways of (un)belonging in the precarious settings of neoliberal modernity and the future of African mobilities, this book will be of interest to scholars of transnational, African and Chinese Studies.
Handbook on the Geographies of Creativity
2020
by Anjeline De Dios
Edited by Anjeline de Dios, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong and Lily Kong, Lee Kong Chian Chair Professor of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University.
How can the ‘where’ of creativity help us examine how and why it has become a paradigmatic concept in contemporary economies and societies? Adopting a geographically diverse, theoretically rigorous approach, the Handbook offers a cutting-edge study of creativity as it has emerged in policy, academic, activist, and cultural discourse over the last two decades. To this end, the volume departs from conventional modes of analyzing creativity (by industry, region, or sector) and instead identifies key themes that thread through shifting contexts of the creative in the arts, media, technology, education, governance, and development. By tracing the myriad spatialities of creativity, the chapters map its inherently paradoxical features: reinforcing persistent conditions of inequality even as it opens avenues for imagining and enacting more equitable futures.
2020
by Anjeline De Dios
Edited by Anjeline de Dios, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong and Lily Kong, Lee Kong Chian Chair Professor of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University.
How can the ‘where’ of creativity help us examine how and why it has become a paradigmatic concept in contemporary economies and societies? Adopting a geographically diverse, theoretically rigorous approach, the Handbook offers a cutting-edge study of creativity as it has emerged in policy, academic, activist, and cultural discourse over the last two decades. To this end, the volume departs from conventional modes of analyzing creativity (by industry, region, or sector) and instead identifies key themes that thread through shifting contexts of the creative in the arts, media, technology, education, governance, and development. By tracing the myriad spatialities of creativity, the chapters map its inherently paradoxical features: reinforcing persistent conditions of inequality even as it opens avenues for imagining and enacting more equitable futures.
Hong Kong’s Identity Polistics: Longing for the Local in the Shadow of China
2019
by Ip Iam Chong
Ip uses Hong Kong as a case study in how the production of the desire for "the local" lies at the heart of global cultural economy.
Perhaps more so than most places, the construction of a local identity in Hong Kong has come about through a complex interplay of neoliberalism, postcoloniality and reaction to the consequent anxieties and uncertainties. As its importance as an economic centre has diminished and its relationship with Mainland China has become more strained, its people have become more concerned to define a "Hong Kong" identity that can be defended from external threat. Ip analyses the working and reworking of power relations and modes of agency in this global city.
A must read for scholars of Hong Kong politics and society as well as a fascinating case study for scholars of identity politics as a global phenomenon.
2019
by Ip Iam Chong
Ip uses Hong Kong as a case study in how the production of the desire for "the local" lies at the heart of global cultural economy.
Perhaps more so than most places, the construction of a local identity in Hong Kong has come about through a complex interplay of neoliberalism, postcoloniality and reaction to the consequent anxieties and uncertainties. As its importance as an economic centre has diminished and its relationship with Mainland China has become more strained, its people have become more concerned to define a "Hong Kong" identity that can be defended from external threat. Ip analyses the working and reworking of power relations and modes of agency in this global city.
A must read for scholars of Hong Kong politics and society as well as a fascinating case study for scholars of identity politics as a global phenomenon.
Musicophilia in Mumbai: Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious
2019
by Tejaswini Niranjana
Musicophilia in Mumbai traces the place of Hindustani classical music in Mumbai throughout the long twentieth century as the city moved from being a seat of British colonial power to a vibrant postcolonial metropolis. Drawing on historical archives, newspapers, oral histories, and interviews with musicians, critics, students, and instrument makers.
2019
by Tejaswini Niranjana
Musicophilia in Mumbai traces the place of Hindustani classical music in Mumbai throughout the long twentieth century as the city moved from being a seat of British colonial power to a vibrant postcolonial metropolis. Drawing on historical archives, newspapers, oral histories, and interviews with musicians, critics, students, and instrument makers.
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Complete English translation of Tong Dick Seng’s Cantonese opera “The
Reincarnation of the Red Plum”
2015
By Yu Siu Wah
2015
By Yu Siu Wah
The struggle for food sovereignty : alternative development and the renewal of peasant societies today
2015
Edited by Remy Herrera, Lau Kin Chi The world's food system is broken, and today's peasant societies are at a crossroads. This collection explores the multiplicity of problems faced by global family agricultures in the current neoliberal era..
2015
Edited by Remy Herrera, Lau Kin Chi The world's food system is broken, and today's peasant societies are at a crossroads. This collection explores the multiplicity of problems faced by global family agricultures in the current neoliberal era..
Anthology of Hong Kong Cantonese Opera : the Fong Yim Fun Volume
香港粵劇選 : 芳艷芬卷
2014
by Li Siu Leung
Cantonese opera is a flamboyant, stylized music theater. This anthology of English translation collects fiverepresentative plays from the repertoire of the "Queen of Diva" Madam Fong Yim Fun (Dr Katie Y. F. Yang),ranging from tragedy, tragic romance, comedy, melodrama, to historical play.The collective effort of a group of Hong Kongers who currently work in academia in Hong Kong and the United States, trained in ethnomusicology, history, comparative literature, and cultural studies, this book is intended to providefaithful and easy-to-read translations of Cantonese opera to general readers and college students in inter-cultural contexts facilitated by the expediency of the medium of English.
香港粵劇選 : 芳艷芬卷
2014
by Li Siu Leung
Cantonese opera is a flamboyant, stylized music theater. This anthology of English translation collects fiverepresentative plays from the repertoire of the "Queen of Diva" Madam Fong Yim Fun (Dr Katie Y. F. Yang),ranging from tragedy, tragic romance, comedy, melodrama, to historical play.The collective effort of a group of Hong Kongers who currently work in academia in Hong Kong and the United States, trained in ethnomusicology, history, comparative literature, and cultural studies, this book is intended to providefaithful and easy-to-read translations of Cantonese opera to general readers and college students in inter-cultural contexts facilitated by the expediency of the medium of English.
Understanding South Asian Minorities in Hong Kong
2014
by John Nguyet Erni & Lisa Yuk-ming Leung
People of South Asian descent are a large, varied and increasingly visible part of Hong Kong’s population. Most have found ways of prospering despite social and economic obstacles and widespread discrimination. Focusing on three important groups—Indians, Pakistanis, and Nepalese—Erni and Leung explore the cultural histories of South Asians in Hong Kong and their experiences at school and at work.
2014
by John Nguyet Erni & Lisa Yuk-ming Leung
People of South Asian descent are a large, varied and increasingly visible part of Hong Kong’s population. Most have found ways of prospering despite social and economic obstacles and widespread discrimination. Focusing on three important groups—Indians, Pakistanis, and Nepalese—Erni and Leung explore the cultural histories of South Asians in Hong Kong and their experiences at school and at work.
粵語歌曲解讀－－銳變中的香港聲音
2013
余少華、楊漢倫著
2013
余少華、楊漢倫著
可持續實踐與鄉村建設
2012
溫鐵軍、周常勇、劉健芝編
本書由「可持續實踐與鄉村建設國際研討會」會上專家學者發言和提交的論文彙編整理形成的，分別從宏觀背景、糧食主權與經濟政策、生態危機與公共品、社區與農村建設、中國基層實踐經驗以及中國的過去、現在和未來六部分展開。本書的編輯出版，正值中國鄉村建設運動110周年，希望本書能夠為中國未來乃至人類文明提供另類思考與實踐的路徑。
2012
溫鐵軍、周常勇、劉健芝編
本書由「可持續實踐與鄉村建設國際研討會」會上專家學者發言和提交的論文彙編整理形成的，分別從宏觀背景、糧食主權與經濟政策、生態危機與公共品、社區與農村建設、中國基層實踐經驗以及中國的過去、現在和未來六部分展開。本書的編輯出版，正值中國鄉村建設運動110周年，希望本書能夠為中國未來乃至人類文明提供另類思考與實踐的路徑。
Hong Kong Lesbian Desires and Everyday Life
2011
by Denise Tang
Dense living conditions in Hong Kong do not provide much privacy for lesbians and other sexual minorities living with their families. As a result, lesbians often locate alternative spaces to develop support networks with other women. Others reject the notion of lesbian spaces and instead assert their visibility in different aspects of everyday life. Based on life history interviews with several dozen lesbians living in Hong Kong, this book maps the complex relations between personal subjectivities and spatialities as they emerge and interact with various social justice movements and alternative communities
2011
by Denise Tang
Dense living conditions in Hong Kong do not provide much privacy for lesbians and other sexual minorities living with their families. As a result, lesbians often locate alternative spaces to develop support networks with other women. Others reject the notion of lesbian spaces and instead assert their visibility in different aspects of everyday life. Based on life history interviews with several dozen lesbians living in Hong Kong, this book maps the complex relations between personal subjectivities and spatialities as they emerge and interact with various social justice movements and alternative communities
多彩的和平: 108名婦女的故事
2007
陳順馨(主編)、劉健芝、戴錦華、鍾秀梅 (合編)(2007)。北京: 中央編譯出版社。
本書將108個多姿多彩的婦女的故事，組織在4個大部分合共12個小部分下，目的在於系統地呈現她們在面對著的暴力而為和平工作。和平的多彩性，完全與她們生活在不同的社會環境（大陸，台灣或香港），在不同的場域工作（基層社區或專業性職位）和挑選不同的工作策略（個人堅持，團體合作，訴諸法律，文藝演出，技術改造等）相關，也與她們不同的人生閱歷（她們的年齡從21歲到90多歲），血管裡流淌著不同民族（漢族，回族，藏族，泰雅族，白族等；也有英格蘭人，蘇格蘭人，美國人）的血液，信仰著不同的宗教（伊斯蘭教，佛教，基督教，天主教等）不無關係。可以說，種種差異性，使一個共同的和平事業，變得多元和精彩。
2007
陳順馨(主編)、劉健芝、戴錦華、鍾秀梅 (合編)(2007)。北京: 中央編譯出版社。
本書將108個多姿多彩的婦女的故事，組織在4個大部分合共12個小部分下，目的在於系統地呈現她們在面對著的暴力而為和平工作。和平的多彩性，完全與她們生活在不同的社會環境（大陸，台灣或香港），在不同的場域工作（基層社區或專業性職位）和挑選不同的工作策略（個人堅持，團體合作，訴諸法律，文藝演出，技術改造等）相關，也與她們不同的人生閱歷（她們的年齡從21歲到90多歲），血管裡流淌著不同民族（漢族，回族，藏族，泰雅族，白族等；也有英格蘭人，蘇格蘭人，美國人）的血液，信仰著不同的宗教（伊斯蘭教，佛教，基督教，天主教等）不無關係。可以說，種種差異性，使一個共同的和平事業，變得多元和精彩。
蒙面騎士 : 墨西哥・副司令馬斯文集
2006
戴曉霞、劉健芝編
副司令馬科斯，墨西哥印第安原住民運動-薩帕塔運動的領袖，人稱「格瓦拉第二」。本書是由馬科斯的期刊，出版物集結合成，是全球「第一場後現代革命」的重要記錄。其行文具有極為典型的後現代文體，睿智和幽默。諾貝爾文學獎得主加西亞·本書特別選編了加西亞·馬爾克斯與馬科斯的對話錄，以及薩拉馬戈的文章及發表在歐美重要報刊上的專論。這位從1994年至今，他始終被視作具有超凡魅力的全球另類偶像。書中收入100多幅珍貴圖片，替換首度於中文世界亮相。
副司令馬科斯，墨西哥印第安原住民運動-薩帕塔運動的領袖，人稱「格瓦拉第二」。 本書是由馬科斯的期刊，出版物集結合成，是全球「第一場後現代革命」的重要記錄。其行文具有極為典型的後現代文體，睿智和幽默。諾貝爾文學獎得主加西亞·本書特別選編了加西亞·馬爾克斯與馬科斯的對話錄，以及薩拉馬戈的文章及發表在歐美重要報刊上的專論。 這位從1994年至今，他始終被視作具有超凡魅力的全球另類偶像。書中收入100多幅珍貴圖片，替換首度於中文世界亮相。
2006
戴曉霞、劉健芝編
副司令馬科斯，墨西哥印第安原住民運動-薩帕塔運動的領袖，人稱「格瓦拉第二」。本書是由馬科斯的期刊，出版物集結合成，是全球「第一場後現代革命」的重要記錄。其行文具有極為典型的後現代文體，睿智和幽默。諾貝爾文學獎得主加西亞·本書特別選編了加西亞·馬爾克斯與馬科斯的對話錄，以及薩拉馬戈的文章及發表在歐美重要報刊上的專論。這位從1994年至今，他始終被視作具有超凡魅力的全球另類偶像。書中收入100多幅珍貴圖片，替換首度於中文世界亮相。
副司令馬科斯，墨西哥印第安原住民運動-薩帕塔運動的領袖，人稱「格瓦拉第二」。 本書是由馬科斯的期刊，出版物集結合成，是全球「第一場後現代革命」的重要記錄。其行文具有極為典型的後現代文體，睿智和幽默。諾貝爾文學獎得主加西亞·本書特別選編了加西亞·馬爾克斯與馬科斯的對話錄，以及薩拉馬戈的文章及發表在歐美重要報刊上的專論。 這位從1994年至今，他始終被視作具有超凡魅力的全球另類偶像。書中收入100多幅珍貴圖片，替換首度於中文世界亮相。
Mobilizing India : women, migration and music between India and Trinidad
2006
By Tejaswini Niranjana
Descendants of indentured laborers brought from India to the Caribbean between 1845 and 1917 comprise more than forty percent of Trinidad’s population today. While many Indo-Trinidadians identify themselves as Indian, what “Indian” signifies—about nationalism, gender, culture, caste, race, and religion—in the Caribbean is different from what it means on the subcontinent. Yet the ways that “Indianness” is conceived of and performed in India and in Trinidad have historically been, and remain, intimately related. Offering an innovative analysis of how ideas of Indian identity negotiated within the Indian diaspora in Trinidad affect cultural identities “back home,” Tejaswini Niranjana models a necessary project: comparative research across the global South, scholarship that decenters the “first world” West as the referent against which postcolonial subjects understand themselves and are understood by others. Niranjana draws on nineteenth-century travel narratives, anthropological and historical studies of Trinidad, Hindi film music, and the lyrics, performance, and reception of chutney-soca and calypso songs to argue that perceptions of Indian female sexuality in Trinidad have long been central to the formation and disruption of dominant narratives of nationhood, modernity, and normative sexuality in India.
2006
By Tejaswini Niranjana
Descendants of indentured laborers brought from India to the Caribbean between 1845 and 1917 comprise more than forty percent of Trinidad’s population today. While many Indo-Trinidadians identify themselves as Indian, what “Indian” signifies—about nationalism, gender, culture, caste, race, and religion—in the Caribbean is different from what it means on the subcontinent. Yet the ways that “Indianness” is conceived of and performed in India and in Trinidad have historically been, and remain, intimately related. Offering an innovative analysis of how ideas of Indian identity negotiated within the Indian diaspora in Trinidad affect cultural identities “back home,” Tejaswini Niranjana models a necessary project: comparative research across the global South, scholarship that decenters the “first world” West as the referent against which postcolonial subjects understand themselves and are understood by others. Niranjana draws on nineteenth-century travel narratives, anthropological and historical studies of Trinidad, Hindi film music, and the lyrics, performance, and reception of chutney-soca and calypso songs to argue that perceptions of Indian female sexuality in Trinidad have long been central to the formation and disruption of dominant narratives of nationhood, modernity, and normative sexuality in India.
Cross-Dressing in Chinese Opera
2006
by Li Siu Leung
Informed by queer and feminist theories, this book offers a critical and historical reinterpretation of theatrical cross-dressing in Chinese culture embodied in various discourses, texts and artifacts from the eighth century to the present time.
2006
by Li Siu Leung
Informed by queer and feminist theories, this book offers a critical and historical reinterpretation of theatrical cross-dressing in Chinese culture embodied in various discourses, texts and artifacts from the eighth century to the present time.
否想香港 : 歷史‧文化‧未來
1997
李小良、陳清僑、王宏志著
香港孤懸於南中國外海，原是蕞爾小島。一個半世紀以來，因緣際會，一躍而為東方之珠。香港的璀璨光華，不但見證了中西歷史交會的一頁傳奇，也更照映「現代」文化想像的種種層面。從「殖民者的天堂」到「冒險家的樂園」，從蘇絲黃到白流蘇，香港的形象在在挑起、反射我們政治、經濟、文化乃至情色的欲望。 隨著九七，香港更成為世紀末國際政治焦點。但在回歸熱潮以後，我們要怎樣繼續想像香港呢？而這香港的想像又要如何與香港的歷史現實掛鉤呢？三位知名香港學者提出了他們極具衝擊性的看法。 「否想」香港不是「不想」香港，更不是重蹈殖民思潮的窠臼，對著這個島嶼硬作非非，或非分，之想。「否想」香港企圖批判傳統香港論述，並由此建溝香港的過去與未來想像。藉由文學、電影、文化史等媒介，本書作者托出香港的位置，總浮游在歷史與虛構，恆常與過渡之間。是這樣一種位置使香港自外於大（中國）歷史之外，成就它獨特的過去，也承諾它獨特的未來。
1997
李小良、陳清僑、王宏志著
香港孤懸於南中國外海，原是蕞爾小島。一個半世紀以來，因緣際會，一躍而為東方之珠。香港的璀璨光華，不但見證了中西歷史交會的一頁傳奇，也更照映「現代」文化想像的種種層面。從「殖民者的天堂」到「冒險家的樂園」，從蘇絲黃到白流蘇，香港的形象在在挑起、反射我們政治、經濟、文化乃至情色的欲望。 隨著九七，香港更成為世紀末國際政治焦點。但在回歸熱潮以後，我們要怎樣繼續想像香港呢？而這香港的想像又要如何與香港的歷史現實掛鉤呢？三位知名香港學者提出了他們極具衝擊性的看法。 「否想」香港不是「不想」香港，更不是重蹈殖民思潮的窠臼，對著這個島嶼硬作非非，或非分，之想。「否想」香港企圖批判傳統香港論述，並由此建溝香港的過去與未來想像。藉由文學、電影、文化史等媒介，本書作者托出香港的位置，總浮游在歷史與虛構，恆常與過渡之間。是這樣一種位置使香港自外於大（中國）歷史之外，成就它獨特的過去，也承諾它獨特的未來。
