Department of Cultural Studies

Research output

Research output per year 1986 2006 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2020 2022 2024

• 1648 Scopus Citations
• 20 Scopus h-Index
• 220 Journal Article (refereed)
• 193 Book Chapter
• 42 Book (Author)
• 41 Book (Editor)
• 169 More
  • 27 Policy or Profession paper
  • 26 Conference Paper (other)
  • 20 Foreword / Postscript
  • 17 Presentation
  • 13 Consulting or Contract Research Report
  • 12 Review article
  • 10 Other outputs
  • 9 Editorial/Preface (Journal)
  • 7 Comment / Debate
  • 7 Other Article
  • 4 Special issue (Editor)
  • 3 Film or Video
  • 2 Book (Translator)
  • 2 Conference paper (refereed)
  • 2 Reference Entry
  • 2 Article (Translation)
  • 1 Literary Works
  • 1 Literary Works (Translator)
  • 1 Conference (Extended Abstracts)
  • 1 Conference paper (invited)
  • 1 Book Chapter (Translator)
  • 1 Poster

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2024

  Book Review : The Labor of Reinvention: entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy, By Lin Zhang, Columbia University Press, 2023, US $30 (paperback), 312 pp

  LU, M., 9 May 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Chinese Journal of Communication. p. 1-3 3 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Book Reviews 100%
  • Entrepreneurship 100%
  • Digital Economy 100%
  • Chinese 100%
  • USA 100%

• China's Infrastructural Capitalism and Infrastructural Power of Labor : The Making of the Chinese Working Class

  PUN, N., May 2024, In: Positions: asia critique. 32, 2, p. 341-369 29 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Global 100%
  • China 100%
  • Working Class 100%
  • Chinese 100%
  • Marxism 50%

• Do not forget the state! The supposed state free self-regulatory system in post-war Japan

  YAU, H. Y. & WONG, H. W., 25 Apr 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Cultural Trends. 15 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Japan 100%
  • Everyday Life 25%
  • Everyday Communication 25%

• Factory Humanisms: Technical Aesthetics, Sino-Soviet Encounters, and the Fashioning of the Postsocialist Factory in Reform-Era China

  KINDLER, B., 23 Jul 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Modern China.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Alienation 100%
  • Species-being 100%
  • aesthetician 100%

• iCOOP puzzle: localistic practices, internationalism values, and Fair Trade in South Korea’s cooperative movement

  JEON, J. & PUN, N., 2024, In: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. 25, 3, p. 305-321 17 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Internationalism 100%
  • South Korea 100%
  • Cooperative Movement 100%
  • Puzzle 100%
  • Fair trade 100%

• Museumising Bruce Lee in a Hong Kong public museum : (De)political imagination and the culture of disappearance

  CHOI, K. W. Y. & ZENG, H., 2024, In: International Journal of Heritage Studies. 30, 10, p. 1235-1249 15 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Political imagination 100%
  • perception of reality 16%

• Parents and Unwed Daughters as an Intergenerational Alliance? – Parental Matchmaking and China’s Single Women

  CHAN, A. H. N. & CHEN, P., Jan 2024, In: Journal of Family Issues. 45, 1, p. 31-54 24 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Daughter 100%
  • Women 100%
  • Parents 100%
  • Social Participation 66%
  • Familism 66%

• Reconceptualising Youth Poverty through the Lens of Precarious Employment during the Pandemic : The Case of Creative Industry

  PUN, N., CHEN, P. & JIN, S., Jan 2024, In: Social Policy and Society. 23, 1, p. 87-102 16 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Poverty 100%
  • Youth 71%
  • Work 71%
  • Precarious Employment 42%
  • Employment 28%
  8 Citations (Scopus)

• Shit in Our Time : An Unsettling Epoch of Metabolic Disturbance

  LEUNG, D.S.-C., May 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Lateral. 13, 1

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • China 100%
  • Human Wastes 100%
  • Food Production 66%
  • Crisis 33%
  • era 33%

• The Logic of Tong (Togetherness) or Why Guanxi Works in Chinese Societies?

  YAU, H. Y. & WONG, H. W., 21 Feb 2024, In: Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives. 17, 2, p. 161-181 21 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Logic 100%
  • Guanxi 100%
  • Social Systems 100%
  • Chinese 100%
  • Work 100%

• Turning Older Women’s Life Stories into Hypermedia: Reflections on the Production of Feminist Creative Analytic Practices

  CHOI, K. W. Y., CHAN, A. K. W. & CHAN, A. H. N., 1 Feb 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: The International Journal of Qualitative Methods. 23

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Hypermedia 100%
  • Women 100%
  • Life Stories 100%
  • Knowledge 75%
  • Research Worker 50%

• Under the Socialist Gaze : Solidarity, Soft Power, and China’s Representation of Africa in Two Eras

  LU, M., Sept 2024, In: Journal of Asian and African Studies. 59, 6, p. 1804-1821 18 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Africa 100%
  • China 85%
  • Representation 57%
  • Stereotypes 28%
  • Conceptualization 14%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• ‘Re-coupling site’ of social media and the workplace in digital nomadism : Chinese female workers’ self-produced vlogs with class and gender connotations

  CHEN, P. & PUN, N., 7 Oct 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Information Communication and Society. 17 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Female Worker 100%
  • Chinese 100%
  • Nomadism 100%
  • Working Class 33%
  • Global South 33%
• 2023

  A city of exceptional risks? A critical policy analysis of Hong Kong unemployment insurance

  PUN, N., JIN, S. & YANG, H., Jul 2023, In: Journal of Asian Public Policy. 16, 2, p. 221-236 16 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Policy Analysis 100%
  • Unemployment Compensation 100%
  • Hong Kong 100%
  • Financial Risk 50%
  • Nongovernmental Organizations 50%
  4 Citations (Scopus)

• A Critical Reflection on Chinese Masculinity : Are Chinese Men in Modern Hong Kong and Taiwan the Same?

  YAU, H. Y., Apr 2023, In: Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives. 17, 1, p. 32-57 26 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Hong Kong 100%
  • Chinese 100%
  • Men 100%
  • Critical Reflection 100%
  • Kinship 36%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Confronting global infrastructural capitalism: the triple logic of the 'vanguard' and its inevitable spatial and class contradictions in China's high-speed rail program

  PUN, N. & CHEN, P., Nov 2023, In: Cultural Studies. 37, 6, p. 872-893 22 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Capitalism 100%
  • Logic 50%
  • China 37%
  • Chinese 25%
  • Economic Systems 12%
  6 Citations (Scopus)

• Enjoying the fruit of development? Working conditions and the earnings of low-skilled internal migrants in China across two decades (1993–2015)

  WANG, J.S.-H., LIN, J. & PUN, N., 2023, In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 49, 19, p. 5052-5080 29 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Working Conditions 100%
  • China 100%
  • Profit 100%
  • Urban Population 60%
  • Economic Growth 40%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Grassroots Initiatives for Ecological Transition in China

  SIT, T., LAU, K. C., HUANG, Z. & LIANG, S., Jun 2023, In: Agrarian South. 12, 2, p. 139-160 22 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Transition 100%
  • Reconstruction 100%
  • China 100%
  • Ecology 50%
  • Economic Systems 50%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Her body belongs to her nation? A feminist reading of recent Chinese and American female spy films

  CHOI, K. W. Y. & ZENG, H., 2023, In: Feminist Media Studies. 23, 6, p. 2497-2513 16 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Women 100%
  • Chinese 50%
  • Films 30%
  • Nationalism 30%
  • Nations 30%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Spatialising domestic practices: Hong Kong women’s life stories of domesticity and their disjunctive modern womanhood

  CHOI, K. W. Y., CHAN, A. K. W. & CHAN, A. H. N., 24 Jul 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Gender, Place, and Culture. 23 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Hong Kong 100%
  • Practice 100%
  • Space 100%
  • Life Stories 100%
  • Women 75%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Teachers’ perceptions of technical affordances in early visual arts education

  LEUNG, S. K. Y. & CHOI, K. W. Y., 30 Jun 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: European Early Childhood Education Research Journal. 20 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Art Education 100%
  • Teachers 100%
  • Visual Arts 100%
  • Perception 100%
  • Education 100%

• The ‘Rational’ fan? Negotiating Transnational Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism among Hong Kong BTS fans

  LEUNG, L.Y.-M., 2023, In: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. 24, 5, p. 793-808 16 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Hong Kong 100%
  • Cosmopolitanism 100%
  • Fandom 100%
  • Nationalism 100%
  • Asians 100%

• Transforming critical agrarian studies : Solidarity, scholar-activism and emancipatory agendas in and from the Global South

  AGUIAR, D., AHMED, Y., AVCI, D., BASTOS, G., BATUBARA, B., BEJENO, C., CAMACHO-BENAVIDES, C. I., CHAUHAN, K., CORONADO, S., DAS, S., EJARQUE, M., BENLISOY, Z. C. E., GÜIZA-GÓMEZ, D. I., GYAPONG, A. Y., PHAN, H. P., HASSAN MASTERS, R., RODRÍGUEZ, C. H., NG, H., HUSSAIN, S. B. & KAVAK, S. & 11 others, KELEGAMA, T., KURIEN, A. J., LEUNG, D.S.-C., MARTÍNEZ-CRUZ, T., MONJANE, B., MUDIMU, G. T., PELEK, D., RALANDISON, T., SOSA VARROTTI, A. P., TORVIKEY, D. & VALENCIA-DUARTE, D. M., 2023, In: Journal of Peasant Studies. 50, 2, p. 758-786 29 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Global South 100%
  • Solidarity 75%
  • Knowledge 75%
  • Scholarships 25%
  • Economic Systems 25%
  5 Citations (Scopus)

• Youth work, prosocial behaviour, and micro-foundation of working-class solidarity among vocational school students in China

  PUN, N., HUI, B. P. H. & KOO, A., 27 Jun 2023, In: Journal of Education and Work. 36, 5, p. 393-407 15 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Solidarity 100%
  • Working Class 100%
  • Nonprofit Organizations 100%
  • Youth Work 100%
  • Prosocial Behavior 100%

• 新冠疫情虛假資訊的接觸頻率、預設影響與香港市民對虛假資訊的態度與行為

  Translated title of the contribution: Countering COVID-19 Misinformation : An Influence of Presumed Influence Study in Hong Kong路淼, 羅文輝 & 魏然, Jul 2023, In: 傳播與社會學刊 = Communication and Society. 65, p. 191-217 27 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Information-Processing Theory 100%
  • Behavior 33%
  • Attitudes 33%

• 試論「商品、生產及消費的循環」: 以「拉麵」發展史為例

  Translated title of the contribution: A Preliminary Study of the Mutual Determination of the Cultural Meaning of Commodities, Their Production and Consumption: Ramen in Japan as an Example凃燕如, 雷頴然, 藤岡達磨, 王向華 & 邱愷欣, 1 Jun 2023, In: 民俗曲藝. 220, p. 167-202

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Commodities 100%
  • Japan 100%
  • Production 100%
  • Meaning 100%
  • Consumption 100%
• 2022

  From texts to contexts: the self-regulating body in the Japanese adult video industry

  YAU, H. Y. & WONG, H. W., 22 Apr 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: International Journal of Cultural Policy. 14 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • State 100%
  • Adults 100%
  • Japanese 100%
  • Obscenity 66%
  • Legislation 66%

• Looking for the clown in the 1980s: the melancholy clients in the Taiwan teahouse and their memories of being a ‘nobody’

  CHEN, I.-T., Mar 2022, In: Cultural Studies. 36, 2, p. 320-333 14 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Clown 100%
  • Old Song 9%
  • Ridicule 9%
  • comedian 9%
  • Beloved 9%

• 'No South Asian Riders, Please' : The Politics of Visibilisation in Platformed Food Delivery Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Hong Kong

  LEUNG, L. Y. M., Nov 2022, In: Critical Sociology. 48, 7-8, p. 1189-1203 15 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Ethnic Groups 100%
  • Asians 80%
  • Food 60%
  • Workers 60%
  • Politics 40%
  10 Citations (Scopus)

• Reactive to domestic constraints: dynamic operations of a China-backed copper mine in Myanmar, 2011-2021

  CHAN, D. S. W. & PUN, N., 2022, In: Eurasian Geography and Economics. 63, 5, p. 653-677 25 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • State 100%
  • Project 100%
  • Myanmar 100%
  • Chinese 75%
  • Investment 75%
  5 Citations (Scopus)

• Resisting political traditionalism: a rejoinder to Ho

  IP, I. C., Mar 2022, In: Cultural Studies. 36, 2, p. 252-259 8 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Leave 100%
  • Nativism 66%
  • Hong Kong 33%
  • Work 33%
  • Labour 33%

• Spatial Mismatch, Different Labor Markets and Precarious Employment: The Case of Hong Kong

  JIN, S., NIE, T., PUN, N. & XU, D., May 2022, In: Social Indicators Research. 161, 1, p. 51-73 23 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Precarious Employment 100%
  • Labor Market 100%
  • Hong Kong 66%
  • Workers 50%
  • Population Censuses 33%
  5 Citations (Scopus)

• Surviving Through Community Building in Catastrophic Times

  SIT, T. & LAU, K. C., Jul 2022, In: Monthly Review. 74, 3, p. 54-68 15 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Border 100%
  • Communities 100%
  • Globalization 50%
  • Project 50%
  • Effort 50%

• The effects of digital media upon labor knowledge and attitudes: a study of Chinese labor subjectivity in a vocational training school

  QIU, J. L., CHUNG, M. & PUN, N., Dec 2022, In: Information Communication and Society. 25, 15, p. 2224-2245 22 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Labor 100%
  • Attitudes 72%
  • Knowledge 54%
  • Digital Medium 27%
  • Subjectivity 18%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Toward a theory of Cultural Revolution : proletarian aesthetics and the challenge of labor humanism in the thought of Yao Wenyuan

  KINDLER, B., 2022, In: Chinese Literature and Thought Today. 53, 1-2, p. 6-21 16 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Aesthetics 100%
  • Cultural Revolution 37%
  • Labor 37%
  • Labour 37%
  • Humanist 37%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Trans*, female bodybuilding and racial equality: narratives from a Hong Kong Chinese gender-fluid bodybuilder

  PANG, B., TANG, D.T.-S. & LAW, S., 29 Jan 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Sport, Education and Society. 13 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Ethnic Groups 100%
  • Women 100%
  • Femininity 50%
  • Hong Kong 50%
  • Sport 50%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Trapped in the platform: Migration and precarity in China's platform-based gig economy

  ZHOU, Y., 22 Aug 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Environment and Planning A. 0308518X2211191.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Precarity 100%
  • Migration 75%
  • Economic Systems 50%
  • Migrants 50%
  • State 50%
  17 Citations (Scopus)

• Urbanism as a political way of life: the case of highly educated mainlanders in Hong Kong

  IP, I. C., 4 Apr 2022, In: Social Transformations in Chinese Societies. 18, 1, p. 75-87 13 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Hong Kong 100%
  • Disengagement 100%
  • Chinese 75%
  • Urban Areas 50%
  • Youth 50%
• 2021

  ElastiCity : Performance Studies and Theme Parks

  BLACK, T. C., CHUA, S., LIM, M., LAINE, E., RACHEV, R. & YOON, S. R., May 2021, In: Global Performance Studies. 4, 1, 50 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Parks 100%
  • Space 30%
  • Visitor 15%
  • Disorientation 15%
  • Capacity 15%

• Everyday erotics in urban density: an ethnography of older lesbian and bisexual women in Hong Kong

  TANG, T. S. D., 2021, In: Gender, Place, and Culture. 28, 11, p. 1649-1668 30 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Lesbian 100%
  • Women 57%
  • Woman 57%
  • Space 42%
  • Erotics 42%
  7 Citations (Scopus)

• From Sandstorm and Smog to Sustainability and Justice: China's Challenges

  LAU, K. C., JIN, P. & YAN, X., 1 Jul 2021, In: Monthly Review. 73, 3, p. 143-153 11 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • China 100%
  • Modernization 33%
  • Smog 33%
  • Ecodevelopment 33%
  • Sustainability 33%

• Not man enough! Queer Asian masculinities at the field site

  TANG, S. & TANG, D. T. S., 4 Jul 2021, In: Journal of Gender Studies. 30, 5, p. 573-583 11 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • masculine 100%
  • Research Worker 66%
  • Human Being 66%
  • Subjectivity 33%
  • Asia 33%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• The Han saviour behind the blackface: racialised and gendered media representations in Africa-China popular geopolitics

  CASTILLO, R., Oct 2021, In: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. 22, 3, p. 421-439 19 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Representation 100%
  • Ethnic Groups 66%
  • International Politics 66%
  • Rhetoric 66%
  • Stereotypes 66%
  8 Citations (Scopus)

• The Production of Contemporary Sociological Knowledge in Hong Kong

  TANG, T.-S. D., Mar 2021, In: Journal of Historical Sociology. 34, 1, p. 120-133 14 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Sociology 100%
  • Hong Kong 75%
  • Economic and Social Development 50%
  • Higher Education 25%
  • Enrolment 25%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• 「完美風暴」與港式挺川 : 以袁弓夷為案例

  葉蔭聰, Apr 2021, In: 思想. 42, p. 289-398

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

• 為什麼「茶裏王」天天去茶室? 從茶室文化思考當代親密關係

  陳逸婷, 31 Oct 2021, In: 婦研縱橫 = Forum in Women's and Gender Studies. 115, p. 33-40

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review
• 2020

  Africans in post-COVID-19 pandemic China: is there a future for China’s ‘new minority’?

  CASTILLO, R. & AMOAH, P. A., Sept 2020, In: Asian Ethnicity. 21, 4, p. 560-565 6 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • China 100%
  • Migration 60%
  • Minority Groups 40%
  • Change 40%
  • Wellbeing 40%
  34 Citations (Scopus)

• Artists or Slave Laborers? Performing Uncapturability in Burkinabe Performers’ Labor Rights Struggle in South Korea

  YOON, S. R., 1 May 2020, In: Positions: asia critique. 28, 2, p. 311-339 29 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Artists 100%
  • Migrant Workers 16%
  • Performers 16%
  • Dance 16%
  • Burkina Faso 16%

• Building a Global Feminist Alliance for Peace in East Asia

  SIT, T. & LAU, K. C., 1 May 2020, In: Positions: asia critique. 28, 2, p. 481-495 15 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Peace 100%
  • Women 57%
  • Reconciliation 28%
  • War 28%
  • East Asia 28%

• Closeted love? Borders of (mediated) belonging in ‘minority radio broadcasting’

  LEUNG, L. Y. M., Jun 2020, In: Social Identities. 26, 2, p. 250-269 20 p.

  Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

  • Broadcasting 100%
  • Minority Groups 66%
  • Ethnic Groups 50%
  • Politics 33%
  • Public Utilities 33%
  4 Citations (Scopus)