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Name in Chinese
蔡穎儀
Biography
Kim Choi is an interdisciplinary scholar focusing on media representations and everyday life practices. As a scholar conducting research on the continuity and changes of cultural experiences, Choi's research interests are wide-ranging and lie at the creative intersection of cultural studies, sociology, and media studies. In 2005, she was selected by the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University as a visiting fellow for early career research. Since 2012, she has received four GRF’s to support her scholarship. In 2019, Choi’s paper titled “Home and the materialization of divergent subjectivities of older women in Hong Kong” won the Outstanding Paper Award (2018/19) from the Academy of Hong Kong Studies.
In the last few years, Choi has realized three major research projects on Hong Kong home culture. The first is an ethnographic research project about how Hong Kong parents spend their leisure time with their children. Choi discovered that children’s domestic leisure is largely patterned by domestic setup and practices, and middle-class families’ access to economic and cultural resources can help middle-class children make institutional gains. A second project examined how families in Hong Kong inhabit domestic spaces and she complied this visual ethnographic research into a project website as well as journal publications. A third enterprise examined the marketing of housing in Hong Kong advertisements in which Choi demonstrated how Hong Kong government policy promotes housing hierarchy discourse and how property conglomerates produce “luxury housing”, and how the representation of housing as living space has given way to the idea of housing as investment and financial speculation.
Choi’s research has been widely published in academic journals such as Feminist Media Studies, Journal of Consumer Culture, Qualitative Research, Urban Studies, Cultural Studies Review, Ethnography, Journal of Gender Studies, Childhood, Social Semiotics, as well as in numerous books chapters. Currently Choi is doing two research studies. The first explores the diverse experiences and identities of Hong Kong older women in responding to the modernization of Hong Kong economy and society between 1950s and 2010s. This research project will also produce an arts-based narrative inquiry in the form of re-enactment through interactive video installation and web-based interactive re-storytelling. The second explores how Hong Kong museums narrate Hong Kong history, culture and identity after the Handover in 1997.
Research interests
Gender, Home Culture, Digital Ethnographic Production, Hong Kong
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Museum and nation-building: Hong Kong history, communities, and identities represented in Hong Kong museums (1997-2017) 香港博物館與國族建構(1997-2017)
CHOI, W. Y. K., CHAN, H. N. A. & MORRIS, M.
Research Grants Council (HKSAR)
1/01/20 → 31/12/23
Project: Grant Research
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Recycling Working Daughters? Hong Kong Older Women’s Divergent Lives and Subjectivities (香港年長女性不同生活經驗與主體性)
CHOI, W. Y. K., CHAN, H. N. A. & CHAN, K. W. A.
Research Grants Council (HKSAR)
1/01/18 → 31/12/21
Project: Grant Research
Research output
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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
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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
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Her body belongs to her nation? A feminist reading of recent Chinese and American female spy films
CHOI, K. W. Y. & ZENG, H., 19 Apr 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Feminist Media Studies. 16 p.Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus)
Activities
- 1 Other Invited Talks or Presentations
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Spatialization of Hong Kong women’s life stories of domesticity and disjunctive modern Hong Kong womanhood
Wing Yee Kimburley CHOI (Speaker) & Darrell ROWBOTTOM (Moderator)
3 Oct 2022Activity: Talks or Presentations › Other Invited Talks or Presentations
Thesis
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Remade in Hong Kong : how Hong Kong people use Hong Kong Disneyland
Author: CHOI, W. Y. K., 2007Supervisor: MORRIS, M. E. (Supervisor) & REISENLEITNER, M. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: PhD Thesis (Lingnan)