Tammy Lai-Ming Ho
Biographic Data
| ID | 1004309 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tammy Lai-Ming Ho |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tammy Lai-Ming |
| FAMILY NAME | Ho |
| SIGNATURE | HO T L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Baptist University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4325-4479 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Unprecedented as Narrative Strategy
This essay analyzes the “unprecedented” using Ackbar Abbas's introduction to Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance (1997). Abbas's critique hinges on the term unprecedented in relation to Hong Kong's late-colonial status, with the surge of political and cultural consciousness on the brink of the city's transition. This essay revisits the “unprecedented” to interrogate its significance today, amid the resurgent authoritarianism and …
The Monkey King's Diasporic Reassemblage in Sinners
Allegories
Two Chinese Working-Class Poems
Two Chinese Working-Class Poems by Xiao Hai Chinese Workers I am a Chinese worker Our revolutionary comrades are found in every corner of the Earth Perhaps consciously or perhaps unintentionally We truly stand here Traveling the world’s ups and downs with our hands that feed horses and chop wood I am a Chinese worker Lurking inside the desire of tall mansions in steel and concrete is our captive cut-price Youth The changes of the season are not o…
Huangmaling
WORLDLIT.ORG 35 POETRY Huangmaling by Zheng Xiaoqiong I settle my body and soul down in this small town Its lychee orchards, its streets A little deck in the assembly line The rain wets my head, again and again I rest my ideals, love, dreams, and youth down on it My lover, sounds, smell, life In a foreign place, under its dim streetlights I rush about, covered with rain and sweat, panting —I put my life into plastic products, screws, and nails On…
Writing Singapore
Grace Chia is the author of the poetry collections womango, Cordelia , and Mother of All Questions , the short-story collection Every Moving Thing That Lives Shall Be Food , and a novel, The Wanderlusters . She is also the editor of We R Family , an anthology about alternative families. Her work has been anthologized in many publications and translated into German, French, Serbo-Croat, Chinese, and Portuguese. The 2011–2012 NACNTU Writer-in-Resid…
Hong Kong's Table Talks
Hong Kong Guest-edited by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho the city issue Featuring Xi Xi 56 Kit Fan 57 Jennifer Wong 58 Bei Dao 59 Kate Rogers 62 Arthur Leung 63 Eddie Tay 64 Lian-Hee Wee 65 Favorite Hong Kong Foods 68 Belle Ling 70 Wawa 71 Chris Song 72 Jason S. Polley 73 Xu Xi’s Reading List 74 52 WLT SPRING 2019 Hong Kong’s Table Talks by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho Tammy Lai-Ming Ho is the founding co-editor of Asian Cha and an editor of the academic journal Hong Ko…
City Poetics
Shirley Geok-lin Lim has published extensively across a range of literary genres, including life writing, non-fiction, novels, poetry and short stories. An important voice in Asian American literat
Something Sets Us Looking for a Place
As the founding co-editor of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, the first Hong Kong-based online literary journal, I have had the opportunity to read many submissions centring on the Hong Kong experience since the magazine was established in 2007. In the wake of Hong Kong’s handover, the question of Hong Kong and the idea of ‘home’ has acquired new significance, an issue that I will explore through a reading of selected poetry by two female Hong Kon…
Female Researchers in Neo-Victorian Fiction
Neo-Victorian novelists sometimes use postgraduate students – trainee academics – who research nineteenth-century writers as protagonists. This article discusses four neo-Victorian novels, Lloyd Jones’s Mister Pip (2006), Justine Picardie’s Daphne (2008), A.N. Wilson’s A Jealous Ghost (2005) and Scarlett Thomas’s The End of Mr Y (2006), in which female postgraduate students take the centre stage. In Victorian literature, which mirrors the gender …
Hong Kong is a Science Fiction
In the early 1980s, China’s state leader Deng Xiaoping put forward the scientific concept known as ‘one country, two systems’ in an effort ‘to realize the peaceful reunification of China’, and this ingenious design was first applied to solve the question of Hong Kong
Writing Singapore
Grace Chia is the author of the poetry collections womango, Cordelia , and Mother of All Questions , the short-story collection Every Moving Thing That Lives Shall Be Food , and a novel, The Wanderlusters . She is also the editor of We R Family , an anthology about alternative families. Her work has been anthologized in many publications and translated into German, French, Serbo-Croat, Chinese, and Portuguese. The 2011–2012 NACNTU Writer-in-Resid…
City Poetics
Shirley Geok-lin Lim has published extensively across a range of literary genres, including life writing, non-fiction, novels, poetry and short stories. An important voice in Asian American literat
Hong Kong is a Science Fiction
In the early 1980s, China’s state leader Deng Xiaoping put forward the scientific concept known as ‘one country, two systems’ in an effort ‘to realize the peaceful reunification of China’, and this ingenious design was first applied to solve the question of Hong Kong
Female Researchers in Neo-Victorian Fiction
Neo-Victorian novelists sometimes use postgraduate students – trainee academics – who research nineteenth-century writers as protagonists. This article discusses four neo-Victorian novels, Lloyd Jones’s Mister Pip (2006), Justine Picardie’s Daphne (2008), A.N. Wilson’s A Jealous Ghost (2005) and Scarlett Thomas’s The End of Mr Y (2006), in which female postgraduate students take the centre stage. In Victorian literature, which mirrors the gender …
Something Sets Us Looking for a Place
As the founding co-editor of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, the first Hong Kong-based online literary journal, I have had the opportunity to read many submissions centring on the Hong Kong experience since the magazine was established in 2007. In the wake of Hong Kong’s handover, the question of Hong Kong and the idea of ‘home’ has acquired new significance, an issue that I will explore through a reading of selected poetry by two female Hong Kon…
City Poetics
Shirley Geok-lin Lim has published extensively across a range of literary genres, including life writing, non-fiction, novels, poetry and short stories. An important voice in Asian American literat
Writing Singapore
Grace Chia is the author of the poetry collections womango, Cordelia , and Mother of All Questions , the short-story collection Every Moving Thing That Lives Shall Be Food , and a novel, The Wanderlusters . She is also the editor of We R Family , an anthology about alternative families. Her work has been anthologized in many publications and translated into German, French, Serbo-Croat, Chinese, and Portuguese. The 2011–2012 NACNTU Writer-in-Resid…
Hong Kong's Table Talks
Hong Kong Guest-edited by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho the city issue Featuring Xi Xi 56 Kit Fan 57 Jennifer Wong 58 Bei Dao 59 Kate Rogers 62 Arthur Leung 63 Eddie Tay 64 Lian-Hee Wee 65 Favorite Hong Kong Foods 68 Belle Ling 70 Wawa 71 Chris Song 72 Jason S. Polley 73 Xu Xi’s Reading List 74 52 WLT SPRING 2019 Hong Kong’s Table Talks by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho Tammy Lai-Ming Ho is the founding co-editor of Asian Cha and an editor of the academic journal Hong Ko…
Two Chinese Working-Class Poems
Two Chinese Working-Class Poems by Xiao Hai Chinese Workers I am a Chinese worker Our revolutionary comrades are found in every corner of the Earth Perhaps consciously or perhaps unintentionally We truly stand here Traveling the world’s ups and downs with our hands that feed horses and chop wood I am a Chinese worker Lurking inside the desire of tall mansions in steel and concrete is our captive cut-price Youth The changes of the season are not o…
Huangmaling
WORLDLIT.ORG 35 POETRY Huangmaling by Zheng Xiaoqiong I settle my body and soul down in this small town Its lychee orchards, its streets A little deck in the assembly line The rain wets my head, again and again I rest my ideals, love, dreams, and youth down on it My lover, sounds, smell, life In a foreign place, under its dim streetlights I rush about, covered with rain and sweat, panting —I put my life into plastic products, screws, and nails On…
Allegories
The Monkey King's Diasporic Reassemblage in Sinners
The Unprecedented as Narrative Strategy
This essay analyzes the “unprecedented” using Ackbar Abbas's introduction to Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance (1997). Abbas's critique hinges on the term unprecedented in relation to Hong Kong's late-colonial status, with the surge of political and cultural consciousness on the brink of the city's transition. This essay revisits the “unprecedented” to interrogate its significance today, amid the resurgent authoritarianism and …
Art (10 works) · Literature (7 works) · History (6 works) · Poetry (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · China (2 works)