Kin-Long Tong
Biographic Data
| ID | 1479381 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kin-Long Tong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kin-Long |
| FAMILY NAME | Tong |
| SIGNATURE | TONG K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9889-0800 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Zap saang
This article examines how independent publishers in Hong Kong sustain their work amid structural precarity, market monopolisation, and political repression. Drawing on thirty-two interviews and an inductive thematic analysis, it reconceptualises publishing as a form of creative labour defined less by industrial boundaries than by the continuous reconfiguration of skills, relationships, and infrastructures. The study identifies three logics of ada…
Keeping It Small
Independent publishing is frequently celebrated as an intimate and oppositional cultural practice, yet the relationship between small-scale production and cultural resistance is often taken for granted. This article interrogates the role of scale in shaping the possibilities and limits of independent cultural work. Drawing on 45 semi-structured interviews with independent publishers and booksellers in Hong Kong between 2012 and 2022, alongside an…
Feeling survival
This article examines how diasporic visual practices mediate the emotional aftermath of Hong Kong’s 2019 protests and the ensuing wave of migration to the UK. Focusing on the self-published works of Hong Kong artists Deacon Lui and Kayla Lui, the author explores how zines, comics and experimental photography register not only political rupture but the ambiguous affective states that follow – fear, absurdity, ambivalence, intimacy. Rather than doc…
Co-making solidarities through radical publishing
This article examines how migrant domestic workers’ knowledge becomes legible and sustained under conditions of precarity by theorizing co-making as a methodological intervention into minor transnationalism. Rather than treating solidarity as a pre-given alignment or an achieved outcome, I approach it as something assembled through micro-practices of mediation and care—practices that make relation possible while leaving difference unresolved. Dra…
Survival Epistemologies
This article proposes survival epistemologies to name fragile, situated, and improvisational ways of knowing that take shape under repression. Centring Hong Kong as a site of ongoing crisis, I argue that when abstraction loses traction, theory emerges through constrained practices that provincialise generalisability and reorient method toward situated relations. Treating Hong Kong as an epistemic site rather than an object, I trace four scenes in…
Variegated city-region governance
This study explores the complex interactions between centralised policies and local governance in China’s Greater Bay Area (GBA). Moving beyond state rescaling and spatial configurations, it highlights the intricacy of governance structures, policy implementations and intergovernmental dynamics. Using a mixed-methods approach–combining a content analysis of 679 policy documents with case studies of Qianhai and Hengqin–it reveals significant regio…
Archiving social movement memories amidst autocratization
There has been a rise in archival activism, including the birth of social movement archives, leveraging marginalised communities’ voices, and challenging mainstream discourses. Through a case study of the Umbrella Movement Visual Archive (UMVA) in Hong Kong, this paper explores the risks faced by and the strategies of the archivists when preserving social movement objects amidst rapid autocratisation. Based on semi-structured interviews and docum…
Disciplining Student Activism
Throughout history, student activism has been a powerful force in promoting social and political changes. During the process, schools—serving in part as an institution of social control—often become a site of contestation, where student activists may clash with the school authorities when mobilizing their peers and fighting for protest goals. Focusing on Hong Kong’s Anti‐Extradition Bill Movement, which saw extensive participation among secondary…
Solidarity in diversity
Collective identity is a key catalyst of protest mobilization. How does collective identity come into existence among strangers with diverse backgrounds, especially in movements without a centralized leadership? Although collective identity is often seen as something constructed by movement organizations or out of established networks, we describe a more bottom-up and decentralized process in which movement collective identity is created through …
We Are Safer without the Police
This article examines the ways in which particular notions of safety have become central to political protests in Hong Kong. It follows the development of the methods protesters have used to establish a sense of safety as a core part of movement organizing, by focusing on the Umbrella Movement of 2014 and the building of its focal point, Harcourt Village
Solidarity in diversity
Collective identity is a key catalyst of protest mobilization. How does collective identity come into existence among strangers with diverse backgrounds, especially in movements without a centralized leadership? Although collective identity is often seen as something constructed by movement organizations or out of established networks, we describe a more bottom-up and decentralized process in which movement collective identity is created through …
Disciplining Student Activism
Throughout history, student activism has been a powerful force in promoting social and political changes. During the process, schools—serving in part as an institution of social control—often become a site of contestation, where student activists may clash with the school authorities when mobilizing their peers and fighting for protest goals. Focusing on Hong Kong’s Anti‐Extradition Bill Movement, which saw extensive participation among secondary…
We Are Safer without the Police
This article examines the ways in which particular notions of safety have become central to political protests in Hong Kong. It follows the development of the methods protesters have used to establish a sense of safety as a core part of movement organizing, by focusing on the Umbrella Movement of 2014 and the building of its focal point, Harcourt Village
Variegated city-region governance
This study explores the complex interactions between centralised policies and local governance in China’s Greater Bay Area (GBA). Moving beyond state rescaling and spatial configurations, it highlights the intricacy of governance structures, policy implementations and intergovernmental dynamics. Using a mixed-methods approach–combining a content analysis of 679 policy documents with case studies of Qianhai and Hengqin–it reveals significant regio…
Archiving social movement memories amidst autocratization
There has been a rise in archival activism, including the birth of social movement archives, leveraging marginalised communities’ voices, and challenging mainstream discourses. Through a case study of the Umbrella Movement Visual Archive (UMVA) in Hong Kong, this paper explores the risks faced by and the strategies of the archivists when preserving social movement objects amidst rapid autocratisation. Based on semi-structured interviews and docum…
We Are Safer without the Police
This article examines the ways in which particular notions of safety have become central to political protests in Hong Kong. It follows the development of the methods protesters have used to establish a sense of safety as a core part of movement organizing, by focusing on the Umbrella Movement of 2014 and the building of its focal point, Harcourt Village
Disciplining Student Activism
Throughout history, student activism has been a powerful force in promoting social and political changes. During the process, schools—serving in part as an institution of social control—often become a site of contestation, where student activists may clash with the school authorities when mobilizing their peers and fighting for protest goals. Focusing on Hong Kong’s Anti‐Extradition Bill Movement, which saw extensive participation among secondary…
Solidarity in diversity
Collective identity is a key catalyst of protest mobilization. How does collective identity come into existence among strangers with diverse backgrounds, especially in movements without a centralized leadership? Although collective identity is often seen as something constructed by movement organizations or out of established networks, we describe a more bottom-up and decentralized process in which movement collective identity is created through …
Archiving social movement memories amidst autocratization
There has been a rise in archival activism, including the birth of social movement archives, leveraging marginalised communities’ voices, and challenging mainstream discourses. Through a case study of the Umbrella Movement Visual Archive (UMVA) in Hong Kong, this paper explores the risks faced by and the strategies of the archivists when preserving social movement objects amidst rapid autocratisation. Based on semi-structured interviews and docum…
Variegated city-region governance
This study explores the complex interactions between centralised policies and local governance in China’s Greater Bay Area (GBA). Moving beyond state rescaling and spatial configurations, it highlights the intricacy of governance structures, policy implementations and intergovernmental dynamics. Using a mixed-methods approach–combining a content analysis of 679 policy documents with case studies of Qianhai and Hengqin–it reveals significant regio…
Zap saang
This article examines how independent publishers in Hong Kong sustain their work amid structural precarity, market monopolisation, and political repression. Drawing on thirty-two interviews and an inductive thematic analysis, it reconceptualises publishing as a form of creative labour defined less by industrial boundaries than by the continuous reconfiguration of skills, relationships, and infrastructures. The study identifies three logics of ada…
Keeping It Small
Independent publishing is frequently celebrated as an intimate and oppositional cultural practice, yet the relationship between small-scale production and cultural resistance is often taken for granted. This article interrogates the role of scale in shaping the possibilities and limits of independent cultural work. Drawing on 45 semi-structured interviews with independent publishers and booksellers in Hong Kong between 2012 and 2022, alongside an…
Feeling survival
This article examines how diasporic visual practices mediate the emotional aftermath of Hong Kong’s 2019 protests and the ensuing wave of migration to the UK. Focusing on the self-published works of Hong Kong artists Deacon Lui and Kayla Lui, the author explores how zines, comics and experimental photography register not only political rupture but the ambiguous affective states that follow – fear, absurdity, ambivalence, intimacy. Rather than doc…
Co-making solidarities through radical publishing
This article examines how migrant domestic workers’ knowledge becomes legible and sustained under conditions of precarity by theorizing co-making as a methodological intervention into minor transnationalism. Rather than treating solidarity as a pre-given alignment or an achieved outcome, I approach it as something assembled through micro-practices of mediation and care—practices that make relation possible while leaving difference unresolved. Dra…
Survival Epistemologies
This article proposes survival epistemologies to name fragile, situated, and improvisational ways of knowing that take shape under repression. Centring Hong Kong as a site of ongoing crisis, I argue that when abstraction loses traction, theory emerges through constrained practices that provincialise generalisability and reorient method toward situated relations. Treating Hong Kong as an epistemic site rather than an object, I trace four scenes in…
Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (8 works) · Politics (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (3 works) · Social movement (3 works) · Solidarity (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Democracy (2 works)