Anthony Kw Wong
Biographic Data
| ID | 182922 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony Kw Wong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony Kw |
| FAMILY NAME | Wong |
| SIGNATURE | WONG A K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8005-564X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Queering BL televisuality across Asia
Queering the cinematic border of the PRC and Hong Kong
What would it mean to unsettle the notion of Chineseness from the vantage point of Sinophone Hong Kong cinema? This article examines Fruit Chan’s three films on the figure of the sex worker in his ‘prostitute trilogy’, namely Durian Durian (2000), Hollywood Hong Kong (2001), and Three Husbands (2018). While Durian Durian portrays the friendship between Yan the sex worker and Fan the illegal immigrant girl in Hong Kong, the portrayal of Yan’s more…
Towards a queer affective economy of boys’ love in contemporary Chinese media
This article expands the existing research on the boys’ love (BL) cultural phenomenon by analysing two popular BL films, A Round Trip to Love and Uncontrolled Love, and one TV series, Addicted, all streamed online in 2016. Previous research has explored the various aspects of BL such as cultural globalization from below, the online publishing industry and censorship, and the theme of incest and queer sexuality. This article turns a greater attent…
Introduction
The past decade has seen a surge in the scholarship of queer China and Sinophone studies, which has productively explored the geocultural travelling and transformation of Western-originated queer theories and identity politics as powerful, generative tools in both the social-political and scholarly dimensions of diverse Chinese-speaking contexts. Along this line, this article, as the introductory piece to the special issue ‘Making a queer turn in…
Queer vernacularism
This essay explores the queer literary modernism of Hong Kong and Singapore since the 1990s to make several interventions. While the two cities have been studied as exemplars of postcolonial state formation in which finance capitalism contributes to the rise of modernity, their queer modernism in the literary and cultural spheres has largely escaped comparative studies. To address this blind spot, I examine two literary texts of gay male urbanism…
Including China? Postcolonial Hong Kong, Sinophone Studies, and the Gendered Geopolitics of China-centrism
Sinophone studies, in Shu-mei Shih’s original formulation, refers to “a network of places of cultural production outside China and on the margins of China and Chineseness”. This essay contributes to the debate on how to “include China” in the ever-productive task to decentre the hegemonic aspects of Chineseness. In particular, recent Hong Kong literature and popular culture invoke a temporal critique that one can term “nearly historical”. The con…
When Queer Theory Meets Tongzhi in “China”
Book Review| August 01 2018 When Queer Theory Meets Tongzhi in “China” Queer/Tongzhi China: New Perspectives on Research, Activism, and Media Cultures. Edited by Engebretsen, Elisabeth L. and Schroeder, William F., with Bao, Hongwei. Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2015. xiii + 274 pp. Alvin K. Wong Alvin K. Wong Alvin K. Wong is a faculty member in comparative literature at the University of Hong Kong. Search for other works by this author on: This Site…
Asia is burning
Queer Marxism in Two Chinas
Queer Marxism in Two Chinas is an intellectually adventurous book that engages with crucial debates within queer studies and China studies. Liu presents the two Chinas, the People's Republic of Chi
Queering the transnational turn
In recent years, queer studies has increasingly interrogated the racial and colonial unconscious embedded in the earlier studies of non-normative genders and sexualities through the critical frameworks of queer of color critique and queer diaspora studies. This article aims to 'queer the transnational turn' by considering what critical edge 'regionalism' might bring to the investigation of queer modernities in Asia from both contemporary and hist…
The ethics and poetics of the ‘Package Tour’
Transgenderism as a Heuristic Device
This essay engages with the charge of anachronism in queer historical analysis by deconstructing the category of "transgender" in the case of literary and cinematic adapations across time, space, and genre. I unpack the Ming dynasty folklore The Legend of the White Snake as a particularly queer case of cross-historical and transnational adapations in queer Sinophone cultures
From the Transnational to the Sinophone
This article theorizes global lesbian cinema in Chinese-language films through regionalism, diaspora studies, and Sinophone studies. Through an inter-regional analysis of Butterfly (Yan Yan Mak, 2004, Hong Kong) and diasporic and Sinophone readings of Saving Face (Alice Wu, 2005, USA), I argue that Mak's film illustrates a Hong Kong regional retranslation of a Taiwanese lesbian story, which complicates any claim to a stable "Chinese" identity. Fi…
Queering Chineseness, Unthinking Neoliberalism
Book Review| June 01 2008 QUEERING CHINESENESS, UNTHINKING NEOLIBERALISM Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture Lisa Rofel Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. x + 251 pp. Alvin Ka Hin Wong Alvin Ka Hin Wong Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2008) 14 (2-3): 428–430. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2007-041 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permi…
Queering the transnational turn
In recent years, queer studies has increasingly interrogated the racial and colonial unconscious embedded in the earlier studies of non-normative genders and sexualities through the critical frameworks of queer of color critique and queer diaspora studies. This article aims to 'queer the transnational turn' by considering what critical edge 'regionalism' might bring to the investigation of queer modernities in Asia from both contemporary and hist…
Towards a queer affective economy of boys’ love in contemporary Chinese media
This article expands the existing research on the boys’ love (BL) cultural phenomenon by analysing two popular BL films, A Round Trip to Love and Uncontrolled Love, and one TV series, Addicted, all streamed online in 2016. Previous research has explored the various aspects of BL such as cultural globalization from below, the online publishing industry and censorship, and the theme of incest and queer sexuality. This article turns a greater attent…
Queer vernacularism
This essay explores the queer literary modernism of Hong Kong and Singapore since the 1990s to make several interventions. While the two cities have been studied as exemplars of postcolonial state formation in which finance capitalism contributes to the rise of modernity, their queer modernism in the literary and cultural spheres has largely escaped comparative studies. To address this blind spot, I examine two literary texts of gay male urbanism…
Queering BL televisuality across Asia
Introduction
The past decade has seen a surge in the scholarship of queer China and Sinophone studies, which has productively explored the geocultural travelling and transformation of Western-originated queer theories and identity politics as powerful, generative tools in both the social-political and scholarly dimensions of diverse Chinese-speaking contexts. Along this line, this article, as the introductory piece to the special issue ‘Making a queer turn in…
Queering Chineseness, Unthinking Neoliberalism
Book Review| June 01 2008 QUEERING CHINESENESS, UNTHINKING NEOLIBERALISM Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture Lisa Rofel Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. x + 251 pp. Alvin Ka Hin Wong Alvin Ka Hin Wong Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2008) 14 (2-3): 428–430. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2007-041 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permi…
Queering Chineseness, Unthinking Neoliberalism
Book Review| June 01 2008 QUEERING CHINESENESS, UNTHINKING NEOLIBERALISM Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture Lisa Rofel Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. x + 251 pp. Alvin Ka Hin Wong Alvin Ka Hin Wong Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2008) 14 (2-3): 428–430. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2007-041 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permi…
Transgenderism as a Heuristic Device
This essay engages with the charge of anachronism in queer historical analysis by deconstructing the category of "transgender" in the case of literary and cinematic adapations across time, space, and genre. I unpack the Ming dynasty folklore The Legend of the White Snake as a particularly queer case of cross-historical and transnational adapations in queer Sinophone cultures
From the Transnational to the Sinophone
This article theorizes global lesbian cinema in Chinese-language films through regionalism, diaspora studies, and Sinophone studies. Through an inter-regional analysis of Butterfly (Yan Yan Mak, 2004, Hong Kong) and diasporic and Sinophone readings of Saving Face (Alice Wu, 2005, USA), I argue that Mak's film illustrates a Hong Kong regional retranslation of a Taiwanese lesbian story, which complicates any claim to a stable "Chinese" identity. Fi…
The ethics and poetics of the ‘Package Tour’
Queer Marxism in Two Chinas
Queer Marxism in Two Chinas is an intellectually adventurous book that engages with crucial debates within queer studies and China studies. Liu presents the two Chinas, the People's Republic of Chi
Queering the transnational turn
In recent years, queer studies has increasingly interrogated the racial and colonial unconscious embedded in the earlier studies of non-normative genders and sexualities through the critical frameworks of queer of color critique and queer diaspora studies. This article aims to 'queer the transnational turn' by considering what critical edge 'regionalism' might bring to the investigation of queer modernities in Asia from both contemporary and hist…
Asia is burning
Including China? Postcolonial Hong Kong, Sinophone Studies, and the Gendered Geopolitics of China-centrism
Sinophone studies, in Shu-mei Shih’s original formulation, refers to “a network of places of cultural production outside China and on the margins of China and Chineseness”. This essay contributes to the debate on how to “include China” in the ever-productive task to decentre the hegemonic aspects of Chineseness. In particular, recent Hong Kong literature and popular culture invoke a temporal critique that one can term “nearly historical”. The con…
When Queer Theory Meets Tongzhi in “China”
Book Review| August 01 2018 When Queer Theory Meets Tongzhi in “China” Queer/Tongzhi China: New Perspectives on Research, Activism, and Media Cultures. Edited by Engebretsen, Elisabeth L. and Schroeder, William F., with Bao, Hongwei. Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2015. xiii + 274 pp. Alvin K. Wong Alvin K. Wong Alvin K. Wong is a faculty member in comparative literature at the University of Hong Kong. Search for other works by this author on: This Site…
Towards a queer affective economy of boys’ love in contemporary Chinese media
This article expands the existing research on the boys’ love (BL) cultural phenomenon by analysing two popular BL films, A Round Trip to Love and Uncontrolled Love, and one TV series, Addicted, all streamed online in 2016. Previous research has explored the various aspects of BL such as cultural globalization from below, the online publishing industry and censorship, and the theme of incest and queer sexuality. This article turns a greater attent…
Introduction
The past decade has seen a surge in the scholarship of queer China and Sinophone studies, which has productively explored the geocultural travelling and transformation of Western-originated queer theories and identity politics as powerful, generative tools in both the social-political and scholarly dimensions of diverse Chinese-speaking contexts. Along this line, this article, as the introductory piece to the special issue ‘Making a queer turn in…
Queer vernacularism
This essay explores the queer literary modernism of Hong Kong and Singapore since the 1990s to make several interventions. While the two cities have been studied as exemplars of postcolonial state formation in which finance capitalism contributes to the rise of modernity, their queer modernism in the literary and cultural spheres has largely escaped comparative studies. To address this blind spot, I examine two literary texts of gay male urbanism…
Queering the cinematic border of the PRC and Hong Kong
What would it mean to unsettle the notion of Chineseness from the vantage point of Sinophone Hong Kong cinema? This article examines Fruit Chan’s three films on the figure of the sex worker in his ‘prostitute trilogy’, namely Durian Durian (2000), Hollywood Hong Kong (2001), and Three Husbands (2018). While Durian Durian portrays the friendship between Yan the sex worker and Fan the illegal immigrant girl in Hong Kong, the portrayal of Yan’s more…
Queering BL televisuality across Asia
Sociology (13 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Art (8 works) · Japanese History and Culture (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Queer (7 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (6 works) · China (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · History (5 works)