Ka-Ming Wu
Biographic Data
| ID | 243374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ka-Ming Wu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ka-Ming |
| FAMILY NAME | Wu |
| SIGNATURE | WU K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4087-7926 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sipping tea, plastics performing
In a single serving of boba tea, the non-human actors of the tall plastic cups, plastic dome lids, and the giant plastic straws dominate, but receive little attention. This article uses recent theories and discussions of new materialism to bring together cultural analysis of the boba tea consumption phenomenon that could be relevant for reflecting on a sustainable future. The article contributes to social research of waste by focusing on the medi…
Mapping the Affective Neighbourhood in Post-Protest Hong Kong
Looking closely at the changing faces and materials of some pedestrian surfaces, this essay shows the transformation of neighbourhood space and culture in Hong Kong during and after the 2019 protests. By showing the movements and sensual encounters of residents walking through their neighbourhoods, the article reveals the affective everyday encounters or an emergent politics of affect in which the 'intensities of feeling '-sounds, senses, and oth…
The Pink Flaneur
Feminist Studies 47, no. 3. © 2021 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 813 Ka-ming Wu The Pink Flaneur: Feminist Public Citizenship and Urban Infrastructure in China For eighteen days in May 2017, twenty-five-year-old Zhang Leilei transformed herself into a walking billboard in Guangzhou, wearing a poster reading “no to sexual harassment” as part of her daily routine, after a plan to buy billboard space in a subway station failed. To attract attention, she…
Infrastructure and its discontent
This essay reveals that infrastructure, both transit and legal, not only facilitates exchanges across distance and borders, but also creates public structures of feeling. By structures of feeling, I refer to Raymond Williams's discussion of those emergent trajectories of emotions that prevail without being fully articulated in a particular time and space. I found the term structures of feeling useful to articulate those emergent forms of mistrust…
Woodcut Movement
Elegant and Militarized
This article examines how Chinese national values are imparted to and through the recent phenomenon of ceremonial volunteers or etiquette volunteers (liyi zhiyuan). These volunteers are all young college women who serve at major national events by greeting guests, ushering, and holding ceremonial ribbons. They are supposed to embody Confucian ritual values and the practices of propriety that define China as a nation of civilization through their …
Life satisfaction in urbanizing China
Reinventing Chinese Tradition
Paper-cuts in Modern China
In the twentieth century, paper-cuts have been variously regarded as a domestic craft, a site of rural purity, a marker of Chinese civilization, and more recently, a national intangible cultural heritage. This article analyzes paper-cuts not merely as a cultural practice but as a medium of articulation through which Chinese urban intellectuals have understood the countryside and traditions at specific historical moments. It also explores paper-cu…
Families on the move in China
We studied 12 migrant families who lived on the outskirts of Beijing, conducting participant observations and in-depth interviews between July 2008 and December 2009. Adopting the family strengths perspective, we identified the strategies employed by the migrant population to manage family life, the reliance on family networks for help and support, and their means of coping with the lack of equal access to state-provided benefits and services. We…
Tradition Revival With Socialist Characteristics
Life satisfaction in urbanizing China
Families on the move in China
We studied 12 migrant families who lived on the outskirts of Beijing, conducting participant observations and in-depth interviews between July 2008 and December 2009. Adopting the family strengths perspective, we identified the strategies employed by the migrant population to manage family life, the reliance on family networks for help and support, and their means of coping with the lack of equal access to state-provided benefits and services. We…
Infrastructure and its discontent
This essay reveals that infrastructure, both transit and legal, not only facilitates exchanges across distance and borders, but also creates public structures of feeling. By structures of feeling, I refer to Raymond Williams's discussion of those emergent trajectories of emotions that prevail without being fully articulated in a particular time and space. I found the term structures of feeling useful to articulate those emergent forms of mistrust…
Paper-cuts in Modern China
In the twentieth century, paper-cuts have been variously regarded as a domestic craft, a site of rural purity, a marker of Chinese civilization, and more recently, a national intangible cultural heritage. This article analyzes paper-cuts not merely as a cultural practice but as a medium of articulation through which Chinese urban intellectuals have understood the countryside and traditions at specific historical moments. It also explores paper-cu…
Tradition Revival With Socialist Characteristics
Families on the move in China
We studied 12 migrant families who lived on the outskirts of Beijing, conducting participant observations and in-depth interviews between July 2008 and December 2009. Adopting the family strengths perspective, we identified the strategies employed by the migrant population to manage family life, the reliance on family networks for help and support, and their means of coping with the lack of equal access to state-provided benefits and services. We…
Life satisfaction in urbanizing China
Reinventing Chinese Tradition
Paper-cuts in Modern China
In the twentieth century, paper-cuts have been variously regarded as a domestic craft, a site of rural purity, a marker of Chinese civilization, and more recently, a national intangible cultural heritage. This article analyzes paper-cuts not merely as a cultural practice but as a medium of articulation through which Chinese urban intellectuals have understood the countryside and traditions at specific historical moments. It also explores paper-cu…
Elegant and Militarized
This article examines how Chinese national values are imparted to and through the recent phenomenon of ceremonial volunteers or etiquette volunteers (liyi zhiyuan). These volunteers are all young college women who serve at major national events by greeting guests, ushering, and holding ceremonial ribbons. They are supposed to embody Confucian ritual values and the practices of propriety that define China as a nation of civilization through their …
Woodcut Movement
Infrastructure and its discontent
This essay reveals that infrastructure, both transit and legal, not only facilitates exchanges across distance and borders, but also creates public structures of feeling. By structures of feeling, I refer to Raymond Williams's discussion of those emergent trajectories of emotions that prevail without being fully articulated in a particular time and space. I found the term structures of feeling useful to articulate those emergent forms of mistrust…
The Pink Flaneur
Feminist Studies 47, no. 3. © 2021 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 813 Ka-ming Wu The Pink Flaneur: Feminist Public Citizenship and Urban Infrastructure in China For eighteen days in May 2017, twenty-five-year-old Zhang Leilei transformed herself into a walking billboard in Guangzhou, wearing a poster reading “no to sexual harassment” as part of her daily routine, after a plan to buy billboard space in a subway station failed. To attract attention, she…
Mapping the Affective Neighbourhood in Post-Protest Hong Kong
Looking closely at the changing faces and materials of some pedestrian surfaces, this essay shows the transformation of neighbourhood space and culture in Hong Kong during and after the 2019 protests. By showing the movements and sensual encounters of residents walking through their neighbourhoods, the article reveals the affective everyday encounters or an emergent politics of affect in which the 'intensities of feeling '-sounds, senses, and oth…
Sipping tea, plastics performing
In a single serving of boba tea, the non-human actors of the tall plastic cups, plastic dome lids, and the giant plastic straws dominate, but receive little attention. This article uses recent theories and discussions of new materialism to bring together cultural analysis of the boba tea consumption phenomenon that could be relevant for reflecting on a sustainable future. The article contributes to social research of waste by focusing on the medi…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · China (8 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (4 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (4 works)