Dorothy Wai Sim Lau
Biographic Data
| ID | 3042965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dorothy Wai Sim Lau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dorothy Wai Sim |
| FAMILY NAME | Lau |
| SIGNATURE | LAU D W S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Baptist University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6355-3695 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Renegotiating Jia Zhangke’s Contestious Auteurism on Douban
This article focuses on sixth-generation mainland Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke and examines how his independent filmmaker’s profile is renegotiated and reevaluated on Douban, a China-based platform for cultural commentary. Whereas Douban allows viewers to rate a film, post a review of any length, and comment on other posts, it manifests a self-censoring tendency with sustained state control. Examining in Jia’s contentious auteurism through a “post-…
Charity, cantopop stardom and the pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has created an intriguing context to reconsider the relationship between fame, charity and politics in Hong Kong. As the onset of the global public-health threat caused an eco
Aamir Khan and celebrity humanitarianism in Asia
Scholarship of celebrity humanitarianism has been dominated by Western icons like Angelina Jolie, Madonna, and Bono, whose high-profile engagement has sought to alleviate various political, ecological, and humanitarian crises. In the past two decades, Asian stars have engaged in humanitarian issues as extensively as their North American or European counterparts. The intellectual effort devoted to this category of celebrity, nevertheless, remains …
Chinese Stardom in Participatory Cyberculture
Examines transnational Chinese stardom as a Web-based phenomenon Generates a new model to address the virtual forms of stardom and the under-explored dimensions of Chinese stars Revisits the star construction of globally acclaimed Chinese performers such as Jet Li, Jackie Chan and Donnie Yen Themes include: star performance; the star body; ethnicity; stars and audience; and phonic persona As Chinese performers have become more visible on global s…
Discussing Takeshi Kaneshiro
Internet fan participation has demonstrated the emergent potency of meaning making for transnational stardom. With the ease of searching, poaching, editing, posting, tagging, and annotating texts aided by cyber technology, fans can rework the filmic and publicity materials about stars. The emergence of participatory cyberculture has further ethnicized or globalized transnational Chinese or Asian stars such as Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, Z…
Chinese Stardom in Participatory Cyberculture
As Chinese performers have become more visible on global screens, their professional images – once the preserve of studios and agents – have been increasingly relayed and reworked by film fans. Web technology has made searching, poaching, editing, positing, and sharing texts significantly easier. Moreover, by using a variety of seamless and innovative methods, a new mode of personality construction has been developed. With case studies of high-pr…
Actor or ambassador? The star persona of Jackie Chan in social media
The advent of social media has profoundly altered star construction. While ordinary fans are allowed to produce and circulate texts and images of stars on the Web, stars and their personnel also join the cyber fan circuit to exercise persona management and manipulation. This essay explores the online persona of Jackie Chan, a celebrated transnational Chinese star whose stardom has expanded from cinema to goodwill, on the photo-sharing site named …
Aamir Khan and celebrity humanitarianism in Asia
Scholarship of celebrity humanitarianism has been dominated by Western icons like Angelina Jolie, Madonna, and Bono, whose high-profile engagement has sought to alleviate various political, ecological, and humanitarian crises. In the past two decades, Asian stars have engaged in humanitarian issues as extensively as their North American or European counterparts. The intellectual effort devoted to this category of celebrity, nevertheless, remains …
Charity, cantopop stardom and the pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has created an intriguing context to reconsider the relationship between fame, charity and politics in Hong Kong. As the onset of the global public-health threat caused an eco
Chinese Stardom in Participatory Cyberculture
As Chinese performers have become more visible on global screens, their professional images – once the preserve of studios and agents – have been increasingly relayed and reworked by film fans. Web technology has made searching, poaching, editing, positing, and sharing texts significantly easier. Moreover, by using a variety of seamless and innovative methods, a new mode of personality construction has been developed. With case studies of high-pr…
Actor or ambassador? The star persona of Jackie Chan in social media
The advent of social media has profoundly altered star construction. While ordinary fans are allowed to produce and circulate texts and images of stars on the Web, stars and their personnel also join the cyber fan circuit to exercise persona management and manipulation. This essay explores the online persona of Jackie Chan, a celebrated transnational Chinese star whose stardom has expanded from cinema to goodwill, on the photo-sharing site named …
Actor or ambassador? The star persona of Jackie Chan in social media
The advent of social media has profoundly altered star construction. While ordinary fans are allowed to produce and circulate texts and images of stars on the Web, stars and their personnel also join the cyber fan circuit to exercise persona management and manipulation. This essay explores the online persona of Jackie Chan, a celebrated transnational Chinese star whose stardom has expanded from cinema to goodwill, on the photo-sharing site named …
Chinese Stardom in Participatory Cyberculture
Examines transnational Chinese stardom as a Web-based phenomenon Generates a new model to address the virtual forms of stardom and the under-explored dimensions of Chinese stars Revisits the star construction of globally acclaimed Chinese performers such as Jet Li, Jackie Chan and Donnie Yen Themes include: star performance; the star body; ethnicity; stars and audience; and phonic persona As Chinese performers have become more visible on global s…
Discussing Takeshi Kaneshiro
Internet fan participation has demonstrated the emergent potency of meaning making for transnational stardom. With the ease of searching, poaching, editing, posting, tagging, and annotating texts aided by cyber technology, fans can rework the filmic and publicity materials about stars. The emergence of participatory cyberculture has further ethnicized or globalized transnational Chinese or Asian stars such as Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, Z…
Chinese Stardom in Participatory Cyberculture
As Chinese performers have become more visible on global screens, their professional images – once the preserve of studios and agents – have been increasingly relayed and reworked by film fans. Web technology has made searching, poaching, editing, positing, and sharing texts significantly easier. Moreover, by using a variety of seamless and innovative methods, a new mode of personality construction has been developed. With case studies of high-pr…
Charity, cantopop stardom and the pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has created an intriguing context to reconsider the relationship between fame, charity and politics in Hong Kong. As the onset of the global public-health threat caused an eco
Aamir Khan and celebrity humanitarianism in Asia
Scholarship of celebrity humanitarianism has been dominated by Western icons like Angelina Jolie, Madonna, and Bono, whose high-profile engagement has sought to alleviate various political, ecological, and humanitarian crises. In the past two decades, Asian stars have engaged in humanitarian issues as extensively as their North American or European counterparts. The intellectual effort devoted to this category of celebrity, nevertheless, remains …
Renegotiating Jia Zhangke’s Contestious Auteurism on Douban
This article focuses on sixth-generation mainland Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke and examines how his independent filmmaker’s profile is renegotiated and reevaluated on Douban, a China-based platform for cultural commentary. Whereas Douban allows viewers to rate a film, post a review of any length, and comment on other posts, it manifests a self-censoring tendency with sustained state control. Examining in Jia’s contentious auteurism through a “post-…
Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Celebrities (2 works)