Shuang Shen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3596796 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shuang Shen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shuang |
| FAMILY NAME | Shen |
| SIGNATURE | SHEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2856-1833 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reading popular Nanyang: Literary realism in plurilingual Singapore
This article approaches the topic of Nanyang popular culture from the perspective of language use and language politics. Revisiting a canonical text by Miao Xiu, Singapore under the Roofs (1951), which is set in Singapore on the cusp of decolonisation, this article examines the left-leaning realist camp’s engagement with a plurilingual and transnational public sphere where different forms of popular culture—some profit-driven, others politically …
Association between sleep and gallstone disease in United States adults: A cross-sectional study
Our study results indicate that going to bed late, short sleep duration, and trouble sleeping were associated with increased risk of gallstone disease in a nationally representative sample of adults in the US
Introduction: Infrastructure as an Inter-Asian Method
The idea for this special issue grew out of a workshop the co-editors organized at the Conference on “InterAsian Connections VI: Hanoi” in December 2018. This special issue conjoins critical infrastructure studies with inter-Asian perspectives in an effort to transcend a techno-nationalist framework of infrastructure as solely an instrument of state power and superpower competition. We are particularly interested in exploring the “deep time” that…
Rethinking the History of Chinese Empires from the Sinophone South
This article juxtaposes the Singapore playwright Kuo Pao Kun's imagining of ancient maritime trade with evocations of similar histories in the discourse of Afro-Asian solidarity that was inspired by the Bandung Conference of 1955. At the first “Afro-Asian Writers' Conference” held at Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in 1958, several members of the Chinese delegation framed the cultural exchange among Third World nations in terms of the Silk Road. These allu…
Border as Method
The current state of Chinese literary studies is undergoing a process of re(b)ordering where the nation-state is no longer seen as the only acceptable framing for Chinese literature, and existing identificatory markers of Chinese literature—locality, language, ethnicity—are subject to radical rethinking. This article proposes a paradigm of border as method for Chinese literary studies, following the lead of Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson's vol…
DV-Made China: Digital Subjects and Social Transformations after Independent Film
In 1990s post-Reform China, a growing number of people armed with video cameras poured out upon the Chinese landscape to both observe and contribute to the social changes then underway. Happening upon the crucial platform of an older independent film movement, this digital turn has given us a "DV China" that includes film and media communities across different social strata and disenfranchised groups, including ethnic and religious minorities and…
Empire of Information: The Asia Foundation's Network and Chinese-Language Cultural Production in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia
This essay examines Hong Kong's current status as a global media center from a historical perspective by engaging with the cultural work of the Union Press during the Cold War. Funded by the Asia Foundation, the Union Press engaged in book publishing, textbook production and circulation, organizing student activities, and running student centers, all conducted on a transnational scale involving Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, and all targeted towar…
From Deconstruction to Activism: The Chinese Independent Documentary and the Crowd
This article explores how the increasing visibility of new collectives in contemporary China has shaped independent documentaries. Countering a prevalent approach to documentary studies that emphasizes the individual and the subjective, this article suggests that how to represent collectivity has preoccupied Chinese documentary filmmakers from the inception of this art form. Yet early independent documentary filmmakers of the 1990s did not have a…
I Want to Be Human
This article reads a Chinese blockbuster film, City of Life and Death ([南京! 南京! Nanjing! Nanjing!] dir. Lu Chuan, 2009), as an allegory of China and the human for contemporary China. This movie illustrates the historical entanglement and tension of China and the human in twentieth-century Chinese cultural criticism and raises provocative questions about the geopolitics of historical trauma (the Nanjing Massacre in this case), the politics of memo…
Empire of Information: The Asia Foundation's Network and Chinese-Language Cultural Production in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia
This essay examines Hong Kong's current status as a global media center from a historical perspective by engaging with the cultural work of the Union Press during the Cold War. Funded by the Asia Foundation, the Union Press engaged in book publishing, textbook production and circulation, organizing student activities, and running student centers, all conducted on a transnational scale involving Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, and all targeted towar…
From Deconstruction to Activism: The Chinese Independent Documentary and the Crowd
This article explores how the increasing visibility of new collectives in contemporary China has shaped independent documentaries. Countering a prevalent approach to documentary studies that emphasizes the individual and the subjective, this article suggests that how to represent collectivity has preoccupied Chinese documentary filmmakers from the inception of this art form. Yet early independent documentary filmmakers of the 1990s did not have a…
Rethinking the History of Chinese Empires from the Sinophone South
This article juxtaposes the Singapore playwright Kuo Pao Kun's imagining of ancient maritime trade with evocations of similar histories in the discourse of Afro-Asian solidarity that was inspired by the Bandung Conference of 1955. At the first “Afro-Asian Writers' Conference” held at Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in 1958, several members of the Chinese delegation framed the cultural exchange among Third World nations in terms of the Silk Road. These allu…
I Want to Be Human
This article reads a Chinese blockbuster film, City of Life and Death ([南京! 南京! Nanjing! Nanjing!] dir. Lu Chuan, 2009), as an allegory of China and the human for contemporary China. This movie illustrates the historical entanglement and tension of China and the human in twentieth-century Chinese cultural criticism and raises provocative questions about the geopolitics of historical trauma (the Nanjing Massacre in this case), the politics of memo…
I Want to Be Human
This article reads a Chinese blockbuster film, City of Life and Death ([南京! 南京! Nanjing! Nanjing!] dir. Lu Chuan, 2009), as an allegory of China and the human for contemporary China. This movie illustrates the historical entanglement and tension of China and the human in twentieth-century Chinese cultural criticism and raises provocative questions about the geopolitics of historical trauma (the Nanjing Massacre in this case), the politics of memo…
From Deconstruction to Activism: The Chinese Independent Documentary and the Crowd
This article explores how the increasing visibility of new collectives in contemporary China has shaped independent documentaries. Countering a prevalent approach to documentary studies that emphasizes the individual and the subjective, this article suggests that how to represent collectivity has preoccupied Chinese documentary filmmakers from the inception of this art form. Yet early independent documentary filmmakers of the 1990s did not have a…
DV-Made China: Digital Subjects and Social Transformations after Independent Film
In 1990s post-Reform China, a growing number of people armed with video cameras poured out upon the Chinese landscape to both observe and contribute to the social changes then underway. Happening upon the crucial platform of an older independent film movement, this digital turn has given us a "DV China" that includes film and media communities across different social strata and disenfranchised groups, including ethnic and religious minorities and…
Empire of Information: The Asia Foundation's Network and Chinese-Language Cultural Production in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia
This essay examines Hong Kong's current status as a global media center from a historical perspective by engaging with the cultural work of the Union Press during the Cold War. Funded by the Asia Foundation, the Union Press engaged in book publishing, textbook production and circulation, organizing student activities, and running student centers, all conducted on a transnational scale involving Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, and all targeted towar…
Border as Method
The current state of Chinese literary studies is undergoing a process of re(b)ordering where the nation-state is no longer seen as the only acceptable framing for Chinese literature, and existing identificatory markers of Chinese literature—locality, language, ethnicity—are subject to radical rethinking. This article proposes a paradigm of border as method for Chinese literary studies, following the lead of Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson's vol…
Rethinking the History of Chinese Empires from the Sinophone South
This article juxtaposes the Singapore playwright Kuo Pao Kun's imagining of ancient maritime trade with evocations of similar histories in the discourse of Afro-Asian solidarity that was inspired by the Bandung Conference of 1955. At the first “Afro-Asian Writers' Conference” held at Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in 1958, several members of the Chinese delegation framed the cultural exchange among Third World nations in terms of the Silk Road. These allu…
Introduction: Infrastructure as an Inter-Asian Method
The idea for this special issue grew out of a workshop the co-editors organized at the Conference on “InterAsian Connections VI: Hanoi” in December 2018. This special issue conjoins critical infrastructure studies with inter-Asian perspectives in an effort to transcend a techno-nationalist framework of infrastructure as solely an instrument of state power and superpower competition. We are particularly interested in exploring the “deep time” that…
Association between sleep and gallstone disease in United States adults: A cross-sectional study
Our study results indicate that going to bed late, short sleep duration, and trouble sleeping were associated with increased risk of gallstone disease in a nationally representative sample of adults in the US
Reading popular Nanyang: Literary realism in plurilingual Singapore
This article approaches the topic of Nanyang popular culture from the perspective of language use and language politics. Revisiting a canonical text by Miao Xiu, Singapore under the Roofs (1951), which is set in Singapore on the cusp of decolonisation, this article examines the left-leaning realist camp’s engagement with a plurilingual and transnational public sphere where different forms of popular culture—some profit-driven, others politically …
China (5 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Japanese History and Culture (4 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works)