Selina Ching Chan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3648140 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Selina Ching Chan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Selina Ching |
| FAMILY NAME | Chan |
| SIGNATURE | CHAN S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Shue Yan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Creepy No More
Ever since the classification of Hong Kong’s Chaozhou Hungry Ghosts Festival as a national-grade intangible cultural heritage in 2011, a series of conservation activities have been initiated by some local Chaozhou communities, ngo s, and the Hong Kong government. One of these activities is the Chaozhou Hungry Ghosts Cultural Festival, and this paper discusses the heritagization of religious festivals by examining the invention of this festival. T…
Tea cafés and the Hong Kong identity
This article examines the meanings of caa caan teng (茶餐廳, local cafés) in Hong Kong and the implications of such cafés on the Hong Kong identity. It argues that the local café is a representation of Hong Kong culture because it reflects Hong Kong's political, economic, and social developmental paths and mirrors the everyday life of its people. I investigate how the interaction of different immigrant cultures in Hong Kong has resulted in the inven…
Building Temples in China
Much has been written on how temples are constructed or reconstructed for reviving local religious and communal life or for recycling tradition after the market reforms in China. The dynamics between the state and society that lie behind the revival of temples and religious practices initiated by the locals have been well-analysed. However, there is a gap in the literature when it comes to understanding religious revivals that were instead led by…
Food, Memories, and Identities in Hong Kong
This article adopts a processual and relational approach to study food remembrance and investigates how different ways of appropriating food reveal the politics of identities in Hong Kong. It examines how food memories reveal relationships between the past and the present, reflect epochal transformation, and mark changing identities of various groups of people through new ways of appropriations. It takes the case study of pancai, a special banque…
Imagining and Consuming Cultures
This paper looks at the Jenju community at Ilan in Taiwan to examine how community cultures are invented for the purpose of identity building and domestic tourism development. These community cultures are constructed by the efforts of several parties, including government officers at the Council for Cultural Affairs, the County Cultural Council, intellectuals, business people, cultural workers, and residents. The representative objects of the loc…
Gender and Community under British Colonialism
Temple Construction and the Revival of Popular Religion in Jinhua
This article examines a case of temple construction that was initiated by officials and cadres rather than by locals. The temple construction and religious revival are analyzed in the light of complex dynamics between the cadres at the United Front, provincial office, municipal government, township office, and religious bureau, as well as between these cadres and the locals-the intellectuals, village elders, religious specialists, and villagers. …
Temple-Building and Heritage in China
Building Huang Da Xian temples in Jinhua, in the Lower Yangtze Delta, is a process, an interpretation, manipulation, and invention of the past for present and future interests. Local memories of the saint Huang Da Xian were awakened by Hong Kong pilgrims, and the subsequent construction of temples enacted the politics of nationalism with a transnational connection. The process of remembering the saint and constructing temples creates, mediates, a…
Memory Making, Identitity Building
Hong Kong has reunited with China and this unique decolonization process has facilitated a distinctive discourse in the remembrance of the past and the negotiation of identity. This article considers how the highest representative organization of the indigenous inhabitants in the New Territories-the Heung Yee Kuk-remembers their past. I argue that this recollection of the past is not solely for the people themselves, but also for different target…
Socio-Economic Significance of the Pawnbroking Business in Singapore
Selling the Ancestors’ Land
Colonial policy in a borrowed place and time
This paper explores how the space of the 'New Territories' is a political construction. Unlike Hong Kong island, the New Territories (literally meaning the new boundary) is not ceded land, but is rather land leased by China to Britain for 99 years. I argue that this characteristic has transformed the 'New Territories' into a special space. Customs in this special place demand extraordinary respect from the colonialists. The paper will examine how…
Politicizing Tradition
This article investigates the identity of in contemporary Hong Kong by discussing the Pang lineage in the New Territories. It examines this identity in relation to the lease of the New Territories, the colonial government, and the modernization of Hong Kong. The article discusses the way in which tradition has been continuously interpreted, negotiated, manipulated, and reinterpreted by different parties. It argues that there has been a shift of e…
Politicizing Tradition
This article investigates the identity of in contemporary Hong Kong by discussing the Pang lineage in the New Territories. It examines this identity in relation to the lease of the New Territories, the colonial government, and the modernization of Hong Kong. The article discusses the way in which tradition has been continuously interpreted, negotiated, manipulated, and reinterpreted by different parties. It argues that there has been a shift of e…
Selling the Ancestors’ Land
Temple-Building and Heritage in China
Building Huang Da Xian temples in Jinhua, in the Lower Yangtze Delta, is a process, an interpretation, manipulation, and invention of the past for present and future interests. Local memories of the saint Huang Da Xian were awakened by Hong Kong pilgrims, and the subsequent construction of temples enacted the politics of nationalism with a transnational connection. The process of remembering the saint and constructing temples creates, mediates, a…
Tea cafés and the Hong Kong identity
This article examines the meanings of caa caan teng (茶餐廳, local cafés) in Hong Kong and the implications of such cafés on the Hong Kong identity. It argues that the local café is a representation of Hong Kong culture because it reflects Hong Kong's political, economic, and social developmental paths and mirrors the everyday life of its people. I investigate how the interaction of different immigrant cultures in Hong Kong has resulted in the inven…
Temple Construction and the Revival of Popular Religion in Jinhua
This article examines a case of temple construction that was initiated by officials and cadres rather than by locals. The temple construction and religious revival are analyzed in the light of complex dynamics between the cadres at the United Front, provincial office, municipal government, township office, and religious bureau, as well as between these cadres and the locals-the intellectuals, village elders, religious specialists, and villagers. …
Colonial policy in a borrowed place and time
This paper explores how the space of the 'New Territories' is a political construction. Unlike Hong Kong island, the New Territories (literally meaning the new boundary) is not ceded land, but is rather land leased by China to Britain for 99 years. I argue that this characteristic has transformed the 'New Territories' into a special space. Customs in this special place demand extraordinary respect from the colonialists. The paper will examine how…
Building Temples in China
Much has been written on how temples are constructed or reconstructed for reviving local religious and communal life or for recycling tradition after the market reforms in China. The dynamics between the state and society that lie behind the revival of temples and religious practices initiated by the locals have been well-analysed. However, there is a gap in the literature when it comes to understanding religious revivals that were instead led by…
Memory Making, Identitity Building
Hong Kong has reunited with China and this unique decolonization process has facilitated a distinctive discourse in the remembrance of the past and the negotiation of identity. This article considers how the highest representative organization of the indigenous inhabitants in the New Territories-the Heung Yee Kuk-remembers their past. I argue that this recollection of the past is not solely for the people themselves, but also for different target…
Politicizing Tradition
This article investigates the identity of in contemporary Hong Kong by discussing the Pang lineage in the New Territories. It examines this identity in relation to the lease of the New Territories, the colonial government, and the modernization of Hong Kong. The article discusses the way in which tradition has been continuously interpreted, negotiated, manipulated, and reinterpreted by different parties. It argues that there has been a shift of e…
Colonial policy in a borrowed place and time
This paper explores how the space of the 'New Territories' is a political construction. Unlike Hong Kong island, the New Territories (literally meaning the new boundary) is not ceded land, but is rather land leased by China to Britain for 99 years. I argue that this characteristic has transformed the 'New Territories' into a special space. Customs in this special place demand extraordinary respect from the colonialists. The paper will examine how…
Socio-Economic Significance of the Pawnbroking Business in Singapore
Selling the Ancestors’ Land
Memory Making, Identitity Building
Hong Kong has reunited with China and this unique decolonization process has facilitated a distinctive discourse in the remembrance of the past and the negotiation of identity. This article considers how the highest representative organization of the indigenous inhabitants in the New Territories-the Heung Yee Kuk-remembers their past. I argue that this recollection of the past is not solely for the people themselves, but also for different target…
Temple-Building and Heritage in China
Building Huang Da Xian temples in Jinhua, in the Lower Yangtze Delta, is a process, an interpretation, manipulation, and invention of the past for present and future interests. Local memories of the saint Huang Da Xian were awakened by Hong Kong pilgrims, and the subsequent construction of temples enacted the politics of nationalism with a transnational connection. The process of remembering the saint and constructing temples creates, mediates, a…
Gender and Community under British Colonialism
Temple Construction and the Revival of Popular Religion in Jinhua
This article examines a case of temple construction that was initiated by officials and cadres rather than by locals. The temple construction and religious revival are analyzed in the light of complex dynamics between the cadres at the United Front, provincial office, municipal government, township office, and religious bureau, as well as between these cadres and the locals-the intellectuals, village elders, religious specialists, and villagers. …
Food, Memories, and Identities in Hong Kong
This article adopts a processual and relational approach to study food remembrance and investigates how different ways of appropriating food reveal the politics of identities in Hong Kong. It examines how food memories reveal relationships between the past and the present, reflect epochal transformation, and mark changing identities of various groups of people through new ways of appropriations. It takes the case study of pancai, a special banque…
Imagining and Consuming Cultures
This paper looks at the Jenju community at Ilan in Taiwan to examine how community cultures are invented for the purpose of identity building and domestic tourism development. These community cultures are constructed by the efforts of several parties, including government officers at the Council for Cultural Affairs, the County Cultural Council, intellectuals, business people, cultural workers, and residents. The representative objects of the loc…
Building Temples in China
Much has been written on how temples are constructed or reconstructed for reviving local religious and communal life or for recycling tradition after the market reforms in China. The dynamics between the state and society that lie behind the revival of temples and religious practices initiated by the locals have been well-analysed. However, there is a gap in the literature when it comes to understanding religious revivals that were instead led by…
Creepy No More
Ever since the classification of Hong Kong’s Chaozhou Hungry Ghosts Festival as a national-grade intangible cultural heritage in 2011, a series of conservation activities have been initiated by some local Chaozhou communities, ngo s, and the Hong Kong government. One of these activities is the Chaozhou Hungry Ghosts Cultural Festival, and this paper discusses the heritagization of religious festivals by examining the invention of this festival. T…
Tea cafés and the Hong Kong identity
This article examines the meanings of caa caan teng (茶餐廳, local cafés) in Hong Kong and the implications of such cafés on the Hong Kong identity. It argues that the local café is a representation of Hong Kong culture because it reflects Hong Kong's political, economic, and social developmental paths and mirrors the everyday life of its people. I investigate how the interaction of different immigrant cultures in Hong Kong has resulted in the inven…
Political science (12 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · China (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · History (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works)