Iam-Chong Ip
Biographic Data
| ID | 3693051 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Iam-Chong Ip |
| GIVEN NAMES | Iam-Chong |
| FAMILY NAME | Ip |
| SIGNATURE | IP I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lingnan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Resisting political traditionalism: A rejoinder to Ho
In her provocative essay ‘Connection at the Price of Collusion’, Sik-ying Ho argues that my works show ‘empathy’ towards right-wing nativism in Hong Kong by exonerating it from any political responsibilities. She further gives me the name of ‘Left in form, Right in essence’ and asserts that I suffer from ‘Left Melancholy’, in Wendy Brown term. However, I find Ho’s readings not founded on much evidence and arguments and begging the question. Rathe…
After mobilization: Youth, political engagement, and online performance in Hong Kong
My research addresses how social actors “act upon” social change by generating self-interpretation and representation of social life on the one hand and control over values and cultural orientations against the authorities on the other. While the existing literature on social movements overemphasizes the moments of mobilization, this article examines the intersections of social activism, online curative practices, and their everyday life. For thi…
Two logics of Chinese transnationalism: The case of gangpiao and Hong Kong
Chinese migrations and the development of overseas Chinese communities have aroused scholarly concerns over the past two decades. Their scale, scope and varied features stun and perplex many scholars. Among the linguistic terms about contemporary Chinese transnationalism, the term piao (drifting) rises to prominence and characterizes the new logics of migration. This article is a case study of the educated mainland Chinese youth in Hong Kong, loc…
Hong Kong’s New Identity Politics: Longing for the Local in the Shadow of China
Ip uses Hong Kong as a case study in how the production of the desire for "the local" lies at the heart of global cultural economy. Perhaps more so than most places, the construction of a local identity in Hong Kong has come about through a complex interplay of neoliberalism, postcoloniality and reaction to the consequent anxieties and uncertainties. As its importance as an economic centre has diminished and its relationship with Mainland China h…
Political de-institutionalization and the rise of right-wing nativism 1
This chapter is about the new surge of right-wing nativism, public sentiment, political agitation and campaigns against China. The activists’ yearning for their homeland largely comes from frustration over the increasingly blurred distinction with their “intimate other” and the anguish about the “death” of Hong Kong, a city overwhelmed by the fear of China. Most interpret it as an immediate response to a wide variety of “China factors”, such as B…
State, Class and Capital: Gentrification and New Urban Developmentalism in Hong Kong
Drawing on a recent wave of scholarship on urban development in East Asia, this article offers a critical account of the twists and turns of Hong Kong's urban development by focusing on class recomposition, state strategies and their relationships with the city's changing position in its regional political economy. To do so, it examines how the middle class and their housing and investment demand have begun to lose their significance as a driver …
Negotiating Educated Subjectivity: Intern Labour and Higher Education in Hong Kong
This article examines interns’ negotiation of their work identity, with a focus on the nexus of transformations in higher education and the “new” capitalist economy. The existing literature on internships emphasizes the restructuring of employment in creative and cultural industries, the surplus cultural labour supply, and the impact of internships on the career paths of educated youth mostly in western countries. Based on interviews and particip…
Politics of belonging: A study of the campaign against mainland visitors in Hong Kong
My research question focuses on the new surge of right-wing nativism, especially the anti-mainland visitors campaign, in Hong Kong. The recent hostility towards “China,” unprecedented in its scope, degree and complexity, arose when China departed from a poor socialist country to become a global capitalist power. Hong Kong's closer economic ties to China accompanied with the mainland Chinese visitors’ wealth, shopping activities, mobility and even…
Hong Kong's Democratic Movement and the Making of China's Offshore Civil Society
Hong Kong's civil society has remained vibrant since the sovereignty handover in 1997, thanks to an active defense by the democratic movement against Beijing's attempts to control civil liberties. Hong Kong is becoming mainland China's offshore civil society, serving as a free platform for information circulation and organizing among mainland activists and intellectuals
Negotiating Culture, Economics and Community Politics: The Practice of Lei Yue Mun Tourism in Postcolonial Hong Kong
This article is based on an on-going research project that examines how tourism is constructed in Hong Kong by using the specific tourist spot, Lei Yue Mun, as a case study. The article's aim is to demonstrate how the local agents of a small, squatter-based community with a distinctive history and cultural traditions may, without making any claim to indigenousness or aboriginality, manage a local economy and engage in cultural negotiation at the …
Politics of belonging: A study of the campaign against mainland visitors in Hong Kong
My research question focuses on the new surge of right-wing nativism, especially the anti-mainland visitors campaign, in Hong Kong. The recent hostility towards “China,” unprecedented in its scope, degree and complexity, arose when China departed from a poor socialist country to become a global capitalist power. Hong Kong's closer economic ties to China accompanied with the mainland Chinese visitors’ wealth, shopping activities, mobility and even…
Hong Kong's Democratic Movement and the Making of China's Offshore Civil Society
Hong Kong's civil society has remained vibrant since the sovereignty handover in 1997, thanks to an active defense by the democratic movement against Beijing's attempts to control civil liberties. Hong Kong is becoming mainland China's offshore civil society, serving as a free platform for information circulation and organizing among mainland activists and intellectuals
State, Class and Capital: Gentrification and New Urban Developmentalism in Hong Kong
Drawing on a recent wave of scholarship on urban development in East Asia, this article offers a critical account of the twists and turns of Hong Kong's urban development by focusing on class recomposition, state strategies and their relationships with the city's changing position in its regional political economy. To do so, it examines how the middle class and their housing and investment demand have begun to lose their significance as a driver …
Negotiating Culture, Economics and Community Politics: The Practice of Lei Yue Mun Tourism in Postcolonial Hong Kong
This article is based on an on-going research project that examines how tourism is constructed in Hong Kong by using the specific tourist spot, Lei Yue Mun, as a case study. The article's aim is to demonstrate how the local agents of a small, squatter-based community with a distinctive history and cultural traditions may, without making any claim to indigenousness or aboriginality, manage a local economy and engage in cultural negotiation at the …
Hong Kong's Democratic Movement and the Making of China's Offshore Civil Society
Hong Kong's civil society has remained vibrant since the sovereignty handover in 1997, thanks to an active defense by the democratic movement against Beijing's attempts to control civil liberties. Hong Kong is becoming mainland China's offshore civil society, serving as a free platform for information circulation and organizing among mainland activists and intellectuals
Negotiating Educated Subjectivity: Intern Labour and Higher Education in Hong Kong
This article examines interns’ negotiation of their work identity, with a focus on the nexus of transformations in higher education and the “new” capitalist economy. The existing literature on internships emphasizes the restructuring of employment in creative and cultural industries, the surplus cultural labour supply, and the impact of internships on the career paths of educated youth mostly in western countries. Based on interviews and particip…
Politics of belonging: A study of the campaign against mainland visitors in Hong Kong
My research question focuses on the new surge of right-wing nativism, especially the anti-mainland visitors campaign, in Hong Kong. The recent hostility towards “China,” unprecedented in its scope, degree and complexity, arose when China departed from a poor socialist country to become a global capitalist power. Hong Kong's closer economic ties to China accompanied with the mainland Chinese visitors’ wealth, shopping activities, mobility and even…
Political de-institutionalization and the rise of right-wing nativism 1
This chapter is about the new surge of right-wing nativism, public sentiment, political agitation and campaigns against China. The activists’ yearning for their homeland largely comes from frustration over the increasingly blurred distinction with their “intimate other” and the anguish about the “death” of Hong Kong, a city overwhelmed by the fear of China. Most interpret it as an immediate response to a wide variety of “China factors”, such as B…
State, Class and Capital: Gentrification and New Urban Developmentalism in Hong Kong
Drawing on a recent wave of scholarship on urban development in East Asia, this article offers a critical account of the twists and turns of Hong Kong's urban development by focusing on class recomposition, state strategies and their relationships with the city's changing position in its regional political economy. To do so, it examines how the middle class and their housing and investment demand have begun to lose their significance as a driver …
Hong Kong’s New Identity Politics: Longing for the Local in the Shadow of China
Ip uses Hong Kong as a case study in how the production of the desire for "the local" lies at the heart of global cultural economy. Perhaps more so than most places, the construction of a local identity in Hong Kong has come about through a complex interplay of neoliberalism, postcoloniality and reaction to the consequent anxieties and uncertainties. As its importance as an economic centre has diminished and its relationship with Mainland China h…
After mobilization: Youth, political engagement, and online performance in Hong Kong
My research addresses how social actors “act upon” social change by generating self-interpretation and representation of social life on the one hand and control over values and cultural orientations against the authorities on the other. While the existing literature on social movements overemphasizes the moments of mobilization, this article examines the intersections of social activism, online curative practices, and their everyday life. For thi…
Two logics of Chinese transnationalism: The case of gangpiao and Hong Kong
Chinese migrations and the development of overseas Chinese communities have aroused scholarly concerns over the past two decades. Their scale, scope and varied features stun and perplex many scholars. Among the linguistic terms about contemporary Chinese transnationalism, the term piao (drifting) rises to prominence and characterizes the new logics of migration. This article is a case study of the educated mainland Chinese youth in Hong Kong, loc…
Resisting political traditionalism: A rejoinder to Ho
In her provocative essay ‘Connection at the Price of Collusion’, Sik-ying Ho argues that my works show ‘empathy’ towards right-wing nativism in Hong Kong by exonerating it from any political responsibilities. She further gives me the name of ‘Left in form, Right in essence’ and asserts that I suffer from ‘Left Melancholy’, in Wendy Brown term. However, I find Ho’s readings not founded on much evidence and arguments and begging the question. Rathe…
Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (6 works) · China (4 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)