Wessie Ling
Biographic Data
| ID | 3857936 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wessie Ling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wessie |
| FAMILY NAME | Ling |
| SIGNATURE | LING W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Twitter (United States) |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7674-2404 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Visual Diplomacy
The Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti- ELAB ) movement in Hong Kong in 2019 marked a turning point in the global visibility of protest politics. Among its most innovative visual communication strategies was a crowdfunded, globally coordinated campaign of newspaper advertising. These advertisements illustrate that non-state actors can engage in a form of ‘visual diplomacy’. This article examines the Anti- ELAB advertising campaign within t…
Taiwan in Italy
This article interrogates the strategic engagement of Taiwanese designers with the Italian fashion system, framing Italy as a site of cultural validation, professional legitimacy, and access to the global creative economy. Drawing on twelve narrative interviews and multi-sited ethnography, the study argues that Taiwanese designers in Italy mediate between local histories and global industries, Taiwan’s pluralistic cultural resources and European …
Global China
China’s influence in global capitalism has increasingly become prevalent, exceeding the limit of studies about China. The project entitled Global China has already blossomed in several areas, ranging from the global expansion of Alibaba (Shen 2021) to China–Africa relations (Lee 2017) to China’s regional ambitions, economic development, and critical technology (Chhabra et al. 2021). In fact, in the latter regard, China is no longer considered a r…
Conceptualizing Made in China for a Museum Exhibition
The Wereldmuseum Rotterdam is planning to hold an exhibition on China in 2023 in which fashion and design are one of the exhibiting categories. In preparation for the event, the museum is proposing to use the cliché Made in China as a provocative title for the exhibition. A workshop with the museum curators was held in 2021 to question the materiality central to the stereotypes associated with the proposed phrase to inform the curatorial directio…
Fashion-making and co-creation in the transglobal landscape
The ‘making’ of fashion cannot merely refer to garment production and manufacturing. It is the prerequisite for a nation to actively participate on the global stage. To establish a ‘recognisable’ fashion image, a country must go far beyond the competition of a specialised garment and textile industry. Being recognised as the ‘author countries’ for fashion creation is part of a process in which the (re)negotiation of national hierarchies and roles…
Italianerie
Questo numero speciale di Modern Italy contiene sette saggi di studiosi internazionali sui rapporti tra l'Italia e l'Asia. L'attenzione primaria è sulla transculturalità, la co-creazione, il fascino e la reinvenzione dell'Italia in Asia (o dell'Asia in Italia) in settori e campi nodali quali l'architettura, il cinema, la letteratura, la moda, la comunicazione digitale, la storia e la geografia
Fashion in Multiple Chinas
Much has been written about the transformation of China from being a clothing-manufacturing site to a fast-rate fashion consuming society. Less, however, has been written on the process of making Chinese fashion. The expert contributors to Fashion in Multiple Chinas explore how the many Chinese fashions operate across the widespread, fragmented and diffused, Chinese diaspora. They confront the idea of Chinese nationalism as `one nation', as well …
From "Made in Hong Kong" to "Designed in Hong Kong
Homegrown fashion has long been struggling to set foot in the home market, as much as Hong Kong's shoppers pioneer global brands and Euro-American labels. Until recently, G.O.D., a homegrown brand, had captured a commercially viable home market with a distinctively Hong Kong style. This furniture-household goods-clothing store stocks East-West hybrid merchandise, ranging from dark wood chairs to bed linen, to t-shirts and tote bags. Its clothing …
Global China
China’s influence in global capitalism has increasingly become prevalent, exceeding the limit of studies about China. The project entitled Global China has already blossomed in several areas, ranging from the global expansion of Alibaba (Shen 2021) to China–Africa relations (Lee 2017) to China’s regional ambitions, economic development, and critical technology (Chhabra et al. 2021). In fact, in the latter regard, China is no longer considered a r…
From "Made in Hong Kong" to "Designed in Hong Kong
Homegrown fashion has long been struggling to set foot in the home market, as much as Hong Kong's shoppers pioneer global brands and Euro-American labels. Until recently, G.O.D., a homegrown brand, had captured a commercially viable home market with a distinctively Hong Kong style. This furniture-household goods-clothing store stocks East-West hybrid merchandise, ranging from dark wood chairs to bed linen, to t-shirts and tote bags. Its clothing …
From "Made in Hong Kong" to "Designed in Hong Kong
Homegrown fashion has long been struggling to set foot in the home market, as much as Hong Kong's shoppers pioneer global brands and Euro-American labels. Until recently, G.O.D., a homegrown brand, had captured a commercially viable home market with a distinctively Hong Kong style. This furniture-household goods-clothing store stocks East-West hybrid merchandise, ranging from dark wood chairs to bed linen, to t-shirts and tote bags. Its clothing …
Fashion in Multiple Chinas
Much has been written about the transformation of China from being a clothing-manufacturing site to a fast-rate fashion consuming society. Less, however, has been written on the process of making Chinese fashion. The expert contributors to Fashion in Multiple Chinas explore how the many Chinese fashions operate across the widespread, fragmented and diffused, Chinese diaspora. They confront the idea of Chinese nationalism as `one nation', as well …
Fashion-making and co-creation in the transglobal landscape
The ‘making’ of fashion cannot merely refer to garment production and manufacturing. It is the prerequisite for a nation to actively participate on the global stage. To establish a ‘recognisable’ fashion image, a country must go far beyond the competition of a specialised garment and textile industry. Being recognised as the ‘author countries’ for fashion creation is part of a process in which the (re)negotiation of national hierarchies and roles…
Italianerie
Questo numero speciale di Modern Italy contiene sette saggi di studiosi internazionali sui rapporti tra l'Italia e l'Asia. L'attenzione primaria è sulla transculturalità, la co-creazione, il fascino e la reinvenzione dell'Italia in Asia (o dell'Asia in Italia) in settori e campi nodali quali l'architettura, il cinema, la letteratura, la moda, la comunicazione digitale, la storia e la geografia
Global China
China’s influence in global capitalism has increasingly become prevalent, exceeding the limit of studies about China. The project entitled Global China has already blossomed in several areas, ranging from the global expansion of Alibaba (Shen 2021) to China–Africa relations (Lee 2017) to China’s regional ambitions, economic development, and critical technology (Chhabra et al. 2021). In fact, in the latter regard, China is no longer considered a r…
Conceptualizing Made in China for a Museum Exhibition
The Wereldmuseum Rotterdam is planning to hold an exhibition on China in 2023 in which fashion and design are one of the exhibiting categories. In preparation for the event, the museum is proposing to use the cliché Made in China as a provocative title for the exhibition. A workshop with the museum curators was held in 2021 to question the materiality central to the stereotypes associated with the proposed phrase to inform the curatorial directio…
Visual Diplomacy
The Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti- ELAB ) movement in Hong Kong in 2019 marked a turning point in the global visibility of protest politics. Among its most innovative visual communication strategies was a crowdfunded, globally coordinated campaign of newspaper advertising. These advertisements illustrate that non-state actors can engage in a form of ‘visual diplomacy’. This article examines the Anti- ELAB advertising campaign within t…
Taiwan in Italy
This article interrogates the strategic engagement of Taiwanese designers with the Italian fashion system, framing Italy as a site of cultural validation, professional legitimacy, and access to the global creative economy. Drawing on twelve narrative interviews and multi-sited ethnography, the study argues that Taiwanese designers in Italy mediate between local histories and global industries, Taiwan’s pluralistic cultural resources and European …
Art (5 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · China (4 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Clothing (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Law (3 works)