Jiange Deng
Biographic Data
| ID | 4104467 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jiange Deng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jiange |
| FAMILY NAME | Deng |
| SIGNATURE | DENG J |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7286-6223 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
I beat a Thai: Performing white masculinity in Thailand’s Muay Thai fighting tourism
The rise of Muay Thai combines recent revivals of the traditional man body with the search for Oriental authenticity. This study draws on a year of ethnography as an Asian boxer to analyse the intersection of race and masculinity in Muay Thai fighting travels, an activity where global travellers, mostly white men, fought Muay Thai in Thailand, often against Thai opponents. It focuses on travellers’ bodily performances of fear, pain and joy in the…
Legitimation or Hegemony? The Chinese Government’s Changing Discursive Approach to Hong Kong
State discourse in China is often less about generating belief than it is about reproducing the political leadership’s symbolic hegemony over normative truth claims. This study analyzes hegemony-making discourse as a system of intertextual conventions characterized by the public’s lack of belief in the discursive contents, discursive securitization, and sycophantic citations that produce a language game between leaders and their subordinates. Thi…
The construction of Hong Kong’s “one country, two systems” in China Daily: A corpus assisted critical discourse analysis
One country, two systems” (OCTS) is the constitutional principle that established Hong Kong’s high degree of autonomy after the city’s handover from Britain to China in 1997. This study conducts the first systemic, diachronic analysis of the discursive construction of OCTS in Chinese news media, focusing on Beijing’s mouthpiece and public diplomacy newspaper, China Daily. After reviewing the tripartite representation of the principle in the liter…
Beyond self-Orientalism: Asian masculine landscapes in Chinese and Thai martial arts tourism
Martial arts tourism is a burgeoning form of tourism typified by Western ‘martial arts pilgrims’ travelling to Asian ‘martial arts cradles’ for leisure-based learning, training and spectatorship. Despite its growing economic and cultural significance, research on martial arts tourism as a sociocultural practice is scant. This study argues that the intrinsic relationship of martial arts to masculinities and Asian-ness offers the opportunity to stu…
Beyond self-Orientalism: Asian masculine landscapes in Chinese and Thai martial arts tourism
Martial arts tourism is a burgeoning form of tourism typified by Western ‘martial arts pilgrims’ travelling to Asian ‘martial arts cradles’ for leisure-based learning, training and spectatorship. Despite its growing economic and cultural significance, research on martial arts tourism as a sociocultural practice is scant. This study argues that the intrinsic relationship of martial arts to masculinities and Asian-ness offers the opportunity to stu…
Beyond self-Orientalism: Asian masculine landscapes in Chinese and Thai martial arts tourism
Martial arts tourism is a burgeoning form of tourism typified by Western ‘martial arts pilgrims’ travelling to Asian ‘martial arts cradles’ for leisure-based learning, training and spectatorship. Despite its growing economic and cultural significance, research on martial arts tourism as a sociocultural practice is scant. This study argues that the intrinsic relationship of martial arts to masculinities and Asian-ness offers the opportunity to stu…
The construction of Hong Kong’s “one country, two systems” in China Daily: A corpus assisted critical discourse analysis
One country, two systems” (OCTS) is the constitutional principle that established Hong Kong’s high degree of autonomy after the city’s handover from Britain to China in 1997. This study conducts the first systemic, diachronic analysis of the discursive construction of OCTS in Chinese news media, focusing on Beijing’s mouthpiece and public diplomacy newspaper, China Daily. After reviewing the tripartite representation of the principle in the liter…
Legitimation or Hegemony? The Chinese Government’s Changing Discursive Approach to Hong Kong
State discourse in China is often less about generating belief than it is about reproducing the political leadership’s symbolic hegemony over normative truth claims. This study analyzes hegemony-making discourse as a system of intertextual conventions characterized by the public’s lack of belief in the discursive contents, discursive securitization, and sycophantic citations that produce a language game between leaders and their subordinates. Thi…
I beat a Thai: Performing white masculinity in Thailand’s Muay Thai fighting tourism
The rise of Muay Thai combines recent revivals of the traditional man body with the search for Oriental authenticity. This study draws on a year of ethnography as an Asian boxer to analyse the intersection of race and masculinity in Muay Thai fighting travels, an activity where global travellers, mostly white men, fought Muay Thai in Thailand, often against Thai opponents. It focuses on travellers’ bodily performances of fear, pain and joy in the…
Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Art (2 works) · China (2 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (2 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (2 works) · Law (2 works)