Chun Wing Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 4151806 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chun Wing Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chun Wing |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE C W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5951-6314 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Qatar’s soft power v. sportswashing allegations: Perspectives of Chinese football fans during the 2022 men’s football World Cup
Nationalism or cosmopolitanism? How Chinese football fans viewed the Japanese team and Japanese fans during the 2022 Men’s World Cup
This study focuses on Chinese football fans' reactions to the Japanese national team and their fans' behaviour during the World Cup 2022. Despite the historical and contemporary problems that make friendly relations with Japan difficult to achieve, football fans in China largely welcomed the good performance of the Japanese national team. This attitude may be described as 'thin cosmopolitanism' because Chinese fans' major frame of reference was s…
Transnational football fandom in Hong Kong: Attitudes towards commercialization and local supporters
Although Asia is an important market for elite European men’s professional football clubs, scholarly attention about transnational supporters from Asia is limited. Based on qualitative interviews and an online survey with Hong Kong-based fans of European clubs, this study shows that the research participants do not regard themselves as less authentic supporters than local fans. However, a hierarchy of fans exists in their imagination since they r…
How do Hong Kong fans choose their favourite overseas football club? Origins of transnational fandom in late modernity
Despite the importance of transnational fans to the globalisation of European football, there have not been many studies that aim to understand why they support specific overseas clubs. On the basis of qualitative interviews with transnational fans in Hong Kong and supplemented by findings from an online fan survey, I argue that most of them lack genuine choices when choosing their favourite overseas clubs. Even when all English Premier League ma…
Decline of Men’s Professional Football in Hong Kong: Global and Local Factors
Once probably the top men’s football league in Asia, Hong Kong’s domestic football has experienced considerable decline in public interest in recent decades. This paper is the first scholarly attempt to explain the decline in the popularity of Hong Kong’s men’s professional football. Through online surveys and in-depth interviews, this research contends that globalisation, in the form of increased exposure to European football in Hong Kong, is a …
Watching the Fifa World Cup under cosmopolitanisation: How football fans in Hong Kong followed the 2018 World Cup
Few scholarly studies have attempted to explain the global appeal of the FIFA World Cup, one of the most popular sporting mega-events in the world. Based on an online survey and more than 50 qualitative interviews, this study shows that Hong Kong football fans followed the 2018 World Cup in three main ways. Some supported one of the 32 national teams that qualified for the finals; some were interested in the World Cup because of their favourite E…
Defending local culture through the global game in Southern China: Guangzhou Football Club fan culture
Chinese fans of domestic sports clubs have received scant scholarly attention. This study addresses this literature gap by exploring the fan culture associated with supporters of Guangzhou Football Club (Guangzhou FC). For local Guangzhou FC fans, collectively rooting for the team offers a way to defend their local culture as represented by the Cantonese language. Besides describing the features and evolution of Guangzhou FC fan culture as the te…
PRC v. Hong Kong: Politics and identity from the Cold War years to the twenty-first century
The two 2018 World Cup qualifiers between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Hong Kong were played out under a politically charged backdrop. Although the politicized atmosphere of these two matches was unprecedented, previous matches between the two teams did trigger two small scale riots, once in Hong Kong in 1980, and once in Beijing in 1985. This essay suggests that, since the PRC and Hong Kong first met in 1975, there have been three di…
Labor and Class Identities in Hong Kong: Class Processes in a Neoliberal Global City
Asia has been the new focus of global social sciences. One of the key features for the rise of Asia is the creation of the largest industrial workforce in human history. China, India, and many other newly industrialized countries in Asia have been transformed as "world factories" for global capitalism in the past four decades. This development involves both extensive and intensive migration of labor across Asia. Massive populations in the Asian c…
Can Hong Kong Chinese football players represent their ‘Fatherland’? The Cold War, Fifa and the 1966 Asian Games
During the Cold War years, both the Chinese regimes in Beijing (PRC) and Taipei (ROC) claimed to be the sole representative of the Chinese nation, thus giving rise to a battle over which regime should be recognized by the international sporting community. The issue of recognition, however, was not the only source of contention among supporters of the two regimes during the Cold War years. This paper documents how pro-PRC forces and members of the…
From shamateurism to pioneer of Asia’s professional football: The introduction of professional football in Hong Kong
Football in early post-war Hong Kong was rife with shamateurism. Since getting rid of under-the-table payments was all but impossible, in the mid-1950s there began to appear suggestions to introduce professional football into Hong Kong. But at the time, the unique situation of Hong Kong football meant that neither the clubs nor the top players supported legalizing professional football. The status quo was finally shaken by a bitter feud between t…
Collective Identity, Individual Identity and Social Movements: The Right-of-Abode Seekers in Hong Kong
This article focuses on the right of abode movement that emerged in Hong Kong soon after the 1997 handover to China. Collective action was taken by thousands of mainland-born people with Hong Kong parents to fight for the right of abode in Hong Kong. The political and legal implications of the right-of-abode issue had been widely examined in the media and academic world. This article offers another angle to the issue by exploring why mainland-bor…
From shamateurism to pioneer of Asia’s professional football: The introduction of professional football in Hong Kong
Football in early post-war Hong Kong was rife with shamateurism. Since getting rid of under-the-table payments was all but impossible, in the mid-1950s there began to appear suggestions to introduce professional football into Hong Kong. But at the time, the unique situation of Hong Kong football meant that neither the clubs nor the top players supported legalizing professional football. The status quo was finally shaken by a bitter feud between t…
PRC v. Hong Kong: Politics and identity from the Cold War years to the twenty-first century
The two 2018 World Cup qualifiers between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Hong Kong were played out under a politically charged backdrop. Although the politicized atmosphere of these two matches was unprecedented, previous matches between the two teams did trigger two small scale riots, once in Hong Kong in 1980, and once in Beijing in 1985. This essay suggests that, since the PRC and Hong Kong first met in 1975, there have been three di…
How do Hong Kong fans choose their favourite overseas football club? Origins of transnational fandom in late modernity
Despite the importance of transnational fans to the globalisation of European football, there have not been many studies that aim to understand why they support specific overseas clubs. On the basis of qualitative interviews with transnational fans in Hong Kong and supplemented by findings from an online fan survey, I argue that most of them lack genuine choices when choosing their favourite overseas clubs. Even when all English Premier League ma…
Watching the Fifa World Cup under cosmopolitanisation: How football fans in Hong Kong followed the 2018 World Cup
Few scholarly studies have attempted to explain the global appeal of the FIFA World Cup, one of the most popular sporting mega-events in the world. Based on an online survey and more than 50 qualitative interviews, this study shows that Hong Kong football fans followed the 2018 World Cup in three main ways. Some supported one of the 32 national teams that qualified for the finals; some were interested in the World Cup because of their favourite E…
Defending local culture through the global game in Southern China: Guangzhou Football Club fan culture
Chinese fans of domestic sports clubs have received scant scholarly attention. This study addresses this literature gap by exploring the fan culture associated with supporters of Guangzhou Football Club (Guangzhou FC). For local Guangzhou FC fans, collectively rooting for the team offers a way to defend their local culture as represented by the Cantonese language. Besides describing the features and evolution of Guangzhou FC fan culture as the te…
Collective Identity, Individual Identity and Social Movements: The Right-of-Abode Seekers in Hong Kong
This article focuses on the right of abode movement that emerged in Hong Kong soon after the 1997 handover to China. Collective action was taken by thousands of mainland-born people with Hong Kong parents to fight for the right of abode in Hong Kong. The political and legal implications of the right-of-abode issue had been widely examined in the media and academic world. This article offers another angle to the issue by exploring why mainland-bor…
Collective Identity, Individual Identity and Social Movements: The Right-of-Abode Seekers in Hong Kong
This article focuses on the right of abode movement that emerged in Hong Kong soon after the 1997 handover to China. Collective action was taken by thousands of mainland-born people with Hong Kong parents to fight for the right of abode in Hong Kong. The political and legal implications of the right-of-abode issue had been widely examined in the media and academic world. This article offers another angle to the issue by exploring why mainland-bor…
From shamateurism to pioneer of Asia’s professional football: The introduction of professional football in Hong Kong
Football in early post-war Hong Kong was rife with shamateurism. Since getting rid of under-the-table payments was all but impossible, in the mid-1950s there began to appear suggestions to introduce professional football into Hong Kong. But at the time, the unique situation of Hong Kong football meant that neither the clubs nor the top players supported legalizing professional football. The status quo was finally shaken by a bitter feud between t…
Labor and Class Identities in Hong Kong: Class Processes in a Neoliberal Global City
Asia has been the new focus of global social sciences. One of the key features for the rise of Asia is the creation of the largest industrial workforce in human history. China, India, and many other newly industrialized countries in Asia have been transformed as "world factories" for global capitalism in the past four decades. This development involves both extensive and intensive migration of labor across Asia. Massive populations in the Asian c…
Can Hong Kong Chinese football players represent their ‘Fatherland’? The Cold War, Fifa and the 1966 Asian Games
During the Cold War years, both the Chinese regimes in Beijing (PRC) and Taipei (ROC) claimed to be the sole representative of the Chinese nation, thus giving rise to a battle over which regime should be recognized by the international sporting community. The issue of recognition, however, was not the only source of contention among supporters of the two regimes during the Cold War years. This paper documents how pro-PRC forces and members of the…
PRC v. Hong Kong: Politics and identity from the Cold War years to the twenty-first century
The two 2018 World Cup qualifiers between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Hong Kong were played out under a politically charged backdrop. Although the politicized atmosphere of these two matches was unprecedented, previous matches between the two teams did trigger two small scale riots, once in Hong Kong in 1980, and once in Beijing in 1985. This essay suggests that, since the PRC and Hong Kong first met in 1975, there have been three di…
Defending local culture through the global game in Southern China: Guangzhou Football Club fan culture
Chinese fans of domestic sports clubs have received scant scholarly attention. This study addresses this literature gap by exploring the fan culture associated with supporters of Guangzhou Football Club (Guangzhou FC). For local Guangzhou FC fans, collectively rooting for the team offers a way to defend their local culture as represented by the Cantonese language. Besides describing the features and evolution of Guangzhou FC fan culture as the te…
Decline of Men’s Professional Football in Hong Kong: Global and Local Factors
Once probably the top men’s football league in Asia, Hong Kong’s domestic football has experienced considerable decline in public interest in recent decades. This paper is the first scholarly attempt to explain the decline in the popularity of Hong Kong’s men’s professional football. Through online surveys and in-depth interviews, this research contends that globalisation, in the form of increased exposure to European football in Hong Kong, is a …
Watching the Fifa World Cup under cosmopolitanisation: How football fans in Hong Kong followed the 2018 World Cup
Few scholarly studies have attempted to explain the global appeal of the FIFA World Cup, one of the most popular sporting mega-events in the world. Based on an online survey and more than 50 qualitative interviews, this study shows that Hong Kong football fans followed the 2018 World Cup in three main ways. Some supported one of the 32 national teams that qualified for the finals; some were interested in the World Cup because of their favourite E…
Transnational football fandom in Hong Kong: Attitudes towards commercialization and local supporters
Although Asia is an important market for elite European men’s professional football clubs, scholarly attention about transnational supporters from Asia is limited. Based on qualitative interviews and an online survey with Hong Kong-based fans of European clubs, this study shows that the research participants do not regard themselves as less authentic supporters than local fans. However, a hierarchy of fans exists in their imagination since they r…
How do Hong Kong fans choose their favourite overseas football club? Origins of transnational fandom in late modernity
Despite the importance of transnational fans to the globalisation of European football, there have not been many studies that aim to understand why they support specific overseas clubs. On the basis of qualitative interviews with transnational fans in Hong Kong and supplemented by findings from an online fan survey, I argue that most of them lack genuine choices when choosing their favourite overseas clubs. Even when all English Premier League ma…
Nationalism or cosmopolitanism? How Chinese football fans viewed the Japanese team and Japanese fans during the 2022 Men’s World Cup
This study focuses on Chinese football fans' reactions to the Japanese national team and their fans' behaviour during the World Cup 2022. Despite the historical and contemporary problems that make friendly relations with Japan difficult to achieve, football fans in China largely welcomed the good performance of the Japanese national team. This attitude may be described as 'thin cosmopolitanism' because Chinese fans' major frame of reference was s…
Qatar’s soft power v. sportswashing allegations: Perspectives of Chinese football fans during the 2022 men’s football World Cup
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