T F Yu
Biographic Data
| ID | 41636 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T F Yu |
| GIVEN NAMES | T F |
| FAMILY NAME | Yu |
| SIGNATURE | YU T F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University Malaysia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5236-1893 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Perception of Ageing Among Rural Multi-ethnic Older Adults in Malaysia: A Qualitative Study
Housing racism against Indians in Malaysia's Klang Valley
The Sinophone as an Uneven Experience of Time and Place: Translocal Media Consumption in Chinese-Speaking Malaysia
Based on interviews and ethnographic engagement with Malaysian consumers of post-1990s Chinese-language popular media products (television, film, and music), this article argues that overseas Chinese identity formation may be as much a translocal as a transnational phenomenon. Specifically, it demonstrates how Chinese-speaking Malaysia has been unevenly affected by Sinophone media flows across generations and regions, resulting in divergent cultu…
Introduction: Mapping the music and video streaming landscape and its disruptions in Southeast Asia
Queer processes of Hong Kong as a global formation post-2019: LGBTIQ+ Hong Kong migrants and their experiences in Taiwan
Although Hong Kong has always been transnational and its overseas communities longstanding, the queer experiences of diasporic Hongkongers have rarely been explored. Through interview-based research, this article examines the experiences of LGBTIQ+ Hongkongers who migrated to Taiwan after the 2019-2020 Hong Kong protests, with the intention to accomplish three broader theoretical objectives. First, it introduces an intersectional approach to unde…
Against Dehumanisation: Interview on 'Vulnerable Minds: The Neuropolitics of Divided Societies' with Liya Yu
Vulnerable Minds: The Neuropolitics of Divided Societies, by Liya Yu, New York, Columbia University Press, 2022, pp. 304, $140.00 (hardcover), $35.00 (paperback), $34.99 (e-book).Dr Ting-Fai Yu, th
Factors Motivating Chinese Malaysian University Students’ Educational Mobility to Taiwan: State Racism, Historical Connections, and Sinophone Cultural Consumption
Based on a project on Chinese Malaysians’ educational mobility across the Chinese-speaking world, this paper highlights their reasons for attending university in Taiwan while examining their subjective formations as ethnic Chinese vis-à-vis transnational processes. Resulting from ethnographic and interview-based research conducted in 2019–2021, the findings demonstrate that the students’ choices for higher education are, to a great extent, cultur…
Queer Sinophone Malaysia: Language, Transnational Activism, and the Role of Taiwan
Unlike the queer formations resulting from racialised organising especially those in the Global North, this paper demonstrates the ways in which language, especially Chinese, is often a more functional identity marker than race or ethnicity in the community lives of LGBT Malaysians. This is evident in how queer advocacy groups are publicised as language-specific entities, calling themselves ‘Chinese-speaking’, ‘English-speaking’, or ‘Malay-speaki…
Spatialities of queer globalization: Middle- and working-class Hong Kong gay men’s subjective constructions of homophobia
This article formulates a class critique that fosters productive tensions between global queering discourses and a Chinese homophobic order affecting Hong Kong and other ethnic Chinese societies. Vis-à-vis middle- and working-class Hong Kong gay men’s subjective constructions of homophobia, the findings demonstrate that class was configured through different geographical referents of everyday queer struggle, namely the West and China, with which …
Queer migration across the Sinophone world: Queer Chinese Malaysian students' educational mobility to Taiwan
Drawing on a multi-sited ethnography of Chinese Malaysian students’ educational mobility, this article discusses the experiences, everyday practices and future aspirations of my queer informants who went to Taiwan for university and returned to Malaysia after graduation. Through examining their narratives, this article has three objectives. First, it demonstrates how tensions between my informants’ ethnic and sexual identities are reconfigured an…
Reconfiguring Queer Asia as Disjunctive Modernities: Notes on the Subjective Production of Working-Class Gay Men in Hong Kong
Informed by the framing of queer Asia as disjunctive modernities, this article argues for the analytic relevance of class to Hong Kong queer culture amid proliferating sexual progress. Based on ethnographic research concerning a support group for middle-aged, working-class gay men in a non-governmental organization (NGO), the findings demonstrate how their understanding and experiences of class were displaced into the culturally specific discours…
The Cosmopolitan Dream: Transnational Chinese Masculinities in a Global Age
Review of the book "The Cosmopolitan Dream: Transnational Chinese Masculinities in a Global Age" by Derek Hird and Geng Song
Class as a method to localise queer studies in Hong Kong
The Cosmopolitan Dream: Transnational Chinese Masculinities in a Global Age
Review of the book "The Cosmopolitan Dream: Transnational Chinese Masculinities in a Global Age" by Derek Hird and Geng Song
Queer migration across the Sinophone world: Queer Chinese Malaysian students' educational mobility to Taiwan
Drawing on a multi-sited ethnography of Chinese Malaysian students’ educational mobility, this article discusses the experiences, everyday practices and future aspirations of my queer informants who went to Taiwan for university and returned to Malaysia after graduation. Through examining their narratives, this article has three objectives. First, it demonstrates how tensions between my informants’ ethnic and sexual identities are reconfigured an…
Queer Sinophone Malaysia: Language, Transnational Activism, and the Role of Taiwan
Unlike the queer formations resulting from racialised organising especially those in the Global North, this paper demonstrates the ways in which language, especially Chinese, is often a more functional identity marker than race or ethnicity in the community lives of LGBT Malaysians. This is evident in how queer advocacy groups are publicised as language-specific entities, calling themselves ‘Chinese-speaking’, ‘English-speaking’, or ‘Malay-speaki…
Reconfiguring Queer Asia as Disjunctive Modernities: Notes on the Subjective Production of Working-Class Gay Men in Hong Kong
Informed by the framing of queer Asia as disjunctive modernities, this article argues for the analytic relevance of class to Hong Kong queer culture amid proliferating sexual progress. Based on ethnographic research concerning a support group for middle-aged, working-class gay men in a non-governmental organization (NGO), the findings demonstrate how their understanding and experiences of class were displaced into the culturally specific discours…
Class as a method to localise queer studies in Hong Kong
Class as a method to localise queer studies in Hong Kong
The Cosmopolitan Dream: Transnational Chinese Masculinities in a Global Age
Review of the book "The Cosmopolitan Dream: Transnational Chinese Masculinities in a Global Age" by Derek Hird and Geng Song
Reconfiguring Queer Asia as Disjunctive Modernities: Notes on the Subjective Production of Working-Class Gay Men in Hong Kong
Informed by the framing of queer Asia as disjunctive modernities, this article argues for the analytic relevance of class to Hong Kong queer culture amid proliferating sexual progress. Based on ethnographic research concerning a support group for middle-aged, working-class gay men in a non-governmental organization (NGO), the findings demonstrate how their understanding and experiences of class were displaced into the culturally specific discours…
Spatialities of queer globalization: Middle- and working-class Hong Kong gay men’s subjective constructions of homophobia
This article formulates a class critique that fosters productive tensions between global queering discourses and a Chinese homophobic order affecting Hong Kong and other ethnic Chinese societies. Vis-à-vis middle- and working-class Hong Kong gay men’s subjective constructions of homophobia, the findings demonstrate that class was configured through different geographical referents of everyday queer struggle, namely the West and China, with which …
Queer migration across the Sinophone world: Queer Chinese Malaysian students' educational mobility to Taiwan
Drawing on a multi-sited ethnography of Chinese Malaysian students’ educational mobility, this article discusses the experiences, everyday practices and future aspirations of my queer informants who went to Taiwan for university and returned to Malaysia after graduation. Through examining their narratives, this article has three objectives. First, it demonstrates how tensions between my informants’ ethnic and sexual identities are reconfigured an…
Factors Motivating Chinese Malaysian University Students’ Educational Mobility to Taiwan: State Racism, Historical Connections, and Sinophone Cultural Consumption
Based on a project on Chinese Malaysians’ educational mobility across the Chinese-speaking world, this paper highlights their reasons for attending university in Taiwan while examining their subjective formations as ethnic Chinese vis-à-vis transnational processes. Resulting from ethnographic and interview-based research conducted in 2019–2021, the findings demonstrate that the students’ choices for higher education are, to a great extent, cultur…
Queer Sinophone Malaysia: Language, Transnational Activism, and the Role of Taiwan
Unlike the queer formations resulting from racialised organising especially those in the Global North, this paper demonstrates the ways in which language, especially Chinese, is often a more functional identity marker than race or ethnicity in the community lives of LGBT Malaysians. This is evident in how queer advocacy groups are publicised as language-specific entities, calling themselves ‘Chinese-speaking’, ‘English-speaking’, or ‘Malay-speaki…
The Sinophone as an Uneven Experience of Time and Place: Translocal Media Consumption in Chinese-Speaking Malaysia
Based on interviews and ethnographic engagement with Malaysian consumers of post-1990s Chinese-language popular media products (television, film, and music), this article argues that overseas Chinese identity formation may be as much a translocal as a transnational phenomenon. Specifically, it demonstrates how Chinese-speaking Malaysia has been unevenly affected by Sinophone media flows across generations and regions, resulting in divergent cultu…
Introduction: Mapping the music and video streaming landscape and its disruptions in Southeast Asia
Queer processes of Hong Kong as a global formation post-2019: LGBTIQ+ Hong Kong migrants and their experiences in Taiwan
Although Hong Kong has always been transnational and its overseas communities longstanding, the queer experiences of diasporic Hongkongers have rarely been explored. Through interview-based research, this article examines the experiences of LGBTIQ+ Hongkongers who migrated to Taiwan after the 2019-2020 Hong Kong protests, with the intention to accomplish three broader theoretical objectives. First, it introduces an intersectional approach to unde…
Against Dehumanisation: Interview on 'Vulnerable Minds: The Neuropolitics of Divided Societies' with Liya Yu
Vulnerable Minds: The Neuropolitics of Divided Societies, by Liya Yu, New York, Columbia University Press, 2022, pp. 304, $140.00 (hardcover), $35.00 (paperback), $34.99 (e-book).Dr Ting-Fai Yu, th
Perception of Ageing Among Rural Multi-ethnic Older Adults in Malaysia: A Qualitative Study
Housing racism against Indians in Malaysia's Klang Valley
Sociology (11 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Ethnic group (6 works) · Queer (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (5 works) · Art (4 works)