Isaac Iu
Biographic Data
| ID | 4389502 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Isaac Iu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Isaac |
| FAMILY NAME | Iu |
| SIGNATURE | IU I |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics Monash University Clayton VIC Australia |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-4195-9527 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Nationalism as Imperialism in Disguise
This Research Note responds to Yang's (2026) study of global citizenship and Chinese identity in Hong Kong by advancing three interrelated critiques. First, we argue that globalism and nationalism in Hong Kong are historically co‐constituted. Yang's interpretation places global citizenship, Chinese identity and Hong Kong identity within a global, national and subnational hierarchy without sufficiently examining the historical relationship among t…
Two Nationalisms, One City
This study analyses the contested collective memories of the 2019 Anti‐Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti‐ELAB) movement, investigating how the Hong Kong government and diaspora construct divergent narratives to shape national identity and nationalism. Employing a mixed‐methods approach that combines corpus linguistic techniques and qualitative discourse analysis, this research identifies the government's use of language to reinforce state‐cent…
Revolution of Our Times
This article examines how the slogan 光復香港, 時代革命 (Gwong fuk hoeng gong, si doi gaak ming, Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Times)—banned under Hong Kong's National Security Law (NSL)—has been resignified by diaspora communities in the UK, Australia and Canada. Drawing on Laclau's concept of empty signifiers and Guibernau's theory of nations without states, it argues that the slogan stabilizes a floating ‘Hongkonger’ identity and performs a st…
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Two Nationalisms, One City
This study analyses the contested collective memories of the 2019 Anti‐Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti‐ELAB) movement, investigating how the Hong Kong government and diaspora construct divergent narratives to shape national identity and nationalism. Employing a mixed‐methods approach that combines corpus linguistic techniques and qualitative discourse analysis, this research identifies the government's use of language to reinforce state‐cent…
Revolution of Our Times
This article examines how the slogan 光復香港, 時代革命 (Gwong fuk hoeng gong, si doi gaak ming, Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Times)—banned under Hong Kong's National Security Law (NSL)—has been resignified by diaspora communities in the UK, Australia and Canada. Drawing on Laclau's concept of empty signifiers and Guibernau's theory of nations without states, it argues that the slogan stabilizes a floating ‘Hongkonger’ identity and performs a st…
Nationalism as Imperialism in Disguise
This Research Note responds to Yang's (2026) study of global citizenship and Chinese identity in Hong Kong by advancing three interrelated critiques. First, we argue that globalism and nationalism in Hong Kong are historically co‐constituted. Yang's interpretation places global citizenship, Chinese identity and Hong Kong identity within a global, national and subnational hierarchy without sufficiently examining the historical relationship among t…
Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (3 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (2 works) · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations (1 work) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (1 work) · Chinese identity (1 work) · Chinese nationalism (1 work) · Global citizenship (1 work) · Globalism (1 work) · Glocalization (1 work) · Hong Kong (1 work)