Ming‐yan Lai
Biographic Data
| ID | 4791955 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ming‐yan Lai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ming‐yan |
| FAMILY NAME | Lai |
| SIGNATURE | LAI M Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The present of forgetting
Against current privileging of diasporic identity as the (trans)migrants’ challenge to the normativity of national identity and belonging, this paper considers the case of contract migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong to explore the critical potential of diasporic identification in challenging hegemonic national discourses outside much-discussed European and American contexts. While acknowledging the transnational connections and linkages migran…
Dancing to different tunes
Surrogate Mothering and Conjugal Insecurity
My Ma'am was really nice and treated me like one of the family. I took care of the child right from his birth. He was very attached to me... . We all cried when I left to come home and have my baby
Haven under erasure
Discussions of Hong Kong's human rights situation tend to focus on the ex-colony's struggle to protect civil and political rights against the encroachment of the Chinese state. Without contradicting the well-grounded concern with Hong Kong's human rights future articulated in these discussions, this article offers a complementary narrative of human rights development in post-1997 Hong Kong that looks beyond the national frame of such discussions.…
Articulating the Third World in/and cultural studies
This article seeks to articulate the Third World in/and cultural studies through a critical interrogation and refiguration of the term with reference to the current condition of global capitalism and its structuring effects on collective struggles. Tracing critiques of the term to the historical connection between the Third World and the nation-form, the article suggests a deterritorialization of the Third World to reclaim its relevance under glo…
Telling Love
Sensational in its unprecedented open revelation of the author's personal life and experience of sex, Yu Luojin's Winter's Tale ("Dongtian de tonghua") has consistently been read as a woman's artless autobiographical outburst. Arguing that such reductive reading follows from the conventional dismissal of women's writings for their supposed inability to transcend personal experiences and concerns, this paper shows how Yu's narrative integrates pub…
The Anxiety of Ambiguity
Ōe's Man'en gannen no futtobōru is a powerful national allegory which affords serious meditation on the difficulties and perils of translating and transcribing the desires for collectivity and national identity in modernity. This essay analyzes the novel's attempt to weave the marginalized indigenous and the hegemonic Western into a ‘unique’ Japanese national identity. The narrative resolution of the identity crisisreveals a reinscription of excl…
The Intellectual's Deaf-Mute, or (How) Can We Speak beyond Postcoloniality
5W iith increasing institutional acceptance, discourse has become a privileged locus of voices of difference, opposition, and resistance. Yet limitations and biases of perspective have also been persuasively argued in various critical studies. From general reflections on political implications of deploying a singular term postcolonial to designate complex issues of continuities and discontinuities in relations of power and domination under and af…
Dancing to different tunes
The present of forgetting
Against current privileging of diasporic identity as the (trans)migrants’ challenge to the normativity of national identity and belonging, this paper considers the case of contract migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong to explore the critical potential of diasporic identification in challenging hegemonic national discourses outside much-discussed European and American contexts. While acknowledging the transnational connections and linkages migran…
Surrogate Mothering and Conjugal Insecurity
My Ma'am was really nice and treated me like one of the family. I took care of the child right from his birth. He was very attached to me... . We all cried when I left to come home and have my baby
Haven under erasure
Discussions of Hong Kong's human rights situation tend to focus on the ex-colony's struggle to protect civil and political rights against the encroachment of the Chinese state. Without contradicting the well-grounded concern with Hong Kong's human rights future articulated in these discussions, this article offers a complementary narrative of human rights development in post-1997 Hong Kong that looks beyond the national frame of such discussions.…
The Intellectual's Deaf-Mute, or (How) Can We Speak beyond Postcoloniality
5W iith increasing institutional acceptance, discourse has become a privileged locus of voices of difference, opposition, and resistance. Yet limitations and biases of perspective have also been persuasively argued in various critical studies. From general reflections on political implications of deploying a singular term postcolonial to designate complex issues of continuities and discontinuities in relations of power and domination under and af…
The Intellectual's Deaf-Mute, or (How) Can We Speak beyond Postcoloniality
5W iith increasing institutional acceptance, discourse has become a privileged locus of voices of difference, opposition, and resistance. Yet limitations and biases of perspective have also been persuasively argued in various critical studies. From general reflections on political implications of deploying a singular term postcolonial to designate complex issues of continuities and discontinuities in relations of power and domination under and af…
Telling Love
Sensational in its unprecedented open revelation of the author's personal life and experience of sex, Yu Luojin's Winter's Tale ("Dongtian de tonghua") has consistently been read as a woman's artless autobiographical outburst. Arguing that such reductive reading follows from the conventional dismissal of women's writings for their supposed inability to transcend personal experiences and concerns, this paper shows how Yu's narrative integrates pub…
The Anxiety of Ambiguity
Ōe's Man'en gannen no futtobōru is a powerful national allegory which affords serious meditation on the difficulties and perils of translating and transcribing the desires for collectivity and national identity in modernity. This essay analyzes the novel's attempt to weave the marginalized indigenous and the hegemonic Western into a ‘unique’ Japanese national identity. The narrative resolution of the identity crisisreveals a reinscription of excl…
Articulating the Third World in/and cultural studies
This article seeks to articulate the Third World in/and cultural studies through a critical interrogation and refiguration of the term with reference to the current condition of global capitalism and its structuring effects on collective struggles. Tracing critiques of the term to the historical connection between the Third World and the nation-form, the article suggests a deterritorialization of the Third World to reclaim its relevance under glo…
Haven under erasure
Discussions of Hong Kong's human rights situation tend to focus on the ex-colony's struggle to protect civil and political rights against the encroachment of the Chinese state. Without contradicting the well-grounded concern with Hong Kong's human rights future articulated in these discussions, this article offers a complementary narrative of human rights development in post-1997 Hong Kong that looks beyond the national frame of such discussions.…
Surrogate Mothering and Conjugal Insecurity
My Ma'am was really nice and treated me like one of the family. I took care of the child right from his birth. He was very attached to me... . We all cried when I left to come home and have my baby
Dancing to different tunes
The present of forgetting
Against current privileging of diasporic identity as the (trans)migrants’ challenge to the normativity of national identity and belonging, this paper considers the case of contract migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong to explore the critical potential of diasporic identification in challenging hegemonic national discourses outside much-discussed European and American contexts. While acknowledging the transnational connections and linkages migran…
Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (3 works)