Karen Fang
Biographic Data
| ID | 5871040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Fang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Fang |
| SIGNATURE | FANG K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-4984-0267 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rethinking the Orwellian Imaginary through Contemporary Chinese Fiction
Although George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four ([1949] 2003) and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World ([1932] 2006) have long offered contrasting paradigms in surveillance theory, little attention has been paid to how race and cultural difference operate in their respective regimes. This oversight is surprising given race’s centrality in surveillance theory and practice, and it is increasingly anachronistic in light of contemporary geopolitics and the …
Cinema Censorship and Media Citizenship in the Hong Kong Film Ten Years
Cinema censorship is a relatively unexplored topic in the discipline of surveillance studies. While movies are frequent references throughout the scholarship, such citations tend to be limited to plot and imagery and overlook the ways in which the medium can be subject to state intervention or other forms of censorship and self-censorship. This essay uses the case of the 2015 Hong Kong independent film Ten Years to explore how cinema deserves to …
Surveillance in Asian Cinema
Empire Made Me
Reviewed by: Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai by Robert Bickers Karen Y. Fang Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai. By Robert Bickers. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. This book, product of the first prize awarded by the Institute of Historical Research, is a superb study of colonial institutions and their effect on individual employees. A self-described “biography of a nobody” (4), Empire Made Me reconstruct…
John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow
A Better Tomorrow has always been hailed as a milestone in Hong Kong cinema. This book describes the different responses to the movie in Hong Kong and later in its reception worldwide, which paved the way for the promotion of John Woo and Chow Yun-fat to their current prominence in Hollywood. Fang examines the different notions of the genre of action cinema in Asian and Western film industries. She tracks the connections between ying shung pian, …
At Full Speed
Ed. Esther Yau. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. Hong Kong, as everyone now knows, is one of the most vibrant movie cultures in the world. For many years, it was one of the world's largest producers of films and had one of the highest per capita rates of movie ticket sales. Thus, not only did Hong Kong nurture remarkably active local cultural production but, more importantly, was especially notable because it persisted while the …
Crime and Policing in Post-Apartheid South Africa
The Cultural Politics of Sugar
Reviewed by: The Cultural Politics of Sugar: Caribbean Slavery and Narratives of Colonialism Karen Fang Keith A. Sandiford., The Cultural Politics of Sugar: Caribbean Slavery and Narratives of Colonialism. (Cambridge University Press, 2000.) The Cultural Politics of Sugar explores the relation between literary and sugar production in French and British writing of the long eighteenth century. Literary Critic Keith Sandiford offers his notion of “s…
Cinema Censorship and Media Citizenship in the Hong Kong Film Ten Years
Cinema censorship is a relatively unexplored topic in the discipline of surveillance studies. While movies are frequent references throughout the scholarship, such citations tend to be limited to plot and imagery and overlook the ways in which the medium can be subject to state intervention or other forms of censorship and self-censorship. This essay uses the case of the 2015 Hong Kong independent film Ten Years to explore how cinema deserves to …
Rethinking the Orwellian Imaginary through Contemporary Chinese Fiction
Although George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four ([1949] 2003) and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World ([1932] 2006) have long offered contrasting paradigms in surveillance theory, little attention has been paid to how race and cultural difference operate in their respective regimes. This oversight is surprising given race’s centrality in surveillance theory and practice, and it is increasingly anachronistic in light of contemporary geopolitics and the …
The Cultural Politics of Sugar
Reviewed by: The Cultural Politics of Sugar: Caribbean Slavery and Narratives of Colonialism Karen Fang Keith A. Sandiford., The Cultural Politics of Sugar: Caribbean Slavery and Narratives of Colonialism. (Cambridge University Press, 2000.) The Cultural Politics of Sugar explores the relation between literary and sugar production in French and British writing of the long eighteenth century. Literary Critic Keith Sandiford offers his notion of “s…
Crime and Policing in Post-Apartheid South Africa
John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow
A Better Tomorrow has always been hailed as a milestone in Hong Kong cinema. This book describes the different responses to the movie in Hong Kong and later in its reception worldwide, which paved the way for the promotion of John Woo and Chow Yun-fat to their current prominence in Hollywood. Fang examines the different notions of the genre of action cinema in Asian and Western film industries. She tracks the connections between ying shung pian, …
At Full Speed
Ed. Esther Yau. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. Hong Kong, as everyone now knows, is one of the most vibrant movie cultures in the world. For many years, it was one of the world's largest producers of films and had one of the highest per capita rates of movie ticket sales. Thus, not only did Hong Kong nurture remarkably active local cultural production but, more importantly, was especially notable because it persisted while the …
Empire Made Me
Reviewed by: Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai by Robert Bickers Karen Y. Fang Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai. By Robert Bickers. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. This book, product of the first prize awarded by the Institute of Historical Research, is a superb study of colonial institutions and their effect on individual employees. A self-described “biography of a nobody” (4), Empire Made Me reconstruct…
Surveillance in Asian Cinema
Cinema Censorship and Media Citizenship in the Hong Kong Film Ten Years
Cinema censorship is a relatively unexplored topic in the discipline of surveillance studies. While movies are frequent references throughout the scholarship, such citations tend to be limited to plot and imagery and overlook the ways in which the medium can be subject to state intervention or other forms of censorship and self-censorship. This essay uses the case of the 2015 Hong Kong independent film Ten Years to explore how cinema deserves to …
Rethinking the Orwellian Imaginary through Contemporary Chinese Fiction
Although George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four ([1949] 2003) and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World ([1932] 2006) have long offered contrasting paradigms in surveillance theory, little attention has been paid to how race and cultural difference operate in their respective regimes. This oversight is surprising given race’s centrality in surveillance theory and practice, and it is increasingly anachronistic in light of contemporary geopolitics and the …
Political science (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Art (3 works)