Kwai-Cheung Lo
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 640161 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kwai-Cheung Lo |
| PRENOMES | Kwai-Cheung |
| SOBRENOME | Lo |
| ASSINATURA | LO K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Hong Kong Baptist University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1996-8401 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Bodies and environmental matters in Maoism and Gandhism
When the global material reality has already been reshaped and determined by western modernity, Gandhism and Maoism stand for attempts to discover a material world other than the existing one. I examine the ways in which the theory and practice of the body in Mao and Gandhi resonates with new materialisms' views of the body and matter as dynamic multitude and anti-dualistic open system. Gandhi and Mao share the concerns of new materialism in term…
Nation-States’ Rivalry and Climate Change
Any planet-wide solutions to climate change have to be enforced by nation-states. China and the United States, currently producing the most carbon dioxide, are competing with growing hostility. The interstate hostility, even in a new Cold War era, may push competing nations to implement climate-friendly actions for the sake of national security
Crowd Control and Mobilization with Nature in the China–Hong Kong Context
This essay examines how crowd empowerment and its control inscribe the agency of nonhuman nature in the social movement and the governmental strategy within the context of China–Hong Kong connections. Concerning the 2019 Hong Kong protest movement, it examines how the agency is dispersed among the interactions of human crowds and nonhuman forces in particular environments. Humans look to nature as a source of inspiration for their conduct, even i…
The struggle between subaltern nationalisms and the nation-state in the digital age
The Internet is generally considered as the core of radical politics in the digital age and is believed to have the capacity to mobilize oppositional forces to resist against dominant power structures. In the 2011 Arab Spring, the Internet’s role was perceived to be central in this series of movements for political reform and regime change ( Rane and Salem 2012 ). However, the prediction that the Internet may have democratizing effects on contemp…
The Idea of Asia(nism) and Trans-Asian Productions
This chapter examines how the idea of Asia(ism) as an abstract form seeks its own content through the representations in Chinese cinemas. It looks at some historical instances in Chinese cinematic productions, including the occupation cinema of Shanghai, the wartime Chongqing cinema, the leftist films of the Chinese Communist Party during the Sino-Japanese War, the PRC’s movies about the Korean War and the Cold War, and Hong Kong’s trans-Asian pr…
Rethinking Asianism and method
While contemporary Asian scholars are debating how they can avoid locking up themselves in an obsession with the West, and discovering new categories and new methodologies by inter-referencing and multiplying their frames of reference through grasping Asian shared realities that have moulded their histories and cultures, this article looks back and closely examines the postwar Japanese thinker Yoshimi Takeuchi’s tantalising idea of ‘Asia as metho…
Sinicizing Žižek? The Ideology of Inherent Self-Negation in Contemporary China
This essay attempts to connect China with Žižek's theoretical ideas by discussing the multiple meanings of sinicization that brings forth self-negating contradictions. Arguing that contemporary postsocialist China's rapid and ruthless capitalization urgently calls for the realization of socialism more than ever, the essay also points out how China's problems precisely pose a challenge to Žižek's emancipatory politics and even become the radical e…
Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions
The Web Marriage Game, the Gendered Self, and Chinese Modernity
This paper examines the web-based virtual marriage game craze that emerged in the 1990s. These online interactive games may have opened up moments of liberation and formulated new ideologies of sexual relations. However, web-based marriages only ensure a male-dominated system and conform to dominant patriarchal standards - regardless of the number of females involved. Re-enacting the rules of marriage, the cyber game is ideologically directed aga…
Hong Kong
There are many ways for colonialism to persist in the postcolonial: for many African and South American countries, the colonial power transforms its political control into economic privileges, and
A borderline case
Hong Kong has long been seen as a racially harmonious and ethnically homogeneous (predominantly Chinese) global city in spite of the hundred-year British colonization. But since 1997 its ethnic front may have gradually changed. It is not simply because the new Chinese nationalism promoted by the state has led to the (re-)emergence of ethnic antagonism that had been suppressed by the colonial racial segregation and hierarchy in the past. The negat…
Knocking Off Nationalism in Hong Kong Cinema
Research Article| December 01 2006 Knocking Off Nationalism in Hong Kong Cinema: Woman and the Chinese “Thing” in Tsui Hark's Films Kwai-Cheung Lo Kwai-Cheung Lo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (3 (63)): 37–61. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2006-011 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kwai-Cheung Lo; Knocking Off Nationalism in Hon…
Return to What One Imagines to Be There
But since hegemonic (i.e. Western) definitions of masculinity continue to dominate our understanding of these so-called alternative models, even they inadvertently enforce stereotypes of weaker or feminized nonWestern masculinity. Studies of Asian masculinity are still conspicuously rare. A new body of work on Asian masculinities is always expected to be emphatically local, culturally specific, and history-oriented, presumably challenging the ubi…
Double Negations
This article attempts to develop a critical understanding of the reconstitution of Hong Kong identity in Hollywood productions involving Hong Kong film talents. It argues that the ‘local’ in the city's historical context of the nineties no longer refers to any entity pertaining to a particular locality and culture but is always already determined by the framework of the transnational, which structures the perception of its local social reality. I…
Look Who's Talking
Future historians of modern China will probably give a prominent place to the historic return of Hong Kong's sovereignty to the People's Republic in 1997. They may celebrate that Chinese people were heading toward a national unity in the new millennium. But this problematic transition, whereby Hong Kong people have supposedly become part of a reunified Chinese subject, cannot be easily accounted for by the macroexplanation of the long-term ration…
Muscles and Subjectivity
Muscles and Subjectivity
Rethinking Asianism and method
While contemporary Asian scholars are debating how they can avoid locking up themselves in an obsession with the West, and discovering new categories and new methodologies by inter-referencing and multiplying their frames of reference through grasping Asian shared realities that have moulded their histories and cultures, this article looks back and closely examines the postwar Japanese thinker Yoshimi Takeuchi’s tantalising idea of ‘Asia as metho…
Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions
Double Negations
This article attempts to develop a critical understanding of the reconstitution of Hong Kong identity in Hollywood productions involving Hong Kong film talents. It argues that the ‘local’ in the city's historical context of the nineties no longer refers to any entity pertaining to a particular locality and culture but is always already determined by the framework of the transnational, which structures the perception of its local social reality. I…
Hong Kong
There are many ways for colonialism to persist in the postcolonial: for many African and South American countries, the colonial power transforms its political control into economic privileges, and
Look Who's Talking
Future historians of modern China will probably give a prominent place to the historic return of Hong Kong's sovereignty to the People's Republic in 1997. They may celebrate that Chinese people were heading toward a national unity in the new millennium. But this problematic transition, whereby Hong Kong people have supposedly become part of a reunified Chinese subject, cannot be easily accounted for by the macroexplanation of the long-term ration…
A borderline case
Hong Kong has long been seen as a racially harmonious and ethnically homogeneous (predominantly Chinese) global city in spite of the hundred-year British colonization. But since 1997 its ethnic front may have gradually changed. It is not simply because the new Chinese nationalism promoted by the state has led to the (re-)emergence of ethnic antagonism that had been suppressed by the colonial racial segregation and hierarchy in the past. The negat…
Muscles and Subjectivity
Look Who's Talking
Future historians of modern China will probably give a prominent place to the historic return of Hong Kong's sovereignty to the People's Republic in 1997. They may celebrate that Chinese people were heading toward a national unity in the new millennium. But this problematic transition, whereby Hong Kong people have supposedly become part of a reunified Chinese subject, cannot be easily accounted for by the macroexplanation of the long-term ration…
Double Negations
This article attempts to develop a critical understanding of the reconstitution of Hong Kong identity in Hollywood productions involving Hong Kong film talents. It argues that the ‘local’ in the city's historical context of the nineties no longer refers to any entity pertaining to a particular locality and culture but is always already determined by the framework of the transnational, which structures the perception of its local social reality. I…
Return to What One Imagines to Be There
But since hegemonic (i.e. Western) definitions of masculinity continue to dominate our understanding of these so-called alternative models, even they inadvertently enforce stereotypes of weaker or feminized nonWestern masculinity. Studies of Asian masculinity are still conspicuously rare. A new body of work on Asian masculinities is always expected to be emphatically local, culturally specific, and history-oriented, presumably challenging the ubi…
Knocking Off Nationalism in Hong Kong Cinema
Research Article| December 01 2006 Knocking Off Nationalism in Hong Kong Cinema: Woman and the Chinese “Thing” in Tsui Hark's Films Kwai-Cheung Lo Kwai-Cheung Lo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (3 (63)): 37–61. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2006-011 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kwai-Cheung Lo; Knocking Off Nationalism in Hon…
Hong Kong
There are many ways for colonialism to persist in the postcolonial: for many African and South American countries, the colonial power transforms its political control into economic privileges, and
A borderline case
Hong Kong has long been seen as a racially harmonious and ethnically homogeneous (predominantly Chinese) global city in spite of the hundred-year British colonization. But since 1997 its ethnic front may have gradually changed. It is not simply because the new Chinese nationalism promoted by the state has led to the (re-)emergence of ethnic antagonism that had been suppressed by the colonial racial segregation and hierarchy in the past. The negat…
The Web Marriage Game, the Gendered Self, and Chinese Modernity
This paper examines the web-based virtual marriage game craze that emerged in the 1990s. These online interactive games may have opened up moments of liberation and formulated new ideologies of sexual relations. However, web-based marriages only ensure a male-dominated system and conform to dominant patriarchal standards - regardless of the number of females involved. Re-enacting the rules of marriage, the cyber game is ideologically directed aga…
Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions
Sinicizing Žižek? The Ideology of Inherent Self-Negation in Contemporary China
This essay attempts to connect China with Žižek's theoretical ideas by discussing the multiple meanings of sinicization that brings forth self-negating contradictions. Arguing that contemporary postsocialist China's rapid and ruthless capitalization urgently calls for the realization of socialism more than ever, the essay also points out how China's problems precisely pose a challenge to Žižek's emancipatory politics and even become the radical e…
The Idea of Asia(nism) and Trans-Asian Productions
This chapter examines how the idea of Asia(ism) as an abstract form seeks its own content through the representations in Chinese cinemas. It looks at some historical instances in Chinese cinematic productions, including the occupation cinema of Shanghai, the wartime Chongqing cinema, the leftist films of the Chinese Communist Party during the Sino-Japanese War, the PRC’s movies about the Korean War and the Cold War, and Hong Kong’s trans-Asian pr…
Rethinking Asianism and method
While contemporary Asian scholars are debating how they can avoid locking up themselves in an obsession with the West, and discovering new categories and new methodologies by inter-referencing and multiplying their frames of reference through grasping Asian shared realities that have moulded their histories and cultures, this article looks back and closely examines the postwar Japanese thinker Yoshimi Takeuchi’s tantalising idea of ‘Asia as metho…
The struggle between subaltern nationalisms and the nation-state in the digital age
The Internet is generally considered as the core of radical politics in the digital age and is believed to have the capacity to mobilize oppositional forces to resist against dominant power structures. In the 2011 Arab Spring, the Internet’s role was perceived to be central in this series of movements for political reform and regime change ( Rane and Salem 2012 ). However, the prediction that the Internet may have democratizing effects on contemp…
Bodies and environmental matters in Maoism and Gandhism
When the global material reality has already been reshaped and determined by western modernity, Gandhism and Maoism stand for attempts to discover a material world other than the existing one. I examine the ways in which the theory and practice of the body in Mao and Gandhi resonates with new materialisms' views of the body and matter as dynamic multitude and anti-dualistic open system. Gandhi and Mao share the concerns of new materialism in term…
Nation-States’ Rivalry and Climate Change
Any planet-wide solutions to climate change have to be enforced by nation-states. China and the United States, currently producing the most carbon dioxide, are competing with growing hostility. The interstate hostility, even in a new Cold War era, may push competing nations to implement climate-friendly actions for the sake of national security
Crowd Control and Mobilization with Nature in the China–Hong Kong Context
This essay examines how crowd empowerment and its control inscribe the agency of nonhuman nature in the social movement and the governmental strategy within the context of China–Hong Kong connections. Concerning the 2019 Hong Kong protest movement, it examines how the agency is dispersed among the interactions of human crowds and nonhuman forces in particular environments. Humans look to nature as a source of inspiration for their conduct, even i…
Sociology (14 obras) · Law (12 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Gender Studies (10 obras) · History (10 obras) · Politics (10 obras) · China (8 obras) · Aesthetics (7 obras) · Art (7 obras) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (7 obras)