Kai Khiun Liew
Biographic Data
| ID | 640335 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kai Khiun Liew |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kai Khiun |
| FAMILY NAME | Liew |
| SIGNATURE | LIEW K K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nanyang Technological University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The transnational homoroman-tivist
Suturing the Nation in South Korean Historical Television Medical Dramas
Analog Hallyu
This article will revisit the beginnings of the spread of Korean popular entertainment in China in the mid-1990s to early 2000s by examining the contents of previously untapped Chinese language popular entertainment magazines and public recollections on internet forums. Considered here as critical archival resources, the authors argue that these materials are instrumental in offering both new chronologies and insights to the circulatory process o…
“Si Geena” (Brat)
This paper explores episodes of provocative online articulations and the accompanying angry public reactions as part of the cultural politics of juvenile online resistance in contemporary Singapore. Rather than viewing such delinquency as ‘youth deficits’, this paper seeks a literary-culturalist standpoint in exploring the uninhibited audacity of these public online displays. We perceive such performances as reflecting the critical and socially u…
Singapore Cinema
Asianism and the Politics of Regional Consciousness in Singapore
Beneath the glittering new skyscrapers that define the island city-state has been decades of systematic framing and reframing by the Singapore officialdom of its cultural identity. Often articulate
Fuming and fogging memories
This paper seeks to discuss the ecology of memories in contemporary Singapore as reflective of emerging tensions between the state and civil society in remembering the development of the nation-state for close to about five decades of independence. At the core of the tension are competing efforts to curate public memories through traditional and new media. As the state establishes a nostalgic community that sentimentalizes the dominant narrative …
Remembering digitally
Once contained in personal diaries, family photo albums and scrapbooks of small groupings of friends, the private and intimate realms of memories have now made a huge jump into the public domain of
Neoliberal visions, post-capitalist memories
This paper argues that the move towards a neoliberal vision of the city-state in the postindustrial era in Singapore has not gone unchallenged. With alternative resources of collective memory, the innovations of the social media and openings within the state dominated press, the authors seek to illustrate the process of counter-mapping of Singapore's cityscape by conservation groups. The relationship between technological affordances and citizen …
Industrial railroad to digital memory routes
The Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM) Berhad railway line was a crucial mode of transport for goods and passengers moving between Singapore and its neighbouring country Malaysia. Tanjong Pagar railway station – the terminus of the KTM railway line in Singapore – ceased operation from 1 July 2011, and KTM railway tracks in Singapore were slated for removal, after the relocation of the terminus to a border station between the two countries. This event ha…
Intersecting Anglicization and Sinicization
10.1080/09502386.2012.697738
Transnational television
St John's Ambulance Brigade and the Gendering of ‘Passive Defence’ in British Malaya, 1937-42
The St John's Ambulance Brigade established itself in British Malaya in the 1930s, as part of efforts to mobilise and train the colony's subjects for civil defence as the geo-strategic climate in the Pacific deteriorated. This article demonstrates how the provision of emergency medical care was a gendered and racialised undertaking in the colonial context. Unlike the military, comprising mainly European and ‘trusted’ ethnic Indian soldiers, the r…
Terribly Severe Though Mercifully Short
The influenza epidemic swept through our midst in September and October, unhappily with fatal consequences to a number of friends in the Tamil community. We are glad to say that though terribly severe while it lasted, its duration was mercifully short. On the other hand, the great news that the armistice has been signed filled us with unaccustomed joy
Conjuring the tropical spectres
The evolution of moral panics is dependent on the particular social context and the ability of certain issues to trigger concern within society. In this paper, the authors have employed a cross-comparative study of the heavy metal music subcultures in Singapore and Malaysia to understand the differences in the issues that generate such panics based on the socio-political context of each country and its current concerns. Although the youth involve…
Neoliberal visions, post-capitalist memories
This paper argues that the move towards a neoliberal vision of the city-state in the postindustrial era in Singapore has not gone unchallenged. With alternative resources of collective memory, the innovations of the social media and openings within the state dominated press, the authors seek to illustrate the process of counter-mapping of Singapore's cityscape by conservation groups. The relationship between technological affordances and citizen …
Conjuring the tropical spectres
The evolution of moral panics is dependent on the particular social context and the ability of certain issues to trigger concern within society. In this paper, the authors have employed a cross-comparative study of the heavy metal music subcultures in Singapore and Malaysia to understand the differences in the issues that generate such panics based on the socio-political context of each country and its current concerns. Although the youth involve…
Terribly Severe Though Mercifully Short
The influenza epidemic swept through our midst in September and October, unhappily with fatal consequences to a number of friends in the Tamil community. We are glad to say that though terribly severe while it lasted, its duration was mercifully short. On the other hand, the great news that the armistice has been signed filled us with unaccustomed joy
Asianism and the Politics of Regional Consciousness in Singapore
Beneath the glittering new skyscrapers that define the island city-state has been decades of systematic framing and reframing by the Singapore officialdom of its cultural identity. Often articulate
Fuming and fogging memories
This paper seeks to discuss the ecology of memories in contemporary Singapore as reflective of emerging tensions between the state and civil society in remembering the development of the nation-state for close to about five decades of independence. At the core of the tension are competing efforts to curate public memories through traditional and new media. As the state establishes a nostalgic community that sentimentalizes the dominant narrative …
Industrial railroad to digital memory routes
The Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM) Berhad railway line was a crucial mode of transport for goods and passengers moving between Singapore and its neighbouring country Malaysia. Tanjong Pagar railway station – the terminus of the KTM railway line in Singapore – ceased operation from 1 July 2011, and KTM railway tracks in Singapore were slated for removal, after the relocation of the terminus to a border station between the two countries. This event ha…
Transnational television
Conjuring the tropical spectres
The evolution of moral panics is dependent on the particular social context and the ability of certain issues to trigger concern within society. In this paper, the authors have employed a cross-comparative study of the heavy metal music subcultures in Singapore and Malaysia to understand the differences in the issues that generate such panics based on the socio-political context of each country and its current concerns. Although the youth involve…
Terribly Severe Though Mercifully Short
The influenza epidemic swept through our midst in September and October, unhappily with fatal consequences to a number of friends in the Tamil community. We are glad to say that though terribly severe while it lasted, its duration was mercifully short. On the other hand, the great news that the armistice has been signed filled us with unaccustomed joy
Transnational television
St John's Ambulance Brigade and the Gendering of ‘Passive Defence’ in British Malaya, 1937-42
The St John's Ambulance Brigade established itself in British Malaya in the 1930s, as part of efforts to mobilise and train the colony's subjects for civil defence as the geo-strategic climate in the Pacific deteriorated. This article demonstrates how the provision of emergency medical care was a gendered and racialised undertaking in the colonial context. Unlike the military, comprising mainly European and ‘trusted’ ethnic Indian soldiers, the r…
Intersecting Anglicization and Sinicization
10.1080/09502386.2012.697738
Industrial railroad to digital memory routes
The Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM) Berhad railway line was a crucial mode of transport for goods and passengers moving between Singapore and its neighbouring country Malaysia. Tanjong Pagar railway station – the terminus of the KTM railway line in Singapore – ceased operation from 1 July 2011, and KTM railway tracks in Singapore were slated for removal, after the relocation of the terminus to a border station between the two countries. This event ha…
Asianism and the Politics of Regional Consciousness in Singapore
Beneath the glittering new skyscrapers that define the island city-state has been decades of systematic framing and reframing by the Singapore officialdom of its cultural identity. Often articulate
Fuming and fogging memories
This paper seeks to discuss the ecology of memories in contemporary Singapore as reflective of emerging tensions between the state and civil society in remembering the development of the nation-state for close to about five decades of independence. At the core of the tension are competing efforts to curate public memories through traditional and new media. As the state establishes a nostalgic community that sentimentalizes the dominant narrative …
Remembering digitally
Once contained in personal diaries, family photo albums and scrapbooks of small groupings of friends, the private and intimate realms of memories have now made a huge jump into the public domain of
Neoliberal visions, post-capitalist memories
This paper argues that the move towards a neoliberal vision of the city-state in the postindustrial era in Singapore has not gone unchallenged. With alternative resources of collective memory, the innovations of the social media and openings within the state dominated press, the authors seek to illustrate the process of counter-mapping of Singapore's cityscape by conservation groups. The relationship between technological affordances and citizen …
Singapore Cinema
Analog Hallyu
This article will revisit the beginnings of the spread of Korean popular entertainment in China in the mid-1990s to early 2000s by examining the contents of previously untapped Chinese language popular entertainment magazines and public recollections on internet forums. Considered here as critical archival resources, the authors argue that these materials are instrumental in offering both new chronologies and insights to the circulatory process o…
“Si Geena” (Brat)
This paper explores episodes of provocative online articulations and the accompanying angry public reactions as part of the cultural politics of juvenile online resistance in contemporary Singapore. Rather than viewing such delinquency as ‘youth deficits’, this paper seeks a literary-culturalist standpoint in exploring the uninhibited audacity of these public online displays. We perceive such performances as reflecting the critical and socially u…
Suturing the Nation in South Korean Historical Television Medical Dramas
The transnational homoroman-tivist
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (7 works) · Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)