Brian Tsui
Biographic Data
| ID | 640567 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Tsui |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Tsui |
| SIGNATURE | TSUI B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7865-802X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Interrogating Hong Kong’s Cold War settlement: A Christian perspective
This article explores Ronald Owen Hall, the Anglican bishop of Hong Kong, as an unlikely critic of the city's Cold War settlement in the 1950s. By examining his sermons and writings and putting them into dialogue with pronouncements of the Hong Kong government and the colonial governor Alexander Grantham, it reconstructs a moral counterpoint to a sociopolitical project that pitched the colony as an economic city and as the "Berlin of the East"—an…
Introduction: Localizing Cold War experiences in Hong Kong
Kong's ideological makeup is now in flux.Long taken for granted for its liminal position between China and the rest of the world, the city had found itself at the frontline of Cold Warstyle geopolitical rivalries between China and the West since 2019.Few scholars would disagree that in the third decade of the twenty-first century, the city's liminality, if it exists at all, is no longer what it was some seventy years ago.The present conjunction c…
Early Encounters: Introduction to the First Special Collection on the Nehru Papers
Beyond Pan-Asianism: Connecting China and India, 1840s-1960s
Within Asia, the period from 1840s to 1960s had witnessed the rise and decline of Pax Britannica, the growth of multiple and often competing anti-colonial movements, and the entrenchment of the nation-state system. Beyond Pan-Asianism seeks to demonstrate the complex interactions between China, India, and their neighbouring societies against this background of imperialism and nationalist resistance. The contributors to this volume, from India, th…
Bridging ‘New China’ and postcolonial India: Indian narratives of the Chinese revolution
This paper examines the basis of Asianist sympathy for ‘New China’, as the People’s Republic was often styled, in the early 1950s by examining the writings of Indian diplomats, journalists and academics. These elite Indians either visited China as part of a 1951 delegation, making them witnesses to the ongoing New Democracy experiment. Since their experiences of China were definitely not comprehensive and hinged on the Chinese state’s goodwill, t…
Nation-Empire: Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies
Nation-Empire: Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies Nation-Empire: Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies, by Chatani Sayaka. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018, 347 pp., $55 (ISBN 978-1-50-173075-7) Brian TSUI Brian TSUI The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Science Japan Journal, Volume 23, Issue 2, Summer 2…
Reforming Bodies and Minds
This article revisits reformatories set up under Nationalist China from 1928–37 to transform former Communists into loyal nationalist subjects. By examining confessions attributed to inmates and scandalous tales of Communists published by reformatories, it argues that these institutions were more than devices to suppress political dissent. Instead, reformatories played productive functions for the Guomindang state. First, reformatories’ in-house …
China's Conservative Revolution: The Quest for a New Order, 1927–1949
1921, while "communist" denotes political ideologies that aspired to a classless social order, which also inspired, but not always defined, the Chinese Communist Party's agendas throughout its existence. The same distinction applies to "Fascist" the Italian party and "fascist" the ideology. 4 Slavoj iek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real! Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates (London: Verso, 2002), 131. "Capitalism without capitalism" is,…
Decolonization and Revolution: Debating Gandhism in Republican China
This article revisits Chinese intellectual discourse on the Indian nationalist movement during the Republican period and argues that interest in the Indian National Congress cut across ideological divides. By examining a range of published sources from the 1920s to the 1940s, this article shows that leading intellectuals took seriously the political movement Mohandas Gandhi led as a distinct model of revolutionary politics, spiritual resistance a…
Clock Time, National Space, and the Limits of Guomindang Anti-Imperialism
This article examines the politics of time and space in Nationalist China in connection with the regime's compromised anti-imperialism. It demonstrates that the Guomindang's nation-building project, which failed to confront capitalist social relations and the imperialist powers that underpinned them, overdetermined the party-state's ambivalent attitude toward modernity. The school campuses on which the Guomindang projected its social vision were,…
The Plea for Asia—Tan Yunshan, Pan-Asianism and Sino-Indian Relations
In 1927, the Buddhist scholar, Tan Yunshan, travelled to Santiniketan on the invitation of Rabindranath Tagore to teach Chinese at Visva Bharati University. Subsequent years would see him develop close ties with the Guomindang and Congress leaders, secure Chinese state funding for the first sinological institute in India and mediate between the nationalist movements during the Second World War. That a relatively marginal academic, who participate…
The Plea for Asia—Tan Yunshan, Pan-Asianism and Sino-Indian Relations
In 1927, the Buddhist scholar, Tan Yunshan, travelled to Santiniketan on the invitation of Rabindranath Tagore to teach Chinese at Visva Bharati University. Subsequent years would see him develop close ties with the Guomindang and Congress leaders, secure Chinese state funding for the first sinological institute in India and mediate between the nationalist movements during the Second World War. That a relatively marginal academic, who participate…
Interrogating Hong Kong’s Cold War settlement: A Christian perspective
This article explores Ronald Owen Hall, the Anglican bishop of Hong Kong, as an unlikely critic of the city's Cold War settlement in the 1950s. By examining his sermons and writings and putting them into dialogue with pronouncements of the Hong Kong government and the colonial governor Alexander Grantham, it reconstructs a moral counterpoint to a sociopolitical project that pitched the colony as an economic city and as the "Berlin of the East"—an…
Decolonization and Revolution: Debating Gandhism in Republican China
This article revisits Chinese intellectual discourse on the Indian nationalist movement during the Republican period and argues that interest in the Indian National Congress cut across ideological divides. By examining a range of published sources from the 1920s to the 1940s, this article shows that leading intellectuals took seriously the political movement Mohandas Gandhi led as a distinct model of revolutionary politics, spiritual resistance a…
The Plea for Asia—Tan Yunshan, Pan-Asianism and Sino-Indian Relations
In 1927, the Buddhist scholar, Tan Yunshan, travelled to Santiniketan on the invitation of Rabindranath Tagore to teach Chinese at Visva Bharati University. Subsequent years would see him develop close ties with the Guomindang and Congress leaders, secure Chinese state funding for the first sinological institute in India and mediate between the nationalist movements during the Second World War. That a relatively marginal academic, who participate…
Clock Time, National Space, and the Limits of Guomindang Anti-Imperialism
This article examines the politics of time and space in Nationalist China in connection with the regime's compromised anti-imperialism. It demonstrates that the Guomindang's nation-building project, which failed to confront capitalist social relations and the imperialist powers that underpinned them, overdetermined the party-state's ambivalent attitude toward modernity. The school campuses on which the Guomindang projected its social vision were,…
Decolonization and Revolution: Debating Gandhism in Republican China
This article revisits Chinese intellectual discourse on the Indian nationalist movement during the Republican period and argues that interest in the Indian National Congress cut across ideological divides. By examining a range of published sources from the 1920s to the 1940s, this article shows that leading intellectuals took seriously the political movement Mohandas Gandhi led as a distinct model of revolutionary politics, spiritual resistance a…
China's Conservative Revolution: The Quest for a New Order, 1927–1949
1921, while "communist" denotes political ideologies that aspired to a classless social order, which also inspired, but not always defined, the Chinese Communist Party's agendas throughout its existence. The same distinction applies to "Fascist" the Italian party and "fascist" the ideology. 4 Slavoj iek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real! Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates (London: Verso, 2002), 131. "Capitalism without capitalism" is,…
Bridging ‘New China’ and postcolonial India: Indian narratives of the Chinese revolution
This paper examines the basis of Asianist sympathy for ‘New China’, as the People’s Republic was often styled, in the early 1950s by examining the writings of Indian diplomats, journalists and academics. These elite Indians either visited China as part of a 1951 delegation, making them witnesses to the ongoing New Democracy experiment. Since their experiences of China were definitely not comprehensive and hinged on the Chinese state’s goodwill, t…
Nation-Empire: Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies
Nation-Empire: Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies Nation-Empire: Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies, by Chatani Sayaka. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018, 347 pp., $55 (ISBN 978-1-50-173075-7) Brian TSUI Brian TSUI The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Science Japan Journal, Volume 23, Issue 2, Summer 2…
Reforming Bodies and Minds
This article revisits reformatories set up under Nationalist China from 1928–37 to transform former Communists into loyal nationalist subjects. By examining confessions attributed to inmates and scandalous tales of Communists published by reformatories, it argues that these institutions were more than devices to suppress political dissent. Instead, reformatories played productive functions for the Guomindang state. First, reformatories’ in-house …
Beyond Pan-Asianism: Connecting China and India, 1840s-1960s
Within Asia, the period from 1840s to 1960s had witnessed the rise and decline of Pax Britannica, the growth of multiple and often competing anti-colonial movements, and the entrenchment of the nation-state system. Beyond Pan-Asianism seeks to demonstrate the complex interactions between China, India, and their neighbouring societies against this background of imperialism and nationalist resistance. The contributors to this volume, from India, th…
Early Encounters: Introduction to the First Special Collection on the Nehru Papers
Interrogating Hong Kong’s Cold War settlement: A Christian perspective
This article explores Ronald Owen Hall, the Anglican bishop of Hong Kong, as an unlikely critic of the city's Cold War settlement in the 1950s. By examining his sermons and writings and putting them into dialogue with pronouncements of the Hong Kong government and the colonial governor Alexander Grantham, it reconstructs a moral counterpoint to a sociopolitical project that pitched the colony as an economic city and as the "Berlin of the East"—an…
Introduction: Localizing Cold War experiences in Hong Kong
Kong's ideological makeup is now in flux.Long taken for granted for its liminal position between China and the rest of the world, the city had found itself at the frontline of Cold Warstyle geopolitical rivalries between China and the West since 2019.Few scholars would disagree that in the third decade of the twenty-first century, the city's liminality, if it exists at all, is no longer what it was some seventy years ago.The present conjunction c…
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