Lily Cho
Biographic Data
| ID | 642277 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lily Cho |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lily |
| FAMILY NAME | Cho |
| SIGNATURE | CHO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2018-9069 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Afterlives of Stars, Known and Unknown
Every star has an afterlife. They become supernova. They shine intensely and more brightly for a long time and then fade into darkness. Even then, in darkness, they shine. The collision of neutron
At Home in the Asian Canadian Studies Reader
Darkroom Material
This essay argues for the need to historicize and theorize race in photography by attending to the interventions of darkroom technicians, especially those who are themselves racialized. Understanding the crucial role of the darkroom technician challenges the idea that photographic development is merely a mechanical or technical process. The photograph in development represents a moment of transition that illuminates the instabilities of photograp…
Asian Canadian Studies Reader
Roland Sintos Coloma and Gordon Pon’s Asian Canadian Studies Reader brings together essential writings by leading and emerging scholars in the field to explore the vibrancy of the diverse Asian diaspora in Canada
Mass capture
Through an examination of the Mainland Travel Permit for Hong Kong and Macau Residents, this paper argues that there is a disjuncture between the idea of home and citizenship for mobile Chinese subjects and that this disjuncture reveals the crucial and constant work of defining non-citizens in order to safeguard citizenship. That is, non-citizens are essential for the definition of citizenship. Non-citizens are not simply there, as refugees, migr…
Under the Lucky Moose
In this paper, we use postcolonial theories of temporality—specifically the idea of belatedness—to examine how literal forms of lateness inform the so-called Lucky Moose case, wherein Chinese-Canadian grocer David Chen tardily performs a citizen’s arrest in Toronto. Canadian news media outlets, the Chinese-Canadian community, and R v Chen (2010) all contribute to the construction of Chen as an active legal subject, capable of working through the …
Intimacy Among Strangers
This essay examines the relationship between identity, emotion and citizenship manifested in Chinese Canadian head tax photographs. I argue that these photographs reveal a diasporic structure of feeling – an intimacy among strangers that is profoundly collective. As I will show, the almost uniform lack of emotion in these photographs illuminates a kind of collectivity which is based on anticipation. This essay theorizes anticipation as a key mode…
Citizenship, Diaspora and the Bonds of Affect
The foreclosure of emotion in a passport photograph, the identity document that ties a person to a nation, illuminates a contradiction between feeling and citizenship. On the one hand, as these instructions for the passport photographs suggest, emotion obscures the identity of the citizen. On the other, as I will discuss in further detail, emotion, or the capacity for it, is very much a part of the conception of the modern citizen. My paper will …
Future perfect loss
This essay is about losses that have not yet happened. I suggest that there is some political value in feeling loss as an intimation of an anticipatory future imperfect. This essay seeks to understand how queer diasporic subjects emerge out of loss, and to do so by examining the temporal processes which structure affective collectivities. I argue that Sea in the Blood offers a vision of proleptic loss. In moving the discussion of racial grief for…
Reel Asian
Diasporic Citizenship
Diasporic Citizenship:Inhabiting Contradictions and Challenging Exclusions Lily Cho (bio) Chineseness Across Borders: Renegotiating Chinese Identities in China and the United States. By Andrea Louie. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. 254 pages. $74.95 (cloth). $21.95 (paper). Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora. By Martin Manalansan IV. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. 221 pages. $74.95 (cloth). $21.95 (paper). India…
Citizenship, Diaspora and the Bonds of Affect
The foreclosure of emotion in a passport photograph, the identity document that ties a person to a nation, illuminates a contradiction between feeling and citizenship. On the one hand, as these instructions for the passport photographs suggest, emotion obscures the identity of the citizen. On the other, as I will discuss in further detail, emotion, or the capacity for it, is very much a part of the conception of the modern citizen. My paper will …
Diasporic Citizenship
Diasporic Citizenship:Inhabiting Contradictions and Challenging Exclusions Lily Cho (bio) Chineseness Across Borders: Renegotiating Chinese Identities in China and the United States. By Andrea Louie. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. 254 pages. $74.95 (cloth). $21.95 (paper). Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora. By Martin Manalansan IV. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. 221 pages. $74.95 (cloth). $21.95 (paper). India…
Future perfect loss
This essay is about losses that have not yet happened. I suggest that there is some political value in feeling loss as an intimation of an anticipatory future imperfect. This essay seeks to understand how queer diasporic subjects emerge out of loss, and to do so by examining the temporal processes which structure affective collectivities. I argue that Sea in the Blood offers a vision of proleptic loss. In moving the discussion of racial grief for…
Mass capture
Through an examination of the Mainland Travel Permit for Hong Kong and Macau Residents, this paper argues that there is a disjuncture between the idea of home and citizenship for mobile Chinese subjects and that this disjuncture reveals the crucial and constant work of defining non-citizens in order to safeguard citizenship. That is, non-citizens are essential for the definition of citizenship. Non-citizens are not simply there, as refugees, migr…
Under the Lucky Moose
In this paper, we use postcolonial theories of temporality—specifically the idea of belatedness—to examine how literal forms of lateness inform the so-called Lucky Moose case, wherein Chinese-Canadian grocer David Chen tardily performs a citizen’s arrest in Toronto. Canadian news media outlets, the Chinese-Canadian community, and R v Chen (2010) all contribute to the construction of Chen as an active legal subject, capable of working through the …
Reel Asian
Diasporic Citizenship
Diasporic Citizenship:Inhabiting Contradictions and Challenging Exclusions Lily Cho (bio) Chineseness Across Borders: Renegotiating Chinese Identities in China and the United States. By Andrea Louie. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. 254 pages. $74.95 (cloth). $21.95 (paper). Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora. By Martin Manalansan IV. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. 221 pages. $74.95 (cloth). $21.95 (paper). India…
Future perfect loss
This essay is about losses that have not yet happened. I suggest that there is some political value in feeling loss as an intimation of an anticipatory future imperfect. This essay seeks to understand how queer diasporic subjects emerge out of loss, and to do so by examining the temporal processes which structure affective collectivities. I argue that Sea in the Blood offers a vision of proleptic loss. In moving the discussion of racial grief for…
Citizenship, Diaspora and the Bonds of Affect
The foreclosure of emotion in a passport photograph, the identity document that ties a person to a nation, illuminates a contradiction between feeling and citizenship. On the one hand, as these instructions for the passport photographs suggest, emotion obscures the identity of the citizen. On the other, as I will discuss in further detail, emotion, or the capacity for it, is very much a part of the conception of the modern citizen. My paper will …
Intimacy Among Strangers
This essay examines the relationship between identity, emotion and citizenship manifested in Chinese Canadian head tax photographs. I argue that these photographs reveal a diasporic structure of feeling – an intimacy among strangers that is profoundly collective. As I will show, the almost uniform lack of emotion in these photographs illuminates a kind of collectivity which is based on anticipation. This essay theorizes anticipation as a key mode…
Under the Lucky Moose
In this paper, we use postcolonial theories of temporality—specifically the idea of belatedness—to examine how literal forms of lateness inform the so-called Lucky Moose case, wherein Chinese-Canadian grocer David Chen tardily performs a citizen’s arrest in Toronto. Canadian news media outlets, the Chinese-Canadian community, and R v Chen (2010) all contribute to the construction of Chen as an active legal subject, capable of working through the …
Asian Canadian Studies Reader
Roland Sintos Coloma and Gordon Pon’s Asian Canadian Studies Reader brings together essential writings by leading and emerging scholars in the field to explore the vibrancy of the diverse Asian diaspora in Canada
Mass capture
Through an examination of the Mainland Travel Permit for Hong Kong and Macau Residents, this paper argues that there is a disjuncture between the idea of home and citizenship for mobile Chinese subjects and that this disjuncture reveals the crucial and constant work of defining non-citizens in order to safeguard citizenship. That is, non-citizens are essential for the definition of citizenship. Non-citizens are not simply there, as refugees, migr…
At Home in the Asian Canadian Studies Reader
Darkroom Material
This essay argues for the need to historicize and theorize race in photography by attending to the interventions of darkroom technicians, especially those who are themselves racialized. Understanding the crucial role of the darkroom technician challenges the idea that photographic development is merely a mechanical or technical process. The photograph in development represents a moment of transition that illuminates the instabilities of photograp…
The Afterlives of Stars, Known and Unknown
Every star has an afterlife. They become supernova. They shine intensely and more brightly for a long time and then fade into darkness. Even then, in darkness, they shine. The collision of neutron
Law (5 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (3 works) · Citizenship (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)