L Pang
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 10730 |
|---|---|
| NOME | L Pang |
| PRENOMES | L |
| SOBRENOME | Pang |
| ASSINATURA | PANG L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5363-5411 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 131 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
One and All
Wang Guowei's Theorization of the Human World
This article explores the theorization of the sovereign subject and human will in Wang Guowei's early essays on human nature, reason, and fate, as well as those on traditional Chinese thinkers and modern Western philosophers, written in the first decade of the twentieth century. The article explores this historical moment when many Western philosophical concepts first reached China, a culture with a philosophical tradition that does not seem to e…
Contemporary Chinese arts on ageing and the poetics of accumulation
This article explores two pieces of contemporary Chinese artworks, Waste Not (物尽其用, 2005) by mainland artist Song Dong and his mother Zhao Xiangyuan, and the stuffed animals as well as their outfits made by the famous Hong Kong writer Xi Xi. The article focuses on the theme of accumulation that these two works imply. The act of accumulation is essential to the neoliberalist subject, who is constantly accumulating, whether it be knowledge, experie…
Decolonizing Common Law
A recent judgment of the Privy Council on a relatively minor incitement charge in Trinidad and Tobago surprisingly impacts a decisive seditious trial in Hong Kong - both places were former colonies of the British Crown and have adopted common law. While common law is a colonial heritage in both places, it also proves to be capable of providing some protection to dissident subjects in their postcolonial times, particularly in Hong Kong, where the …
Writing behind Bars
This is an article devoted to a woman political prisoner in Hong Kong, with a focus on the relation between freedom and political subjectivity. In prison, while she, Gwyneth Ho, continues to present well-crafted and relevant social commentaries in her social media, the prisoner also writes a lot about a gay popular star. She proudly participates in this fandom even in prison, made possible by other fans diligently sending her news and gossip thro…
Introduction
This is an introduction essay to the IJAS special issue “Materialism and Materiality in Asia,” which is devoted to the intersections between Marxist historical materialism and the more recent new materialisms in different Asian contexts. The two materialisms correspond to two pressing social problems we are facing: the social inequality and alienations created by capitalism on the one hand and the environmental crises happening under the Anthropo…
Can dialectic materialism produce beauty? The “Great Aesthetic Debates” (1956–1962) in the People's Republic of China
This article focuses on a set of aesthetic debates that took place in China in the late 1950s. By exploring the main arguments presented by different thinkers, particularly the writings of Zhu Guanqian and Li Zehou, this article demonstrates how the aesthetics took part in the ideological formation of the new socialist state. From the debates, we observe the tensions between the complexity of the material-political and the reductionism of the sta…
Facing Up to the Sovereign
This article analyzes the current political predicament of Hong Kong by examining Nightmare Wallpaper, an art project composed of a series of automatic drawings made by local artist Pak Sheung Cheun. He made them while attending the court cases of political activists on trial, and the article further explores his subsequent efforts to transform this work into wallpaper prints, a series of installations, and a book. This political work, which is a…
Mask as identity? The political subject in the 2019 Hong Kong’s social unrest
This article examines the significance of the masks worn by the protestors in Hong Kong’s 2019 political movement. The mask represents a collective political identity, but the act of wearing it is also an individual decision. The Hong Kong protestors wore masks for practical reasons – to hide their identities and to protect them from tear gas – so the mask represents the actual struggles of the protestors. But it also symbolizes the protestors as…
China's Post-Socialist Governmentality and the Garlic Chives Meme
This article analyzes a popular meme that has spread rapidly among Chinese internet users in the last few years, 'garlic chives' ( jiucai), as a self-mockery of the bio-economic subject in contemporary China. This metaphor refers to those ordinary Chinese people who are constantly lured to participate in all kinds of economic activities, but whose investments are destined to be consumed by the establishment. Through a close study of this popular …
The Appearing Demos
As the waves of Occupy movements gradually recede, we soon forget the political hope and passions these events have offered. Instead, we are increasingly entrenched in the simplified dichotomies of Left and Right, us and them, hating others and victimizing oneself. Studying Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement, which might be the largest Occupy movement in recent years, The Appearing Demos urges us to re-commit to democracy at a time when democracy is f…
Maoist revolutionary subjectivity
This article studies the ambiguous position intellectuals occupied in Maoism, and it focuses specifically on the revolutionary relationship between the masses and intellectuals in early Naxalite movements in India. Maoism traveled from China to India, and intellectuals played an essential role in this travel; but they are also fundamentally distrusted by Maoism in China. This paper focuses on the late 1960s Naxalite movements, which were conducte…
Identity Politics and Democracy in Hong Kong's Social Unrest
206 Feminist Studies 46, no. 1. © 2020 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Pang Laikwan Identity Politics and Democracy in Hong Kong's Social Unrest Hong Kong's anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (anti-ELAB) movement began with legislation proposed in February 2019 to allow the transfer of fugitives to jurisdictions with which the city lacks formal extradition treaties. The law quickly attracted a tremendous amount of criticism and generated enormous anxi…
The Distorting Mirror
Distorting Mirror analyzes the multiple and complex ways in which urban Chinese subjects saw themselves interacting with the new visual culture that emerged during the turbulent period between the 1880s and the 1930s. The media and visual forms examined include lithography, photography, advertising, film, and theatrical performances. Urbanites actively engaged with and enjoyed this visual culture, which was largely driven by the subjective desire…
Retheorizing the Social
To understand the political meanings of Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement as a spontaneous movement beyond its immediate political achievements and as part of a larger global movement that used occupation as a tactic, this article explores related activities happening in social media and investigates how this social space is filled with both political messages and private emotions. By engaging with Hannah Arendt's differentiation among the public, th…
The Allegory of Time and Space
How did writers in Maoist China assume their role as authors, torn between self-expression and the political demands of the Party? How should we read the literary creations produced at a time in which literary works were not always candid expressions of the authors, but were manifestations of complex negotiations and self-censorship? This chapter provides a case study to illustrate these quandaries, focusing specifically on Tian Han’s historical …
Civil Disobedience and the Rule of Law
Hong Kong's 2014 Umbrella Movement oscillates between its noble demand for self-governance and the dangerous endorsement of discrimination. To launch a more penetrating discussion of related tensions of this global city, this article focuses on the meanings of the rule of law. It is time that the rule of law as a popular discourse might only show how people are complacent with the status quo and are encouraged to evade their need to face the outs…
Mao's Dialectical Materialism
In this paper I present Mao's historical view based on dialectical materialism, and I propose that this socialist historiography can help the current PRC regime to reflect on its relationship to its past and its future. As we know, the contradictions of capitalism and communism lie not only in the economic and political realms but also in the completely different senses of time they offer. In the case of Maoism, it is the unfixed future that agit…
Arendt in Hong Kong
This article explores the meanings of the arts produced in the 2014 Hong Kong Umbrella Movement, using a reinterpretation of Hannah Arendt’s political philosophy. It examines how these arts struggle with the tensions between politics and aesthetics. These arts are not only politically provocative in themselves but they also provide us new perspectives in understanding participatory politics and participatory arts, in general. The discussion is ba…
The Visual Representations of the Barefoot Doctor
Exploring the visual representations of the barefoot doctors in China's Cultural Revolution, this article demonstrates how a medical policy is visualized and politicized, and it also shows how the visual culture of the time was richer than it has been assumed. This article meanders through different visual means such as propaganda posters and cinema in order to explore the difficult relationships between politics and policy, as well as the uneasy…
Depoliticization Through Cultural Policy and Intellectual Property Rights
In this article I first relate and analyze the overall development of cultural policy and the intellectual property rights (IPR) legal structure in China, in order to show how China's policy and its legal environment increasingly adapt to global conditions. I then use Lijiang, a tourist area, as an example to show how national cultural policy and global IPR overlap in the local economy. I also demonstrate how this history escapes Aihwa Ong's theo…
Colour and utopia
This article investigates the narrative films produced in China between 1973 and 1976 in order to analyse the contestations between the films' utopian impulses and the institutionalization of these impulses. Jameson reminds us that in order to better understand utopian thinking, we should consider shifting our focus from content to representation. As utopian texts, these films are also more interesting in their form than in their messages. This a…
Creativity and Its Discontents
The colleagues and students at the
The state against ghosts
This essay provides a genealogy of Chinese film policy by focusing on the censorship of representations of ghosts and the supernatural in Chinese cinema. From China's first film censorship policy in the 1920s to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, ghost-related cultural products have attracted significant attention from the government, and national policies regarding these representations correspond to a range of changing concerns. Chinese cinema finds it…
The Labor Factor in the Creative Economy
This paper offers a Marxist analysis of the creative agency conceptualized by the new creative economy. Analyzing the differences and continuities between the creative economy and the traditional industrial economy, I explore how creative labor is selectively invested with the logics of both artistic production and industrial production, so that the creative economy, like and unlike the traditional industrial economy, could operate and proliferat…
Creativity and Its Discontents
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China Who Makes and Fakes
This is a study of the semiotics of counterfeit products. Beginning with an analysis of a number of piracy-related activities taking place in China, I look at how and why China is understood by the world as a pirate nation. Through a careful reading of the counterfeit product as a material object, my study aims at demythologizing the relation between China and piracy, and I relate the logic of the counterfeit to the logic of capitalism. I argue t…
China's Post-Socialist Governmentality and the Garlic Chives Meme
This article analyzes a popular meme that has spread rapidly among Chinese internet users in the last few years, 'garlic chives' ( jiucai), as a self-mockery of the bio-economic subject in contemporary China. This metaphor refers to those ordinary Chinese people who are constantly lured to participate in all kinds of economic activities, but whose investments are destined to be consumed by the establishment. Through a close study of this popular …
Piracy/Privacy
Research Article| August 01 2004 Piracy/Privacy: The Despair of Cinema and Collectivity in China Laikwan Pang Laikwan Pang Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2004) 31 (3): 101–124. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-31-3-101 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Laikwan Pang; Piracy/Privacy: The Despair of Cinema and Collectivity in China. boundary 2 1 Au…
Arendt in Hong Kong
This article explores the meanings of the arts produced in the 2014 Hong Kong Umbrella Movement, using a reinterpretation of Hannah Arendt’s political philosophy. It examines how these arts struggle with the tensions between politics and aesthetics. These arts are not only politically provocative in themselves but they also provide us new perspectives in understanding participatory politics and participatory arts, in general. The discussion is ba…
The collective subjectivity of Chinese intellectuals and their café culture in republican Shanghai 1
Using a brief comment by Lu Xun regarding the thriving café culture in 1920s' Shanghai as a point of departure, this paper investigates how the male intellectuals of the time constructed, affiliated with, and practiced the café culture in the 1920s and 1930s. The paper first provides a historical overview of Shanghai's café scene, and it investigates the general relationship between coffee and colonialism. The main body of the paper explores how …
Identity Politics and Democracy in Hong Kong's Social Unrest
206 Feminist Studies 46, no. 1. © 2020 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Pang Laikwan Identity Politics and Democracy in Hong Kong's Social Unrest Hong Kong's anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (anti-ELAB) movement began with legislation proposed in February 2019 to allow the transfer of fugitives to jurisdictions with which the city lacks formal extradition treaties. The law quickly attracted a tremendous amount of criticism and generated enormous anxi…
The Labor Factor in the Creative Economy
This paper offers a Marxist analysis of the creative agency conceptualized by the new creative economy. Analyzing the differences and continuities between the creative economy and the traditional industrial economy, I explore how creative labor is selectively invested with the logics of both artistic production and industrial production, so that the creative economy, like and unlike the traditional industrial economy, could operate and proliferat…
Postcolonial Hong Kong cinema
Hong Kong cinema has witnessed a drastic deterioration in the last decade, with a sharp plummet in both the number of annual productions and box office receipts. The key objective of this paper is to explore the relationship between the postcolonial Hong Kong identity as reflected and intertwined in the new filmmaking environment, which is now dominated by two main manifestations: the making of Hong Kong-mainland Chinese co-produced blockbusters,…
Magic and Modernity in China
Research Article| May 01 2004 Magic and Modernity in China Laikwan Pang Laikwan Pang Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2004) 12 (2): 299–327. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-12-2-299 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Laikwan Pang; Magic and Modernity in China. positions 1 May 2004; 12 (2): 299–327. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-12-2-299 Do…
Mao's Dialectical Materialism
In this paper I present Mao's historical view based on dialectical materialism, and I propose that this socialist historiography can help the current PRC regime to reflect on its relationship to its past and its future. As we know, the contradictions of capitalism and communism lie not only in the economic and political realms but also in the completely different senses of time they offer. In the case of Maoism, it is the unfixed future that agit…
Depoliticization Through Cultural Policy and Intellectual Property Rights
In this article I first relate and analyze the overall development of cultural policy and the intellectual property rights (IPR) legal structure in China, in order to show how China's policy and its legal environment increasingly adapt to global conditions. I then use Lijiang, a tourist area, as an example to show how national cultural policy and global IPR overlap in the local economy. I also demonstrate how this history escapes Aihwa Ong's theo…
The state against ghosts
This essay provides a genealogy of Chinese film policy by focusing on the censorship of representations of ghosts and the supernatural in Chinese cinema. From China's first film censorship policy in the 1920s to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, ghost-related cultural products have attracted significant attention from the government, and national policies regarding these representations correspond to a range of changing concerns. Chinese cinema finds it…
Copying Kill Bill
Research Article| June 01 2005 Copying Kill Bill Laikwan Pang Laikwan Pang Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2005) 23 (2 (83)): 133–153. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-23-2_83-133 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Laikwan Pang; Copying Kill Bill. Social Text 1 June 2005; 23 (2 (83)): 133–153. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-23-2_83-133 Download citation file: Zot…
Facing Up to the Sovereign
This article analyzes the current political predicament of Hong Kong by examining Nightmare Wallpaper, an art project composed of a series of automatic drawings made by local artist Pak Sheung Cheun. He made them while attending the court cases of political activists on trial, and the article further explores his subsequent efforts to transform this work into wallpaper prints, a series of installations, and a book. This political work, which is a…
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
Masculinity in Crisis
Decolonizing Common Law
A recent judgment of the Privy Council on a relatively minor incitement charge in Trinidad and Tobago surprisingly impacts a decisive seditious trial in Hong Kong - both places were former colonies of the British Crown and have adopted common law. While common law is a colonial heritage in both places, it also proves to be capable of providing some protection to dissident subjects in their postcolonial times, particularly in Hong Kong, where the …
Building a New China in Cinema
Building a New China in Cinema introduces English readers for the first time to one of the most exciting left-wing cinema traditions in the world. This unique book explores the history, ideology, and aesthetics of China's left-wing cinema movement, a quixotic film culture that was as political as commercial, as militant as sensationalist. Originating in the 1930s, it marked the first systematic intellectual involvement in Chinese cinema. In this …
Masculinity in Crisis
Magic and Modernity in China
Research Article| May 01 2004 Magic and Modernity in China Laikwan Pang Laikwan Pang Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2004) 12 (2): 299–327. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-12-2-299 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Laikwan Pang; Magic and Modernity in China. positions 1 May 2004; 12 (2): 299–327. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-12-2-299 Do…
Piracy/Privacy
Research Article| August 01 2004 Piracy/Privacy: The Despair of Cinema and Collectivity in China Laikwan Pang Laikwan Pang Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2004) 31 (3): 101–124. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-31-3-101 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Laikwan Pang; Piracy/Privacy: The Despair of Cinema and Collectivity in China. boundary 2 1 Au…
The pictorial turn
This paper examines the popularity of lithography in late 19th century China and relates the cultural significance of this new mass medium to the construction of modernity within China's semi‐colonial experience. In contrast to woodblock illustrations, which had been widely circulated in China for more than a millennium, lithography fundamentally changed the way images are understood; they now emphasized and visualized change, the novel and the p…
Copying Kill Bill
Research Article| June 01 2005 Copying Kill Bill Laikwan Pang Laikwan Pang Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2005) 23 (2 (83)): 133–153. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-23-2_83-133 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Laikwan Pang; Copying Kill Bill. Social Text 1 June 2005; 23 (2 (83)): 133–153. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-23-2_83-133 Download citation file: Zot…
The collective subjectivity of Chinese intellectuals and their café culture in republican Shanghai 1
Using a brief comment by Lu Xun regarding the thriving café culture in 1920s' Shanghai as a point of departure, this paper investigates how the male intellectuals of the time constructed, affiliated with, and practiced the café culture in the 1920s and 1930s. The paper first provides a historical overview of Shanghai's café scene, and it investigates the general relationship between coffee and colonialism. The main body of the paper explores how …
Walking into and out of the spectacle
This paper studies China's urban visual culture in the last decade of the nineteenth century to explore how cinema was first introduced to China and how it interacted with the existing mass visual entertainments. This paper focuses primarily on the theme of “movement,” which directly and indirectly illustrates the new experiences and significations “moving images” brought along. The paper first discusses the emergence of a new public garden cultu…
Postcolonial Hong Kong cinema
Hong Kong cinema has witnessed a drastic deterioration in the last decade, with a sharp plummet in both the number of annual productions and box office receipts. The key objective of this paper is to explore the relationship between the postcolonial Hong Kong identity as reflected and intertwined in the new filmmaking environment, which is now dominated by two main manifestations: the making of Hong Kong-mainland Chinese co-produced blockbusters,…
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
China Who Makes and Fakes
This is a study of the semiotics of counterfeit products. Beginning with an analysis of a number of piracy-related activities taking place in China, I look at how and why China is understood by the world as a pirate nation. Through a careful reading of the counterfeit product as a material object, my study aims at demythologizing the relation between China and piracy, and I relate the logic of the counterfeit to the logic of capitalism. I argue t…
The Labor Factor in the Creative Economy
This paper offers a Marxist analysis of the creative agency conceptualized by the new creative economy. Analyzing the differences and continuities between the creative economy and the traditional industrial economy, I explore how creative labor is selectively invested with the logics of both artistic production and industrial production, so that the creative economy, like and unlike the traditional industrial economy, could operate and proliferat…
The state against ghosts
This essay provides a genealogy of Chinese film policy by focusing on the censorship of representations of ghosts and the supernatural in Chinese cinema. From China's first film censorship policy in the 1920s to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, ghost-related cultural products have attracted significant attention from the government, and national policies regarding these representations correspond to a range of changing concerns. Chinese cinema finds it…
Colour and utopia
This article investigates the narrative films produced in China between 1973 and 1976 in order to analyse the contestations between the films' utopian impulses and the institutionalization of these impulses. Jameson reminds us that in order to better understand utopian thinking, we should consider shifting our focus from content to representation. As utopian texts, these films are also more interesting in their form than in their messages. This a…
Creativity and Its Discontents
The colleagues and students at the
Depoliticization Through Cultural Policy and Intellectual Property Rights
In this article I first relate and analyze the overall development of cultural policy and the intellectual property rights (IPR) legal structure in China, in order to show how China's policy and its legal environment increasingly adapt to global conditions. I then use Lijiang, a tourist area, as an example to show how national cultural policy and global IPR overlap in the local economy. I also demonstrate how this history escapes Aihwa Ong's theo…
The Visual Representations of the Barefoot Doctor
Exploring the visual representations of the barefoot doctors in China's Cultural Revolution, this article demonstrates how a medical policy is visualized and politicized, and it also shows how the visual culture of the time was richer than it has been assumed. This article meanders through different visual means such as propaganda posters and cinema in order to explore the difficult relationships between politics and policy, as well as the uneasy…
The Allegory of Time and Space
How did writers in Maoist China assume their role as authors, torn between self-expression and the political demands of the Party? How should we read the literary creations produced at a time in which literary works were not always candid expressions of the authors, but were manifestations of complex negotiations and self-censorship? This chapter provides a case study to illustrate these quandaries, focusing specifically on Tian Han’s historical …
Civil Disobedience and the Rule of Law
Hong Kong's 2014 Umbrella Movement oscillates between its noble demand for self-governance and the dangerous endorsement of discrimination. To launch a more penetrating discussion of related tensions of this global city, this article focuses on the meanings of the rule of law. It is time that the rule of law as a popular discourse might only show how people are complacent with the status quo and are encouraged to evade their need to face the outs…
Mao's Dialectical Materialism
In this paper I present Mao's historical view based on dialectical materialism, and I propose that this socialist historiography can help the current PRC regime to reflect on its relationship to its past and its future. As we know, the contradictions of capitalism and communism lie not only in the economic and political realms but also in the completely different senses of time they offer. In the case of Maoism, it is the unfixed future that agit…
Arendt in Hong Kong
This article explores the meanings of the arts produced in the 2014 Hong Kong Umbrella Movement, using a reinterpretation of Hannah Arendt’s political philosophy. It examines how these arts struggle with the tensions between politics and aesthetics. These arts are not only politically provocative in themselves but they also provide us new perspectives in understanding participatory politics and participatory arts, in general. The discussion is ba…
The Distorting Mirror
Distorting Mirror analyzes the multiple and complex ways in which urban Chinese subjects saw themselves interacting with the new visual culture that emerged during the turbulent period between the 1880s and the 1930s. The media and visual forms examined include lithography, photography, advertising, film, and theatrical performances. Urbanites actively engaged with and enjoyed this visual culture, which was largely driven by the subjective desire…
Retheorizing the Social
To understand the political meanings of Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement as a spontaneous movement beyond its immediate political achievements and as part of a larger global movement that used occupation as a tactic, this article explores related activities happening in social media and investigates how this social space is filled with both political messages and private emotions. By engaging with Hannah Arendt's differentiation among the public, th…
The Appearing Demos
As the waves of Occupy movements gradually recede, we soon forget the political hope and passions these events have offered. Instead, we are increasingly entrenched in the simplified dichotomies of Left and Right, us and them, hating others and victimizing oneself. Studying Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement, which might be the largest Occupy movement in recent years, The Appearing Demos urges us to re-commit to democracy at a time when democracy is f…
Maoist revolutionary subjectivity
This article studies the ambiguous position intellectuals occupied in Maoism, and it focuses specifically on the revolutionary relationship between the masses and intellectuals in early Naxalite movements in India. Maoism traveled from China to India, and intellectuals played an essential role in this travel; but they are also fundamentally distrusted by Maoism in China. This paper focuses on the late 1960s Naxalite movements, which were conducte…
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