Leung Wing-Fai
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 206412 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Leung Wing-Fai |
| PRENOMES | Leung |
| SOBRENOME | Wing-Fai |
| ASSINATURA | WING-FAI L |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The strengths of close ties
This article examines entrepreneurs who have started innovative Internet and mobile technology companies in Taiwan because they are at the forefront of industrial changes in the country. Similar to findings in Europe and the USA, education and careers in technology in Taiwan remain dominated by men. However, I argue that the gender inequality of the sector is partly the result of the fact that small new enterprises rely on family support and clos…
Who could be an Oriental angel? Lou Jing, mixed heritage and the discourses of Chinese ethnicity
Lou Jing was born in Shanghai to a Chinese mother and an African American father. She never met her father as he left China before she was born, and so was brought up by her mother in a single-parent family. In 2009, Lou Jing entered the Shanghai Dragon TV’s talent show Go Oriental Angel! Lou’s skin colour engendered heated debates among netizens, which became polarized between comments of support and racist slurs against Lou and her mother. This…
Getting in, Getting on, Getting out? Women as Career Scramblers in the UK film and Television Industries
This article looks at the predominance of freelancing in the film and television industries as a lens to examine the persistence of gender inequalities within these fields. Previous research has indicated that women fare better in larger organizations with more stable patterns of employment, and in this article we explore why that might be the case, by focusing on the experiences of female freelancers at a moment when project-based, precarious wo…
Idols and celebrity in Japanese media culture , by Patrick W. Galbraith and Jason G. Karlin
This collection of essays aims to update the field of ‘idology’ – the study of the phenomena of idols – within celebrity studies. The long existence of popular idols in Japan has only recently caug
East Asian Film Stars
Zhang Ziyi
The mainland Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi (b. 1979) graduated from the Central Academy of Drama (the top Chinese institute for acting) and was discovered by director Zhang Yimou, who cast her as the female lead in The Road Home/Wode fuqin muqin (literally, my father and mother, 1999). She was immediately picked up by Ang Lee and appeared in her breakthrough role in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon/Wohu canglong (2000). This chapter examines the stard…
Multimedia Stardom in Hong Kong
This book details original research into the practices and discourse of multimedia stardom alongside changing social and cultural landscapes in Hong Kong since 1980. It examines the cultural and sociological significance of stardom in the region, and the conditions which gave rise to such famous stars as Jackie Chan. This book elaborates the distinction between multimedia stardom and celebrity, asserting that in Hong Kong stardom has been central…
Ann Hui's Song of the Exile
Audrey Yue, 2010, Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, 148 pp. (pbk), ISBN 978-9888-02875-7 This short book is one of the latest titles in The New Hong Kong Cinema Series published by the Hong Ko
From Wah Dee to CEO
East Asian Cinemas
Cinemas from East Asia are among the most exciting and influential in the world. They are attracting popular and critical attention on a global scale, with films from the region circulating as art house, cult, blockbuster and ‘extreme’ cinema, or as Hollywood remakes. This book explores developments in the global popularity of East Asian cinema, from Chinese martial arts, through Japanese horror, to the burgeoning new Korean cinema, with particul…
Who could be an Oriental angel? Lou Jing, mixed heritage and the discourses of Chinese ethnicity
Lou Jing was born in Shanghai to a Chinese mother and an African American father. She never met her father as he left China before she was born, and so was brought up by her mother in a single-parent family. In 2009, Lou Jing entered the Shanghai Dragon TV’s talent show Go Oriental Angel! Lou’s skin colour engendered heated debates among netizens, which became polarized between comments of support and racist slurs against Lou and her mother. This…
Getting in, Getting on, Getting out? Women as Career Scramblers in the UK film and Television Industries
This article looks at the predominance of freelancing in the film and television industries as a lens to examine the persistence of gender inequalities within these fields. Previous research has indicated that women fare better in larger organizations with more stable patterns of employment, and in this article we explore why that might be the case, by focusing on the experiences of female freelancers at a moment when project-based, precarious wo…
East Asian Cinemas
Cinemas from East Asia are among the most exciting and influential in the world. They are attracting popular and critical attention on a global scale, with films from the region circulating as art house, cult, blockbuster and ‘extreme’ cinema, or as Hollywood remakes. This book explores developments in the global popularity of East Asian cinema, from Chinese martial arts, through Japanese horror, to the burgeoning new Korean cinema, with particul…
From Wah Dee to CEO
Ann Hui's Song of the Exile
Audrey Yue, 2010, Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, 148 pp. (pbk), ISBN 978-9888-02875-7 This short book is one of the latest titles in The New Hong Kong Cinema Series published by the Hong Ko
Idols and celebrity in Japanese media culture , by Patrick W. Galbraith and Jason G. Karlin
This collection of essays aims to update the field of ‘idology’ – the study of the phenomena of idols – within celebrity studies. The long existence of popular idols in Japan has only recently caug
East Asian Film Stars
Zhang Ziyi
The mainland Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi (b. 1979) graduated from the Central Academy of Drama (the top Chinese institute for acting) and was discovered by director Zhang Yimou, who cast her as the female lead in The Road Home/Wode fuqin muqin (literally, my father and mother, 1999). She was immediately picked up by Ang Lee and appeared in her breakthrough role in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon/Wohu canglong (2000). This chapter examines the stard…
Multimedia Stardom in Hong Kong
This book details original research into the practices and discourse of multimedia stardom alongside changing social and cultural landscapes in Hong Kong since 1980. It examines the cultural and sociological significance of stardom in the region, and the conditions which gave rise to such famous stars as Jackie Chan. This book elaborates the distinction between multimedia stardom and celebrity, asserting that in Hong Kong stardom has been central…
Who could be an Oriental angel? Lou Jing, mixed heritage and the discourses of Chinese ethnicity
Lou Jing was born in Shanghai to a Chinese mother and an African American father. She never met her father as he left China before she was born, and so was brought up by her mother in a single-parent family. In 2009, Lou Jing entered the Shanghai Dragon TV’s talent show Go Oriental Angel! Lou’s skin colour engendered heated debates among netizens, which became polarized between comments of support and racist slurs against Lou and her mother. This…
Getting in, Getting on, Getting out? Women as Career Scramblers in the UK film and Television Industries
This article looks at the predominance of freelancing in the film and television industries as a lens to examine the persistence of gender inequalities within these fields. Previous research has indicated that women fare better in larger organizations with more stable patterns of employment, and in this article we explore why that might be the case, by focusing on the experiences of female freelancers at a moment when project-based, precarious wo…
The strengths of close ties
This article examines entrepreneurs who have started innovative Internet and mobile technology companies in Taiwan because they are at the forefront of industrial changes in the country. Similar to findings in Europe and the USA, education and careers in technology in Taiwan remain dominated by men. However, I argue that the gender inequality of the sector is partly the result of the fact that small new enterprises rely on family support and clos…
Sociology (7 obras) · Art (6 obras) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (5 obras) · History (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Art history (4 obras) · China (4 obras) · Gender Studies (4 obras) · Geography (4 obras) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (4 obras)