M.Phil. - Ph.D. in Cultural Studies
Postgraduate Students
M.Phil. - Ph.D. in Cultural Studies - Postgraduate Students
Postgraduate Students
Jacopo Barbero
Jacopo Barbero
Jacopo Barbero is a PhD student in Cultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). His doctoral research examines the concept of cinematic atmosphere and its relevance to the form and politics of post-1982 Hong Kong science fiction cinema. Before joining CUHK, he worked as a lecturer in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, where he taught courses in film and media studies, as well as cultural studies and philosophy. Jacopo holds a Research MA in Media Studies from the University of Amsterdam and a BA and an MA in Linguistic Sciences from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy. His research interests include Hong Kong and Chinese cinemas, classical and contemporary film theory, (radical) formalism, and the environmental humanities.
Tentative Research Topic
Atmospheres of the Future: Cinematic-Elemental Worlding, Form and Politics in Hong Kong Science Fiction Film, 1982–Present.
Research Interests
Hong Kong and Chinese cinemas; classical and contemporary film theory; environmental humanities; urban cinema; critical and cultural theory.
Publication
Chow, Pei-Sze, Jacopo Barbero, Hiromi Tanaka, and Michelle H.S. Ho. 2025. "Kawaii Aesthetics in Human-Machine Romance: Reimagining Gender, Cuteness, and Digital Intimacy in A.I. Love You (2016)." In The Future of Humans and Emotional Machines: Narratives from Japanese Culture in the 21st Century, edited by Elena Giannoulis. Routledge. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003570653-12.
Bi Cheng Senter
Bi Cheng Senter
Senter Bi is a PhD student in Cultural Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She previously graduated from Emerson College and NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Her research examines postwar South Korean avant-garde art through spatial interventions, including experimental art, alternative art spaces, and abstract visual strategies. Working with the frameworks of compressed modernity, spatial politics, and heterotopia, she investigates how artists in the 1960s–70s reconfigured the spatial, sensory, and temporal conditions of everyday life under developmental dictatorship and Cold War governance. Her broader interests include the politics of aesthetics, East Asian modernities, and the spatial organization of artistic resistance.
Tentative Research Topic
Disobedient Heterotopias: Cultural Politics of Postwar South Korean Avant-Garde Art
Research Interests
Visual art; art politics; Korean modern and contemporary history; spatial theory; museum and curatorial studies; avant-garde practices
Chen Keyi
Chen Keyi
Keyi is currently a PhD student in Cultural Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She holds a BA in Philosophy and Economics from New York University and an MA in East Asian Studies from Duke University. Her research centers on East Asian popular culture, especially screen culture, examining how film and television operate as sites for engaging with questions of gender, sexuality, and digital activism. She is particularly interested in how audiences approach cultural texts not as passive consumers but as active meaning-makers who produce affective investments, critical interpretations, and creative interventions, and in how representational politics and digital infrastructures shape contemporary practices of viewing and cultural participation. While her primary focus has been Chinese popular culture, she is increasingly drawn to its transcultural dimensions: how cross-border flows reshape modes of cultural consumption and production.
Tentative Research Topic
Mediating Affective Realness: Media Environments, Gendered Intimacy, and Transcultural Contexts in Chinese CP Fandom
Research Interests
East Asian (particularly Chinese and South Korean) film and television; East Asian popular culture, with a focus on media fandom and spectatorship; Gender and Sexuality; Digital activism
Chen Quanchi Starry
Chen Quanchi Starry
Starry Chen is an aspiring researcher and curator as PhD student in Cultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Delving into water bodies, she is interested in the material, body, and discourse that are submerged, surging, and permeable. Her recent research flows from maritime history, water-based infrastructure, and postcolonial critique in East and Southeast Asian coast, to water sports, marine life, and wet ecologies. She graduated with Bachelor of Social Sciences from the University of Hong Kong (2023) and Master of Art in Culture, criticism & curation from Central Saint Martins (2024).
Tentative Research Topic
Diving into Alternative Time-Space: Media, Memory, and Materiality inin Coastal and Archipelagic Asia
Research Interests
Blue humanities, Post-colonialism amd archipelagic studies, Memory and archives, Curating contemporary art, Sociology of culture
Cheung Sum Yuet Ines
Cheung Sum Yuet Ines
Cheung Sum Yuet is an MPhil student in Cultural Studies at CUHK. After graduating with a Bachelor of Data Science and Policy Studies from CUHK, she spent two years in Nepal working in the development sector and exploring the borderlands of the country. Building upon reflections on her experience in South Asia, her research delves into the struggles and possibilities of negotiating a common regional identity in a socially heterogenous and politically complex region.
Tentative Research Topic
Representation of South Asia in International Film Festivals: Struggles and Possibilities
Research Interests
Cultural Identity, Transnational Culture, Film Studies, Global South, Community Building, Social Network
Feng Lei
Feng Lei
Feng Lei is a PhD student in Cultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He intends to explore how the "non-urban" sustains but also fundamentally disrupts the formation of urban subjectivity in everyday lives of central Beijing.
Tentative Research Topic
Non-urban space and experience in contemporary urban China
Research Interests
Urban culture, everyday life, psychoanalysis
Hao Qifan
Hao Qifan
I am a PhD student in Cultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. I studied Cultural Industry Management at the Communication University of China and then received my master's degree from the School of Arts (majoring in Theory of Arts & Culture), Nanjing University. I am now interested in how modern and comtemporary literature and cinema recognize, express, and negotiate ecological changes, geopolitics, social power dynamics, and the awareness of human-nonhuman connections in the Anthropocene.
Tentative Research Topic
“Perception, Interaction, and Becoming” in Southeast Asian Ecophilosophical Films
Research Interests
Eco-cinema and Econarratology，Contemporary Chinese Culture and Politics, Culture, Society and Politics in the Anthropocene, Film Philosophy and Film Theory
Publications
- Hao, Q. (2022). The Image Representation of Dialectic Things in Bill Brown’s “New Materialism” Vision. （布朗“新物質主義”視野下辯證之物的影像顯現）Journal of Beijing Film Academy（《北京電影學院學報》）, 12, 31-38.
- Han, R., & Hao, Q. (2020). Analysis of the Value Space and Innovative Practices Triggered by Artificial Intelligence in the Development of Cultural Industries.（人工智能激發文化產業發展的價值空間與創新實踐分析） Modern Audiovisual,（《現代視聽》） 11, 21-25.
- Hao, Q. (2020). Research on the Dissemination and Operation Strategies of Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Short Video Era.（非遺文化在短視頻時代的傳播與運營策略研究） Science and Education Guide,（《科教導刊》） 9, 17-23.
Hui Chun Kit
Hui Chun Kit
HUI Chun Kit 許俊傑 is a M.Phil. student in Cultural Studies at CUHK. He received his M.A. degree in Intercultural Studies and his bachelor degree in the department of Chinese Language and Literature in CUHK. His current research examines how the MTR acts as a criminal and sci-fi medium in cultural texts and reconstructs the city imaginations and identity politics of post-colonial Hong Kong.
Tentative Research Topic
Criminal and Sci-Fi Imaginations in Hong Kong MTR Narratives
Research Interests
New Materialism, Affect Theory, Media Studies, Post-colonial Studies, Hong Kong Studies
Publication
- Hui, Chun Kit. (2026). MTR and the Spectral / Monstrous: On “Underground Hong Kong” in Echo of Heart’s Sai Ying Pun. 2nd Interdisciplinary Taught Postgraduate Student Conference on Arts and Humanities, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
- Hui, Chun Kit. (2025). A Flash of Aura: On the Disappearance and Reconstruction of ‘Hongkongness’ in Mainland-Hong Kong Co-production Films (靈光閃現：論中港合拍片中「香港性」的消逝與重構). International Symposium on Chinese Language Research and Teaching (破與立：中文研究與教學國際學術研討會), National Taiwan Normal University.
Li Yixiang
Li Yixiang
Yixiang Li is currently a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His principal research areas include media theory and contemporary Chinese poetry. His PhD dissertation, tentatively entitled “The Spectre of Character: Rebuilding Chineseness in the World of Digits,” studies the materiality of writing technologies and its impacts on contemporary Chinese poetic and aesthetic expression, aiming to bring out a novel conception of text in the Sinophone context from a media-materiality perspective. He publishes poetry under pen name Blind LI. He has received poetry prices from the Mainland, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. He is also a project leader of the “International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong” (IPNHK) and the convener of “Transboundary Forum for Young Poets in the Sinophone World.”
李毅翔，一九九四年生於廣東新會。多倫多大學東亞研究碩士，現為香港中文大學文化研究博士候選人，研究方向為比較詩學和媒介理論。他的博士論文《The Spectre of Character: Rebuilding Chineseness in the World of Digits》以中文世界的信息處理技術史為切入點，探討當代漢語詩人、藝術家和小說家在數字時代進行寫作的介質環境。他以筆名「李盲」發表詩作，散見《聲韻詩刊》、「虛詞」、「別字」等刊物和網站，曾獲「頂度詩歌獎」（2024）、「金車詩歌獎」（2024）「青年文學獎」（2024、2023）、「光華詩歌獎」（2022）。他曾參與「香港國際詩歌之夜」等詩歌節活動的籌備和執行工作；亦是「華語青年詩人交流計畫」的發起人之一，此計畫旨在推動兩岸三地青年華語寫作者跨越邊界、詩歌傳統的交流，至今已歷三季。
Tentative Research Topic
PhD dissertation - “The Spectre of Character: Rebuilding Chineseness in the World of Digits”
Paper-in-progress - “Phonographic Poetics: Guo Moruo, Sonic Machines, and the Revolutionary Lyricism in the 1930s’ China”
Research Interests
Writing Technologies; media theory; comparative modernism; modern Chinese poetry; creative writing.
Scholarly Grants
Postgraduate Studentships, CUHK
Vice-Chancellor's PhD Scholarship Scheme, CUHK
Literary Prizes
金車新詩獎 優選（2024）
2024頂度詩歌獎·高校獎 入圍獎（2024）
第五十屆青年文學獎·新詩高級組 優異獎（2024）
第四十九屆青年文學獎·新詩高級組 優異獎（2023）
第十二届光华诗歌奖（2022）
Lim Chun Lean
Lim Chun Lean
Lim Chun Lean is a PhD student in Cultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, specializing in the role of science and technology in Southeast Asian societies. His current research focuses on the construction of Malay DNA and its intersection with racial politics in Malaysia, examining how Malay identities are renegotiated in this context. Additionally, he is exploring mobile health in Myanmar, investigating alternative health trajectories under an authoritative state, and is also interested in the history of technology in Southeast Asia, seeking to discuss technology from a regional perspective. Prior to his doctoral studies, he received his academic training at Lingnan University and Nanyang Technological University.
Tentative Research Topic
Microscopic nation: Negotiating Malay identities in the age of genomics
Research Interests
Southeast Asian Studies; Science, Technologies, and Societies; Postcolonialism; Race and Ethnicities; Malaysian Studies; Myanmar Studies
Dissertation
Lim, C. L. (2021). Towards Satu Bangsa: A reevaluation of the race-based narrative and its impact on Chinese communities in Malaysia (Master's thesis, Lingnan University, Hong Kong).
Conference Presentations
- Lim, C. L. (2024, June). Microscopic nation: Negotiating Malay identities in the age of genomics. The 19th Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
- Lim, C. L., & Nang Noom Hseng. (2024, August). Healthcare reimagined: The making of mobile healthcare in post-coup Myanmar. The 4th International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies, Chiang Mai University, Thailand.
Liu Honghui
Liu Honghui
Honghui is currently a PhD student in cultural studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English and a master’s degree in English Language and Literature from Sichuan University. Her academic interest centers on the intersection of popular culture, digital media, and feminist activism in contemporary China. Specifically, her proposed doctoral research aims to examine the role of stand-up comedy in (re)shaping feminist discourses in digital China.
Tentative Research Topic
The Power of Feminist Humor: Unpacking Stand-up Comedy and Its Audience in Contemporary Digital China
Research Interests
Popular Culture, Media Studies, Feminist Humor, Digital Feminism, Audience Reception
Krystie Ng
Krystie Ng
Krystie is a Malaysian researcher and curator based in Hong Kong. In 2019, she co-founded the Inter-Asia Woodcut Mapping Group, a research collective focused on self-organized woodcut practices in Asian context. Besides, she is also an initiator and researcher for The Art of Coexistence: An Archival Project of Self-Organized and Collaborative Art Practice.
Tentative Research Topic
The production of art and politics of woodcut collectives in inter-Asian contexts
Research Interests
self-organized art practice, socially-engaged art, artist collective, trans-regional collaboration, art activism
Publication
- Ng, Krystie. ‘From Reaction to Relation: The Deliberative Approach of Pangrok Sulap in Environmental Activism’. In Contemporary Art and Ecological Transformation in East and Southeast Asia, edited by Meiqin Wang. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2025.
- Lee, Chun Fung, Krystie Ng, and Kenichiro Egami. ‘Debordering: Woodcut Printmaking Practice in Inter-Asian Context’. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 25, no. 3 (2024): 489–501.
- 吳君儀. ‘從離散到獨立：新加坡戰後木刻初探’. 亞際木刻圖會：戰後亞洲的木刻運動及其多重軌跡, 2024.
- Ng, Krystie. ‘Seni Kolaborasi: Refleksi Amalan Pangrok Sulap’. In Pangrok Sulap: Sedekad Seni Merakyat, edited by Eko Prayitno Joko, Sharifah Nursyahidah Syed Annuar, and Muhammad Helmy Abdul Gapar, 165–98. Kota Kinabalu: Pangrok Sulap and Goethe-Institut Malaysia, 2023.
- 吳君儀. ‘邊緣紀實：亞洲木刻群集的創作實踐’. PAR表演藝術, 2023.
- Ng, Krystie. ‘Collaboration or Social Mobilization? The Historical Context of Gotong-Royong and Its Politics’. Nusantara Archive (blog), 3 September 2022.
- Ng, Krystie. ‘Universality and Particularity: Woodcut Portraits in Asia’. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 23, no. 3 (2022): 477–89.
- Ng, Krystie. ‘The Politics of Collaboration in Malaysian Contemporary Art Practice: Case Studies of Petaling Street Community Art Project and Pangrok Sulap’. Master Thesis, National Chiao Tung University, 2020.
Eric Michael Peterson
Eric Michael Peterson
Eric Peterson is a Ph.D. student in Cultural Studies at CUHK and received his B.S. at Towson University and M.A. at Yonsei University. His research interests span many areas in game studies, particularly the development of communities surrounding speedrunning and digital game modification. He also has a prior background in the cultural history of Korea and Japan.
Research Interests
Video Games, Digital Cultures, Cultural Industries, Science and Technology Studies, New Materialism, Cultural History of Korea and Japan
Sun Shitong
Sun Shitong
Shitong Sun is an MPhil student in Cultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his Bachelor of Communication in Media and Communication Studies from the Hong Kong Baptist University (BNU-HKBU UIC) in 2023 and his Master of Arts in Anthropology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2024. His MPhil project examines how sexually explicit ASMR negotiates norms, sonic effects, mediated embodiment, and affective economies in the context of online pornography.
Tentative Research Topic
Pornosonics that Binds: Haptic Ambience, Affective Loop and ASMR Porn
Research Interests
Sound studies, ambient media, porn studies, popular media and culture, memory and heritage studies
Sun Xiaoyi
Sun Xiaoyi
I am a PhD student in Cultural Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. My research examines video games as cultural artifacts that actively participate in the formation and transformation of identity, with a particular focus on titles rooted in Chinese history, social experience, and aesthetic traditions. Drawing on game studies, cultural memory, and media theory, I investigate how gameplay mechanics, narrative frameworks, and visual design reinterpret the past, respond to contemporary realities, and project imagined futures. I pay special attention to how interactive systems and symbolic environments encode, mediate, and disseminate constructions of Chineseness, both within domestic cultural discourses and across transnational gaming publics.
Tentative Research Topic
From Throne to Code: Sovereignty and Contestation in Chinese Historical Video Games
Research Interests
Game Studies; Collective Memory; Cultural Identity; Chineseness; Platform Studies; East Asian Studies; Media Technology
Publications
- Sun, X. Y. (2024). Copyright Concerns and Meme Morality. Advances in Journalism and Communication, 12, 418-430.
- Sun, X. (2023). Book Review: Experimental Games: Critique, Play and Design in the Age of Gamification. Visual Communication, 0(0).
- Sun, X. (2023). Book Review: Global South Discourse in East Asian Media Studies. New Media & Society, 25(2), 453–455.
- Sun, X. (2023). Book Review: Transmedia Storytelling in East Asia: The Age of Digital Media. New Media & Society, 0(0).
Tang Tsz Ming
Tang Tsz Ming
Tang Tsz Ming is currently an MPhil student in Cultural Studies. He graduated with a double degree in Laws and Arts from the University of Hong Kong in 2026. His academic interest centers on the intersection between law and the humanities. His proposed research examines Hong Kong trial films to explore how cinema reflects public sentiment toward law and imagines alternative legal futures. He is also engaging with postcolonial critiques of law as part of his broader inquiry into Hong Kong legal identity.
Tentative Research Topic
Affective legality and legal imaginaries: a study of Hong Kong trial films (1985-2025)
Research Interests
Law and film, critical legal theory, Hong Kong literature, animal ethics
Tse Cheuk Hin Larry
Tse Cheuk Hin Larry
Tse Cheuk Hin Larry 謝卓軒 (he/him) is an MPhil student in Cultural Studies at CUHK. Upon receiving his Bachelor's Degree in Global Communication from CUHK, Larry committed two years to pursuing his goals as a DanceSport athlete and coach. His research examines how Hong Kong male dancers enact gender in relation to class to construct alternative Asian masculinities.
Tentative Research Topic
Reimagining Asian masculinity: Hong Kong dancers’ classed ways of doing masculinity
Research Interests
Cultural Sociology, Gender & Feminist Studies, Queer Theory, Post-colonial Studies, Dance Studies
Tse Wing Tung Jamie
Tse Wing Tung Jamie
Tse Wing Tung Jamie is a PhD student in Cultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her current research re-examines the act of play and dissects how player identity and agency is reconfigured into different ludic experiences, such as race, gender, and sexuality, in video games.
She received her B.A. and MPhil degrees in Comparative Literature from the University of Hong Kong. Her MPhil thesis investigates the dialogic relationship between romance as an allegory and identity in the context of Hong Kong Transitional Period (1982-1997).
Tentative Research Topic
‘The Game, The Player, and The World: Re-examining the Act of Play’’
Research Interests
Video Game Studies; Critical Theory; Gender Studies; Queer Theory; Postcolonial Studies; Hong Kong Studies
Publications
- Tse, Jamie W. T. ‘Re-learning and Un-learning Asian Past and Present through Gaming,’ Epistemic Genres: New Formations in Digital Game Genres, ed. Gerald Voorhees, Josh Call, Betsy Brey, and Matthew Wysocki, Bloomsbury Publishing. (Forthcoming)
- Tse, Jamie W. T. (2022). ‘Games as Historical Representations: The Present/Presence in the Past,’ British Journal of Chinese Studies, 12 (2), 2022, 63-69. https://doi.org/10.51661/bjocs.v12i2.188
Wang Chengsi
Wang Chengsi
Wang Chengsi Chelsea is a PhD student in Cultural Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her current research focuses on the paradoxical image of the “Shaonian”（少年） idol in Chinese popular culture, examining how this form of soft masculinity creates potentialities for fan-idol relationships that may challenge heteronormativity. She is also interested in the temporal and embodied experience of being a fan.
She holds an MSc in Cultural Studies from The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Coming from an art historian background, she previously graduated from Tsinghua University with a B.A. in History of Art and an M.A. in Art Theory, where her research centered on feminist art practice. Beyond her academic research, she maintains an active practice in curatorial work.
Tentative Research Topic
Constructing “Shaonian”: Gender, Youth, and Sociopolitical Imaginaries in Chinese Male Idol Fandom
Research Interests
Fandom; Time; Embodiment; Gender Studies; Material Culture; Contemporary art and visual culture
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Wang Jingwen
Wang Jingwen
I am an MPhil student in Cultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. I obtained my Bachelor of Social Science in Sociology, with minors in Journalism and Communication, as well as Gender Studies, in 2023 from CUHK. My overarching research interests center on the interactive dynamics between "structure" and "agency." Currently, my research examines how Chinese youth incorporate, (re)interpret, and (re)literate the larger discourse within their nostalgic digital practices to create heterotopic spaces. I am a cat lover.
Tentative Research Topic
Reconstructing the Millennial Era in the Digital Platforms: Dreamcore as Chinese Generation Z's Nostalgic Heterotopia
Research Interests
Media and Culture, Platform Studies, Queer Theory, Political Discourse
Wang Rifeng Luis
Wang Rifeng Luis
Luis Wang is a PhD student in Cultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His current research examines the electronic dance music (EDM) industry in China, with particular attention to its cultural scenes, industrial organization, and the experiences of music workers.
He holds two Master's degrees in Management from French institutions, with a focus on music industry management and international SME strategies, as well as a Bachelor's degree in French Language and Literature from Sun Yat-sen University. Drawing on his interdisciplinary background and cross-cultural experience, he aims to how EDM is produced, organized and valued within China’s changing music industry.
Tentative Research Topic
Electronic Dance Music in China: Scenes, Organization and Creative Work
Research Interests
Electronic Dance Music; China’s Music Industry; Cultural Industries; Music Scenes; Rave Culture; Creative Labor; Subculture.
Wang Weihang
Wang Weihang
I come from a history background and I'm currently working on an in-depth study of the industrial history of Mao's Third Front, a secret national defense project initiated in China in 1965. As part of my research, I'm particularly interested in exploring the relationship between the Third Front, the broader (post/new) Cold War geopolitical scenario, and the formation of an industrial 'rustbelt' region in Southwest China. I'm also concerned with the environmental issues caused by the Third Front and its lasting impact on the ecology of the hinterlands. I received my BA in history from the Ohio State University in 2016 and my MA in China Studies from the University of Michigan in 2018.
Tentative Research Topic
Industrial Landscape and Legacies of Mao’s China: Third Front Factories and Their Surrounding Environments
Research Interests
Industrial history and Cultural history of Mao's China; Environmental history; Third Front; Rustbelt and Ruins
Publication
Wang, W., Tan, X. Demoralizing Internet Contention: Affective Publics and Emotional Mobilization on China’s Social Media During the Covid-19 Pandemic. Crit Crim 31, 417–431 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-023-09708-6
Award
"The Practice of Urban Exploration in Investigating the Material and Visual Memory of China’s Old Industrial Towns." Best Paper Award. Online Postgraduate Conference in Humanities at Hong Kong Baptist University
Wei Shiyu
Wei Shiyu
WEI Shiyu 魏士鈺 is a Ph.D. student in Cultural Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Prior to this, he received his MPhil degree in Chinese and History from City University of Hong Kong and his Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Nankai University. His research primarily focuses on socio-cultural studies of medicine as knowledge and ethics. His MPhil project examined how Chinese transnational medical practitioners construct medical ethics and professional imaginaries amid shifting state discourses and pathological landscapes.
Tentative Research Topic
In his Ph.D. project, Wei explores how family imaginaries and marriage preferences in contemporary China are produced through scientific knowledge such as eugenics and other diverse social forces.
Research Interests
Sociology of Knowledge; Anthropology of Ethics; Socio-cultural Studies of Medicine and Health
Wen Zhanhong
Wen Zhanhong
Zhanhong is currently a PhD student in Cultural Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his MSc degree in History of Science and Technology from Tsinghua University and his BSc degree in Chemistry from Nankai University. His previous research has focused on the entanglement between technology, perception, and knowledge production, particularly examining technological practices and sensory experiences among visually impaired communities through ethnographic research. Building on this interdisciplinary background, his current research interests explore emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, and their implications for human cognition, attention, perception, and everyday experiences.
Tentative Research Topic
Governing Attention in the Age of AI: The (Un)Making of Attention as a Sociotechnical Object
Research Interests
Science and Technology Studies (STS), Critical AI Studies, Disability Studies, Sound Studies, Sensory Studies
Publication
Wen, Z., & Hong, W. (2026). Living Through Sound: The Lifeworld and Sonic Knowledge of Visually Impaired Persons. (“聲生世界”：視障者的生活世界與具聲知識) Disability Research (殘疾人研究), 3, 3-12.
Wong Ka Hei Cecilia
Wong Ka Hei Cecilia
Wong Ka Hei Cecilia is a PhD student in Cultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her current research examines how feminist and queer creators in Hong Kong use digital platforms for activism, collaboration and transformative social relation against the translocal network of manosphere. She received her MPhil degree in Gender Studies from CUHK and her Bachelor's degree in Communications (International Journalism) from the Baptist University of Hong Kong.
Tentative Dissertation Title
Digital matters: Feminist and queer creator-activist practices in Hong Kong
Research Interests
Gender Studies, Queer and Feminist Theory, Media Studies, Platform and Creator Studies, Activism, Affect, Hong Kong Studies
Publications
- Wong, C. (2024). Navigating gender hate in manospheres: Women’s affective dissonance and refusal on LIHKG in the 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill movement, Communication, Culture and Critique, 2024, tcae011, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcae011
- Jacobs, K., Cheung, D., Maltezos, V., & Wong, C. (2023). The Pepe the Frog Image-Meme in Hong Kong: Visual Recurrences and Gender Fluidity on the LIHKG Forum. Journal of Digital Social Research, 4(4), 130-150. https://doi.org/10.33621/jdsr.v4i4.131
Awards
- The awardee of Li Po Chun Charitable Trust Fund Postgraduate Scholarship 2024
- The awardee of 2021 Hong Kong Association of University Women Postgraduate Scholarship
Wu Jianru
Wu Jianru
Jianru Wu is a curator and editor working across contemporary art and technology. Her curatorial and editorial practice examines how digital media reshape authorship, ownership, and knowledge. Her proposed research explores how artificial intelligence is transforming cultural understandings of memory, death, and archives. She is particularly interested in how contemporary art and curatorial practice can make these processes visible and propose alternative approaches to posthumous existence.
Tentative Research Topic
Digital afterlives, archives and memory in digital media, conceptual art, technology and exhibition history.
Research Interests
Digital afterlife, memory, media theory, philosophy of technology
Publication
- "From Postcolonialism to Technodiversity: On a Materiality-Based Curatorial Ethics.” In 南方有爱：全球南方与艺术南方, edited by Lu Mingjun and Hu Bin, 49–59. Shanghai: Shanghai People’s Publishing House, 2026
- Liang Yuanwei: Objects. Chief editor, author. Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, 2019.
- Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence. Chief editor. Exhibition publication produced in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, 2018.
Wu Qihui
Wu Qihui
Wu Qihui is a candidate for Doctor of Cultural Studies in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She graduated from Documentary Media Arts at Northwestern University and from the Department of Sociology at the University of Hong Kong. She is a documentary filmmaker and teacher based in Guangzhou. In 2020, collaborating with Jigme Gyaltsen National Vocational School in Qinghai, she co-founded Tibetan Ecological Film Youth Training Center, the first welfare film training program in Tibetan areas.
Tentative Research Topic
Short Videos Making, Digital Rurality, and The Moral Experience of Educated Return Migrants in Southern China
Research Interests
Ecocinema, short videos, visual anthropology, anthropology of media
Publication
Cui, Y., Wu, Q. H., Jigme Gymtso. Introduction to Media Production and the Exploration of Eco-cinema Practice in Tibetan Rigions. Qinghai Nationalities Publishing House, Xi Ning, China. 2021
Xie Yunlin Sharpe
Xie Yunlin Sharpe
Sharpe XIE is a PhD student in Cultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He holds a BA in Visual Arts from Hong Kong Baptist University and an MA in Cultural Management from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, with an interdisciplinary background spanning artistic practice, curatorial studies, and critical theory.
Tentative Research Topic
Contingent Becoming: Heterogeneous Aesthetics and Planetary Art Paradigms in Generative Art under the Context of New Materialism
Research Interests
Speculative Realism, Philosophy of Technology, Aesthetic Theory, Media Art, Generative Art, Non-Human Agency, Curatorial and Critical Theory
Yang Tian
Yang Tian
Yang Tian is a PhD student in Cultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. With previous background in art museums and galleries and an MA in Cultural Management, she tries to look at how Southern Chinese form their regional identity through contemporary art practices.
Tentative Research Topic
The Cultural Formation of Southern Chinese Identity in Contemporary Chinese Art: Focusing on Pearl River Delta and Guangdong Region
Research Interests
Chinese Contemporary Art, Curation, Art Criticism, Regional Identity, Cultural Identity, Internal Colonialism
Yung Ho Wing
Yung Ho Wing
Yung Ho Wing is an MPhil student in Cultural Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her Bachelor of Arts from The University of Hong Kong in 2025. With a background in History and Comparative Literature, her MPhil research explores how notions of Chineseness were rearticulated through Christianity during the anti-Chinese movements in Indonesia in the 1960s.
Tentative Research Topic
Re-articulating Chineseness through Christianity: Chineseness under the 1960s Anti-Chinese Movements
Research Interests
Chineseness; Chinese Diaspora; Indonesian Chinese; Christianity; World Christianity; Southeast Asian Studies
Zhang Ti
Zhang Ti
Zhang Ti is a PhD student in Cultural Studies at CUHK. Her research examines the transformation of “community” as a field of cultural production in Hong Kong. Before returning to academia, she accumulated extensive experience in community work, policy research and media. She is serving on several government advisory committees closely related to community and culture. She founded both an NGO and a social enterprise to explore cultural practice in community, and serves as Managing Editor of a community newspaper.
Tentative Research Topic
The production of community: productive governance, embedded adaptation, and the politics of lived space in post-2019 Hong Kong
Research Interests
Spatial politics and the production of space; Governmentality and comparative governance; Everyday life and grassroots agency; Hong Kong studies.
Publication
張媞（2014）。空間・族群・歷史：北京798藝術區。載於黃慧貞、張歷君、陳澤蕾、高俊傑（主編），感／觀日常：跨文化研究讀本。香港中文大學文化及宗教研究系；進一步多媒體有限公司。