文化研究哲學碩士
博士銜接課程
研究生
文化研究哲學碩士博士銜接課程 - 研究生
研究生
Bi Cheng Senter
Bi Cheng Senter
Bi Cheng Senter is a PhD student in Cultural Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on the political aesthetics of East Asian avant-garde art, centering on contemporary and experimental art forms and movements in post-war South Korea. She aims to examine how these arts use unique ideological discourse, concept generation, strategy, and gesture to challenge authoritarian paradigms and respond to social mechanisms, analyzing their depiction of materials and subjects estranged by rights through utopian imaginaries, collective expressions, and narratives of trauma and cultural conflict.
Prior to this, She earned a BA in Media Arts Production from Emerson College and an MA in Arts Politics from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She is also engaged in experimental video and photography production, as well as curatorial practice.
Tentative Research Topic
The Rebel Heterotopias: Political Aesthetics and Ideological Discourses in the 1960s-70s Wave of Korean Avant-Garde Experimental Art and Korean Monochrome painting Dansaekhwa
Research Interests
Korean and East Asian Post-War Arts Politics, Art Criticism, Cultural Activism, Visual Culture, Avant-Garde Art
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. With a background in sociology and art history, she explores cultural production and consumption, weaving connections between individual trajectories and broader socio-historical contexts. Her research encompasses the ecological dynamics, including art (non)institutions and urban cultural flows, while her curatorial practice concentrates on the projects adopting archives and field research as key methodologies. 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
The Role of Independent Cultural Spaces in Second-Tier Cities: Urban Culture Flows and the Identification of Young Generation
Research Interests
Sociology of Culture, Urban Culture and Art Ecology, Art Criticism, Curating, Archive, Alternative Practice
Cheung Shui Yee
Cheung Shui Yee
I am an MPhil student in Cultural Studies at CUHK. My project focuses on the intersection of leftist dissident movement and colonialism in Hong Kong's 70s. Through my research, I aim to reinterpret the colonial reality in Hong Kong as an institutional strategy maneuvered by multiple political forces in their border-crossing interactivities oriented to subverting or upholding regional hegemony. I will be studying the intellectual interexchange as well as international/regional activism in the late Fiery 70s of Hong Kong to go beyond the colonized/colonizer dichotomy and locate Hong Kong subjectivity in the dynamic undercurrent beneath the seemingly monolithic rule of colonialism.
Tentative Research Topic
The Fiery 70s in Post-Mao Transition: Dissident Left under China-Hong Kong Division System
Research Interests
Socialist Dissident, Left-wing Politics, Anti-Colonialism
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.
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
Quizon Juan Miguel Leandro
Quizon Juan Miguel Leandro
Graduate Fellow
(Asian Graduate Student Fellowship Program of the Asia Research Institute - National University of Singapore in 2015)
Juan Miguel Leandro Quizon is a PhD student in Cultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is finishing his dissertation on spatial cultures of airports in archipelagic Southeast Asia focusing on monumentalism, mobilizations, and mobilities. His research interest includes urban spatial studies and popular media culture. He was a fellow from the Asian Graduate Student Fellowship Program offered by the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore in 2015. He holds an MA in literary and cultural studies from the Ateneo de Manila University and a BSC in applied corporate management from the De La Salle University - Manila.
Short Description
An athlete, classical pianist, and traveler who loves to shower in the rain
Tentative Research Topic
Architectonics of Archipelagic Southeast Asian Airport Cultures
Research Interests
Urban spatial cultures, popular culture and media
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 Sum Sheung Samson
Tang Sum Sheung Samson
Samson Tang is a Ph.D. candidate currently working on his dissertation on battle royale games, their cultural and economic impacts, and player experiences. He also holds an M.Phil. on documentary film. He’s a passionate gamer who plays Fortnite, A Dance of Fire and Ice, and occasionally, online Texas holdem, and Chess.
Research Interests
Transgression in games, alternative play practices, media and emotions, game industry, game policies and censorship in China
Referred Works and Conference Presentations (selected)
- Chung, P., and S. Tang (2024) “Postcolonial Memories in Hong Kong Independent Video Games.” Conference paper presentation at the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) 2024, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Tang, S. (2023) “‘Yes, I Cheat, but Not Blatantly’: The Use of Macros in Racing Games as Transgressive Play.” Conference proceedings of 2023 DiGRA International Conference, Sevilla, Spain
- Tang, S. (2019) “Towards a Cognitivist Appreciation of Empathy and the Animal Face on Screen: A Case Study of Lu Chuan’s Born in China.” Conference paper presentation at The 13th Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference, Singapore
- Tang, S. (2018) “From Thinking to Empathising: Re-engaging Documentary Film about Climate Change through Affective Ecocriticism.” Conference paper presentation at The Anthropocene and Beyond: Towards a Shared Narrativity in Interdisciplinary Research, Hong Kong
- Lim, B., and S. Tang (2018) “Queering Singlehood in Mainland China.” JOMEC Journal 12, 70-81. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18573/jomec.176
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
Kika W. L. Van Robays
Kika W. L. Van Robays
Kika W. L. Van Robays 文詠玲 (they/them) is a PhD Candidate in Cultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Department of Cultural and Religious Studies). They are from Belgium and from Hong Kong. Kika’s research with the tentative title, Queer/ing Zines: Practicing Collective Trans-Formation, focuses on zines, queer communities, and care and connections. Immersing themselves in solidarity and community care, they emphasise tenderness, platonic affections, and a constant sense of wonder above all. Kika is a poet and the author of Let the Mourning Come with Prolific Pulse LLC (2022) alongside many other published poems and book reviews. They are also one of the founders of Slam-T (spoken word and slam poetry platform). They have an MA in Chinese Language and Culture (Ghent University) and in Gender and Diversity Studies (Flemish joint university program).
Tentative Research Topic
Queer/ing Zines: Practicing Collective Trans-Formation
Research Interests
Queer & Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Media Studies, Alternative Media Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Critical Race Studies, Pedagogy, Cultural Studies, Education Studies and Chinese Studies.
Award
The awardee of 2022 Hong Kong Association of University Women Postgraduate Scholarship
Publications
- Vanaken, G., Van der Gucht, L., Van den Bossche, S., Veneboer, T. & Van Robays, K. W. L., (2022) “What are you reading?”, DiGeSt - Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies 9(1), 106-114. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/digest.84824.
- Van Robays, Kika W. L. Let the Mourning Come. Prolific Pulse LLC, 2022 (poetry chapbook).
- Van Robays, Kika W. L. "青勿靠近車門," in Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology, Wong, J., J. E. H. Lee, T. T. Cheng (eds.), London: Verve Poetry Press, 2023.
- Van Robay, Kika W. L. “Vibrant Being in Mary Jean Chan’s Bright Fear.” Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, 14 Dec. 2023, chajournal.blog/2023/12/14/vibrant-being.
- Van Robay, Kika W. L. “Subverting Otherness from Within: Hongwei Bao’s The Passion of the Rabbit God.” Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, 27 May 2024, chajournal.blog/2024/05/27/rabbit-god.
- Van Robays, Kika W. L. "Een pot natte thee," in Modelverhalen: Reflecties op Aziatische Roots, de Beer, L. (ed.), Walburgpers. (Forthcoming, 2024).
(not including online poems and essays)
Conference Presentations
- Zines and self-publishing in Chinese cultures, January 2022, University of Manchester (virtual)
- Zines ASSEMBLE 2022, Wellcome Collection (virtual)
- Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference 2023, Boston, March 2023
- The 54th Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention, Niagara Falls (NY), March 2023
- SPAS: Intersecting Asias, University of Hawai`i at Mānoa, Honolulu, April 2023
- Negotiating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity in Times of Crisis, Hong Kong Baptist University and CSS Virtual Postgraduate Conference, December 2023 (virtual)
- AAS-in-Asia Conference 2924: Global Asias, Universitas Gadjah Mada, July 2024
- Zine Librarian unConference, New York University, August 2024
- Northeast Popular & American Culture Association, October 2024 (hybrid)
Guest Lectures
- Hong Kong University (HKU) and the Consulate General of the Kingdom of Belgium, CCHU9007: Sexuality and Gender: Diversity and Society – lecture on “Queering Media Spaces.” (2024)
- Hong Kong University (HKU), CLIT2089: Culture and Queer Theory: “Thinking and Writing about Queer Sex: Renewing the Meaning of Queer Sex through The Argonauts (2015) by Maggie Nelson.” (2023)
- Lingnan University, CLA9018: Digital Tactics and Subcultures: “Queer/ing Zines.” (2023)
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
chengsiw97@gmail.com
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 State's 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
Wang Rifeng
Wang Rifeng (Luis) is a PhD student in Cultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research explores how independent music practitioners in China construct their professional identities and manage their careers within China’s unique industrial framework.
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 examine the evolving dynamics of China’s independent music scene.
Tentative Research Topic
Professional Identity Perceptions and Operations Models: A Qualitative Exploration of Independent Music Industry in the Greater Bay Area
Research Interests
China’s Music Industry; Cultural Industries; Independent Music; Professional Identity; Platform Economy; 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
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
Wong Tak Yin
Wong Tak Yin
Wong Tak Yin is an MPhil student in Cultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Their research, rooted in prior experiences in community organising, explores the diverse manifestations of asexuality within the socio-cultural landscape of Hong Kong. Walking queer, they seek to navigate the intricate dynamics between queerness, identities, and (a)sexual politics as they unfold in everyday life.
Tentative Research Topic
“A”-lephants in the Sexualised Room: An Exploration of Affective Narratives Among Hong Kong Asexuals
Research Interests
Queer Theory, Gender and Media Studies, Affect, (A)sexual Politics
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
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