China Dispelling the monolith: The geopolitics of language in Taiwan and Hong Kong February 12, 2020 0 Image credit: Speak Mandarin! by J B/ flickr; licence CC BY 2.0. Written by Justin Kwan. In recent years, the respective Sunflower and Umbrella Movements…
Asia Tell the World I am Coming Home: Asian Culture and the Third Culture Kid October 16, 2018 0 Written by Niyati Pingali By definition, a third culture kid (TCK) is one who has grown up in a culture different to that of their…
China Chinese Cosmopolitanism and the Risk to Queer Identity July 17, 2018 0 The author requested to remain anonymous. During the release tour of his new book Queer Comrades, University of Nottingham academic Hongwei Bao was on the…
China Fear of A Queer China January 29, 2018 0 Written by Hongwei Bao. The title of the research workshop ‘Fear of A Queer China’, to be held at the University of Nottingham on 5-6 February…
Queer Asia Gay and Indian in Malaysia? Forget it June 29, 2017 2 Written by R. Jeyathurai Backus Fire up Grindr, Hornet or Jackd, among the other gay social applications in Malaysia, and notice a commonality. For the…
LGBT Rights Acrush: A Case Study in Chinese Gender-Neutrality June 28, 2017 1 Written by Jamie J. Zhao On 28 April 2017, the first single, ‘Action’ (xingdongpai), of the newly formed Chinese pop group FFC-Acrush (Acrush in short)…
Culture and Society Identities of Migrant worker: From Nongmin Gong (农民工) to Xin Shimin (新市民) June 18, 2015 0 Written by Wei Wang. People’s identity is very much reflected on and constructed by how they are named by others. Internal migrant workers in China…
Hong Kong Hegemonic Patriotism and Identity Politics under “One Country, Two Systems” February 4, 2014 0 Written by Wai-man Lam. Upon being returned to China in 1997, Hong Kong was given special administrative region status directly under Beijing on the principle…
Culture and Society Online counter-hegemonic resistance in China’s Hong Kong November 25, 2013 3 Written by Daniel Garrett. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) is well known as a “City of Protests” but fewer are aware that Hongkongers’…
