Covert colonialism: Governance, surveillance and political culture in British Hong Kong, c. 1966-97. Florence Mok. Manchester University Press, 2023. ISBN: 9781526158192. Price: £85.00 | Reviewed by...
Covert colonialism: Governance, surveillance and political culture in British Hong Kong, c. 1966-97. Florence Mok. Manchester University Press, 2023. ISBN: 9781526158192. Price: £85.00 | Reviewed by...
As someone who grew up in Shenzhen in the 1980s-1990s and has lived in the US since 2000, I’ve come to see returning to the...
On the morning of July 18, 2024, our phones were suddenly flooded with images of injured students – our campus was under attack. Students protesting...
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It didn’t seem possible that someone so full of life and thought and humor could die, but Fredric Jameson has passed. Those of us who...
Yau Ching, Wet Dreams in Paradise (天堂春夢 二十世紀香港電影史論). Taipei: Linking, 2024. ISBN: 978-957-08-7296-5. NT$600 As recent film and media studies have shifted focus away from texts,...
Covert colonialism: Governance, surveillance and political culture in British Hong Kong, c. 1966-97. Florence Mok. Manchester University Press, 2023. ISBN: 9781526158192. Price: £85.00 | Reviewed by...
As someone who grew up in Shenzhen in the 1980s-1990s and has lived in the US since 2000, I’ve come to see returning to the...
On the morning of July 18, 2024, our phones were suddenly flooded with images of injured students – our campus was under attack. Students protesting...
“On this terrible morning, everything is relentless—” ~ Fatimah Busu, “The Lovers of Muharram” An Ordinary Tale About Women and Other Stories, recently published by...
On a recent trip to the Philippines, facilitated by old friends yet shadowed by crises stretching from Gaza to the US to Sudan and everywhere...
On January 12, 2025, just days before the short video platform TikTok was pressured to shut down in the U.S., a sensational “migration” began. Millions...
Quickly ruled an “insurrection,” the rogue invocation of martial law in South Korea on December 3rd was a self-coup by President Yoon Suk Yeol to maintain...
Perhaps the writing was on the wall. Since his inauguration as President of South Korea—or even earlier, from the time of his presidential bid—Yoon Suk-yeol...
What would it look like if critical work on Korean popular culture was actually grounded in love for its objects? What is the value of...
Yiu Fai Chow , Jeroen de Kloet , Leonie Schmidt, It’s My Party: Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) How do...
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