Interdisciplinary research about contemporary China from a cultural studies perspective
Written by Fei Huang Stay-at-home fathers (SAHFs), as a newly emerged gendered identity, have recently featured in several TV family dramas in China. While much has been written about the discourses of familial relations in televisual culture since the late…
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Written by Craig Clunas I am probably not the only student of Chinese language and culture to have got used over the years to facing the question, ‘So what first got you interested in China?’ This question was all the…
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Written by Séagh Kehoe and Gerda Wielander On 29th November 2021, the University of Westminster Press published our new book, Cultural China 2020: The Contemporary China Centre Review. Cultural China is a unique annual publication for up-to-date, informed, and accessible commentary about Chinese and Sinophone…
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This piece by Jing Y. is followed with a response from Derek Hird. Written by Jing Y. Recently I was invited to offer an online writing class to volunteers from an NGO, which dedicates the majority of its resources to…
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Written by Alvin K. Wong Hong Kong cinema has often been equated with speed, mobility, and globalisation. Hong Kong film scholar Esther Yau’s classic description of Hong Kong movies as ‘small speedboats breaking the waves alongside a daunting fleet of…
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Written by Jon Howlett Most historians of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are avid collectors of curios: items that capture the spirit of certain historical moments in modern China’s ever-changing political climate. In this blog, I use a recipe…
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