Religion, politics, gender in transnational Asia @uoft. 時差 @shichapodcast cohost. JAAR @AARWeb book review editor. @AASAsianStudies DEC rep. She/her/伊/佢
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My book=officially out!💛🧵For everyone who ever questions the meaning of LOVE:
This book investigates how the discourse ai 愛 (#love) becomes political and the politics of making it political from late imperial to contemporary China (inc Hong Kong)
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Hong Kong actor calls for eradication of film industry’s ‘misogynistic’ culture
Angela Yuen posted an Instagram essay recounting multiple instances of verbal sexual harassment by a journalist, a director, and other male colleagues.
hongkongfp.com/2026/10/13/ho…
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Really thoughtful ‘letter to Marx’ by a Chinese netizen on WeChat (now censored) reflecting on delivery worker labor activist Feng Rui’s recent disappearance by the state, labor conditions in China today, while engaging with excerpts of Marx.
at.laborinfocn6.com/articles…
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#CFP for a panel sponsored by @AASAsianStudies Diversity and Equity Committee (DEC) on #PopularCulture Across Global Asias: Identity, Diaspora & Representation at #AAS2027 in March 18-21, 2027 in Boston🇺🇸
Submit your 250-word paper abstract!
Deadline⏰July 20
#kpop #AAS
Two important panels for #AAS2027 by the Diversity and Equity Committee!:
1) Remapping #Indigeneity: Belonging and Identity in Asia, Past & Present 2) Popular Culture Across Global Asias: Identity, #Diaspora, and Representation!
bit.ly/AAS2027-DEC
CFP - Looking for authors to join us in an edited volume on Enchanted Belonging: Everyday Religiosities, Spiritualities, and Religious Affects in Hong Kong!
networks.h-net.org/group/ann…
Can the #subaltern feel, when #postcolonial feelings are manipulated by postcolonial #disenchantment & postcolonial #imperialism? My latest:
doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfag0…
And... The paperback version is coming out this June!!
My book=officially out!💛🧵For everyone who ever questions the meaning of LOVE:
This book investigates how the discourse ai 愛 (#love) becomes political and the politics of making it political from late imperial to contemporary China (inc Hong Kong)
1)
Beiyin's insightful review of The Oxford Handbook of Lived #Buddhism edited by Courtney Bruntz and Brooke Schedneck:
academic.oup.com/jaar/advanc…
New PUB👁️! This article traces #filialpiety from its origins in ancestor worship, its institutionalization in #legal codes, state examinations, and state-sponsored rewards, to its incorporation in modern state #governance: Filial Piety in #EastAsia:
academic.oup.com/edited-volu…
Congrats! I remember teaching the article (upon which this book is based?) back in HK and how the entire class almost teared up when the student presenting highlighted “the stars are the same across the universe, they do not belong to either royals (jao) or plebeians (phrai)” ✨
“Political Divinations: Making Citizens Sovereign in Buddhist Thailand” is forthcoming with @UHPRESSNEWS!
Full details: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/pol…
Religion and Official Politics in Contemporary China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, Religion Compass: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.…
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#女权月月谈 多次活动的讲者王政老师近期出版了两本新书，欢迎感兴趣的朋友查阅！
1️⃣《女性的崛起：当代美国的女权运动》修订版
chinesefeminism.org/2026/01/…
2️⃣《寻找国家中的妇女：社会主义体制中的国家女权主义（1949–1964）》中译本
chinesefeminism.org/2026/02/…
If in #Vancouver/ going to #AAS2026 !
Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 2:00-2:45pm, Auditorium, Asian Center, UBC
To register: hksi.ubc.ca/events/event/bhk…
“The Burdens of Love in Public Discourse in China” looks wildly similar to my own book. 1) who at Yale invited him? 2) will anyone challenge him at the talk? macmillan.yale.edu/eastasia/…
Honoured to have been interviewed for this fascinating phenomenon of "digital parents" & Q of "East Asian families;" thx for quoting my book on the politicization of (parental) love => the Internet as a resort for expressing familial intimacy & love:
bbc.com/zhongwen/articles/c4…
Happy new year! 1st book talk in 2026 & first time on UTSC campus! RSVP: forms.office.com/pages/respo…
#toronto #love #book #utsc
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H. S. Sum Cheuk Shing’s “Chinese #Religious Practice as #Protest: The Night Assemblies of #HongKong's 2019 Anti-ELAB Movement” in our special forum “ #Religion & #SocialMovements in Hong Kong”:
read.dukeupress.edu/journal-…
The Jiao Festivals #太平清醮 (purification rite) this year received extra attention for its use of bamboo scaffolding and, as we argued in this JAS special forum, popular religions have provided a sense of (political) identity in #hongkong: share.google/kqgI1F1M6IyXjeN…
H. S. Sum Cheuk Shing’s “Chinese #Religious Practice as #Protest: The Night Assemblies of #HongKong's 2019 Anti-ELAB Movement” in our special forum “ #Religion & #SocialMovements in Hong Kong”:
read.dukeupress.edu/journal-…