Ethics after Idealism

Beyond Exile: Zheng Danyi’s Hong Kong Poems (1999–2004)

“…Rey Chow describes Hong Kong as "port" or "portal," an important entryway to approach China and Chineseness without yielding to the power of nationalistic essentialism. 25 In an article discussing the different cinematic discourses on the Chinese nation-state in Hollywood, China, and 78 LUO HUI Hong Kong, Sheldon Lu criticizes the portrayal of China and Chinese identity in both Hollywood and mainland Chinese films as being trapped by "national and political stereotyping" while praising Hong Kong films for offering the only channel to explore "the possibility of a truly transnational perspective." 26 Lu cites Peter Chan's film Comrades, Almost a Love Story (Tian mimi, 1996), which tells the story of two mainland immigrants in Hong Kong whose cultural and national identity is grounded primarily in their shared love of the Taiwanese songstress Deng Lijun (Teresa Teng).…”

Teachers of Chinese Ancestry: Interaction of identities and professional roles

“…Ang's (2000) idea of an Alter/Asian identity framework directs our attention to "the interface between Asia and (in our research) the [Vancouver] diasporic community that has become the site of cultural contestation and negotiation involving, disruption … critical interrogation … of prevailing (mainstream) cultural (forms) (2000, p. xviii). The diversity of 'national' origins of Chinese in Vancouver adds to the complexity of experience and to our understanding of the contest and con ict which are implicated in 'post-colonial' identities" (Chow, 1998). Ang guides us to document the "productivity of [the] position of in-betweeness, 'the third space' (Bhabha, 1990) with new forms of culture at the collision/collusion of the two: hybrid cultural forms borne out of a productive creative syncretism" (Ang, 1994, p. 16).…”

“…Post-colonial theoretical work on diaspora (Hall, 1996) and the speci c focus histories of diasporic "Alter/Asians" (Ang, 1994(Ang, , 2000Chow, 1998) are also important to our research.…”

Monstrosity, Abjection and Europe in the War on Terror

“…The good migrants/refugees have been critically defined by Chow (1998) as idealised Other[s], that is, good Muslim men and women who claim their belonging to the Western nation of arrival after a migratory process, embracing its social hierarchies and white privilege. As Sanjay Sharma and Ashwani Sharma wrote in their paragraph allusively titled "White Skin, Oriental Masks," they are "necessary to sustain the hegemonic positionality of Whiteness, through a narcissistic mode of racial authority and power dependent upon a knowable and controllable Other" (2003, 307).…”