Contributors
- Contributors
Alex Ching-shing Chan taught consumption culture and general issues of Hong Kong society in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Baptist University and City University of Hong Kong. His academic interest focuses on qualitative research of creative personals, especially design and its contributions to industry. His recent publications include Intellectual Narratives: Theory, History, and Self-Characterization of Social Margins in Public Writings (2011).
Arnika Fuhrmann is an interdisciplinary scholar of Thailand and assistant professor of Southeast Asian studies in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University. She is the author of The Dream of a Contemporary Ayuthaya: Angkhan Kalayanaphong's Poetics of Dissent, Aesthetic Nationalism, and Thai Literary Modernity (2009). Her book project "Ghostly Desires" examines how Buddhist-coded anachronisms of haunting figure struggles over sexuality in contemporary Thai cinema.
Laikwan Pang teaches in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her most recent book is Creativity and Its Discontents: China's Creative Industries and Intellectual Property Rights Offenses (2012). [End Page 1019]
Shi-chi Mike Lan teaches at the department of history, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan. His recent publications include "The Ambivalence of National Imagination: Defining the 'Taiwanese' in China, 1931-1941" (2010), "'L'Étranger' across the Taiwan Strait: History of the Civil War Taiwanese-Guomindang Soldiers" (2010), and "Absence of Self—Memories of the Asia-Pacific War in Taiwan" (2010).
Sunyoung Park is an assistant professor of Korean cultural studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. She is author of the forthcoming book The Proletarian Wave: Literature and Leftist Culture of Colonial Korea 1910-1945 and the translator and editor of On the Eve of the Uprising and Other Stories from Colonial Korea (2010).
Minh-Ha T. Pham is an assistant professor in the History of Art and Visual Studies Department and the Asian American Studies Program at Cornell University. Her research emphasizes the interrelations of aesthetics, race, and technologies with a particular focus on sartorial aesthetics and fashion technologies. She has published in a wide array of forums from academic journals to popular and political magazines. In addition, her research has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Nation, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, and Chronicle of Higher Education, among other media sites. She is completing a book on the racial and gender politics of fashion blog forms and practices.
Brian Tsui is a postdoctoral fellow at Australian Centre on China in the World, The Australian National University. He is the author of "The Plea for Asia—Tan Yunshan, Pan-Asianism, and Sino-Indian Relations" (2010) and is currently preparing a book manuscript that examines Nationalist China's conservative revolution in the second quarter of the twentieth century.
Wai-hung Yiu is a PhD candidate in Japanese studies at the University of Hong Kong. He taught Japanese consumption culture and contemporary Japanese society in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include animation-comics-game, creation industry, consumption culture, and fashion culture. [End Page 1020]
