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Prof. PANG Laikwan

Prof. PANG Laikwan

Professor

B.A. in Cinema (SFSU);
M.A. in Humanities (SFSU);
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (WashU)

About Prof. PANG Laikwan

PANG Laikwan received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Washington University in St. Louis, and she has taught at CUHK since 2002. She is now Professor of Cultural Studies and Head of the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies. Her research spans a broad spectrum of issues related to culture in Modern and Contemporary China and Hong Kong. But her central philosophical project is the exploration of the dynamics between “many” and “one,” manifested in the intersections between culture and politics, copies and models, plurality and unity, as well as democracy and sovereignty. She is the author of a few books, and her scholarship has been recognized internationally. Her books received CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title and Chiang King-Kuo Foundation Publication Award. She herself also received the Discovery International Award offered by Australia Research Council, Research Excellence Award as well as Young Research Award by The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has been appointed by Hong Kong’s Research Grant Council and University Grants Committee as panel members for the General Research Fund and Research Assessment Exercise. She will take a sabbatical leave in 2021-2022, and she will take up a fellow in residence in CASBS (Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavior Sciences) at Stanford University. 

 

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  • Research Interests
    • Modern and Contemporary Chinese Culture and Politics
    • Cinema and Visual Arts
    • Critical Theories
    • Hong Kong Culture
    • Creativity and Copying 
  • Representative Publications

    Academic Books
     

    • 2020. The Appearing Demos: Hong Kong During and After the Umbrella Movement. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 

     

    • 2017. The Art of Cloning: Creative Production during China's Cultural Revolution. London and New York: Verso.
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    • 2012. Creativity and Its Discontents: China’s Creative Industries and Intellectual Property Rights Offenses. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
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    • 2010；2018.《黃昏未晚：後九七香港電影》。香港： 中文大學出版社。
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    • 2007. The Distorting Mirror: Visual Modernity in China. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.
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    • 2006. Cultural Control and Globalization in Asia: Copyright, Piracy, and Cinema. London and New York: Routledge.
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    • 2002. Building a New China in Cinema: The Chinese Left-wing Cinema Movement, 1932-37. Lanham, Boulder, New York, London: Rowman and Littlefield.
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    Recent Academic Articles
     

    • Forthcoming. “China’s Post-socialist Governmentality and the Garlic Chives Meme: Economic Sovereignty and Biopolitical Subjects.” Theory, Culture and Society.
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    • 2021. “Mask as Identity? The Political Subject in the 2019 Hong Kong’s Social Unrest.” Cultural Studies.
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    • 2020. With Ko Chun-kit. “Scripts as Method.” Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature 16, no. 2: 432-455.
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    • 2020. “Identity Politics and Democracy in Hong Kong’s Social Unrest.” Feminist Studies 46, no. 1: 206-215.
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    • 2020. “Maoist Revolutionary Subjectivity: The Naxalite Movements in India and the Convergence between Intellectuals and the Revolutionary Masses.” The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture, vol 13, no. 1: 36-56.
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    • 2020. "Property or Expression? The Copyright Debate in Hong Kong in the Wake of the Umbrella Movement.” Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context 13, no. 1: 75-96.
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    • 2020. “Sexualizing the Cinematic Border.” In Handbook of Gender in East Asia, ed. Jieyu Liu and Junko Yamashita, 317-330. London: Routledge.
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    • 2019. “Dialectic Materialism.” In Afterlives of Chinese Communism, ed. Christian Sorace, Ivan Franceschini, and Nicholas Loubere, 67-71. Sydney: Australian National University Press; London: Verso.
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    • 2019. “The ‘Nature’ of Ethnic Tensions: Under the Flaming Mountains as Xinjiang’s First Novel.” In Chinese Shock of the Anthropocene: The Making of Image, Music and Text in the Age of Climate Change, ed. Kwai-Cheung Lo and Jessica Yeung, 179-201. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.