Academic Publications
Looking for Asian America: Wing Young Huie’s Work as Intimate Counter-Cartography
In Columbia Undergraduate Journal of Art History, Summer 2021 Issue, Year Zero?
Editor’s Note: In the wake of anti-Asian violence across the U.S., Kelsey Chen’s “Looking for Asian America” interprets Wing Young Huie’s photography as “tender cartography,” mapping intimacies and connections across Asian America’s diverse populations. In Huie’s work, Chen finds a reimagining of Asian American identity, one which rejects the mythos of techno-orientalism in favor of an affective, anti-colonial subjectivity.
E gao: Beyond Techno-Orientalist Discourses on Chinese Internet Spoofing
In Cambridge Journal of Political Affairs, Issue 2.
E gao, or the use of internet spoofs in the form of textual plays, images, and videos, has been rigorously studied as an expression of Chinese internet communication. It has been used as a site to investigate such topics as the new discursive modes made possible by the advent of digital media; communicative practices which destabilise the multi-layered censorship of the Chinese internet; and the place of irrationality, vulgarity, and humour in political formations. The existing body of literature privileges an analysis of the cognitive content of the selected spoofs, which is a mistake conditioned by the many preoccupying fetishes of Western academia. How has the tendency of Western academic literature to scope discursive acts within an entelechy of liberatory politics—as alternately subversive of or subordinate to systems of power—come at the expense of understanding the myriad social, political, and linguistic implications of the practice of e gao?