{"id":154,"date":"2019-08-06T09:26:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T09:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.complit.hku.hk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Alvin-Wong.jpg"},"modified":"2026-02-09T01:44:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T01:44:51","slug":"alvin-wong","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/complit.hku.hk\/index.php\/faculty\/alvin-wong\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Alvin K. Wong (Associate Professor)"},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-154","attachment","type-attachment","status-inherit","hentry"],"description":{"rendered":"

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Prof. Alvin K. Wong<\/strong>
\nAssociate Professor
\nDirector of the Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures
\nVice-Chair, Committee on Gender Equality and Diversity
\nOffice<\/strong>: RRST* 9.41
\nEmail<\/strong>: akhwong@hku.hk<\/p>\n

PROFILE<\/strong>
\nAlvin K. Wong is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. He is also the Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures (CSGC) and the Vice-Chair of the Committee on Gender Equality and Diversity. Professor Wong\u2019s research spans across the fields of queer theory, Hong Kong literature and cinema, Chinese literary and cultural studies, Sinophone studies, transnational feminism, and the environmental humanities. His book Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone<\/em> (Duke University Press, 2025) theorizes Hong Kong as a queer region of racial, gender, and sexual incommensurability, which forms a perverse relationality to the world through asymmetrical comparisons. This queer unruly methodology actualizes Hong Kong as a queer Sinophone site for rethinking the stakes of comparison, area studies, Sinophone theory, and transnational queer studies. He has published in journals such as Journal of Lesbian Studies, Gender, Place & Culture, Culture, Theory, and Critique, Concentric, Cultural Dynamics, Continuum, Diacritics, JCMS, Journal of Chinese Cinemas<\/em>, and Interventions<\/em> and in edited volumes such as Transgender China, Queer Sinophone Cultures, Filming the Everyday, Fredric Jameson and Film Theory, Sinophone Utopias, Queer TV China<\/em>, and Sinophone Studies Across Disciplines<\/em>. He also coedited the volume Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies<\/em> (Routledge, 2020). Wong is the editor of Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies<\/em> (Taylor & Francis) and currently serves as Chair of the Society of Sinophone Studies (3S). With Daniel Elam, Wong is the coeditor of the HKU Press book series, Entanglements: Rethinking Comparison in the Long Contemporary<\/em>. A comprehensive list of his publications can be found here: https:\/\/hku-hk.academia.edu\/AlvinKWong<\/a>.<\/p>\n

RESEARCH INTERESTS<\/strong>
\n\u2022\tQueer theory
\n\u2022\tSinophone studies
\n\u2022\tFilm and media studies
\n\u2022\tTransnational feminism
\n\u2022\tEnvironmental humanities <\/p>\n

PUBLICATIONS (Selected)<\/strong>
\nBook(s)<\/strong>
\nUnruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone<\/em> (Durham: Duke University Press, 2025)<\/p>\n

Journal Article(s)<\/strong>
\n\u2022 \u201cQueering BL Televisuality across Asia: Queer Polylocality across Thailand, Hong Kong and South Korea,\u201d Screen<\/em> 66.1 (2025): 92-99.
\n\u2022 \u201cSinophone Hong Kong as Queer Environs: A Cross-media Unruly Comparison of Lo Ting,\u201d Diacritics<\/em> 52.2 (2024): 48-65.
\n\u2022 \u201cQueering the Cinematic Border of the PRC and Hong Kong: On Fruit Chan\u2019s Prostitute Trilogy,\u201d Journal of Chinese Cinemas<\/em> 17.1 (2023): 37-51.
\n\u2022 \u201cQueer Sinophone Media across Asian Regionalism,\u201d JCMS<\/em> 62.3 (2023): 159-163.
\n\u2022 \u201cQueer Vernacularism: Minor Transnationalism across Hong Kong and Singapore,\u201d Cultural Dynamics<\/em> 32.1-2 (2020): 49-67.
\n\u2022 \u201cTowards a Queer Affective Economy of Boys\u2019 Love in Contemporary Chinese Media,\u201d Continuum<\/em> 34.4 (2020): 500-513.
\n\u2022 \u201cIncluding China? Postcolonial Hong Kong, Sinophone Studies, and the Gendered Geopolitics of China-centrism,\u201d Interventions<\/em> 20.8 (2018):1101-1120.
\n\u2022 \u201cBeyond Anthropocentric Futurism: Visualizing Air Pollution and Waste in Post-Olympic Beijing,\u201d Concentric<\/em> 43.1 (2017): 119-143.
\n\u2022 \u201cQueering the Quality of Desire: Perverse Use-Values in Transnational Chinese Cultures,\u201d Culture, Theory and Critique<\/em> 58.2 (2017): 209-225.
\n\u2022 Co-authored with Howard Chiang, \u201cQueering the Transnational Turn: Regionalism and Queer Asias,\u201d Gender, Place & Culture<\/em> 23.11 (2016): 1643-1656.
\n\u2022 \u201cFrom the Transnational to the Sinophone: Lesbian Representations in Chinese-language Films,\u201d Journal of Lesbian Studies<\/em> 16.3 (2012): 307-322.<\/p>\n

Book Chapter(s)<\/strong>
\n\u2022 \u201cQueer Hong Kong as a Sinophone Method,\u201d in Sinophone Studies Across Disciplines: A Reader<\/em>, ed. Howard Chiang and Shu-mei Shih (New York: Columbia University Press, 2024), 193-208.
\n\u2022 \u201cQueer Sinophone Literature in Hong Kong: The Politics of Worldliness,\u201d in A World History of Chinese Literature<\/em>, ed. Yingjin Zhang (London and New York: Routledge, 2023), 133-144.
\n\u2022 \u201cDisjunctive Temporalities: Queer Sinophone Visuality across Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan,\u201d in Queer TV China<\/em>, ed. Jamie J. Zhao (Hong Kong: HKU Press, 2023), 124-142.
\n\u2022 \u201cBeyond the Chinese Dream: On the Unbecoming of Chineseness in Chan Koonchung\u2019s China Trilogy,\u201d in Sinophone Utopias<\/em>, ed. Andrea Riemenschnitter, Jessica Imbach, and Justyna Jaguscik (Amherst: Cambria Press, 2022), 349-367.
\n\u2022 \u201cWhere Jameson Meets Queer Theory: Queer Cognitive Mapping in 1990s Sinophone Cinema,\u201d in Fredric Jameson and Film Theory<\/em>, ed. Keith B. Wagner, Jeremi Szaniawski, and Michael Cramer (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2022), 131-145.
\n\u2022 \u201cBeyond Queer Liberalism: On Queer Globalities and Regionalism from Postcolonial Hong Kong,\u201d in Sexualities, Transnationalism, and Globalization<\/em>, ed. Yanqiu Rachel Zhou, Christina Sinding, and Donald Goellnicht (New York: Routledge, 2021), 107-120.
\n\u2022 \u201cPostcoloniality beyond China-centrism: Queer Sinophone Transnationalism in Hong Kong Cinema,\u201d in Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies<\/em>, ed. Howard Chiang and Alvin K. Wong (New York: Routledge, 2020), 62-79.
\n\u2022 \u3008\u540c\u5fd7 Tongzhi\/Queer\u3009in \u300a\u9999\u6e2f\u95dc\u9375\u8a5e\u300b (Hong Kong Keywords), ed. Stephen Chu Yiu Wai (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2019), 275-286.
\n\u2022 \u201cGendering Intersubjectivity in New Chinese Documentary,\u201d in Filming the Everyday: Independent Documentaries in Twenty-First Century China<\/em>, ed. Paul G. Pickowicz and Yingjin Zhang (Lanham: Rowan & Littlefield, 2017), 119-133.
\n\u2022 \u201cQueer Sinophone Studies as Anti-Capitalist Critique: Mapping Queer Kinship in the Work of Chen Ran and Wong Bik-wan,\u201d in Queer Sinophone Cultures<\/em>, ed. Howard Chiang and Ari Larissa Heinrich (New York: Routledge, 2014), 109-129.
\n\u2022 \u201cTransgenderism as a Heuristic Device: On the Cross-historical and Transnational Adaptations of the Legend of the White Snake,\u201d in Transgender China<\/em>, ed. Howard Chiang (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 127-158.<\/p>\n

COURSE(S) TAUGHT<\/strong>
\n\u2022 CLIT 2014 Feminist Cultural Studies
\n\u2022 CLIT 2065 Hong Kong Culture: Representations of Identity in Literature and Film
\n\u2022 CLIT 2089 Culture and \u2018Queer\u2019 Theory
\n\u2022 CLIT 3021 Advanced Studies in Theory and Cultural Analysis
\n\u2022 CCGL 9002 Hong Kong Culture in the Context of Globalization<\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"

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