{"id":1832,"date":"2025-08-18T07:01:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/complit.hku.hk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Prof-Song-Geng.png"},"modified":"2025-08-18T07:34:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:34:53","slug":"prof-song-geng","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/complit.hku.hk\/index.php\/affiliated-faculty\/prof-song-geng\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof Geng SONG"},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-1832","attachment","type-attachment","status-inherit","hentry"],"description":{"rendered":"

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Professor & Programme Director of MAT
\nBA (Beijing Foreign Studies University), PhD (HK)
\nemail: gsong@hku.hk
\nResearch interest: Chinese Television Culture, Gender and Sexuality, Masculinities in East Asia, Translation and Cross-cultural Studies<\/p>\n

Professor Geng Song is Chair of the Board of the Faculty of Arts and the Director of the MA in the field of Translation (MAT) Programme. He taught in Singapore and Australia for over ten years before coming to HKU in September 2012. He is a Guest Professor at Shanghai University and was a Luce East Asia Fellow of the National Humanities Center (USA) in 2022\/23.<\/p>\n

Song is interested in transcultural, transdisciplinary, and transhistorical inquiries on gender and identity in Chinese popular culture. He has written extensively on issues such as men and masculinities in Chinese culture and society, Chinese television, and Chinese nationalism. His first book, The Fragile Scholar: Power and Masculinity in Chinese Culture<\/a><\/em> (2004), is now considered a pioneering work in the field of Chinese masculinity studies, with its conclusions drawn from materials on the caizi discourse serving as the \u201ccornerstone for any future critical studies on Chinese masculinity\u201d (Jing Wang, back cover blurb). His second book, Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China<\/a><\/em> (co-authored with Derek Hird, 2014), represents a much-applauded attempt to combine in an interdisciplinary manner a critical reading of male images in media texts with interviews with and ethnographic examinations of men in the context of everyday life in mainland China. It has been extensively reviewed and hailed as a \u201cvaluable guide to the new configurations of manhood that have emerged in urban China over the past couple of decades of explosive economic growth and dizzying social change\u201d (Matthew Sommer, book review). His newest monograph, Televising Chineseness: Gender, Nation, and Subjectivity<\/a><\/em> (2022) explores how television and Web dramas imagine the Chinese nation and form postsocialist Chinese gendered subjects. He is currently working on a new project on how algorithms rewrite history in Chinese digital media.<\/p>\n

Song\u2019s publications also include edited volumes on Chinese television and transnational Chinese masculinities, a translated anthology of works by China\u2019s post-80s writers, and a number of research articles in such journals as Modern China, The China Journal, Men and Masculinities, Asian Studies Review, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies<\/em> and Nan N\u00fc<\/em>. He is the recipient of two GRF grants, as well as international collaboration grants from the British Academy, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and the Academy of Korean Studies and has delivered keynote\/invited lectures in the UK, Australia, the USA, and China.<\/p>\n

Song is the co-editor of a book series on \u201cTransnational Asian Masculinities<\/a>\u201d by Hong Kong University Press. His research has been widely featured by major international media outlets, such as the South China Morning Post, The Guardian, Nikki Asian Review, China Daily, Radio Australia<\/em>, and The Straits Times<\/em>, to name just a few.<\/p>\n

Scopus: https:\/\/www.scopus.com\/authid\/detail.uri?authorId=36127949600<\/a>
\nGoogle Scholar: \u202aGeng Song – \u202aGoogle \u5b78\u8853\u641c\u5c0b<\/a><\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"

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