Dr. ZENG Hong

Dr. ZENG Hong
Assistant Professor

hongzeng@hkbu.edu.hk
34117220
Education: 
PhD, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong

Area of Interests: 
creative industries, gender and visual culture, Sinophone Cinema, contemporary art in Hong Kong and China, digital media, museum studies, nationalism and visual culture

Major Highlights: 

Grants and Awards

2023 “Transforming national culture into intellectual property: Guofeng games in China’s online game industry,” General Research Fund, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong Government
“Women Artists Reshaping Spatial Politics in Hong Kong,” Project Grant, Hong Kong Arts Development Council
2022 Research & Knowledge Transfer Excellence Awards, Lingnan University 
“The Contemporary Art Ecosystem in the Pearl River Delta: A Case Study of Region-building and Worlding Practices,” Early Career Scheme, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong Government
2020 Yale-China Arts Fellowship, Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University 

 

Publications

Forthcoming Women Artists Reshaping Spatial Politics in Hong Kong, under contract with Amsterdam University Press.
2025  (with Choi, W.Y.K.) “Commoning Art for Sustainable Engagement with Hong Kong’s Existential Crises: A Case Study of Tak Cheong Lane Vegetarian Cooperative,” Cultural Studies 39 (3), accepted, forthcoming. 
2024

 

“The Global Social Mediascape of Feminism and Misogyny,” Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images 4 (1), 1-13.
(with Choi, W.Y.K.) “Museumising Bruce Lee in a Hong Kong public museum:(De) political imagination and the culture of disappearance,” International Journal of Heritage Studies, 30 (10), 1235–1249.

Representing Her Trajectory: Reflections on An Arts-based Research on Women Migration and Data Visualization,” Visual Communication, online first: https://doi.org/10.1177/14703572231210964

“Envisioning A Home: The Domestic Represented in Visual Arts in China and Hong Kong,” in Research Handbook on Housing, the Home and Society, edited by K. Jacobs, K. Flanagan, J.  De Vries, E. MacDonald, pp. 440-455. Edward Elgar Publishers.

The intimate thing that makes her feel at home: An analysis of the diasporic objects of women migrants,” European Journal of Cultural Studies 27 (6), 1159–1175.

2023 (with Choi, W.Y.K.) “Her Body Belongs to Her Nation? A Feminist Reading of Recent Chinese and American Female Spy Films,” Feminist Media Studies, 23:6, 2497-2513.
2020 “Contemporary Flâneuses in Late Capitalism: The Representation of Urban Space in Two Hong Kong Women Artists’ Works”, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 34:3, 448-467.
“Spatial Politics in Socially Engaged Art – Projects About the Umbrella Movement Created by Two Hong Kong Women Artists”, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 19:2, 103-124.
2019 “Translocal Female Subjectivity: Notes on Ann Hui’s The Golden Era”, Asian Cinema, 30:1, 91–107

 

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Publications and Research Outputs

Journal Articles

2025

(with Choi, W.Y.K.) “Commoning Art for Sustainable Engagement with Hong Kong’s Existential Crises: A Case Study of Tak Cheong Lane Vegetarian Cooperative,” Cultural Studies 39 (3), accepted, forthcoming. (please also add it to Journal Articles)

2024

“The Global Social Mediascape of Feminism and Misogyny,” Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images 4 (1), 1-13.

(with Choi, W.Y.K.) “Museumising Bruce Lee in a Hong Kong public museum:(De) political imagination and the culture of disappearance,” International Journal of Heritage Studies, 30 (10), 1235–1249. 

“Representing Her Trajectory: Reflections on An Arts-based Research on Women Migration and Data Visualization,” Visual Communication, online first: https://doi.org/10.1177/14703572231210964

The intimate thing that makes her feel at home: An analysis of the diasporic objects of women migrants,” European Journal of Cultural Studies 27 (6), 1159–1175.
2023 (with Choi, W.Y.K.) “Her Body Belongs to Her Nation? A Feminist Reading of Recent Chinese and American Female Spy Films,” Feminist Media Studies, 23:6, 2497-2513.
2020 “Contemporary Flâneuses in Late Capitalism: The Representation of Urban Space in Two Hong Kong Women Artists’ Works”, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 34:3, 448-467.
“Spatial Politics in Socially Engaged Art – Projects About the Umbrella Movement Created by Two Hong Kong Women Artists”, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 19:2, 103-124.
2019 “Translocal Female Subjectivity: Notes on Ann Hui’s The Golden Era”, Asian Cinema, 30:1, 91–107.
2014 “The Analysis of Polish Cinema of Moral Concern”, Contemporary Cinema, 2014(11), pp. 111-115. (Chinese)
2013 “Nicolas Winding Refn: The Superlative Image of Violent”, Contemporary Cinema, 2013(12), pp. 146-150. (Chinese)
2012 “The Analysis of China Cinema Consumption in the Cities”, Contemporary Cinema, 2012(7), p 75-79. (Chinese)
2012 “The Investigation of China Cinema Consumption in the Cities in the Context of New Media”, Modern Communication, 2012(8), p 8-14. (Chinese)

Books

Forthcoming Women Artists Reshaping Spatial Politics in Hong Kong, under contract with Amsterdam University Press.
2015 Explanation of Western Classic Films. Beijing Normal University Publishing Group. (Chinese)

Book Chapters

2024 “Envisioning A Home: The Domestic Represented in Visual Arts in China and Hong Kong.” In Housing, the Home and Society: Research Handbook, edited by Keith Jacobs, Kathleen Flanagan, Julia Verdouw and Jackie De Vries, Edward Elgar Publishers, 
2017 “The Analysis of American Dreams in China.” in Key Film Research 2012-2013. China Light Industry Press, pp 238-245. (Chinese)
2013 “The Analysis of Hello! Mr. Tree." in Key Film Research 2011. China Film Press, pp 177-190. (Chinese)

Curatorial Projects

2021 “Non-place” and “That Place”: Ko Chi-Keung in Conversation with Tang Ying Chi, Lumenvisum, Hong Kong
2020 Hong Kong in Poor Images, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.
2019 Blown Away — Art, Science and Extreme Weather, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong

Creative Projects

2020

Film: Goodbye Areca Flower, Goodbye (2020)

  • Screened at:
    • International Festival of Arts and Ideas, Connecticut, United States, 2020.
    • International Society for Ethnology and Folklore 15th Congress, Helsinki, Finland 2021.

Data visualization project: Her Trajectory (2020)

https://hertrajectory.com/