Dr. ZENG HongAssistant 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. | |
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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 |
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| “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. | |
| 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. | |
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“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 |
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| 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)
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Data visualization project: Her Trajectory (2020) |