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@tingguowrites.bsky.social's book talk on 27 Jan (Tuesday) at @utsc.utoronto.ca!

Beating the Villain with a Slipper: Rituals of Reparation in Urban Hong Kong - CURE

The Reparation Blog: Beating the Villain with a Slipper: Rituals of Reparation in Urban Hong Kong

by @myetcetera.bsky.social:

As friends in the US sharing rage & heartbreak for #alexpretti , some young activists #hk47 in HK were finally released after all these years. It’s not only a time for comparing global authoritarianism, but also for rethinking the foundations & trajectories of democracy and liberalism…

The most inspiring aspect of Anderson’s Imagined Communities: how colonialism engenders anti-colonial nationalisms (& its relationship to the paradox of Marxist nationalism).

“… Lineage formation in China is not so much a matter of residence and “biology” as it is of politics and economics.”

Noticing smth new each time in Village Life in #HongKong: #Politics, #Gender,& #Ritual in the New Territories: it was written during the Cultural Revolution/right after the “67 riot” in HK; the Watsons contextualised the political-economic making of Chinese patrilineage (“ #Confucianism”❌)

The Burdens of Love in Public Discourse in China Thu, Jan 29 2026, 4:30 - 6pm |

This looks wildly similar to my book. 1) who at Yale invited him 2) will anyone challenge him at the talk?

macmillan.yale.edu/eastasia/eve...

中国Z世代：快速吸粉近200万的抖音号背后，“电子爸妈”让他们迷上别样的家庭 - BBC News 中文 “电子爸妈会且只会嘘寒问暖，问我今天开不开心……我上班和同事沟通已经很累了，不想再听吃了一代红利的人教我怎么做人情往来。”

Honored to have contributed to the reporting of this fascinating phenomenon of "digital parents" & Q of "East Asian families;" thx for quoting my book on the politicization of (parental) love => the Internet has become a resort for expressing familial intimacy & #love:

www.bbc.com/zhongwen/art...

Happy new year! 1st book talk in 2026 & first time on UTSC campus! RSVP: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

#toronto #love #booksky #utsc

👇 The traditional Chinese characters translation of The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing will be available at Eslite among other places once it publishes soon www.eslite.com/product/1001...

Researching on women & #Buddhism in #HongKong; history indeed looks entirely different if we centre women instead. The earliest Buddhist community, school, hospital, chaplaincy… were all founded by women, monastic or lay, during the war, the Cold War, social upheavals, famines, pandemics, and more.

Chinese Religious Practice as Protest: The Night Assemblies of Hong Kong's 2019 Anti-ELAB Movement Abstract. This essay explores how and why protestors from the 2019 anti-ELAB (Extradition Law Amendment Bill) movement turned to popular Chinese religious practice for political dissent, and simultane...

H. S. Sum Cheuk Shing’s “Chinese #Religious Practice as #Protest: The Night Assemblies of #HongKong's 2019 Anti-ELAB Movement” in our special forum “ #Religion & #SocialMovements in Hong Kong”:

Chinese Religious Practice as Protest: The Night Assemblies of Hong Kong's 2019 Anti-ELAB Movement Abstract. This essay explores how and why protestors from the 2019 anti-ELAB (Extradition Law Amendment Bill) movement turned to popular Chinese religious practice for political dissent, and simultane...

H. S. Sum Cheuk Shing’s “Chinese #Religious Practice as #Protest: The Night Assemblies of #HongKong's 2019 Anti-ELAB Movement” in our special forum “ #Religion & #SocialMovements in Hong Kong”:

Diffusion, Polyphony, and Diversity: An Introduction to Religion, Politics, and Identity in Hong Kong since 2014 Abstract. This forum explicates Hong Kong's complex religious and ritual landscape and the ways in which it influences social movements and identity making, in response to large forces of religion and...

The Jiao Festivals #太平清醮 (purification rite) this year received extra attention for its use of bamboo scaffolding and, as we argued in this JAS special forum, popular religions have provided a sense of (political) identity in #hongkong:

#religion #chinesereligion #daoism #ritual #jiaofestival

@tingguowrites.bsky.social :
"Many of the tragic events in locations far from us are shaped by local and global politics, international capital, and modern state institutions, rather than by ‘culture’, and we must contextualise these events while also recognising their connections to ‘our world’."

also enjoying this open-access paper from Myung-Sahm Suh: Vacillating between the Cold War and the Culture War: The Contemporary Predicament of the Korean Evangelical Right www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/la...

A highly recommended read:

“Hong Kong has gone through so many traumas and so much mourning in the past five years, and all of us have repressed emotions: anger towards the neoliberal and authoritarian powers, and grief for the lives and the way of life that have been lost”.

🙏💛

The Distance Between Us | Made in China Journal A week after the devastating fire that claimed at least 159 lives in Hong Kong on 26 November, people were still queuing daily for hours until after midnight to join the mourning. As flowers, gifts, a...

When the Hong Kong fire occurred, initial international media coverage focused on bamboo scaffolding. This Orientalised and exoticised the tragedy, obscuring the fact that it was not just an accident, but an outcome shaped by long-term neglect and inequality, writes @tingguowrites.bsky.social.

The Distance Between Us | Made in China Journal A week after the devastating fire that claimed at least 159 lives in Hong Kong on 26 November, people were still queuing daily for hours until after midnight to join the mourning. As flowers, gifts, a...

A difficult piece to write, for all the emotional turmoil for #hongkong #HongKongFire (+my ill-timed minor surgery). But #emotions are powerful; they create a #community of #mourning across boundaries & envision a future under impossible conditions. Please feel them to transcend the distance bt us:

We also discussed @helenjinkim.bsky.social ‘s Race for Survival: How #ColdWar South #Korea Shaped American #Evangelical Empire!

#20 全球基督教右翼 & 宗教與現代韓國｜Global Christian Right & Religion and Modern Korea

📣we have a new episode - the very first Shicha episode in English!📣
@tingguowrites.bsky.social talks to Myung-Sahm Suh on the global Christian right, religion and modern Korea!
open.spotify.com/episode/574D...

Some photos from the Tai Po fire memorial area yesterday.

HKFP spoke with Hongkongers from the Muslim community who have stood in solidarity with families who lost loved ones in the Tai Po fire. Another mourner expressed fears that some of those affected… Hong Kong fire: Solidarity, grief and anger in Tai Po after 151 killed in Wang Fuk Court blaze

HKFP spoke with Hongkongers from the Muslim community who have stood in solidarity with families who lost loved ones in the Tai Po fire. Another mourner called for accountability. Video: Johnny Wan/HKFP.
In full: buff.ly/6HVaFLa

I’ve always thought there was a dissertation topic in bamboo scaffolding.

🇭🇰HONG KONG D 阿金環遊香港100天🇭🇰 on Instagram: "《2025年沙田九約十年一屆太平清醮》 跟錦田鄉十年大醮同期的還有這個同樣是十年才一次的沙田九約大醮，兩個醮的儀式日程表都十分相近，同樣是12月13開始，正日同樣是16號，日程表請參考圖四 明白錦田那個實在太吸引眾人目光，所以都較會忽略了沙田九約這個同樣是十年才一次的太平清醮 這其實是一個好機會認識沙田這個地方... 4,606 likes, 29 comments - hongkongd_ on November 16, 2025: "《2025年沙田九約十年一屆太平清醮》 跟錦田鄉十年大醮同期的還有這個同樣是十年才一次的沙田九約大醮，兩個醮的儀式日程表都十分相近，同樣是12月13開始，正日同樣是16號，日程表請參考圖四 明白錦田那個實在太吸引眾人目光，所以都較會忽略了沙田九約這個同樣是十年才一次的太平清醮...

Bamboo scaffoldings’ spiritual significance: they’re an essential part of Jiao/ Chiu 醮 festivals: www.instagram.com/p/DRHQmoWiWw...

#hongkong #daoism #religion

Tai Po in flames - Lausan How Hongkongers are reviving mass action and mutual aid in the wake of the deadly fires in Tai Po.

Tai Po in flames @lausanhk.bsky.social: "While many commentators outside #HongKong have been repeating the mantra of “Hong Kong is dead” since 2020, the powerful mutual aid and calls for #justice are solid evidence of the continuing #agency of people": lausancollective.com/2025/tai-po-...

Inmediahk reports that HK university student Miles Kwan, who was seen handing out fliers linking to a petition demanding an independent investigation and accountability for the Tai Po fire was detained and taken to the police station. The online petition and related media has since been deleted.

嘥氣 on Instagram: "香港是我們的家 也是他們的家 感恩今日見到的是 各位在災難面前 大家不分你我 一同竭盡所能共渡難關 再次感謝各位守望相助 祝大埔. 檻過" 香港正面臨著許多挑戰, 但我們仍然堅持下去, 因為我們相信我們的城市, 我們的家, 也是他們的家

Viral video: south asian minorities in #hongkong showing support. If they were still viewed as outsiders in 2019 protests, it’s a more inclusive sense of #community this time. The emotional-political community thru mourning (hopefully) transcends racial boundary: www.instagram.com/reel/DRmtOuu...