Bonnie Nardi’s new book My Life as Night Elf Priest about World of Warcraft is out by University of Michigan Press. You can look at the summary of her book and also download several of the chapters for free. The book gives a very detailed and positive account of what it means to be [...]
SYMPOSIUM City University of Hong Kong 8-9-10 december http://www.english.cityu.edu.hk/ExtraordinaryDressCode The Extra / Ordinary Dress Code Symposium brings together scholars, writers and artists from diverse nationalities and disciplines to address the subject of fashion in its aesthetic, cultural, ritual, social, performative and historical dimensions. (Photo: cross-dresser Maggie Leung and friend) ******** EXHIBITION The Rest of Us [...]
Raw Data – A Real Fake Document about Sex Researchers and their Hunting in Hong Kong. Click the picture for the trailer: Raw Data is a short experimental fiction film that grew out of my research about Internet sex and collaborations with actors/actresses. Summary Dr. Nero Wong is famous amongst university students for his critiques [...]
Yang Jing in RAW DATA as Butterfly, a bored graduate student who develops the alter ego of a dominant and adulterous married woman, Mrs Fleur Chan.
My Japanese doll complex movie is playing in a film program about ‘Cosplay,’ (costume play or animation and J-rock fans who dress like their favorite characters) organized by the Urban Nomad Festival Let me confess right here that my movie would have been a flop without the support of Sean Hsiao, who introduced me to [...]
The new issue of Intersections on Yaoi, Boys Love, or gay animations for girls, is out, and it is called ‘Japanese Transnational Fandoms and Female Consumers,’ guest-edited by Mark McLelland. I am very grateful to Mark McLelland and Carolyn Brewer for including my documentary On The Japanese Doll Complex. It fulfills a long-awaited desire to [...]
The Blue Lotus Gallery beckons you to crash their opening, sat feb 14, 3 pm-6pm: “Are you lonesome on this saturday afternoon? Do you have performance anxiety? Have you been in Hong Kong for too long? Do you want to get out? Do you worry about your penis size? Vaginal dryness? Relationship drought or depression? [...]
A traditional Chinese paper cutting and a gift received from Sean H.Hsiao, who writes “The cutting in left side composed of flower peonies and vases, which means “Wealth” plus “Peace and safety” in Chinese language. And that’s the popular greeting words we love to say during New Years. The right side as you can see [...]
