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Faculty Page | Portland State University
Faculty Page | Portland State University
Kai Hang Cheang is a transnational scholar, educator, and cultural critic who writes and teaches at the intersection of queer studies, transgender studies, postcolonial studies, ethnic studies, and Asian and Asian American literature and culture. He completed his PhD in English at the University of California,...
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Portland State University - Cited by 16 - Queer Theory - Ethnic Studies - Asian American Literature - Postcolonial Studies - Visual Culture
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Kai CHEANG, Assistant Professor | Cited by 3 | of Portland State University, Portland (PSU) | Read 16 publications | Contact Kai CHEANG
Video Lecture
Imagining a More Just Future: A Lecture with Walidah Imarisha, Grace Dillon, and Kai Hang Cheang
Imagining a More Just Future: A Lecture with Walidah Imarisha, Grace Dillon, and Kai Hang Cheang
Our panelists explore alternative futures through Black, Indigenous and queer perspectives. Panelists: Walidah Imarisha, assistant professor, Black Studies Grace Dillon, professor, Indigenous Nations Studies Kai Cheang, visiting scholar, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies The @ This Moment series provides a space for our researchers to share their work with the community and help provide context for better understanding and responding to this moment in history.
Journal Articles
“Forms of Solidarity and the Self: A Postcolonial Reading of Yuli Riswati’s Hong Kong Writing.” Feminist Formations (2023)
“Forms of Solidarity and the Self: A Postcolonial Reading of Yuli Riswati’s Hong Kong Writing.” Feminist Formations (2023)
“Queering ‘The Children’s Movement’: A Sideways Look at Political Infantilization in the (Post-) 2014 Global Imaginary of Hong Kong Protesters.” GLQ (2021)
“Queering ‘The Children’s Movement’: A Sideways Look at Political Infantilization in the (Post-) 2014 Global Imaginary of Hong Kong Protesters.” GLQ (2021)
Abstract. This essay argues that the queer figure of the child that crops up curiously in (post–)Umbrella Movement Hong Kong is a defining political
“Performativity in Black Internationalist Poetics as Exemplified in Robeson and Hughes.” Alif (2019)
“Performativity in Black Internationalist Poetics as Exemplified in Robeson and Hughes.” Alif (2019)
“Restaging the Superhero Spectacle: Green Turtle’s Shame, The Shadow Hero’s Reparative Aesthetics, and the Chinese Diaspora’s Speculative Historiography of Golden Age Comics.” MELUS (2018)
“Restaging the Superhero Spectacle: Green Turtle’s Shame, The Shadow Hero’s Reparative Aesthetics, and the Chinese Diaspora’s Speculative Historiography of Golden Age Comics.” MELUS (2018)
Abstract. This essay examines the aesthetic and affective contours of The Shadow Hero (2014), Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew’s reimagination of the Green Tu
“Family Discord/ance: Tone and Countermood in Gish Jen’s Mona in the Promised Land.” Pacific Coast Philology (2018)
“Family Discord/ance: Tone and Countermood in Gish Jen’s Mona in the Promised Land.” Pacific Coast Philology (2018)
“On the Curious Case of a Black Slave Owner in Edward P. Jones’s The Known World; or, a Queer Reading of Black Abjection and Autonomy.” Gender Forum (2014)
“On the Curious Case of a Black Slave Owner in Edward P. Jones’s The Known World; or, a Queer Reading of Black Abjection and Autonomy.” Gender Forum (2014)
“Minor Character and Minor Orientalism.” Asian American x Latinx Critical & Digital Studies (2023)
“Minor Character and Minor Orientalism.” Asian American x Latinx Critical & Digital Studies (2023)
Book Reviews
“Asian American Sociality after the Anti-Relational Turn in Queer Theory: A Double Review of Stephen Hong Sohn’s Inscrutable Belongings: Queer Asian North American Fiction and Cynthia Wu’s Sticky Rice: A Politics of Intraracial Desire.” Criticism (2020)
“Asian American Sociality after the Anti-Relational Turn in Queer Theory: A Double Review of Stephen Hong Sohn’s Inscrutable Belongings: Queer Asian North American Fiction and Cynthia Wu’s Sticky Rice: A Politics of Intraracial Desire.” Criticism (2020)
Inscrutable Belongings: Queer Asian North American Fiction by Stephen Hong Sohn. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2018. 336 pp. $90.00 cloth, $30.00 paper. Sticky Rice: A Politics of Intraracial Desire by Cynthia Wu. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2018. 212 pp. $94.50 cloth, $29.95 paper.
“Review of Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific by Howard Chiang.” Journal of the History of Sexuality (2023)
“Review of Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific by Howard Chiang.” Journal of the History of Sexuality (2023)
“Review of Minor China: Method, Materials, and the Aesthetics by Hentyle Yapp.” (2023)
“Review of Minor China: Method, Materials, and the Aesthetics by Hentyle Yapp.” (2023)
“Review of The Economic Roots of the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong: Globalization and the Rise of China by Louis Augustin-Jean and Anthea H.Y. Cheung.” Hong Kong Studies (2021)
“Review of The Economic Roots of the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong: Globalization and the Rise of China by Louis Augustin-Jean and Anthea H.Y. Cheung.” Hong Kong Studies (2021)
“Review of Karen Tei Yamashita: Fictions of Magic and Memory by Robert Lee.” Journal of American Studies (2020)
“Review of Karen Tei Yamashita: Fictions of Magic and Memory by Robert Lee.” Journal of American Studies (2020)
By Kai Hang Cheang, Published on 07/01/20
“Review of Global Asian American Popular Cultures by Shilpa Davé, Leilamni Nishime, and Tasha Oren.” Journal of American Studies (2018)
“Review of Global Asian American Popular Cultures by Shilpa Davé, Leilamni Nishime, and Tasha Oren.” Journal of American Studies (2018)
Public-facing Work
"Cuteness: The Aesthetic Category of a Dystopic Global Asia." Social Text Online
"Cuteness: The Aesthetic Category of a Dystopic Global Asia." Social Text Online
“The ‘Asiancy’ of Asian American Fashion: A Commissioned text for the (e-) exhibition Collecting Dissonance in Auto Italia in London by the New York art collective CFGNY.” (2021)
“The ‘Asiancy’ of Asian American Fashion: A Commissioned text for the (e-) exhibition Collecting Dissonance in Auto Italia in London by the New York art collective CFGNY.” (2021)
Interview
“Exultant and Cautionary Imaginings at the Interstices of Architecture, Technology and Culture: An Interview with Olalekan Jeyifous.” Science Fiction Studies (2017)
“Exultant and Cautionary Imaginings at the Interstices of Architecture, Technology and Culture: An Interview with Olalekan Jeyifous.” Science Fiction Studies (2017)
Encyclopedia Entry
“Guan Gong.” Encyclopedia of Asian American Culture: From Anime to Tiger Moms (2017)
“Guan Gong.” Encyclopedia of Asian American Culture: From Anime to Tiger Moms (2017)
Providing comprehensive coverage of a variety of Asian American cultural forms, including folk tradition, literature, religion, education, politics, sports, and…
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