Edited Volume by Xianliang DONG
Since its founding by the City Contemporary Dance Company in 2004, Jumping Frames – Hong Kong Int... more Since its founding by the City Contemporary Dance Company in 2004, Jumping Frames – Hong Kong International Movement-Image Festival has established itself as a pioneering platform at the intersection of embodied practice and visual media. More than a film festival, Jumping Frames has continuously redefined the boundaries of artistic experimentation and interdisciplinary exchange, acting as a vital nexus for local and international creative communities and serving as a microcosm of Hong Kong’s vibrant cultural landscape.
This anthology presents a multifaceted exploration of screendance and movement-image arts, bringing together a carefully curated collection of essays, roundtable discussions, and artistic reflections. It examines the reimagining of traditions, the body as a site of cultural critique, and the evolving interplay between movement and media technologies.
Spanning experiences from Hong Kong, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and beyond, this volume provides fresh perspectives for artists, curators, and scholars. It invites readers to reconsider the role of dance and moving images within contemporary art and to reflect on their broader cultural, social, and political implications.
Marking the 20th anniversary of Jumping Frames, this anthology celebrates two decades of artistic innovation, offering an inspiring resource for those seeking to explore the dynamic convergence of dance and media arts and envisioning new possibilities for the future of movement-image practices.
This anthology presents a multifaceted exploration of screendance and movement-image arts, bringing together a carefully curated collection of essays, roundtable discussions, and artistic reflections. It examines the reimagining of traditions, the body as a site of cultural critique, and the evolving interplay between movement and media technologies.
Spanning experiences from Hong Kong, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and beyond, this volume provides fresh perspectives for artists, curators, and scholars. It invites readers to reconsider the role of dance and moving images within contemporary art and to reflect on their broader cultural, social, and political implications.
Marking the 20th anniversary of Jumping Frames, this anthology celebrates two decades of artistic innovation, offering an inspiring resource for those seeking to explore the dynamic convergence of dance and media arts and envisioning new possibilities for the future of movement-image practices.
Papers by Xianliang DONG
Global and Planetary Change, 2025
Understanding the severe flood erosion and subsequent sedimentation in arid mountainous regions i... more Understanding the severe flood erosion and subsequent sedimentation in arid mountainous regions is crucial for assessing future flood risks under the pressure of global warming and human activities. It has long been hypothesized that a shift toward a more arid climate in an arid environment could enhance flood erosion despite the decreased discharge in rivers. However, the scarcity of long and reliable flood records makes testing this hypothesis difficult, thus limiting understanding of flood erosion during climate aridification. Here, we reconstruct a 1000-year-long extreme flooding record by exploring original Chinese historical archives and by analyzing sediment cores from the semi-arid mountainous catchment-Daling River estuary, NE Asia, based on the observation that instrumental floods normally cause coarse particle enrichment in the estuary. Our data reveal that on the centennial scale, extreme flooding mainly coincided with periods of climate aridification. The frequent rainstorms in this high variable topography catchment, coupled with reduced vegetation coverage as the climate shifts toward a more arid condition, have primarily contributed to the heightened flood erosion. Additionally, our record highlights the significant impact of accelerated reservoir construction and vegetation restoration in the river catchment since 1960 CE. These human activities have led to a noticeable reduction in coarse particle contents and sediment flux reaching the estuary which supports the previous viewpoints that human activities in Asia have greatly decreased river load entering the coastal oceans.
Journal of Medical Biography, 2023
Hideo Fukumi (1914–1998) is renowned for his position as the director of Japan's National Institu... more Hideo Fukumi (1914–1998) is renowned for his position as the director of Japan's National Institute of Health and his scientific contributions to the fields of bacteriology, virology and epidemiology. This article introduces Fukumi's career cultivated over decades in the Japanese national medical system and focuses on his research on Shigella, Salmonella and influenza. Yet any assessment of his career also has to take into account the considerable controversy and scandal it engendered. This necessary reassessment situates Fukumi's contribution within what has been revealed of Japan's biological weapons programme which reached its zenith during the Second World War. Very few scientists, including Fukumi, were prosecuted for their roles in this programme. Contrarily, they became core personnel in post-war medical research due to the patronage of the United States–Japan alliance in the context of the Cold War. Controversies that later surfaced over Fukumi's role in influenza immunisation campaigns reflect two currents of debate: A belated reckoning with Japan's use of biological weapons and the way this was ‘normalised’ and overlooked in the post-war period. The role of Japanese scholars and citizens’ movements who have interrogated Japanese war crimes and the U.S. cover-ups and made a demand for greater ethical transparency in medical science.
Journal of Dance Education, 2022
Archiving is a process of organizing and creating content for sustainable, long-term access. Howe... more Archiving is a process of organizing and creating content for sustainable, long-term access. However, the "archivists" actively shape the content in the realm of the performing arts, which often involves adding a new layer of knowledge to the original artform. This article explores the archiving of a ballet repertory course conducted in a higher education institution in Hong Kong during the pandemic, including the archival product and the collaborative process between a multidisciplinary team of people from dance, education, and library science. While teaching repertory online has its challenges, being "online" also offered unique learning experiences. Aiming to illustrate the topics related to hybrid pedagogy and individual creativity in use during the pandemic, the team conducted interviews with some participants for the purpose of creating a series of short educational films. These materials were collected and stored in the institution's digital repository as the first archive for a specific course.
《文化研究》Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies, 2019
《台灣社會研究季刊》Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, 2018
本文以2014年雨傘運動之後的流感隱喻作為研究主體，同時涉及與之相關的沙士隱喻，希望藉著疾病隱喻的話題來展現當下香港社會政治環境之矛盾，以及描繪出現時中港之間緊張的關係是如何被鞏固的。
在梳理... more 本文以2014年雨傘運動之後的流感隱喻作為研究主體，同時涉及與之相關的沙士隱喻，希望藉著疾病隱喻的話題來展現當下香港社會政治環境之矛盾，以及描繪出現時中港之間緊張的關係是如何被鞏固的。
在梳理了過往研究與疾病隱喻的理論界限之後，本文提出如何批判地運用醫學知識與歷史素材的研究方法，進而指出在除去隱喻的普遍特徵後，香港雨傘運動後的流感隱喻的特殊之處在於兩點：單一使用「中港矛盾」作為主要內容；與沙士有密切聯繫。接著，本文先是對流感隱喻中時常回顧的沙士隱喻的構建過程作出描述，然後提出流感隱喻既承續了沙士隱喻，自身又有所轉變。本文認為流感隱喻較少吸收歷時事件，而是輕易將「中心／邊緣」與「患病／健康」兩組意象複合，同時以「排他」與「區隔」作為唯一的治療手段。最後，本文將流感隱喻置於「本土主義」思潮的歷史中考量，認為流感隱喻加深了人們對於中港矛盾的刻板印象，它構建了內地人一種「患病」的本質，賦予「中港區隔」以合理性，但此方案潛藏著前所未有的暴力，它最終可能演變為對於個體的強制審判與懲罰。
關鍵詞：疾病隱喻、流行性感冒、沙士、本質化、中港區隔
This article examines the metaphor of influenza after the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong in 2014. With reference to the metaphor of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), this article draws on the metaphor to discuss the political predicament of Hong Kong, as well as the intensely conflicting China-Hong Kong relationship in contemporary time.
By recapitulating the theories on illness as metaphor, this article will offer a critical study of both the pathological knowledge and historical materials to analyze influenza as metaphor in contemporary Hong Kong. The second part of this article will not only delineate the common characteristics of the metaphor of influenza, but also shed light on the specificities of such metaphor in the context of Hong Kong in two ways: (1) the metaphor of influenza is particularly deployed to account for the “China-Hong Kong conflict”; (2) such metaphor is inseparably linked to the metaphor of SARS. For the remaining parts, the article will explicate the discursive process of the metaphor of SARS that has been often referred to the metaphor of influenza. It argues that the metaphor of influenza can be understood as an “inheritance” of the metaphor of SARS, with modification and appropriation. Rather than referencing to the diachrony, the metaphor of influenza usually aligns the binary opposition of “center/periphery” with the one of “illness/health”, while it has frequently used “exclusion” and “segmentation” as the remedy for such dilemma. Finally, this article looks into how the metaphor of influenza has developed in the context of “local consciousness”. It concludes that the metaphor reiterates stereotypes of the China-Hong Kong conflict through essentializing the “illness” of mainland Chinese, thereby legitimizing the China-Hong Kong segregation. The legitimacy of such segregation implies the potential violence against the mainland Chinese and may become a coercive trial and punishment for individuals.
Keywords: illness as metaphor, influenza, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, essentialization, China-Hong Kong segregation
在梳理了過往研究與疾病隱喻的理論界限之後，本文提出如何批判地運用醫學知識與歷史素材的研究方法，進而指出在除去隱喻的普遍特徵後，香港雨傘運動後的流感隱喻的特殊之處在於兩點：單一使用「中港矛盾」作為主要內容；與沙士有密切聯繫。接著，本文先是對流感隱喻中時常回顧的沙士隱喻的構建過程作出描述，然後提出流感隱喻既承續了沙士隱喻，自身又有所轉變。本文認為流感隱喻較少吸收歷時事件，而是輕易將「中心／邊緣」與「患病／健康」兩組意象複合，同時以「排他」與「區隔」作為唯一的治療手段。最後，本文將流感隱喻置於「本土主義」思潮的歷史中考量，認為流感隱喻加深了人們對於中港矛盾的刻板印象，它構建了內地人一種「患病」的本質，賦予「中港區隔」以合理性，但此方案潛藏著前所未有的暴力，它最終可能演變為對於個體的強制審判與懲罰。
關鍵詞：疾病隱喻、流行性感冒、沙士、本質化、中港區隔
This article examines the metaphor of influenza after the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong in 2014. With reference to the metaphor of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), this article draws on the metaphor to discuss the political predicament of Hong Kong, as well as the intensely conflicting China-Hong Kong relationship in contemporary time.
By recapitulating the theories on illness as metaphor, this article will offer a critical study of both the pathological knowledge and historical materials to analyze influenza as metaphor in contemporary Hong Kong. The second part of this article will not only delineate the common characteristics of the metaphor of influenza, but also shed light on the specificities of such metaphor in the context of Hong Kong in two ways: (1) the metaphor of influenza is particularly deployed to account for the “China-Hong Kong conflict”; (2) such metaphor is inseparably linked to the metaphor of SARS. For the remaining parts, the article will explicate the discursive process of the metaphor of SARS that has been often referred to the metaphor of influenza. It argues that the metaphor of influenza can be understood as an “inheritance” of the metaphor of SARS, with modification and appropriation. Rather than referencing to the diachrony, the metaphor of influenza usually aligns the binary opposition of “center/periphery” with the one of “illness/health”, while it has frequently used “exclusion” and “segmentation” as the remedy for such dilemma. Finally, this article looks into how the metaphor of influenza has developed in the context of “local consciousness”. It concludes that the metaphor reiterates stereotypes of the China-Hong Kong conflict through essentializing the “illness” of mainland Chinese, thereby legitimizing the China-Hong Kong segregation. The legitimacy of such segregation implies the potential violence against the mainland Chinese and may become a coercive trial and punishment for individuals.
Keywords: illness as metaphor, influenza, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, essentialization, China-Hong Kong segregation
Book Chapters by Xianliang DONG
鑽燧薪傳：香港城市大學中文及歷史學系研究生論文集（上冊）, 2024
本文翻譯、修改自 Xianliang Dong, “Hideo Fukumi: Medical Research in the
Shadow of Biological Warfare,” Jo... more 本文翻譯、修改自 Xianliang Dong, “Hideo Fukumi: Medical Research in the
Shadow of Biological Warfare,” Journal of Medical Biography 32.2 (2024): 194－204. 2023 Online First. 中文版匿名評審的意見十分寶貴，謹致謝忱。
Shadow of Biological Warfare,” Journal of Medical Biography 32.2 (2024): 194－204. 2023 Online First. 中文版匿名評審的意見十分寶貴，謹致謝忱。
Hong Kong Dance Overview 2018, 2021
The Emerald Handbook of Narrative Criminology, 2019
Most offender narrative being studied has been in oral forms, produced in the reciprocal process ... more Most offender narrative being studied has been in oral forms, produced in the reciprocal process of researcher-(ex) offender interviews. This chapter offers an introduction to a variation of offender narrative study within the prison and rehabilitation context: the narrative of written autobiography. Since the early 1940s, Chinese reform institutions have required written autobiographies from new admitters, provided with clear presubscripted guidelines of instructions as well as postcensorship. For this chapter, we trace back and analyse this model based on 28 prisoners' autobiographies in mainland China between 2007 and 2009, as well as archive documents in different historical periods. We have found that the mandatory offender autobiographies are highly functional writings with clear requirements that embody the existing power structure. We have also found considerable commonality with findings in Western contexts on the presence and problems of narrative compliance in rehabilitation. We argue that narrative criminology should further engage in understanding the practice of narrative censorship and co-authorship in criminal justice processes, as it takes on different forms in different historical–social contexts.
Interviews by Xianliang DONG
舞蹈手札Dance Journal/HK, 2022
服裝是舞蹈演出不可或缺的一部分，但是服裝部在香港舞蹈界並不是一個常見的設置，除去三個由政府主要資助的舞團外，其他團體並沒有足夠資源建立一個相關部門。服裝部由甚麼人組成？它怎樣發展？實際運行又如何... more 服裝是舞蹈演出不可或缺的一部分，但是服裝部在香港舞蹈界並不是一個常見的設置，除去三個由政府主要資助的舞團外，其他團體並沒有足夠資源建立一個相關部門。服裝部由甚麼人組成？它怎樣發展？實際運行又如何？這些對於舞團之外的觀眾、藝術家、研究者、教育者來說，都是值得挖掘的「秘密」；而每個舞團的服裝部又各具特色，從業者不同的工作與生活，則需要花更多工夫去了解。本文節錄自筆者與城市當代舞蹈團（CCDC）現任服裝經理李慧娥（Linda）的對話，她領導該部門已超過三十餘年，對話的主題集中在CCDC服裝部的沿革和組織。為了方便讀者閱讀，文章將一部分白話轉錄為書面語；文章盡量保留訪談雙方的言說邏輯，但仍有字句上的篩選。括號中的內容分為兩種：一是英文翻譯，二是作內容之補足。
Costumes are an essential part of dance performances, yet wardrobe departments are rare in the Hong Kong dance scene. Apart from the three ‘flagship’ dance companies which receive the most government funding, other groups do not have enough resources to establish such a department. So what kind of people work in wardrobe departments? How do they develop and how do they operate? These are fascinating areas to explore for audiences, artists, researchers and educators outside the industry. Each dance company’s wardrobe department is unique, and the work and lives of the people inside them are worth understanding. This article is an excerpt from the author’s interview with City Contemporary Dance Company’s (CCDC) Wardrobe Manager Linda Lee. She has led the department for over 30 years, and our conversation focused on the department’s evolution and organisation. To make it easier to read, the article was partly translated from colloquial to written language, and efforts were made to preserve the flow of the dialogue, while some of the contents were simplified. The content in square brackets is supplementary information.
Costumes are an essential part of dance performances, yet wardrobe departments are rare in the Hong Kong dance scene. Apart from the three ‘flagship’ dance companies which receive the most government funding, other groups do not have enough resources to establish such a department. So what kind of people work in wardrobe departments? How do they develop and how do they operate? These are fascinating areas to explore for audiences, artists, researchers and educators outside the industry. Each dance company’s wardrobe department is unique, and the work and lives of the people inside them are worth understanding. This article is an excerpt from the author’s interview with City Contemporary Dance Company’s (CCDC) Wardrobe Manager Linda Lee. She has led the department for over 30 years, and our conversation focused on the department’s evolution and organisation. To make it easier to read, the article was partly translated from colloquial to written language, and efforts were made to preserve the flow of the dialogue, while some of the contents were simplified. The content in square brackets is supplementary information.
Reviews by Xianliang DONG
《文化研究》Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies, 2020
《文化研究季刊》 Cultural Studies Quarterly, 2018
Conferences by Xianliang DONG
Modernization at the Crossroads: Revisiting Martha Graham’s 1974 Asian Tour through Sinophone Perspective
The missing piece of freelance performing arts workers through the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong
香港（研究）作為方法：論香港的「疾病敘事」——以感冒、流行性感冒、沙士為例
Cold War Influenza: The Discourse of Hong Kong Flu and Its Controversies, 1968-1972