[Cancellation of Feb 22 Wed Seminar on Burnout Market Feminism]
We regret to inform you that our speaker has fallen ill and will no longer be able to present on that date. Therefore, the seminar has to be cancelled.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. We look forward to welcoming you at future events.

Time: 12:30 – 14:00

Venue: Chen Kou Bun Building 123, CUHK (In person only. No online link available.)

Speaker: Dr. TANG Ling (RGC Postdoctoral Fellow, Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University)

Moderator: Prof. HAN Ling (Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Abstract:

This talk is about my forthcoming DPhil-thesis-based book, currently under contract with MIT Press. Based on a one-year multi-sited ethnography with businesswomen in Shenzhen and Hefei and three-years’ working experiences in an online educational platform economy, my book makes two main contributions. Theoretically, by introducing my concept of burnout market feminism, it solves the puzzle of why women in China thrive in business in the Internet age, at a time when there is a state crackdown on feminism. Burnout market feminism is a critical theoretical combination of Chinese feminist Xiaojiang Li’s market feminism and Korean-German cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han’s burnout society. Empirically, this book demonstrates the multiplicities and nuances of businesswomen’s lived experiences and negotiations with patriarchy in different social-culture locations. I compare business ideas and business practices, especially in terms of the well-researched male-centred guanxi practices, with intimacy and family practices among three different groups of women. 

Speaker’s Biography: 

Dr TANG Ling (She/They) is an artist academic who considers sociology as art and vice versa. As a Chinese feminist queer scholar, her research interests include platform studies, gender studies, sociology of business, and innovative methods. Besides academic writing, she takes creative writing, music, photography and film as her art media. Ling is currently based at the Academy of Film at HKBU doing her postdoctoral public sociology project Forest and Trees 见树又见林. Their songs can be found on music streaming platforms (e.g. Spotify, 网易云) with the name Lyn Dawn or 唐凌.

Language: English

Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13660763