Imaginings of Home

2021 ◽  
pp. 102-120
Author(s):  
Francisca Yuenki Lai
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
The Political ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Gender Division Of Labor ◽  
Natal Family

The chapter investigates the imaginings of home projected by Indonesian domestic workers while they are working in Hong Kong. Their imaginaries of future home provide important information for understanding their desires and sexuality in relation to the local ideology of migration and marriage as well as the political economy of family, that is, the gender division of labor and earnings contributed by women. The chapter also enriches the notion of Asian queer subjectivity by addressing how Indonesian women insinuated their homoerotic desires into the heteronormative logic of home. Addressing the Islamic context, the chapter also attends to the unmarried women who would not continue a same-sex relationship after returning to their natal family.

scholarly journals Chinese affective platform economies: dating, live streaming, and performative labor on Blued

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 502-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuaishuai Wang
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Venture Capital ◽  
Hooking Up ◽  
The Political ◽  
Live Streaming ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Dating Apps ◽  
Data Flows ◽  
Paid Labor

This article analyzes the political economy of sexually affective data on the Chinese gay dating platform Blued. Having launched in 2012 as a location-based dating app akin to Grindr, Blued has now become a multipurpose platform providing extra services such as newsfeeds and live streaming. Through the continuous imbrication of old and new functionalities and related affordances, users are transformed from dating subjects into performative laborers. Based on Internet ethnographic research that lasted 2 years, this article focuses on sexual-affective data flows (e.g. virtual gifting, following, liking, commenting, and sharing) produced by gay live streamers within the parameters of same-sex desires such as infatuation, sexual arousal, and online intimacy. It argues that these sexually affective data flows increasingly constitute key corporate assets with which Blued attracts venture capital. This analysis of live streamers and their viewers extends understandings of dating apps in two ways. First, it shows how these apps now function as business platforms on top of being channels for hooking up. Second, it emphasizes that whereas users created data freely, now it is produced by paid labor.

Hong Kong and Japan: Commerce, Culture and Contention

2003 ◽  
Vol 176 ◽  
pp. 1052-1067 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Bridges
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Important Influence ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Relationship

This article analyses the nature of contemporary Hong Kong–Japan relations in their economic, political and cultural dimensions, setting the relationship within the broader context of Sino-Japanese relations, concerns about identity and nationalism within Hong Kong, and changing Japanese commercial priorities. While the commercial and popular cultural ties between Japan and Hong Kong remain dominant, since the mid-1990s political issues have become more visible in Hong Kong–Japan relations. Changing moods within Hong Kong about the handover and, after 1997, about the nature of the redefined relationship with China have had an important influence on the political economy of Hong Kong–Japan relations.

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