Eva Cheuk-Yin Li

I am Dr Eva Cheuk-Yin Li. I am currently Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Media & Cultural Studies in Sociology Department at Lancaster University. I am specialised in the interdisciplinary research and teaching of media and culture, gender and sexuality, Asian popular culture, and fandom and audience reception in the global and transnational contexts.

I have an interdisciplinary background, encompassing PhD in Gender, Media, and Culture (King’s College London), MPhil in Sociology (The University of Hong Kong), and Bachelor of Social Sciences (First Class Honours, The University of Hong Kong).

I am working on a monograph based on my award-winning PhD dissertation, which is about Chinese women’s everyday practice of zhongxing (中性 ‘middle gender/sex’), as well as several paper on gender, sexuality, fandom and affect in East Asian popular culture. You may read my interview with Sociology Lens about this project.

Awards and Fellowships

• 2018: Outstanding Paper Award of Hong Kong Studies Annual Conference
• 2018: Elsevier Outstanding PhD Thesis Prize, King’s College London
• 2014: Doctoral Fellowship, The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
• 2012: KCL Hong Kong Scholarship, King’s College London Hong Kong Foundation, Hong Kong
• 2011: Outstanding Research Postgraduate Student, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• 2010: Distinction, Social Sciences Research Postgraduate Conference, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• 2010: Postgraduate Studentship, Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Journal Reviewer

• Feminist Media Studies
• Journal of Lesbian Studies
• Media, Culture & Society
• Sexualities
• The Sociological Review
• Transformative Works and Culture
• Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network
• British Journal of Chinese Studies

Refereed Journal Articles

Ho, Michelle, Li, Eva Cheuk-Yin, and Kam, Lucetta (2021). Editorial Introduction: Androgynous Bodies and Cultures in Asia. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 22(2):129–138.

1. ‘The Second Life of Kowloon Walled City: Crime, Media and Cultural Memory.’ Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal 13(2): 217–234. (Co-authored with Alistair Fraser) Outstanding Paper Award of Hong Kong Studies Annual Conference

2. ‘Approaching Transnational Chinese Queer Stardom as Zhongxing (‘Neutral Sex/Gender’) Sensibility.’ East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 1(1):75–95.

3. ‘Affect and Sociology: Reflection and Exploration through a Study of Media and Gender in Urban China.’ Graduate Journal of Social Science 11(1): 15–37.

4. ‘The Absence of Fan Activism in the Queer Fandom of Ho Denise Wan See (HOCC) in Hong Kong.’ Transformative Works and Cultures 10.

Book Chapters

1. ‘Making Sense of Ambiguity: Theory and Method’. In Researching Sex and Sexualities, edited by Charlotte Morris, Paul Boyce, Andrea Cornwall, Hannah Frith, Laura Harvey, and Yingying Huang. London: Zed books.

2. ‘Desiring Queer, Negotiating Normal: Denise Ho (HOCC) Fandom Before and After the Coming-Out.’ In Boys’ Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, edited by Maud Lavin, Ling Yang, and Jing Jamie Zhao, 131–156. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.

3. ‘The Fourth Wave? A Critical Reflection on Tongzhi Movement in Hong Kong.’ in Routledge Handbook of Sexuality Studies in East Asia, edited by Mark McLelland and Vera Mackie, 188–201. New York: Routledge. (Co-authored with Travis Kong and Sky HL Lau)

‘Popular Culture, Gender/Sexual Imagination, and Queer Space: Denise Ho in Fans’ Eyes. (流行文化、性／別想像及酷兒空間︰歌迷眼中的何韻詩)’ In Gender/ Sexual Politics in Hong Kong (性 / 別政治與本土起義), edited by W. C. A. Wong and P. K. D. Choi, Pp. 162–80. Hong Kong: The Commercial Press. [In Chinese]