Shi Wei 史 唯

Associate Professor of Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences

General Education Area Coordinator in Global Awareness

Education

Ph.D. in Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London

• Dissertation Title: “Undoing Chineseness in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas”

M.A. in Chinese Literature and Language, Sichuan University, PRC

B.A. in Chinese Literature and Language, Sichuan University, PRC

Research Focus 

• Emotion, Media and Gender Studies
• Cultural Studies

Publications

Books

Liu, SD and Shi, Wei. 2024. Affective Spaces: The Cultural Politics of Emotion in China. Edinburgh University Press.

史唯，2018，《漂泊在中國的拉斯維加斯》，香港城市大學出版社。

[Shi, Wei, 2018, Wandering in China’s Las Vegas: Migrant Workers in Macau, City University of Hong Kong Press]

• Award: The 6th Macao Outstanding Achievement in Humanities and Social Sciences Research, 2022.

Book Chapters

史唯，<臺灣新電影中的中國想象>，收錄於郝志東主編，《國家認同与兩岸未來》，澳門：澳門大學出版社，頁87－105。

[Shi Wei, 2007, ‘Imaginary about China in Taiwan New Cinema’ in National Identity and Cross-Strait Relations, University of Macau Press, pp87-105.]

Journal Articles

Liu, SD and Shi, Wei. 2024. Politics of ambivalence: how Zhou Shen’s androgyny survives under Xi Jinping, Feminist Media Studies 24 (1): 87-102.

Shi, Wei and Liu, SD. 2023. The Ambivalence of Mother Love: Navigating Maternal Subjects through the TV Drama A Love for Dilemma. Television and New Media 25 (7): 639–655.

Shi, Wei and Liu, SD. 2023. Middle-aged women’s tears: rethinking Chinese popular feminism through Sisters Who Make Waves. Feminist Media Studies.

Shi, Wei and Liu, SD. 2023. ‘The wailing wall as affective space’ 「哭墻」作為情感空間, Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies 文化研究 36: 273-312.

Liu, SD and Shi, Wei. 2022. ‘Why is reconciliation impossible?’. Made in China Journal 6 (3): 127-132.

Shi, Wei and Liu, SD. 2020. ‘Pride as structure of feeling: Wolf Warrior II and the National Subject of the “Chinese Dream”’, Chinese Journal of Communication 13 (3): 329-343.

Shi, Wei, 2019, ‘Fear as political dynamics: Chinese peasant workers’ struggle over social security’, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 20 (1): 19-38.

Shi Wei and Liu, SD. 2019. ‘The obstacles to Mainland-Hong Kong reconciliation: A comparative analysis of emotional structures of feeling’中港和解的障碍：一个情感结构的比较分析, Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies 113 台灣社會研究季刊 113: 127-166.

Shi, Wei, 2019, ‘Fear as political dynamics: Chinese peasant workers’ struggle over social security’, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 20 (1): 9-38.

Shi, Wei, 2019, ‘Ten Years and the Politics of Fear in post-Umbrella Hong Kong’, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 33(1): 105-118.

Shi, Wei, 2017, ‘Cultural Politics of Emotions in Households: Migrant Domestic Workers in Macau’. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 18 (4): 464-481.

Shi, Wei and Liu, SD.2017. ‘Politics of fear’ 恐懼的政治性, Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies文化研究 25: 183-214.

Liu, SD and Shi Wei. 2017. ‘Worker struggles and factory occupation in China during the current economic crisis’, Social Movement Studies 16 (3): 355-360.

Liu, SD and Shi, Wei. 2016. ‘The right to be seen’ 被觀看的權利, Reflexion 思想 31: 1-24.

Liu, SD and Shi, Wei. 2016. ‘Refuse to become disposable’ 拒絕用完即丟, Renjian Review Thought 人間思想 August: 176-193.

Shi, Wei and Liu, SD. 2014. ‘Living with casinos’, Journal of Youth Studies 17 (7): 930-947.

Liu, SD and Shi, Wei. 2012. ‘The depoliticized Taiwan politics’ 去政治化的台灣政治, Reflexion 思想 20: 79-108.

Shi, Wei and Liu, SD. 2010. ‘The subject of neoliberalism: An investigative report of Macau’s casino dealers’ 新自由主義的主體, Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies 台灣社會研究季刊 80: 321-366.

Awards and Grants

Faculty of Social Sciences Incentive Scheme for Outstanding Academic Staff Award, University of Macau (2022-2023)

The 6th Macao Outstanding Achievement in Humanities and Social Sciences Research, Macau, 2022.

Principle Investigator, Constructing Chinese Femininities: An Emotional Approach (funded by UM Research Committee, 2023-2024)

Co-Principle Investigator, Social media, Emotion, China (funded by UM Research Committee, 2023-2024)

Principle Investigator, The Politics of Mourning and Emotional Governance: The case of novel coronavirus outbreaks (funded by UM Research Committee, 2021-2023)

Co-Principle Investigator, Embodied Acts of Citizenship (funded by UM Research Committee, 2018-2021)

Principle Investigator, Politics of Affect and Media in Greater China (funded by UM Research Committee, 2017-2019)

Co-Principle Iinvestigator, Politics against the State (founded by UM Research Committee, 2014-2017)

Principle Investigator, Ambiguous Identities (funded by UM Research Committee, 2011-2014)

Principle Investigator, Agonistic Public Spheres (funded by UM Research Committee, 2011-2014)

Principle Investigator, Culture of Migrant Workers in Macau: Transborder Migration and Identity (funded by the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macau S.A.R. Government, 2012-2014)

Selected Talks & Presentations

Invited speaker, 2023, “The Vanishing Figure” (消失的身影)， Macau Comuna de Pedra (石頭公社)

Invited speaker, 2019, Migrant Workers and Their Families, Macau Migrant Workers Association.

Shi, Wei, 2017, ‘Collective Fear: Ten Years as a Political Manifesto and Its Dilemma’, Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations Conference, 26-28, Toronto.

Shi, Wei, 2014, ‘The Politics of Emotion of Macau Migrant Workers’, Affective Capitalism Symposium, 5-6 June, Finland.

Shi, Wei, 2012, ‘Reunification by neoliberalism?’, with Liu, Shih-Diing Crossroads in Cultural Studies 2012, 2-6 July, Paris.

Shi, Wei, 2010, ‘Politics of Macau Television’, presented at Media and Environment International Conference Innovation, Challenges, and Social Participation in Changing Media Ecology, 19-20 Nov, Taipei.

Shi, Wei, 2010, ‘The Subject of Neoliberalism: Contradictory Experiences of Macau’s Casino Dealer’, with Liu Shih-Diing, paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Taiwan, Tainan, Taiwan, 9-10 January.

Shi, Wei, 2005, ‘Beyond the National: Transnational Urban Images in China’s New Generation Films’, paper presented at the Asia and Chinese Cinema at the age of Globalization Conference, Beijing University and Shanghai University, 6-10 June.

Shi, Wei, 2004, ‘Mapping Taiwan’s Identity in the Post-Cold War Context’, paper presented at the International Symposium on National Identity and the Future Cross-Strait Relations, University of Macau, 14-16 December.

Teaching

Fundamentals of Visual Communication (2013-present)

Introduction to Culture and Communication (2017-2021)

Intercultural Communication (2014-present)

Intercultural Communication (MA) (2011-2014)

English News Writing (2009-2011)

TV Documentary (2009-2012)

Graduate Advising

Doctoral Students 

ZHANG Yu (single women)

DAI Yao ( K-pop fans)

CHEN Jingwen ( Otome Games)

University Service

General Education Area Coordinator in Global Awareness (2019-present)

Non-Residential Fellow of Cheng Yu Tung College (2014- present)

Reviewer

傳播與社會（香港）

Asian Studies Review

China Information

Critical Arts

Continuum: Media and Cultural Studies

Feminist Media Studies

Inter-Asia Cultural Studies