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Publications

Tommy Tse’s publications explore the intersections of media, culture, and economy, with a focus on East Asia, global cultural flows, and South–South interactions.

His work appears in leading international journals such as the European Journal of Cultural Studies, Global Media and China, New Media & Society, Journal of Consumer Culture, Journal of Cultural Economy, Work, Employment and Society, and the International Journal of Cultural Studies. He is also co-author of the book Celebrity Culture and the Entertainment Industry in Asia (Intellect, 2017) and has contributed to multiple edited volumes and special issues.

Books & Editorial Leadership

Poell, T., Duffy, B. E., Nieborg, D., Mutsvairo, B., Tse, T., Arriagada, A., de Kloet, J., & Sun, P. (Eds.). (2025). Global perspectives on platforms and cultural production [Special issue]. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 28(1).

Li, X., Tsang, L. T., & Tse, T. (Eds.). (2023). China-as-method?: Re-theorising mediations of Global South from a decolonial cultural perspective (Part One) [Special section]. Global Media and China, 8(4).

Tse, T., Semerene, D., & Kurkdjian, S. (Eds.). (2024). B(l)ending research methods: Reimagining a theoretical turn in fashion scholarship [Special issue]. International Journal of Fashion Studies, 11(1).

Celebrity Culture and the Entertainment Industry in Asia (Intellect, 2017)

Global Souths & Decolonial Flows

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Tse, T., Zhang, Y., & Van Noord, N. (2024). China as data coloniser? rethinking cultural production, cultural mediation, and consumer agency on Kenyan and Chinese e-commerce platforms. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 28(1), 278-299.

Poon, H., & Tse, T. (2022). Enacting cross-platform (buy/boy)cotts: Yellow Economic Circle and the new citizen-consumer politics in Hong Kong. New Media & Society, 26(5), 2971-2991.

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Tse, T., & Pun, N. (2024). Infrastructural capitalism in China: Alibaba, its corporate culture and three infrastructural mechanisms. Global Media and China, 9(1), 11-30.

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Tsang, L. T., Li, X., & Tse, T. (2024). Pluralising China as method: Between exceptionalism and universalism. Global Media and China, 9(1), 3-10.

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Pun, N., Tse, T., & Ng, K. (2017). Challenging digital capitalism: SACOM’s campaigns against Apple and Foxconn as monopoly capital. Information, Communication & Society, 22(9), 1253–1268.

Wardrobe Studies

Tse, T., & Xiao, F. (2025). ‘The last thing I would think about is how to dispose of it’: Fashion competence and the circularity of inactive wardrobe items. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 0(0).

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Tse, T., & von Pezold, J. (2023). Memories reminisced, reconciled, renewed: Hong Kong male consumers’ wardrobes and their search for a congruent self. Journal of Consumer Culture, 23(4), 846-867.

von Pezold, J., & Tse, T. (2022). Luxury consumption and the temporal-spatial subjectivity of Hong Kong men. Consumption Markets & Culture, 26(2), 117–138.

Fashion, Media, & Cultural Mediation

Tse, T. (2025). What would Labubu say about Luhmann? Fashion, systems, and struggles. Dialogues in Sociology, 0(0).

Tse, T., Shin, V., & Tsang, L. T. (2020). From shanzhai chic to Gangnam style: seven practices of cultural-economic mediation in China and Korea. Journal of Cultural Economy, 13(5), 511–530.

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Tse, T., & Gheorghiu, I. (2022). The good life as accountable: Moralities of dress consumption in China and Romania. Journal of Consumer Culture, 23(4), 809-828.

Tse, T., Leung, V., Cheng, K., & Chan, J. (2018). A clown, a political messiah or a punching bag? Rethinking the performative identity construction of celebrity through social media. Global Media and China, 3(3), 141-157.

Tse, T., & Tsang, L. T. (2018). Reconceptualising prosumption beyond the ‘cultural turn’: Passive fashion prosumption in Korea and China. Journal of Consumer Culture, 21(4), 703-723.

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Tse, T. (2016). “Consistent inconsistency of fashion magazines and the socialization of fashionability in Hong Kong”, The Journal of Business Anthropology (CBS), 5(1): 154– 179.

Work & Precarity

Tse, T., & Shum, H. H.-K. (2022). Platforms, politics and precarity: Hong Kong television workers amid the new techno-nationalist media agenda. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 26(3), 289-312.

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Tse, T., & Li, X. (2022). Recoupling Corporate Culture with New Political Discourse in China’s Platform Economy: The Case of Alibaba. Work, Employment and Society, 37(6), 1544-1564.

Tse, T. (2022). Work Faster, Harder, Cheaper? Global, Local and Sectoral Co-Configurations of Job Insecurities Among Hong Kong Creative Workers. Critical Sociology, 48(7-8), 1141-1167.

Pun, N., Tse, T., Shin, V., & Fan, L. (2020). Conceptualising Socio-Economic Formations of Labour and Workers’ Power in Global Production Networks. Sociology, 54(4), 745-762.

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