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LEI NIP HEI – might a mouthful linguo for any non-Cantonese speakers here; in fact, this is my name when writing out with the Cantonese phonetic system Jyut Ping (粵拼) – a de facto phonetic system that was never included in Hong Kong’s education, yet widely spoken in our lives.
Like many racialized persons, I have multiple names used in different scenarios in daily life. I am Jonathan; I am also Lip Hei. However, neither of the names represent me culturally in any sense.
As for LEI NIP HEI, a named spelt in the Jyut Ping system, tells a story about my pride in Cantonese as the language used in Hong Kong. And how a naming system works in East Asia – Family name goes first, given name goes last.
As an East Asian fashion scholar who wants to dedicate my life in decolonial work, I see LEI NIP HEI as a starting point of advocacy on East Asian fashion and culture, and to study it through an East Asian lens with a mindset of decolonization and social justice.
Jonathan Lee
Jonathan Lee (He/Him) is a Toronto-based Fashion Historian specializing in East Asian Fashion and Decolonial Discourses. As a Hong Kong-Canadian, Jonathan's upbringing and lived experience in these two places has led to his profound interests in the topic of identity, in-betweenness, and multi-culturalism.
Jonathan is a recent graduate from the MA Fashion program at Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto. He also holds a BDes in Fashion Design from the same university. His education background includes the thorough understanding of fashion from both a theoretical and creative lens.
Publication
"When East Meets West: The politicization of kei pou (qipao) or cheongsam in Hong Kong." Fashion, Style and Popular Culture, online first (2024).
Conference Presentation
ADH MA Graduates Roundtable
London, UK (virtual)
5 July 2024
Topic:
"The Matrix of Nostalgia-Diaspora Axes and Triangle of Sadness: Fashion, Material Culture, and Hong Kong Identity in the 2020s"
Fashion Studies Network - Unravelling Fashion Narrative Symposium
Parsons the New School, New York, NY
8 June 2024
Topic:
"A Mirror of Time and Space through a Curatorial Story - The Postcolonial Hong Kong in the 2020s: A Prologue or an Epilogue?"
ADH International Conference 2023
Ad-dressing the Margins: Historically Underrepresented Fashion and Style
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
27 October 2023
Topic:
"When East Meets West: The Politicization of Kei Pou (Qipao) or Cheongsam in Hong Kong"
Back to School | A Fashion Symposium
New York University, New York, NY
7 October 2023
Topic:
"The East Asian Fashion Curriculum Framework: A Proposal - for fashion design program in higher education"
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