Aloha kakou…
…my name is Christopher David Heen Jung Fung. I am a fourth generation Chinese New Zealander. My heritage is Cantonese (Siu Hing on Dad’s side and Jung Sing on Mum’s). I was born in Wellington and attended university and worked in Auckland so I am a confirmed North Islander. I have had the particular privilege of working for the Nga Puhi people of Northland but consider myself a fledgling student of tikanga Maori from throughout Aotearoa. I have also lived in Great Britain, the People’s Republic of China, the mainland US, and Honduras. I have a wonderful six-year-old son, Isaac who lives with his mum in Kenya. I now live in Honolulu, in the ahupua`a of Makiki.
Politically, I am committed to social justice and to education as an emancipatory process.
In my spare time, I review movies, scholarly books, and world music CDs for Amazon, and perform drum music with Badenya, an African diaspora drum and dance co-operative in Honolulu. As a member of the percussion trio “Damned Spot Drums” I have provided music for Tony Pisculli’s productions (MacBeth, Loves Labor’s Lost, Romeo and Juliet) in the Hawai`i Summer Shakespeare Festival for the last three years.
curriculum vitae
some of my favorite thinkers
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Angela Davis
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Michael Eric Dyson
- David Edwards
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Clifford Geertz
- Emma Goldman
- Antonio Gramsci
- Stuart Hall
- bell hooks
- Toni Morrison
- Ong Aihwa
- Susan Sontag
- Malcolm X
some of my favorite music
My musical interests range over several regions. I enjoy traditional Afro-Cuban music particularly bata music, son, rumba and guajiro. I also listen to traditional West African music particularly from the Manden and Wolof peoples. Other interests: “afro-pop”, blues, jazz, funk, soul, political hip-hop, roots reggae, folk, early music, Baroque, Cantonese and Peking Opera. Mild flirtations: Indian classical music, “Middle eastern,” Korean folk music.
some of my favorite movies
- Hotel Rwanda
- The Matrix
- Space Above and Beyond
- The Seventh Seal
- Yellow Earth
Click here to read my reviews on Amazon.
links
people
- Deborah Masterson
- Isaac and my trips to Kenya in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 (but mostly Isaac)
where are they now? some of my mates from grad school and where they are in cyberspace
- Trish Capone: NAGPRA Office, Peabody Museum, Harvard University
- Meredith Chesson and Ian Kuijt: Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. of Notre Dame
- Keyt Fischer: Associate Conservation Scientist, Wildlife Conservation Society
- John Fox: Director of Planning Vision, Orton Family Foundation
- John Gerry: Associate Dean of Faculty, Williams College
- Maris Gillette: Dept of Anthropology, Haverford College
- Bill Griswold: Northeast Cultural Resources Center, National Park Service
- Julie Hendon: Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Gettysburg College
- Hitomi Hongo: Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University
- Erica James: Dept. of Anthropology, MIT
- Dan Lieberman: Dept. of Anthropology, Harvard University
- Liu Li: Archaeology Program, School of Historical and European Studies, La Trobe University
- Yonathan Mizrachi: Emek Yezreel Academic College
- Paula Molloy: NAGPRA National Office, National Parks Service
- Isaiah Odhiambo Nengo: Dept. of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
- Laura O'Rourke: Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology, UC Berkeley
- Ben Saidel: Dept. of Classical Studies, East Carolina University
- Michael Sugerman: Dept of Anthropology, UMass Amherst
- Patty Tang: Music and Theater Arts Section, MIT
history and culture
- Steven Young’s site on Chinese in New Zealand
- Downwind Productions
- Nation of Hawai`i
- The Ahupua`a of Nu`uanu
- Race: the Power of an Illusion