Dear Friends of HKSI,
As we begin to look beyond the annus horribilis, we would first and foremost like to thank you for your continued support and well wishes for the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative.
We are, in more ways than one, in the darkest of times. But we must (as we have no choice) stay focused and carry on with our work. If we have learned one lesson from the past year, it is that it is all the more important that we here at UBC continue to fulfill our academic mission.
Stay safe and be well,
Leo K. Shin 單國鉞
Associate Professor, History and Asian Studies
Convenor, Hong Kong Studies Initiative 共研香江
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CANTONESE LANGUAGE PROGRAM
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Congratulations to HKSI Associate and Director of the Cantonese Language Program Raymond Pai on his latest book chapter: “Pop Culture in Teaching Chinese as an Additional Language: Theory, Research, and Practice” (co-authored with Patricia A. Duff).
Details: https://www.routledge.com/Pop-Culture-in-Language-Education-Theory-Research-Practice/Werner-Tegge/p/book/9780367365417
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“My Generation, My Love”: A Multimedia Contest
《我的年代、我的愛情》徵文、獨白及短片創作比賽
The UBC Cantonese Language Program and DramaOne are inviting entries (short written pieces, recorded monologues, or films) for this creative contest centered on the timeless themes of love and generation. . . .
Details:
https://youtu.be/rwlcdsxLPaM
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Credit: Kino Lorbe
Denise Ho: Becoming the Song (2020)
Directed by Sue Williams
English and Cantonese with English subtitles
“DENISE HO – BECOMING THE SONG profiles the openly gay Hong Kong singer and human rights activist Denise Ho. Drawing on unprecedented, years-long access, the film explores her remarkable journey from commercial Cantopop superstar to outspoken political activist, an artist who has put her life and career on the line to support the determined struggle of Hong Kong citizens to maintain their identity and freedom.”
A documentary on the Hong Kong-Canadian singer Denise Ho—now available for streaming for UBC members for educational and personal use. . . .
Details:
https://kinomarquee.com/film/denise-ho-becoming-the-song/5ef0ec20480594000185e696
Streaming (CWL required):
https://stream-mcintyre-ca.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/ubc/title/21399
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Paul and Eileen Lin Commemorative Lecture
10 December 2020, 1900–20:30 (PST)
Yellow Peril Racial Fear and Pandemics in Canada
Dr. Renisa Mawani (UBC Sociology)
“In this talk, Dr. Renisa Mawani explores the connections between racism, health, and nation by revisiting D'Arcy Island through the contemporary Covid-19 pandemic. Located in Haro Strait and off the coast of Vancouver Island, D'Arcy Island was a leprosy colony where Chinese men in British Columbia were sent to be “quarantined." The colony was established in 1891 and operative until 1924. During this period, 49 men - mostly Chinese - were sent to the Island to await deportation or death, whichever came first. She uses D'Arcy Island to examine how racial anxieties regarding Chinese migration underpinned concerns around health and nation historically, and ask what this case might tell us about the contemporary pandemic and the deeply rooted structures of racial violence that underpin it.”
The 2020 Paul and Eileen Lin Commemorative Lecture is co-sponsored by the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC, Vancouver Public Library, SFU Institute for Transpacific Cultural Research, UBC Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies, and UBC Initiative for Student Teaching and Research in Canadian Studies.
Details:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/yellow-peril-racial-fear-and-pandemics-in-canada-registration-126890507925
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Exhibition
A Seat at the Table: Chinese Immigration and British Columbia
November 19, 2020 - January 2022
Museum of Vancouver
“The Museum of Vancouver and the University of British Columbia proudly present a new feature exhibition, ‘A Seat at the Table, Chinese Immigration and British Columbia.’ This exhibition explores historical and contemporary stories of Chinese Canadians in BC and their struggles for belonging. It looks to food and restaurant culture as an entry point to feature stories that reveal the great diversity of immigrant experience and of the communities immigrants develop.”
Congratulations to co-curator and HKSI Associate Dr. Henry Yu!
Details:
https://museumofvancouver.ca/a-seat-at-the-table-mov
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Society for Hong kong Studies Annual meeting 2021
25–26 June 2021
in Hong Kong or virtually on Zoom
"This year’s theme is 'Hong Kong in the Age of Global Crisis,' which we hope will stimulate collective and multi-disciplinary reflections on Hong Kong’s experiences with public health crisis, economic turmoil, social unrest and political ruptures in the global context, past and present. This means we particularly welcome papers that compare, contextualize or connect Hong Kong with other societies and cultures. We will select papers addressing this conference theme to form a plenary session, with the potential of submitting them for publication as a special issue in academic journals.”
Details: https://hkstudies.org/cfp-society-for-hong-kong-studies-annual-meeting-2021/
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Webinar
Friday, 8 January 2021, 19:30–21:00 PST
Hail Alma Mater: School Museums in Hong Kong
Joseph Gregory Yu, University of Oxford
A City Archived event
Details: hksi.ubc.ca
In the fourth museum age, museums are no longer the state’s monopoly. In Hong Kong, over the past three decades, there has been a noticeable increase of non-governmental museums. Among them is a type peculiar to Hong Kong—museums that are dedicated to schools. Not only do such museums forge a sense of belonging for current pupils, alumni, and staff, given the centrality of the schooling experience (for better or for worse) for most people of Hong Kong, framing such experiences within the context of museums also reflects the myriad ways people seek to make sense of their identity as well as their relations to their city.
In this talk, Joseph Gregory Yu, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Oxford and Honorary Curator for the Queen’s College History Museum, will take us on a journey and explain what we can learn from the efforts to “museumize” by the oldest public school in Hong Kong.
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November 23: HKSI Associate and Director of the Institute of Asian Research Prof. Timothy Cheek presented a webinar on Xi Jingping's "Counter-Reformation" (webcast).
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November 27: Multimedia artists Mini Choi and Michael Lee shared their insights on the past, present, and future of media in Hong Kong—and beyond (webcast | photos). |
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Please kindly consider a tax-deductible donation to HKSI (hksi.ubc.ca/support-us). Thank you, as always, for your support of the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative.
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