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Dear Friends of HKSI,
The UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative (HKSI) is pleased to announce a series of exciting academic and community events in March, as part of our City Rebegins series.
We are proud to present the screening of the 4K digital restoration of Rouge 胭脂扣, a masterpiece by Hong Kong film auteur Stanley Kwan starring Cantopop megastars Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing and Anita Mui Yim-fong, at UBC downtown campus on Saturday, 25 March 2023. The screening will be accompanied by a special exhibition of Leslie Cheung who resided in Vancouver from 1990 to 1992. The event is free of charge and open to all.
In addition, we are delighted to host an in person talk by Dr. John D. Wong (University of Hong Kong) on Tuesday, 21 March 2023 at UBC. Dr. Wong will share his research on the development of commercial aviation in Hong Kong.
We look forward to contributing to a wide range of community-university conversations.
Dr. Helena Wu
Canada Research Chair, Hong Kong Studies
Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Studies
Convenor, Hong Kong Studies Initiative 共研香江
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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Screening+Exhibition
Rouge (4K Restoration) and Special Exhibition of Leslie Cheung
Saturday, 25 March 2023, 15:00-17:00 PDT
C300 Theatre and Foyer, UBC Robson Square,
800 Robson Street, Vancouver, BC Canada V6Z 3B7
Free and open to all. In Cantonese with English subtitles.
Registration required.
The UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative is proud to present the screening of the 4K digital restoration of Rouge 胭脂扣 (1987; 2022), a masterpiece by Hong Kong film auteur Stanley Kwan starring Cantopop megastars Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing and Anita Mui Yim-fong.
Rouge bridges past and present in its tragic romance between a humble courtesan (Anita Mui) and the wayward scion (Leslie Cheung) of a wealthy family, who embrace death by suicide pact amid the opulent teahouses of 1930s Hong Kong. Fifty years later, she returns to the city-state to find him, drawing a young contemporary couple (Alex Man Chi-leung and Emily Chu Bo-yee) into her quest to rekindle a passion that may be as illusory as time itself. With its lush mise-en-scène and transcendently melancholy mood, this sensuous ghost story is an exquisite, enduringly resonant elegy for both lost love and vanishing history.
The screening will be accompanied by a special exhibition of Leslie Cheung at the foyer outside of the theatre, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the passing of the legendary Hong Kong actor, singer, and performer, Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing 張國榮, who had resided in Vancouver from 1990 to 1992.
Map and Directions: robsonsquare.ubc.ca/contact-directions/
Details: hksi.ubc.ca/events/event/screening-exhibition-rouge/
This screening+exhibition is organized by the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative, in partnership with UBC Asian Library, Ho Tam Press Gallery, and SFU Institute For Transpacific Cultural Research, with the support of UBC Robson Square Connects; and generously co-sponsored by: Department of Asian Studies, Department of History, Centre for Chinese Research, Department of Theatre and Film, Public Humanities Hub, and the School of Social Work.
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Talk
Hong Kong Takes Flight:
Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub
Tuesday, 21 March 2023, 17:00-18:00 PDT
Dr. John D. Wong, The University of Hong Kong
Place of Many Trees, Liu Institute for Global Issues, UBC
6476 NW Marine Drive, Vancounver
A City Rebegins event.
Registration required.
Commercial aviation took shape in Hong Kong as the city developed into a powerful economy. Rather than understanding air travel as an inevitable outcome of Hong Kong’s arrival in the era of global mobility, John Wong argues that Hong Kong’s development into a regional and global hub was not preordained. By underscoring the shifting process that produced the hub of Hong Kong, his recently published monograph Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub aims to describe globalization and global networks in the making. Viewing the globalization of Hong Kong through the prism of its airline industry, this talk examines how policymakers and businesses in Hong Kong asserted themselves alongside their international partners and competitors in a bid to accrue socioeconomic benefits, negotiated their interests in the city’s economic success, and articulated their expressions of modernity.
About the speaker:
John D. Wong is associate professor at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Arts at the University of Hong Kong. Wong’s research focuses on the flow of people, goods, capital and ideas. With a particular interest in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta/Greater Bay Area, he explores how such flows connected the region to the Chinese political center in the north as well as to maritime partners in the South China Sea and beyond. He received his BA (Hons) in Economics from the University of Chicago, MBA from Stanford University, and PhD in History from Harvard University. He worked for a number of years in finance and holds the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
Details: hksi.ubc.ca/events/event/hong-kong-takes-flight/
This talk is organized by the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative, and generously co-sponsored by: Department of Asian Studies, Department of History, Centre for Chinese Research, Department of Theatre and Film, Public Humanities Hub, and the School of Social Work.
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Exhibition
Leslie Cheung 張國榮 – Hong Kong Icon (1956-2003)
15 February - 6 April 2023
Asian Centre foyer Asian Library ground and upper floors,
1871 West Mall, UBC
// "Leslie Cheung 張國榮: Hong Kong Icon (1956-2003) commemorates the 20th anniversary of the passing of the legendary Hong Kong actor, singer, and performer, Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing. In addition to books and scholarly journals, the exhibition features a collection of original Asian-language film posters from some of Cheung’s most popular and critically acclaimed films. These include A Better Tomorrow (1986), Days of Being Wild (1990), Farewell My Concubine (1992), Ashes of Time (1994), and He’s a Woman, She’s a Man (1994). The display also highlights a selection of vinyl records and promotional posters from albums such as The Wind Blows On (1983), Leslie (Monica) (1984), Summer Romance (1987) and Final Encounter (1989), among many others. //
Details: asian.library.ubc.ca/news/2023/02/08/leslie-cheung-hong-kong-icon/
The exhibition is co-presented by UBC Asian Library and the Department of Asian Studies and co-supported by the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative and the Department of Theatre and Film.
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Cantonese Culture MasterClass Series
A Conversation on the Adventures in Hong Kong Filmmaking with Director Alfred Cheung
Friday, 3 March 2023 18:00-19:30 PDT
Alfred Cheung and Cameron White
via Zoom
Details: cantonese.arts.ubc.ca/events/event/filmmaking/
This conversation is organized by UBC Cantonese Language Program.
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Society for Hong Kong Studies Annual Conference 2023
The Hong Kong Studies Annual Conference 2023 will be held on 16 – 17 June 2023 in Hong Kong. This year’s theme is “Informality in Hong Kong”. The goal is to stimulate collective and multi-disciplinary reflections on Hong Kong Studies as a process in the making during a time of uncertainty. Deadline for submission is 14 March 2023.
This conference is organized by the Society for Hong Kong Studies.
Details: hkstudies.org/shknews/cfp-society-for-hong-kong-studies-annual-conference-2023/
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Film Series
Hong Kong Lost or Found?: Blue Island 憂鬱之島 by Chan Tsz-woon
[Online] Friday, 3 March 2023, 12:00 PST
[In Person] Friday, 3 March 2023, 19:00-22:00 PST
James Bridges Theater, UCLA Melnitz 1409 Melnitz Hall, UCLA Los Angeles, CA United States
// This film series features four extraordinary works of two documentary filmmakers – Evans Chan (陳耀成) and Chan Tze-woon (陳梓桓) -- who have chronicled Hong Kong’s two transitions (1997 and 2020) and major social protests in between. The four films are free and accessible to all online, each for 24 hours. Join us for a post-screening discussion with them in-person or online on March 3 at 9 pm (PST) at UCLA’s James Bridges Theater. //
Details: www.globalhks-uc.org/film-series-hong-kong-lost-or-found
This film series is co-organized by Global Hong Kong Studies at University of California, Hong Kong on Screen, and Melnitz Movies.
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Conference
Hong Kong Studies Annual Conference 2023
9 - 10 March 2023
In-person and live stream
// Hong Kong Studies Annual Conference (HKSAC) aims at bringing together the Hong Kong studies research community and promoting exchange, sharing and collaboration of Hong Kong-focused research. We also wish to make best use of this annual occasion for honoring outstanding papers in different disciplines of Hong Kong studies. For this purpose, a Review Panel comprising of distinguished scholars was formed to identify and recommend outstanding papers the six major streams of Hong Kong studies, i.e. politics and law, sociology, communication, education, history and arts & cultures. //
Details: www.eduhk.hk/ahks/view.php?secid=52889
This conference is organized by The Education University of Hong Kong.
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Workshop
‘Do No Harm’: Research with Vulnerable Groups in Practice
Monday, 13 March 2023, 18:00 HKT
16/F, Chun Wo Commercial Centre, No. 23-29 Wing Wo Street, Central, Hong Kong
// CUHK Law will share their practices in minimising potential risks to interviewees, interpreters and researchers. They will share the measures they put in place to protect the mental health of interviewees. They will also discuss the training the research team undertook on interviewing vulnerable individuals, and the trainings they delivered for interpreters on interpreters’ ethics and secondary trauma. Finally, they will touch on the measures they took to ensure researchers maintained healthy boundaries when facing deeply affecting subject matter. //
Details: hkstudies.org/events/do-no-harm-research-with-vulnerable-groups-in-practice/
This workshop is organized by the Society for Hong Kong Studies.
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February 16: Dr. Lisa Y.M. Leung discussed the tactical agency of minority youths in their complex and diverse engagement in social, cultural, and political realms in Hong Kong [ photos | video ].
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