6 September 2024 Hosted by the Department of Asian Studies, the Hong Kong Studies Initiative (HKSI) at the University of British Columbia is devoted to promoting the teaching and research of this most-improbable metropolis, both as an extraordinary Chinese city and as a spectacular international and transnational hub. |
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Dear Friends of HKSI, Welcome to the new academic year! To celebrate the start of the term, we are excited to host a series of in person events featuring Dr. Keith Liu, Dr. Mary Wong, and Dr. Ben Wong, as part of the Literary Hong Kong series in Canada. You are most welcome to join us for a number of wide-ranging activities including talk, sharing, poetry reading, and film screening. We look forward to delving into the world of literature and cinema, and exploring the question of adaptation, preservation, and translation. Hope to see you there Last but not least, we thank you for supporting our work at UBC. Dr. Helena Wu |
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《讀音》: 香港詩歌保育計劃分享及讀詩會 Founded by Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine in 2019, Voice of Verse is a poetry preservation project with the aim to build an online inventory of Hong Kong poets’ sounds. The team recorded the readings of Hong Kong poets from different generations in a professional studio and upload both the readings and the texts of their poems along with visual artists’ works to the Voice of Verse website, disseminating Hong Kong poetry in a hybrid format. The curator, Keith Liu, will present this project, sharing his experiences from conceptualization to implementation, and the goal of poetry conservation through the utilization of network technologies. In person event. In Cantonese. Free and open to all. |
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Let’s Get Together Sometime: Join us for a talk by Dr. Mary Shuk Han Wong, writer and associate professor (Lingnan University Hong Kong), about the development of Hong Kong cinema and adaptation from 1914 to 2024.
In person event. In English. Free and open to all. In English |
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Documentary Film Screening "Liu Yichang 劉以鬯: 1918" and Conversation with Director Dr. Ben Wong 黃勁輝 Don't miss the screening of documentary film Liu Yichang 劉以鬯: 1918 and the opportunity of meeting award-winning filmmaker, scriptwriter, and scholar Dr. Ben Wong 黃勁輝 in person! Free admission. All are welcome. This event series is organized by the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative; and is supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council as well as the Watt Family—Hong Kong Studies Initiative Fund, the Centre for Chinese Research, and the Department of Asian Studies, UBC. |
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香港大學香港研究 x 卑詩大學共研香江 |
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2024 Jade Music Festival Presents |
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CNTO: Cantonese Language Courses The University of British Columbia is the only Canadian university to offer a comprehensive, for-credit Cantonese language program.ASIA 323/HIST 377: History of Cantonese Worlds The history, culture, languages, and identities of the multi-faceted Cantonese worlds, in the context of Chinese history and the Cantonese diaspora.ASIA 324: Literature of Hong Kong Introduces the literature of Hong Kong from the late-19th century to the 21st century, with a goal to explore how the stories of Hong Kong are narrated and mediated over time. A survey of the cinema of Hong Kong from the post-war period to the present. Explores the history, culture, and identities of Hong Kong from the port’s pre-colonial settings in the early nineteenth century to its post-colonial contexts. A broad overview of the experiences of migrants from the Hong Kong region to Canada from the 1800s to modern times, focusing on aspects of identity formation and cultural adjustment. |
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July 27 In the online sharing session "Settling the Unsettled," Dr. Miu Chung Yan, Dr. Barbara Lee, Dr. Mooly Wong, and Choi Shan Ng," (UBC School of Social Work) presented the preliminary findings of a qualitative study of Hong Kong diaspora in Canada, the UK, and Taiwan. |
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August 9–10 Jointly organized by UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative and Durham University Department of Sociology, the 2-day Honkonger Diaspora Studies Forum has provided a platform for 18 scholars and cultural practitioner--in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, Taiwan, and Hong Kong-to present their wide-ranging research (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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