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Dear Friends of HKSI,
Happy New Year!
To kick off the year, the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative will be hosting the screening+conversation of the Hong Kong indie film Keep Rolling 動態 Rolling, which consists of four short films made by four directors about Hong Kong under the pandemic, on Thursday, January 26 at 18:00 on UBC campus (see details below).
Through the featured event series City Rebegins, a wide range of webinars, conversations, film screenings, and associated events will continue to be organized during this academic year to examine the ever-changing new normal and its implications for communities in Hong Kong, Canada and beyond.
Last but not least, we are pleased to announce that a number of Hong Kong-related courses will be offered at UBC in this winter term.
Wish you all the best for 2023.
Dr. Helena Wu
Canada Research Chair
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 + Conversation
Thursday, 26 January 2023, 18:00-20:30 PT
Keep Rolling 動態Rolling (2022):
Four Directors, Four Stories About Hong Kong under the Pandemic
Place of Many Trees, Liu Institute for Global Issues, UBC
6476 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver
A City Rebegins event.
Limited seats available.
Registration required.
Hong Kong | 2022 | 108 min | In Cantonese, English, Minnan with Chinese & English subtitles
In the age of pandemic, everything seems to be frozen. In fact, there are still many things that we can do. The short film project Keep Rolling captures alienation and sorrow through four short films.
In “Same Boat” (directed by Lo Yan Chi), Yin’s grandma has not returned to Xiamen for two years since the pandemic and Yin has to take care of her at home every day. They share each other sentiments as if sitting on the same boat.
“Rubbish Ban” (directed by Chow King Kan Kingston) sees a young man Genius dumped by his girlfriend because of a piece of garbage. His boss also told him to throw a cardboard box but he barely found any trash cans. Only then did he realize that the trash cans that used to be everywhere had totally disappeared. Is Hong Kong, which can’t even hold a trash can, still the city that we used to be familiar with?
In “A Letter from Prison” (directed by Yiu Man Kwan Jason), film director James planned to write letters to Man to support him through his hard time in prison, Although he was outside the wall, the freedom of his mind was also bound by invisible shackles. This made him question if the world is just another prison.
“April’s Interlude” (directed by Kwok Chung Yee Erica) tells a story of a cosmetologist Shan under lockdown during the pandemic. An old friend suddenly appeared, filling Shan’s feeling of loneliness; however, after learning about each other’s life, Shan felt that the friend who returned after leaving Hong Kong had an incomprehensible detachment from what happened in Hong Kong in the past few years. In the end, Shan made a choice in the struggle between emotion and reason.
Watch the preview here
香港 | 2022 | 108 分鐘 | 粵語、英語、閩南語對白，中英文字幕
導演: 羅恩賜 、周敬勤、姚敏堃、 郭頌儀
疫情時代下所有事物仿佛都定格，其實可做之事仍然不少，一於動態Rolling，用電影述說時下的疏離與憂愁。《同渡》自疫情後，婆婆已兩年沒回廈門，阿燕每天都要在家照顧婆婆，兩人朝夕相對，彷彿同坐一條船，在湧動的風浪中分享著各種或正或負的情緒。《阿才》阿才因一件垃圾而被分手，又因老板交托處理的一件垃圾而被折磨了一天，才發現曾經到處可見的垃圾桶在社會上無影無蹤。連一個垃圾桶都容不下的香港，還是曾經熟悉的香港嗎？《第一封信》導演 James的好友阿 Man 無奈入獄，他想透過書信開解困在牆內受苦的好友。然而，自己在牆外的心靈自由也被無形的枷鎖栓住，牆外牆內或許都是個困局。《四月的變奏》美容師菀珊在疫情停業期間與多年前的友人重聚，填補了菀珊無可適從的孤獨感。但在互相了解彼此早年間的生活時，珊有感兩人的經歷不同，離港後歸來的友人對香港過去幾年發生的種種有著她不能理解的抽離，最終珊在情感及理性的掙扎下作出了選擇。
Details: hksi.ubc.ca/events/event/film-screening-keep-rolling/
This screening+conversation is organized by the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative in partnership with Ying E Chi, 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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HKSI faculty associate Dr. Miu Chung Yan (UBC Social Work) is conducting a Survey Study on Hong Kong Residents Recently Arrived in Canada. The goal is to better inform public policy and support the newly arrived Hong Kong residents who have returned as Canadian citizens or who moved to Canada through various channels including the Permanent Residence Pathways introduced by the Canadian government in 2021.
You are invited to participate in this survey if
a. You returned/moved to Canada on or after January 1, 2015, and
b. You are 19 years old or above, and
c. 10 years before your recent return/move to Canada, you resided in Hong Kong consecutively for at least five years, and
d. At this time, you have lived in Canada consecutively for at least six months, and
e. You are currently living in Canada.
To access the survey please click this link:
ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_broeCvL0iJ2DDZc
Details: hksi.ubc.ca/research-survey-study-on-hong-kong-residents-recently-arrived-in-canada
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Book Talk
Hong Kong Foodways
Friday, 13 January 2023, 17:00-18:30 (HKT)
16/F, Chun Wo Commercial Centre, No. 23-29 Wing Wo Street, Central, Hong Kong
// Hong Kong foodways is known to people around the world and restaurants/eateries can be found at every corners of the city. But, what is Hong Kong foodways? This book will describe changes, variation, and innovations of Hong Kong foodways, particularly pays attention to questions related to the context of changing lifeways and social tastes since the postwar era. //
This book talk is organized by the Society for Hong Kong Studies.
Details: hkstudies.org/events/book-talk-series-new-directions-in-hk-studies/
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Book Talk
Political Censorship in British Hong Kong: Freedom of Expression and the Law (1842-1997)
Tuesday, 17 January 2023, 18:00 (PT)
Dr. Michael Ng, University of Hong Kong
//Drawing on archival materials, Michael Ng challenges the widely accepted narrative that freedom of expression in Hong Kong is a legacy of British rule of law. Demonstrating that the media and schools were pervasively censored for much of the colonial period and only liberated at a very late stage of British rule, this book complicates our understanding of how Hong Kong came to be a city that championed free speech by the late 1990s. //
This book talk is organized by Global Hong Kong Studies at University of California.
Details: www.globalhks-uc.org/book-talk
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Webinar
The Logic of Cross-Boundary Actions: Digital Mobilization in the 2019 Hong Kong Social Movement
Dr. King-wa Fu, University of Hong Kong
// This study scrutinizes the mechanism of online activism in an analysis of 4 million Telegram channel messages collected during the 2019 Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill movement. It highlights the logic of cross-boundary action – a mixture of action actors, organizational structures, repertoires, network positions for empowerment – through which self-organized activists played overwhelmingly vital roles in the movement but were critically supported by small numbers of organizational and news media actors in some essential functioning. The study also establishes a relationship between the online audience’s attention to the call-for-action messages and the subsequent protest turnout, indicating a private-to-public shift via networked media, in which most of the diversely connected self-organized activists captured most of the attention. It finally summarizes the multidimensional nature of digital activism in defining the way social media affordance shapes the landscape of contemporary political participation. //
This inaugural book talk is organized by the Global Research Association of Politics in Hong Kong.
Details: graph-hk.github.io/web/talk/
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December 27: Dr. Cheung Chan-fai shared his new book《我城存歿》with a full house of audience at UBC [photos].
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