2 December 2021 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, As we approach the end of another semester as well as of another calendar year, and as we come together to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Department of Asian Studies at UBC, my colleagues and I are certainly thankful that we are able to continue our teaching and research in our part of the world with relative freedom and autonomy. We are of course mindful that this state of affairs must not be taken for granted. Given the uncertainties still around us and the continual turmoil in many parts of the world, we will continue to do what we can to maintain this necessary space for informed and meaningful dialogues. With very best wishes, |
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Webinar Friday, 10 December 2021, 17:00–18:30 PST Voice After Exit: How Transnational Ties Shape Hong Kong Americans’ Political Engagement and Voting Behavior Dr. Maggie Shum and Prof. Victoria Hui, University of Notre Dame via Zoom A City Reassembled event Registration: hksi.ubc.ca/events/event/webinar-voice-after-exit/ Dr. Maggie Shum and Prof. Victoria Hui will introduce their on-going project “Hong Kong Voices in the U.S.” that examines how diaspora’s transnational ties with their homeland shape their political attitude and behavior in the host country. Against the backdrop of the recent political turmoil in Hong Kong and the 2020 presidential election in the U.S., their study aims to gauge the tug and pull dynamics that Hong Kong Americans have to navigate between prioritizing their domestic interests in the U.S. and concerns with the well-being and status of Hong Kong. Shum and Hui will present preliminary findings from their original survey on where Hong Kong Americans stand on the issue of dual loyalty (between Hong Kong and the U.S.), as well as how cultural, relational, and political aspect of transnational ties afford the Hong Kong diasporas to play critical roles in contentious politics and social change for their home, and thus gaining back their “voice after exit.” Maggie Shum is a Postdoctoral Research and Program Associate of the Global Policy Initiative in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. Her research focuses on contentious-electoral politics, transnational network, and diaspora political behavior. She also studies party politics and participatory mechanisms in Latin America. Shum is a co-investigator on the “Hong Kong Voices in the U.S.” project that explores the role of transnational ties and identity in shaping Hong Kong Americans’ political attitude and engagement in the U.S. Her article, “When Voting Turnout Becomes Contentious Repertoire: How Anti-ELAB Protest Overtook the District Council Election in Hong Kong 2019,” is forthcoming in the Japanese Journal of Political Science. She has also written for The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, The Diplomat, and Mischiefs of Faction. Victoria Tin-bor Hui is Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. Hui studies contentious politics and Hong Kong’s democracy movement. She has testified at Congress and written for Foreign Affairs, Journal of Democracy, The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, The Diplomat, and other channels. Hui also examines the centrality of war in Chinese history. She has published on state formation, constitutional rights, Confucian pacifism or Confucian confusion, coercive cultural homogenization and genocide in Chinese history. She is a Council on Foreign Relations-International Affairs fellow with the Congressional Executive Commission on China in 2021–22. Before her academic career, Hui worked as the press officer for the then United Democrats of Hong Kong and its chair, Martin Lee. This webinar is organized by the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative and co-sponsored by: Department of Asian Studies, Department of History, Centre for Chinese Research, Centre for Migration Studies, Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies, Public Humanities Hub, and the Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster. |
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To mark this special occasion, the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative and the Cantonese Language Program are taking stock of our work to date and looking forward to future possibilities.
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In addition to History of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Cinema, the UBC Faculty of Arts is pleased to be offering in the spring term of 2022 undergraduate courses on Literature of Hong Kong, Cantonese Music, as well as a new section of Intermediate Cantonese. So check them out! |
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Symposium This symposium is organized by the journal Hong Kong Studies. Details: bit.ly/36JpniA |
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9–10 December 2021 HKT |
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Backreading Hong Kong Symposium |
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Workshop |
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Postdoctoral Research Fellows (3 positions) |
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November 5: Dr. Kwong Chi Man of the Hong Kong Baptist University provided a fascinating introduction to his spatial history project, "Battle of Hong Kong 1941” (webcast | photos). |
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November 19: Dr. Miu Chung Yan of the School of Social Work offered an overview of the legacies of Hong Kong immigrants to Canada and shared his thoughts on the challenges ahead (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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