February 26, 2018 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 Friend of HKSI, The UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative is very pleased to invite you to the upcoming “City Inscribed” events. We very much look forward to seeing you at some (or all!) of the events. |
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Thursday, 1 March 2018, 3:30 pm The goal of this talk is twofold: to review the major grammatical properties of Hong Kong Cantonese, particularly those that cannot be found in Mandarin, and to discuss how the Cantonese grammar can be made use of for the study of Chinese linguistics and language learning. It is hoped that the discussion may instigate some interest in Cantonese linguistics and to explore and pursue meaningful directions to meet future challenges facing the development of Cantonese. Sze-Wing Tang is Professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his BA and MPhil from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and PhD from the University of California, Irvine. His research interests lie primarily in syntax and comparative grammar. This seminar is organized by the UBC Cantonese Language Program. |
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Wednesday, 7 March 2018, 7 pm The list of Cantonese operas includes thousands of titles. But only a handful of them stand the test of time. Amongst these gems, Tang Disheng’s The Flower Princess (Di nü hua 帝女花) is a particularly successful one. The playwright created a world where politics and ethics, patriotism and romantic love, intertwine. The work is far more than entertainment, with its cultural influence growing rather than waning over time. Adaptions of the opera in different art forms have been produced and reproduced frequently, contributing to the various cultural-political imaginations of Hong Kong. Kwok Kou Leonard Chan is Chair Professor of Chinese Literature and Director of the Research Centre for Chinese Literature and Literary Culture at the Education University of Hong Kong. His fields of interest are: Chinese poetry and poetics, literary historiography, and Hong Kong literature. His recent works include The Conception of Lyrical China (2013) and Hong Kong in Its History of Lyricism (2016). He is also the chief editor of the Compendium of Hong Kong Literature 1919-1949 (12 vols; 2014–2016). This lecture is organized by the Hong Kong Studies Initiative and co-sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies, the Modern Chinese Culture Seminar, the Centre for Chinese Research, the Department of History, the School of Music, the Asian Library, the Youth Collaborative for Chinatown, and the Vancouver Cantonese Opera. |
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Thursday, 8 March 2018, 7:30 pm Hong Kong literature has long been ignored. Current historical accounts of it were mostly produced by Mainland scholars at about the time of the 1997 handover. The quality and accuracy of these narratives are always a concern. Aiming to preserve the best writings and to present Hong Kong literature in a systematic way, the project of the Compendium of Hong Kong Literature 1919-1949 is the first attempt to configure the framework of Hong Kong literary history from a local but broadminded perspective. Kwok Kou Leonard Chan is Chair Professor of Chinese Literature and Director of the Research Centre for Chinese Literature and Literary Culture at the Education University of Hong Kong. His fields of interest are: Chinese poetry and poetics, literary historiography, and Hong Kong literature. His recent works include The Conception of Lyrical China (2013) and Hong Kong in Its History of Lyricism (2016). He is also the chief editor of the Compendium of Hong Kong Literature 1919-1949 (12 vols; 2014–2016). This lecture is organized by the Hong Kong Studies Initiative and co-sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies, the Modern Chinese Culture Seminar, the Centre for Chinese Research, the Chinese Canadian Writers’ Association, and the Richmond Public Library. |
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Friday, 9 March 2018, 7 pm This exciting event is organized by the UBC Cantonese Language Program. |
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Friday, 16 March 2018, 12:30 pm Hong Kong is a small but vibrant city. Though only several thousand Chinese books are published there each year, its annual book fair has routinely drawn more than a million visitors. Furthermore, individual book titles and news of the local book market have from time to time, and for various reasons, attracted international attention. This talk will discuss some of the characteristics of Chinese-language book publishing in Hong Kong and identify some of the changes over the past decade. Angela Ko is Acquisitions Librarian of the University of Hong Kong Libraries and Assistant Librarian of the Fung Ping Shan Library, the East Asian Library of the HKU Libraries. In her capacity as the development and liaison officer for the Fung Ping Shan Library, Ko has traveled extensively to academic libraries, bookstores, and book fairs in the Greater China region and beyond. Since 2009, she has been a frequent contributor to New Books: Recent and Forthcoming Publications in Taiwan, ROC (a journal published by the National Central Library of Taiwan) reviewing recent Chinese-language publications from Hong Kong. This seminar is organized by the Hong Kong Studies Initiative and co-sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies, the Centre for Chinese Research, the Department of History, and the Asian Library. Thank you, as always, for your support of the Hong Kong Studies Initiative. With best wishes for health and happiness in the Year of the Dog, Leo K. Shin 單國鉞 |
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