September 20, 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, Welcome to the third season of the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative! As you may know, this year we are launching a new undergraduate course on the history of the Cantonse worlds (ASIA 323/HIST 377), and, in celebration, we are very excited to kick off the new season with a series of excellent lectures. As always, we look forward to seeing you in any (or all!) of our events. |
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Wednesday, 3 October 2018, 7 pm South China has long been part of what is now popularized as the Maritime Silk Road. Over the centuries, the movement of goods, people, and ideas has bridged continental divides. This talk will focus on the rise of trading hubs with multi-ethnic identities and resources, and it will track strategic footprints across the oceans from Canton to Zanzibar. Finally, Prof. Siu will comment on the region's paths of development and conflict. Helen F. Siu is a professor of Anthropology and former chair of the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University. She grew up in Hong Kong and attended Carleton College and Stanford University. Prof. Siu has conducted decades of fieldwork in South China, exploring agrarian change, the nature of the socialist state, and the refashioning of identities. Lately, she has become interested in rural-urban interface in China, inter-Asian connections, and China-Africa encounters. Prof. Siu has served in numerous funding and research assessment committees in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and she was the founding director of the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong, which is devoted to cross-disciplinary research and global collaborations. Her recent publications include: Asia Inside Out (2 volumes; Harvard University Press, 2015); Tracing China: A Forty-Year Ethnographic Journey (Hong Kong University Press, 2016); and “China-Africa Encounters: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Realities,” Annual Review of Anthropology 46 (November 2017). |
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Community Conversation For Hong Kong, what is deemed “local” is a multi-layered historical experience shared by generations of immigrants and emigrants. Each of these layers has given the place unique cultural characteristics. The talk urges us to uncover and cherish these global footprints. They have provided the resources for Hong Kongers to connect with extensive overseas communities, to capture unusual opportunities, and sail through political storms. What will be the strategic steps to take as Hong Kongers face an assertive China and an uncertain global future? Guest Lecture for “History of Cantonese Worlds” (ASIA 323/HIST 377) |
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Public Seminar In recent years, political turmoil and popular revolt have engulfed Hong Kong in a broad struggle to preserve its foundational institutions and core values. While many observers and activists fear for the permanent loss of Hong Kong as a bastion of rule of law and liberal capitalism, others pin their hopes on the rise of new political assertiveness and proliferating aspirations for democracy among the younger generations. This talk explores the major analytical and historical themes that should inform a political sociology of Hong Kong in the post-1997 era. The project here is inspired by the notion “history of the present,” understood as a critical historical search not so much for the origins of the present crisis, but for traces of the past whose emergence, repurposing and articulation continue to shape how power operates today. Ching Kwan Lee is a professor of Sociology at UCLA. Her research interests focus on labor, political sociology, globalization, development, China, Hong Kong, global south, and comparative ethnography. She has published three award-winning monographs, forming a trilogy of Chinese capitalism through the lens of labor: Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women (1998), Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt (2007), and The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor and Foreign Investment in Africa (2017). Her articles have appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Theory and Society, New Left Review, the China Quarterly, and Journal of Asian Studies. She is the co-editor of Take Back Our Future: An Eventful Political Sociology of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement, now under contract with Cornell University Press. |
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Multi Voices One Heart (MVOH) 2018 |
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MOA Visual and Material Culture Research Seminar Series |
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Multi Voices One Heart (MVOH) 2018 Thank you for your support of the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative. Sincerely, Leo K. Shin 單國鉞 |
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