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Dear Friends of HKSI,
As we look forward to the conclusion of another academic term, please join us and our colleagues around the world for continual conversations. In particular, if you are a member of the UBC community, you may not want to miss the annual student showcase on Friday, April 8.
Last but not least, of course, the Department of Asian Studies is inviting applications for a lecturer in Cantonese language and culture. We are very excited about this opportunity. Please help spread the word.
With very best wishes,
Leo K. Shin 單國鉞
Associate Professor, History and Asian Studies
Convenor, Hong Kong Studies Initiative 共研香江
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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| LECTURER IN CANTONESE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE |
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The Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, is inviting applications for a lecturer position in Cantonese language and culture, to commence on September 1, 2022. This is a full-time, non-tenure-track position for an initial term of up to three years. The position is renewable for successive terms, subject to availability of funds and demonstration of excellence in teaching and service.
We seek an exceptional teacher of Cantonese language and culture with expertise in language instruction from basic to advanced level for both heritage and non-heritage learners. The successful candidate will teach a total of 24 credits per year, the majority of which will be for courses on Cantonese language while the rest will be for courses, taught in Cantonese or English, on aspects of the languages, culture, or history of the Cantonese-speaking world that are aligned with the candidate’s teaching interests. The successful candidate will also be expected to assist in the administration and development of UBC’s highly regarded Cantonese language program.
The Lecturer in Cantonese Language and Culture will join a department with a stellar reputation for its teaching and research of Asia as well as a vibrant community of teacher-scholars associated with the UBC Cantonese Language Program and the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative.
Deadline for application: 18 April 2022
Details: asia.ubc.ca/job-opportunities/lecturer-in-cantonese-language-and-culture/
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Webinar
Thursday, 28 April 2022, 19:00–20:30 PDT
Hongkongers’ International Front: The Global Politics of Diaspora during and after the 2019 Anti-Extradition Protest
Prof. Ming-sho Ho, National Taiwan University
via Zoom
A City Reassembled Event
Details: hksi.ubc.ca/events/event/webinar-hongkongers-international-front/
The flare-up over Hong Kong’s proposed extradition bill in 2019 gave rise to a global wave of organization among overseas Hongkongers, which has persisted after the decline of the protest movement as a result of COVID and government repression. Based on 85 in-depth interviews with overseas activists as well as data drawn from social and news media on events in six cities, this presentation will examine the pro-democracy campaigns of Hong Kong’s diasporic communities. Newly emergent organizations are mostly decentralized and loosely connected. Responding to the rise and fall of protests in the home city, campaigners have shifted from offering logistical supplies to sheltering refugees as well as advocating for a global resistance against China’s authoritarian expansion. Counter-protests by supporters of the PRC have increased publicity for the campaign but have also threatened the safety of individual campaigners. With the exception of the case of Taiwan, Hongkongers have found it difficult to localize their agenda in their host countries. As well, their efforts have been frustrated by the growing polarization within Western democracies.
Ming-sho Ho is a professor in the Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University, and the Director of the Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology (Taiwan). His research interests include social movements, labor, and environmental issues. He has published Challenging Beijing’s Mandate from Heaven: Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement (2019) and Taiwan’s Working Class Formation: Fractured Solidarity in State-Owned Enterprises (2014).
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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| YIP SO MAN WAT MEMORIAL LECTURE |
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Tuesday, 5 April 2022, 18:00 PDT
Going against the World by Joining It: Modern China’s Quest of Cosmopolitanism
Prof. Ban Wang, Stanford University
Asian Centre Auditorium, UBC
1871 West Mall, Vancouver
Free & open to the public
Details: asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2021-22-yip-so-man-wat-memorial-lecture/
// Focusing on tensions and connections between national formation and international outlooks, this talk shows how ancient visions persist even as Chinese modernizers and revolutionaries adopted and revised the Western nation-state form. The concept of tianxia (all under heaven) and datong (great harmony) have been updated into outlooks of global harmony that value unity, equality, and reciprocity as the key to overcoming interstate conflict, national divides, and social fragmentation. The talk will delve into two ongoing debates: on the embrace of the West vs. aspirations for a common world, and on the difference between liberal cosmopolitanism and socialist internationalism. //
Ban Wang is the William Haas Professor in Chinese Studies in East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. His major publications include The Sublime Figure of History (1997), Illuminations from the Past (2004), History and Memory (Li shi yu ji yi) (2004), and China in the World: Culture, Politics, and World Vision (2022). He has taught at SUNY-Stony Brook, Harvard, Rutgers, East China Normal University, the University of Zurich, Yonsei university, and Seoul National University.
The Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lectures are made possible by the generous support of Messrs. Alex and Chi Shum Watt in honor of their mother, the late Mrs. Wat, and her passion for Chinese literature and culture.
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// Continuing the movement made possible by prior contributions to Tributaries, the fourth edition of this publication draws from the multidisciplinary origins of the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Program, bringing together different platforms, mediums, and genres to explore the diversity of our lived experiences, migration stories, identities, and community connections.
The fourth edition of Tributaries asks how virtuality influences, continues, transforms, and creates conceptions of Asian and Asian Canadian diasporic identities and communities. //
Deadline for submission: 29 April 2022
Details: tributariesacamjournal.wordpress.com/theme-2/
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Visiting Fellowship in Hong Kong Studies 2022
Australian Centre on China in the World
// The Australian Centre on China in the World aims to be one of the leading international institutions for Chinese Studies that furthers our understanding of the Chinese world — the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Chinese diaspora — on its own terms and through its own languages, addressing both its traditions and contemporary developments in a rapidly changing world. //
Deadline for application: 2 May 2022
Details: ciw.anu.edu.au/hong-kong-studies-fellowship
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Saturday, 2 April 2022, 12:30 PDT
Revolution of Our Times 時代革命 (2021)
Dir. Kiwi Chow 周冠威
Cinecenta, University of Victoria
Victoria, BC V8P 5C2
152 mins. | Cantonese with English and Chinese subtitles
// “Film can record the times, as well as change the times,” said Kiwi Chow, the director of Revolution of Our Times, in an interview with BBC News. Broken down into nine chapters, the documentary features frontline protest scenes and interviews during the 2019 Hong Kong protest. The film puts together a comprehensive picture of the anti-extradition bill movement, presenting through the lens in despair and hope a story of Hong Kongers. //
This screening is presented by the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives (University of Victoria) and Vic City 250.
Details: eventbrite.ca/e/revolution-of-our-times-victoria-screening-tickets-298940658557
*A separate community screening on April 8 has also been organized by the Vancouver-based Hotam Gallery.
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Online Screening+Conversation
April 7–8, 2022 PDT
The Way We Keep Dancing 狂舞派 3 (2020)
Dir. Adam Wong 黄修平
Free and accessible worldwide. Upon registration, participants will receive an email with links to both the screening (April 7–8, 2022 PDT) and the Q&A session (8 April 2022, 20:00–21:30 PDT) with director Adam Wong.
// The Kowloon Industrial District is home to many of Hong Kong’s artists, including rapper Heyo, YouTuber Alan, rising star Hana, and dancer. However, the government is preparing the area for gentrification. The group from “The Way We Dance” were invited to participate in a publicity stunt to transform the district into a “Dance Street.” Alan points out that this is an opportunity to garner support from the public. Meanwhile, Heyo’s master Afuc is planning a revolution…. //
This screening is presented by the Global Hong Kong Studies @ University of California and co-sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies at UCLA and the Asian Studies Program at Pomona College.
Trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=Ndl0hPu3u08
Details: globalhks-uc.org/the-way-we-keep-dancing
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Friday, 30 April 2022, 15:30–17:30 PDT
One Tree Three Lives: Film Screening & Conversation with Filmmaker Angie Chen
Terasen Cinema, Harbour Centre 1800
SFU Vancouver
515 West Hastings Street
Free & Open to the Public
In English and Mandarin with English subtitles
// An intimate documentary by award-winning filmmaker Angie Chen, on the novelist Hualing Nieh Engle, who is a major influence on generations of writers in the Chinese Diaspora and beyond, a woman of unusual charisma, integrity and determination, and a person in continual exile. She calls herself a tree, with roots in China, the trunk in Taiwan, and the many leaves in Iowa, USA. She is the author of 24 books and co-founder—with her husband, poet Paul Engle—of the renown International Writing Program in Iowa. One Tree Three Lives is also a love story, about the enduring bond between a novelist and a poet. //
This screening+conversation is presented by the Institute for Transpacific Cultural Research, SFU and co-sponsored by: Department of World Languages & Literature, SFU; Department of Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies, SFU; UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative.
Trailer: youtu.be/cMLZmARY53o
Details: sfu.ca/itcr/events/one-tree-three-lives.html
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Book Talk
Thursday, 19 April 2022, 18:00 PDT
The Hangover after the Handover: Things, Places and Cultural Icons in Hong Kong
Dr. Helena Wu, University of British Columbia
Discussants: Stephen Chu (HKU) and Winnie Yee (HKU)
via Zoom
// As a former British colony and then a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong has witnessed at all times how relations are formed, dissolved and refashioned amidst changing powers, identities and narratives. With cultural icons as an agency, the book offers lessons to learn from the city by opening up manifold postcolonial perspectives to confront and interrogate the volatile experiences in the new millennia—unprecedented since the Cold War era—shared by Hong Kong and other regions. //
This conversation is hosted by the Global Hong Kong Studies @ University of California.
Details: globalhks-uc.org/the-hangover-after-the-handover
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Workshop
Thursday, 22 April 2022, 15:00–17:00 HKT
Data on Detention: Using Official Data in Qualitative Research
Surabhi Chopra, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Chloe Fung, Chinese University of Hong Kong
via Zoom
// This workshop explores how to incorporate hard-to-access official data into qualitative research on law, governance, and public policy in Hong Kong. We will discuss our experience as researchers on the three-year RGC-funded project “Immigration Detention and Vulnerable Migrants in Hong Kong: Evaluating the System, Facilitating Reform.” //
This workshop is hosted by the Society for Hong Kong Studies.
Details: hkstudies.org/events/data-on-detention-using-official-data-in-qualitative-research/
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March 11: Director Anson Mak joined host Dr. Helena Wu for the premiere North American screening of Fear(less) and Dear and a Q&A session (photos).
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March 17: Professor Gordon Mathews of the Chinese University of Hong Kong discussed the past, present, and future of the Hong Kong identity (webcast | photos).
For a complete list of our video recordings, please visit our YouTube channel or the “Video Library” section of our website.
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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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