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Dear Friends of HKSI,
This is the last update for the fifth season of the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative. As we wind down an academic year like no others, I would again like to express my appreciation for all your support. I would also like to give a special shout-out to Michelle To, the super-duper HKSI student associate who has in the past two years often gone above and beyond to make things happen. As she transitions into her new role as an UBC alumna, I would like to congratulate Michelle for all she has accomplished and to wish her the very best as she commences.
Please stay tuned for the next edition of Intersections, our annual newsletter, later in the summer.
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 |
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Conversation with Artists
Saturday, 19 June 2021, 19:00–21:00 PDT
Light Hours: Eleven Artists Looking at Hong Kong
via Zoom
A City Archived event
Details: hksi.ubc.ca
In partnership with the Vancouver-based Hotam Press Gallery, the UBC Hong Kong Studies is pleased to conclude its year-long City Archived series by hosting a special conversation with eleven Canadian artists of Hong Kong descent who are participating in the exhibition Light Hours.
This conversation is co-organized by the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative and Hotam Press Gallery and is co-sponsored by: Department of Asian Studies, Department of History, Centre for Chinese Research, Asian Library, Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster, and Public Humanities Hub.
About the Exhibition
“Light Hours brings together eleven Canadian artists of Hong Kong descent to explore their relationship to this special city with a unique history. The locale known as Hong Kong exists physically and psychically, in both individual and collective memories. Coming from different generations and backgrounds, the artists all have their own personal connection and affiliation to the territory.
By focusing on Hong Kong and the Canada–Hong Kong relationship, Light Hours seeks to open up a discourse about the complexity and possibility of a Hong Kong Canadian identity during a critical time. The long history of migration and residency of Hong Kongers as guests in this land began in the early 1900s and continued steadily throughout the Second World War to the 1970s, reaching its height in the late 1980s to 1990s as a result of the Tiananmen Square Massacre and the Handover of the former British colony to Communist China. Since the Umbrella Movement in 2014 and the social unrest and political uncertainty created by Beijing’s tightening grip, a surge in migration has begun again.
This exhibition is an experiment and an attempt to examine the invisible ties between us on both sides of the Pacific. As the light hours quickly pass before darkness falls on the once liberal and prosperous Hong Kong, now is the time for us to speak out like never before.”
Featured artists: Kai Chan, Joni Cheung, Dennis Ha, Karilynn Ming Ho, Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes, Yam Lau, Hei Lam Ng, Karen Ngan, Peggy Ngan, Ho Tam, Henry Tsang
June 12–August 29, 2021 (Friday to Sunday, 1–5 pm)
Hotam Press Gallery
218 East 4th Ave. (off Main St.)
Vancouver, British Columbia
bookshopgallery.hotampress.com
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A selection of upcoming talks by HKSI faculty associates:
15 June 2021, 20:00–22:00 EDT
Studying Hong Kong: The National Security Law and Beyond
Panelists: Drs. Francis L.F. Lee, Jack Leong, Leo K. Shin, Heidi Wang-Kaeding
https://ycar.apps01.yorku.ca/event/hong-kong-beyond-hong-kong-symposium-panel-two/
17 June 2021, 14:00–16:00 EDT
Hong Kong-Canada Relationships
Panelists: Drs. Susan Henders, Miu Chung Yan, David Zweig
https://ycar.apps01.yorku.ca/event/ond-hong-kong-symposium-panel-three/
The two panels above are part of a three-day symposium on Hong Kong Beyond Hong Kong organized by the York Centre for Asian Research at York University.
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19 June 2021, 10:30 HKT
香港流行文化交易現場：馬後炮與眼前路
Speakers: Drs. Matthew M. T. Chew, Stephen Yiu-Wai Chu, and Leo K. Shin
https://www.facebook.com/HKGSHKU/posts/1757316167788734
This is a follow-up conversation (in Cantonese) on the workshop “Hong Kong Popular Culture: Imagining a Research Field” jointly organized by the Hong Kong Studies Programme at the University of Hong Kong, the Department of Sociology at the Hong Kong Baptist University, and the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative.
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30 June 2021, 11:30–13:30 HKT
Constitutional and Systemic Consequences
Panelists: Dr. Jie Cheng, Dr. Po Jen Yap, and Prof. Johannes Chan
https://www.law.hku.hk/events/hong-kong-under-chinas-national-security-law-conference/
This panel is part of a two-day conference on Hong Kong Under China’s National Security Law organized by the Centre for Comparative and Public Law at the University of Hong Kong.
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Bernard H. K. Luk Memorial Lecture
8 June 2021, 10:00–12:00 EDT
Chinese State Capitalism and Its Discontents in Hong Kong
Dr. Ho-fung Hung, Johns Hopkins University
Details:
https://ycar.apps01.yorku.ca/event/chinese-state-capitalism-discontents-hong-kong-hung/
“Hong Kong’s political crisis today has been in the making for years, and it originates from the contradictions of the ‘One Country, Two Systems’ arrangement. Hong Kong and mainland China have been two independent members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) with different terms of membership. While China’s financial system is still semi-closed to the world, Hong Kong’s financial system is fully open. The US and other developed countries treat Hong Kong as a separate entity on export, investment and immigration control, offering Hong Kong-based companies free access to their market and technology, conditional upon the international recognition of Hong Kong’s autonomy from Beijing. This lures Chinese state companies to use Hong Kong as an offshore platform or springboard for capitalization, outward investment, RMB internationalization, and importation of sensitive technologies from Western countries. This results in the expansion of political influences of Chinese state companies and elites in Hong Kong, eroding Hong Kong’s autonomy and precipitating a social and political backlash, long before the 2047 expiration date of the One Country, Two Systems.”
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Annual Meeting of the Society for Hong Kong Studies
June 25–26, 2021 HKT
Details: hkstudies.org
"This year’s theme is 'Hong Kong in the Age of Global Crisis,' which we hope will stimulate collective and multi-disciplinary reflections on Hong Kong’s experiences with public health crisis, economic turmoil, social unrest and political ruptures in the global context, past and present. This means we particularly welcome papers that compare, contextualize or connect Hong Kong with other societies and cultures. We will select papers addressing this conference theme to form a plenary session, with the potential of submitting them for publication as a special issue in academic journals.”
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Political-economic Transformations in China’s Greater Bay Area
“Applications are invited for a three-year postdoctoral research fellowship to work in association with the project ‘Breaking new ground,’ focused on the political economy of regional transformation in China’s Greater Bay Area (GBA). The fellowship, which will be based in the Department of Geography at UBC in Vancouver, Canada, will begin in September 2021 or as soon as possible thereafter.”
Details: postdocs.ubc.ca/ad/55127
Deadline: 15 July 2021
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Faculty position
Hong Kong Visual Studies
The Institute of Visual Studies at the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, is calling for applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Hong Kong visual studies.
Details: https://bit.ly/3p3VbH2
Deadline: 30 June 2021
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Hong Kong Studies
Deadline: 30 June 2021
Details:
http://www.eng.cuhk.edu.hk/HKStudies/announcements/20210302_callsforpaper.php
"Hong Kong Studies (published by The Chinese University Press) is now accepting articles and reviews written in English or traditional Chinese for a general issue of the journal, tentatively scheduled for publication in the first half of 2022. Hong Kong Studies is the first bilingual academic journal to focus on Hong Kong from an interdisciplinary perspective. The editors believe that the timely expansion of the field of Hong Kong Studies warrants a journal of its own, in order to provide a focused platform for facilitating exchange between different disciplines and viewpoints in relation to Hong Kong. We welcome papers from multiple fields in the humanities and the social sciences, including but not limited to literature, linguistics, cultural studies, philosophy, sociology, politics, history, education, and gender studies. We also encourage intersectional and cross-disciplinary dialogues on Hong Kong affairs."
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May 1–2: More than 30 scholars from 3 continents (and across 15 time zones) took part in this two-day workshop on imagining Hong Kong popular culture as a field of research. A follow up conversation (in Cantonese) will take place on June 19.
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May 21: Dr. Cecilia L. Chu (HKU) and Dorothy Tang (MIT) discussed their curatorial work for an exhibition of construction photographs from the 1970s and 1980s (photos | webcast). Additional links/resources are now available on the event page.
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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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