April 29, 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, In academic terms, May is in many ways a time of renewal. Wherever you are (especially for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere), may the spring of 2021 bring you at least a moment of peace and hope. 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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Hong Kong Popular Culture: Imagining a Research Field 1–2 May 2021 (HKT) More than 30 scholars from 4 continents (and across 18 time zones) will take part in this two-day workshop on imagining Hong Kong popular culture as a field of research. All are welcome. Details: keywordsasia.wixsite.com/website This workshop is jointly organized by: Hong Kong Studies Programme, The University of Hong Kong Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong Studies Initiative, The University of British Columbia |
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| Friday, 21 May 2021, 19:00–20:30 PDT Infrastructure Imagination: Charting Hong Kong’s Futures through Construction Photography Cecilia L. Chu (HKU) and Dorothy Tang (MIT) via Zoom A City Archived event Details: hksi.ubc.ca Construction photography differs from familiar urban images by offering alternative perspectives of the inner worlds of infrastructure systems. The photographs also provide rare, behind-the-scene glimpses of construction processes, thus making them a unique type of documentation of cities in the making. In this talk, Cecilia Chu and Dorothy Tang will discuss their curatorial work on a public exhibition (infrastructureimagination.splashthat.com) that showcased a collection of construction photographs by a British photographer, Heather Coulson, who was commissioned to document a number of major infrastructure projects completed in Hong Kong between 1972 and 1988. The collection, which includes highways, railways, power stations and water works, captured the unprecedented scale and complexity of infrastructure expansion during the so-called “golden age of construction.” Collectively, the photographs convey a strong sense of optimism associated with economic and social progress of Hong Kong in this period. The talk will end with a reflection on the divergent audience responses to the exhibition, where nostalgic sentiments about the past intersect with anxieties and hopes for building a better urban future. Cecilia L. Chu is an associate professor in the Division of Landscape Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. Trained as an urban historian with a background in design and conservation, her research focuses on the social and cultural processes that shape the forms and meanings of built environments and their impacts on local communities. Informing her work is an interest in the design and representation of spaces (as buildings, landscapes, and infrastructures) and the production of their social meanings and values. She is the author of Colonial Urban Development in Hong Kong: Speculative Housing and Segregation in the City (Routledge, 2021). She is a co-founder and current president of Docomomo Hong Kong and an editorial board member of Journal of Urban History and Journal for the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong. Dorothy Tang is a landscape architect and PhD candidate in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her work is concerned with the intersections of infrastructure and everyday life, especially in communities confronting large-scale environmental change. Her current research explores the landscape and urban impacts of Chinese overseas investments in the Mekong Region and Southern Africa. Professionally, she has worked on a range of landscape infrastructure projects in China and in Southeast Asia. She was formerly an assistant professor of landscape architecture at the University of Hong Kong where she also directed the undergraduate program. Her design work and research has been exhibited internationally. This webinar is organized by the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative and is co-sponsored by: Department of Asian Studies, Department of History, Centre for Chinese Research, Asian Library, and the Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster. |
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Thursday, 6 May 2021, 12:30–14:00 PDT |
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Please check out our Hong Kong-related summer offerings. |
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Return of the Returnees? Dual Citizenship and Hong Kong’s Global Talent Base |
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| Source: AFP
HKSI Convenor Dr. Leo K. Shin was interviewed by the South China Morning Post on the “I am Hong Konger” campaign in Canada. |
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Workshop-in-Progress Workshop in Hong Kong Studies |
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Becoming and Unbecoming Hong Kong |
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Hong Kong Studies |
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May is Asian Heritage Month in Canada. Check out the events associated with the explorASIAN’s 25th Anniversary Festival! |
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April 9: Researchers Gary Fong and Elgar Teo introduced the ANTIELAB Research Data Archive and shared their preliminary research results in our April City Archived webinar. |
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April 17: HKSI Student Associate Kennedy Wong took part in a panel conversation on immigration rights, migrant justice, and the Hong Kong diaspora in the US (webcast).
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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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