July 19, 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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Welcome to the fifth edition of Intersections, the annual newsletter of the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative, where you would find some of the highlights—such as the “City Archived” series and the international workshop on popular culture—from the past year. Leo K. Shin 單國鉞 |
| CLASS OF 2021! |
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Hearty congratulations—especially to all who have been part of the Hong Kong Studies family at UBC (video)! |
| CITY ARCHIVED 我傳 • 我城 | ||||||
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A series of webinars and conversations on the myriad ways Hong Kong has been archived—co-sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies, the Department of History, the Centre for Chinese Research, the Asian Library, and the Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster. |
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Archiving Hong Kong in Canada: A Personal Reflection 25 September 2020 Dr. Jack Leong of the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library was joined by Professor Emerita Diana Lary and former Head of UBC Asian Library Eleanor Yuen for a conversation on his journey in building the largest collection for Hong Kong and Canada-Hong Kong studies outside Hong Kong (photos). |
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Language Archiving in the Digital Era 5 February 2021 Dr. Andy Chin of the Education University of Hong Kong introduced The Corpus of Mid-20th Century Hong Kong Cantonese 二十世紀中期香港粵語語料庫 (photos | webcast). |
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Infrastructure Imagination: Charting Hong Kong’s Futures through Construction Photography 21 May 2021 Dr. Cecilia Chu (HKU) and Dorothy Tang (MIT) reflected on their curatorial work for an exhibition of construction photographs from the 1970s and 1980s (photos | webcast). |
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| COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT |
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A Seat at the Table: Chinese Immigration and British Columbia October 2020–January 2022 Co-curated by Denise Fong, Dr. Viviane Gosselin, and HKSI Associate Dr. Henry Yu, the award-winning exhibition “A Seat at the Table" is a multi-sited and collaborative project that uses food as an entry point to explore the struggles for belonging of Chinese Canadians in British Columbia. Details: |
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When Local meets Transnational: Reciprocal Effects of Immigrants Circulating between Hong Kong and Canada 19/26 January 2021 A two-day symposium (co-sponsored by the UBC Centre for Migration Studies) was organized by HKSI Associate Dr. Miu Chung Yan on the transnational experiences of Hong Kong immigrants to Canada. |
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Cantonese Speech Contest 2021 24 March 2021 Eighteen contestants from the Cantonese Language Program were cheered on—and entertained by—an international panel of adjudicators in the first-ever UBC Cantonese Speech Contest. |
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Cantonese Popular Culture Master Class Series May 2020–June 2021 Over the course of the academic year, some fifty special guest speakers were invited to share their insights with students in the Cantonese Language Program on topics ranging from films and television to standup comedy and internet culture. |
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The 2nd International Symposium on Teaching Cantonese as a Second Language / Heritage Language Teaching Workshop 19–20 August 2021 The UBC Cantonese Language Program will be hosting two back-to-back symposia on language teaching in August. |
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| UPCOMING COURSES | ||||||
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We are very pleased to announce that the following Hong Kong-related courses will be offered in 2021–22. . . . |
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ASIA 324: Literature of Hong Kong Introduces the literature of Hong Kong from the late-19th century to the 21st century. Through the lens of different literary forms and genres not limited to poetry and fiction, this course will address topics such as the negotiation of identities, the politics of representation, transmedial adaptation, urban (re-)imagination, socio-political and cultural transformation in colonial and post-handover Hong Kong. |
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