Dear Friend of HKSI,
The Winter term might be winding down, but the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative is still going strong. We look forward to seeing you in our upcoming events, whether in Hong Kong where HKSI is (so to speak) on a road show or back in Vancouver’s very own Chinatown. . . .
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UPCOMING EVENTS IN HONG KONG |
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Dr. Leo K. Shin will be speaking on Hong Kong studies at the following events:
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Saturday, 28 April 2018, 11 am
Hong Kong as Center of Global Chinese Network: History, Challenges and Opportunities
Organized by the Academy of Hong Kong Studies of the Education University of Hong Kong
Free and open to the public (Program in Cantonese)
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Friday, 4 May 2018, 7:30 pm
Thinking in the Age of Localism 世代 • 本土─四角演義
Hong Kong Reader 序言書室
7F, 68 Sai Yeung Choi Street South
Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Free and open to the public (Program in Cantonese)
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Saturday, 5 May 2018
Symposium: Backreading Hong Kong
Co-organised by the Department of English, Hong Kong Baptist University, and Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
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UPCOMING EVENTS IN VANCOUVER |
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Tuesday, 8 May 2018, 7 pm (doors open @ 6:30 pm)
Screening+Conversation: Boundary 也斯:東西
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden
578 Carrall Street, Vancouver
Free and open to the public
English/Chinese subtitles (138 mins | 2015 | Trailer)
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A City Inscribed event
In 2009, when the idea of producing a documentary first emerged, Ye Si 也斯 (pen name of Leung Ping-kwan 梁秉鈞, 1949–2013) offered this suggestion: “If you want to understand me, you should get acquainted with my friends. You will find part of me in each of them.” And thus began an exploration—through the eyes of academics, writers, artists, fashion designers, food connoisseurs, as well as Ye Si’s family—of an extraordinary literary life, a journey that was intricately linked to the cosmopolitanism that was, and is, Hong Kong.
Dr. WONG King Fai is an award-winning film director, screenwriter, and novelist. He is the director of 1918 and Boundary, which document, respectively, the literary lives of Liu Yichang (1918–) and Ye Si (1949–2013), two of the most-celebrated writers of Hong Kong. Dr. Wong’s screenplay for the film Life without Principle (2011) has garnered a number of prestigious awards, including the Best Original Screenplay (the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards), the Best Screenwriter (Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards), and the Best Screenwriter (Chinese Film Media Awards). Dr. Wong has published two collections of short stories and is Chief Editor of the series “Literature and Cinema” (Hong Kong University Press). Dr. Wong has been named the 2018 Best Artist (Arts Criticism) by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.
This community screening is organized by UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative and co-sponsored by Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, Chinese Canadian Writers’ Association, Vancouver Hong Kong Forum Society, Youth Collaborative for Chinatown, Vancouver Asian Film Festival, Ricepaper Magazine, LiterASIAN Festival, explorASIAN/VAHMS, PCHC–MoM Society, and Institute for Transpacific Cultural Research (SFU).
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Saturday, 12 May 2018, 2 pm
1967/1997: Reflections on Hong Kong Literature and Cinema 六七 / 九七:香港文學與電影
Centre A
268 Keefer St., Vancouver
Free and open to the public
(Program in Cantonese)
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A City Inscribed event
How has the literature and cinema of Hong Kong responded to major transformations? In particular, how have the upheavals associated with the 1967 riots and the 1997 handover been marked by the literary and the visual? Come join Dr. Mary Shuk-Han Wong of Lingnan University and award-winning director Dr. Wong King Fai for a conversation about the past and present of Hong Kong literature and cinema.
Dr. Mary Shuk-Han WONG is an associate professor in the Department of Chinese at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. She has published widely on film and literature. She is the author of Feminine Writing: Cinema, Literature and Everyday Live (2014) and Hong Kong Cinema: Writer, Literature and Cinema (2013). Major edited works include the “Hong Kong Literature and Culture of the 1950s” series (2013) and the “Hong Kong Literature and Culture of the 1960s” series (2018). She is also a novelist and essayist. Major creative works include Against the Grain (2017), From Kafka (2015), and an award-winning collection of short stories, Surviving Central (2013). She is also the co-producer of the documentaries 1918 (2015) and Boundary (2015). An edited anthology, Hong Kong 1960s, is scheduled to appear in June 2018.
Dr. WONG King Fai is an award-winning film director, screenwriter, and novelist. He is the director of 1918 and Boundary, which document, respectively, the literary lives of Liu Yichang (1918–) and Ye Si (1949–2013), two of the most-celebrated writers of Hong Kong. Dr. Wong’s screenplay for the film Life without Principle (2011) has garnered a number of prestigious awards, including the Best Original Screenplay (the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards), the Best Screenwriter (Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards), and the Best Screenwriter (Chinese Film Media Awards). Dr. Wong has published two collections of short stories and is Chief Editor of the series “Literature and Cinema” (Hong Kong University Press). Dr. Wong has been named the 2018 Best Artist (Arts Criticism) by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.
This community talk is organized by UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative and co-sponsored by Centre A, Chinese Canadian Writers’ Association, Vancouver Hong Kong Forum Society, Youth Collaborative for Chinatown, Vancouver Asian Film Festival, Ricepaper Magazine, LiterASIAN Festival, explorASIAN/VAHMS, PCHC–MoM Society, and Institute for Transpacific Cultural Research (SFU).
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HIGHLIGHTS OF EVENTS IN MARCH |
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Mar. 1 Prof. Tang Sze-Wing (Chinese University of Hong Kong) delivered a learned and captivating lecture on Hong Kong Cantonese
Mar. 7 Prof. Kwok Kou Leonard Chan (The Education University of Hong Kong) offered a wide-ranging lecture on the enduring influence of the Cantonese opera "The Flower Princess” (webcast in the work)
Mar. 8 Prof. Kwok Kou Leonard Chan (The Education University of Hong Kong) spoke in front of a packed audience on the challenges of compiling The Compendium of Hong Kong Literature
Mar. 9 Students (and teachers!) rocked the AMS Nest in the first-ever UBC Cantonese Singing Contest
Mar. 16 Angela Ko (University of Hong Kong Libraries) shared her insights into the state of Chinese-language book publishing in Hong Kong
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Thank you, as always, for your support of the Hong Kong Studies Initiative.
Sincerely,
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
hksi.ubc@ubc.ca
hksi.ubc.ca
@ubcHKStudies
*Please kindly consider a tax-deductible donation to HKSI: hksi.ubc.ca/support-us
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