January 31, 2019 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 Friend of HKSI, Below please find the latest updates from the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative. We wish you all the best in the Year of the Pig! |
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Hong Kong Studies Seminar Registration required: https://hksi.ubc.ca/events/event/seminar-evolution-of-hong-kongs-democracy-movement/ The democracy movement in Hong Kong in the last four decades has been shaped by three main factors: attitude towards China, attitude towards the establishment, and class. While the movement has been marked by cycles of mobilization and demobilization, the end of the 2014 Umbrella Movement has brought new challenges. Advocates for democracy have found it hard to move forward amidst China’s conservative turn, new identity politics, and value changes. Ma Ngok 馬嶽 is an Associate Professor of Government and Public Administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Political Development in Hong Kong: State, Political Society, and Civil Society (Hong Kong University Press, 2007) and a frequent commentator on current affairs and political issues concerning Hong Kong. This public seminar is organized by the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative and co-sponsored by: Department of Asian Studies, Department of History, Department of Political Science, Centre for Chinese Research, and St. John’s College. |
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Sunday, 24 February 2019, 2:30 pm Registration required: https://bit.ly/2G8NHyi In recent years, Hong Kong has witnessed obvious changes, especially among the younger generations, in terms of people’s post-materialist values, their attachment to China, and their trust in the government. There is a trend towards polarization as well as a widening value gap between generations. Recent events have shown that this widening gap has added to Hong Kong’s governance problems, which are becoming increasingly difficult to resolve. 近十年，香港不同民意調查都顯示香港的年輕一代的政治價值出現變化，包括對中國的抗拒、對政府愈不信心，以及傾向後物質的價值。政治價值兩極分化，以及世代之間的價值差距，加深了政府的管治困難。從最近香港的一些事例，可見政府與年青人的價值差距非常大，政府要贏取人心遙遙無期。 This community conversation is co-sponsored by: Vancouver Hong Kong Forum Society, UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative, and Richmond Public Library. |
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Thursday, 7 February 2019, 3:30 pm–5:00 pm Registration required: https://cantonese.arts.ubc.ca/events/event/anita-lee/ Renowned actor and radio host Ms. Anita Lee will share her experience in the entertainment industry and thoughts on Cantonese pop culture. 資深演員及電台主持李婉華小姐將分享多年演藝經驗，並討論粵語流行文化現況。 This program is organized by the UBC Cantonese Language Program. |
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Friday, 8 February 2018, 11 am–4:30 pm The Department of Asian Studies would like to invite you in joining the “2019 Lunar New Year Celebration— Year of the Pig.” The Lunar New Year marks an important holiday and is celebrated by many Asian countries, significantly for China, Korea, Vietnam and Singapore. At the Lunar New Year celebration, there will be spectacular performances by our students, as well as activities to participate in and prizes to be won. Check out this year's program. |
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In case you missed the special retrospective screening of the Joy Luck Club presented by the UBC Asian Canadian & Asian Migration Studies Program and the Department of Theatre & Film, here is the photo album and the audio recording of the conversation with actress Tamlyn Tomita. |
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HKSI is pleased to announce that Hongkong News Online is now available through the UBC Library. "The Japanese Occupation holding of The Hongkong News started publication in 1941, right after the Christmas Day surrender of the British Crown Colony, and lasted up to August 17, 1945, the very last week before Hongkong's liberation. The paper had previously launched in ca.1940 at separate premises in the Crown colony. This complete run of The Hongkong News as published during the Japanese Occupation offers scholars the voice of Japan from Hongkong, a voice rightly described as 'a close, unvarnished, daily view of the recolonizing mind-set of the new masters of East Asia'. Brill's Hongkong News was scanned from an immaculate original and is now available online for the first time with full-text-searchable functionality." |
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The Neighbourhood: A Hong Kong Studies Symposium "We welcome papers exploring the manifold ways in which neighbourhoods, neighbours and the idea of the neighbourhood are treated in narratives (both popular and literary), visual art, popular culture, media, government policy, public discourse, theoretical systems, and more.” The 1st Annual Conference of Society for Hong Kong Studies "We are pleased to invite scholars and graduate students interested in Hong Kong Studies to submit proposals for paper or panel presentations at the 1st Annual Conference of the Society for Hong Kong Studies, to be held on 22nd June, 2019, in Hong Kong." |
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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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