Co-sponsors:  UCLA Asia Pacific Center, UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, Pomona College Asian Studies Program, UC Irvine Center for Asian Studies, UC Irvine Long US-China Institute, and UC Davis East Asian Studies.

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Book Abstract

As a former British colony and then a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong has witnessed at all times how relations are formed, dissolved and refashioned amidst changing powers, identities and narratives. With cultural icons as an agency, the book offers lessons to learn from the city by opening up manifold postcolonial perspectives to confront and interrogate the volatile experiences in the new millennia - unprecedented since the Cold War era - shared by Hong Kong and other regions. 

Helena Wu

(University of British Columbia)

is Assistant Professor in Hong Kong Studies in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests revolve around Hong Kong cinema, literature and culture. She is interested in developing interdisciplinary approaches to textual and visual narratives, popular culture, creative industries, and identity studies. In one of her latest projects, she explore film, television and sport spectatorships in post-handover Hong Kong, in order to understand how creative expression and audience activities affect cultural (industry) practices, the construction of identity and the relationship between content producers, distributors, and spectators, and vice versa.

Winnie Yee

(University of Hong Kong)

is Programme Coordinator of MA in Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Hong Kong. In 2019-20, she was a fellow in Rachel Carson Center for the Environment and Society at LMU Munich. Her research interests are eco-criticism, contemporary Chinese literature and film, Hong Kong culture, Asian independent cinema, and postcolonial theories. She is currently working on a book project exploring the relationship between ecopoetic, Chinese literature and independent film scene, and an edited volume on lives of the Deltas.

Yiu-Wai Chu

(University of Hong Kong)

is Professor and Director of Hong Kong Studies Programme, The University of Hong Kong, and Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Humanities. His research focuses on postcolonialism, globalization and Hong Kong culture. He has published more than 30 books and 50 academic essays, which can be found in journals including, among others, such as Tamkang Review, Tsing-hua Journal of Chinese Studies, Social and Legal Studies, and International Journal of the Sociology of Law. He is also the chief editor of the “Hong Kong Studies: Humanities Perspectives, Global Dialogues” series published by Brill, and two Chinese-language book series on Hong Kong – “Cultural Hong Kong” and “Hong Kong Popular Lyricists” – published by Chung Hwa Book Company.