The 2018 “Backreading Hong Kong” symposium, co-run by the Department of English at Hong Kong Baptist University and the literary journal Cha, took place on Saturday 5 May 2018. The symposium was organised by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho (tammyh@hkbu.edu.hk) and it was part of “Hong Kong Week @ HKBU”. {Facebook registration.} {Download the programme here.}
- 8:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Morning presentations {View}
- 2:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Keynote address {View}
- 3:30 p.m. – 6:20 p.m. Afternoon panels {View}
- 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Poetry Reading at Dusk {View}
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PRESENTATIONS
Venue: HKBU Phonology Lab,
OEM 708, OEN Hall Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus
- 8:45 a.m. Welcoming Remarks
— Tammy Lai-Ming Ho (HKBU) - 9:00 a.m. Conflicts and Complexities: A Study of Hong Kong’s Bilingual Street Names
— Song Ge (Lingnan University) - 9:30 a.m. Allusions to the 1967 Riots in Lung Kong’s Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (1970): Reality and Imagination Entwine
— Tom Cunliffe (SOAS, University of London) -
10:00 a.m. Law as Narrative: A Literary Deconstruction of Hong Kong’s Basic Law
— Holmes Chan (HKU) - 10:30 a.m. Chu Hoi Dick as an Artist
— Leung Ho Yin (CUHK) - 11:00 a.m. Empire of the Dragon: Bruce Lee’s Counter-Colonisation of Japan
— Loren Goodman (Yonsei University) - 11: 30 a.m. The “Sinophone” Writes Back? Revisiting Two Uchronian Narratives of Dung Kai Cheung and Ng Kim Chew
— Heidi Huang (Sun Yat-Sen University)
— Abel Han (HKBU) - 12:00 p.m. Co-opting Cold War Institutions: Gu Cangwu’s Grassroots Activism in Iowa and Hong Kong
— James Shea (HKBU) -
12:30 p.m. Reframing Hong Kong— Leo K. Shin (Convenor, Hong Kong Studies Initiative, The University of British Columbia)
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KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Venue: RRS 905, Sir Run Run Shaw Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus
2:15-3:15 p.m.
Introduction
Professor Stuart Christie
(Professor, HKBU).
Professor Wong Kin Yuen
(Professor and Head of Department of English, Shue Yan University)
“The Hong Kong Generation, 1965-1980”
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PANELS
Venue: HKBU Phonology Lab,
OEM 708, OEN Hall Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus
- 3:30-4:20 p.m. “Writing Hong Kong in English: A Dual Challenge”, presented by PEN Hong Kong
Speakers on this panel will discuss the twin threats facing English-language writers in Hong Kong: a declining readership and the shrinking space of free expression
— Speakers: Pete Spurrier and Kate Rogers
— Participating Moderator: Jason Y Ng (President of PEN Hong Kong) - 4:30-5:20 p.m. “Hong Kong Studies: A Beginning”, presented by the editors of Hong Kong Studies (Chinese University Press)
— Speakers: Edmund Cheng, Winnie W. C. Lai and Samson Yuen
— Moderators: Michael O’Sullivan and Eddie Tay - 5:30-6:20 p.m. “The Fallacy of the Middle Ground”, presented by the editors of Cultural Conflict in Hong Kong: Angles on a Coherent Imaginary (Palgrave)
— Speakers: Yu Heidi Huang, Wesley McLaughlin, Kum Hoon Ng and Janice A Wong
— Moderator: Jason S Polley
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POETRY READING AT DUSK
Venue: HKBU Phonology Lab,
OEM 708, OEN Hall Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus
6:30 p.m. onwards
SELECTION COMMITTEE
Lian-Hee Wee, Tammy Lai-Ming Ho and Jason S Polley
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