香港文化導論

1. 彈性補充教學: To be confirmed 2. Introduction: Hong Kong History, Identity, Time, Space (9/22) 3. Hong Kong as a Neo-liberal City (9/29) 4. Hong Kong Genres: Wuxia and action films (10/6) 5. Hong Kong Architectural Style: Colonial Space and the International Style (10/13) 6. Hong Kong Affects: Nostalgia and Transition (10/20) 7. Walking Hong Kong Historically (10/27) 8. Hong Kong New Wave Cinema I (11/3) 9. Mid-term Examination (11/10) 10. Hong Kong New Wave Cinema II (11/17) 11. University Holiday (Sports Day 11/24) 12. Anxiety of the Handover I: Trauma and Diaspora (12/1) 13. Guest Lecture (12/8) 14. Anxiety of the Handover II: Representing the Other (12/15) 15. The Oceanic Hong Kong (12/22) 16. Post-Handover Hong Kong: Pickpocket and the Neo Noir (12/29) 17. Public Talk (to be confirmed) 18. 彈性補充教學: Self-study

This course provides a survey of Hong Kong cultural productions including cinema, television, literature, architecture, and city space. Her culture, history, and politics will be crossed examined in the larger context of neo-liberal logic and global world order. Apart from a direct sampling of Hong Kong cultural productions, theoretical concepts such as hybridity, the subaltern, post-coloniality, modernism and post-modernism, disappearance, nation-state and city-state, localism and loyalism will be introduced. With emphases on the cinematic, literary, and spatial aesthetics and their political and philosophical implications, the course examines the complex cultures and history of Hong Kong. Students will be exposed to important Hong Kong literary, filmic texts, architecture and artistic productions and relevant issues so as to strengthen their cultural literacy in general, and to understand the issues of (post)coloniality in particular. Artistic tastes, cultural literacy, and critical concepts acquired will help students understand the world in a globalized context, and think comparatively and critically about their own situations.

上課討論 Attendance and Discussion 10% 期中考試 Mid-term Examination 30% 口頭報? Group presentation * 20% (TBA) 期末書面報? Final Essay ** 40% * Group presentation: 3-4 students per group depending on the number of enrolment. Time limit for presentation: 10 minute. Presentation topics will be given in lectures. ** Final essay: Language requirement: 全英文或全中文; word limits: 800-1000 English words, or 1600-2000 Chinese words. Depending on the number of enrolment, co-written essay (3-4 students per group, 1000-1200 English words or 2000-2400 Chinese words) will be considered. Essay topics will be given in lectures. Please note that plagiarism is a serious academic offence

Please see the course outline for details.