香港城市文化之邊走邊學

Understanding Hong Kong Through Walking

學期

113-2

學分

2 學分

當期課號

161025

永久課號

GECE00375

開課單位

博雅書苑Y

授課教師

勞維俊

校區

陽明

類別

核心

上課時間表

節	週四
3 10:10–11:00	香港城市文化之邊走邊學 YX201 2 節連堂
4 11:10–12:00	香港城市文化之邊走邊學 YX201 2 節連堂

* 根據陽明交大上課時間表所列

概述

This course introduces city studies and Hong Kong culture by an innovative method: walking. To understand this unique metropolitan city in Asia, a former colony of Britain, this course combines in-class lectures on the cultural studies of the city and off-campus walking lectures in Hong Kong. Students will walk the city in a one-week trip in Hong Kong. They will learn Hong Kong’s historical, cultural, and political importance with a focus on how the city is represented in literature and cinema. Relevant cultural and critical theories on the city will be introduced. During the walking lectures, students will be exposed to literature and films of Hong Kong, places and sites with cultural and historical significance, and critical theory on the city. Through their own bodily and sensory experiences of walking and their reaction to our reading and discussion of the texts during the walks, students develop their own understanding of the city.

先修科目

None

教學方式

The course utilizes two modes of learning: in-class lectures and walking lectures. Students are expected to have finished reading the required texts (films, literary texts, or articles) before all classes. Full participation in discussion and the walking lectures are expected. For the walking lectures: the city of Hong Kong is turned into a mobile classroom. Students will explore the city with real-time guidance from the instructor. They will interact with different parts of the city, listen to the instructor’s lectures, read literary and theoretical texts on specific spots, and respond to the urban environment afforded by the city. To attend the six walking lectures in Hong Kong, students are expected to cover their own travel and accommodation expenses. Subject to funding approval, some expenses may be covered. Reading materials will be provided on E3, the digital teaching platform.

評分方式

30%: Participation by walking and discussion 30% : End-of-semester 10-minute presentation (group or individual, depending on the total number of enrolled students) 40%: Final essay: Language requirement: 全英文或全中文; word limits: 1000-1200 English words, or 2000-2400 Chinese words. Essay topics will be given in lectures. Please note that plagiarism is a serious academic offence.

課程大綱

Part II: Hong Kong, the City and Critical Theory
Part III: Walking Hong Kong
Part I: Introduction

週次計畫

週次	主題
第 1 週	單元主題 Part I: Introduction 授課重點 Introduction to the Course and Assessment Policy etc. 閱讀材料徐承恩, 《香港, 鬱躁的家邦:本土觀點的香港源流史》, 左岸文化, 2019, Introduction and Chapter 1.
第 2 週	單元主題 Part II: Hong Kong, the city, and critical theory 授課重點 Hong Kong and Walking 閱讀材料 Ackbar Abbas, Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance, University of Minnesota Press, 1997. Chapter 1 (pp. 1-15). Joan Ramon Resina, “The Concept of After-Image and the Scopic Apprehension of the City,” After-Images of the City, edited by Joan Ramon Resina & Dieter Ingenschay, Cornell University Press, 2003, pp. 1-22.
第 3 週	單元主題Part II: Hong Kong, the city and critical theory 授課重點 The Cinematic City 閱讀材料 Chungking Express (重慶森林) (1994, dir. Wong Kar-wai)Ackbar Abbas, Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. Chapter 2. Yiman Wang, “Serial, Sequelae, and Postcolonial Nostalgia: Wong Kar-wai’s 1960s Hong Kong Trilogy,” A Companion to Wong Kar-wai, edited by Martha P. Nochimson, John Wiley & Sons, 2016.
第 4 週	單元主題Part II: Hong Kong, the city and critical theory 授課重點 Walking and the Metropolis 閱讀材料 Julie Choi, “The Metropolis and Mental Life in the Novel,” New Literary History, Vol. 37, No. 4, Attending to Media (Autumn, 2006), pp. 707-724 Tai-lok Lui, “The Malling of Hong Kong,” in Gordon Mathews and Tai-lok Lui, eds., Consuming Hong Kong (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2001), 23-45.
第 5 週	單元主題 Part II: Hong Kong, the city and critical theory 授課重點 Architecture and the City Ackbar Abbas, “Building on Disappearance: Hong Kong Architecture and Colonial Space,” Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press), 63-90.Rem Koolhaas, “Generic Cities,” S, M, L, XL eds. OMA and Bruce Mau (Rotterdam/NY: 010 Publishers/The Monicelli Press, 1995), 1238-1264.
第 6 週	單元主題 Part II: Hong Kong, the city and critical theory 授課重點 Rhythm and the CityHenri Lefebvre, The Production of Space, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith, Blackwell, 1991, pp. 38-39, p. 33.Heni Lefebvre, Rhythmanalysis: Space: Time and Everyday Life, translated by Stuart Elden and Gerald Moore, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
第 7 週	Six 3-hour walking lectures (1000-1300) in six days, from 3/29 to 4/6: 3/29-3/30 單元主題 Part III: Waking Hong Kong 1-2 授課重點 Hong Kong Staircase: From the Waterfront to HKU 閱讀材料 Louis Lo. ‘Always Liminal, Always in Transition: Hong Kong as Staircase City.’ Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures, vol. 16, no. 1, April 2022: pp. 226-255. Ping-kwan Leung 梁秉鈞, “An Old Colonial Building” 老殖民地建築, City at the End of Time 形象香港, trans. Gordon T. Osing and Leung Ping-kwan (Hong Kong: Twilight Books & Dept. of Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong, 1992), pp. 30-31. 3/31-4/1 元主題 Part III: Walking Hong Kong 3-4 授課重點 Walking as Everyday Life: Shei Tong Tsui to Mt. Long Fu 閱讀材料 Michel de Certeau, “Walking in the City,” The Practice of Everyday Life, translated by Steven Rendall, University of California Press, Berkeley 1984, pp. 91-110. Xi Xi 西西,“The Stores ” 〈店鋪〉 (in Chinese with English translation). 4/2-4/3 單元主題 Part III: Walking Hong Kong 5-6 授課重點 Hong Kong in Spectacle: From Jordon to TST 閱讀材料 haron Zukin, “Postmodern Urban Landscapes: Mapping Culture and Power,” Modern and Identity, edited by Scott Lash and Jonathan Friedman, Blackwell, 1992, pp. 212-45. Reference: Keith Macgregor, Neon City Hong Kong: A Portrait of the City and Its Neon at Night, Cameraman Ltd., 2002. 4/4 單元主題 Part III: Walking Hong Kong 7 授課重點 Landmarks Changed: Walking in Central 閱讀材料 Leo Lee, “Central Values,” City Between Worlds: My Hong Kong, Harvard University Press, 2008, pp. 43-75. Bik-wan Wong 黃碧雲, “Love in Prosperity” 〈盛世戀〉, Thereafter 《其後》, Cosmos Books, 1994 (in Chinese). 4/5 單元主題 Part III: Walking Hong Kong 8 授課重點 Spirts and Specters: Cemeteries in Happy Valley 閱讀材料 Kai-Cheung Dung董?章, 〈永盛街興衰史〉, 《名字的玫瑰》, 聯經, 2014. pp. 417-462Desmond Hok-Man Sham, “Hong Kong as a Port City,” Hong Kong Culture and Society in the New Millennium: Hong Kong as a Method, edited by Yiu-Wai Chu, Springer Nature Singapore, 2017, Chapter 5.Michel de Certeau et. al., “Ghosts in the City,” The Practice of Everyday Life: Volume 2: Living and Cooking, translated by Timothy J. Tomasik, University of California Press, pp. 133-143. 4/6 單元主題 Part III: Walking Hong Kong 9 授課重點 Walking Kowloon: To Kwa Wan and Song Emperor Terrance 閱讀材料 Xi Xi 西西, “To Kwa Wan Road” 〈土瓜灣道〉 (In Chinese), https://writinghk.org/featured-article/%E5%9C%9F%E7%93%9C%E7%81%A3%E9%81%93/ Zhi-De Chen 陳智德,〈白光熄滅九龍城〉,《地文誌》, 聯經, 2013, pp. 23-40.Helena Y.W. Wu, “Connecting with the Local, or Not: The Song Emperor Terrance,” The Hangover after the Handover: Things, Places and Cultural Icons in Hong Kong, Liverpool University Press, 2020, pp. 89-119.
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第 11 週	Presentation
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教科書

For topics and reading materials please see the syllabus below.

Office Hours

地點: Room 404, Zhi Xing Building, Yang Ming campus, or confirmed by email
時間: Confirmed by email appointment
聯絡方式: Email: louiswclo@nycu.edu.tw