Universität Wien

150073 SE Hong Kong 101 (2024S)

the (post)colonial City, its cultures and the making-of

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 15 - Ostasienwissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work
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We 08.05. 08:00-09:30 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05

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Details

max. 30 participants
Language: German, English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Please note, class meetings scheduled on 15.05.24 and 29.05.24 are to be replaced by two guest lectures. Schedules can be find on Moodle.

Wednesday 06.03. 08:00 - 09:30 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
Wednesday 13.03. 08:00 - 09:30 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
Wednesday 20.03. 08:00 - 09:30 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
Wednesday 10.04. 08:00 - 09:30 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
Wednesday 17.04. 08:00 - 09:30 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
Wednesday 24.04. 08:00 - 09:30 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
Wednesday 15.05. 08:00 - 09:30 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
Wednesday 22.05. 08:00 - 09:30 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
Wednesday 29.05. 08:00 - 09:30 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
Wednesday 05.06. 08:00 - 09:30 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
Wednesday 12.06. 08:00 - 09:30 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
Wednesday 19.06. 08:00 - 09:30 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05
Wednesday 26.06. 08:00 - 09:30 Seminarraum Ostasienwissenschaften 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2I-O1-05

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The seminar aims at identifying the elements which the so-called Hong Kong cultures consist of. As a former British colony from 1841 until it was ceded to the Communist China in 1997, Hong Kong has been the showcase of its vibrant, yet unique historical, cultural and societal conditions. How did/do the metropolitan’s colonial past and post-colonial present shape itself in the cultural sense? How has (post)colonialism been reified in the shape of culture: languages, gastronomy, religion, cityscape, films and more? In this seminar, we will investigate the ways in which the so-called Hong Kong cultures have been formed and used as effective tools - on the one hand, for (post-)colonial authorities to exert controls on the Hong Kongers; on the other, for Hongkongers to reflect on and articulate who they are becoming, while responding to colonial and post-colonial controls. We will enter various fields of study such as design, urban studies, anthropology, gender and cultural studies to adopt the essential methods to observe, depict and understand Hong Kong cultures.

Assessment and permitted materials

1. One presentation in class with submission of presentation slides within ten days after the presentation (40%)
2. Essay submission (40%)
3. Active participation in class (20%) (with strictly not more than two times of absence)

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Examination topics

Reading list

Selected literature:
Abbas, M. A. (2013). Hong Kong: Culture and the politics of disappearance. Hong Kong University Press.
ANGELINA Y. CHIN (2014), Diasporic Memories and Conceptual Geography in Post-colonial Hong Kong, Modern Asian Studies, NOVEMBER 2014, Vol. 48, No. 6 (NOVEMBER 2014), pp. 1566-1593
Clement Tsz Ming Tong and 唐子明 (2016), The Hong Kong Week of 1967 and the Emergence of Hong Kong Identity Through Contradistinction / 1967 年的香港週與因抵禦心態而浮現的香港意識, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch, Vol. 56 (2016), pp. 40-66
Gordon Mathews (1997) Hèunggóngyàhn: On the past, present, and future of Hong Kong identity, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 29:3, 3-13
Raphaël Jacquet (1998), Language policy in Hong Kong: One Country, Two Systems—but Which Language? China Perspectives, SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 1998, No. 19 (SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 1998), pp. 51-60
Kam, W. M. L., (2021). Modern Architecture as Ideological Representations: East Berlin, West Berlin, and Hong Kong. In: T. Hon, ed. Liminal Space in a Divided World: Cold War Cities in Europe and Asia during the 1950s. London: Routledge
Mathews, G. (2011). Ghetto at the center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong. University of Chicago Press.
Chin-pang Lei (2019) “I Hate to Pull a Bullet out of My Body”: Crisis-Ridden Men and Postcolonial Identity in Wong Kar-Wai's Cinematic Hong Kong, Interventions, 21:3, 407-422, DOI: 10.1080/1369801X.2018.1558092
Petula Sik Ying Ho, ‘An Embarrassment of Riches: Good Men Behaving Badly in Hong Kong’ in Wives, Husbands, and Lovers: Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Urban China. Edited by Deborah S. Davis, Sara L. Friedman
Sebastian Veg (2016), Creating a Textual Public Space: Slogans and Texts from Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement, The Journal of Asian Studies, AUGUST 2016, Vol. 75, No. 3 (AUGUST 2016), pp. 673-702.
John Lowe (2021) The affective cultural commons of Hong Kong’s prodemocracy movement and figurations of the anonymous protestor, Continuum, 35:4, 614-633
Kevin Carrico (2017), Ten Years an exercise in negative identity in Hong Kong, Asian Cinema, Volume 28, Number 1, April 2017, pp. 3-22(20)
Petula Sik Ying Ho, Stevi Jackson and Jun Rene Lam, Talking Politics, Performing Masculinities: Stories of Hong Kong Men Before and After the Umbrella Movement. Springer Science and Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2018
Siumi Maria Tam (1997) Eating Metropolitaneity: Hong Kong Identity in yumcha, The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 8:3, 291-306,
Selina Ching Chan (2018), Tea cafés and the Hong Kong identity: Food culture and hybridity, China Information, 2019, Vol. 33(3) 311–328

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