150084 SE Urban Life and Urban Death (2023S)
Cultures in Hong Kong
Continuous assessment of course work
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Mo 13.02.2023 10:00 to Mo 27.02.2023 10:00
- Deregistration possible until Mo 27.03.2023 18:00
Details
max. 30 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Please note, the first meeting of the seminar will be held on the 8th March 2023. Also, the meeting on the 31st May will be cancelled.
Wednesday
01.03.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Wednesday
08.03.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Wednesday
15.03.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Wednesday
22.03.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Wednesday
29.03.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Wednesday
19.04.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Wednesday
26.04.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Wednesday
03.05.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Wednesday
10.05.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Wednesday
17.05.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Wednesday
24.05.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Wednesday
31.05.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Wednesday
07.06.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Wednesday
14.06.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Wednesday
21.06.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Wednesday
28.06.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
The seminar aims specifically at studying the Hong Kong urban cultures. The city of Hong Kong stages its own episodes of urban dramas: as the globalized city which embodies the globe in vertical sense; as the city of resistance since the colonial era; as a city on the one hand deeply enrooted with patriarchal influences - yet on the other hand torn by the ideals of equalities and democracy since the colonial era. Through lenses of major themes, namely, living, loving and dying, in this seminar we try to depict some of the many versions of urban Hong Kong. We will investigate spatial prototypes such as skyscrapers, public toilets, McDonalds, tea cafes, prominent public spaces in the Central areas, funeral homes and graveyards to narrate stories of the Hong Kong people. These stories are both reasons and results which continuously entangle and weave the conceptual and physical fabrics of Hong Kong. We will enter various fields of study such as urban studies, anthropology, cultural and social sciences to adopt the essential methods to observe, depict and understand – if impossibly a full picture of the Hong Kong culture – at least some facets of Hong Kong cultures.
Assessment and permitted materials
1. Two presentations in class with submission of presentation slides within ten days after the presentation (50%)
2. Essay submission (30%)
3. Active participation in class (20%) (with not more than two times of absence)
2. Essay submission (30%)
3. Active participation in class (20%) (with not more than two times of absence)
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Please note, students are required to fulfill all the three items of assessment in order to pass the seminar. That means, a minimum pass in each item is a prerequisite to pass the overall course.
Examination topics
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Reading list
(List to be finalised in the first teaching week)
Dickhardt, & Lauser, A. (2016). Religion, place and modernity : spatial articulations in Southeast Asia and East Asia /. Brill.
Edited by Cecilia Lai Wan Chan, & Amy Yin Man Chow. (2005). Death, Dying and Bereavement. Hong Kong University Press.
Abbas, M. A. (2013). Hong Kong: Culture and the politics of disappearance. Hong Kong University Press.
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
Travis SK Kong (2012) A fading Tongzhi heterotopia: Hong Kong older gay men’s use of spaces in Sexualities, 15(8) 896–916, DOI: 10.1177/1363460712459308
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
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
Gerhard Bruyns (2018) Tactical interiority; Hong Kong’s “lived” interiors as praxis for tactical living in High-Density landscapes, Interiors, 9:3, 346-371, DOI:10.1080/20419112.2019.1642571
Selina Ching Chan (2018), Tea cafés and the Hong Kong identity: Food culture and hybridity, China Information, 2019, Vol. 33(3) 311–328
Xiaojiang Yu (2009) Influence of Intrinsic Culture: Use of Public Space by Filipina Domestic Helpers in Hong Kong, Journal for Cultural Research, 13:2, 97-114, DOI:10.1080/14797580902786457
Gerhard Bruyns and Darren Nel (2020) Lateral‑privatisation of the publics: Hong Kong’s spatial struggles. URBAN DESIGN International (2020) 25:266–279. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41289-020-00127-5
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
Dickhardt, & Lauser, A. (2016). Religion, place and modernity : spatial articulations in Southeast Asia and East Asia /. Brill.
Edited by Cecilia Lai Wan Chan, & Amy Yin Man Chow. (2005). Death, Dying and Bereavement. Hong Kong University Press.
Abbas, M. A. (2013). Hong Kong: Culture and the politics of disappearance. Hong Kong University Press.
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
Travis SK Kong (2012) A fading Tongzhi heterotopia: Hong Kong older gay men’s use of spaces in Sexualities, 15(8) 896–916, DOI: 10.1177/1363460712459308
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
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
Gerhard Bruyns (2018) Tactical interiority; Hong Kong’s “lived” interiors as praxis for tactical living in High-Density landscapes, Interiors, 9:3, 346-371, DOI:10.1080/20419112.2019.1642571
Selina Ching Chan (2018), Tea cafés and the Hong Kong identity: Food culture and hybridity, China Information, 2019, Vol. 33(3) 311–328
Xiaojiang Yu (2009) Influence of Intrinsic Culture: Use of Public Space by Filipina Domestic Helpers in Hong Kong, Journal for Cultural Research, 13:2, 97-114, DOI:10.1080/14797580902786457
Gerhard Bruyns and Darren Nel (2020) Lateral‑privatisation of the publics: Hong Kong’s spatial struggles. URBAN DESIGN International (2020) 25:266–279. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41289-020-00127-5
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
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