HONG KONG & VISUAL ARTS: A HONG KONG STUDIES SYMPOSIUM Only a year ago in 2019, most commentators on the field of art would have portrayed Hong Kong as a place that offered great opportunities for most art-related actors, from…

HONG KONG AND ELSEWHERE: A HONG KONG STUDIES SYMPOSIUM—CALL FOR ABSTRACTS . A promotional video for the forthcoming third season of the award-winning TV show Westworld features the Hong Kong protests as the first event in what appears to be…

HONG KONG CREATIVE CULTURES: A HKS SYMPOSIUM The word “creativity” is sometimes used as a buzzword linking the imagination with the activities of profit-making enterprises. It has been used to gloss over exploitative aspects of contemporary capitalism, linking free-wheeling consumerism…

The first bilingual and interdisciplinary academic journal on Hong Kong, Hong Kong Studies (Chinese University Press), is now accepting articles for a special issue, Gender and Sexuality on Hong Kong Screens, curated with Professor Gina Marchetti (HKU) and scheduled for…

The first bilingual and interdisciplinary academic journal on Hong Kong, Hong Kong Studies (Chinese University Press), is now accepting general research articles on Hong Kong for Issue 4 (scheduled for publication in Fall 2019). . We welcome papers from multiple…

While the word “community” is more often than not suffused with a benevolent glow, connoting the virtues purportedly associated with groups of people—shared values and heritage, constancy and solidarity—“neighbourhood” is a term that has a more ambiguous, even troublesome, valency.…

HONG KONG STUDIES—Issue 3 (Spring 2019) Call for Papers—Special Section on Orientalism Forty Years on; and General Research Papers The first bilingual and interdisciplinary academic journal on Hong Kong, Hong Kong Studies (Chinese University Press), is now accepting articles for…