AICS 2025 Opening Film: Kissing the Ground You Walked On

The second edition of the UBC Asian Independent Cinema Showcase will open with the Vancouver premiere of Kissing the Ground You Walked On 海鷗來過的房間, an award-winning film about desire and illusion in the urban space by Macau director Hong Heng-fai 孔慶輝

Places of Memory in Graphic Novels

The panel talk features the sharing by celebrated Taiwanese graphic novelist Mr Ruan Guang-Min and Dr. Elizabeth "Biz" Nijdam (Central, Eastern, & Northern European Studies), hosted by Dr. Helena Wu (Asian Studies).

Clara Law: Drifting Petals, Floating Lives

A retrospective presented by the UBC Asian Independent Cinema Showcase & The Cinematheque surveying the remarkable, decades-spanning oeuvre of Clara Law

[Newsletters] The HKSI January 2025 Update is out!

Asian Independent Cinema Showcase

A UBC-based film festival to foster community, cultivate media literacy and cross-cultural understanding; and give voices to independent stories told by Asian filmmakers.

[Newsletters] The HKSI December 2024 Update is out!

[Media] HKSI Convenor Dr. Helena Wu speaks with Fairchild TV about the Jade Music Festival 2024 and the panel talk with singer-songwriters Serrini and Enno Cheng

Fairchild TV interview broadcasted on 9 November 2024

[Newsletters] The HKSI November 2024 Update is out!

Check out the HKSI November 2024 Update and this month's event.

[Newsletters] The HKSI October 2024 Update is out!

Check out the HKSI October 2024 Update and this month's event.

[Media] HKSI Faculty Associate Dr. Miu Chung Yan on launch the second survey on recently arrived/returned Hong Kong residents in Canada

Omni TV (Toronto)

[Research] Survey Study (Second Wave) on Hong Kong Residents Recently Arrived in Canada

HKSI Faculty Associate Dr. Miu Chung Yan (Social Work) is conducting Survey Study (Second Wave) on Hong Kong Residents Recently Arrived in Canada.

[Media] HKSI Faculty Associate Dr. Miu Chung Yan on the well-being on recently arrived/returned Hong Kong residents in Canada

Omni TV (Toronto)

[Conference] Theory Hong Kong 理論香港廣東話學術研討會2024：崩口人忌崩口碗

The Theory Hong Kong 2024 is co-hosted by Hong Kong Studies Program, University of Hong Kong, and UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative.

[Interviews] HKSI Faculty Associate Dr Leo Shin on alchemizing history

[Newsletters] The HKSI September 2024 Update is out!

Check out the HKSI September 2024 Update and this month's event.

[Awards] HKSI Convenor Dr. Helena Wu received Public Engagement Award 2024

Winter Courses

Check out these Hong Kong–related courses offered in the winter of 2024

[Annual Newsletters] The 8th edition of Intersections is out!

Check out the eighth edition of Intersections, the annual newsletter of the UBC HKSI.

[Publications] Hong Kong’s Digital Literary Field: Serialisation, Adaptation, and Readership

Check out this chapter from the book Digital China by HKSI Co-Convenor Dr. Helena Wu

2023/2024 Program

A series of film screenings, seminars, conversations, and associated events to explore the sharing of experience and the production of knowledge in Hong Kong, Canada, and beyond.

[Newsletters] The HKSI June Update is out!

Check out the HKSI June Update and next month's event.

[Media] HKSI Co-Convenor Dr. Helena Wu on the Lion Rock in Hong Kong

The Straits Times

[Media] HKSI Faculty Associate Dr. Henry Yu on the importance of archiving

Vancouver Sun

[Publications] Community Building Through Screen Sharing: Community Screening as Cultural Practice in Postmillennial Hong Kong and Beyond

Check out this article by HKSI Co-Convenor Dr. Helena Wu

[Media] HKSI Faculty Associate Dr. Yves Tiberghien on the need to preserve the global economy

Japan Times

CNTO: Cantonese Language Courses

The University of British Columbia is the only Canadian university to offer a comprehensive, for-credit Cantonese language program.

ASIA 323/HIST 377: History of Cantonese Worlds

The history, culture, languages, and identities of the multi-faceted Cantonese worlds, in the context of Chinese history and the Cantonese diaspora

ASIA 324: Literature of Hong Kong

Explores the literature of Hong Kong from the late 19th century up to the present. Its goals are to introduce to students the transformation and basic features of Hong Kong literature, the works of important writers, and to further their skills in literary appreciation and analysis.

[Newsletters] The HKSI May Update is out!

Check out the HKSI May Update!