[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)

[Call for Paper] 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!

ASIA325 (23W): “Award Ceremony for the Heroes of Hong Kong”

A Creative Response to A Better Tomorrow

ASIA325 (23W): Storyboard and Scriptwriting

A Creative Response to Chungking Express

ASIA325 (23W): “Mo Lei Tau”

A Creative Response to A Better Tomorrow

ASIA325 (23W): From A Different Perspective

A Creative Response to Beyond The Dream

ASIA325 (23W): Diorama and Marginalized Spaces

Made in Hong Kong

ASIA 325: Hong Kong Cinema

A survey of the cinema of Hong Kong from the post-war period to the present. The influence of Hong Kong on global cinema, and the forces (artists, studios, audiences, etc.) that have given rise to filmmaking styles and genres perceived as "distinctively Hong Kong."

CNTO 403 (23W): Eating disorder

Intermediate Cantonese II: Eating disorder