ASIA324 Literature of Hong Kong – Creative Project
AsiaBnB: A Creative Response to Cecil Clementi’s “Hong Kong” and Leung Ping-Kwan’s “A Response to Cecil Clementi”
By Julie Eng, Wen-Ling Hsieh, Johnson Lu, Ming Shiu, Wells Suen, and Edwin Tan
“Our choice of medium, which is as an AirBnB webpage, was meant to be a satirical / parodic take on Leung Ping-Kwan’s criticisms of Cecil Clementi’s work with a modern twist. This serves to humorously evoke the imagery presented in both literary works as if the disagreement occurred in a more modern time point, but also brings forth the criticisms of Leung Ping-Kwan into a more tangible form by framing them in a medium that is more relatable to a modern audience. By using an interactive web-page interface which allows the opinions of Leung and Clementi to interact and clash with each other in a more direct manner, the nuanced discourse between their contrasting ideologies may benefit from being able to debate and refute each other’s perspective, creating a more direct conflict that is elevated and transferred from the original works of each author, whilst maintaining an easily interpretable format and allowing ideas to build upon the literary foundations laid out by the initial pair of texts.” — Project Rationale