Literary Hong Kong 文學香港 – Talk
Let’s Get Together Sometime: Hong Kong Cinema and Adaptation (1914-2024)
Dr. Mary Shuk Han Wong (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)
Date: Thursday, September 19, 2024
Time: 17:30-18:45 PDT
Venue: Peña Room (301), 3/F Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia
Address: 1961 East Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
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Dr. Mary Shuk Han Wong, writer and associate professor at the Department of Chinese of Lingnan University, Hong Kong, will visit UBC in person and talk about the development of Hong Kong cinema and adaptation from 1914 to 2024. The abstract of her talk, which will be conducted in English, is as follows:
The number of literary works adapted into Hong Kong films has decreased significantly from its peak in the middle of the last century to the point where it can even be said to have disappeared as a myth. Undoubtedly, since the second half of the last century, Hong Kong cinema and literature have drifted apart. However, in the changing context, we can still see the adaptation of individual creative works, and some authors still strive to cross-border creation within the film business, making movies and writing novels. The relationship between Hong Kong cinema and adaptations (particularly Hong Kong literature) in the past one hundred years is worthy of our deep thought.
This is a free and in-person event.
All are welcome. Registration required.
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Happening on Saturday, Sept 21 – Screening of Liu Yichang 劉以鬯: 1918 and Conversation with Director Dr. Ben Wong 黃勁輝
About the Speaker:
Dr. Mary Shuk-Han WONG is associate professor at the Chinese Department, Hong Kong Lingnan University. Her research interest focuses on Hong Kong literature and culture, and the comparative study of literature and cinema. She is the author of Feminine Writing: Cinema, Literature and Everyday Live (2014) and Hong Kong Cinema: Writer, literature and cinema (2013). Major edited works are ‘Hong Kong Literature and Culture of 1950s series’ (6 volumes, 2013) and Hong Kong: 1960s (2020). Apart from research, she also publishes essay, story and poem. Major creative works include How to live the sad days (2021), Against the Grain (2017), From Kafka (2015), Surviving Central (2013) and online poetry book Cave Whispers (2022) She is also the co-producer and literary advisor of the documentaries 1918: Liu Yichang (2015) and Boundary: Leung Ping Kwan (2015).
This event is organized by the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative; and is supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council as well as the Watt Family—Hong Kong Studies Initiative Fund, the Centre for Chinese Research, and the Department of Asian Studies, UBC.
Watt Family—Hong Kong Studies Initiative Fund
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