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[Film Screening + Book Talk] Project Sifu x Martial Arts Ecology: Presentation by Dr. Wayne Wong

March 18, 2026

Join Dr. Wayne Wong for the screening of his film work Project Sifu, accompanied by a presentation about his latest monograph Martial Arts Ecology: Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Cinematic Mediation (2026).


Backreading Hong Kong Symposium 2026 @ UBC: Everyday Life Reimagined

March 2, 2026

17 scholars from around the world will speak at the Backreading Hong Kong Symposium at the University of British Columbia on March 10-11, 2026


[Backreading Hong Kong Symposium 2026] Book Talk by Dr. Jessica Tsui-yan Li

February 23, 2026

Join Dr. Jessica Tsui-yan Li for the book talk on March 11 in which she will share her her book "Eileen Chang: The Performativity of Self Translation" (2025).


[Backreading Hong Kong Symposium 2026] Book Talk by Charles Fung

February 23, 2026

Join Mr. Charles Fung for the book talk on March 10 in which he will share his publication of "A New Documentary History of Hong Kong, 1945–1997" (2025).


[Backreading Hong Kong Symposium 2026] Book Talk by Dr. Ting Guo

February 23, 2026

Join Dr. Ting Guo for the book talk on March 10 in which she will share her book "Religion, Secularism, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China" (2025).


Documentary Screening “Metamorphosis of the Bay Area” & Special Presentation by Prof. Helen F. Siu

February 23, 2026

Join Producer Prof. Helen F. Siu for the documentary film screening and Q&A session on March 11.


[Publications] On the frontier of party-state capitalism: mapping the geopolitical economies of China’s Greater Bay Area

August 1, 2025

Check out this journal article by HKSI Faculty Associate Dr. Jamie Peck


[Achievement] HKSI Faculty Associate Dr. Hedy Law appointed as Director of School of Music

June 1, 2025


[Publications] Mourning for the Death of a Political System: Cantonese Opera and Cantopop in Requiem HK (2017)

April 11, 2025

Check out this book chapter by HKSI Faculty Associate Dr. Hedy Law


[News] The opening of the 2025 Asian Independent Cinema Showcase drew over a hundred audience members and local media attention from Pancouver, OmniTV Cantonese, and Singtao Canada.

March 11, 2025

The Vancouver premiere of Kissing the Ground You've Walked On and Conversation with Macau filmmaker Hong Heng-Fai was successfully held in UBC Robson Square on 6 February 2025.