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[Photos] Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub

March 22, 2023

For those who might have missed this talk, here are the photos. Details: https://hksi.ubc.ca/events/event/hong-kong-takes-flight/

[Publications] HKSI Convenor Dr. Helena Wu has published a book chapter on Lion Rock

March 9, 2023

Check out Dr. Helena Wu's book chapter “Revisiting Hong Kong’s Myth of Success: Alternating Utopian and Dystopian Forces in the (New) Lion Rock Spirit”

[Newsletters] The HKSI 2023 March Update is out!

March 2, 2023

[News] The exhibition “Leslie Cheung 張國榮: Hong Kong Icon (1956-2003)”– co-presented by UBC Asian Library and the Department of Asian Studies, and supported by UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative and the Department of Theatre and Film–takes place at the Asian Library runs from 16 Feb to 6 April, 2023.

February 16, 2023

[Newsletters] The HKSI 2023 February Update is out!

February 7, 2023

[Publications] HKSI Convenor Dr. Helena Wu on citizen-spectator and indie documentaries in Hong Kong

February 2, 2023

Check out Dr. Helena Wu's journal article "The making of the citizen-spectator in postmillennial Hong Kong: Authorial and spectatorial engagement with independent documentary films"

[Photos] Keep Rolling: Four Stories about Hong Kong under the Pandemic

January 27, 2023

For those who might have missed this talk, here are the photos. Details: https://hksi.ubc.ca/events/event/film-screening-keep-rolling/

[Publications] HKSI Convenor Dr. Helena Wu on the translation of Hong Kong writer Dung Kai-cheung’s A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On

January 22, 2023

Check out Dr. Helena Wu's review on the translation of Dung Kai-cheung's A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On by Bonnie S. McDougall & Anders Hansson

[Newsletters] The HKSI 2023 January Update is out!

January 10, 2023

Film Screening and Conversation with Directors: Keep Rolling (2022)

January 6, 2023

Four Directors, Four Stories about Hong Kong under the Pandemic
Join us for a screening + conversation on UBC Point Grey campus on Thursday, 26 January 2023