Students and teachers of UBC’s Cantonese classes went for an end-of-year dim sum outing.
For more photos: facebook.com/UBCCantonese
[Resources] South China Morning Post Historical Archive now accessible at UBC
The South China Morning Post—an English language newspaper published in Hong Kong—is renowned for its authoritative and influential reporting on Hong Kong, China and all of Asia. It is highly regarded by researchers because of the unique history of Hong Kong as well as the newspaper’s editorial perspective on Imperial Japan and Communist China. With searchable, full text coverage from South China Morning Post’s origin in 1903 up to and including 1997, users will be able to search the entirety of the newspaper including advertisements, editorials, cartoons, and photographs that illuminate history as much as the news articles.
Thanks to Allan Cho and other colleagues at the Library, the historical archive of the South China Morning Post is now accessible to members of the UBC community
[CFA] APFC Post-Graduate Research Fellowships
The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada is committed to fostering the next generation of Asia Pacific researchers and analysts. To this end, it offers up to three Post-Graduate Research Fellowships valued at $40,000 for Master’s graduates and $42,000 for PhD graduates for a one-year non-renewable term. Successful applicants will have a background in Asia-related research in a variety of fields, including (but not limited to) social sciences, humanities, business, education, statistics, and natural sciences, and will be based on excellence and fit with the Foundation’s research priorities (energy and the environment; trade and investment; education; and sub-national relations with Asia.) Grants are not intended to support dissertation research.
Application Deadline: April 7, 2017
For more information: http://www.asiapacific.ca/grants/post-graduate-research-fellowships
[Courses] Class visit to “Heroes of the Dark Years”
Students from ASIA 373 (History of Hong Kong) took advantage of the reading break to visit the special exhibition “Heroes of the Dark Years“—with Mr. King Wan, President of the Chinese Canadian Military Museum, as the tour guide.
For more photos: facebook.com/ubcHKstudies
[CFP] Hong Kong Studies: A Bilingual Journal
HONG KONG STUDIES
Call for Papers
Submissions are solicited for the inaugural issue of Hong Kong Studies. Hong Kong Studies is the first bilingual academic journal to focus on Hong Kong from an interdisciplinary arts and cultural studies perspective. Published by the Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, the journal will launch in 2017. The editors believe that the timely expansion of the field of Hong Kong Studies warrants a journal of its own, in order to provide a focused platform for facilitating exchange between different disciplines and viewpoints in relation to Hong Kong. We welcome papers from multiple fields in the humanities and the social sciences, including but not limited to literature, linguistics, cultural studies, sociology, politics, history, education, and gender studies. We also encourage intersectional and cross-disciplinary dialogues on Hong Kong affairs.
Our inaugural issue will be themed “Hong Kong: Twenty Years after the Handover” and it is due out in late 2017. 2017 marks the end of Hong Kong’s second decade under Chinese sovereignty, with only three more decades to go before the expiration of “One Country, Two Systems” in 2047. It also marks the first time Hong Kong citizens allegedly get to elect their Chief Executives. Already, the official preparations for the 2017 commemorative extravaganza elicit the region’s divided loyalties; British army personnel have been invited back to the city to “smarten up” the city’s beleaguered police force for the big day, while the government also seeks to build a HK$3.5 billion commemorative replica of Beijing’s Palace Museum in the West Kowloon Cultural District. But if the first decade after the handover demonstrated Hong Kong’s “exciting post-colonial metamorphosis” as suggested in the edited volume China’s Hong Kong Transformed: Retrospect and Prospects Beyond the First Decade (2008), the second decade has been marked by high-profile socio-political activism and protests, demonstrating a nuanced reservation about this supposedly exciting reinvention of Hong Kong.
Submissions are sought in English or traditional Chinese and should aim to articulate the changes and transformations as well as to interpret their significance in Hong Kong culture, society, and politics in the post-handover period while keeping in mind the prospects for the coming three decades.
Articles no longer than 6,000 words should be sent to osullivan@cuhk.edu.hk or tammyh@hkbu.edu.hk before 31 May 2017. The style sheet can be found here: http://bit.ly/2k9pvgu. Please also provide an abstract of 250 words and a short biographical note of no more than 50 words. Submissions will be double-blind reviewed.
Editors
Michael O’Sullivan, Tammy Ho Lai-Ming, Eddie Tay, Michael Tsang
Advisory Editors
Stephen Ching-kiu Chan Lingnan University
Rey Chow Duke University
Stuart Christie Hong Kong Baptist University
Stephen Chu Yiu Wai The University of Hong Kong
Helene Fung The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Elaine Ho The University of Hong Kong
Louise Ho Australia
Douglas Kerr The University of Hong Kong
Andy Kirkpatrick Griffith University
Leo Ou-fan Lee The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Lo Kwai Cheung Hong Kong Baptist University
Lui Tai Lok The Education University of Hong Kong
Eva Man Kit Wah Hong Kong Baptist University
Gina Marchetti The University of Hong Kong
Stephen Matthews The University of Hong Kong
Timothy O’Leary The University of Hong Kong
Pang Laikwan The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jason S Polley Hong Kong Baptist University
Douglas Robinson Hong Kong Baptist University
Steve Tsang School of Oriental and African Studies
Jessica Yeung Hong Kong Baptist University
Audrey Yue The University of Melbourne