Description
【History Salon】 Metropolitan and Gongwu (river and lake): Cultural Space in Postwar Hong KongDate: 15 Feb 2024
Time: 2:30 – 4:30pm (UKT)
Venue: Research Space (1.H020), Arts Complex, University of Bristol
Language: Cantonese
----
Additional Information:
- In-person only.
----
Jing Yong (Louis Cha, 1924-2018) and Liu Yichang (1918-2018) are renowned for their novels, which influenced the Sinophone world of literature and cinema. Equally remarkable was the two novelists’ simultaneous contribution to journalism in the early postwar period. Cha founded the pivotal newspaper Ming Pao Daily in 1953, which served as his ideological battlefield where he engaged in years of ‘pen-fights’ with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Liu, editor-in-chief of supplements such as the Hong Kong Times: Repulse Bay and the Sing Tao Daily: City Hall in the 1950s, instrumentalized these supplements to project the metropolitan image of the liberal colony of Hong Kong in contrast to what was perceived as the economically backward mainland of China. In the talk, Kam explores such fascinating cultural spaces that were created and accommodated in the postwar Hong Kong.
----
Liza Wing Man Kam, Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies (Chinese Studies), University of Vienna.
Kam’s research interests include Hong Kong and Taiwan’s colonial architecture and the transmutation in their particular postcolonial settings, postwar cultural and urban spaces, and culinary cultures. She conducted her PhD research at the Bauhaus in Germany and have been teaching and researching in Germany, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the US and Japan.
| Period | 15 Feb 2025 |
|---|---|
| Held at | Department of History (Historical Studies) |
Related content
-
Projects
-
Hong Kong History Centre 香港史研究中心
Project: Research