【by Kwai-Cheung Lo, Dec. 2021】 Wild pigs have recently opened up a new site of contest/controversy between the Hong Kong government and the civil society. The Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation D …
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【by Fiona Ng, Dec. 2021】 I stopped watching the news a year ago. The protests were dying out. The National Security Law was in effect. Covid was in full throttle. The city felt pummeled. I didn’…
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【by B. Freudenberg, Dec. 2021】 Regarding the German reunification and the fall of the Berlin wall, Willy Brandt famously remarked: “Now grows together, what belongs together” (Jetzt wächst…
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【by Fiona LAW, Dec. 2021】 Two characters are having a brief conversation in Wong Kar-wai’s Ashes of Time. When Huang Yaoshi (acted by Tong Leung Ka-fai) asks if he can offer the blind swordsman …
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【by Cho-kiu LI, Dec. 2021】The song Don’t find what you dropped (跌嘢唔好搵) has been trending on YouTube in Hong Kong over the past two months by the end of 2021. The music video was …
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[Hong Kong topic 2021]
Thinking with Lauren Berlant in Hong Kong: Affect, Race, and Queer Visuality | Alvin K. Wong
【by Alvin K. Wong, Dec. 2021】 In June 2021, the well-known theorist of affect and sentimentality Lauren Berlant passed away. While Berlant’s work has been central to the formation of queer theory and …
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[Hong Kong topic 2021]
Cosmopolis and its (W)hole: The End of Neoliberal Capitalism in Post-2020 Hong Kong? | Man-tat Terence Leung
【by Man-tat Terence Leung, Dec. 2021】 The trenchant implementation of the National Security Law (NSL) in Hong Kong during the summer of 2020 has probably taken almost every person from both the local …
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[Hong Kong topic 2021]
Between Affective Attachment and Effective Detachment: Seeking Resonances in Hong Kong in Times of Crisis | Helena Wu
【by Helena Wu, Dec. 2021】When did “Hong Kong” begin? The Hong Kong Museum of History dedicated the Devonian age, around 400 million years ago, as the starting point of its permanent collection …