[Hong Kong topic 2023]

【by Sampson Wong, June 2023】 Before covid-19 hits the city, Hong Kong was undergoing a transformative 6-month period in which each spatiotemporal-specific encounter with the urban landscape, architect …

【by TSANG Chung Kin, June 2023】 Introduction In recent years, crises and social immobility have increasingly become “the permanent state of exception” (Hage, 2009) that pervades our daily …

【by Shan Huang, June 2023】 In March 2006, 35 tall trees were to be cut down at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. A seemingly uneventful move to make space for the larger campus renovation project, …

【by Vennes Cheng, June 2023】 Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) claimed Art is the Highest Form of Hope in his exhibition catalogue for documenta 7 in 1982; the German artist grew up under the shadow of Nazism …

【by Kin-Long Tong, June 2023】 Throughout the last century, from the inception of the May Fourth Movement in 1919 to the Anti-Extradition protests in Hong Kong in 2019, student and youth groups have co …

【by Pamela P. Tsui, June 2023】 On July 1, 2022, hundreds of overseas Hong Kongers assembled in downtown Tkaronto (“Toronto”) to continue the tradition of Hong Kong’s July 1 marches. As the crowd reach …

【by FUNG Wan Yin Kimberly, June 2023】 Matsuki Village was demolished in 1902 and became a deserted land due to damage caused by the sulfurous acid gases emitted from the refining process of sulfurous …