Webinar: Ganster/Noir Film

Date: Friday, 17 December 2021Time: 9:00 - 11:30 pm (GMT +8) Hsien-hao Liao｜ChairJason McGrath｜Daughter of the Nile (1987): Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Dark Pop ExperimentEarl Jackson｜Monga (2010): Affect and StructureDarrell Davis｜True Emotion Behind the Wall (2017): Taste of Salty ChickenCarlos Rojas｜The Great Buddha+ (2017): Tracing the Limits of the Visible This Webinar is held as part of …

Qiu Miaojin: Textuality, Visuality, and Desire in Global Circulation

Saturday, 4 December 2021, 9:00am to 5:30pm (Hong Kong time), on Zoom Qiu Miaojin: Textuality, Visuality, and Desire in Global Circulation This conference engages with the literary works of Qiu Miaojin, a famous lesbian and queer writer of Taiwan whose premature death in 1995 marks a watershed moment in queer and literary discourses both in …

“Mao’s Children are Wearing Fashion!”: Romantic Love, Fashion Consumption, and the Politics of Socialist Modernization in Huang Zumo’s Film “Romance on Lu Mountain” (1980)

Speaker: Calvin HuiModerator: Alvin K. Wong Date: Wednesday, 1 December 2021Time: 5:00 pm (HKT) on Zoom In this talk, I engage with Huang Zumo’s (黃祖模) film Romance on Lu Mountain (廬山戀) (1980) to explore the consumption of romantic love (including the first representation of a kiss in the People’s Republic of China cinema), fashionable clothes, and petty …