Autumn 2002
Instructor: Mr IP Iam Chong
E-mail: [email protected] / [email protected]
URL: http://www.geocities.com/hegelchong/teaching_material/
Lecture: GEG02 Time:
Mon 12:30-14:20 Tutorials:
5 groups
Course
Description
This course discusses about different
modes of narrating “Hong Kong” rather than represents Hong Kong as a fixed
identity or culture. It encourages
students to strengthen their sensitivity to the intentions, dispositions and
politics behind a wide variety of narratives about Hong Kong and compare them
with one’s own experience, family history and imagination about Hong Kong. At the very beginning of this course,
students will learn to write about their family histories and stories. Then we will look at a wide range of
texts about Hong Kong, including historical works, theories about Hong Kong
identity, popular culture, cultural critique and urban studies. Students will explore the differences
among these different narratives and further reflect upon their own
representation of “Hong Kong” and themselves.
Requirement
and Assessmeent
1. Participation in tutorial discussion (20%; each student is
expected to frequently express her/ his viewpoints and make brief presentation
of the assigned readings)
2. Written assignment I : writing family history (20%; about
1,500 words)
3. Written assignment II: analyzing the relations between
his/her stories and some cultural texts, including soap opera, movie, novel,
drama, etc.(30%; about 4,000 words; submit outline[Nov 18]; deadline [Dec 9])
4. Final examination (short questions) (30%)
Syllabus
Part
I: Writing about Hong Kong (Sept 9, Sept 16)
The students start to gain the basic
ability to conduct oral history of their own life-course and family. Some simple techniques and case studies
are introduced. They begin to
prepare their oral history group projects.
Readings:
Ritchie, Donald A. 1995. Doing Oral History. NY: Twayne
Publishers.
Perks, Robert and Alistair Thomson
eds.1998. The Oral History Reader.
London: Routledge.
Part
II: Historicizing Hong Kong (Sept 23; Sept 30)
We will discuss some recent historical works about Hong Kong and their
problematics. The discussion
focuses on the selections and interpretations of events in different versions
of Hong Kong histories. The issues
of nationalism and localism are the main theme of this part.
Readings
中國國際電視1999《香港滄桑》北京：中國國際電視。（videorecording）
蔡榮芳2001《香港人之香港史, 1841-1945》香港：牛津大學出版社。
Tsai, Jung-Fang. 1993. Hong Kong in Chinese History: Community and
Social Unrest in the British Colony, 1842-1913. NY: Columbia University
Press.
王宏志2000《歷史的沉重：從香港看中國大陸的香港史論述》香港：牛津大學出版社。
王宏志、李小良、陳清僑1997《否想香港：歷史、文化、未來》台北：麥田。
Part
III: Theorizing Hong Kong (Oct 7)
Recently, some scholars start to
theorize “Hong Kong culture” and “Hong Kong identity” with cultural and
literature theories. The
theoretical articulations of Rey Chow and Abbas deserve our examinations and
explorations.
Readings
Abbas, M. A. 1997. Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance. Hong Kong:
Hong Kong University Press.
Chow, Rey. 1993. Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural
Studies. Bloomington: Indiana UP.
Part
IV: Popularizing Hong Kong (Oct 21; 28)
Hong Kong is always characterized by
its flourishing cultural industries.
Popular cultures become the most important texts for people’s everyday
life and imagination. This part
explores the narrative structures of some recent films and novels about Hong
Kong.
Films
《花樣年華》（2001王家衛）；《細路祥》（2000陳果）；《香港製造》（2000陳果）
Novels
西西1999《我城》台北：洪範。
Readings
Turner, Matthew 1988. Made in Hong Kong: a History of Export
Design in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Urban Council.
Chu, Blanche. 1998. “The Ambivalence of
History—Nostalgia Films Understood in the Post-Colonial Context.” Hong Kong Cultural Studies Bulletin
8-9(Spring/ Summer): 41-54.
陳清僑編1997《情感的實踐：香港流行歌詞研究》香港：牛津大學出版社。
Part
V: Criticizing Hong Kong (Nov 4)
Since the 1970s, due to the influences
of the western radical theories and cultural studies, more and more people,
with different intentions and projects, work as cultural critics of the
so-called “Hong Kong culture”.
Their debates are relevant to the self-understanding of Hong Kong’s
intellectuals and cultural workers.
Readings:
馮仁釗1996＜普及文化的花果之間＞《癲狗日報》A3, 25/5（後收錄於《文化再拉扯》214-226）。
梁款1996＜與狗共舞──回應馮仁釗＞《信報》第12版，17/6（後收錄於《文化再拉扯》227-230）。
陳清僑1997《文化想像與意識形態：當代香港文化政治論評》香港：牛津大學出版社。
Part
VI: Feminizing Hong Kong (Nov 11)
“Woman”, a category often excluded from
the mainstream discourses, becomes a critical and popular issue and subject of
the cultural texts about Hong Kong in these few years. The representation of women is a key
issue for talking about this city.
Readings
新婦女協進會編 1998《又喊又笑：阿婆口述歷史》香港：新婦女協進會。
尖叫1999《我們的眼鏡在飛揚》香港：進一步出版社。
Ku, Lisbeth. 1998. “Mass-Mediated
Images of Women: Connie Chan Po-chu and Josephine Siao Fong-fong as Desired
Cultural Images.” Hong Kong Cultural
Studies Bulletin 8-9(Spring/ Summer): 31-40.
Salaff, Janet W. 1981. Working Daughters of Hong Kong: Filial Piety
or Power in the Family? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Part
VII: Sexualizing Hong Kong (Nov 18)
“Sex” is a contemporary issue for the
global cities. In Hong Kong, more
and more cultural texts cover the stories of sex industries, sex worker, sexualities,
etc.. This provides us some new
perspectives for understanding local cultures and society.
《榴槤飄飄》（陳果）；《女人那話兒》（黃真真）
陳寶瓊、陳惠芳、黎佩兒1999《性是牛油和麵包》香港：進一步。
《女人那話兒》（黃真真）
Part
VIII: Spatializing Hong Kong (Nov 25)
Hong Kong’s rapid spatial restructuring
brings us a wide variety of urban experiences. The urban space as a new issue
becomes articulated into the discussion about Hong Kong’s culture identity and
imagination.
Readings
Siu, Michael. 1997. “Escalators in Hong
Kong: Urban Life without Freedom, Experience and Diversity.” Hong Kong Cultural
Studies Bulletin 7 (Spring): 37-47.
Cheung Siu-Keung 1997. “Speaking Out: A
Day in the Life of Three Cage Dwellers.” Hong Kong Cultural Studies Bulletin 7
(Spring): 48-60.
郭恩慈1998《香港空間製造》香港：Crabs Company Ltd.
梁寶山2001＜尋找香港的公共空間──願國殤之柱與回歸寶鼎共存＞《從過渡跨越千禧：七人視藝評論自選文集》香港：香港藝術中心，167-169。
祈大衛2001＜記憶與遺忘：回歸期間香港藝術以及公共空間的種種＞《從過渡跨越千禧：七人視藝評論自選文集》香港：香港藝術中心，124-127。
Part IX: Cultural studies: a contested
terrain for narrating Hong Kong (Dec 2)
Cultural studies is a discipline providing alternative readings and
narratives. The part focuses on
the uses of cultural studies in public discussion, education and other cultural
struggles.
Giroux, Henry A. 1997. “Disturbing the Peace: Writing in the Cultural
Studies Classroom.” Pedagogy and the
Politics of Hope: Theory, Culture,
and Schooling. Boulder: Westview Press, 164-179.
Morris, Meaghan. 1988. “Banality in Cultural Studies.” Discourse 10(2): 3-29.