In Loving Memory
Abstract When a technocratic and developmentalist government decided to tear down two historic piers in Hong Kong in 2006-2007, among other reactions, it spurred the production of a new type of poetry inscribed in the urban space. Poems by Uncle Hung and Liu Wai-tong define an oppositional poetics, predicated on a new awareness and willingness to act. Often recited or […]
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Abstract: Eileen Chang’s fiction and essays show us an intricate relationship between the quotidian, gender and literary imagination. Similar to what Walter Benjamin calls “profane illumination,” her literary inspirations are drawn from the materialistic and anthropological dimensions in the mundane realm of everyday life. On the one hand, her feminine writings about clothing display Shanghai as a phantasmagoria in the […]
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時間，可以是客觀標準，像牆上的日曆，日後一日，不回頭以線性往前走。也可以是感性的、詩想的，一直迴環往復。舊時代走到盡頭，孕育新的紀元；新時代的帷幕已被掀起，但是舊世界的痕跡沒法抹去。梁秉鈞，筆名也斯，生於斯長於斯的香港作家，1992年出版中英對照詩集《形象香港》，英文書名City at the End of Time，集內詩作，含蓄暗示時代的過渡漫無邊際，各個時期無法逐一劃分清楚。[…]
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Calendar time advances in a linear, progressive manner, whereas poetic time moves in somewhat circular patterns. An ending spawns another beginning. An old epoch comes to an end but that old epoch has not ceased to exist. A new era has begun but the new is still struggling to forget the old. In naming his volume of poetry City at […]
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Hong Kong author Xi Xi began writing in the 1960s. A prolific writer, she has produced poetry and prose ranging from short stories, novels, screenplays, and translations, to literary, film and art criticism and covering a wide variety of settings and themes. Included in her work are aspects of modern city life, identity, gender, illness, re-interpretations of historical and classical […]
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Hong Kong literary critic Wong Wai-leung claims that Hong Kong literature integrated with modern Chinese literature during World War II, when Hong Kong became the stopover for refugee writers from the mainland. It is true that for a few decades Hong Kong literature was mainly produced by writers either passing through or residing temporarily in Hong Kong. However, this mainland-based […]
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Abstract: This paper examines the formation of modernity in three colonialist epics of Hong Kong and the recent historical and fictional works that aim to rewrite the history of the ‘local’. Adopting a challenge-response structure, the paper argues that the colonialist epics construct a monolithic discourse of modernity-as-progress via the amnesia of conflicts, tensions, and processes of domination and negotiation […]
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【節錄】自從香港開埠迄今，中港邊界人口的不斷遷移構成一幕幕流動的景象。尤其在動盪不安的歲月中，中、港、台三地的人民不斷往還來回，或移居海外。除此之外，香港既是國際城市，各種經濟、貿易、學術、政治等原因促成的人口、資金、思想、媒介等文化「景觀」（landscape）更使香港成為一個恆常流動的空間。遷徙的經驗因而成了大部份居港或旅港人士的實際生活體驗。當中更有不少人在流亡或逃難的生涯中，在變遷的歷史中，建構跨越邊界的文化（家國）想像，思考及追問國族認同的意義。[…]
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