Backreading Hong Kong Symposium 2024: Diaspora and Adaptation

Backreading Hong Kong Symposium 2024: Diaspora and Adaptation

The symposium is open to the public. Please email chk.library@utoronto.ca to register.

November 18, 2024 (Monday)

10:20–10:30 | Welcoming Address

Maria Lau (Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, University of Toronto)

Chris Song (University of Toronto)

 

10:30–12:00 | Keynote

Moderator: Chris Song (University of Toronto)

 

Hong Kong Diasporic Writing’s Real and Hallucinated Geographies

Tammy Lai-Ming Ho (Cha | Saarland University)

 

2:00–3:00 | Diaspora and the Arts 

Moderator: Wayne C.F. Yeung (University of Denver)

 

Tiffany Sia’s Wet Ontology: Of Dampness, Tears, and Liquidity

Abel Song Han (Cornell University)

 

Dragon Boys and the Tail of “Hongcouver”: Tracing Hong Kong-Canada Migration, Community Connection and Cultural Co-production 

Winnie Yanjing Wu (Hong Kong Metropolitan University) 

 

3:30–5:30 | Graduate Students Colloquium

 

3:30–4:30 | First Half

Discussion: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho (Cha | Saarland University) 

 

Protean Temporality in a Hong Kong Science Fiction Adaptation: From Ni Kuang’s 1000 Years Cat to Massified Slime Peril

Tif Fan (University of Toronto)

 

The Complexities of Adaptation: A Study on Christ of Nanjing

Allison Feng (University of Toronto)

 

Celluloid Spectres in Rouge: Adapting Cinematic Haunting, from Lilian Lee’s Phantom Stardom to Stanley Kwan’s Theatrical Ghosts

Wenying Wu (University of Toronto)

 

4:30–5:30 | Second Half

Discussion: Cameron L. White (University of Michigan)

 

Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon: Historical Texts, Transcultural Games Content and Exotic Spaces

Guanxi Wu (University of Toronto)

 

Identity, Technology, Imagination: Revisiting Tsui Hark’s Multigenre Animated film, A Chinese Ghost Story

Tingying Li (University of Toronto)

 

The Ashes of Jianghu: Reimagining Jin Yong’s Legend of the Condor Heroes in Wong Kar-Wai’s The Ashes of Time

Samuel Minden (University of Toronto)

 

November 19, 2024 (Tuesday)

10:00–12:00 | Identity and Diaspora

Moderator: Mitchell Ma (University of Toronto)

 

Cultural Retention and Identity Negotiation through Systematic Cantonese Language

Education in the Diasporas

Zoe Lam and Raymond Pai (University of British Columbia)

 

Here/ There and No-where: Three Cases of Identity Disjuncture

Ellie Au (Kwantlen Polytechnic University), Rick Sin (York University), and Miu Chung Yan (University of British Columbia)

 

Estrangement, Resettlement & Community: A Qualitative Study of Post-2019 Hong Kong Young

Adults Diaspora at a Chinese Canadian Church

Christie Chan (Independent scholar)

 

From Democracy Wall to Lennon Wall: A Global Symbol of Resistance in the Hong Kong Diaspora

Derek Liu (Toronto Metropolitan University)

 

2:00–3:30 | Film Adaptation

Moderator: Bernice Cheung (University of Toronto)

 

Hear What We Saw, Feel What We Sing: Lyrical Explorations of Hong Kong Cinema in The State and Denki 皇都電姬

Cameron L. White (University of Michigan)

 

Illicit Love and Spaces of Adaptation in Comrades: Almost a Love Story and In the Mood for Love

Chak-kwan Ng (Hong Kong Metropolitan University)

 

The Precarious Diaspora: From Song of the Exile to Fly Me to the Moon

Hong Zou (University of Hong Kong)

 

4:00–5:30 | Diaspora in and out 

Moderator: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho (Saarland University)

 

Nativity Without Nativism: Towards a Discourse on Hong Kong’s Imagined Indigeneity (1980s-2010s) 

Wayne C.F. Yeung (University of Denver)

 

Being Otherwise: Diasporic Figurations of Hong Kong in Xu Xi’s This Fish is Fowl

Christopher N. Payne (University of Toronto)

 

Joy is Here: Romancing the “New” Overseas Filipino Worker in Hello, Love, Goodbye (2019)

Miguel Antonio N. Lizada (The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong)

 

Organizers:

Department of Language Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough

Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, University of Toronto

Cha: An Asian Literary Journal

Support provided by the Jackman Humanities Institute Working Group on Hong Kong-Canada Connections at the University of Toronto