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Exploring and trekking
Hong Kong historic cinema districts
Supported by the Innovation and Impact Fund initiated by Lingnan’s Office of Research and Knowledge Transfer, the Centre for Film and Creative Industries led by Prof Emilie Yueh Yu YEH presents the findings of the research project “Screen Practices in Colonial Hong Kong” to the public interested in the history of Hong Kong or Hong Kong films, through interactive guided walking tours to Central, the historic cinema district in Hong Kong. Secondary and tertiary school teachers and students are especially welcome.
Soundtrack to Asia’s quest for
self-determination and modernity
Having studied the relationship between
Indian music and modern Indian
society, Prof Tejaswini NIRANJANA,
Department of Cultural Studies, has
been testing whether some of the same
propositions hold true in mainland China
and Hong Kong. She has, however, been
taking a different and creative approach in this
instance by working with musicians in a practice experiment.
In her book, Musicophilia in Mumbai published in February 2020, Prof Niranjana traces the role of Hindustani classical music as the city evolved after the end of British colonial rule. The research question she focused on is why, when Indians were becoming part of the modern world and creating their own modernity, did they continue to be obsessed with this, so-called, “old time” music? In the book, she doesn’t examine the form of the music but instead explores a larger cultural/social/political issue through a cultural phenomenon that’s become so dominant in that space.
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