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[Field-Homework 3] Disappearing city: Hawker Stalls, Bowring Street, Jordan

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Video Essay:   Disappearing city: Hawker Stalls, Bowring Street, Jordan Introduction As the birthplace of many well-known film and television productions, Hong Kong’s distinctive urban culture and architecture have always been the object of hot discussion. Among all the important factors, one of my favorites is those Hawker Stalls along the street that appear in many Hong Kong movies. With the change in consumers’ habits and the stricter rules, nowadays many street vendors are disappearing, however, I believe that Hawker Stalls have their values and should be persevered. The following essay will explain my video setting at Bowring Street, a

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[Reading response 2] Communal After-Living: Asian Ghosts and the City-Katarzyna Ancuta

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The text gives opinions on the relationship among humans, ghosts, and the city, while the author mainly focuses on Asian regions. When talking about ghosts and their spaces, haunted apartments and haunted houses were mentioned as two different concepts, while haunted houses can be clearly recognized as scary places, but a haunted apartment often looks common and could be hidden in the city. Also, haunted apartments are used more frequently in Asian horror films. Then the text brought us to the discussion on ghosts and “living ghosts”. According to Katarzyna Ancuta, the ghosts are the by-product of the city’s capitalism,

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Reflection

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In the part “Singapore’s modern living”, the lens of the white buildings give me a feeling of quite organized but a little repression, I don’t know whether it’s because of the white color or the U shape layout of the buildings. And then when it comes to the lens of niches, I got goose bumps as I found it corresponding to the living house previously, both white and well arranged . Liu Zihan 3036263373  

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[Field Trip Report]

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Podcast link: Team member: Liu Zihan Leung Nim Yan Transcript and stills: Liu: What is the space/place/artefact/building that is vanishing? Liang: We have chosen Bowring Street as our filming location for the Field Work and the Visual essay. Bowring Street locates in Jordan, where next to the Shanghai Street. This area contains lots of old and traditional buildings, which has become one of the symbols of the Hong Kong Street Culture. The reason of choosing the Bowring Street, especially the local market is the street is regarded as an indivisible part of the local’s life. Comparing to the Mong Kok

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[Reading response] Urban Cinema and the Cultural Identity of Hong Kong by Leung Ping-kwan

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The author discussed the development of city and cinema from 1930s to 1990s in Hong Kong and holds the opinion that the culture of Hong Kong is very complex so it couldn’t be simply defined as “Western” or “Chinese”. What impressed me here is the work of architecture in shaping a character or even a city in the film. Although the artistic works have different focus during distinct time periods, I found what is unchanged is the exploration of urban space, and it seems architecture plays a larger role in it than I thought before. In the films mentioned in

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