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[Field-Homework 3] Demolishing City: The Neon Lights

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Video Link: https://youtu.be/KmWV_6jI8HA?si=tGELkE01cvqcp-IX Director: Wang Qinghui -3036265242 Introduction The radiant glow of streaming neon lights, alongside the colossal, illuminated billboards, combined with the intricate blend of scents, visuals, and sensations, characterize a distinctive form of disorder. These components delineated the emergence of Hong Kong onto the global platform during the latter part of the 20th century, concurrently fostering the inception of a novel genre – Cyberpunk. The essence of cyberpunk primarily envisions a futuristic setting, characterized by the fusion of rudimentary lifestyles with cutting-edge technology, featuring advanced scientific advancements juxtaposed with a certain level of societal disintegration. Although cyberpunk initially

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Cat Links Lecture 6: Housing Stories

[Reading Response] Communal After-Living: Asian Ghosts and the City- Wang Qinghui, Charlotte

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This article provides an in-depth discussion of different themes in Asian horror cinema, and the films represent different socio-cultural contexts and urban culture and economy. Asian ghost narratives are concerned with depicting the complex relationship between the living and the dead. This has largely characterized the production of ghost films in Hong Kong and Taiwan, places that are culturally part of China and escaped CCP repression. The dark side of Hong Kong’s financial prosperity is often revealed in those films set in the city, and their view of Hong Kong is generally one of too many people and too little

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