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Cat Links 2024 Blog, Final Video Essay

[Field-Homework 3] Leisure City: Rest Gardens, Shanghai Street

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  Hong Kong, a bustling metropolis known for its dense urban environment, has carved out spaces of tranquility known as rest gardens. These rest gardens, small public parks scattered throughout the city, offer residents and visitors a respite from the urban chaos. The rest gardens of Hong Kong are more than just green spaces, they are architectural achievements that enhance urban life through thoughtful design. By addressing spatial constraints, integrating cultural elements, and prioritizing sustainability, these gardens offer a vital connection to nature in the heart of the city.   Focusing on Shanghai Street, which located in the bustling district

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Cat Links 2024 Blog, Lecture 6: Housing Stories

[Reading Response 2] Communal After-Living: Asian Ghosts and the City

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The passage analyzed three types of Asian urban horror movies, which are associated with the social-culture contexts and economic background. The first type is mainly produced in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan, which has a complex relationship between the living and the dead, including ghosts fall in love with humans, revealing secrets, punish wrongdoers and so on. While the second type is about the loneliness and isolation of both ghosts and humans, mainly produced in Japan and South Korea. The reason behind it is the transformation and redevelopment towards neoliberal urban leads to the disconnection and isolation among people. The

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Cat Links 2024 Blog, Fieldwork

[Fieldwork Report] Linyong Xia & Chang Liu

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  Linyong Xia (3035951923) Chang Liu (3035952197)   Linyong: In early February, we had a field trip on Shanghai Street, that’s really a historical road that even brought me back to the old time Hong Kong.   Chang: Yes, Shanghai Street is a famous historical street in Hong Kong. At the end of the 19th century, Hong Kong as a flourishing port city attracted many merchants from all over the world, and Shanghai Street became one of the earliest commercial centers in Hong Kong. Have you noticed that the buildings on Shanghai Street are quite aged?   Linyong: Yes, this

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Cat Links 2024 Blog, Lecture 4: Everyday Spaces as Narrative

[Reading Response] ‘Cuts through Hong Kong’ by Eunice Seng

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Seng’s ‘Cuts Through Hong Kong’ fully situates In the Mood for Love in its historical context, revealing it as an embodiment for the conflicting and transient identities of Hong Kong’s migrants in the 1960s. This is achieved through an insightful and coherent analysis of the film’s story, built environment and cinematic style. The film’s story revolves around the intimate and ambiguous relationship between two Shanghai immigrants – Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen, neighbours in the same apartment complex. Though both were married, their partners never appeared in the scene. A prevailing sense of absence is felt through Chow and Su’s

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