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

The whole article revolves around the coexistence of cities, people and ghosts in Asian films. The author mainly describes three typical Asian haunted films, “Living with Ghosts”, which is set in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan, and primarily describes the grave culture under the influence of traditional Chinese thought, “Loneliness and Isolation”, which is set in Japan and Korea, and “Ghost of a Dream”, which is set in Bangkok. “Living with Ghosts” mainly depicts the conflict between the traditional Chinese culture of graves and the limited space of reality; “Loneliness and Isolation” describes the coexistence of ghosts and humans caused

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[Mood Board]: Vanishing City – Traditional Written Board

  As I walked through the ManWah building area, the handwritten traditional sign with white as the base colour and bright red handwriting caught my attention. As a mainlander studying in Hong Kong, I browsed through travel guides about Hong Kong, and many tourists would use such signboards as a travel postcard of Hong Kong and its famous street scenes. However, with the development of technology, fewer and fewer shops choose to use such signboards, and there are more newer types of signboards that are so simple that they only have the name of the shop.

In-class exercise-Moving house

Rapid development in modern city where is destiny populated like Singapore requires some traditional heritages make way for it, even for the grave culture, which is widely respected among Chinese people, is affected. Generations in different age groups cannot fully understand the meaning of those traditions while among traditional Chinese culture, grave moving is very rare and has special meaning.

[Fieldwork Report] Shen Leyan & Hu Dayu

Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHQHqQopvuk Transcript: S: There exists a special and traditional type of signboards for stores in Hong Kong. They generally use a combination of bright colors and white, like a white background with red lettering. It used to be widely used in Hong Kong, but it is gradually vanishing these days and would only appear in some old districts, like the Man Wah Sun Chuen. Do you notice this? H: I do also notice that there are fewer and fewer such written billboards on the streets, but why is that?  S:Because this site itself, along with its traditional features,

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[Reading Response] Noirs: The City, the Woman and Other Spaces

The most impressive prospective for me about this article was the discussion of distinctive style of female characters in films set in the social context of Hong Kong during the 1960s. One shocking fact mentioned is that as early as 1962, influenced by James Bond, the Hong Kong noir thriller was already dominated by female protagonists, far before the emergence of similar films in Hollywood, USA. It has been my belief that such topics as female character dominance related to gender equality or affirmative action in films first appeared in the western film world led by Europe and the United

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