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Cat Links 2024 Blog, Final Video Essay

[Field-Homework 3] Vibrant City: Smithfield Market, Kennedy Town

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Zhang Yifan 3036127385 1. If I were to use one word to describe Hong Kong, I would choose vibrant and energetic. The prosperity of a city is, in some cases, precisely reflected in whether or not the city is vibrant and energetic and whether or not it has a fireworks atmosphere. The Smithfield Market can precisely reflect this. Our story begins in the early morning, when the city wakes up, there’s also a building that wakes up along with the residents, whose name is Smithfield Market. At this time of day, the market looks like something new and freshly built,

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Cat Links 2024 Blog

[READING RESPONSE 2] L7 Oh No, There Goes Tokyo

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“What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger.”——Friedrich Nietzsche Since World War II, Tokyo seems to be more often depicted as the object of destruction, which may related to Tokyo’s historical disaster experience, reflecting Japan’s postwar society’s trauma and uneasy emotions about war and nuclear weapons. Japanese films and movies reflect the state of mind of the Japanese people to a certain extent – a contradictory state of mind that combines pessimism and optimism. On the one hand, the scars that the war has burned on them and the horror and darkness of the movie image can be seen as a

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Cat Links 2024 Blog, Lecture 6: Housing Stories

Reflection of Lecture 6: Moving House

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There are many people in a traditional family for many generations especially in the countryside of China, meaning that a person may have a lot of siblings as well as many relatives. And it is also a tradition for the whole family to worship their ancestors together. They also pay attention to the feng shui of the place and the metaphorical meaning behind something or somewhere. I think even today with the rapid development of technology which may bring a result of the disappearance of such a culture or the physical place where the tradition of the culture happens, we

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Cat Links Workshop 2: Dreamland Film Screening + Director's Chat

Workshop2 Exercise

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When I saw the title, I immediately thought of the movie – The Shawshank Redemption. The scene where the main character finally breaks out of prison and stands in the rain matches the pouring rain scene described in that text. Four hours earlier, he had just accomplished the most important event in his life; he had regained his freedom. Compared to freedom, the rain is more like it is falling for him, and this rain is nothing to him anymore.

Cat Links 2024 Blog, Fieldwork

[Fieldwork Report] Zhang Yifan & Chen Xingcheng

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    In this video, we will introduce the Sam Yee Kwan Shrine by giving the basic information of it, explaning the reason of why it is fading away, demonstrating its past and present,  showing the impacts brought by its disapperance, and also giving out the measures which has been taken so far. Now please enjoy our video. F：Tucked away in the hustle and bustle of Hong Kong’s urban jungle in Central is an unassuming historical treasure – the Sam Yee Kwan Shrine to the God of the Land. This ancient temple at the end of a lane in Wo

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Cat Links Lecture 3 Filming the Asian City

[READING RESPONSE] Leung Ping-kwan: Urban Cinema and the Cutural identity of Hong Kong

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“Urban Cinema and the Cutural identity of Hong Kong” written by Leung Ping-kwan, which related to movies and the city of Hong Kong, is talking about the changes inside the city from the 1950s to the 1990s. Among these changes, some of them are concrete in terms of the city’s architectural and physical form represented in spatial form, others are abstract and intangible in terms of the complexity of culture, citizens’ ideologies, and the status of women. Therefore, we can obviously tell their mutual intention, which is to discuss the history, or we say, the process of the transformation inside

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