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Cat Links 2024 Blog, Final Video Essay

[Field-Homework 3] Electrified City: EVs Reshaping Automobile Repair

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Cui Yuxiang 3036218184 YouTube: https://youtu.be/b2StRIw5kL0   Introduction One-third of the car sales in China in 2022 were electric cars. BMW announced that it will achieve 50% electric vehicles in 2030, and Mercedes-Benz declared that it will achieve its goal of becoming an electric vehicle-only brand by 2030. Therefore, it is predictable that there will be more and more electric cars in the future, and traditional engine cars will disappear.    The rapid rise of electric cars has significantly reduced the number of traditional car repair shops in Hong Kong. For the automotive aftermarket, electric vehicles will affect the spare parts

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Cat Links 2024 Blog, Lecture 6: Housing Stories

[Reading Response 2] In Search of the Ghostly in context — Cui Yuxiang

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In Fruit Chan’s film, defamiliarization is achieved by the cinematic representation of well-known urban spaces in Hong Kong, such as low-cost public housing estates and old neighborhoods. By utilizing light, warped space, shadows, twisty images…… Chan renders these familiar spaces mysterious and ghostly. Thereby challenging the audience’s perception of the city. From my perspective, there are two reasons: 1. Ghosts represent the feeling of anxiety, disorientation, and uncertainty when Hong Kong was handed over from the British in 1997. For example, the young girl Susan(Fig.1) in <Made in Hong Kong> or the dying grandmother(Fig.2) in 《Little Cheung》,  they are actually

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[FIELDWORK REPORT] Cui Yuxiang & Shangguan Sanbao

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Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/Cm-Q1OG5ApI Cui Yuxiang 3036218184 Shangguan Sanbao 3036128145 Transcript(774): Introduction The movie Breaking News provides us with a glimpse of Man Wah Building in the early 21st century. However, as time changes, the grand constructions become outdated, together with an old-fashioned game center that we found inside the building group. With no customers inside, it is predictable that the game center might be replaced in about ten years. Q: Why is it vanishing? How do we know that it will no longer exist in the near future? A: With the advancement of technologies, the mode of games has shifted

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Cat Links 2024 Blog, Lecture 2: Filming the Asian City

[Reading Response]: The Urban Milieu of Shanghai Cinema

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This reading response is regarding the connection between film and culture, film lifestyle, and differences between Chinese and Hollywood films. Firstly, film and city culture are interconnected. Shanghai film (e.g. The Bund (2010)) depicts Bund’s prosperity, consisting of British colonial buildings, foreign concessions, modern hotels…… Gradually, the bund becomes the cultural symbol of Shanghai, it symbolizes the flourishing, highly developing and history of Shanghai. As a Shanghai people, I can observe that until this age, the bund has always been one of the must-see sites for tourists. Therefore, cultures can be disseminated through films. Fig.1 Shanghai Bund(source: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%96%E6%BB%A9#/media/File:Shanghai_1928_Bund_Cenotaph.jpeg) Secondly, the

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