In Cheng’s passage “In Search of the Ghostly Context”, Cheng mentions the state of “homelessness” in different historical, social, and cinematic context to elaborate on characteristics of Hong Kong’s urban space and public housing. A notable feature in these contexts is the various depictions of Hong Kong’s housing estates. As the living space for most lower-middle-class Hong Kong inhabitants, public housing estates act as primary stage to convey ordinary working-class people’s livings and their socially marginalized life experience. Some productions entitle these housing estates with negative connotations such as entrapment and imprisonment from narrow walls and corridors. Though the housing

Continue reading[READING RESPONSE] Esther M. K. Cheung

In this reading, the author discussed different aspect of why public housing estate become a ghostly place under Director Fruit Chan. For me, a student from mainland China, it is hard to imagine that how a global economical center will be have some places that appears to be ghostly at the beginning. However, as I investigate further into public housing condition through web searching and watching segments from Chan’s film. I realized that how large the difference is between through grandiose infrastructures such as high speed railway station or K11 Musa that represent Hong Kong and    estates for public

Continue readingReading Response: Esther M. K. Cheung