Teaching Chinese language in Putonghua of a primary three class in Hong Kong : a case study = Xianggang xiao xue san nian ji yi Pu tong hua jiao shou zhong wen de ge an yan jiu

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wing Cheung
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Teaching Chinese

Desiring Queer, Negotiating Normal

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Cheuk Yin Li
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Correct Representation ◽  
Sexual Cultures

This chapter explores the entanglement between queer desires and struggles with normativities in fandoms through the case study of Denise Ho (a.k.a. HOCC) in Hong Kong. HOCC is one of the few celebrities in the Chinese-language entertainment industry to have come out as a lesbian. Data is drawn from participant observation and semi-structured interviews with 29 fans between 2009 and 2014. By analyzing the interplay between Hong Kong sexual cultures, fans’ everyday lives, and fans’ interactions with global media, it is found that fans struggled with negotiating HOCC’s gender and sexuality and their own before HOCC’s coming-out, leading to the paradoxical celebration and self-policing of queer reading at the same time. HOCC’s coming out in 2012 has significantly reshaped her queer fandom. It is observed that fans have turned their attention to the negotiation of HOCC’s “proper” lesbian embodiment as the “correct” representation of the LGBT/tongzhi movement. By revealing the complex relations between heteronormativity and homonormativity, this chapter concludes that HOCC fans in Hong Kong, who are situated within macrostructural and micropolitical forces, desire to be queer by transgressing normal and paradoxically desire to be normal by tactically negotiating the limits of queer.

Serialized literary translation in Hong Kong Chinese newspapers

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 306-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Li
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Hong Kong Chinese ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
Temporal Dimensions ◽  
Translated Literature

Abstract China experienced one of the great “waves of translation” and a boom of Chinese-language newspapers around the turn of the twentieth century. It is not coincidence that many of the translated works were initially serialized in these newspapers. Although translations in these newspapers, especially those in Shanghai, have gained increasing attention, those in Hong Kong have remained largely unexplored. This paper addresses this gap and the specific subgenre that has received scant attention: serialized translated literature. In particular, the paper focuses on the case study of The Chinese Mail, examining spatial and temporal dimensions of newspaper serialization of translated literary works in Hong Kong.

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