Course Plan for 2004-05

Students are expected to take 1 core course and 1 elective course in the 1st term and 2nd term

respectively.

1st TERM (1 September - 4 December 2004):

Core Course:

CUS505 Methods in Cultural Research (Core Course for Year 2 Students ONLY)

Course Coordinator: Dr Law Wing-sang

Lecturers: Dr Law Wing-sang, Dr Mirana Szeto and Guest Lecturer

Tutor: Mr Cheng Wai-pang

Time: Saturday 2:30-5:30 pm

Venue: MBG01, Lingnan U, Tuen Mun

CUS501 Perspectives in Cultural Studies (Core Course for Year 1 students)

Course Coordinator: Coordinator: Prof. Stephen CHAN Ching-kiu

Lecturers: Stephen CHAN Ching-kiu, MA Kwok-ming, Mirana SZETO May

Tutor: Karen CHAN Ka-ling

Time: Saturday 2:30-5:30 pm

Venue: GEG01, Lingnan U, Tuen Mun

Elective Courses:

CUS504 History in Cultural Studies (Elective Course for Year 1 students)

Lecturer: Mr. Ma Kwok Ming

Time: Tuesday 6:45-9:45 pm

Venue: World Trade Centre, Causeway Bay (LR1, Lecture Room)

CUS510 Workshop in Cultural Practices (Elective Course for Year 2 Students ONLY)

Course Coordinator: Dr Hui Po-keung

Facilitators: Dr Jeannie Martin, Mr Huan Sun Quan, Mr Billy Hung Fan-keung

and

Mr Cheung Wai-kee

Time: Thursday 6:45-9:45 pm

Venue: World Trade Centre, Causeway Bay (LR1, Lecture Room)

CUS512B Topics in Cultural Representation and Interpretation — Urban Chinese Cultural

Studies

Lecturers: Professor Wang Xiaoming 王曉明, Director, Contemporary

Chinese Culture Studies, Shanghai University; Dr. Bao Yaming 包

亞明,

Assistant Director, Institute of Literature, Shanghai Academy of

Social Sciences (Deputy Chief-editor of Shanghai Culture

Magazine)

Time: Wednesday 6:45-9:45 pm

Venue: World Trade Centre, Causeway Bay (LR1, Lecture Room)

CUS509 Urban Culture of Hong Kong [30] (Year 1 & 2) (Elective Course for Year 1 & 2

students)

Instructors: Dr Li Siu Leung / Mr Ip Iam Chong

Time: Monday 6:45-9:45 pm

Venue: World Trade Centre, Causeway Bay (LR1, Lecture Room)

CUS513 Research Seminar (Elective Course for Year 2 Students ONLY)

CUS513A Research Seminar - Postcolonial Studies of Hong Kong

Instructor: Prof Stephen Chan

CUS513B Research Seminar – Cultural Studies and Hong Kong Educational Reform

Instructor: Dr Hui Po-keung

2nd TERM (24 January - 6 May 2005):

Core Courses:

CUS502 Critical Thinking through Popular Culture (for Year 2 students)

Lecturer: Prof. Stephen Chan

Time: Saturday from 2:30 – 5:30 pm

Venue: ARG03, Arts Bldg., Lingnan University

CUS503 Pedagogy and Cultural Studies (for Year 2 students)

Lecturer: Dr. Lau Kin-chi and Dr. Hui Shiu-lun

Time: Saturday from 2:30 – 5:30 pm at Lingnan University

Venue: ARG04, Arts Bldg., Lingnan University

CUS505 Methods in Cultural Research (for Year 1 students)

Lecturer: Dr. Law Wing-sang and Dr. Mirana Szeto

Time: Saturday from 2:30 – 5:30 pm

Venue: GEG01, General Education Bldg, ARG01 & ARG02,

Arts Bldg., Lingnan University

Elective Courses:

CUS507 Feminism and Cultural Politics

Lecturer: Dr. Chan Shun-hing and Prof. Dai Jinghua

Time: Thursday from 6:45 – 9:45pm at WTC

CUS508 Globalization and Contemporary Social Change

Lecturer: Dr. Mirana Szeto, Mr. Ip Iam-chong and Guest Speaker

Time: Monday from 6:45 – 9:45pm at WTC

CUS511B Topics in Cultural Institution and Policy – Contemporary Cultural Policies

Lecturer: Prof. Stephen Chan, Ms. Ada Wong and Guest Speakers

Time: Thursday from 6:45 – 9:45pm at WTC

CUS512C Topics in Cultural Representation and Interpretation: A Re-reading of the “Post

Cold War” – Interrogating Representations in Film and Literature

Lecturer: Dr. Lau Kin-chi and Prof. Dai Jinghua

Time: Tuesday and Friday from 6:45 – 9:45pm at WTC

CUS513C Research Seminar – Hong Kong's Urban Future (for Year 2 students only)

Lecturer: Mr. Ma Kwok-ming

Time: Flexible teaching time

CUS505 Methods in Cultural Research

Term 1, 2004-2005

Coordinator: Dr. Law Wing Sang

Instructors: Dr. Law Wing Sang and Dr. Mirana Szeto

Tutor: Mr. Cheng Wai Pang

Time: Saturday, 2:30 – 5:30 pm

Venue: Lingnan University

Class Format: Weekly lecture/seminar/student presentations

Quota: 60

Language: Cantonese

Course Description

This core course enhances the students to develop a reflexive attitude about and critical

abilities of different methods used by cultural researchers. Method here is understood not

only as research techniques, procedures, and practices, but also as involving the theories and

perspectives that inform the production of a particular kind of research and justify it in terms

of knowledge-making. Practical examples will be used to illustrate diverse cultural studies

methods such as textual analysis, ethnographic methods (participatory action research,

interviews, focus groups and story-telling), oral history, archival work, etc. Discussion of

methodological issues involved in those examples will help students map out the trajectories

in which cultural studies as a discipline developed in the past and the implications they have

nowadays.

Aims and Objectives

* To guide students to pay critical attentions to the techniques and procedures of doing

cultural research in such different areas as literature, film and media, popular culture, gender

studies and postcolonial studies;

* To provide a platform for discussing different perspectives on research methods and related

issues such as research ethics, knowledge, and power.

Indicative Contents

What is Cultural Research?

· Researching Cultural Representation

· Researching Cultural Experience

· Researching Cultural Formation

Ontologies and Epistemologies of Cultural Research

· Positivism, Hermeneutic, Critical Theory

Methods and methodological issues in the shifting paradigms of Cultural Studies;

· Literary Humanism, Dialectical Sociology, Culturalism, Structuralism, Postmodernism,

Feminism

· Textual Analysis, Ethnography, Archival work

Negotiating research relationships: Ethics, Power, Subjectivity, Institution

Class Schedule

Wk1 (29/1) Discipline/Reflexivity/Positionality

Wk2 (5/2) Theory in the Practice of Research

Wk3 (12/2) Chinese New Year Holiday

Wk4 (19/2) On Knowledge and Power I

Wk5 (26/2) On Knowledge and Power II

Wk6 (5/3) Psychoanalysis and Feminism

Wk7 (12/3) Politicizing Psychoanalysis

Wk8 (19/3) Sexual, Textual Politics: Difference and Representation

Wk9 (26/3) Easter Holiday

Wk10 (2/4) Researching Others: Ethnographic practice

Wk11 (9/4) Postmodern Ethnography

Wk12 (16/4) Rethinking the Concept of Experience: Perspectives from the Margins

Wk13 (23/4) Audience Research and Beyond: Studying Subjectivities

Wk14 (30/4) The Politics of Documentary

Wk15 (7/5) Postmodern Cultural Politics

CUS501 Perspectives in Cultural Studies

Term 1, 2004-05

Coordinator: Prof. Stephen CHAN

Instructors: Prof. Stephen CHAN , MA Kwok-ming and Mirana SZETO May

Tutor: Karen CHAN Ka-ling

Timetable: Saturday, 2:30 - 5:30 pm

Lecture: 2:30 - 4:00pm

Group discussion: 4:15 - 5:30 pm

Venue: GEG01, Lingnan University, Tuen Mun

Quota: 60

Course Description

This course provides an overview of key themes, concepts, theories and issues in cultural studies. It

introduces students to the origins and foundational concerns of cultural studies as an academic

discipline and an intellectual practice; examines selected critical notions and problems with reference to

specific contexts; and look at the work of cultural studies in relation to social, historical and institutional

conditions. The course also addresses such issues as the role of theory and analysis in the practice of

cultural studies, the relevance of cultural studies for government and public cultures, as well as the

constraints and possibilities cultural studies workers face today in their divergent attempts to engage

themselves on location in critical projects of our time.

Aims and Objectives

· To introduce the basic aims and perspectives of cultural studies as an academic discipline and as an

intellectual practice;

· To look at different dimensions of culture and acquaint students with a range of issues addressed by

cultural studies;

· To provide insight into the complex nature of the relation between the cultural field and the social and

economic spheres.

Indicative Contents

· The concept of culture and the intellectual trajectories of cultural studies;

· The implications of the “cultural turn” in contemporary societies;

· The culture of everyday life and the question of identity.

Class Schedule

4/9 chan For Cultural Studies (Bennett 1998, 1-8, 17-21, 27-30)

11/9 ma Intellectual Trajectory I (Davis, 10-17; Mulhern, 49-73)

18/9 ma Intellectual Trajectory II (Davis, 30-63; Mulhern, 77-106)

25/9 ma From Fordism to Post-Fordism (Davis, 139-155)

2/10 ma Implications of the Cultural Turn I: The Commodification of Culture & the Aestheticization of

Politics (McGuigan, 67-81)

9/10 ma Implications of the Cultural Turn II: The Rise of Cultural Industries (McGuigan, 81-94; Bennett

1995, 89-109)

16/10 chan The Prosaic Politics of Cultural Studies: Critique, Pedagogy, and Discipline (Bennett 1998,

30-38, 42-59, 60-84)

23/10 szeto The Culture of Everyday Life I: Why and How? (Fiske; also recommended: de Certeau)

30/10 szeto The Culture of Everyday Life II: Carrying on Between Turning Points in Organized

Resistance (Scott, 183-201; also recommended: Scott, 1-16, 202-228)

6/11 szeto Questions of Identity I: Why Identity? Questioning the Intellectual (Grossberg; also

recommended: Hall, Said)

13/11 szeto Questions of Identity II: Genders and Sexualities (Thiele, Butler; also recommended:

Philips, MacCannell)

20/11 szeto Questions of Identity III: Ideas of the Subaltern (Guha; also recommended: Gramsci,

Spivak)

27/11 chan/all Conclusion I (Chan, Flew)

4/12 chan/all Conclusion II

Readings

Bennett, Tony (1995) The Birth of the Museum. London: Routledge.

--- (1998) Culture: A Reformer’s Science. London, Thousand Oaks & New Delhi: Sage.

Butler, Judith (1997) ‘Critically Queer.’ In Playing With Fire: Queer Politics, Queer Theories. Ed. Shane

Phelan. New York & London: Routledge, pp. 11-29.

Chan, Ching-kiu (2002) ‘Building Cultural Studies for Postcolonial Hong Kong: Aspects of the

Postmodern Ruins in between Disciplines.’ In Cultural Studies: Interdisciplinarity and Translation. Ed.

Stefan Herbrechter, for Critical Studies vol. 20 (Gen. Ed. Miriam Diaz-Diocaretz), Amsterdam and New

York: Rodopi, pp. 217-237. Also published as《從文學到文化研究：香港的視角》‘From Literary to

Cultural Studies: A Hong Kong Perspective’ (in Chinese). In Methodologies: Routes of Research on

Literature. Ed. Han-Liang Chang. Taipei: National Taiwan Univ. Pr., pp. 283-315. A slightly different

version appears as《在廢墟中築造文化研究：並論當代大學教育的頹敗形式與意義》in the special issue

on University, E+E, vol. 6 (2003), 10-22.

Davis, Ioan (1995) Cultural Studies and Beyond. London: Routledge.

de Certeau, Michel (1984) ‘“Making Do”: Uses and Tactics,’ ‘Foucault and Bourdieu,’ The Practice of

Everyday Life. Trans. Steven F. Rendall. Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California

Press, pp. 29-42, 45-60.

Fiske, John (1992) ‘Cultural Studies and the Culture of Everyday Life.’ In Cultural Studies. Eds.

Lawrence Grossberg et al. New York & London: Routledge, pp. 154-173.

Flew, Terry (2004) ‘Creativity, the “New Humanism” and Cultural Studies.’ Continuum: Journal of Media

and Cultural Studies, vol. 18, no. 2, 161-178.

Gramsci, Antonio (1973) Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci. Eds. and trans.

Quintin Hoare & Geoffrey Nowell Smith. London: Lawrence & Wishart. Extracts on the

subaltern/subordinate/instrumental class.

Grossberg, Lawrence (1996) ‘Identity and Cultural Studies: Is That All There Is?’ In Questions of

Cultural Identity. Eds. Stuart Hall & Paul du Gay. London, Thousand Oaks & New Delhi: SAGE, pp. 87-

107.

Guha, Ranajit (1988) “Preface,’ ‘On Some Aspects of the Historiography of Colonial India,’ ‘A note on

the terms “elite”, “people”, “subaltern”, etc. as used above.’ In Selected Subaltern Studies. Eds. Ranajit

Guha & Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 36-44. Also

extracts from ‘The Prose of Counter-Insurgency,’ pp. 45-88.

CUS504 History in Cultural Studies 文化研究中的歷史

Term 1, 2004-2005

Instructors: Mr. Ma Kwok-ming

Timetable: Tuesday 6:45-9:45 pm

Venue: LR1, World Trade Centre, Causeway Bay

Quota: 30

Course Description

This course focuses on different modes of representing the past in contemporary culture. It explores

how particular representations of the past have profound implications for the formation of meanings and

value systems inscribed in tradition, memory and nostalgia. Looking at different sites where history is

crucial for the production of social meaning and personal identity (such as museums, heritage sites or

historical films), the course examines how discursive forms, narrative structures and representational

conventions inscribe particular assumptions about the past, which are circulated, mediated, modified

and contested at their sites of reception and consumption. Through an analysis of these processes,

students will learn to apply the conceptual tools and methods that cultural studies provides for

approaching, and making an intervention in, the complex relation between history and representation.

Aims and Objectives

· To equip students with tools and methods to critically analyze representations of the past;

· To examine the cultural contexts and mechanisms that shape representations of the past;

· To provide insight into traditions of government, imperialism and nation-building that produce

particular visions of the past;

· To develop and foster strategies for a democratic, participatory and communal recovery of

marginalized histories.

Indicative Contents

· Representations of the past in contemporary culture: literature, photography, film, fashion, museums,

exhibitions, heritage sites, the built environment, autobiography and oral history;

· Discursive strategies of representing human experiences and social events: the power of narrative;

visual display, object-based epistemology and the power of the artifact; imagined communities,

experience and identity construction;

· Cultural mechanisms shaping representations of the past: commodification, the aesthetic mode,

context and de-contextualization, governmentality.

Class Schedule

9.07 – general orientation, syllabus

Introductory lecture: history and cultural studies

Recommended Reading: Ankersmit, 1-25; Jenkins, 1-30

Part I: Sites of History

9.14 – The exhibitionary complex: history in museum and history of museum RR: Bennett, 89-105;

McGuigan, 1-29

9.21 – Materialist frameworks of history RR: Anderson, 9-46; Bennett, 128-162; Hobsbawn & Ranger,

1-14, 263-307

9.28 – Mid-Autumn Festival

10.05 – The uses of personal pasts

RR: Benjamin (b), 3-60; Gilloch, 55-92

Part II: Public places, Tourist spaces

10.12 – history in Disney

RR: Eco, 1-58; The Project on Disney, 1-33; Wallace, 134-75

10.19 – Arcades & malls (proposal due)

RR: Buck-Morss, 78-158

10.26 – Architecture & the built environment

RR: Abbas, 63-90; Auge, 75-115

11.02 – Vacation spots

RR: Bennett, 220-45; Morris, 31-63

Part III: Mechanical images of the past

11.09 –the age of mechanical reproduction

RR: Benjamin (a), 217-251;

11.16 – history as photography

RR: Benjamin (a), 253-264; Cadava, 3-44; from Resina & Ingenschay, 1-22

11.23 – film as postmodern history

RR: from Sobchack, 201-18

11.30 – history in Hong Kong Cinema

RR: Abbas, 16-47

12.07 – the history of Cultural Studies, CS as history (research projects due) RR: Morris, 219-34

Readings

Abbas, Ackbar (1997): Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearane, Hong Kong: Hong Kong

University Press

Anderson, Benedict (1991): Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of

Nationalism, 2 ed., London: Verso.

Ankersmit, F.R (2001): Historical Representation, Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Auge, Marc(1995): Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity, London: Verso.

Benjamin (a), Walter (1968): Illuminations, New York: Schocken Books.

Benjamin (b), Walter (1978): Reflections, New York: Schocken Books.

Bennett, Tony (1995): The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics, London and New York:

Routledge.

Brennen, Bonnie, and Hanno Hardt eds. (1999): Picturing the Past. Media, History, and Photography,

Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

Buck-Morss, Susan (1989): Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin & the Arcades Project. Cambridge,

Mass: MIT Press.

Cadava, Eduardo (1997): Words of Light: theses on the Photography of History, Princeton: Princeton

University Press.

Eco, Umberto (1986): Travels in Hyperreality, London: Picador.

Gilloch, Graeme (1996): Myth & Metropolis: Walter Benjamin and the City, Oxford: Polity Press.

Hobsbawm, Eric, and Terence Ranger, eds. (1984): The Invention of Tradition, Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press.

Hunt, Lynn ed. (1989): The New Cultural History, Berkeley: University of California Press.

Jenkins, Keith ed. (1997): The Postmodern History Reader, London and New York: Routledge.

LaCapra, Dominick (1985): History & Criticism, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.

LaCapra, Dominick, and Steven L. Kaplan, eds. (1982): Modern European Intellectual History:

Reappraisals and New Perspectives, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.

McGuigan, Jim (1996): Culture and the Public Sphere, London and New York: Routledge.

Morris, Meaghan (1998): Too Soon Too Late: History in Popular Culture, Bloomington: Indiana

University Press.

Pickering, Michael (1997): History, Experience and Cultural Studies, New York: St. Martin's Press.

Poster, Mark (1997): Cultural History and Postmodernity: Disciplinary Readings and Challenges, New

York: Columbia University Press.

Resina, Joan Roman and Dieter Ingenschay eds. (2003): After-Images of the City, Ithaca: Cornell

University Press.

Roberts, Geoffrey ed. (2001): The History and Narrative Reader, London and New York: Routledge.

Scott, Joan Wallach (1988): Gender and the Politics of History, New York: Columbia University Press.

Sobchack, Vivian ed. (1996): The Persistence of History: Cinema, Television, and the Modern Event,

London and New York: Routledge.

The Project on Disney (1995): Inside the Mouse: Work & Play at Disney World, Durham and London:

Duke University Press.

Thompson, E. P. (1991): The Making of the English Working Class, Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Wallace, Mike (1996): Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on America Memory, Philadelphia:

Temple University Press.

Young, Robert (2004): White Mythologies: Writing History and the West, London and New York:

Routledge.

CUS510 Workshop in Cultural Practices

Term 1, 2004-2005

Coordinator: Dr Hui Po-keung

Facilitators: Dr Jeannie Martin, Mr Huan Sun Quan, Mr Billy

Hung Fan-keung, Mr Cheung Wai-kee

Time: Thursday 6:45-9:45 pm

Venue: LR1, World Trade Centre, Causeway Bay

Quota: 30

Course Description

This course will use a ‘workshop’ approach to discuss how cultural studies can be practiced in different

professional fields. Professionals working in the fields of education, media, social and community

services, arts and other areas will be invited to participate in the workshop and dialogue with the

instructor and students of cultural studies. Through these dialogues students will learn about the

cultural-political dimensions of professional and technical practices and consider the implications of

these in their own vocational fields.

Aims and Objectives

1. To provide students with a working sense of how cultural studies can be practiced in various

professional fields;

2. To articulate professional, technical and practical knowledge with cultural, ethical and political

concerns.

Teaching Mode

Weekly workshop, 3 hours, with guest professionals as facilitators.

Tentative Schedule:

September 2: Introduction

September 9-30: Community Work (facilitator: Jeannie Martin, Senior Adjunct Research Fellow,

University of Western Sydney)

Oct.7-21: Alternative media (facilitator: Huan Sun Quan, Editor-in-chief, POTS Weekly, Taipei and

founder of Taiwan Indymedia Center)

Oct. 28-Nov.11: Arts education and social movements

(facilitator: Noise Co-operative, Hong Kong)

PART I

PART II: Alternative Media (October 7-21)

October 7: What are alternative media?

* A problematic definition and practice experiences

* Content production and marketing tactics

* Writing style and editorial policy

* Capability of production and networking

October 14: Own your media -- blog, wiki, and more…

* What is blog?

* What is wiki?

* What are open sources? How could it be possible to have open resources or social software?

* Collaborating writings

* Exchangeable information and syndications

* Commercial potential , copyleft, and social meanings

* Five minutes for a personal portal site

October 21: Own our media -- Indymedia (IMC) Center

* A brief history of IMC Center

* Anti-globalization actions and IMC's global settings

* Core values: "Be media, don't hate media", open publishing, task-orientation, collective editing, social

gathering and direct actions, activist as reporter and vice versa

* An introduction of the Taiwan Indymedia Center

* Looking into the future: the possibility of setting up a HK Indymedia Center

PART III: Arts education and social movements (Oct. 28-Nov.11)

Oct. 28 and Nov. 4 (6 hours workshop):

* Warm up games

* Games for building groups dynamics

* Games for creating art pieces from daily life experiences

* Short performances

* Questions and discussions

Nov. 11 (3 hours lecture and songs):

* Origin and rationales of works on people’s culture in Hong Kong

* Listening to and analysis on selective social protest songs

* Questions and discussions

PART IV: Students' presentations/projects (Nov. 18-Dec. 2)

References

Required/Essential Reading

Atton, Chris (2002): Alternative Media, London/Thousand Oaks/New Delhi: SAGE Publications.

Felshin, Nina ed. (1995): But is it Art? – The Spirit of Art as Activism, Seattle: Bay Press.

Martin, Jeannie with O’Loughlin P. (2002): Women and sustainability in regional Australia, Final report

to the Minister, Department of Women, New South Wales Government, Partnership Project 2000.

凡人 (2004) "文化行動的政治與美學", 收在, 梁慧玲, 鬈毛妃(編) (2004), 或者藝術, 或者革命 ---- 莫昭

如的藝術實戰,, 香港 : 國際演藝評論家協會(香港分會)出版.

噪音合作社 (2002) "音樂工作坊簡介", 收在, 噪音合作社(編著) (2002), 噪音合作社音樂工作坊筆記本,

香港 : 噪音合作社出版.

Recommended/Supplementary Reading

Cameron, Jenny and Katherine Gibson (2001): Shifting Focus: Alternative Pathways for Communities

and Economies – A Resource Kit, Traralgon and Melbourne, Victoria: Latrobe City and Monash

University.

Cohen-Cruz, Jan ed. (1998): Radical Street Performance, London: Routledge.

Fensham, Rachel and John Wiseman (1988): Crossroads: Community Arts and Community

Development, Australia: PIT Press.

Freire, Paulo (1993): Pedagogy of the City, Translated by Donaldo Macedo, New York: Contiumm

Freire, Paulo (1997): Pedagogy of the Oppressed, translated by Myra Bergman Ramos, New York:

Contiumm.

Jacob, Mary J. et al. (1995): Culture in Action, Seattle: Bay Press.

Jennings and Anthony Kemp-Welch eds. (1997): Intellectuals in Politics, London and New York:

Routledge.

Kellner, Douglas (1995): Media Culture, London and New York: Routledge.

Said, Edward W. (1996): Representations of the Intellectual, New York: Vintage Books, esp. chapter 4.

Van Erren, Eygene (1992): The Playful Revolution – Theatre and Liberation in Asia, Blookington and

Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.

莫昭如、林寶元編著(1994): 《民眾劇場與草根民主》，台北：唐山出版社。

CUS512B Topics in Cultural Representation and Interpretation:

Urban Chinese Cultural Studies 中国都市文化研究

Term 1, 2004-2005

Lecturers: Professor Wang Xiaoming王晓明

Director, Contemporary Chinese Culture Studies Shanghai University

Dr. Bao Yaming 包亚明

Assistant Director, Institute of LiteratureShanghai Academy of Social

Sciences(Deputy Chief-editor of Shanghai Culture Magazine)

Timetable: Wednesday 6:45-9:45 pm

Venue: LR1, World Trade Centre, Causeway Bay

Quota: 30

Course Description

本课程所讲授的中国当代都市文化研究，以上海为主要分析对象，每次授课都从具体的案例分析入手，

通过对有关影像资料的解读，分析上海都市文化的现状及其引申出来的都市文化理论问题。在讲授过程

中将不局限于上海本地的案例，力图引入一种国际分析的视野，比如“‘弄堂’与‘石库门’的世界：谁的全球

化城市？”一节，将在对上海、香港、波士顿三个城市的比较中，分析“新天地”所构建的文化意义；在“双

城记与怀旧的政治：张爱玲、王安忆的上海和香港”一节中，除了分析张爱玲和王安忆的小说及其文化意

义外，还将分析 1995 年“香港银行”电视广告片中的怀旧政治。在具体案例分析的基础上，本课程还将讨

论一些重要的都市文化研究理论问题，比如全球化问题、本地知识问题、消费主义问题、文化资本问

题、身份认同问题、媒体的权力等等。

今日中僐大陆的社缚巨蚂过程中，“都市化”成为朝野一致认可的“芜展”目标。整苮 1990 年代，上海明显

成为这一都市化目标的典范。2002 年以来，“到上海去”，成为内地大片地区的年轻人、资金、旅游团、

私营企业总部的基本移动方向。就文化而言，出现了一系列新的文化形式和文化的生产和管制模式。由

于各地的具体情况不同，都市文化的新的形态也各有不同（例如广州、北京和上海三地的纸面媒体的差

异就很明显）。尽管如此，上海的新的都市文化还是有相当的代表性（至少在长江三角洲地区）。因

此，承续前两阶段的内容，再选择案例，向学生介绍和分析今日上海的新的文化形态，并循此路径，有

选择地讨论若干牵涉到今日中国社会的基本性质的问题，就成为课程第三阶段的基本思路。

课程前两阶段由包亚明先生讲授、第三阶段由王晓明先生讲授。

涉及的具体专题如下：

1. (1/9) 全球化、空间重构与中国现代性

案例：租界时代以来的上海城市规划、浦东的兴起、黄浦江两岸规划、世界博览会规划

2. (8/9)“弄堂”与“石库门”的世界：谁的全球化城市？

案例：香港瑞安集团、“新天地”与太平桥规划

3. (15/9) 殖民地遗产的复活：谁的历史？谁的未来？

案例：礼查饭店、洛克菲勒财团与外滩源规划、乔治·阿玛尼与外滩三号

4. (22/9) 怀旧、日常生活与全球城市的自我形象塑造

案例：系列老上海怀旧电视专栏“时髦外婆”、 李欧梵《上海摩登》

5. (29/9) 双城记与怀旧的政治：张爱玲、王安忆的上海和香港

案例：张爱玲小说、王安忆小说《长恨歌》和《香港的情与爱》、1995 年“香港银行”的电视广告片

6. (6/10) 本地知识的构建与知识分子话语

案例：“力波啤酒”电视广告及其制作内幕、《东方早报·上海开埠 160 周年特刊》

7. (13/10)“小资”、“波波族”的生活趣味：文化资本与媒体意识形态

案例：《上海一周》、《申江服务导报》、《上海星期三》等报刊

8. (20/10) 娱乐如何征服现实：空间的生产与消费主义

案例：酒吧、咖啡馆、电影院等休闲空间

9. (27/10) 创意产业与城市活力：政府行为与市民社会的对峙

案例：泰康路创意产业园区、莫干山路 50 号视觉艺术创造园区

10. (3/11) 新的图像认知训练机制 ：以《上海楼市》杂志刊登的房产广告为例。

11. (10/11) 今日上海中等收入阶层的生活认知和生活理想 ：以一份针对房地产的问卷调查为例。

12. (17/11) 新闻、宣传和娱乐 ：以东方电视台的《媒体大搜索》栏目为例。

13. (24/11) 都市人的乡村想象和自我想象 ：以故事片《美丽新世界》为例。

14. (1/12) 总结 ：1，两类不同的市场；2，今日中国的新意识形态。

CUS509 Urban Culture of Hong Kong

Term 1, 2004-2005

Instructors: Dr. Li Siu Leung and Mr. Ip Iam Chong

Timetable: LR1, Monday 6:45-9:45 pm

Venue: World Trade Centre, Causeway Bay

Format: Lecture, student's class presentation, seminar

Course Description

Hong Kong has in recent years been characterized broadly as hybrid, in-between, in perpetual transit,

plural and international. This seminar investigates specific dimensions of Hong Kong urban culture that

involve processes of border-crossing: the emergence of a Hong Kong urbanscape and local identity in

relation to the city’s negotiation between China and the world; the cosmopolitan imagination of Hong

Kong as a dialectic of desire and fear to become “China”; the making of the Hong Kong popular as a

crossing of boundaries in culture, nation, gender and ethnicity. The course will analyze various cultural

texts including film, writing and architecture. At the same time it will examine notions of the intercultural,

multicultural, transnational, global/local, postmodern and postcolonial.

Schedule

Sept 6

First meeting: course introduction, syllabus, schedule, requirements

PART ONE: URBAN STUDIES (Instructor: Ip Iam Chong)

Sept 13 From urban ecology to urban cultures

Required Readings:

Zukin, Sharon. “Whose culture? Whose city?” Oxford, Blackwell, 1995, pp. 1-48.

Suggested Readings:

Saunders, Peter. “Chapter 2: The Urban as an ecological community.” Social theory and urban

question. London: Routledge, 1993, pp. 52-83.

Soja, Edward W. “Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis.” In Imagining Cities, S. Westwood and J.

Williams, eds. London and NY: Routledge, 1997, pp. 19-30.

Sept 20 Hong Kong and urban studies

Required Readings:

Lui, Tai-lok. “The Malling of Hong Kong.” Consuming Hong Kong. Edited by Gordon Mathews and T. L.

Lui. Hong Kong: Hong Kong UP, 2001, pp. 23-45.

Suggested Readings:

Lee, Pui-leung Rance and Siu-kai Lau. The Birth and Growth of Academic Sociology in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1993.

Sept 27 Urban history

Readings:

Soja, Edward W. 2000. “Putting cities first.” Postmetropolis: Critical studies of cities and regions. Oxford

and Malden: Blackwell, pp. 19-49.

Suggested Readings:

Fraser, Derek and Anthony Sutcliffe. Eds. “Introduction.” The pursuit of urban history. London: Edward

Arnold, 1983, pp. xi-xxx.

Davis, Mike. City of quartz : excavating the future in Los Angeles. London: Verso, 1990.

Oct 4 Architectural studies

Readings:

Borden, Iain. 1998. ＜滑板玩家：當代城市中又激進又反叛的市民＞《城市與設計》第七、八期，頁 25-

44。

Borden, Iain, Jane Rendell, Joe Kerr and Alicia Pivaro. 2001. “Things, Flows, Filters, Tactics.” The

unknown city: Contesting architecture and social space. Cambridge and London: The MIT Press.

Suggested Readings:

夏鑄九 1993＜批判的歷史計劃：曼菲德．塔夫利與威尼斯學派＞《理論建築：朝向空間實踐的理論建

構》台北：台灣社會研究季刊，126-157。

PART TWO: URBAN CULTURE (Instructor: Li Siu Leung)

PART TWO: URBAN CULTURE (Instructor: Li Siu Leung)

Oct 11 The Dialectics Between Rural/Native and Urban/Glocal

Required Reading:

Siu Leung Li, “Forget China, Embrace the Glocal: Modernity, Identity and the Hong Kong Musical Film,

1950s-1960s” (Xerox)

References:

Song of the Peach Blossom River《桃花江》

Hong Kong Nocturne 《香江花月夜》

King Drummer《青春鼓王》

Raymond To 杜國威, Tales of the Walled-City 《城寨風情》

Oct 18 The Postmodern

Required:

Alexander Cuthbert, “Under the Volcano: Postmodern Space in Hong Kong.” Postmodern Cities and

Spaces, eds. Sophie Watson and Katherine Gibson.

References:

Li Chiu Hing 李照興, Hong Kong Postmodern《香港後髦登》

Sum Yuen 心猿, Crazy Horse in a Frenzied City《狂城亂馬》

Ackar Abbas, Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance

References:

Aihwa Ong and Donald Nonini, Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese

Transnationalism.

Pheng Cheah and Bruce Robbins, eds. Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling beyond the Nation.

Nov 22 Melting into a future megacity

Required:

Wong Kin Yuen, “On the Edges of Spaces: Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell and Hong Kong’s

Cityscape.” Science Fiction Studies 27.1 (Mar. 2000)

References:

Wicked City 妖獸都市

Ghost in the Shell 攻殼机動隊

The Avenging Fist 拳神

Blade Runner

Wong Kin Yuen, "Sight Being Site: An Analysis of Hong Kong Times Square." Hong Kong Cultural

Studies Bulletin (1998).

Nov 29 Concluding session

CUS513C Research Seminar:Hong Kong’s Urban Future

Term 2, 2004-05

Instructors: Mr. Ma Kwok-ming, John

Timetable: Flexible teaching time

Class Format: Weekly or bi-weekly group meetings

Venue: Lingnan University

Quota: 5 (Year 2 students only)

Course Description

Hong Kong is a city. People in Hong Kong used to think of Hong Kong as a vibrant and colourful

metropolis. Even in the face of economic difficulty, phrases like “Asia’s world city”, “Super-Manhattan”,

“China’s New York” are still freely adopted by The Hong Kong Government and it seems the latter is not

content with just uttering words. Hong Kong will soon have its version of Disneyland and the ambitious

West Kowloon Cultural Complex is going ahead as planned. Even more significant than these prestige

projects are the numerous urban renewal schemes initiated in many so-called “old areas”. These

schemes are to be completed by the Urban Redevelopment Council, which has been invested with

wide-ranging power to appropriate land for redevelopment. In addition there are various smaller-scale

projects that aim to give a new look to the city and to enhance its image. The Tourist Association too is

doing its bits to enhance the look of Hong Kong by designating new tourist spots and by sponsoring

carnivals, fireworks and laser beam shows.

Hong Kong may be languishing in various ways, but it is putting on a brave face. The city is

aggressively promoting its image. But is this the way ahead? Are all the efforts at city renewal

necessary? In recent months, there are indications that the local population, who in the past seem to be

quietly accepting whatever that is being done to the face of Hong Kong, is awaking to the wanton

destruction of old buildings and the further reclamation of the Victoria Habour. People in Hong Kong

seem to be expressing their concern over the urban futures of Hong Kong more and more.

The research seminar on Hong Kong’s urban futures aims to review the relevant literatures on Hong

Kong’s urban setting as well as the globalized context of the 21st Century for cities throughout the

world. Hong Kong’s past history will also be closely examined to find out to what degree a heightened

understanding of Hong Kong’s past helps to ensure a brighter future.

Basic References

Ackbar Abbas, Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance. Minneapolis, University of

Minnesota Press, 1997.

David Clark, Urban World/Global City. London, Routledge, 1996.

Henri Lefebvre, The Urban Revolution. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2003

Helen Liggett, Urban Encounters. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2003.

John R. Logan & Harvey L. Molotch, “The City as a Growth Machine” in Susan S. Fainstein & Scott

Campbell eds, Readings in Urban Theory Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, 1996.

Jim McGuigan, Culture & the Public Sphere London, Routledge, 1996

Malcom Miles and Tim Hall eds, Urban Futures: Critical Commentaries on Shaping the City. London,

Routledge, 2003.

Jamie Peck & Kevin Ward eds, City of Revolution: Restructuring Manchester Manchester, Manhester

University Press, 2002.

Saskia Sassen, The Global City. Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University, 2001.

Allen J. Scott, The Cultural Economy of Cities. London, Sage, 2000.

CUS513A Research Seminar - Postcolonial Studies of Hong Kong

Term 1, 2004-2005

Instructors: Prof Stephen Chan

Timetable: Flexible teaching time with weekly or bi-weekly group meetings

Venue: Lingnan University

Quota: 10

Course Description

What local imagination can attain is surely something we have yet to fully examine. During the last

decade of colonial history in Hong Kong, the particular form of local eclectic consciousness and

sensibility had been re-articulated to the territory’s moments of crisis, in which the late-colonial mode of

operation worked alongside the new logic of post-imperialist global order. What, then, has become of

the local local, of the deep and thick sense of locality, which we are supposed to have inherited from

the decades before 1997 – its culture, its identity, its community, its links to personal and collective

memories; the possibilities it leaves for those locked up in the present, and the promises it spells out

for those feeling uncertain about their future?

It is not easy to unpack the cultural imaginary that sets the limits to the condition of possibility of our

everyday life in the HKSAR, as a post-colony. For that collective process of transformation is

intertwined with the complex network of market needs, desires, promises and constraints, in which a

substantial part of our social, cultural and political futures must now be imagined and instituted. Yet,

deeply implanted in popular imaginaries, this socio-emotional complex with which we live smacks of

typical HK pragmatism, moving across the timeline of 1997. Only now its aggressiveness and

contradictions appear to be both individually and socially problematic - should anyone want to examine

closely the core values (moral, economic and affective) of this postcolonial community, who have

survived the historical changes and crises of the recent decades.

The everyday play of ideological hybridity underlying much of the social spectacles and disturbances

today has been commonplace to the formerly colonized people of HK. But the possibilities?] to re-

configure postcolonial locality are hard to ascertain; as a result, moves to globality as a relatively facile

source of relevance, or to an emergent mode of post-national consciousness and sensibility, become

options in the SAR community’s attempts to re-invent its “success” narratives of the past. The seminar

offers a platform for the examination of such possibilities, with reference to specific aspects of our

everyday life or public culture. Focus will depend on the students’ proposed projects, which may be

based on case analysis, historical study, or theoretical exploration, or a combination of these. We shall

begin the semester with a discussion of selected issues in postcolonial criticism.

Basic References

*Ashcroft, Bill. Post-Colonial Transformation. London & New York: Routledge, 2001. (* Recommended

key text)

Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffith, and Helen Tifflin. The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. London & New

York: Routledge, 1995.

Bhabha, Homi. The Location of Culture. London & New York: Routledge, 1994.

Spurr, David. Rhetoric of Empire: Colonial Discourse in Journalism, Travel Writing, and Imperial

Administration. Durham, NC & London: Duke Univ. Pr., 1994.

Young, Robert. White Mythologies: Writing History and the West. London & New York: Routledge,

1990.

Enrolment Requirement

As the course quota is limited, students who wish to enrol in the Research Seminar must submit a brief

proposal (of 2-4 pages, including a short bibliography) by 15 July, providing an outline of the project

they intend to work on for the independent research. The proposed topic should be as specific as

possible and fall within the broad areas of concern outlined above. Details of the project are, of course,

subject to modification as the student starts working on it. (Enrolment in the course is subject to the

acceptance of the research proposal by the instructor.)

Course Requirements

Though there may not be regular classes for this course, students are expected to participate actively

in a series of seminars to examine the key issues relating to the topic area(s) specified, and discuss

their research work-in-progress with fellow students. Details of these seminars will be coordinated by

and arranged with the instructor(s) concerned at the beginning of the semester. Individual meetings to

discuss students’ research work will also be arranged with the instructor. Apart from satisfactory

participation in the seminars, a final research paper is required.

Research Paper

At the end of the semester, each student will submit a research paper on a chosen topic completed in

accordance with the project plan approved by the instructor. The length of the paper should be

approximately 7,500-10,000 words in English, or 15,000-20,000 characters in Chinese (inclusive of

bibliography and notes).

CUS513B Research Seminar – Cultural Studies and Hong Kong Educational

Reform

Term 1, 2004-2005

Instructors: Dr Hui Po-keung

Course Description

This research seminar aims at studying various aspects of the current educational reform in Hong Kong

since the 1990s from a cultural studies perspective. Students taking this course will be working on a

research topic broadly related to the current educational reform in Hong Kong. Students may focus their

researches on a specific topic, such as the curriculum reform of a particular school subject, or the whole

secondary school curriculum, or the changing working environment of school teachers after the

implementation of various reforms, or on the assessment system, or on students’ response to various

reforms…etc. The seminar will basically borrow intellectual resources from the fields of cultural policy

and critical pedagogy. Each student will be required to conduct library/internet research and field work

both independently and collectively (to map out a comprehensive picture of the current educational

reform), and will present research findings in a seminar, engage in seminar commentaries and

discussions, and write up a research paper.

Basic References

Apple, Micheal W. (1996): Cultural Politics and Education, London: Open University Press.

Apple, Michael W. (2001): Educating the ‘Right’ Way: Markets, Standard, God, and Inequality, New

York : RoutledgeFalmer.

Ball, Stephen (1994): Education Reform – A Critical and Post-structural Approach, Buckingham

[England] ; Philadelphia : Open University Press.

Ball, Stephen (1999): Educational reform and the struggle for the soul of the teacher, Hong Kong :

Faculty of Education, Hong Kong Institute of Educational Research, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Bennett, Tony (1998): Culture: A Reformer’s Science, London/Thousand Oaks/New Delhi: SAGE

Publications.

Brookfield, Stephen D. (1995): Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher, Jossey-Bass Inc., Publishers.

Carlson, Dennis and Michael W. Apple ed. (1998): Power/Knowledge/Pedagogy – The Meaning of

Democratic Education in Unsettling Times, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.

Giroux A., Henry and Peter McLaren ed. (1994): Between borders : pedagogy and the politics of

cultural studies, New York and London : Routledge.

Giroux, Henry A with Patrick Shannon eds. (1997): Education and Cultural Studies – Toward a

Performative Practice, New York and London: Routledge.

Giroux, Henry A (1997): Pedagogy and the politics of hope : theory, culture, and schooling : a critical

reader, Boulder, Colo. : WestviewPress.

Gitlin, Andrew (ed) (1994): Power and Method: Political Activism and Educational Research, New York:

Routledge.

bell hooks (2003): Teaching Community – A Pedagogy of Hope, London and New York: Routledge.

bell hooks (1994): Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, London and New

York: Routledge.

Enrolment Requirement

As the course quota is limited, students who wish to enrol in the Research Seminar must submit a brief

proposal (of 2-4 pages, including a short bibliography) by 15 July, providing an outline of the project

they intend to work on for the independent research. The proposed topic should be as specific as

possible and fall within the broad areas of concern outlined above. Details of the project are, of course,

subject to modification as the student starts working on it. (Enrolment in the course is subject to the

acceptance of the research proposal by the instructor.)

Course Requirements

Though there may not be regular classes for this course, students are expected to participate actively in

a series of seminars to examine the key issues relating to the topic area(s) specified, and discuss their

research work-in-progress with fellow students. Details of these seminars will be coordinated by and

arranged with the instructor(s) concerned at the beginning of the semester. Individual meetings to

discuss students’ research work will also be arranged with the instructor. Apart from satisfactory

participation in the seminars, a final research paper is required.

Research Paper

At the end of the semester, each student will submit a research paper on a chosen topic completed in

accordance with the project plan approved by the instructor. The length of the paper should be

approximately 7,500-10,000 words in English, or 15,000-20,000 characters in Chinese (inclusive of

bibliography and notes).

CUS502 Critical Thinking through Popular Culture

Term 2, 2004-05

Instructor: Prof. Stephen Chan Ching-kiu

Timetable: Saturday, 2:30 – 5:30 pm

Venue: Lingnan University

Class Format: Weekly lecture/seminar/student presentations

Quota: 30

Course Description

This core course focuses on the relationship between critical theories and popular culture; we shall

argue that the study of popular culture can provide illuminating examples and patterns of critical

thinking much needed for public cultural education today. Students will learn about different

approaches to the many forms of popular culture, from cinema to popular journalism, from

advertisement to shopping mall culture, teen magazines to video games, fan stories and the internet.

We aim to see how these popular ways of life can be analyzed as representing complex negotiations

of power and pleasure, solidarity and resistance, distinction and community formation in a field

increasingly characterized by multiple centers and domains of value.

Aims and Objectives

* To introduce the basic approaches to popular culture in Cultural Studies so as to allow students to

undertake the analysis of individual cases in relevant social contexts;

* To provide a dynamic inter-disciplinary platform for the discussion of social, ideological, ethical and

aesthetic issues through the perspectives of popular culture.

Indicative Contents

* Popular culture through and beyond narratives: fiction, journalism, advertisement, media and internet

culture;

* Practices of everyday life: idol-worship and fan culture; shopping, tourism, and consumer culture;

sport, eating, and museum-going as cases in urban public culture;

* Popular sensuality and commodity aesthetics; cultural value, identity and difference; social relation,

history and politics; globalization, fetishism, and the society of the spectacle.

Class Schedule

Wk1 (29/1) Introduction

Wk2 (5/2) The Problem of Experience

Wk3 (12/2) Chinese New Year Holiday

Wk4 (19/2) Popular Mediation as Process

Wk5 (26/2) For and/or Against Popular Culture

Wk6 (5/3) Play and Popular Genres I

Wk7 (12/3) Play and Popular Genres II

Wk8 (19/3) Performance and Communication

Wk9 (26/3) Easter Holiday

Wk10 (2/4) Consumption and Communication

Wk11 (9/4) Cultural Space: Coherence, Complexity and Community

Wk12 (16/4) Marking Time: Locations of Action and Mediation

Wk13 (23/4) Consuming Everyday Life: Ordinary Experience Re-visited

Wk14 (30/4) From Community to Public Culture

Wk15 (7/5) Conclusion

Required Reading

Silverstone, Roger (1999) Why Study the Media? London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi: Sage

Publications.

CUS503 Pedagogy and Cultural Studies

Term 2, 2004-05

Instructors: Dr. Lau Kin-chi and Dr. Hui Shiu-lun

Time: Saturday, 2:30 – 5:30 pm

Venue: Lingnan University

Class Format: Weekly lecture/seminar/student presentations

Quota: 30

Language: Cantonese

Course Description

This core course will question the ‘ordinary’ ways we learn to see, speak, know and

experience things; that is, how we learn to behave both as subjects of our own actions and

when we are subjected to the actions of others. Theoretical approaches in cultural studies

to pedagogical processes formative of the person will be introduced to open up familiar

aspects of our behaviour for critical discussion. These include language, memory,

experience, culture, technology, knowledge, identity, and power. On the practical side,

the course will examine how education as an institutional practice works to perpetuate

established power relations. It will also examine how a ‘decolonizing’ approach to

pedagogy can bring together learning experiences that are normally excluded or

marginalized in formal education. The history and practice of education in Hong Kong

will be the main focus

Aims and Objectives

* To analyze existing educational practices;

* To introduce transformative models and practices of pedagogy.

Indicative Contents

* Rethinking education with theoretical insights from cultural studies;

* Issues of language and discourse; politics of representation; critical literacy; knowledge

and power relations; culture and experience;

* Existing pedagogical practices in Hong Kong;

* Case studies of alternative practices in decolonizing education.

Class Schedule

Wk1 (29/1) Introduction

I. Critical perspectives of knowledge

Wk2 (5/2)

(1) Institutionally validated knowledge (Introduction, Chapter 1 “What is knowledge?”,

Chapter 3 “The structures of knowledge” in Knowledge as Culture)

Wk3 (12/2) Chinese New Year Holiday

Wk4 (19/2)

(2) Subjugated knowledge (Michel Foucault “Two lectures” and “Truth and power” in

Power and Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977 and “The

poverty of practice, power, gender and intervention from an actor-oriented perspective”

in Battlefields of Knowledge)

II. Cultural politics of teaching and learning

Wk5 (26/2)

(3) Formal education, the sanctuary for the transmission of existing bodies of knowledge?

(Stealing Innocence Introduction and Section I: Corporate Power and the Culture of

Everyday Life)

Wk6 (5/3)

(4a) Theorizing for a cultural politics of everyday experience (Stealing Innocence Section

II: Cultural Politics and Public Pedagogy)

Wk7 (12/3)

(4b) Counternarratives Chapter 2 “Is there a place for cultural studies in Colleges of

education?”

Wk8 (19/3)

(5) Critical examination of pedagogical experiences in Hong Kong (discussion of projects

by fellow students last year)

Wk9 (26/3) Easter Holiday

III. Education and modern development

Wk10 (2/4)

(6) A critical look at critical pedagogies (Educating for Eco-Justice and Community

Preface, Introduction, Chapter 1 “Emancipatory Theories of Education”)

Wk11 (9/4)

(7) The practice of pedagogy orienting towards a different logic of development

(Educating for Eco-Justice and Community Chapter 4 “Elements of an Eco-Justice

Curriculum”, Chapter 5 “The Practices of an Eco-Justice Pedagogy”)

Wk12 (16/4)

(8) Lessons from the experiments of popular education in rural China in the early 20th

Century

Wk13 (23/4)

(9a) Alternative pedagogical experiences in Hong Kong or Asia (student presentations)

Wk14 (30/4)

(9b) Alternative pedagogical experiences in Hong Kong or Asia (student presentations)

Wk15 (7/5)

(9c) Alternative pedagogical experiences in Hong Kong or Asia (student presentations)

Assessment

100% continuous assessment.

Assignment

1. One presentation in class on one piece of required reading [20%]

2. One oral presentation of a case study in class [40%]

3. One term paper (10,000-15,000 Chinese characters or 5,000-7,500 English words)

[40%]

References

Required/Essential Reading

Giroux, Henry A (2000): Stealing Innocence: Corporate Culture’s War on Children, New

York: Palgrave

McCarthy, E. Doyle (1996): Knowledge as Culture: New Sociology of Knowledge,

London and New York: Routledge.

Recommended/Supplementary Reading

Bar On, Bat-Ami and Ann Ferguson eds. (1998): Daring to be Good: Essays in Feminist

Ethico-Politics, London and New York: Routledge.

Bender, Gretchen and Timothy Druckrey eds. (1994): Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of

Technology, Seattle: Bay.

Bowers, C.A. (2001): Educating for Eco-Justice and Community, Georgia: University of

Georgia Press

Dean, Mitchell (1999): Governmentality: Power and Rule in Modern Society, London:

Sage.

Donald, James (1992): Sentimental Education: Schooling, Popular Culture and the

Regulation of Liberty, London and New York: Verso.

Feenberg, Andrew and Alastair Hannay eds. (1995): Technology and the Politics of

Knowledge, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University.

Gane, Mike and Terry Johnson eds. (1993): Foucault’s New Domains, London and New

York: Routledge.

Giroux, Henry, Colin Lankshear, Peter McLaren and Michael Peters (1996):

Counternarratives: Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogies in Postmodern Spaces,

London and New York: Routledge.

Giroux, Henry A. and Patrick Shannon eds. (1997): Education and Cultural Studies:

Toward a Performative Practice, London and New York: Routledge.

Gordon, Colin ed. (1980): Power / Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings

1972-77 by Michel Foucault, New York: Pantheon Books

Harvey, Penelope and Peter Gow eds. (1994): Sex and Violence: Issues in Representation

and Experience, London and New York: Routledge.

Hernandez, Adriana (1997): Pedagogy, Democracy and Feminism: Rethinking the Public

Sphere, Albany: State University of New York.

Hooks, Bell (1994): Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom,

London and New York: Routledge.

Kumar, Satish ed. (1980): The Schumacher Lectures, London: Blond and Briggs.

Leeson, Lynn Hershman ed. (1996): Clicking In: Hot Links to a Digital Culture, Seattle:

Bay.

Long, Norman and Ann Long eds. (1992): Battlefields of Knowledge: The Interlocking

of Theory and Practice in Social Research and Development, London and New York:

Rouledge

McLaren, Peter and Peter Leonard eds. (1993): Paulo Freire: A Critical Encounter,

London and New York: Routledge.

Popkewitz, Thomas S, Barry M. Franklin, and Miguel A. Pereyra eds. (2001): Cultural

History and Education: Critical Essays on Knowledge and Schooling, London and New

York: Routledge Falmer.

Said, Edward (1994): Culture and Imperialism, New York: Vintage.

程介明 (1995):《政治變動中的香港教育》, 香港: 牛津大學出版社.

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CUS505 Methods in Cultural Research

Term 1, 2004-2005

Coordinator: Dr. Law Wing Sang

Instructors: Dr. Law Wing Sang and Dr. Mirana Szeto

Tutor: Mr. Cheng Wai Pang

Time: Saturday, 2:30 – 5:30 pm

Venue: Lingnan University

Class Format: Weekly lecture/seminar/student presentations

Quota: 60

Language: Cantonese

Course Description

This core course enhances the students to develop a reflexive attitude about and critical abilities of

different methods used by cultural researchers. Method here is understood not only as research

techniques, procedures, and practices, but also as involving the theories and perspectives that inform

the production of a particular kind of research and justify it in terms of knowledge-making. Practical

examples will be used to illustrate diverse cultural studies methods such as textual analysis,

ethnographic methods (participatory action research, interviews, focus groups and story-telling), oral

history, archival work, etc. Discussion of methodological issues involved in those examples will help

students map out the trajectories in which cultural studies as a discipline developed in the past and the

implications they have nowadays.

Aims and Objectives

* To guide students to pay critical attentions to the techniques and procedures of doing cultural

research in such different areas as literature, film and media, popular culture, gender studies and

postcolonial studies;

* To provide a platform for discussing different perspectives on research methods and related issues

such as research ethics, knowledge, and power.

Indicative Contents

What is Cultural Research?

· Researching Cultural Representation

· Researching Cultural Experience

· Researching Cultural Formation

Ontologies and Epistemologies of Cultural Research

· Positivism, Hermeneutic, Critical Theory

Methods and methodological issues in the shifting paradigms of Cultural Studies;

· Literary Humanism, Dialectical Sociology, Culturalism, Structuralism, Postmodernism, Feminism

· Textual Analysis, Ethnography, Archival work

Negotiating research relationships: Ethics, Power, Subjectivity, Institution

Class Schedule

Wk1 (29/1) Discipline/Reflexivity/Positionality

Wk2 (5/2) Theory in the Practice of Research

Wk3 (12/2) Chinese New Year Holiday

Wk4 (19/2) On Knowledge and Power I

Wk5 (26/2) On Knowledge and Power II

Wk6 (5/3) Psychoanalysis and Feminism

Wk7 (12/3) Politicizing Psychoanalysis

Wk8 (19/3) Sexual, Textual Politics: Difference and Representation

Wk9 (26/3) Easter Holiday

Wk10 (2/4) Researching Others: Ethnographic practice

Wk11 (9/4) Postmodern Ethnography

Wk12 (16/4) Rethinking the Concept of Experience: Perspectives from the Margins

Wk13 (23/4) Audience Research and Beyond: Studying Subjectivities

Wk14 (30/4) The Politics of Documentary

Wk15 (7/5) Postmodern Cultural Politics

CUS507 Feminism and Cultural Politics

Term 2, 2004-05

Instructors: Prof. Dai Jinghua and Dr. Chan Shun-hing

Timetable: Thursday, 6:45 – 9:45 pm

Venue: LR1, Lingnan U Hong Kong Education Centre

Class Format: Weekly lecture/seminar/student presentations

Quota: 30

Language: Cantonese and Putonghua

Course Description

This course deals with the cultural politics of gender and sexuality in relation to the historical

development of feminist thought in different geo-political settings. There are two major areas of focus.

The first deals with controversial debates around gender and sexuality as these affect women, such as

the cultural construction of gender; the body; sexual desire and orientation; the politics of difference;

production and reproduction; home and everyday life. The second focus is on feminist interventions in

different fields of knowledge, such as science, religion, philosophy, art and literature, language,

politics, economics, history and sociology, with particular emphasis on how gender and sexuality

shape representations and discourses on one hand and, on the other, what role representations and

discourses play in (re)shaping meaning and value in matters of gender and sexuality .

Aims and Objectives

* To introduce the common philosophy and concerns of feminism and cultural studies, asking how

these two cross-disciplinary studies can interface with each other;

* To provide a platform for discussing the theories and practices of feminism in the wider context of

current thought on gender and sexual politics.

Indicative Contents

* A historical review of how feminism is theorized, practiced and criticized in different cultural and

social contexts;

* Cultural construction of gender, the body, sexual desire and orientation; the politics of difference;

* Current Issues for discussion: gender mainstreaming in government policies and structures; the

commodification of sex under capitalism; alternative writing and representations of sexual practices;

gender, war and nationalism; alternative economies and women’s production/consumption;

‘passionate’ politics; the cultural politics of reading.

Class Schedule

I. Introducing Feminism and Cultural Studies

Wk1 (27/1) Dai Historicizing Feminism in Cultural Studies

Wk2 (3/2) Dai Class and Gender in Cultural Studies Perspective

Wk3 (10/2) (Chinese New Year Holiday)

Wk4 (17/2) Chan Cultural Construction of gender and feminism

II. Feminist Visual Theory and Cultural Studies

Wk5 (24/2) Dai Feminist theories in visual image and film studies

Wk6 (3/3) Dai Discussion of female subjectivities in visual culture

III. Feminism as Resources and Practices

Wk7 (10/3) Dai Feminist Theories and Practices in the Chinese Context

Wk8 (17/3) Dai The meaning and possibilities of feminism as resources (I)

Wk9 (24/3) Dai The meaning and possibilities of feminism as resources (II)

IV The Politics of the Everyday Life

Wk10 (31/3) Chan Theorizing women and everyday

Wk11 (7/4) Chan The re-conceptualization of home, work, and housewives

Wk12 (14/4) Chan Consumption subjectivity and women’s everyday life

V. Sexuality and Cultural Politics

Wk13 (21/4) Chan Women's sexuality and nation-building: practices and representation

Wk14 (28/4) Chan Current debates around sexuality issues in Hong Kong

Wk15 (5/5) Chan Concluding session

CUS508 Globalization and Contemporary Social Change

Term 2, 2004-05

Lecturers: Dr. Mirana Szeto, Mr. Ip Iam-chong and Guest Speaker

Timetable: Monday, 6:45-9:45 pm

Venue: LR1,Hong Kong Island Education Centre

Class Format: Weekly lecture/seminar/student presentations

Quota: 30

Language: Chinese and English

Course Description

This course will introduce a cultural studies approach to social change of the

contemporary world. Particular attention will be paid to how various processes of social

polarization—urban/rural, rich/poor, developed/underdeveloped—are conditioned by

forces that have global reach. Tracing those forces, in particular those of nation-states and

transnational corporations, the course will examine the resistance and complicity of

people drawn into such processes of polarization. The course will also consider how

negotiated boundaries between the “local” and the “global” are culturally established

and/or unsettled. Topics to be discussed may include war, development, poverty, cultural

identities, science and technology, alternative practices, transnational cultural politics and

the role of global media.

Aims and Objectives

* To provide students with a basic understanding of the contemporary global context;

* To examine the validity and implications of various discourses of globalization;

* To facilitate students’ understanding of how political and cultural practices are

structured, negotiated and contested in the changing global context;

* To foster reflection on how alternative practices and interconnections are possible

within that context.

Indicative Contents

* Discourses on globalization: Marxist schools, neo-liberal perspectives, feminist

perspectives, cultural studies;

* Globalization: myth, reality and representations;

* Selected issues of social change.

Class Schedule

I. Different Approaches to Globalization

Wk1 (24/1) Introduction

Wk2 (31/1) Global Cities, world city hypothesis

II. Political Globalization

Wk3 (7/2) Cosmopolitan Democracy

Wk4 (14/2) Post 911 New World Order

Wk5 (21/2) Debating Empire: Postmodern Resistance & Global Capitalism

III. Economic Globalization

Wk6 (28/2) Trade, Neo-Liberalism, WTO & Anti-WTO

Wk7 (7/3) Finance Globalization & its Crisis

Wk8 (14/3) Global Production Networks & Corporate Power

IV. Cultural Globalization

Wk9 (21/3) Globalizing Technologies of Control: the Hidden

Agenda of Video Games

Wk10 (28/3) Easter Holiday

Wk11 (4/4) Global Technological Resistance:

the Open Source Movement

Wk12 (11/4) Global Media as Foreign Policy:

the Untold History of Donald Duck and Walt Disney

Wk13 (18/4) Globalizing Problems of Desire:

Fashion, Beauty & Consumption

Wk14 (25/4) Globalization & Sexism: Migration,

Desiring the Foreigner, 包二奶, Factory Girls

CUS511B Topics in Cultural Institution and Policy: Contemporary Cultural

Policies

Course Coordinator: Prof. Stephen Chan and Ms. Karen Chan

Lecturers: Prof. Stephen Chan, Ms. Ada Wong Ying-kay and Guest Speakers

Time: Thursday, 6:45 – 9:45 pm

Venue: LR1, Hong Kong Island Education Centre,

Class Format: Weekly lecture/seminar/student presentations

Quota: 30

Language: Cantonese

Course Description

This elective course is the theoretical counterpart of the course “Workshop in Cultural Practices”. It

examines how public policy on culture can be understood in the framework of Cultural Studies, and it

focuses on the ways in which institutional factors affect the planning, development and management of

culture in contemporary societies. Issues of citizenship and subjectivity will be discussed in the context

of specific forms and processes of cultural governance.

Aims and Objectives

* To introduce the basic concerns of Cultural Studies with issues relating to the shaping of public

culture; that is, the institutional dimension of culture including social pedagogies and public policies on

“culture” in the broad sense of the term;

* To familiarize students with the critical perspectives needed for understanding that cultural matters

are significant social and public issues through in-depth study of a particular theme.

Indicative Contents

* Cultural hardware and software

* Heritage and civil society: urban renewal and cultural tourism, and issues in museum, educational

and media practices

* Culture and democracy: cultural citizenship and governmentality, and technologies of citizenship

Class Schedule

Wk1 (27/1) Introduction I: Culture between Government and a Way of Life

Wk2 (3/2) Introduction II: Critique or Policy? Re-positioning Cultural Studies

Wk3 (10/2) Chinese New Year Holiday

Wk4 (17/2) Introduction III: Why Cultural Policy? Contemporary Implications

Wk5 (24/2) Cultural Policy and Planning: The Case of West Kowloon I

Wk6 (3/3) Cultural Hardware and Software: The Case of West Kowloon II

Wk7 (10/3) Heritage and Civil Society I: Central Police Station complex, Wan Chai Market, King Yin Lei

Wk8 (17/3) Heritage and Civil Society II: Forum with Guest Speakers

Wk9 (24/3) Urban Renewal and Cultural Tourism: The Case of Wan Chai

Wk10 (31/3) Issues in Museum Practices

Wk11 (7/4) Issues in Educational Practices

Wk12 (14/4) Issues in Media Practices

Wk13 (21/4) Culture and Democracy I: Cultural Citizenship and Governmentality

Wk14 (28/4) Culture and Democracy II: Technologies of Citizenship

Wk15 (5/5) Culture and Democracy III: Forum with Guest Speakers

CUS512C Topics in Cultural Representation and Interpretation:

A Re-reading of the “Post Cold War”– interrogating representations

in film and literature “後冷戰”文學電影的再現與社會反思

Lecturers: Dr. Lau Kin-chi and Prof. Dai Jinhua

Timetable: Tuesday and Friday, 6:45 – 9:45 pm

Venue: LR1, Hong Kong Island Education Centre

Class Format: Weekly lecture/seminar/student presentations

Quota: 30

Language: Putonghua

Course Description

本課程將選擇若干部文學、電影文本，通過對文本的細讀，深入討論當前世界面臨的重要社會問題與理

論議題，諸如全球化、“後冷戰”、後殖民、第三世界。本課程希望在同學們的參與中，共同探討和處理

自 80 年代以來，新自由主義作為主導意識形態所製造的種種定見與謬誤的全球想像。

我們將從下列文學、電影作品中選擇兩三個單元，共同閱讀、觀摩和討論：

單元一：

《華氏 911》（美國紀錄片）·《他們的 911》·評論 911 的相關文章

我們將通過《華氏 911》這部獲得法國戛納電影金獎的紀錄片入手，討論 911 及圍繞著 911 事件的全球

緊張局面的顯影，討論美國新“帝國”的霸權及新自由主義的問題。

單元二：

《切·格瓦拉》（北京小劇場戲劇劇本）·El Che: Investigating A Legend（法國紀錄片）·馬可斯

（Marcos）的童話故事（墨西哥文學）

我們將通過這些相關文本，介紹討論著名的 20 世紀國際主義革命者、“20 世紀的英雄與偶像”切·格瓦拉

在今天中國的象徵意義，討論中國大陸在巨變中呈現的社會問題，新的社會抗衡話語與文化實踐的出

現。恰帕斯遊擊隊副司令馬可斯的童話故事，將作為引發革命出路想像的文本參考。

單元三：

《蜘蛛女之吻》(Kiss of the Spider Woman)（美國電影）·《蜘蛛女之吻》（Manuel Puig 阿根廷小

說）·《打開心門向藍天》（The Legend of Rita）（德國電影）

我們將通過這部討論後冷戰時代的歷史記憶與革命議題，討論其中的勝利者與失敗者，以及作為意識形

態實踐的“恐怖主義”敘述。

單元四:

《麵包與玫瑰》（Bread and Roses）（英國電影）

我們將通過這部英國著名的社會鬥士洛奇的影片討論今日世界的非法移民、外籍勞工、工人運動及其文

化再現、社會的另類出路（alternatives）。

《陽光下的星期一》(Mondays in the Sun)（西班牙電影）

我們將通過這部廣受好評的西班牙電影討論為全球化所加劇的社會問題，尤其是歐洲社會的失業問題、

年齡歧視及新的性別處境。

Love’s a Bitch（墨西哥電影）

我們將通過這部近年來最重要的墨西哥電影討論拉丁美洲及第三世界普遍存在的社會問題，討論所謂後

冷戰及後革命時代的社會議題。

《師傅越來越幽默》(莫言小說)

我們將通過這個短篇小說，看今日中國的失業問題怎樣被處理。

單元五：

《黑板》（Blackboard）（伊朗電影）

我們希望通過這部年輕的伊朗女導演的作品，討論國家民族主義、戰爭與現代教育的意義（或無意

義）。

《孩子要回家》（Rabbit Proof Fence）（澳大利亞電影）

我們將通過這部電影，討論今日世界的新殖民主義、種族問題，社會邊緣群體的生存和反抗。

《恥》(Disgrace) (JM Coetzee 南非小說)

我們將通過這部 2003 年諾貝爾文學獎得主的小說，探討種族隔離政策結束後的微妙複雜的南非“後殖民”

情狀。

單元六：

《黃土地》（中國電影）·《二嫫》（中國電影）·《富萍》（王安憶小說）

我們將通過晚近的中國電影和小說，討論當代中國社會所面臨的種種問題，尤其是現代化進程中的、數

量巨大的弱勢群體與形成中的底層社會，探討其出路與可能。

參考書目:

Anzaldua, Gloria (ed). 1990. Making Face, Making Soul: Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical

Perspectives by Feminists of Color. San Francisco: anne lute books.

Aronowitz, Stanley. 1994. Dead Artists, Live Theories and other Cultural Problems. London:

Routledge.

Chamber, Iain and Lidia Curti. (eds). 1996. The Post-colonial Question: Common Skies, Divided

Horizons. London: Routledge.

Hall, Stuart (ed). 1997. Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. London:

Sage and Open University.

Loomba, Ania. 1998. Colonialism/Postcolonialism. London: Routledge.

Peet, Richard. 2003. Unholy Trinity: The IMF, World Bank and WTO. London: Zed.

[美]麥可· 哈德《帝國》，韋本、李尚遠譯，臺灣商周出版，2000。

戴錦華 2004.《電影批評》北京：北京大學。

課程安排：（週二和週五； 兩位導師會同時出席所有課；課程集中在學期的前九周進行，之後幾周讓同

學寫論文。）

Wk1 (25/1) (28/1) 介紹課程；有關理論議題

Wk2 (1/2) (4/2) 第一個單元

Wk3 Chinese New Year

Wk4 (18/2) 第二个单元

Wk5 (22/2) (25/2) 第三個單元

Wk6 (1/3) (4/3) 第四個單元

Wk7 (8/3) (11/3) 第五個單元

Wk8 (15/3) (18/3) 第六個單元

Wk9 (22/3) 總結

CUS513C Research Seminar:Hong Kong’s Urban Future

Term 2, 2004-05

Instructors: Mr. Ma Kwok-ming, John

Timetable: Flexible teaching time

Class Format: Weekly or bi-weekly group meetings

Venue: Lingnan University

Quota: 5 (Year 2 students only)

Course Description

Hong Kong is a city. People in Hong Kong used to think of Hong Kong as a vibrant and colourful

metropolis. Even in the face of economic difficulty, phrases like “Asia’s world city”, “Super-Manhattan”,

“China’s New York” are still freely adopted by The Hong Kong Government and it seems the latter is

not content with just uttering words. Hong Kong will soon have its version of Disneyland and the

ambitious West Kowloon Cultural Complex is going ahead as planned. Even more significant than

these prestige projects are the numerous urban renewal schemes initiated in many so-called “old

areas”. These schemes are to be completed by the Urban Redevelopment Council, which has been

invested with wide-ranging power to appropriate land for redevelopment. In addition there are various

smaller-scale projects that aim to give a new look to the city and to enhance its image. The Tourist

Association too is doing its bits to enhance the look of Hong Kong by designating new tourist spots and

by sponsoring carnivals, fireworks and laser beam shows.

Hong Kong may be languishing in various ways, but it is putting on a brave face. The city is

aggressively promoting its image. But is this the way ahead? Are all the efforts at city renewal

necessary? In recent months, there are indications that the local population, who in the past seem to

be quietly accepting whatever that is being done to the face of Hong Kong, is awaking to the wanton

destruction of old buildings and the further reclamation of the Victoria Habour. People in Hong Kong

seem to be expressing their concern over the urban futures of Hong Kong more and more.

The research seminar on Hong Kong’s urban futures aims to review the relevant literatures on Hong

Kong’s urban setting as well as the globalized context of the 21st Century for cities throughout the

world. Hong Kong’s past history will also be closely examined to find out to what degree a heightened

understanding of Hong Kong’s past helps to ensure a brighter future.

Basic References

Ackbar Abbas, Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance. Minneapolis, University of

Minnesota Press, 1997.

David Clark, Urban World/Global City. London, Routledge, 1996.

Henri Lefebvre, The Urban Revolution. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2003

Helen Liggett, Urban Encounters. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2003.

John R. Logan & Harvey L. Molotch, “The City as a Growth Machine” in Susan S. Fainstein & Scott

Campbell eds, Readings in Urban Theory Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, 1996.

Jim McGuigan, Culture & the Public Sphere London, Routledge, 1996

Malcom Miles and Tim Hall eds, Urban Futures: Critical Commentaries on Shaping the City. London,

Routledge, 2003.

Jamie Peck & Kevin Ward eds, City of Revolution: Restructuring Manchester Manchester, Manhester

University Press, 2002.

Saskia Sassen, The Global City. Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University, 2001.

Allen J. Scott, The Cultural Economy of Cities. London, Sage, 2000.