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Exhibition Online: Let’s tell better stories - an exhibition of the creative, critical and cultural works of HMW staff

 

Book Exhibition

Date:

24 March - 28 April, 2017

Venue:

HKBU Library, Level 3

Authors' Sharing Session:

Date:

24 April, 2017

Time:

5:00 - 7:00 pm

Venue:

Multipurpose Room (AML 207), Level 2, HKBU Library

“If bad stories make bad politics, then better stories, while not guaranteeing better politics, open the imagination – of both possibilities and strategies.”

Lawrence Grossberg

About the Exhibition

 

Creative. Cultural. Critical

Department of Humanities and Creative Writing

Let's tell better stories …

This special collection of books showcases the academic, creative and popular works of academic staff in the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing in the past 2 years.

From the creative works that tell personal stories to collections that make up the literary canon of our era :

 

周耀輝《紙上染了藍》 

 

謝曉虹《香港文學大系 1919-1949:小說卷一》

  

To the cultural stories that paint a picture of our times:

Man, Eva

Issues of Contemporary Art and Aesthetics in the Chinese Context

Cheung, Charles

Media Power in Hong Kong: Hyper-Marketized Media and Cultural Resistance

陳錦榮、梁旭明編

《認識香港南亞少數族裔》

何建宗

《文藝勞動:香港創作人的工作與日常》

黎明海、文潔華編著

《與香港藝術對話:1980-2014》

金曄路、曹文傑、賴婉琪編著

《我城。我性:香港性/別日常》

何建宗、馮應謙、周耀輝、陳錦榮著

《透視男教授》

 

And critical narratives that offer a voice to the silenced:

Erni, John

Visuality, Emotions and Minority Culture - Feeling Ethnic

Erni, John N. and Murphy, Terry (eds.)

Between Literary and Cultural Studies: Asian Explorations

Man, Eva

Bodies in China: Philosophy, Aesthetics, Gender and Politics

Chong, Gladys

Chinese Subjectivities and the Beijing Olympics

陳錦榮、何建宗編著

《若隱若現:香港電影的非華人形象(1970至2010年代)》

金曄路

《上海拉拉:中國都市女同志群體與政治》

駱頴佳

《邊緣上的香港:國族論述中的(後)殖民想像》

文潔華

《女性主義哲學與身體美學》

文潔華

《獨與天地精神往來—當代中國美學新視域》

 

These works demonstrate the drive to embrace the complexity of the world and offer multiple perspectives to better understand the world we live in.

To those who might wonder what the Humanities offer, we hope that this selection would give you a glimpse of the possibilities that contribute to the core of a broad Liberal Arts Education.

Exhibition Highlights