ENTRY FOR 2021-2022

OBJECTIVESThe MA in Intercultural Studies Programme atThe Chinese University of Hong Kong is at thecutting-edge of the study of

lFilm and Digital MedialGender and SexualitylUrbanismlTechno-sciencelPost-humanismlEcological and Animal Rights

OBJECTIVES

lOur students learn how to apply diverse perspectivesand interdisciplinary methods to examine the complex,dynamic, and contingent interactions between socialstructures and processes and cultural representationsand identities.

lMethodologies include Literary and Cultural Studies,Critical Theory, Gender and Queer Studies, CulturalAnthropology, Science and Technology Studies, andUrban and Environmental Humanities.

OBJECTIVES

lOur students become equipped with thecritical awareness, cultural sensitivity, andanalytical knowhow needed to deal with thedifficulties and challenges of a globalized worldof intensifying disparities and conflicts.

STUDY SCHEMEStudents are required to complete 24 units of courses for graduation:

(a) Required courses: CULS5301 (3 unit)

(b) At least 5 Special Elective Courses: 15 units

or

(c) 2 General Elective courses from the CS Division except: CULS5316, 5318, 5319, 5321, 5322 or plus one 3-unit 4000-level undergraduate course from BA in Cultural Studies programme.

For details, please refer to http://www2.crs.cuhk.edu.hk/maics/study-scheme.

MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION

  The official languages of instruction are

English and Cantonese.

Tuition Fee in 2020-2021:

$120,000 (Full-time) (normative study period: 1 year)

$ 60,000 (Part-time) (normative study period: 2 years)

Core Course:• CULS5301 Concepts of Contemporary Culture

Special Electives:• CULS 5201 Basic Issues in Intercultural Studies• CULS 5202 Modern Urbanscape and Asian Culture• CULS 5203 The Body in Culture and Art• CULS 5204 Cultural Studies in Film and Video• CULS 5205 The Culture of Travel and the Travel of Culture• CULS 5206 Gender, Love and Sexuality in Intercultural Studies• CULS 5207 Interdisciplinary Study of Technoscience Culture

COURSE LIST(2020-2021)

Special Electives:• CULS 5208 Adaptations, Theatre and Culture

• CULS 5209 Special Topics in Intercultural Studies• CULS 5212 Globalization and the Politics of Representation• CULS 5213 Media and Popular Culture• CULS 5214 Politics of Cultural Identities• CULS 5215 MA Research Paper• CULS 5216 Queer Movements and Sexual Politics• CULS 5217 Digital Culture and Society• CULS 5218 Practical and Critical Film Criticism Writing

Special Electives:• CULS 5219 Chinese Society, Culture and Politics• CULS 5220 Cross-Dressing and Hong Kong Cinema• CULS 5222 Culture and Politics in the Anthropocene• CULS 5223 Animals and Society• CULS 5224 Discourse on Hong Kong, Hong Kong Discourse• CULS 5225 Chinese Independent Film Studies• CULS 5408 Mass Media and the Transformation of Modern Society• CULS 5412 Visual Research Methods• CULS 5413 User-Generated Content & Digital Culture• CULS 5416 Twentieth Century Chinese Visual Arts

CULS 5225 中國獨立電影研究The Chinese Independent Film Studies

本課將梳理三十年來中國獨立電影的發展歷史，描述其內部生態環境的變化，並研究和討論中國獨立電影的美學、政治、倫理和技術等多方面特征。

This course, in surveying its development of the past three decades, strives to describe the changes of the internal environment of the independent film’s circles, explore the aesthetic characteristics as well as, politics, ethics and techniques of the Chinese independent film.

TEACHERS

PROF. WU KA MING

Ph.D. (Anthropology), Columbia University

  Research interests: Cultural politics of state and society, citizen-making and identity politics, politics of tradition, gender and nationalism, waste and society, non-human turn of humanities

Programme Director

PROF. ELMO GONZAGA

  Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley)

  Research interests: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies; Southeast AsianStudies; Global Critical Theory; Transnational Film and ScreenStudies; Media Urbanism

  Publications: Monsoon Marketplace (Monograph under review); “TheCinematographic Unconscious of Slum Voyeurism,” Cinema Journal(2017); “Consuming Capitalist Modernity in the Media Cultures of1930s and 1960s Manila’s Commercial Streets,” Journal of AsianStudies (2019); “Precarious Nostalgia in the Tropical Smart City,”Cultural Studies (2019); “Infrastructure as Method in ArchipelagicSoutheast Asia,” Verge (2020); “Inter-Asian Infrastructural Imaginariesof Supply Chain Capitalism in the Planetary Network Blockbuster,”Interventions (Forthcoming)

Associate Programme Director

PROF. LIM SONG HWEE

Ph.D., M. Phil, University ofCambridge; B.A., National TaiwanUniversityResearch interests: film studies andcultural studies, including aspects ofgender and sexuality, issues ofpostcolonial and diaspora, andquestions of time, space, andidentity.

PROF. TAN JIA

Ph.D. in Critical Studies (Cinema-Television) With Visual StudiesGraduate Certificate University of Southern California

M.A. in Critical Studies (Cinema-Television) University of SouthernCalifornia

B.A. in Journalism, Tsinghua University

  Research interests: film and media studies, television studies,documentary, gender and sexuality, digital activism, human rights,and fantasy media.

DR. PANG KA WEI JANET

B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. (CUHK)

  Research interests: Gender and sexuality, life stories and health humanities

  Her recent publications include “The Making of Chinese Medicine in Hong Kong” (2018) in Social Transformations in Chinese Societies, an article on the representation of breast cancer in Hong Kong newspapers (in Chinese) in Gender and Sexuality in Everyday Hong Kong (2017) and a book chapter on the identity politics in Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (in Chinese) in A Reader in Cultural Studies (2014).

DR. LI TIECHENG

Ph.D. (CUHK)

  Research interests:

International independent film studies, Documentary studies, etc.

  Recent Research:

  The Influence of Ogawa Shinsuke on the Development of Independent Documentary in China and Hong Kong (Sumitomo Foundation )

  Rebuilding Historical Narrative in Chinese Independent Documentary Filmmaking. (Direct Grant from CUHK)

  Dr. Li is also a filmmaker, his documentary work My Film and Brother Wah

was screened in the 15th IFVA and the 6th Chinese Documentary Festival.

PROF. CHAN SIU HUNG NATALIA(PSEUDONYM: LOK FUNG)

Ph.D in Comparative Literature, University of California, San Diego.

  Research interests: cultural & film theory, gender studies, popular culture,performance studies, comparative literature, cross-dressing and fashion.

  Recent publications:“Queering Body and Sexuality: Leslie Cheung’s Gender Representationin Hong Kong Popular Culture” (2010)Gender-Crossing: Male Impersonation in Hong Kong Cinema (2016)

  Awards in 2016:“Artist for the Year- Arts Criticism” by the Hong Kong Arts DevelopmentCouncil“City Contemporary Dance Laureate” by the City Contemporary DanceCompany

MR. PUN KWOK LING LAWRENCE

MA in Humanities, The Hong Kong University of Scienceand Technology

  Recent publications: 《寫托邦與消失咒》(台北: 聯經,2016), 《存在之難》 (香港：香港文學, 2015), 《靜人活物》(台北:聯經, 2013),《親密距離》(香港: kubrick, 2010)

  Service: Mr. Pun has over ten years’experience in massmedia across press, publication, internet and radio.Having been a full-time reporter and editor, he continuesto write extensively for press, curate publication projectsfor publication houses, and hosts for radio programs ondemand. As a cultural practitioner, he is active in givingpublic talks, curating programs, taking up responsibilitiesto help fostering a more dynamic cultural and artisticsphere.

DR. CHAN KA MING

  Ph.D. (Cultural Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong)

  M.Phil. (Sociology, the University of Hong Kong)  B.S.S. (Social Science, the University of Hong Kong)

  Research Interest: Hong Kong Cinema Co-production Culture, Policy and Subjectivity; Politics of Celebrity, Stars and Popular Culture; Animals and Ecology Humanities; South Korean Popular Culture and Social Development.

  Published Book: Writing in the End Times - The Cultural Record for Animals (《寫在牠們滅絕之前 -香港動物文化誌》）

Ph.D. (Cultural Studies), CUHKM.A. (Cultural Studies), CUHKB.A (Chinese), Lingnan University

  Research interests:   The Cyber-politics of Globalization,   Cultural Industries of the Online Literature in the Greater China  Sinophone of Hong Kong Language and Literature  Ecoliterature in Chinese Literature  Game Studies

  Selected papers:  ‘Two Narratives on Hong Kong-Style Cantonese: The Linguistic Politics of “Chinese

Textbook” by Civil Society’, Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences (Vol. 50), 65-86.  ‘On “Gau Wu” in Umbrella Movement: the “re-making of Hong Kong” through Internet

Collective Creation by Hong Kong netizen’, ROUTER: A Journal of Cultural Studies (23), 245-280.

Dr. LAI Kwok Wai

VISITINGSCHOLARS

• He is Associate Professor of English, and holds the Francisco C. Delgado Professorial Chair in the Loyola Schools, Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines).

• Recent publications include “The Islandic in the Postcolonial Critique of American Empire” and the lead essay in art criticism, “Ways of Hearing: Auditing Elmer Borlongan as 'Emong',” in Rica Bolipata-Santos, Ed., An Ordinary Man/An Extraordinary Life.

• Globalization and Politics of Representations

• Politics of Cultural Identities

Prof. Oscar V. Campomanes(2019-2020)

STUDENT SURVEY RESULT(2019-2020)

Level of Satisfaction of Your Learning Experience from the Programme

GRADUATES’ TESTIMONIES

  Teachers were doing their best to enrich the formof the classroom. MAICS is a special andunforgettable experience where cultural studiesinteracts with realistic situations in the world. It is astarting point for us to think critically about thesociety. WANG Yuji, 2019-2020

  After every class, groups of students, including me, often went down to MTR together, either laughing or continuing to discuss the content of the class. The classmates who I studied with and competed with are excellent, friendly and humble.

ZHAO Jiagen, 2019-2020

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

1. A recognized university bachelor degree withhonours not lower than Second Class;

2. A bachelor degree of an honours programme ofa recognized university, achieving an averagegrade of not lower than "B"; or

3. Professional or similar qualifications from atertiary educational institution equivalent to anhonours degree

For more details, please visit: http://www2.cuhk.edu.hk/gss/entry.php

ENQUIRIES

Department website:http://www.crs.cuhk.edu.hk

Graduate SchoolTel: 3943-8976/8977 Website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/gss

Application Deadline28 Feb 2021