Cheung, Sidney C.H.. 2015. Making Hong Kong's Coastal Wetland a Resource for Tourism Development: A Cross-cultural and Multi-disciplinary Project to Understand Historical Background and Coastal Heritage. SPC Traditional Marine Resource Management and Knowledge Information Bulletin, issue 35, pp. 26-31. This article discusses cultural history of the wetland in Hong Kong's northwest coast and argues for the importance of fishery heritage in wetland conservation. Using the example of Inner Deep Bay in the northwest New Territory, the article illustrates the tension between agriculture, fishery heritage management, and environmental conservation. The full article can be accessed via this link.
Cheung, Sidney C.H.. 2015. From Cajun Crayfish to Spicy Little Lobster: A Tale of Local Culinary Politics in a Third-Tier City in China. In James Farrer (Ed.), Globalization and Asian Cuisines: Transnational Networks and Contact Zones (pp. 209–228). New York: Palgrave MacMillan Press. This chapter explains the rise of crayfish eating in Jiangsu, China through the investigation of establishment of local festival, crayfish museum, local events, etc. It aims to show the significance of a newly invented spicy crayfish dish means in the local context of development, and how it brought changes to a third-tier city in China during the last two decades. A preview of the chapter is available here.
Chen, Ju-chen. 2015. Sunday Catwalk: The Self-making of Pilipino Migrant Women in Hong Kong. In Yuk Wah Chan, Heidi Fung and Grażyna Szymańska-Matusiewicz (Eds.), The Age of Asian Migration: Continuity, Diversity, and Susceptibility Vol. II (pp. 44-66). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Hong Kong currently has over 300,000 foreign domestic helpers, most of whom from Indonesia and the Philippines. Based on ethnographic research, this chapter describes a variety of beauty pageants and talent performances of Filipino domestic helpers in Hong Kong. It analyzes their motivations for joining such activities and their experiences of self-making and community building in such processes. Click here for a preview of the chapter.
"Multicultural Hong Kong in Celebration" series in Hong Kong Discovery Since January 2015, members of the Centre have been writing for the "Multicultural Hong Kong in Celebration" series in the bilingual magazine Hong Kong Discovery to bring detailed community lives and festival celebrations of ethnic minorities to general readers. Topics include:
Durga Puja: An Indian Festival in Hong Kong (by Siumi Maria Tam and Winsome Lee, published January 2015)
The Hong Kong Rugby Sevens: A Festival of Globalization (by Joseph Bosco, published March 2015)
Matinee on Sundays: Cultural Festivals and Beauty Pageants of Overseas Filipino Workers in Hong Kong (by Ju-chen Chen, published May 2015)
Songkran: A Sprinkle of Thai Fiesta in Hong Kong (by Rick Leung, published July 2015)
Africans and Football in Hong Kong (by Sealing Cheng, published September 2015)
Celebrating Cultural Diversity in a Multi-ethnic School in Hong Kong (by Wai-Chi Chee, published November 2015)
Jamshedi Navroz: A Parsi New Year Celebration (by Leanne Fung, published January 2016)
(preview only) The Forgotton History of Gurkhas in Hong Kong (by Wai-man Tang, published April 2016)
(preview only) Recounts of the Tropics: Indonesian Chinese Returnees in Hong Kong (by Kok Chung ONG, published July 2016)
Events
The Material Culture and Activism at Bukit Brown Cemetery, Singapore In collaboration with the Programme in Cultural Management, the Centre has invited Prof. Chee-Kien Lai from the Singapore University of Technology and Design on October 2015 to give two public lectures on heritage preservation movements in Singapore.
Overseas Death, Burial Practices, and Ancestral Worship: An Interpretation for Cremation Practices among Diasporic Chinese in the Philippines The Centre invited Prof. Gyo Miyahara (宮原曉), the Deputy Director and Professor in Global Collaboration Center at Osaka University, to give a talk on the cremation practices among diasporic Chinese in the Philippines.
Assessment Tour to Wolong, Sichuan (四川卧龍) On September 2015, the Centre was invited by Hong Kong Discovery to coordinate a five-day assessment tour to Wolong, Sichuan in order to access the capacity of the local eco-tourism service providers after the devastating May 2008 earthquake. Fifteen CUHK undergraduate students participated in the tour. The group visited the a number of sites, including panda research facilities, local villages (reconstructed with donations by Hong Kong government), gulches and valleys, temperate forest, highland terrains, and museums. The trip provided a basic understanding the resilience of the local people in recovering from the disaster and how they rebuild their livelihood through developing eco-tourism. Click here to read the feedbacks written by the student participants (in Chinese only).