About the TalkIn this talk, Professor Du will share on her latest research about the animated film-making activities of the North China Film Company (a branch of the Manchukuo Film Association (株式會社滿洲映畫協會) also known as Manying (滿映) between 1937–45), which was located in wartime Peking.Focusing on a Chinese cartoonist and animator named Liang Jin (?–1972), as well as a few Japanese animators at the North China Film Company, she will show that although Manying’s animated filmmaking followed a philosophy of "territorialization" and localization, it  still made a fantasy world distanced from the wartime realities of China and Japan. This enabled the animations to transcend wartime political controls, persist through a tumultuous regime change, and assume multiple afterlives  as "ghosts" animating Chinese socialist cinema, despite institutional efforts to erase them from the history of Chinese animation and live-action filmmaking.Registration: https://lbcube.hkust.edu.hk/ce/event/9298Notes:This is a recognized event in the "Self-directed Experience" component of CORE1905: Behavioral Foundations of University Education: Habits, Mindsets, and Wellness. You need to attend the event in full to get 1.0 hour.No photography by the audience or any recording of this talk and its examples is allowed. About the SpeakerProfessor Du received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2012 and joined the faculty of the Division of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2013. Her book, Animated Encounters: Transnational Movements of Chinese Animation 1940s-1970s, (2019) is available in the Library in both paper and e-book format. She is currently working on two other books tentatively titled Plasmatic Empire: Animated Filmmaking in the Manchukuo Film Association (1937-1945) and Suspended Animation.She is interested in animation, film, media, feminist film criticism, critical race/ethnicity studies, transnational film studies, modern Chinese literature and visual culture, women/children/animal/machine/technology, travel/migration/diaspora, and modernity/modernism studies.Recently she started a new research project on women animators in China and is editing a few volumes about animation and new media. She is also the founder of the Association for Chinese Animation Studies, which is dedicated to introducing and promoting Chinese animation to the English-speaking world.  

About the Talk:Singapore appears to be moving towards a more open, competitive democracy. But this obscures the resilience of a conservative ruling party that has proved itself adept at accommodating popular sentiments without significant democratisation or political liberalisation.What are the prospects of political reforms in a liberal-democratic direction in a country that has long defied the predictions of modernisation theory? How resilient is Singapore’s model of illiberal democracy or soft authoritarianism? And will such reforms undermine the strong state and economic success that have been the hallmarks of Singapore?Prof. Donald Low of HKUST will discuss these topics, covered in his recent book, PAP v PAP : the partys struggle to adapt to a changing SingaporeRegistration: https://lbcube.hkust.edu.hk/ce/event/9064This is a recognized event in the “Self-directed Experience” component of CORE1905: Behavioral Foundations of University Education: Habits, Mindsets, and Wellness. You need to attend the event in full to get 1.0 hour.Photos will be taken during the talk. The Chinese edition of the book,  威權政治之困境 : 新加坡未來政治想像 = PAP v. PAP... will be available for sale at the talk for HKD $100 (cash only).  Enquiries: Victoria Caplan (lbcaplan@ust.hk) About the Author:Donald Low is a senior lecturer and professor of Practice in Public Policy at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, as well as director of the Institute for Emerging Market Studies.. He is the author of Hard Choices: Challenging the Singapore Consensus (2014), in e-copy in our collection; and the editor of Behavioural Economics and Policy Design: Examples from Singapore (2012) in hard-copy in our book collection (HC445.8 .B45 2012)  

About the TalkBased on the first comprehensive study of all Western printed maps of China until 1735 (https://brill.com/view/title/39120?language=en), this talk will first show how to look at old maps using examples of the HKUST rich map collection, then will explain how Europeans maps of China changed over time and what they can teach us about the history of Europe and China and their entangled relationship. It will also tell some of the unique stories that made possible these visions from another world, stories marked by scholarly breakthroughs, obsession, missionary zeal, commercial sagacity and greed.Date: October 13, 2022Time: 15:30 - 16:30Venue: Kaisa Group Lecture Theater (IAS LT), Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST (Direction)Registration: https://lbcube.hkust.edu.hk/ce/event/9069 Speakers BioMarco Caboara is the Manager (Digital Scholarship and Archives) at the Lee Shau Kee Library, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. As manager of the Archives he is also in charge of the Library Special Collections, most prominently of the Antique Maps of China Collection. He studied in Italy, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Beijing and Hong Kong, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle with a study of the linguistic features of Classical Chinese Bamboo Manuscripts. He has been a Research Fellow at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies, Uppsala, Sweden.He has just completed a comprehensive carto-bibliography of Western printed maps of China from 1580 to 1735, published by Brill and has presented the earliest stages of the book project at major international map conferences in Amsterdam, Berlin, Macau and Shanghai.