{"id":1937,"date":"2026-08-11T10:36:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T10:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/complit.hku.hk\/?page_id=1937"},"modified":"2026-08-17T11:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:50:13","slug":"clit2028-the-city-as-cultural-text","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/complit.hku.hk\/index.php\/clit2028-the-city-as-cultural-text\/","title":{"rendered":"CLIT2028: The city as cultural text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>6 credits| <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/complit.hku.hk\/index.php\/faculty\/ian_fong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Ian FONG<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If contemporary cities are becoming more \u2018invisible\u2019, it is because the effects they have upon us are indirect and displaced.\u00a0 Our experience of cities becomes more problematic as cities themselves become more complex.\u00a0 This course explores the changing \u00a0spaces of cities mainly through major works of fiction and of cinema, though it will include other forms like painting and architecture as well as theoretical texts. Topics for discussion include: How is urban experience transformed by colonialism\/imperialism, technology, information?\u00a0 What are the different ways of reading the city?\u00a0 Is Hong Kong a \u2018Chinese city,\u2019 and what is a Chinese city to begin with?\u00a0 How can the city be read as a cultural text?<\/p>\n<p>Assessment: 100% coursework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 credits| Dr. Ian FONG If contemporary cities are becoming more \u2018invisible\u2019, it is because the effects they have upon us are indirect and displaced.\u00a0 Our experience of cities becomes more problematic as cities themselves become more complex.\u00a0 This course explores the changing \u00a0spaces of cities mainly through major works of fiction and of cinema, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/complit.hku.hk\/index.php\/clit2028-the-city-as-cultural-text\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CLIT2028: The city as cultural text&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1937","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/complit.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/complit.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/complit.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complit.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complit.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/complit.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2002,"href":"https:\/\/complit.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1937\/revisions\/2002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/complit.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}