PROFILE

Danny Weng-kit Chan is PhD in Hong Kong Studies at HKU. He teaches English, bilingual studies & communication at College of Professional and Continuing Education, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research focuses on the correlation between temporality, communal imaginations and spectrality in the cultural economy and exchanges of Hong Kong, Mainland China and South east Asia.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Cinema of Hong Kong and China
• Coloniality, Postcoloniality & Nationality
• Ghosts and Hauntings
• Popular Cultures
• Hong Kong Literature

PUBLICATIONS (Selected)

Journal Articles

"Beyond Nationhood: Border and Coming of Age in Hong Kong Cinema” Global Media and China 2020, Vol. 5(2):154-168

"Spectralizing Southeast Asia: Hong Kong Cinema of Black Magic,” Hong Kong Studies 2.1 (2019): 1-14.

陳永傑: （冷戰的寓言: 邊界、童年與五十年代初香港電影），《文化研究季刊》，第163期（2018），頁30–50。

"Mythicizations of the Nationless: Hong Kong Spectral Temporality,” Tamkang Review 46.1 (December 2015): 49-74. DOI:10.6184/TKR201512-3

Book Chapters

陳永傑: 〈 國惑 〉，《香港關鍵詞》，朱耀偉編，香港：中文大學出版社， 2019年，頁149–157。

COURSES TAUGHT

• CLIT 7021: Approaches to Cinematic Arts, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU