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Schedule
30 May 2015 | 31 May 2015
Venue: Room 4.36, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong.

Saturday, 30 May 2015
       
  9:30 - 10:00 Opening Remarks
Professor Douglas Kerr, Dean, Faculty of Arts
Dr. Kendall Johnson, Head, School of Modern Languages and Cultures
 
    Tea and Coffee  
1. 10:00 - 10:45 George Chun Han Wang “King Hu and America” Abstract
    5 Minutes Break  
2. 10:50 - 11:35 Staci Ford “California Dreamin': King Hu's Revisionist West” Abstract
    5 Minutes Break  
3. 11:40 - 12:25 Valerie Soe “The Cinematic Equivalent of Cantopop: China Lion Film Distribution in the US” Abstract
  12:25 - 2:00 Lunch Break  
4. 2:00 - 2:45 Gina Marchetti “Lean In or Bend Over? American Feminism and Hong Kong’s WONDER WOMEN” Abstract
    5 Minutes Break  
5. 2:50 - 3:35 Wimal Dissanayake “Hong Kong in the Hollywood Imaginary: De-territorializations and Re-territorializations in John Woo’s Films” Abstract
    Coffee and Tea Break  
6. 4:00 - 4:45 Dorothy Wong “Problems of Cultural Translation: A Discussion of Tsui Hark’s Knock-off Abstract
    5 Minutes Break  
7. 4:50 - 5:35 Ian Pettigrew “Entering the Cinema of Attractions' Matrix: Yuen Woo-Ping's Merging of New Hollywood Spectacle with Kung-Fu Choreography” Abstract
  6:00 - Conference Dinner