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HK SF Con in 2001
编辑时间：2004/10/12 幻想的边疆
Hong Kong 2001 Conference: TECHNOLOGY, IDENTITY, AND FUTURITY, EAST AND WEST,
IN THE EMERGING GLOBAL VILLAGE
January 4-6, 2001
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Co-sponsored by
the University of California, Riverside
This conference gathered scholars and writers from five continents and ten countries to explore how the contemporary Eastern and Western worlds are coming together in science fiction, literature, film, and other media. Although these worlds were once divided by geography, ignorance, and xenophobia, as revealed in speculative fiction and elsewhere, modern science and technology are now creating a globalized world, breaking down the boundaries between East and West and threatening traditional cultures and values.
One can observe these developments in the architecture, institutions, and social patterns of a city like Hong Kong, which maintains a commitment to its cultural identity while integrating foreign influences and intriguingly mirrors science-fictional images of future cities. A juxtaposition or blending of disparate values is also visible in the high-tech underworlds of cyberpunk fiction and the growing number of science fiction novels and films produced by Asian countries like Japan and China. This conference featured papers from all relevant disciplines that deal with the past and present interactions of technology, tradition, globalization, and identity along the East-West axis, primarily but not exclusively focusing on literature and film.
more information:
http://logic.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/~b105685/01home.htm
Posted by Yan(Oct. 12, 2004)
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