Comments on: Conversations in Hong Kong

By: Character challenge | Language on the Move

Character challenge | Language on the Move — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 01:39:51 +0000

[…] my recent visit to Wuhan and Hong Kong I was planning to accept the Esperanto challenge that a number of readers had recently thrown at us […]

By: Multilingual Hong Kong | Language on the Move

Multilingual Hong Kong | Language on the Move — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:24:24 +0000

[…] During our visit to Hong Kong, Kimie and I met Katherine Chen, who introduced us to a sociolinguistic film she has co-produced: Multilingual Hong Kong. The film provides fascinating insights into the linguistic landscape of Hong Kong, into Cantonese-English bilingualism and into bilingual language use more generally. […]

By: khan

khan — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:03:43 +0000

Thanks Professor Ingrid for sharing your experiences with HK students.

It is always fascinating for students of ethnography to see macro political discourse microscopically. There has been a lot going on in international media about the tension of HK colonial identity and the Chinese. Students’ questions evidence it as well.

About banal nationalism, I would like to share my personal observation. The nationalistic forces often have arguments for nationalism and national institutions but in practice the paradox is apparent. That is, for majority it is national curriculum, national textbook, national examination system mean to reproduce nationalistic identity with little changes to have access to international labour market, for a select group- often the elite of nationalistic groups- international education, international examination and international labour market or key positions in nationalistic economy. I completely second HK students observations on your book. n
Kha

By: Adam Jaworski

Adam Jaworski — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 03:30:04 +0000

Hi Ingrid (and Kimie)
It was great to see you here in Hong Kong. Thanks for the visit and meeting up with us — the Intercultural Communication class. We certainly enjoyed our dialogue with you. Shame about Dragonair messing up our plans for your Workshop here. We’ll just have to make sure you visit us again. Adam.