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The Pleasures and Perils of Hong Kong Pulp Fiction
The Pleasures and Perils of Hong Kong Pulp Fiction
Event Details
Start:
11 October 2018 4:00 pm
End:
11 October 2018 5:00 pm
Venue:
Room 213, MOA
Categories:
Public Lecture
Visual & Material Culture Seminar Series
What did people read for pleasure in mid-century Hong Kong? Chances are that on the tram, on the bus, or surreptitiously tucked between the pages of a textbook one would find one of the city’s thousands of pulp fiction publications: perhaps a magazine like
Martial Arts World
or
Crime World
or
Blue Cover Detective Magazine
or the “men’s magazine”
Mini
; or maybe a “three-dime” paperback like Liu Yichang’s
Lust Under the Coconut Palms
or Du Ning’s
Ten Years of Bitter Love
. Come hear UBC professor Christopher Rea talk about the lasting influence of these beloved and reviled mass culture products, from the 1950s to today.
(Picture: Blue Cover Detective Magazine, Hong Kong, c.
1960s
. Photo courtesy of Dr. Sai-Shing Yung.)
When:
Thursday October 11, 2018 | 4 – 5 pm
Where:
MOA Room 213
Speaker:
Christopher Rea, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies, UBC
More info at: https://moa.ubc.ca/visual-and-material-culture-seminar-series/the-pleasures-and-perils-of-hong-kong-pulp-fiction/