DEPT OF JAPANESE STUDIES
| Researcher : Cave P |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Cave P., Could We and Should We Write Another Chrysanthemum and the Sword?, Globalization, Localization, and Japanese Studies in the Asia-Pacific Region (International Symposium Organised by the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, and the Department of Japanese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong). Hong Kong, 2005. |
| Cave P., Diversity and the Secret of 'Success' in Japan's Other Education System, Association for Asian Studies 58th Annual Meeting. San Francisco, 2006. |
| Cave P., Editor, Japan Anthropology Workshop Newsletter. 2006. |
| Cave P., History Teaching and the Imperial Past in Japan and England, Globalization, Localization, and Japanese Studies in the Asia-Pacific Region (International Symposium Organised by the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, and the Department of Japanese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong). Hong Kong, 2005. |
| Cave P., Learning to Live with the Imperial Past? History Teaching, Empire, and War in Japan and England, In: Edward Vickers & Alisa Jones, History Education and National Identity in East Asia. New York, NY, Routledge, 2005, pp. 307-333. |
| Cave P., Member of Editorial Board, Asian Anthropology. 2005. |
| Cave P., Member, Executive Committee, Hong Kong Anthropological Society. 2006. |
| Cave P., Review of Bronwyn Davies & Hiroyuki Kasama, Gender in Japanese Preschools, Asian Anthropology. 2005, 4: pp. 149-152. |
| Cave P., The Construction of History: Empire and War in the Classrooms of England and Japan, 14th Biennial Conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia. 2005. |
| Cave P., Why Asian studies are crucial to Britain's future, Financial Times. London, 2005. |
| Researcher : Chan CY |
| Project Title: | A history of Hong Kong and Japan relations |
| Investigator(s): | Chan CY, Yeung VWY |
| Department: | Japanese Studies |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Small Project Funding |
| Start Date: | 11/2004 |
| Abstract: |
| To make use of the massive data we collected in the previous years, we plan to work on a new book that probes into the nature and significance of Hong Kong-Japan relations. |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Researcher : Hui CH |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Wong H.W. and Hui C.H., The Influences of Japanese Popular Culture in Hong Kong: Case Studies of Japanese Popular Music and Yaohan, 香港における日本の大衆文化の文化的影響－日本のポップミュージックとヤオハンに関するケーススタディ, Japanese Studies. 日本學研究, Beijing, 2005, 15: 182-197. |
| Researcher : Lai EYW |
| Project Title: | Pronunciation - teaching pedagogy for native Cantonese teachers of second languages |
| Investigator(s): | Lai EYW |
| Department: | Japanese Studies |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Other Funding Scheme |
| Start Date: | 01/2002 |
| Abstract: |
| To promote general pronunciaton culture of Cantonese speakers; to help native Cantonese teachers of second languages develop effective pronunciation - teaching strategies. |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Lai E.Y.W., 2 seminars on 'Foreign Language Accent' delivered to staff members including senior directors of Housing Authority in February 2006, a total of 600 people attended. ., Housing Authority, HK Government. 2006. |
| Lai E.Y.W., A lecture on 'Cantonese Accent in English' to MTR staff with an audience of 220 in May 2006. Training sessions on pronunciation to Putonghua speaking staff members ofChina Overseas Constuction Company in March 2006., MTR Corporation. 2006. |
| Lai E.Y.W., Invited lectures as Chief Consultant to 'Speak as Native' campaign, collaborated by Hong Kong Economic Times Group and City University, as a continuation of Oxford University Press's 'Speak Better English' campaign (from 2003 to 2006). Seminars and lectures were delivered to audience from all professional sectors in capacities ranging from a few hundreds to over a thousand at a time. , Hong Kong Economic Times Holdings. 2006. |
| Lai E.Y.W., Learning Cantonese Pronunciation in IPA. Hong Kong, Hong Kong Economic Times Group, 2006, approx.150. |
| Lai E.Y.W., Training sessions on pronunciation to Putonghua speaking staff members of China Overseas Constuction Company in March 2006., China Overseas Construction Company. 2006. |
| Researcher : Lai YW |
| Project Title: | Pronunciation - teaching pedagogy for native Cantonese teachers of second languages |
| Investigator(s): | Lai EYW |
| Department: | Japanese Studies |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Other Funding Scheme |
| Start Date: | 01/2002 |
| Abstract: |
| To promote general pronunciaton culture of Cantonese speakers; to help native Cantonese teachers of second languages develop effective pronunciation - teaching strategies. |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Researcher : Murakami F |
| Project Title: | A Study of Weak People in Japanese Literature: From Genji to Kawabata |
| Investigator(s): | Murakami F |
| Department: | Japanese Studies |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Small Project Funding |
| Start Date: | 09/2005 |
| Abstract: |
| With the CRCG research grant awarded in 1998-2000, I conducted a research on the topic of postmodernism, feminism and postcolonialism appeared in Japanese literature. The result was and will be published in the following publications. 1. A book: Postmodern, Feminist and Postcolonial Currents in Contemporary Japanese Culture: A Reading of Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kōjin (London and New York: Routledge, June or July 2005; forthcoming), about 208 pages. 2. A journal article: “Murakami Haruki’s Postmodern World,” Japan Forum, 14 (1), (London: Routledge, April 2002), pp. 127-141. 3. A conference paper: “Yoshimoto Takaaki and the Globalisation (吉本隆明与全球化),” in Proceedings of the International Conference on the East Asian Society and Culture in the Changing Period『変動期的東亜社会与文化』, (Tianjin, China: Tianjin People's Press, August 2002), pp. 140-150 (in Chinese). The present resaerch follows on from the above previous research. In the above study I analysed the literary works of four contemporary Japanese writers – Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kōjin – from the perspectives of postmodernism, feminism, queer studies and postcolonial studies. I attempted to critique the modernism from the viewpoint of postmodernism. The opposition between the modern and postmodern ideologies in the previous research will appear in this present research in the form of “respect for the strong” (modernist ideology) and “sympathy with the weak” (postmodernist ideology). When like this case two opposing ideologies coexist, they often conflict, negotiate and compromise. And in my view, the good and impressive literary work in general, which is expected to represent contemporary society in some distinct ways, seems to uniquely reflect the process on which these two contradictory ideas conflict, negotiate and compromise and well balance these two ideas. Thus, the present research attempts to see the way how these two contradictory ideologies conflict, negotiate and compromise in some of major Japanese literary work, focusing on the weak, insulted and sacrificed characters. More in specific, I will see the way how the weak and low social status characters are despised and discriminated, on the one hand, and how they are sympathised with, helped, saved and placated, on the other. I will also see how the strong are respected and awed, on the one hand, and how they are hated and become a target of weak people's vengeance, on the other. How do these two contradictory ideas – “respect for the strong” and “sympathy with the weak” – conflict, negotiate and compromise, and how are they dealt with in the monogatari discourse? These are the questions raised and examined in this research. Before analysing the weak and poor people depicted in literary work, it is helpful to refer to the theoretical work of its contemporary period. Thus, I will first briefly outline the strong-weak issue in the Buddhist, Confucian, Modernist and Christian thoughts in Japan. Following the analysis of the theoretical work, in contrast to my previous book which dealt with four contemporary Japanese writers, the present research examines the Japanese literary work more widely from the eleventh to twentieth century – "The Tale of Genji" in the eleventh century Heian period, "The Tale of the Heike" which was compiled and revised through the thirteenth to fourteenth century Kamakura period, Kyokutei Bakin's "The Biographies of Eight Dogs" written in the nineteenth century Tokugawa period and finally Kawabata Yasunari’s three novels, "The Izu Dancer" (1926), "Snow Country" (1935-1947) and "The Thousand Cranes" (1949-1951) in the twentieth century. |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Murakami F., A member of editorial board , In: Miyazoe Wong Yuko, Maggie Leung, Usami Mayumi, Miyazaki Satoshi, Murakami Hitoshi, Murakami Fuminobu, others, Japanese Studies. Hong Kong, Society of Japanese Language Education, Hong Kong, 2006, 10: 196. |
| Murakami F., Between 'Non-Written' and 'Non-Language' Cultures, 「非文字」と「非言語」のあいだ, In: Kanagawa University 21st Century COE Program Systematization of Nonwritten Cultural Materials for the Study of Human Societies, News Letter: The Study of Nonwritten Cultural Materials. 非文字資料研究, Yokohama, Kanagawa University 21st Century COE Program, 2005, 10: 11-12. |
| Murakami F., Postmodern, Feminist and Postcolonial Currents in Contemporary Japanese Culture: A Reading of Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kōjin . Oxon/New York, Routledge, 2005, 206. |
| Researcher : Nakano Y |
| Project Title: | Japanese products, Chinese intermediaries: from TV sets to TV programs |
| Investigator(s): | Nakano Y |
| Department: | Japanese Studies |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Seed Funding for New Staff |
| Start Date: | 07/2004 |
| Abstract: |
| To examine flow of Japanese television sets and television programs to Hong Kong and Mainland China. |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Nakano Y., A Recipe for Diversity: Cooking Different Varieties of Rice in Asia. , In: Urvashi Butalia, Jong Won Lee, Masaaki Ohashi, and Karina A. Bolasco, The Community of Asia: Concept or Reality?. Philippines, Anvil Publishing, 2006, 318-325. |
| Nakano Y., A Recipe for Diversity: The Role of Chinese Intermediaries in Globalizing Japanese Rice Cookers, Globalization, Localization and Japanese Studies in the Asia-Pacific Region, International Symposium organized by International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto and Department of Japanese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong. 2005. |
| Nakano Y. and Wu Y., Puchiburu no Kurashi-kata: Chugoku no Daigakusei ga Mita Nihon no dorama [Aspirations for a Middle-Class Lifestyle: Japanese Pop Culture on Chinese Campuses.] , In: Kondo, Atsuko, and Chika Maruyama (eds.), Abroad in Komaba, The University of Tokyo., Bunka heno Manazashi [For Advanced Learners of Japanese: Facets of Culture]. Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press, 2005, 122-136. |
| Nakano Y., Softening the Sharp Edges of “Japan”: Growing up with Tojo, Doraemon, and Tokyo Love Story in China , “Soft Power and Public Diplomacy” jointly organized by the Social Science Research Council and Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership at The Reischauer Institute, Harvard University. 2006. |
| Nakano Y., Turning Japanese Electric Rice Cookers into Chinese: A Historical Overview of Japanese Rice Cookers in Hong Kong , Hong Kong Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Tourism and Service Industry Section. 2005. |
| Researcher : Refsing K |
| Project Title: | Asian encounters with western missionaries: the case of the church missionary society in Japan 1869-1945 |
| Investigator(s): | Refsing K |
| Department: | Japanese Studies |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Competitive Earmarked Research Grants (CERG) |
| Start Date: | 09/2001 |
| Completion Date: | 08/2005 |
| Abstract: |
| To analyze the motives of the missionaries, the impact working in often harsh conditions had upon them and on their families, and the effect they had on the local communities in which they worked; to justify their missionary work, attract funding, and increase their own prestige often led them to present the indigenous populations among which they worked in a highly ideological manner. |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Refsing K., When West met East and made it West: Occidentalizing the Ainu, In: Hendry, Joy and Heung Wah Wong, Dismantling the East-West Dichotomy. London and New York, Routledge, 2006, 149-155. |
| Researcher : Wong HW |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Wong H.W. and Hui C.H., The Influences of Japanese Popular Culture in Hong Kong: Case Studies of Japanese Popular Music and Yaohan, 香港における日本の大衆文化の文化的影響－日本のポップミュージックとヤオハンに関するケーススタディ, Japanese Studies. 日本學研究, Beijing, 2005, 15: 182-197. |
| Wong H.W., The Success of Yaohan and the Social Changes of Hong Kong, 八佰伴的崛起與香港社會變遷, In: Lee Pui Tak, Japanese Culture in Hong Kong. 日本文化在香港, Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong Press, 2006, 151-173. |
| Researcher : Yorozu M |
| Project Title: | A study on motivation and learning strategies |
| Investigator(s): | Yorozu M |
| Department: | Japanese Studies |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Other Funding Scheme |
| Start Date: | 04/2001 |
| Abstract: |
| To investigate how language learners' motivation (to learn) and their learning strategies influence each other; to explore implications in language learning acquisition process. |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Yorozu M., Honorifics Instruction Based on Error Analysis, Presentation by invitation at a meeting of Hong Kong Society of Japanese Language Education. 2006. |