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and ethnical style of regional dwelling. By introducing different types of buildings, students can
understand the geographical features and historical evolution of Chinese architecture, as well
as the similarities and differences between social life and ethnic customs in different regions.

GEA 204 Hong Kong Kung-fu Novels, Films and Chinese Culture
1 Term; 3 Credits
Kung-fu novels and films have marshalled an impressive popularity in Hong Kong for
many decades. Throughout its history, this genre, unique in Hong Kong style, has been
punctuated by its different stages of development in terms of the aesthetics of human action,
and its success in attuning to the taste of readers and viewers for entertainment purposes.
This notwithstanding, many of the texts in this genre encompass an active encounter with the
Chinese yin-yang starting from I-Ching and Daoism itself. By going into the repertoire of an
embodied aesthetics of action through the technicity of martial art, students will be introduced
to the terrains of interdisciplinary studies in which “natural technology”, body capacity and its
“moving-in” with metallic tools, and the visuality of film-form, all merge together. Emphasis will
be placed on how cinematic apparatuses can work wonders in dramatizing an assemblage of
cultural systems which are inspired by the tai-ji emblem, where yin being an inner scaffolding
of intensive energy, and yang as consolidated outward force, all configured on screen by the
cinematic technique of “differential speeds”.

Area 2: Communication and Literacy

GEB 101 Digitalization of Communication and Technology in Daily Life
1 Term; 3 Credits
Digitalization of communication and technological development has provoked so great
impacts in society and everyday life. This course aims to stimulate and inspire students’
awareness on the influences of digitalization and technology on their daily encounters. By
discussing on the issues arising from the digitalization and technological development at
economic, social, cultural and political dimensions, students are expected to realize, and be
critical to the impacts and implications of both trends to every walk of life.

GEB 102 Media and Society
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course selects several important topics relevant to the development of mass media
to investigate their social, economic and political effects on the individual and society, together
with the emergence of communication technologies. Emphasis is put on interactions between
media, technology and society. Through discussions on local and international cases, it is
expected that students’ media literacy, that is, ability to access, analyse, evaluate, and
communicate phenomenon, can be enhanced.

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