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2025/26 School of Chinese Research Student Seminar

 
重構家園：香港在台詩人離散書寫中的懷舊與鬼魅
Reimagining Home: Nostalgia and Ghosts in the Diasporic Writing of Hong Kong Poets in Taiwan
 
Speaker: Mr. POON Kwok Hang 潘國亨 (MPhil)
 
Date & Time: February 6, 2026 (Fri) 17:30-18:45 (HKT)
 Language: English
 Venue: CRT-7.30, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
 
Mode of Delivery: Face-to-face

Abstract:
2019年後，香港離散在台的詩人於多個方面更新了其對懷舊與鬼魅的書寫。本次演講將首先討論陳滅的文論及詩作如何從社會、倫理等面向反思懷舊，並提出一種嚴謹的「復刻」香港的詩學。而韓祺疇、曹疏影與廖偉棠則透過召喚鬼魂，建構一種幽靈式的時間觀，模糊過去、現在與未來的界線。透過書寫已經失落的(no longer)，他們重新拼湊出個人與文化歷史的失落碎片；透過回應尚未到來的(not yet)，他們直面已經落空的未來及願景，從而在沉痛的當下中想像出另一種形式的抵抗與韌性。結合香港研究的方法及批判理論，本次演講將分析這些詩人／批評者如何以「時間」作為關鍵概念，連結一個後2019寫作群體，以及他們遍布全球的華文讀者。

Hong Kong diasporic poets in Taiwan after 2019 have renewed their engagement with concepts of nostalgia and ghosts in plural ways. This talk starts with Chan Mit’s reading of nostalgia that reflects on its social and ethical dimensions, and invokes a meticulous poetics of “remastering” (復刻) Hong Kong. Hon Ki-chau, Cao Shu-ying, and Liu Wai-tong are poets who summon ghosts to construct a haunting that blurs the boundaries between past, present, and future. By writing about what is no longer, these poets piece together lost fragments of personal and cultural histories; by addressing what is not yet, they grapple with unsettled futures by imagining alternative forms of resistance and resilience in a painful present. By combining methods in Hong Kong Studies with critical theory, I consider how these group of poets/critics engage temporality as a keyword to define the energies of a post-2019 writing community and readership across the globe.

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