Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Friday, March 19, 2027 | 5:30pm to 7pm
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For decades, Hong Kong has held a distinct place in global literature and cinema. In this talk, scholar and poet Tammy Ho explores how Hong Kong has been imagined and portrayed in Western literature and film, and examines how local writers respond to, resist, and remake these external portrayals to reclaim their own stories.
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Tammy Ho is a literary scholar, poet, and editor based in Hong Kong. She teaches in the Department of English at Hong Kong Baptist University, where her work centers on contemporary poetry, literary translation, and Hong Kong writing. She is the founding co-editor of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Hong Kong’s first English-language literary journal, and an editor of Hong Kong Studies. Her poetry collections include Hula Hooping and Too Too Too Too, and her work frequently explores regional identity, transpacific poetics, and the intersections of language, power, and place.