Ho Hill Tone Bauhinia 何晓瞳

Education:
B.A., City University of Hong Kong
M.Phil., Literature, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Research Interest: 
Modern Chinese Literature; Popular Culture; Sinophone Studies; Affect Theory; Diaspora Studies; Vernacular Cantonese Literature

Self-Introduction:
My research primarily engages with Sinophone and modern Chinese literature, popular culture, diaspora studies, and affect theory. I am also interested in vernacular Cantonese literature and popular literary and cinematic productions in the context of Cold War Asia.

Thesis Advisor: Dr Chan Cheow Thia, A/P Xu Lanjun

Thesis Title: Drifting of the Hearts: The Circulation of Chinese Literary Rewriting across Cold War Hong Kong and the Sinophone World (tentative)

Thesis Research Area:
My project traces a hitherto opaque emotional history of trans-regional cultural production and reception, taking Cold War Hong Kong as its primary site and extending across the Sinophone world, including Taiwan and Singapore. More specifically, it takes the mode of rewriting as an analytical lens to examine the affective historicity of the Chinese diaspora during this period—that is, how diasporic emotions were generated, expressed, and transformed under specific historical conditions.