Prof. Lim Song Hwee on Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Films at HKU

Prof. Lim Song Hwee has been invited by the Hong Kong Studies programme, the University of Hong Kong to speak at the symposium on “Thinking Sound in Hong Kong: Practices and Prospects” on 18 May 2018. Prof. Lim will present a paper entitled “The Aural Turn: Gendered Voices in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Non-Sinophone Films”, examining the human female voice in two films by Hou Hsiao-hsien, namely Café Lumière 咖啡時光 (2003) and Flight of the Red Balloon 紅氣球的旅行 (2007). More information of the Symposium can be found at http://www.hkstudy.hku.hk/news/20180518.html .