假设你是一个ADVANCED TOPIC IN LITERARY AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES---Hong Kong Literature in English方向 的教授，你在帮助你的学生完成毕业论文，接下来我会问你一些问题。

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假设你是一个ADVANCED TOPIC IN LITERARY AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES---Hong Kong Literature in English方向
的教授，你在帮助你的学生完成毕业论文，接下来我会问你一些问题。

First, I will give you some essay topics about this course, can you help me to figure out which on is the most easy one to write, Please be ready.

Here are the topics:ENG7390: ADVANCED TOPIC IN LITERARY AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES
Hong Kong Literature in English

Essay Assignment

For the term paper, you are required to write a long essay of around 2000 words (8-10 pages) on a topic or theme related to the course. You must include at least TWO primary texts (i.e. film, short story, creative non-fiction, poem, novel) from the syllabus, of which at least ONE text must be originally in English. The essay is worth 40% of the overall course mark.

Submission: essays should be in Times New Roman, size 12 font, double-spaced and uploaded to me online via Turnitin / BU Moodle by midnight on the 2nd May.

Drafts/Consultation: I will look at drafts of essays that are submitted to me by no later than 25th April.

Extensions: If you are likely to have problems submitting your essays on time you must make a formal written request to me at least 48 hours before the deadline.

Late Submissions: essays submitted 1-2 days after the deadline will have one grade deducted; essays submitted 3-7 days after the deadline will have two grades deducted; essays submitted more than a week after the deadline will have three grades deducted.

Essay Topics: your essays may take the following format:

a) Set Essay Question

1. To what extent do you agree with Ackbar Abbas that Hong Kong literature operates on the logic of a “culture of disappearance”? How is this supported or challenged by the texts you have studied on this course?

2. “The barrier is there, each race with its own social structure, its hierarchies, its customs and prejudices. It is quite impossible for anyone to belong to both worlds at once” (Suyin Han). With reference to the above quote, explore how inter-racial relationships in Hong Kong are presented in the texts you have studied on this course.

3. To what extent do you think literary and/or filmic representations of Hong Kong have created a touristic gaze? Discuss, with reference to the texts you have studied on this course.

4. To what extent have Hong Kong writers and/or filmmakers sought to authentically represent the “other”? How successful are they in deconstructing East-West binary relations in their works?

5. Explore the relationship between class and mobility in the texts you have studied on this course.

6. The writer Xu Xi has remarked that “for each ‘foreign’ character or scenario [she] wrote, an equal and opposite reaction urged [her] to create a ‘local’ one.” In light of this statement, explore how Hong Kong writers have sought to represent the “local” in the texts you have studied on this course.

7. Travel narratives about Hong Kong are often written by “privileged outsiders” (Graham Huggan) masquerading as cultural insiders. To what extent is this the case in the texts you have studied on this course?

8. How have Hong Kong writers oscillated between the strange and the familiar in their representations of the city, its people, and its local culture? Explain, using concrete examples from the texts you have studied on this course.

9. Explore the interrelation between truth and fiction in Hong Kong literary texts across two or more genres.

10. “If a place can be defined as relational, historical and concerned with identity, then a space which cannot be defined as relational, or historical, or concerned with identity will be a non-place” (Marc Augé). With reference to Augé’s definition of place and non-place, explore the representation of space and its impact on community in the texts you have studied on this course.

11. The poet Louise Ho has written of her desire to create “a space where the English literary language expresses as well as is incorporated into the local ethos […] but which remains at the same time definitely English.” With reference to the texts you have studied on this course, discuss how Hong Kong poets use innovative language and/or poetic styles to express their own personal circumstances.

12. To what extent do you think Hong Kong literature is marked by a failure to break free from a colonial mindset? How can this view be supported in your reading of the texts studied on this course?

13. To what extent do you agree that recollections of Hong Kong’s past are often filtered through present-day imaginings? Discuss, with reference to the texts you have studied on this course.

14. To what extent do you think that Hong Kong writers and/or filmmakers trade on nostalgia in their representation of the city, and if so, does this nostalgia have a positive or negative impact on the works?

b) Student’s own Essay Question

You can also choose your own research topic and question if you wish. However, if you do decide to choose your own term paper question, you must seek my approval beforehand.

Thank you! I want to choose this one "To what extent do you think literary and/or filmic representations of Hong Kong have created a touristic gaze? Discuss, with reference to the texts you have studied on this course." Can you give some suggestions on the title of my essay?

Thank you, the reference texts I want to choose is Abbas, Akbar. Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance. University of Minnesota Press, 1997. DeWolf, Christopher. Borrowed Spaces: Life Between the Cracks of Modern Hong Kong. Penguin, 2017. Kwan, Stanley, director. Rouge. Golden Harvest, 1987. Wong, Kar Wai, director. Chungking Express. Jet Tone Production, 1994. Wong Kar Wai, director. In the Mood for Love. Jet Tone Production / Paradis Films, 2000.

okkk thank you for your help, can you provide some potential engaging titles for my essay based on the reference texts I want to choose?

Thankyouuu! Based on your suggestions, I decide to write a persuasive essay in 2000 words in English with the title "Cinematic Representations of Hong Kong: Touristic Gaze and the Transnational Imagination", Can you provide some practical suggestions on the overall structure of the essay detailing the introduction part, the body part, and the conclusion as well as formulating a thesis statement. Please also provide a suggested breakdown of word count for each section based on the outline provided and create a persuasive piece of work that is both informative and engaging.

Thankyouuu! Based on your suggestions, I decide to write a persuasive essay in 2000 words in English with the title "Cinematic Representations of Hong Kong: Touristic Gaze and the Transnational Imagination", Can you provide some practical suggestions on the overall structure of the essay detailing the introduction part, the body part, and the conclusion as well as formulating a thesis statement. Please also provide a suggested breakdown of word count for each section based on the outline provided and create a persuasive piece of work that is both informative and engaging.