Professor John Erni, Dean Faculty of Humanities FHM Research Bulletin Issue 1, March 2023 The Cultural Politics of COVID-19 The book edited by Professor John Erni Nguyet and Dr Ted Striphas (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) represents a snapshot of critical responses by researchers from 10 countries and 4 continents, in a collective effort to explore how Cultural Studies can contribute to our struggle to persevere in a "no normal" horizon, with no clear end in sight. Together, the essays address important questions at the intersection of culture, power, politics, and public health: What are the possible outlines for the panicpandemic complex? How has the pandemic been endowed with meanings and affective registers, often at the tipping points where existing social relations and medical understanding were being rapidly displaced by new ones? How can societies discover the ways of living The book of Dr Au Chung To wins the 16th Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature The Inbetweenness of East and West Matters: A Study of Leung Ping-kwan's Poetics 《東西之間：梁秉鈞的中間詩學 論》written by Dr Au is a comprehensive and yet original study of the poetics of inbetweenness in Leung Pingkwan (Yasi/Ye Si). As suggested by Leung, the concept of “inbetweenness” is considered as studying one’s own culture through the detour of studying others. Since the concept implies an opposition, the book addresses a list of dichotomies in Leung’s texts, namely, traditional and modern Chinese literary traditions (the Chinese lyrical tradition and the yongwu tradition), East-West literary subgenres and conception (travelogues, magical realist novels, and flaneur/ flânerie), home and abroad; and food and human beings. This book includes seven chapters covering these binary oppositions. One aim of this book is to lay the groundwork for further study of Leung Ping-kwan’s poetics of inbetweenness. Scan QR code for more information Dr Ma Qing on the development of corpus-based language pedagogy A lack of authentic data of the target language could be considered as a main obstacle in foreign language learning. Using corpus technology, teachers could help students address some language learning difficulties by providing rich and authentic resources and guiding students to explore language inductively and find answers to their own language queries. However, very few teachers have adopted corpus technology in their classroom teaching. To fill this gap, Dr Ma Qing has developed a new corpus-based language pedagogy (CBLP) aimed at integrating corpus linguistics technology in classroom contexts to facilitate and diversify language teaching. The CBLP was theoretically and empirically tested in an article Ma et al. (2022). Two subsequent publications show that CBLP can be applied effectively to enhance both pre- and in-service teachers’ competence in teaching with corpora. Scan QR code for more information 2 Dr Au Chung To, Assistant Professor Department of Literature and Cultural Studies Dr Ma Qing, Associate Professor Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies with, through, and against COVID that do not simply reproduce existing hierarchies and power relations? The 30 essays comprising this collection, along with the editors’ introduction, explore the formative period of the COVID pandemic, from mid-2020 to mid-2021. They are grouped into three sections – ‘Racialisations,’ ‘Media, Data, and Fragments of the Popular,’ and ‘Un/knowing the Pandemic’ – themes that animate, but do not exhaust, the complex cultural and political life of COVID-19 with respect to identity, technology, and epistemology. Scan QR code for more information
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