Bookcast HK ep.2 - 緣起香港：張愛玲的異鄉和世界｜嘉賓：黃心村教授

張愛玲（1920-1995）於1939年入讀香港大學文學院，住進港大後山寶珊道上的聖母堂宿舍，至1941年因戰亂中斷學業，翌年回到上海，開始了她漫長的寫作生涯。在香港的生活影響了張愛玲的一生，但長期以來，研究張愛玲和港大的關係的專著卻不多。2020年，適值張愛玲百年誕辰，任教於香港大學比較文學系的黃心村教授，策展了《百年愛玲，人文港大》紀念文獻展，憑藉大量在港大挖掘到的原始材料，闡述一個個鮮為人知的故事，以及張愛玲跟一些在香港遇上的人的因緣，包括歷史系教授佛朗士（Norman Hoole France）、中文系教授許地山等等。綜合《百年愛玲，人文港大》紀念文獻展所得資料，黃心村教授也重新整理她的張學研究論文，彙編成《緣起香港：張愛玲的異鄉和世界》一書，於2022年出版。黃心村教授將在本集Bookcast HK中，分享其著書點滴。本集內容主要語言為英語，輔以小量普通話和廣東話。 主持：黎穎詩博士（Dr Chloe Lai）書名：《緣起香港：張愛玲的異鄉和世界》作者：黃心村教授出版：香港中文大學出版社（2022年）ISBN：978-988-237-275-7Bookcast HK ep.2 Hong Kong Connections: Eileen Chang and Worldmaking Guest: Prof. Nicole Huang Eileen Chang (1920-1995) enrolled in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Hong Kong in 1939. During the period of studying at the HKU, she resided in a women’s hostel called Our Lady’s Hall on Po Shan Road in Mid-levels behind the campus, until classes being suspended in 1941 due to the Japanese Occupation. Without completing her BA degree, Chang returned to Shanghai in the next year, where she began to establish her reputation as an author.Chang’s experience in Hong Kong had a great influence on her. However, her connection with the HKU has long been scholarly omitted. On the occasion of her centennial birth, Prof. Nicole Huang from the Department of Comparative Literature at the HKU curated an exhibition about Chang’s life in her alma mater. Unearthing previously overlooked material from the HKU Archives, Prof. Huang highlights less noticeable but significant figures in Chang’s life story, such as Norman Hoole France, the Professor of History, and Hsu Ti-shan, the Professor of Chinese.Rearranging new images and documents gathered from the exhibition, Prof. Huang wrote a book on the beginning of Chang’s literary journey titled Hong Kong Connections: Eileen Chang and Worldmaking (2022).Prof. Huang will introduce her book in the EP2 of Bookcast HK. This episode will be in English, supplemented with Mandarin and Cantonese.Moderator: Dr. Chloe LaiBook title: Hong Kong Connections: Eileen Chang and Worldmaking Author: Prof. Nicole HuangPublisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press (2022)ISBN：978-988-237-275-7