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Join us for the film screening and special presentation by Producer Prof. Helen F. Siu on the documentary film Metamorphosis of the Bay Area 灣區變形記. 📆 Wednesday, 11 March, 2026
⏰ 5:30 - 7:30pm
🎞️ Auditorium, Asian Center, UBC (1871 West Mall, Vancouver)
Film in Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles.
Free of charge. All are welcome. Registration required (link in bio)
The documentary film “Metamorphosis of the Bay Area” (2025) is produced by Prof. Helen F. Siu and directed by Ding Cheng, as a production of the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The film narrates the making and unmaking of the Pearl River Delta in South China from the Ming to the present. The historic transition of water-based people is presented through images and ethnographic encounters. The sources combined display a fascinating story of transformation of the Greater Bay Area.
Helen F. Siu, is a Professor of Anthropology and former chair of the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University, whose teaching interests are political and historical anthropology, urban and global culture change. Not only has she served funding and research assessment committees in various countries, she is also the author, co-author, and co-editor of many well-received publications, such as Asia Inside Out (3 volumes, Harvard U Press 2015, 2019), Tracing China: A Forty-year Ethnographic Journey(HKU Press 2016), and the Chinese edition of Tracing China, entitled 《踏跡尋中: 四十年華南田野之旅》(CUHK Press 2022).
This is part of the special program of the Backreading Hong Kong Symposium 2026 at University of British Columbia, hosted by UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative, and UBC Asian Studies; and is supported by the UBC Centre for Chinese Research , UBC Department of English, UBC Campus + Community Planning, and the Sustainability Initiative Committee of the UBC Department of Asian Studies, as well as Cha: An Asian Literary Journal.
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UBC Asian Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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