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    "pk": 42951,
    "title": "Embracing the Angel: Reading Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s Hong Kong Poetry with Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition",
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    "abstract": "In 1999, after having moved to America for nearly thirty years, Chinese  Malaysian poet and scholar Shirley Geok-lin Lim began her sojourn in  Hong Kong. In addition to being a research professor at the University  of California, Santa Barbara, Lim has been accepting invitations to  teach at the University of Hong Kong and the City University of Hong  Kong as chair professor or writer-in-residence for almost twenty years,  and has published several collections of poetry in and about Hong Kong.  This paper analyzes Shirley Lim’s \nEmbracing the Angel: Hong Kong Poems\n,  a poetry collection inspired by the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong,  2014. The major issues for discussion include: 1) how Hong Kong is under  the shadow of Chinese culture and hegemony; 2) how Hong Kong has been  striving for democracy and freedom after the Handover; and 3) how  literature enacts to construct history and authorize hope. Similar to  college students who have adopted the Umbrella Movement as their “space  of appearance” (in Hannah Arendt’s term) for the ideal of democracy, Lim  published \nEmbracing the Angel\n as her “space of appearance” to offer support and indicate hope for Hong Kong.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY 4.0",
        "text": "<p>Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.</p>",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Shirley Geok-lin Lim"
        },
        {
            "word": "Embracing the Angel"
        },
        {
            "word": "Hannah Arendt"
        },
        {
            "word": "The Human Condition"
        },
        {
            "word": "Hong Kong"
        },
        {
            "word": "Poetry"
        },
        {
            "word": "students’ movement"
        },
        {
            "word": "Umbrella Movement"
        },
        {
            "word": "civil disobedience campaign"
        },
        {
            "word": "space of appearance"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Festschrift: The Poetry and Poetics of Shirley Geok-lin Lim",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0ft3g424",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Joan",
            "middle_name": "Chiung-huei",
            "last_name": "Chang",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2019-10-19T15:31:34+01:00",
    "date_accepted": "2019-10-19T15:31:34+01:00",
    "date_published": "2019-12-30T23:21:16Z",
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