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Profile Mr WONG Yu Bon Nicholas Qualifications: MFA Candidate (City HK) MPhil (HKU) PCEd (HKU) BA (HKU)

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Nicholas Wong lectures contemporary literatures and film studies in the English Department at HKIEd. He has published several articles on Hong Kong cinema (see publications below) and Learning English through Popular Culture (Oxford University Press, 2009). He is also a creative writer based in Hong Kong and has published short stories and poems locally and internationally. He is currently working on a research project with Dr. Bidisha Banerjee about the representation of Tin Shui Wai in some recent Hong Kong independent films.

Awards and Achievements

2010        Winner of the Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition

               Runner-up the Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition

               Winner of the Oblongata Poetry Contest of The Medulla Review

               Nomination for Best of the Net 2010 Anthology (Sundress Publications)

               Twice-nominations for Best of the Web 2011 Anthology (Dzanc Books)

2009        Shortlisted for Chroma’s 2009 International Queer Writing Competition (poetry section)

2007        Finalist of Hong Kong Repertory Theatre Writing Contest

               Winner of the Creative Award of Hong Kong Repertory Theatre Writing Contest

Selected Publications

Textbook

• Wong, N. Y. B. (2009). Learning English through Popular Culture. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press.

  
  

Academic articles

• Wong, N. Y. B. (2010). Saving face: Unveiling or covering up Asian-American experiences?, Asian Cinema, 21(2), 254-267.

• Wong, N. Y. B. (2009). Loving you by not falling in love: The Postmodern representation of love in Chungking Express and Lost in Translation, Screen Education, 53, 131-137.

• Wong, N. Y. B. (2008). Over and Over Again? Wong Kar-wai’s My Blueberry Nights, Metro Magazine, 158, 56-60.

• Wong, N. Y. B. (2008). The Carnal Hand and Fetishism in Wong Kar-wai’s The Hand, Asian Cinema, 19(1), 47-58.

• Wong, N. Y. B. (2008). Over and Over Again? Wong Kar-wai’s My Blueberry Nights, Metro Magazine, 158, 56-60.

• Wong, N. Y. B. (2005). From Rose Mary to Rolls Royce: Denise Ho x Wyman Wong. Queerness in Denise Ho’s music, Fe/male Bodies, 1, 62-68.

Literary publications

• Wong, N. Y. B. (2011). Protégé of the Lady, Delivery, Dear ____, David Australian, Foreign Exchange, Mothers and A Coroner’s Report on an Unknown Body (poems), Assaracus: Journal of Gay Poetry, 3.

• “Getting Married with Gertrude Stein” and “Teaching English Poetry in Hong Kong” (poems) in Sentinel Champions Series. Expecting May 2011 (print, UK).

• “B, an Orphan in Adulthood”, “Lives” and “One Degree Celsius” (poems) in Sentinel Annual Literature Anthology. Expecting early 2011 (print, UK).

• “Crusoe” (poem) in Saltwater Press. Expecting Jan 2011 (online).

• “Self Portrait” (poem) in Prime Number Magazine: A Journal of Distinctive Poetry and Prose. Issue 4. Expecting Jan-Mar 2011 (online).

• “Six” (poem) in The Lab Literary Magazine. Issue 6. Nov 2010 (print, South Korea).

• “-ING: Smoking, Haunting, Prewriting” (poems) in The Scrambler. Issue 43. Nov/Dec 2010 (online).

• “The Absurd” (poem) in TAYO Literary Magazine. Issue 2. Nov 2010 (print, USA).

• “The Head” (poem) in Diverse Voices Quarterly. Vol II. Issue 7 Nov 2010 (online).

• “Colourless”, “Like Water” (reprints) and “Haunted” in Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society. Oct 2010 (print, Thailand).

• “What I Think You Have Said”, “Modern Romance”, “Dogs Bite Dogs”, “Rejection” (poems) in Eunoia Review. 11-14 Oct 2010 (online).

• “The God Box”, “Kiss a Door”, “Skydiver”, “What Would You Do When You Say You Love”, “Walker”, “Madness at Castle Peak”, “One of the Many Nights”, “Talking about the Dead”, “Chakras” and “Faces” (poems) in this: a literary webzine. Sept/Oct 2010 (online).

• “In Transit” (poem) in The Tower Journal. Vol. 3, no. 1. Sept 2010 (online).

• “Attempt Murder” (poem) in The Houston Literary Review. Sept 2010 (online).

• “Six Minimal Thoughts” (poem) in nethermagzine. Issue 1. Sept 2010 (print, India).

• “Breaking and Entering” and “Feeding” (poems) in Poetry Super Highway. Sept 2010 (online).

• “The Confession of a Foot Fetish” (poem) in The Q Review. Sept 2010 (online).

• “Qipao: Homage to Wong Kar-wai’s The Hand” (poem) in The Centrifugal Eye. Vol. 5, issue 3. Aug 2010 (print, Canada).

• “Fake” (poem) in Pothiz: The Zing of Contemporary Writing. Aug 2010 (online).

• “All about My Mother” (poem) in The Medulla Review. July 2010 (online).

• “A Hermit’s Wedding” and “Metropolis” (poems) in Pyrta Journal: A Journal of Poetry and Things. Monsoon issue 1. July 2010 (online).

• “Glory” (poem) in Fag/Hag: A Scandalous Chapbook of Fabulously-Codependent Poetry. 2010. Bryan Borland (ed). Sibling Rivalry Press, pp. 25-7 (print, USA).

• “I am Mark Joseph” and “Like Water” (poems) in Asia Writes. 8 June 2010 (online).

• “The Green Bike” (flash fiction) in 6S: The Green Bike Stories. Thomas Knox (ed). 2010. Createspace, p.62 (print, USA).

• “Woman in the Salon” (poem) in Taj Mahal Review. vol. 9:1. June 2010 (print, India).

• “Colourless” (poem) in Schema Magazine. May 2010 (online).

• “On Melancholy” (short essay) in Preoccupations: Things Artists Do Anyway. 111 Artists Reveal Their Obsessions. 2008. Cornelia Erdmann and Michael Lee Hong Hwee (eds). laiyanPROJECTS and Studio Bibliotheque: Hong Kong, pp. 210-1 (print, Hong Kong).

• “Transformer” (poem) in Qarrtsiluni. May/June 2008 (online).

• “Timing” (poem) in Poetry Sky. Vol. 13. February 2008 (online).

• “Hong Kong Island Mon Amour ”, “Shadows of Time”, “The Philosophy of Smoking by An Amateur Smoker” (poems) and “I for Illness” (short story) in Fifty-Fifty: New Hong Kong Writing. Xu Xi (ed). Hong Kong: Haven Books, pp.40, 113, 238-48. 288 (print, Hong Kong).

• “Hot cha” (poem) in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. Debut issue. Fall/Winter 2007 (online).

• “Hymen”, “The Evolution of Beard”. “City of Sameness”, “Fingernails”, “A Lover’s Earlobe”, “The Lunatic’s Penis” (poems) in The Other Voices International Projects. Vol. 26. 2007 (online).

• “Suicide with McDonald Suk Suk” (short story) in Yuan Yang. Vol. VII, no.1 2006. (print, Hong Kong).

• “The Evolution of Beard”, “Hymen”, “City of Sameness” in Fe/male Body: Bodywise. July 2006. Kubrick: Hong Kong (print, Hong Kong).

• “The Importance of Having an ‘R’” in Yuan Yang. 2001 June (print, Hong Kong).

• The same poem has been reprinted in Moving Poetry: Hong Kong Children’s Poems. 2002. Shirley Lim and Page Richards (eds). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press and in Shirley Lim’s essay “Cultural Imagination and English in Hong Kong” in Hong Kong English: Autonomy and Creativity. Kingsley Bolton (ed). 2001. Hong Kong University Press: Hong Kong.

Book Reviews

• On Natascha Gentz and Stefan Kramer (eds). Globalization, Cultural Identities, and Media: Representations (State University of New York Press, 2006) in Discourse:Studies in Cultural Politics of Education,2010, vol 31:2, pp. 273-6.

• On Cheuk Pak Tong. Hong Kong New Wave Cinema: 1978-2000 (Intellect, 2008) in Film International, vol 8:3 (expecting 2010). 
  

• On Andrew Webber and Emma Wilson (eds). Cities in Transition: The Moving Image and the Modern Metropolis(Wallflower Press, 2008) in Film International.

Film Reviews

• On Wong Kar-wai’s The Hand. Scope: An Online Journal of FilmStudies. Issue 4. February 2006. Institute of Film Studies. University of Nottingham.

Paper Presentations at Conferences

• "Embattled Lives in Marginal Space: Portrayals of Tin Shui Wai in Hong Kong Cinema" in Cinema and Landscape Conference. University of Sheffield, England. 16-18 April 2010. (a collaborative project with Dr. Bidisha Banerjee, speaker)

• "The Canon and I: Creative Poetry Writing as the Literary Scene, Popular Scene and Classroom Scene" in the First International Conference on Popular Culture and Education in Asia. The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong. 11-13 December 2008 (Speaker)

• "Masculinity at Risk: The Endangered Policeman and Detective in Exodusand Mad Detective" in Locality, Translocality, and De-locality: Cultural, Aesthetic, and Political Dynamics of Chinese-Language Cinema International Conference. Shanghai University, Shanghai. 12-13 July 2008. (Speaker)

• "Cultural Hybridity, Silence and Secrey: The Transnational and Pansexual Stardom of Jay Chou" in Screenscapes: Past, Present, Future. University of Sydney. Australia. 29 November - 2 December 2007. (Speaker)

• “Reading the Eye as a Haunting and Desirable Organ” in The 2007 International Conference on Inter-Asian Culture, Communication, Conflict, and Peace. City University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong. 4-5 May 2007. (Speaker)

• “The Obsession of the Ears: Reading Haruki Murakami’s Blind Willow, Sleep Woman and A Wild Sheep Chase” in Postgraduate Departmental Seminar. Department of Comparative Literature, The University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong. April 24 2007. (Speaker)

• “Nations in Transition” in Asia Culture Forum. Kimdaejung Convention Centre in Gwangju, Korea. 26-29 October 2006. (Discussant)

• “The Carnal Hand and Fetishism in Wong Kar-wai’s The Hand”. “Wither the Orient” in Asian Culture Forum. Kimdaejung Convention Centre in Gwangju, Korea. 26-29 October 2006. (Speaker)

• “A Different Kind of Friendship – Reading the Homosocial in Johnnie To’sElection”. The Film Scene: Cinema, The Arts, and Social Change. The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 21-22 April 2006. (Speaker)

• “When Eros Lies in The Hand of Wong Kar-wai”. The 27 th Annual Meeting of the Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Popular Culture. Albuquerque, New Mexico. 8-11 February 2006. (Speaker)

Editorship

• 2010-present    Poetry Editor for this: a literary webzine

• Aug 2008         Guest Editor for Cha: An Asian Literary Journal