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Taking The 70’s Biweekly—an independent youth publication in the 1970s Hong Kong—as the main thread, this edited volume investigates an unexplored trajectory of Hong Kong’s cultural and art production in the 1970s that represents the making of a dissent space by independent press and activist groups in the city. The 70’s Biweekly stands out from many other independent magazines with its unique blending of radical political theories, social activism, avant-garde art, and local art and literature creations. By taking the magazine as a nodal point of social and cultural activism from and around which actions, debates, community, and artistic practices are formed and generated, this book fills gaps in studies on how young Hong Kong cultural producers carved out an alternative creative and political space to speak against established authorities.
Split into three parts, this book provides readers with a panoramic view of the political and cultural activisms in Hong Kong during the 1970s, writings on art and film, and crucially, interviews with former founders and contributors that reflect on how their participation led them to engage ideologically with their activism and community that extended far beyond the temporal and physical bounds of the magazine.
“This unique collection represents a very valuable addition to the cultural history of the 1970s in Hong Kong and globally. While the journal 70’s Biweekly serves as a connecting thread, the volume in fact has broad ramifications, documenting the political, intellectual, and cultural struggles of the anticolonial and incipient democracy movement in Hong Kong.”
—Sebastian Veg, École des hautes études en sciences sociales
Foreword by Mok Chiu-yu vii
Acknowledgments xvii
1. Introduction 1
Lu Pan
Part I. Radicalism and Its Discontents
2. The Impossible Decolonization and the Radical Thought of Ng Chung-yin 29
Law Wing-sang
3. The Formation of Hong Kong’s Radical New Left, 1970–1974 51
Yang Yang
4. The Imaginary of Asia and World Consciousness in 1970s Hong Kong: The Case of The 70’s Biweekly 80
Ip Po Yee and Lee Chun Fung
Part II. Aesthetic and Literary Counterpublics
5. The Making of an Aesthetic Counterpublic in 1970s Hong Kong: A Visual Exploration of The 70’s Biweekly 113
Lu Pan
6. Film Criticism in The 70’s Biweekly 141
Tom Cunliffe
7. A Critical Study of The 70’s Biweekly and Its Political Cinematic Practices 169
Emilie Choi Sin-yi
8. The Erotic, the Avant-Garde, and the Anarchist Arts: The Imaginations and Representations of Radical Politics in The 70’s Biweekly 196
Ella Mei Ting Li
Part III. Interviews with Former Members
John Sham Kin-fun: I Admit We Were Making Trouble! 225
Wat Wai-ching: The Grassroots Member of The 70’s with Deep Love and Righteousness 235
Yeung Po-hi: The 70’s Was a Free Space 245
Kan Fook-wing: In Retrospect, the Struggles Were Like Sowing Seeds 253
Yuen Che-hung: Accumulating My Ignorance in the Years at The 70’s 259
List of Contributors 267
Index 269