Walking Between Slums and Skyscrapers: Illusions of Open Space in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Shanghai

Tsung-yi Michelle Huang received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her works on cinema, literature, cultural studies, global cities, and Hong Kong culture have been published in the Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Journal of Narrative Theory, among others. Recently she has been working on a project that defines and examines specific East Asian metropolises (Taipei, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing, etc...) as both ＂linked＂ cities and distinctive global centers, mapping the tension within these domains. She currently is an Assistant Professor of English Literature at National Taiwan Normal University.