Hong Kong’s Film Industry Reconstituted: Pathways to China after the Golden Age

This chapter examines the factors underpinning the vicissitudes of Hong Kong’s film industry since the 1980s. It explores the industry’s competitive edge and discusses Hong Kong’s contributions to the growth of the Chinese film market in the context of the regional integration of the Chinese movie value chain. The analysis is organized in four sections. The first provides an overview of the Hong Kong film industry from a historical perspective. The second describes the structure and the production system of Hong Kong’s film industry in its golden age of the 1980s. The third illuminates the causes of the Hong Kong film industry’s collapse since the mid-1990s. The final section reflects critically on the recent and future development of Hong Kong’s film industry against the backdrop of its integration with the Chinese market. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the broader implications of this study for developing a sociological perspective on the Hong Kong economy

Epidemiological updates of venous thromboembolism in a Chinese population

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Mindfulness Practice in Medical Education

Undergraduate medical education aims to prepare students to become doctors who provide quality health care. It is a rigorous and demanding endeavour that necessarily requires medical students to be attuned to themselves, their work and their surroundings, in order to succeed academically, to interact effectively and empathetically with patients, and equally importantly, to care for themselves. Mindfulness practice is an approach that helps to relieve stress, but also trains the important clinical skill of being “fully present” whether it is in class, or in clinic with a patient. We consider the evidence for mindfulness meditation, a particular aspect of mindfulness practice, in medical education and share the results of several different approaches undertaken to implement mindfulness practice in the medical curriculum at the University of Hong Kong. We discuss and reflect on the impact and outcomes of these different approaches