What are the differences between Cultural Studies and the CLC subject (Chinese Language and Culture yΤƬ) currently taught in Hong Kongs Secondary School Form 6 and Form 7?
The CLC subject is mainly interested in the understanding of traditional Chinese culture, aiming at developing students cultural values with a strong foundation on Chinese culture, literature, and philosophy. Cultural Studies, however, is not based on any single national culture, and it is more interested in contemporary cultural happenings than traditional thinking. It analyzes everyday experience to decode the ideological structure of contemporary culture, an approach that can also be found in some areas of the current CLC subject, as shown in the question related to travel and culture in the Year 2003 CLC Advanced Level examination. Yet, Cultural Studies has a much broader and complex view on culture, concerning not only culture in the narrow sense but also social structure and ideological struggles between different forces; hence providing students new and extensive views toward humanity at large.
