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248 MediaWiki is also a useful tool for other secondary school teachers, students, and a wider group of audience in the Hong Kong community.

Keywords

Hong Kong Literary Landscape MediaWiki, Literary Walk, Reading and writing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Digital humanities.

Introduction

Despite the fact that literary walk has been adopted as a way to promote literature around the world, there is, however, no shared definition of what a literary walk should be (Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2020; Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature, 2020; Tokyo Metropolitan Government, 2020). In the context of Hong Kong, a literary walk usually consists of a docent and a group of participants. The docent designs a route for the walk by identifying some major landscapes and events of a specific area mentioned in the literature. While they walk through the area, the docent introduces these landscapes and events to the participants in order to demonstrate the cultural and historical context reflected in the literature. On the face of it, a literary walk looks very much like a historical walk, but the major difference is the text used for the walk. A literary walk usually makes use of poems, prose, and fiction to devise the route while a historical walk relies very much on historical documents and archives.

In the early 1990s, Lu Weiluan, a renowned scholar and writer in Hong Kong, put forward the idea of learning Hong Kong literature through literary walk. She believes that it is very important for students to have on-site learning experiences in order to better understand and appreciate literary works. In the past three decades, literary walk has been used by various education and public institutions in Hong Kong as an effective way to promote reading and writing to secondary school students. Funded by the Standing Committee on Language Education and Research (SCOLAR) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government (HK SAR Government), the Hong Kong Literature Research Centre (HKLRC) of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong Library (CUHK Library) kicked off a two-year proposal entitled “Fun