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Hong Kong culture : word and image / edited by Kam Louie. - Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2010. - 1 online resource (xi, 312 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction -- Hong Kong on the Move: Creating Global Cultures; 1 -- Ten Years Later: 1997-2007 as History; 2 -- Power Plays: Alternative Performance Art and Urban Space in the Political Life of the City; 3 -- The Haunted City: Hong Kong and Its Urban Others; 4 -- Chinese English, English Chinese: Biliteracy and Translation; 5 -- Louise Ho and the Local Turn: The Place of English Poetry in Hong Kong; 6 -- From Xu Xi to the Chief Executive: Hong Kong in the Dock; 7 -- The "New" East Asia and Hong Kong Cinema.

Hong Kong as a world city draws on a rich variety of foundational texts in film, fiction, architecture and other forms of visual culture. This volume of essays engages many fields of cultural achievement.


English.

ISBN: 9789882206137 (electronic bk.) 9882206131 (electronic bk.) 1283016966 9781283016964 9882206964 9789882206960 9786613016966 6613016969

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Subjects--Chronological Terms:
2000-2099

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Popular culture--China--Hong Kong.
Culture populaire--Chine--Hongkong.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
Civilization.
Intellectual life.
Manners and customs.
Popular culture.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Hong Kong (China)--Civilization--21st century.
Hong Kong (China)--Social life and customs--21st century.
Hong Kong (China)--Intellectual life--21st century.
China--Hong Kong.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: DS796.H75 / H634 2010eb

Dewey Class. No.: 306.095125