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Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance
Ackbar Abbas
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Description for Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance
Paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPCH; A; JFC; JHM; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 150 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
A consideration of what the culture of Hong Kong tells us about the state of the world at the fin-de-siècle.
On June 30, 1997, Hong Kong as we know it will disappear, ceasing its singular and ambiguous existence as a colonial holdover and becoming part of the People’s Republic of China. In an intriguing and provocative exploration of its cinema, architecture, photography, and literature, Ackbar Abbas considers what Hong Kong, with its unique relations to decolonization and disappearance, can teach us about the future of both the colonial city and the global city.
The culture of Hong Kong encompasses Jackie Chan ... Read moreAbbas explores the way Hong Kong’s media saturation changes its people’s experience of space so that it becomes abstract, dominated by signs and images that dispel memory, history, and presence.Hong Kong disappears through simple dualities such as East/West and tradition/modernity. What is missing from a view of Hong Kong as merely a colony is the paradox that Hong Kong has benefited from and made a virtue of its dependent colonial status, turning itself into a global and financial city and outstripping its colonizer in terms of wealth.Combining sophisticated theory and a critical perspective, this rich and thought-provoking work captures the complex situation of the metropolis that is contemporary Hong Kong. Along the way, it challenges, entertains, and makes an important contribution to our thinking about the surprising processes and consequences of colonialism.Copublished with Hong Kong University Press Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816629251
SKU
V9780816629251
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About Ackbar Abbas
Ackbar Abbas is senior lecturer in comparative literature at University of Hong Kong.
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