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Ackbar Abbas Hong Kong (Paperback) Public Worlds (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Hong Kong
- Publication Name
- Hong Kong
- Title
- Hong Kong
- Subtitle
- Culture and the Politics of Disappearance
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0816629250
- EAN
- 9780816629251
- ISBN
- 9780816629251
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Genre
- History, Social Science
- Topic
- General, Asia / China
- Release Date
- 01/03/1997
- Release Year
- 1997
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Width
- 5.8in
- Series
- Public Worlds
- Publication Year
- 1997
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Weight
- 8.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 168 Pages
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On June 30, 1997, Hong Kong as we knew disappeared, ceased its singular and ambiguous existence as a colonial holdover and became part of the People's Republic of China. In an 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 and John Woo, and postmodern skyscrapers. According to Abbas, Hong Kong's peculiar lack of identity is due to its status "not so much a place as a space of transit", whose residents think of themselves as transients and migrants on their way from China to somewhere else. Abbas explores the way that 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 benefitted 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 theory and a critical perspective, this work captures the complex situation of the metropolis that is contemporary Hong Kong. Ackbar Abbas is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. This book is intended for students and researchers working in Asian and cultural studies.
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Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10
0816629250
ISBN-13
9780816629251
eBay Product ID (ePID)
235457
Product Key Features
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, Asia / China
Publication Year
1997
Type
Textbook
Genre
History, Social Science
Number of Pages
168 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
8.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
2
Lc Classification Number
Ds796.H75a34 1997
Publication Name
Hong Kong : Culture and the Politics of Disappearance
Table of Content
Culture in a space of disappearance; the new Hong Kong cinema and the D?j? Disparu; Wong Kar wai - Hong Kong film maker; building on disappearance - Hong Kong architecture and colonial space; photographing disappearance; writing Hong Kong; coda - hyphenation and postculture.
Copyright Date
1997
Lccn
96-041269
Dewey Decimal
951.25
Intended Audience
College Audience
Series
Public Worlds Ser.
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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