Hong Kong : Culture and the Politics of Disappearance.

Hong Kong : Culture and the Politics of Disappearance.

In an intriguing and provocative exploration of its cinema, architecture, photography, and literature, Ackbar Abbas considers what Hong Kong can teach us about the future of both the colonial city and the global city.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Abbas, Ackbar
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
Series:Public worlds.
Subjects:
1997
Civilization
Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East.
History & Archaeology.
East Asia.
Hong Kong (China) > History.
Hong Kong (China) > Civilization.
Hong Kong (China) > History > Transfer of Sovereignty from Great Britain, 1997.
China > Hong Kong
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Culture in a Space of Disappearance; 2 The New Hong Kong Cinema and the Déjà Disparu; 3 Wong Kar-wai: Hong Kong Filmmaker; 4 Building on Disappearance: Hong Kong Architecture and Colonial Space; 5 Photographing Disappearance; 6 Writing Hong Kong; 7 Coda: Hyphenation and Postculture; Notes; Index.

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