Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance Volume 2

by Ackbar Abbas

A consideration of what the culture of Hong Kong tells us about the state of the world at the fin-de-si cle.

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816629250
• ISBN13: 9780816629251
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Inventive look at global/local dynamics in imperial HongKong

An inventive look at localist twists and practices in cinema, literature, urban space, within contexts of transnational porousness and neo-nationalism. A poetics of distraction and late capitalist bemusement, useful and the mall and in the movies and poesy too.