Popular Culture and the Formation of Hong Kong Identity

by Heung Wah Wong, Karin Ling Chau, Hoi-Yan Yau

This book charts the development of Hong Kong identity from the Second World War to the present. It argues that understanding popular culture is key to understanding how Hong Kong identity has evolved, and it discusses how, in the post-war period, popular culture has gone through various phases where particular aspects of popular culture dominated, for example tourism, television dramas and popular music in the 1970s, shopping culture in the 1980s,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415708842
• ISBN13: 9780415708845
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages