Cultural conflict in Hong Kong : angles on a coherent imaginary / Jason S. Polley, Vinton W.K. Poon, Lian-Hee Wee, editors.
This book examines how in navigating Hong Kong's colonial history alongside its ever-present Chinese identity, the city has come to manifest a conflicting socio-cultural plurality. Drawing together scholars, critics, commentators, and creators on the vanguard of the emerging field of Hong Kong...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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Table of Contents:
- Worlding Hong Kong in AtlasReferences; Chapter 11: Writing Hong Kong's Ethos; Introduction; Chinese Elements in English-Language Poetry; Western Elements in Anglophone Hong Kong Poetry; Nicholas Wong's Poetry; Coda; Appendix 1; The Great Rock Has Returned; Appendix 2; Human Design: Advice from a Pro-Beijing Lobbyist by Nicholas Wong; Appendix 3; What the Pig Mama Says by Arthur Leung; Appendix 4; Appendix 5; Appendix 6; Appendix 7; Appendix 8; References; Part III: Equiveillance; Chapter 12: Chiaroscuro of the Uncanny: An Unknown Side of Old Master Q; Old Master Q: The Basics.
- Intro; Preface; Acknowledgement; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction: Made into Hong Kong; Surveillance; Sousveillance; Equiveillance; References; Part I: Surveillance; Chapter 2: Turning English into Cantonese: The Semantic Change of English Loanwords; English Loanwords in Cantonese; The Phonology of Loanwords; The Semantics of Loanwords; Six Examples of Semantic Change; sot1 "short"; on1si2 "ounce"; hep1pi2 "happy"; ku1 "cool"; ang1kou4 "uncle"; haai1 "high"; Concluding Remarks; References.
- Chapter 3: Beehives and Wet Markets: Expat Metaphors of Hong KongReferences; Chapter 4: Hong Kong Paradox: Appearance and Disappearance in Western Cinema; Introduction; (Dis)Appearance; Before 1997; Hollywood Blockbusters; The Painted Veil; Contagion; Ghost in the Shell; Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: Hong Kong Diversity in Anglophone Children's Fiction; Introduction; Diversity in Children's Literature; Hong Kong in Anglophone Literature for Children; Hong Kong: Places; Hong Kong: Faces; Hong Kong: Cultural Codes; Hong Kong Anglophone Authors; Promoting Hong Kong's Diversity; Conclusion.
- MSN Conversation SurveyReferences; Chapter 8: Hong Kong's Edward Snowden/Edward Snowden's Hong Kong; Before Snowden; Snowden's Hong Kong; After Snowden; References; Chapter 9: The Lazy Element: LMF and the Localization of Hip Hop Authenticity; Introduction; The Many Faces of the "Realest" Hip Hop Artist Alive; Would the Real LMF Please Stand Up?; The Lazy Element (Music); The Lazy Element (Lyrics); Conclusion: The Lazy as Method?; References; Chapter 10: Worlding Hong Kong Literature: Dung Kai-cheung's Atlas; World Literature and Worlding Literature; Reading Atlas in Dialogism.