Yiu-Wai (Hrsg.) Chu

Hong Kong Culture and Society in the New Millennium

Hong Kong as Method

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This book discusses the notion of Hong Kong as Method as it relates to the rise of China in the context of Asianization. It explores new Hong Kong imaginaries with regard to the complex relationship between the local, the national and the global. The major theoretical thrust of the book is to address the reconfiguration of Hong Kong's culture and society in an age of global modernity from the standpoints of different disciplines, exploring the possibilities of approaching Hong Kong as a method. Through critical inquiries into different fields related to Hong Kong's culture and society, including gender, resistance and minorities, various pers… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-981-10-3668-2
EAN: 9789811036682
Produktnummer: 22594165
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 219 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 3'624 KB
Auflage: 1st ed. 2017
Abbildungen: 7 farbige Abbildungen, 13 farbige Tabellen, Bibliographie
Reihenbandnummer: 4

Über den Autor

Yiu-Wai Chu is a Professor and Director of the Hong Kong Studies Programme, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, the University of Hong Kong. His research interests focus on Hong Kong's culture, globalization and postcolonial discourse. An elected Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities, he has published academic essays in, among others, Social Analysis, boundary 2, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Visual Anthropology, Popular Music, the Journal of Chinese Cinemas and the International Journal of Cultural Studies. His most recent monograph is Lost in Transition: Hong Kong Culture in the Age of China (Albany: SUNY Press, 2013).