Hong Kong Culture and Society in the New Millennium : Hong Kong as Method

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...

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Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Chu, Yiu-Wai (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
SeriesThe Humanities in Asia, 4
Subjects
Social sciences.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Cultural studies.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9789811036682
ISSN2363-6890 ;
DOI10.1007/978-981-10-3668-2
Physical DescriptionXXIII, 219 p. 7 illus. in color. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Framing Hong Kong (as Method)
  • 1.1 "Hong Kong Liminal: Everyday Situations as Method"
  • 1.2 "Sex and Freedom in the Chatroom: The Hong Kong Golden Forum as Method"
  • 1.3 "Hong Kong as Feminist Method: Gender, Sexuality, and Democracy in Two Documentaries by Tammy Cheung"
  • 2. The Local, the Global and the National
  • 2.1 "New Orleans, New Territories"
  • 2.2 "Hong Kong as a Port City"
  • 2.3 "Censorship at Work: Cold War Paranoia and Purgation of Chinese Ghost Stories"
  • 2.4 "The "National" Question and the Stories of Hong Kong"
  • 3. Hybridity, Marginality and Resistance
  • 3.1 "'Vibrant Objects,' Shifting Perspectives: Understanding Hong Kong Poetry as Method"
  • 3.2 "Return, Come Out: Queer Lives in Postcolonial Hong Kong"
  • 3.3 "Derrida's Hospitality and Serres' Parasitism: The Case of Hong Kong"
  • 3.4 "Model of and Model for Ethnic Minorities: Individualization of the Model Minority Stereotype in Hong Kong"
  • Postscript: Hong Kong and Beyond.

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