Consuming Hong Kong

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This book shows how the detailed ehtnographic study of consumption in Hong Kong can lead to a deeper understanding of Hong Kong life as a whole, as well as of consumption in the world at large.

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Full title :Consuming Hong Kong / edited by Gordon Mathews and Tai-lok Lui.

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This book shows how the detailed ehtnographic study of consumption in Hong Kong can lead to a deeper understanding of Hong Kong life as a whole, as well as of consumption in the world at large.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2001.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Hong Kong University Press
Place of Publication:Hong Kong
Language:eng
Publication Date:2001.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xi, 340 pages) : : illustrations, map

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789882200876, 9882200877
oclc:on1136379420
LC Classification:HF5415.33.C6
Dewey Decimal:330.16 22

Series Foreword; Contributors; A Note on Cantonese Romanization; Introduction; 1.The Mailing of Hong Kong; 2.Making House into Home: Interior Design in Hong Kong Public Housing; 3.Consuming Cinema: Reflections on Movies and Market-places in Contemporary Hong Kong; 4.The Hierarchy of Drinks: Alcohol and Social Class in Hong Kong; 5.Shopping for Fashion in Hong Kong; 6.The Sense of Things: Chinese Art in the Lives of Hong Kong Collectors and Connoisseurs; 7.Consuming a Dream: Homes in Advertisements and Imagination in Contemporary Hong Kong

8.Consuming Places in Hong Kong: Experiencing Lan Kwai Fong9.The McDonald's Snoopy Craze in Hong Kong; Cultural Identity and Consumption in Post-Colonial Hong Kong; Glossary: Cantonese in Yale Romanization; Index

Subjects

China -- Hong Kong Consommateurs -- Comportement -- Chine Consumer behavior Consumer behavior -- China Consumption (Economics) Consumption (Economics) -- China Economic history Hong Kong (China) -- Economic conditions