"During the nineteenth century tens of thousands of Chinese men and women crossed the Pacific to work, trade, and settle in California. Drawn initially by the gold rush, they took with them skills and goods and a view of the world which, though still Chinese, was transformed by …
"In 2014, the Sunflower Movement in Taiwan grabbed international attention as citizen protesters demanded the Taiwan government withdraw its free-trade agreement with China. In that same year, in Hong Kong, the Umbrella Movement sustained 79 days of demonstrations, protests that…
The contents of this work cover the social fabric of a collaborative colonialism, Chinese cultural nationalism and southern localism, cultural Cold War and the disaporic nation and much more.
"Law Wing Sang provides an alternative lens for looking into Hong Kong's history by breaking away for the usual colonial and nationalist interpretations. Drawing on both English and Chinese sources, he argues that, from the early colonial era, colonial power has been extensively…
The contents of this work cover the social fabric of a collaborative colonialism, Chinese cultural nationalism and southern localism, cultural Cold War and the disaporic nation and much more.
China in the Middle East: Aspiring to become a great powerbroker -- Japan: Eyeing a new role in Middle East Affairs -- South Korea: A relentless quest for a second boom -- North Korea: Seeking normalcy since the demise of Kim Il-Sung -- Unknown and undetected: Taiwan's resilient…
"This book studies the cultural framework of the connections between homeownership and social instability in Hong Kong. In the post-war period, homeownership became the most preferable housing choice in developed societies such as Australia, Britain, Japan, Spain, and the United…
Films are produced, reviewed and watched worldwide, often circulating between cultural contexts. The book explores cosmopolitanism and its debates through the lens of East Asian cinemas from Hong Kong, China, Malaysia and Singapore, throwing doubt on the validity of national cin…
If radio and film were the emblematic media of the Maoist era, television has rapidly established itself as the medium of the 'marketized' China and in the diaspora. In less than two decades, television has become the dominant medium across the Chinese cultural world. This is an…
"The evolution of Hong Kong, as a British colony and now a Special Administrative Region at China's door step, has always been inextricably intertwined with the situation in China. This relationship is examined through various perspectives in this volume. There are new insights …
The evolution of Hong Kong, as a British colony and now a Special Administrative Region at China's door step, has always been inextricably intertwined with the situation in China. This relationship is examined through various perspectives in this volume.
by Standaert, N., Tiedemann, R. G.
fromHandbuch der Orientalistik
Taking as its point of departure the three recurrent themes of nostalgia, memory and local histories, this book is an attempt to map out a new poetics - the 'post-nostalgic imagination' - in Hong Kong cinema in the first decade of Chinese rule. The change of sovereignty in 1997 …
