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Hong Kong : Culture and the Politics of Disappearance.
Title:
Hong Kong : Culture and the Politics of Disappearance.
Author:
Abbas, Ackbar.
ISBN:
9780816687985
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (164 pages)
Series:
Public Worlds
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Culture in a Space of Disappearance -- 2 The New Hong Kong Cinema and the Déjà Disparu -- 3 Wong Kar-wai: Hong Kong Filmmaker -- 4 Building on Disappearance: Hong Kong Architecture and Colonial Space -- 5 Photographing Disappearance -- 6 Writing Hong Kong -- 7 Coda: Hyphenation and Postculture -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
In an intriguing and provocative exploration of its cinema, architecture, photography, and literature, Ackbar Abbas considers what Hong Kong can teach us about the future of both the colonial city and the global city.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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