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The Hangover after the Handover: Places, Things and Cultural Icons in Hong Kong(25 Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines)

The Hangover after the Handover: Places, Things and Cultural Icons in Hong Kong(25 Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines)


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As a former British colony (1842–1997) and then a Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong has witnessed at all times how relations are formed, dissolved and refashioned amidst changing powers, identities and narratives, given the many names it possessed over the course of history, from ‘Barren Rock’, ‘Fragrant Harbour’, ‘Port of Incense’, ‘Pearl of the Orient’, ‘Asia’s World City’, ‘Vertical City’, ‘Floating City’ to ‘City at the End of Time’ among others. In the post-handover, post-hangover years, the circulation, reverberation and reception of cultural symbols, old and new, such as the King of Kowloon, Song Emperor’s Terrace, and Lion Rock have revealed the multifaceted appearances and connotations of Hong Kong’s ‘local’. At the intersections between real-life events, cultural production and consumption and multiple voices, the book extracts and examines the local relations between the inhabitants of the territory and the human and nonhuman agencies that stand or that have once stood for Hong Kong across time and through space. Via the lens of places, things and cultural icons, the book offers lessons to learn from Hong Kong by opening up manifold postcolonial, translocal and planetary perspectives to confront and interrogate the volatile experiences in the new millennia—unprecedented since the Cold War period of the twentieth century—shared by Hong Kong and other regions. After all, what does it mean, or take, to live in the contemporary world when the local, global and national are constantly given new meanings?

Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION: THE HANGOVER AFTER THE HANDOVER CHAPTER 1 LOCAL RELATIONS AND THEIR POSTCOLONIAL OUTLOOKS CHAPTER 2 HONG KONG’S LOCAL: (DE-)GENERATING LOCAL RELATIONS CHAPTER 3 ALL HAIL THE KING OF KOWLOON! MEDIATING MALLEABLE MATERIALITY CHAPTER 4 CONNECTING WITH THE LOCAL, OR NOT: THE SONG EMPEROR’S TERRACE CHAPTER 5 ANOTHER ROCK, ANOTHER HONG KONG STORY: LION ROCK FROM BELOW AND ABOVE CONCLUSION: LOCAL AND TRANSLOCAL: LESSONS FROM HONG KONG BIBLIOGRAPHY

About the Author :
Helena Wu is a teaching and research fellow at the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies of the University of Zurich. Her research explores critical theory, Hong Kong culture, Chinese-language literatures and Asian cinemas. Her publications can be found in Interventions (2018), Chinese Martial Arts and Culture (2018), Hong Kong Keywords (2019), Journal of Chinese Cinemas (2020) and Global Media and China (2020).

Review :
“This is a highly original and timely study in a field that is still developing, having been neglected in terms of its global cultural significance until very recently. Now Dr Wu’s book couldn’t be more topical.” Professor Michael Ingham, Lingnan University, Hong Kong


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781837644100
  • Publisher: Liverpool University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 192
  • Series Title: 25 Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1837644101
  • Publisher Date: 01 Aug 2023
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 192
  • Sub Title: Places, Things and Cultural Icons in Hong Kong


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