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A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On (Hardcover)
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A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On (Hardcover)
Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia
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Dung Kai-cheung's A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On is
a playful and imaginative glimpse into the consumerist dreamscape
of late-nineties Hong Kong. First published in 1999, it comprises
ninety-nine sketches of life just after the handover of the former
British colony to China. Each of these stories in miniature begins
from a piece of ephemera, usually consumer products or pop culture
phenomena, and develops alternately comic and poignant snapshots of
urban life. Dung's sketches center on once-trendy items that evoke
the world at the turn of the millennium, such as Hello Kitty, Final
Fantasy VIII, a Windows 98 disk, a clamshell mobile phone, Air
Jordans, and cargo shorts. The protagonist of each piece, typically
a young woman, is struck by an odd, even overriding obsession with
an object or fad. Characters embark on brief dalliances or
relationships lasting no longer than the fashions that sparked
them. Dung blends vivid everyday details-Portuguese egg tarts,
Japanese TV shows, the Hong Kong subway-with situations that are
often fantastical or preposterous. This catalog of vanished
products illuminates how people use objects to define and even
invent their own selves. A major work from one of Hong Kong's most
gifted and original writers, Dung's archaeology of the end of the
twentieth century speaks to perennial questions about consumerism,
nostalgia, and identity.
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