Hybrid Hong Kong attempts to attract and excite the intellectual,
cultural, economic and political elites as well as the intelligent
laymen of Hong Kong - hopefully enough for them to take a closer
look at their society - while engendering a public discourse on the
city's identity, its past, present and future. Hong Kong is at its
crossroads. With a colonial past and having been handed over, and
back, to China in 1997, the city has since been going through a
process of re-sinification and re-integration (not entirely wanted)
into the Pearl River Delta region of mainland China, all of which
have far-reaching consequences for identity politics, culture,
loyalty and attachment, and everyday livelihood. The hybridity
concept offers an in-between space, and time, to narrate, describe
and make sense of the many layers of entanglement of cultural,
anthropological, economic and political forces that impinge,
impact, sometimes confuse, even disturb, the everyday lives of the
Hongkongers who have decided to call the city home. The book probes
a range of sites and locales of a Hongkonger's natural habitat,
including film and television, ethnicity, popular music videos, gay
identities, fashion, art, theatre, Cantopop electronic dance music,
museum, visual arts, the Muslim youth, food and cuisine, and
Chinese and western medicines. Based on ethnography, fieldwork and
participant observation, Hybrid Hong Kong intends to display and
explain hybridity as it is performed in the public as well as
private spheres of city life. This book was originally published as
a special issue of Visual Anthropology.
General
| Imprint: |
Routledge
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
March 2012 |
| First published: |
2004 |
| Editors: |
Kwok Bun Chan
(Assistant Professor)
|
| Dimensions: |
246 x 174 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
278 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-415-69554-1 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
Philosophy >
General
Books >
Philosophy >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-415-69554-6 |
| Barcode: |
9780415695541 |
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