...Alice Ming Wai Jim 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Urban Mediations in Hong Kong Contemporary Art: Notes on A Very Good City and Local Orientation Alice Ming Wai Jim Over the last decade, contemporary art in Hong Kong, informed by travel- (ing...

...Ka-Fai Yau 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 3rdness: Filming, Changing, Thinking Hong Kong Ka-Fai Yau Thinking through Cinema To intervene into what has been happening in the cinema, Gilles Deleuze puts forth “a taxonomy, an attempt at the...

...Paola Zamperini 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Making Fashion Work: Interview with Sophie Hong Paola Zamperini Hong Lifen, also known to the Western world as Sophie Hong, graduated from the fashion and design department of Shijian University in...

...Helen Hok-sze Leung 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Queerscapes in Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema Helen Hok-sze Leung A Queer Undercurrent What use is there for me to go on treasuring you? Even if I hold you tight this time...

... Chinese, Hong Kong, and Philippine cinema are explored here, each demonstrating differing inflections in relation to digitization, finance capital, gender performativity, and generic style. Haptic mapping, the rapidly oscillating gender of the “female” martial artist, the transcendent “male” virtuosic...

...Fred Y. L. Chiu Preamble In 1966, a year before riots broke out in Hong Kong protesting British colonial rule, an official government inquiry sought to explain the political behavior of the Hong Kong Chinese. According to the authors of the Report of the Working Party on Local Administration, the...

...Philippa Levine Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 6 3-1 Modernity, Medicine, and Colonialism: The Contagious Diseases Ordinances in Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements Philippa...

...Law Wing-sang 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Northbound Colonialism: A Politics of Post–PC Hong Kong Law Wing-sang A year before the 1997 handover, I read with amusement an article in an entertainment magazine describing the political attitudes...

...Siu-keung Cheung 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Speaking Out: Days in the Lives of Three Hong Kong Cage Dwellers Siu-keung Cheung From its humble origin as a fishing village on a bit of barren granite, Hong Kong has been developed into a...

...Eric Kit-Wai Ma 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Re-Advertising Hong Kong: Nostalgia Industry and Popular History Eric Kit-Wai Ma This article tries to map the nostalgic practices in Hong Kong at a key mo- ment of political transition. It...

... media in the Hong Kong popular culture, are concerned with new theoretical development in the global media. We take the operational notion of “thingification of media,” as Scott Lash and Celia Lury proposed in their book Global Cultural Industry (2007), in our core analysis of these transformations of...

...), which by 2006 had formed close relationships with major commercial forums championing anti-Japanese nationalism as a populist strategy, and (b) the generation of Chinese born after 1980 ( 80 hou ) and their identity politics, illustrated by a discussion on those who are university students in Hong Kong...

...Jing Jiang Through an intertextual reading of Xiao Hong's short story “Hands” and other examples culled from the broader print culture of the Republican period, this article traces the rise of a kind of “hand fetish” in modern China and examines the array of cultural meanings embedded in this...

...Guo-Juin Hong Copyright 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 Framing Time: New Women and the Cinematic Representation of Colonial Modernity in 1930s Shanghai Guo-Juin Hong What Is Time? Modern Time The February 1935 issue of Shanghai’s Liangyou huabao The...

...Guo-Juin Hong This article examines Mickey Chen's queer documentaries and their tactics of subversion, especially in his representation of both positive and negative images and in his formal strategies of mimicking mainstream media. Issues of “visibility” permeate the general landscape of...

...Christine Hong As an introduction to the special issue of positions: asia critique on the unending Korean War, this opening essay calls critical attention to the war's temporal contours, shifting focus from the question of the Korean War's origins that bedeviled Korean studies throughout the Cold...

...Christine Hong Reading North Korean defector memoirs and Korean American “roots” narratives as forms of “second culture” relative to North Korea, namely, an alternative US-oriented culture whose representational authority is held as exceeding that of the socialist state of origin, this essay...

...Henry Em; Christine Hong; Kim Dong-Choon For over two decades, Kim Dong-Choon has written about the history of violence leveled at the population since Korea was liberated from Japanese colonial rule and partitioned by Soviet and US forces in 1945. His research and theoretical reflections on state...

... process of marketization in the late 1980s, and is of course very much enabled by the importation into China of consumerist culture from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the West. Many people subscribe to this image of success that indicates social progress...

... Kaneshiro and his Asian yet cosmopolitan star image. The author emphasizes four aspects of his stardom: (1) duality of appearance and acting, (2) cosmopolitan appeal as marketing strategy, (3) ambivalence between Hong Kongness and Japaneseness, and (3) Japanese connection. This article shows how online fan...