...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...

...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...

...Lionel M. Jensen Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 The Invention of “Confucius“ and His Chinese Other, “Kong Fuzi“ Lionel M. Jensen In ancient times they followed the natural law as faithfully as in our lands; and for...

... 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...

...Shuyu Kong Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 ?39 Commentary Swan and Spider Eater in Problematic Memoirs of Cultural Revolution Shuyu Kong In the last fifteen...

... 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...

... return to his birthplace. Hùng reembodies his torn Vietnamese identity through montage of spaces of poverty, crime, and loss. The chain-smoking poet, played by Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu Wai, drifts silently through interiors that seemingly bear no relationship to the dangerous, grimy streets...

...Yiman Wang This article studies the interactions between the “foreign” female star body and the body of nation and national film historiography through the lens of the Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung and her two crossover films, Centre Stage and Irma Vep . The premise of my argument is that the...

... neighboring Asian states. This article thus focuses on Japan’s encounter with “Asia” through what I call popular Asianism. I mean by this term Japanese media representa- tions of “Asia” generally, but in particular Hong Kong popular culture and...

... 2013 Contributors Alex Ching-­shing Chan taught consumption culture and general issues of Hong Kong society in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Baptist University and City University of...

... Kong. Fred Yen Liang Chiu is an associate professor of sociology at Hong Kong Baptist University and the author of Politics of Post-Modernity: On Social Movements and Their Discourses (1995, in Chinese). positions 8:1 Spring...

... Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Department of Geography at the National Taiwan University. She is the author of Walking between Slums and Skyscrapers: Illusions of Open Space in Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Shanghai (2004) and...