...Ackbar Abbas 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Ackbar Abbas is head of comparative literature and codirector of the Center for the Study of Globalisation and Cultures at the University of Hong Kong. His recent publications include Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance...

...Ackbar Abbas Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Building on Disappearance: Hong Kong Architecture and the City Ackbar Abbas “Space” and “Place” Another luxury...

...Sony Devabhaktuni; Joanna Mansbridge Abstract This article examines the 2019 Hong Kong protests from the perspective of urban space and the city's historical founding as a colonial entrepôt. Specifically, it explores how the protests destabilized both the urban fabric of the city and the political...

...Ackbar Abbas Copyright © 1997 by © 1997 by the University of Chicago 1997 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Hong Kong: Other Histories, Other Politics...

... Copyright © 1997 by © 1997 by the University of Chicago 1997 Hong Kong Negative Spaces Photographs by Demt Tatlow Fig. 1. Memories of Iwo Jima Fig. 2. Blind Fortune Fig. 3. Back to Mao Fig. 4. The X-Urban Subject: Cinema and Television Fig. 5...

...Wu Hung Copyright © 1997 by © 1997 by the University of Chicago 1997 The Hong Kong Clock- Public TimeDTelling and Political Time/Space wir Hung W hen I first saw the Hong Kong Clock...

...Jeremy Tambling Copyright © 1997 by © 1997 by the University of Chicago 1997 The History Man: The Last Governor of Hong Kong Jeremy Tambling At midnight on 30 June 1997, Hong Kong island, ceded to Britain...

...David Clarke Copyright © 1997 by © 1997 by the University of Chicago 1997 Varieties of Cultural Hybridity: Hong Kong Art in the Late Colonial Era David Clarke Cultural hybridity...

...Wu Hung Copyright © 1997 by © 1997 by the University of Chicago 1997 Afterword “Hong Kong 1997”- T-shirt Designs by Zhang Hongtu A newspaper photograph shows fireworks lighting up Hong Kong’s skyline...

...James Tweedie Using contemporary Chinese and Hong Kong cinema, the large body of writing on media emanating from Koolhaas and his atelier, and the headquarters for China Central Television as its primary touchstones, this essay examines the relationship between the current media environment in East...

... support. For their constructive comments, I thank Dr. Alison Young, Dr. Costas Douzinas, Professor Alan Norrie, Pro- fessor Yash Ghai, Professor Robert Fine, and Professor Mark Bracher. Support for this essay was provided by the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong, and research assistance...

... to discover that they are active players in their own narrative, and that each small choice bends the future in a slightly different direction. 565 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre...

... back home are feeling puzzled and frustrated by the taste of the international market. This elegantly shot epic, amply financed from Hong Kong, is about love and death at the Peking Opera. The images are lovely, the story exotic, but how much does it all have to do with the grim realities...

..., but by the confusions and interchangeable nature of temporal events.7 In this situation, which is more or less our own whether we live in New York or Hong Kong, Shanghai or Paris, the “real” typically produces an experience of trauma, dislocation, and fascination all at once; it is an experience of elusive...

... Press 2009 I would like to thank the many people who helped me find maps at the National Library of China, the Library of Congress, the British Library, the Academia Sinica (Taiwan), Harvard University, Cornell University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Hoover Institution Archives...

...; Kaplan 1989). In 1988, while at Xi’an Film Studio, Zhung Yimou made hisjirst featurejlm, Red Sorghum (Hong gaoliang) (Wang 1991, Yang 1990), which won him a prize at the Berlin Film Festival. Two otherjlms, Ju Dou, released in 1990, and Raise the Red Lantern @a hong denglong gaogao gua...

... As professional China watchers are ready to point out, Shanghai is moving in on Hong Kong’s prowess and performing feats of economic athleticism 309 Public Culture Figure 6  SUPEH architectural model...

...Pun Ngai © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Pun Ngai is an assistant professor of social science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is a cultural anthropologist and the author of various publications on Chinese migrant workers, gender, global factories...

... and private gatherings. People experience a “heterogeneity of the self” as they remake relations and practice forms of care (76). Watan involves knowing that damage was done yet repairing relations all the same. In “Democracy's Dislocations: Spaces of Protest and the People of Hong Kong,” Sony...

... passage to modernity to which Mao Dun 1. H. J. Lethbridge, introduction to All about Shanghai: A Standard Guidebook (1934–35; reprint, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1983), x. 2. An old version of the dictionary was translated...