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Hong Kong : culture and the politics of disappearance / Ackbar Abbas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abbas, M. A. (M. Ackbar)
- Series:
- Public worlds ; v. 2.
- Public worlds ; v. 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hong Kong (China)--History.
- Hong Kong (China).
- Hong Kong (China)--Civilization.
- Hong Kong (China)--History--Transfer of Sovereignty from Great Britain, 1997.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (164 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In an intriguing and provocative exploration of its cinema, architecture, photography, and literature, Ackbar Abbas considers what Hong Kong can teach us about the future of both the colonial city and the global city.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Culture in a Space of Disappearance; 2 The New Hong Kong Cinema and the Déjà Disparu; 3 Wong Kar-wai: Hong Kong Filmmaker; 4 Building on Disappearance: Hong Kong Architecture and Colonial Space; 5 Photographing Disappearance; 6 Writing Hong Kong; 7 Coda: Hyphenation and Postculture; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-150) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-8798-6
- OCLC:
- 476094248
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