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Desiring Hong Kong, consuming South China / Eric Kit-wai Ma.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ma, Jiewei.
- Series:
- Hong Kong culture and society.
- Hong Kong culture and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Acculturation--China, Southeast--History--20th century.
- Acculturation.
- Acculturation--China, Southeast--History--21st century.
- Hong Kong (China)--Relations--China, Southeast.
- Hong Kong (China).
- China, Southeast--Relations--China--Hong Kong.
- China, Southeast.
- Hong Kong (China)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Hong Kong (China)--Social conditions--21st century.
- China, Southeast--Social conditions--20th century.
- China, Southeast--Social conditions--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (220 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Aberdeen, Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, c2012.
- Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A study of the complex and changing cultural patterns in Hong Kong's relationship with the neighbouring mainland, this book traces the fading of Hong Kong's once-influential position as a role model for less-developed mainland cities and explores changing perceptions as China grows in confidence.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Series Foreword""; ""Illustrations""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I - Desiring Hong Kong""; ""1 - Consuming satellite modernities: Hong Kong as an object of desire""; ""2 - Imagining Hong Kong: Featuring transborder imageries""; ""3 - Transborder desire: Fantasizing, learning and apprehending modernity""; ""4 - Transborder visuality: Visual exchanges between Hong Kong and South China""; ""Part II - Consuming South China""; ""5 - Cultural brokers and transnational connections""; ""6 - Realizing wedding imaginations: Marriages with a Hong Kong connection""
- ""7 - Modern bodies in the making: Tales from a factory and a bar in South China""""8 - Re-discovering national spatiality and diversity in South China""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-207) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789882209329
- 9882209327
- 9789888053933
- 9888053930
- OCLC:
- 814551406
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