Found in Transition: Hong Kong Studies in the Age of China

di Yiu-Wai Chu (Autore)

State University of New York Press, 2018

Presents an updated account of Hong Kong and its culture two decades after its reversion to China. In Found in Transition, Yiu-Wai Chu examines the fate of Hong Kong's unique cultural identity in the contexts of both global capitalism and the increasing influence of China. Drawing on recent developments, especially with respect to language, movies, and popular songs as modes of resistance to "Mainlandization" and different forms of censorship, Chu explores the challenges facing Hong Kong twenty years after its reversion to China as a Special Administrative Region. Highlighting locality and hybridity along postcolonial lines of interpretation, he also attempts to imagine the future of Hong Kong by utilizing Hong Kong studies as a method. Chu argues that the study of Hong Kong-the place where the impact of the rise of China is most intensely felt-can shed light on emergent crises in different areas of the world. As such, this book represents a consequential follow-up to the author's Lost in Transition and a valuable contribution to international, area, and cultural studies.

• Autore: Yiu-Wai Chu
• Editore: State University of New York Press
• Collana: SUNY series in Global Modernity
• Anno: 2018
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 308 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 562 gr.
• EAN: 9781438471693

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