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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821787303321

Autore

Ma Jiewei

Titolo

Desiring Hong Kong, consuming South China / / Eric Kit-wai Ma

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Aberdeen, Hong Kong, : Hong Kong University Press, c2012

Hong Kong : , : Hong Kong University Press, , 2011

ISBN

988-220-932-7

988-8053-93-0

Edizione

[1st edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 pages)

Collana

Hong Kong culture and society

Disciplina

303.4825125051

Soggetti

Acculturation - China, Southeast - History - 20th century

Acculturation - China, Southeast - History - 21st century

Hong Kong (China) Relations China, Southeast

China, Southeast Relations China Hong Kong

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-207) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""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""

Sommario/riassunto

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.