Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance

By Ackbar Abbas

In this intriguing and provocative exploration of its cinema, architecture, photography, and literature, Ackbar Abbas considers what Hong Kong, with its unique relations to decolonization and disappearance, can teach us about the future of both the colonial city and the global city.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9622094333
• ISBN13: 9789622094338
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
• Length: 155 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.9" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Inventive look at global/local dynamics in imperial HongKong

An inventive look at localist twists and practices in cinema, literature, urban space, within contexts of transnational porousness and neo-nationalism. A poetics of distraction and late capitalist bemusement, useful and the mall and in the movies and poesy too.