Reconfiguration of 'the Stars and the Queen' : A Quest for the Interrelationship between Architecture and Civic Awareness in Post-colonial Hong Kong （2015. 190 S. 227.0 mm）

Kam, Liza Wing Man

NOMOS（2015発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版
• 商品コード 9783848710836

Description

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After 1997, the once symbolic infrastructures of the British Empire seemingly became eyesores to the new Hong Kong authority. In a post-colonial era, is the transformation of former colonial structures an act of de-colonisation, or does it mark the beginning of neo-colonialism? Buried with the ruins of annihilated colonial heritage were their complicated and contradictory representations. The Queen s and the Star Ferry Pier complex was the spot where colonial governors disembarked from the Royal yacht on reaching the colony and also hosted the city s first wave of social movement directed towards colonial suppression in the 1970s. The attempt by and success of the post-colonial authority in transforming colonial space, and the public who is aloof from taking action on losing their site of memory , are seen as driven by different forms of colonial legacy . This book inspects that legacy s texture by disentangling the interrelationship between history, historiography, identity,architecture and civic awareness.