Full Description
This book examines how in navigating Hong Kong's colonial history alongside its ever-present Chinese identity, the city has come to manifest a conflicting socio-cultural plurality. Drawing together scholars, critics, commentators, and creators on the vanguard of the emerging field of Hong Kong Studies, the essay volume presents a gyroscopic perspective that discerns what is made in from what is made into Hong Kong while weaving a patchwork of the territory's contested local imaginary. This collection celebrates as it critiques the current state of Hong Kong society on the 20th anniversary of its handover to China. The gyroscopic outlook of the volume makes it a true area studies book-length treatment of Hong Kong, and a key and interdisciplinary read for students and scholars wishing to explore the territory's complexities.
Contents
Introduction: Made Into Hong Kong.- Part I: Surveillance.- Turning English into Cantonese: The Semantic Change of English Loanwords.- Beehives and Wet Markets: Expat Metaphors of Hong Kong.- Hong Kong Paradox: Appearance and Disappearance in Western Cinema.- Hong Kong Diversity in Anglophone Children's Fiction.- Ann Hui's Allegorical Cinema.- Part II: Sousveillance.- Approaching Linguistic Norms: The Case of/for Hong Kong English on the Internet.- Hong Kong's Edward Snowden/Edward Snowden's Hong Kong.- The Lazy Element: LMF and the Localization of Hip Hop Authenticity.- Worlding Hong Kong Literature: Dung Kai-cheung's Atlas.- Writing Hong Kong's Ethos.- Part III: Equiveillance.- Chiaroscuro of the Uncanny: An Unknown Side of Old Master Q.- "I didn't think we'd be like them"; or, Wong Kar Wai, Hongkonger.- Becoming Hong Kong-like: The Role of Hong Kong English in the Acquisition of English Phonology by Hong Kong Students.- Struggling to become non-Hong-Kong-like: The Necessity and Effectiveness of Training Hong Kong Youngsters' Perception and Production of General American English Vowel.- Glocalizing Hong Kong Anglophone Literature: Locating Xu Xi's Writing Across the Decades.
