Hong Kong Studies

14. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-72724-3
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 594 g

Reihe: Brill

This interdisciplinary volume provides a multifaceted exploration of the kaleidoscopic transformation of Hong Kong. It examines the region's diverse historical developments, the challenges of digital surveillance, the impact of Orientalism, the power of individual agency, minor literature, films, popular culture, and the trajectories of creative writing programs.

Featuring contributors from various disciplines, including history, literature, and media studies, this volume offers scholarly insights into the dynamic relationships among domestic helpers, immigrants, refugees, and Hongkongers. It presents an essential overview of the complex evolution of Hong Kong as a continually changing Special Administrative Region of China.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ki, Magdalen

Liang, Wayne Wen-chun

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgment

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

part 1: Hong Kong and the Evolving Political Compass

1 The Rise of Hong Kong and the Problem of Alignment Wayne Wen-chun Liang and Magdalen Ki

2 Digital Hong Kong and Surveillance Capitalism Magdalen Ki

3 Mass Transit Rail, Mass Transit Discourse: Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of MTR Posters Jennifer Eagleton

4 TV Special: Finding a Hong Kong Story Vinton Poon

5 De-territorialization and Re-territorialization: the “Cramped Space” in Contemporary Hong Kong Literature Emily Shun Man Chow-Quesada

part 2: Hong Kong Dream and the Culture Compass

6 Positive and Negative Orientalism: “China as a Career” Chi Sum Garfield Lau

7 Ann Hui on the Shores of the South China Sea Jim Cocola

8 Vampires vs Hopping Vampires: Mr Vampire Series and Hong Kong Vampire Hunters Magdalen Ki

9 Contradictions of Visibilities in Oliver Chan’s Still Human Miguel Antonio N. Lizada

10 Institutional and Communal Creativity: Local Discourse and English-Language Creative Writing in Hong Kong Antony Huen and Jason Eng Hun Lee

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Magdalen Ki, Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, is Associate Professor of English Literature at the Hong Kong Baptist University. She is the author of Jane Austen and the Dialectic of Misrecognition (Peter Lang, 2005) and Jane Austen and Altruism (Routledge, 2020).

Wayne Wen-chun Liang, Ph.D., Newcastle University, U.K., is Associate Professor of Translation at Soochow University (Taiwan). He has published many articles in Translation Studies, including “What has machine translation ‘mis-translated’ COVID-19?” (2023), Images in the hands of translators: A case study of the English translations of Pu Songling’s Liaozhaizhiyi (2020), and “Translators’ Behaviors from a Sociological Perspective” (2016).