Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction -- Hong Kong on the Move: Creating Global Cultures; 1 -- Ten Years Later: 1997-2007 as History; 2 -- Power Plays: Alternative Performance Art and Urban Space in the Political Life of the City; 3 -- The Haunted City: Hong Kong and Its Urban Others; 4 -- Chinese English, English Chinese: Biliteracy and Translation; 5 -- Louise Ho and the Local Turn: The Place of English Poetry in Hong Kong; 6 -- From Xu Xi to the Chief Executive: Hong Kong in the Dock; 7 -- The "New" East Asia and Hong Kong Cinema
Summary
Hong Kong as a world city draws on a rich variety of foundational texts in film, fiction, architecture and other forms of visual culture. This volume of essays engages many fields of cultural achievement
