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Author Ma, Jiewei

Title Desiring Hong Kong, consuming South China / Eric Kit-wai Ma
Edition 1st ed
Published Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (220 pages)
Contents Introduction ; I. Desiring Hong Kong -- 1. Consuming satellite modernities: Hong Kong as an object of desire -- 2. Imagining Hong Kong: Featuring transborder imageries -- 3. Transborder desire: Fantasizing, learning and apprehending modernity -- 4. Transborder visuality: Visual exchanges between Hong Kong and South China -- II. Consuming South China -- 5. Cultural brokers and transnational connections -- 6. Realizing wedding imaginations: Marriages with a Hong Kong connection -- 7. Modern bodies in the making: Tales from a factory and a bar in South China -- 8. Re-discovering national spatiality and diversity in South China
Summary A study of the complex and changing cultural patterns in Hong Kong's relationship with the neighboring mainland
Notes Print version record
Subject Acculturation -- China, Southeast -- History -- 20th century
Acculturation -- China, Southeast -- History -- 21st century
Acculturation
International relations
Social conditions
SUBJECT Hong Kong (China) -- Relations -- China, Southeast
China, Southeast -- Relations -- China -- Hong Kong
Hong Kong (China) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Hong Kong (China) -- Social conditions -- 21st century
China, Southeast -- Social conditions -- 20th century
China, Southeast -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Subject China -- Hong Kong
Southeast China
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789888053933
9888053930