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