Overview
- Anthologizes the high points of Hong Kong's popular culture
- Explores the links between Hong Kong culture and the ambiguous politics and governance of the region
- Gives context for the ongoing cultural evolution of Hong Kong in the era of umbrella protests
Part of the book series: Hong Kong Studies Reader Series (HKSRS)
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This book traces the evolution of the Hong Kong’s popular culture, namely film, television and popular music (also known as Cantopop), which is knotted with the city’s geo-political, economic and social transformations. Under various historical contingencies and due to the city’s special geo-politics, these three major popular cultural forms have experienced various worlding processes and have generated border-crossing impact culturally and socially. The worlding processes are greatly associated the city’s nature as a reception and departure port to Sinophone migrants and populations of multiethnic and multicultural.
Reaching beyond the “golden age” (1980s) of Hong Kong popular culture and afar from a film-centric cultural narration, this book, delineating from the dawn of the 20th century and following a chronological order, untangles how the nowadays popular “Hong Kong film”, “Hong Kong TV” and “Cantopop” are derived from early-age Sinophone cultural heritage, re-shaped through cross-cultural hybridization and influenced by multiple political forces. Review of archives, existing literatures and corporation documents are supplemented with policy analysis and in-depth interviews to explore the centennial development of Hong Kong popular culture, which is by no means demise but at the juncture of critical transition.
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Book Title: Hong Kong Popular Culture
Book Subtitle: Worlding Film, Television, and Pop Music
Authors: Klavier J. Wang
Series Title: Hong Kong Studies Reader Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8817-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8816-3Published: 30 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8819-4Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-8817-0Published: 07 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2523-7764
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7772
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 523
Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations
Topics: Asian Culture, Asian Politics, Asian Economics