Cultural studies in a still colonial context : imagining Hong Kong between world and home

Ching Kiu, Stephen CHAN

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Abstract

In the dynamic scene of contemporary Hongkong public culture, the fascinating representation of such emotional traces as anxiety, bewilderment and despair are embodied and processed in a machinery of highly sophisticated multi-media narrative constructs. The resultant spectacle——viewed through a patchwork of "moves" in language pragmatism (in Lyotard's sense of the just(i ce ) game)——is driven, in my analysis, by a public imaginary which, if mapped onto a network of "rules" governing the respective popular "games," would seem extremely useful for identifying the form and problematic of what might be called the cultural imaginary of Hong Kong.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)56-63
Number of pages8
JournalShue Yan Journal of English/Cultural Studies
Volume1
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 1995
Externally publishedYes

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Colonies
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Anxiety
Patchwork
Public Culture
Despair
Emotion
Pragmatism
Multimedia

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CHAN, Ching Kiu, Stephen. / Cultural studies in a still colonial context : imagining Hong Kong between world and home. In: Shue Yan Journal of English/Cultural Studies. 1995 ; Vol. 1. pp. 56-63.
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Cultural studies in a still colonial context : imagining Hong Kong between world and home. / CHAN, Ching Kiu, Stephen.

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Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › Research › peer-review

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