Consuming Fantasies; Mediated Stardom in Hong Kong  

Oleh:

Latham, Kevin

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Modern China vol. 26 no. 3 (Jul. 2000), page 309-347.
Topik: Mediated Stardom in Hong Kong Cantonese Opera and Cinema
Fulltext: 309MC263.pdf (133.8KB)

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Ackbar Abbas (1994, 1996) has argued that Hong Kong is a city of disappearance. The city, he suggests, has become embroiled in a double movement relating its identities and representations. On one hand, it has come to be known principally in terms of the clichés, whether of colonial territory, of East-West hybrid, or of rampant capitalism and economic success to which it seems to succumb sowillingly,while on the other hand, particularly with the return to China in 1997, it has become caught in a frenzied search for manifestations of Hong Kong identity.1 One such cliché characterizes Hong Kong as the ultimate consumer society, a place where money counts for everything and where everything is a commodity. This cliché has HongKong Chinese seeing the city instrumentally as a place to “make a living and prosper” (Lau and Hsin-chi, 1988: 179) and where consumerism replaces politics as the principle form of cultural production and identification (Lilley, 1993: 263; 1998: 31).

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