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Hong Kong Pop Culture in the 1980s : A Decade of Splendour / Yiu-Wai Chu.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Asian Visual Cultures ; 15Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789048555000
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.095125 23/eng/20231117
LOC classification:
  • DS796.H75 Z48 2023
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Romanization and Translation -- Table of Contents -- Prologue Horse Racing and Dancing as Usual -- Introduction -- 1 Televising Pop: New Stars and Renewed Sensibilities -- 2 Golden Days of the Silver Screen : Cinematic Imagination in a Not Yet Fallen City -- 3 The Sound of Chinese Cool: Do You See the City Sing? -- 4 The Importance of Being Chic: Fashion, Branding, and Multimedia Stardom -- 5 The Practice of Everynight Life: Disco as Another Kind of Dance -- 6 (Un)Covering Cosmopolitan Hybridity : Every Great City Deserves a City Magazine -- Epilogue ‘We’ll Always Have Hong Kong’ -- Select Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index
Summary: This book deals with the 1980s – the “golden decade” of Hong Kong pop culture – in which a cosmopolitan lifestyle of pop and chic emerged in the city. Bookended by two major historical incidents, the 1980s will probably enter the annals of Hong Kong history as the decade that defined its future after reversion to Mainland China. Having witnessed and experienced the rise of Hong Kong pop culture to unprecedented heights in this decade, the author enhances its context through a story about his own personal belongings. Examining popular genres including television, film, music, fashion, disco and city magazine, this book teases out the distinctive aspects of Hong Kong pop culture that defined (his) Hong Kong. As Hong Kong has been undergoing drastic changes in recent years, it is necessary to point toward new imaginaries by re-examining its development. Toward this end, this book will shed light on an important research area of Hong Kong Studies as an academic discipline.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Romanization and Translation -- Table of Contents -- Prologue Horse Racing and Dancing as Usual -- Introduction -- 1 Televising Pop: New Stars and Renewed Sensibilities -- 2 Golden Days of the Silver Screen : Cinematic Imagination in a Not Yet Fallen City -- 3 The Sound of Chinese Cool: Do You See the City Sing? -- 4 The Importance of Being Chic: Fashion, Branding, and Multimedia Stardom -- 5 The Practice of Everynight Life: Disco as Another Kind of Dance -- 6 (Un)Covering Cosmopolitan Hybridity : Every Great City Deserves a City Magazine -- Epilogue ‘We’ll Always Have Hong Kong’ -- Select Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index

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This book deals with the 1980s – the “golden decade” of Hong Kong pop culture – in which a cosmopolitan lifestyle of pop and chic emerged in the city. Bookended by two major historical incidents, the 1980s will probably enter the annals of Hong Kong history as the decade that defined its future after reversion to Mainland China. Having witnessed and experienced the rise of Hong Kong pop culture to unprecedented heights in this decade, the author enhances its context through a story about his own personal belongings. Examining popular genres including television, film, music, fashion, disco and city magazine, this book teases out the distinctive aspects of Hong Kong pop culture that defined (his) Hong Kong. As Hong Kong has been undergoing drastic changes in recent years, it is necessary to point toward new imaginaries by re-examining its development. Toward this end, this book will shed light on an important research area of Hong Kong Studies as an academic discipline.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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