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The Hangover After the Handover: Things, Places and Cultural Icons in Hong Kong (Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines Lup) (in English)
Helena Y. W. Wu
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Liverpool University Press
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The Hangover After the Handover: Things, Places and Cultural Icons in Hong Kong (Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines Lup) (in English) - Wu, Helena Y. W.
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Synopsis "The Hangover After the Handover: Things, Places and Cultural Icons in Hong Kong (Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines Lup) (in English)"
As a former British colony (1842-1997) and then a Special Administrative Region (from 1997 onwards) practicing the "One Country Two Systems" policy with the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong has witnessed at all times how relations are formed, dissolved and refashioned amidst changing powers, identities and narratives, given that the decisions that had moved the city in the past were not made upon the consensus of the local population. In its post-handover, post-hangover years, the 2014 Umbrella Movement and the 2019 Anti-Extradition Bill Protests among other events have revealed the multiple appearances and connotations of Hong Kong's local. At the intersections between real-life events, cultural production and consumption, the book is an interdisciplinary study that extracts and examines"local relations" through the lens of the things and places that stand or that have once stood for Hong Kong's "local". With cultural icons as an agency, the book offers lessons to learnfrom the city by opening up manifold postcolonial perspectives to confront and interrogate the volatile experiences in the new millennia - unprecedented since the Cold War era - shared by Hong Kong and other regions. After all, what does it mean, or take, to live in the contemporary world when the local, global and national are constantly given new meanings?
