Yiu-Wai Chu

Hong Kong Pop Culture in the 1980s

A Decade of Splendour

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 625g
• ISBN-13: 9789463728669
• ISBN-10: 946372866X
• Artikelnr.: 70006135

Autorenporträt

Yiu-Wai Chu is Inaugural Professor and Director of Hong Kong Studies Programme at The University of Hong Kong, and Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Humanities. His research interests focus on postcolonialism, globalization and Hong Kong culture. His recent English monographs include Main Melody Films: Hong Kong Directors in Mainland China (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022), Found in Transition: Hong Kong Studies in the Age of China (Albany: SUNY Press, 2018), Hong Kong Cantopop: A Concise History (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2017), and Lost in Transition: Hong Kong Culture in the Age of China (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2013). In recognition of his contribution to the promotion of Hong Kong culture and Cantopop, the South China Morning Post presented him the Spirit of Hong Kong Award (Culture) in 2019.

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Romanization and Translation
Prologue: Horse Racing and Dancing as Usual
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Televising Pop: New Stars and Renewed Sensibilities
Chapter 2 - Golden Days of the Silver Screen: Cinematic Imagination in a Not Yet Fallen City
Chapter 3 - The Sound of Chinese Cool: Do You See the City Sing?
Chapter 4 - The Importance of Being Chic: Fashion
Branding
and Multimedia Stardom
Chapter 5 - The Practice of Everynight Life: Disco as Another Kind of Dance
Chapter 6 - (Un)Covering Cosmopolitan Hybridity: Every Great City Deserves a City Magazine
Epilogue: 'We'll Always Have Hong Kong'
Select Bibliography
Glossary
Index.