Kai-Cheung Dung

A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: McDougall, Bonnie; Hansson, Anders

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Dung Kai-cheung's A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On is a playful and imaginative glimpse into the consumerist dreamscape of late-nineties Hong Kong. First published in 1999, it comprises ninety-nine sketches of life just after the handover of the former British colony to China. Each of these stories in miniature begins from a piece of ephemera, usually consumer products or pop culture phenomena, and develops alternately comic and poignant snapshots of urban life.

Dung's sketches center on once-trendy items that evoke the world at the turn of the millennium, such as Hello Kitty, Final Fantasy VIII, a Windows 98 disk, a clamshell mobile phone, Air Jordans, and cargo shorts. The protagonist of each piece, typically a young woman, is struck by an odd, even overriding obsession with an object or fad. Characters embark on brief dalliances or relationships lasting no longer than the fashions that sparked them. Dung blends vivid everyday details-Portuguese egg tarts, Japanese TV shows, the Hong Kong subway-with situations that are often fantastical or preposterous. This catalog of vanished products illuminates how people use objects to define and even invent their own selves. A major work from one of Hong Kong's most gifted and original writers, Dung's archaeology of the end of the twentieth century speaks to perennial questions about consumerism, nostalgia, and identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780231555999
• Artikelnr.: 62531472

Autorenporträt

Dung Kai-cheung. Translated by Bonnie S. McDougall and Anders Hansson

Inhaltsangabe

Author's Preface: The Mask
Translators' Note
1. Agnès b.
2. Cutie Punk
3. Magpaper
4. Hello Kitty
5. Tank Tops
6. Sena's Piano II
7. IXUS
8. Girl Specimens
9. Che
10. Pastéis de Nata
11. Photo Stickers
12. Football Kits
13. Red Wing
14. Eat as Much as You Like
15. A Bathing Ape
16. Hysteric Glamour
17. Windows 98
18. non-no
19. Konjak Jellies
20. Mebius
21. Combat Trousers
22. Puffy
23. Sony DV
24. Aprons
25. Air Jordan
26. ICQ
27. The Colored Sunglasses
28. Seiko Lukia
29. My Melody
30. Snoopy
31. Panatellas
32. Secondhand Clothes
33. Teletubbies
34. Ha Kam Shing
35. Nokia 8810
36. Camouflage
37. Le Couple
38. Bucket Hats
39. iMac
40. Rolex Daytona
41. Viva Japanese TV Drama
42. Polaroids
43. Lovegety Station
44. Prada
45. StarTAC
46. Colors
47. Beatmania
48. Adidas
49. Gucci
50. Yahoo!
51. Fujifilm Digital Camera
52. Converse Lo Tec
53. Hairpins
54. Cut Sleeves
55. Scarves
56. Animal Prints
57. The Pleated Skirt
58. Miu Miu Flannel
59. Gray
60. The Cockroach
61. The Cowboy Hat
62. Signal Youths
63. H2O+
64. Depsea Water
65. The Patagonia Fleece
66. The Duffel Coat
67. LV Vernis
68. Panasonic DVD
69. South Park
70. Dreamcast
71. Tomb Raider III
72. Sharp MiniDisc Player
73. Burberrys Blue Label
74. MP3
75. Miffy
76. Devon Aoki
77. Motorola Dual Band
78. Cheesecake
79. PalmPilot
80. PN Rouge Suplinic
81. Final Fantasy VIII
82. The Waist Bag
83. Twisted Strands
84. Sunday
85. A Temporary Tattoo
86. The Neck Pouch
87. Cutie Cute & Horribly Horrid
88. 5S
89. Drawstrings
90. The Three Skewer Brothers
91. Khaki
92. White Blouses
93. Ballet Shoes
94. Birkenstock
95. Cargo Shorts
96. Flip-Flops
97. Hiromix
98. Chappies
99. Made in Hong Kong