Janet Ng

Paradigm City (eBook, PDF)

Space, Culture, and Capitalism in Hong Kong

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Hong Kong is often cast in the role of the paradigmatic "global city," epitomizing postmodernism and globalization, and representing a vision of a cosmopolitan global and capitalist future. In Paradigm City, Janet Ng takes us past the obsession with 1997-the year of Hong Kong's return to China-to focus on the complex uses and meanings of urban space in Hong Kong in the period following that transfer. She demonstrates how the design and ordering of the city's space and the practices it supports inculcates a particular civic aesthetic among Hong Kong's population that corresponds to capitalist as well as nationalist ideologies. Ng's insightful connections between contemporary film, literature, music, and other media and the actual spaces of the city-such as parks, shopping malls, and domestic spaces-provide a rich and nuanced picture of Hong Kong today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780791477229
• Artikelnr.: 60501794

Autorenporträt

Janet Ng is Associate Professor of Asian Literature at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island and author of The Experience of Modernity: Chinese Autobiography of the Early Twentieth Century.