A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On / / Kai-cheung Dung.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Dung, Kai-cheung,
• MitwirkendeR: Hansson, Anders,; McDougall, Bonnie,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231555999; 9783110749663; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110993752; 9783110993738
• DOI: 10.7312/dung20542
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Kai-cheung Dung.

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.