City Between Worlds : : My Hong Kong / / Leo Ou-fan Lee.
Hong Kong is perched on the fault line between China and the West, a Special Administrative Region of the PRC. Leo Ou-fan Lee offers an insider’s view of Hong Kong, capturing the history and culture that make his densely packed home city so different from its generic neighbors. The search for an ind...
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Lee, Leo Ou-fan, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut City Between Worlds : My Hong Kong / Leo Ou-fan Lee. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2010] ©2010 1 online resource (332 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PROLOGUE -- 1 Victoria City -- 2 Central Values -- 3 The World of Wan Chai -- 4 Views from the Peak -- 5 Kowloon, Past and Present -- 6 New Territories, Ancient Traditions -- 7 Hong Kong Lifestyle -- 8 City and Country -- Maps -- NOTES -- SOURCES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Hong Kong is perched on the fault line between China and the West, a Special Administrative Region of the PRC. Leo Ou-fan Lee offers an insider’s view of Hong Kong, capturing the history and culture that make his densely packed home city so different from its generic neighbors. The search for an indigenous Hong Kong takes Lee to the wet markets and corner bookshops of congested Mong Kok, remote fishing villages and mountainside temples, teahouses and noodle stalls, Cantonese opera and Cantopop. But he also finds the “real” Hong Kong in a maze of interconnected shopping malls, a jungle of high-rise residential towers, and the neon glow of Chinese-owned skyscrapers in the Central Business District, where land development, global trade, capital accumulation, consumerism, and free-market competition trump every value—except family. Lee illuminates the relationship between Hong Kong’s geography and its colonial experience, revisiting colonial life on the secluded Peak, in the opium-filled godowns along the harborfront, and in crowded, plague-infested tenements. He examines, with a critic’s eye, the “Hong Kong story” in film and fiction: romance in the bars and brothels of Wan Chai, crime in the walled city of Kowloon, ennui on the eve of the 1997 handover. Whether viewed from Tsing Yi Bridge or the deck of the Star Ferry, from Victoria Peak or Lion Rock, Hong Kong sparkles here in all its multifaceted complexity, a city forever between worlds. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jul 2024) HISTORY / Asia / China. bisacsh https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674056602?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674056602 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674056602/original |
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