1st Edition
Hong Kong’s New Identity Politics Longing for the Local in the Shadow of China
By Iam-chong Ip
Copyright 2020
172 Pages
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Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
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Ip uses Hong Kong as a case study in how the production of the desire for "the local" lies at the heart of global cultural economy. Perhaps more so than most places, the construction of a local identity in Hong Kong has come about through a complex interplay of neoliberalism, postcoloniality and reaction to the consequent anxieties and uncertainties. As its importance as an economic centre has... Read more
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Fall of the Hong Kong Myth
Chapter 3. The City of jiyu/geijyu: Refashioning a Neoliberal Subject
Chapter 4. Ethnocracy: A Study of the Campaigns against Mainland Chinese Visitors
Chapter 5. Defending the City: Nativism and Political Existentialism
Chapter 6. Neoliberal Populism: Ethnicization of Right-wing Economics
Chapter 7. Poised between Two Times: Young men, Temporality, and Identity Politics
Chapter 8. “Hong Kong is not a dream”: Disengagement, Translocality, and gangpiao
Epilogue: Will to Power
References
Index
Biography
Iam-chong Ip is Assistant Professor and Associate Head of Cultural Studies at Lingnan Unversity, Hong Kong
