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Paradigm City
Space, Culture, and Capitalism in Hong Kong

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Janet Ng - Author

SUNY series in Global Modernity

Price: $60.00
Hardcover - 210 pages

Release Date: January 2009

ISBN10: N/A
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7665-9

Price: $24.95
Paperback - 210 pages

Release Date: January 2010

ISBN10: N/A
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7666-6

Price: $24.95
Electronic - 210 pages

Release Date: December 2008

ISBN10: N/A
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7722-9

Summary

Materially grounded analysis of contemporary film, literature, and music in Hong Kong that resists the superficial stereotypes of the “global city.”

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.

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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. “World Suicide Capital”

2. Walking Down Memory Lane: On the Streets of the Hong Kong History Museum’s Paradigm City

3. Quality Citizens in Public Spaces

4. The World Emporium and the Mall City

5. Body Weight, Responsible Citizenship, and Women’s Social Space

6. Homecoming from Cosmopolitanism

Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Related Subjects

Asian Studies
Chinese Studies
Cultural Studies
Popular Culture
Postcolonial Studies
Urban Studies

48581/48582(LM/RM/AV)