Hong Kong's new identity politics : longing for the local in the shadow of China /

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, postcoloniali...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ip, Iam-chong (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Routledge contemporary China series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The fall of the Hong Kong myth
  • The city of jiyu/geijyu: Refashioning a neoliberal subject
  • Ethnocracy: A study of the campaigns against Mainland Chinese visitors
  • Defending the city: Nativism and political existentialism
  • Neoliberal populism: Ethnicization of right-wing economics
  • Poised between two times: Young men, temporality, and identity politics
  • "Hong Kong is not a dream": Disengagement, translocality, and gangpiao
  • Epilogue: Will to power.