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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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2020.
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| 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.