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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: catalog of such stuff as dreams are made on
  title info:
    title: Menghua lu. English
  name:
    name part: Dong, Qizhang
    name part: 1967-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: McDougall, Bonnie S.
    name part: 1941-
    role:
      role term: translator.
  name:
    name part: Hansson, Anders
    name part: 1944-
    role:
      role term: translator.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    edition: English edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: chi
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 323 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: A playful and imaginative glimpse into the consumerist dreamscape of late-nineties Hong Kong. It consists of ninety-nine sketches of life in Hong Kong just after the handover of the former British colony to China. Each of these stories in miniature develops from a piece of ephemera, usually consumer products or pop culture phenomena, and unfurls alternately comic and poignant snapshots of urban life. Dung blends vivid everyday details, Portuguese egg tarts, Japanese reality television, the Hong Kong subway, with situations that are often fantastical or preposterous. The central character of each sketch, usually a young woman, flits past without reappearing. They fall into brief dalliances or relationships that last no longer than the fads that sparked them. Dung's sketches feature once trendy objects that evoke the world at the turn of the millennium, when he was writing, Hello Kitty, Final Fantasy VIII, a Windows 98 disk, a clamshell mobile phone, Air Jordans and cargo shorts. Recognizing the imminent obsolescence of the objects it depicts, this catalog of vanished products is no mere exercise in nostalgia. Its archaeology of life at the end of the last century speaks to ongoing concerns about consumerism and identity. A major work from one of Hong Kong's most gifted and original writers, this book illuminates a world where people use objects to define and even invent their own lives.
  note: Dung Kai-cheung ; translated by Bonnie S. McDougall and Anders Hansson.
  note: Translated from the Chinese.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-cc-hk
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Dong, Qizhang
      name part: 1967-
    genre: Translations into English
  subject:
    geographic: Hong Kong (China)
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PL2936.3.O54 M4613 2022
  classification: 895.13/52
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Weatherhead books on Asia
  identifier: 9780231205429
  identifier: 0231205422
  identifier: 9780231205436
  identifier: 0231205430
  identifier: 9780231555999
  identifier: 2021045284
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 211006
    record change date: 20220907183407.6
    record identifier: in00004589586