A01=Grant Evans
A01=Maria Tam
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Author_Maria Tam
Bad Language
Bank Building
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Child Care
China Building
Chinese Community
Chinese Customary Law
Chinese Ethnic
Chinese Ethnic Identity
Chinese Government
Chrysanthemum Tea
Earth God Temple
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Female Inheritance
Film Unit
Follow
gender roles Asia
Ghost Train
Griersonian Documentary
Hongkong Bank
kinship systems research
Kitchen God
Mass Medium
modern Chinese identity transition
Natal Families
Paper Offerings
postcolonial studies
Queen's Road Central
religious syncretism analysis
sociolinguistics Cantonese
South China Morning Post
Territories Ordinance
urban anthropology
Violating
Product details
- ISBN 9780700706020
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 25 Jun 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Hong Kong has become a by-word for all that is modern and sparkling in Asia today.
Yet tourist brochures still play with the old cliche of Hong Kong as a place where 'East meets West'. Images of so-called 'traditional' China, junks sailing Victoria Harbour or old women praying to gods in smoky temples, mingle with those portraying Hong Kong as a consumer and business paradise.
This collection of essays attempts to transcend the old polarities. It looks at modern Hong Kong in all its splendour and diversity in the run-up to its re-absorption into Greater China in mid-97, through the mediums of film, food, architecture, rumours and slang.
It explores the question of a distinct, modern Chinese identity in Hong Kong, and even when it explores the traditional stamping ground of the older anthropology in the New Territories it finds a dramatically changed context, in particular for women.
This collection presents an intriguing insight into the process of transition from 'tradition' to 'modernity' in this Modern Chinese Metropolis.
