Cultural Conflict in Hong Kong
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-10-7765-4 (ISBN)
Jason S. Polley is Associate Professor of literary journalism, postmodernism, and poststructuralism at Hong Kong Baptist University. His research interests include post-WWII graphic forms, media analysis, Hong Kong Studies, and Anglo-Indian fiction. His creative nonfiction books are Refrain (2010) and Cemetery Miss You (2011). His monograph is Jane Smiley, Jonathan Franzen, Don DeLillo: Narratives of Everyday Justice (2011). Vinton W.K. Poon is a Lecturer at the Master of Arts Programme at Hong Kong Baptist University. He teaches and researches discourse, history of linguistics, as well as language and politics. Lian-Hee Wee is Professor of linguistics at Hong Kong Baptist University and has co-authored/edited six volumes and numerous book chapters and articles, largely on phonology. His phonetic-learning APP (AV Phonetics) has been downloaded more than 10,000 times by students and faculty of linguistics, psychology and music around the world.
Introduction: Made Into Hong Kong.- Part I: Surveillance.- Turning English into Cantonese: The Semantic Change of English Loanwords.- Beehives and Wet Markets: Expat Metaphors of Hong Kong.- Hong Kong Paradox: Appearance and Disappearance in Western Cinema.- Hong Kong Diversity in Anglophone Children’s Fiction.- Ann Hui’s Allegorical Cinema.- Part II: Sousveillance.- Approaching Linguistic Norms: The Case of/for Hong Kong English on the Internet.- Hong Kong’s Edward Snowden/Edward Snowden’s Hong Kong.- The Lazy Element: LMF and the Localization of Hip Hop Authenticity.- Worlding Hong Kong Literature: Dung Kai-cheung’s Atlas.- Writing Hong Kong’s Ethos.- Part III: Equiveillance.- Chiaroscuro of the Uncanny: An Unknown Side of Old Master Q.- “I didn’t think we’d be like them”; or, Wong Kar Wai, Hongkonger.- Becoming Hong Kong-like: The Role of Hong Kong English in the Acquisition of English Phonology by Hong Kong Students.- Struggling to become non-Hong-Kong-like: The Necessity and Effectiveness of Training Hong Kong Youngsters’ Perception and Production of General American English Vowel.- Glocalizing Hong Kong Anglophone Literature: Locating Xu Xi’s Writing Across the Decades.
Erscheinungsdatum | 19.04.2018 |
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Zusatzinfo | 23 Illustrations, black and white; XXIII, 324 p. 23 illus. |
Verlagsort | Singapore |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
Schlagworte | cultural conflict in post colonial societies • cultural elements and the Hong Kong imaginary • Hong Kong identities and cultures • Hong Kong territory as a unified community and spa • Hong Kong territory as a unified community and space • Linguistic, literary, and cultural representations • Linguistic, literary, and cultural representations of Hong Kong • Post colonialism and Hong Kong identities |
ISBN-10 | 981-10-7765-7 / 9811077657 |
ISBN-13 | 978-981-10-7765-4 / 9789811077654 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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