Hong Kong Culture – Word and Image

Kam Louie is dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Hong Kong.

Does Hong Kong culture still matter? This informative and interdisciplinary volume proves unmistakably so. It stands as an essential Hong Kong reader, a rich resource not only for those specialized in Hong Kong culture and history but also for students, teachers and researchers interested in cosmopolitanism, postcolonial conditions, as well as cultural globalization. -- Laikwan Pang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong The essays are all highly readable and they are all fundamental readings for courses about Hong Kong... The book will definitely invite further scholarship in Hong Kong's literary, cinematic, and cultural studies under an ever-renewing context. China Perspectives