Hong Kong Media and Asia's Cold War

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

AvPo-Shek Fu,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Fu, Po-Shek (Professor of History, Professor of History

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Hong Kong was a key battlefield in Asia's cultural cold war. After 1948-1949, an influx of filmmakers, writers, and intellectuals from mainland China transformed British Hong Kong into a hub for mass entertainment and popular publications. While there was no organized movement for independence, largely because of its location directly next to Mao's China, Hong Kong was central in the cultural contest between Communist China, Nationalist Taiwan, and the United States. Hong Kong Media and Asia's Cold War discusses how China, Taiwan, and the U.S. fought to mobilize Hong Kong cinema and print media to sway ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia and across the world. Central to this propaganda and psychological warfare was the emigre media industry. This period was the “golden age” of Mandarin cinema and popular culture. Throughout the 1967 Riots and the 1970s, the emergence of a new, local-born generation challenged and reshaped the Cold War networks of émigré cultural production, contributing to the gradual decline of Hong Kong's cultural Cold War. Through untapped archival materials, contemporary sources, and numerous interviews with filmmakers, magazine editors, and student activists, Po-Shek Fu explores how global conflicts were localized and intertwined with myriad local historical experiences and cultural formation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-04-20
Mått156 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt445 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor252
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190073763

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Film inom Kultur
Medievetenskap inom Samhalle och politik
Television inom Kultur
Historia inom Historia och arkeologi

During the Cold War Hong Kong served as contested space for the hearts and minds of its residents and the Chinese diaspora beyond. Hong Kong stood at the intersection of intense competition among Cold War powers in East and Southeast Asia. Laid on top of Hong Kong's colonial and traditional culture were the propaganda and ideological wars of the triumphal Communists, the defeated but not out Nationalists, and a fearful USA, at war with itself, spooked by McCarthyism. Professor Fu Po-Shek's excellent and timely new book traces the culture wars in film and the print media in Hong Kong from 1952 to the late 1970s. The book is essential reading for scholars and students of the Cold War, and more general readers interested in the backstory of Hong Kong cinema in its heyday.