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Transregional Imagination
Transregional Imagination
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Hong Kong Culture: Crisis of identity 1. HK : a place of refuge a sense of belonging was lacking perspective of history is sadly limited history has been subdued & a new historical consciousness was never nurtured X local history X local culture
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Hong Kong Culture: Crisis of identity 2. In 1970s Local culture failed to go beyond native legends & folk wisdom indifference to contemporary politics & history an uneasy relationship between Cantonese culture & HKs local culture
E.g. Chan Po-chu HK woman OR Cantonese woman? indistinct identity
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3. Cultural disappearance In the mid-1980s a sense of unprecedented urgency/ intense apprehension due to HKs return to Chinas sovereignty in 1997 an alarmist view of the doomsday scenario of cultural disappearance
Radical transformation in HK cinema (1950s-1970s) HKs local culture is intimately related to Cantonese culture as a regional culture e.g. Shanghainization South-North integration ( nanbai he ) Transregional imagination begins