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In an exploration of Hong Kong's cinema, architecture, photography, and literature, this text considers what Hong Kong, with its unique relations to decolonization and disappearance, can teach us about the future of both the colonial city and the global city.

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Culture in a space of disappearance; the new Hong Kong cinema and the D?j? Disparu; Wong Kar wai - Hong Kong film maker; building on disappearance - Hong Kong architecture and colonial space; photographing disappearance; writing Hong Kong; coda - hyphenation and postculture.

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    A Paperback / softback by Ackbar Abbas

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: 01/03/1997
      ISBN13: 9780816629251, 978-0816629251
      ISBN10: 0816629250
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In an exploration of Hong Kong's cinema, architecture, photography, and literature, this text considers what Hong Kong, with its unique relations to decolonization and disappearance, can teach us about the future of both the colonial city and the global city.

      Table of Contents
      Culture in a space of disappearance; the new Hong Kong cinema and the D?j? Disparu; Wong Kar wai - Hong Kong film maker; building on disappearance - Hong Kong architecture and colonial space; photographing disappearance; writing Hong Kong; coda - hyphenation and postculture.

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