This interdisciplinary volume provides a multifaceted exploration of the kaleidoscopic transformation of Hong Kong. It examines the region's diverse historical developments, the challenges of digital surveillance, the impact of Orientalism, the power of individual agency, minor literature, films, popular culture, and the trajectories of creative writing programs.
Featuring contributors from various disciplines, including history, literature, and media studies, this volume offers scholarly insights into the dynamic relationships among domestic helpers, immigrants, refugees, and Hongkongers. It presents an essential overview of the complex evolution of Hong Kong as a continually changing Special Administrative Region of China.
Acknowledgment
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
part 1: Hong Kong and the Evolving Political Compass
1 The Rise of Hong Kong and the Problem of Alignment
Wayne Wen-chun Liang and Magdalen Ki
2 Digital Hong Kong and Surveillance Capitalism
Magdalen Ki
3 Mass Transit Rail, Mass Transit Discourse: Multimodal Critical Discourse
Analysis of MTR Posters
Jennifer Eagleton
4 TV Special: Finding a Hong Kong Story
Vinton Poon
5 De-territorialization and Re-territorialization: the Cramped Space in
Contemporary Hong Kong Literature
Emily Shun Man Chow-Quesada
part 2: Hong Kong Dream and the Culture Compass
6 Positive and Negative Orientalism: China as a Career
Chi Sum Garfield Lau
7 Ann Hui on the Shores of the South China Sea
Jim Cocola
8 Vampires vs Hopping Vampires: Mr Vampire Series and Hong Kong Vampire
Hunters
Magdalen Ki
9 Contradictions of Visibilities in Oliver Chans Still Human
Miguel Antonio N. Lizada
10 Institutional and Communal Creativity: Local Discourse and
English-Language Creative Writing in Hong Kong
Antony Huen and Jason Eng Hun Lee
Index
Magdalen Ki, Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, is Associate Professor of English Literature at the Hong Kong Baptist University. She is the author of Jane Austen and the Dialectic of Misrecognition (Peter Lang, 2005) and Jane Austen and Altruism (Routledge, 2020).
Wayne Wen-chun Liang, Ph.D., Newcastle University, U.K., is Associate Professor of Translation at Soochow University (Taiwan). He has published many articles in Translation Studies, including What has machine translation mis-translated COVID-19? (2023), Images in the hands of translators: A case study of the English translations of Pu Songlings Liaozhaizhiyi (2020), and Translators Behaviors from a Sociological Perspective (2016).
