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Reclaiming the city as home in postcolonial Hong Kong: Art and politics in the contestation of urban space (1997-2014).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Reclaiming the city as home in postcolonial Hong Kong: Art and politics in the contestation of urban space (1997-2014)./
Author:	Ting, Chun Chun.
Description:	238 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-02(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-02A(E).
Subject:	Asian studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3725563
ISBN:	9781339098937

Reclaiming the city as home in postcolonial Hong Kong: Art and politics in the contestation of urban space (1997-2014).
Ting, Chun Chun.

Reclaiming the city as home in postcolonial Hong Kong: Art and politics in the contestation of urban space (1997-2014). - 238 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-02(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2015.

Focusing on post-handover Hong Kong, this dissertation examines citizens' resistance against the intensifying threat of disappearance caused by gentrification and the city's integration with mainland China. Underlying its analysis is the politicization of urban planning and place-making; the case of post-1997 Hong Kong shows that urban space is a central locus in the struggle to redefine the city and local identity. Ranging from common people's livelihoods through nationalist discourses of belonging to local community claims to a homegrown identity, let alone the capitalist drive for profit, all these disparate issues and activities drawn upon equally disparate and often competing interpretations of what the urban space is or should be. By paying particular attention to the increasing intersection between urban movements and artistic activism, I argue that distinctively assertive self-definitions and political engagements arose in the public and cultural discourses of post-handover Hong Kong, discernably displacing the poststructuralist questioning of identity, which prevailed the pre-1997 era. Without essentializing the local, the discourse of Hong Kong identity has underwent a shift of paradigm from disappearance to reinvention or becoming, one that prefigure its political and artistic transformations in the future.

ISBN: 9781339098937Subjects--Topical Terms:

1571829
Asian studies.

Reclaiming the city as home in postcolonial Hong Kong: Art and politics in the contestation of urban space (1997-2014).
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