Paradigm City: Space, Culture, and Capitalism in Hong Kong
Hong Kong is often cast in the role of the paradigmatic "global city," epitomizing postmodernism and globalization, and representing a vision of a cosmopolitan global and capitalist future. In Paradigm City, Janet Ng takes us past the obsession with 1997—the year of Hong Kong's return to China—to focus on the complex uses and meanings of urban space in Hong Kong in the period following that transfer. She demonstrates how the design and ordering of the city's space and the practices it supports inculcates a particular civic aesthetic among Hong Kong's population that corresponds to capitalist as well as nationalist ideologies. Ng's insightful connections between contemporary film, literature, music, and other media and the actual spaces of the city—such as parks, shopping malls, and domestic spaces—provide a rich and nuanced picture of Hong Kong today.
1100306300
Paradigm City: Space, Culture, and Capitalism in Hong Kong
Hong Kong is often cast in the role of the paradigmatic "global city," epitomizing postmodernism and globalization, and representing a vision of a cosmopolitan global and capitalist future. In Paradigm City, Janet Ng takes us past the obsession with 1997—the year of Hong Kong's return to China—to focus on the complex uses and meanings of urban space in Hong Kong in the period following that transfer. She demonstrates how the design and ordering of the city's space and the practices it supports inculcates a particular civic aesthetic among Hong Kong's population that corresponds to capitalist as well as nationalist ideologies. Ng's insightful connections between contemporary film, literature, music, and other media and the actual spaces of the city—such as parks, shopping malls, and domestic spaces—provide a rich and nuanced picture of Hong Kong today.
26.49
In Stock
5
1
Paradigm City: Space, Culture, and Capitalism in Hong Kong
210Paradigm City: Space, Culture, and Capitalism in Hong Kong
210
26.49
In Stock
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780791477229 |
---|---|
Publisher: | State University of New York Press |
Publication date: | 12/18/2008 |
Series: | SUNY series in Global Modernity |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 210 |
File size: | 2 MB |
About the Author
From the B&N Reads Blog