Culture, Politics and Television in Hong Kong

ISBN-13: 9780415179980 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 256 str.

Eric Kit-wai Ma;Eric Kit-wai Ma

Opis

Unitl the mid-1980s, when it became clear that Hong Kong would return to China, people from Hong Kong tended to identify themselves as something other than mainland Chinese. Now that Hong Kong is again a part of China, the local population have had to come to terms with their previously suppressed Chinese identity. This book is concerned with how the identity categories of people from Hong Kong and mainlanders have changed in the 1990s. The analysis focuses on the role, in this process, of popular media in general and television in particular. The author specifically looks at the relationship between television ideologies and cultural identities and explores the role of television in the process of identity formation and maintenance as illustrated in the case of Hong Kong.

Ma looks at the ways in which the identity of Hong Kong citizens has changed in the 1990s especially since the handover to China in 1997. This is the first analysis which focuses on the role, in this process, of popular media in general and television in particular. The author specifically analyses at the relationship between television ideologies and cultural identities and explores the role of television in the process of identity formation and maintenance.

Recenzje

Culture, Politics, and Television in Hong Kong is more than just the first book to go deeply into the role of television in the creation of Hong Kong identity. The book goes further, in offering a more general but nevertheless very stimulating theoretical reflection on the way in which television discourse and ideologies interact with society (chapter 8). This is a book that will definitely appeal to anyone with an interest in Hong Kong's social evolution over the past 30 years, and to all mediaspecialists, and no reader will fail to appreciate the rich bibliography that brings the book to an end. - - China Perspectives, 2000

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Identity, culture, and the media; Chapter 2 Mediating Hong Kong identity (I); Chapter 3 Mediating Hong Kong identity (II); Chapter 4 Outsiders on television; Chapter 5 Re-imagining Hong Kong identity; Chapter 6 Public voices/private anxieties; Chapter 7 The production of television culture; Chapter 8 Rethinking television culture;

O autorze

Eric Kit-wai Ma is Assistant Professor of Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of several books written in Chinese on the popular culture of Hong Kong.