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...
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...
