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Cross of Iron
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The Grapes of Wrath
Carries a strong pull into television through power and South Asia.
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My City
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and memory.
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Internationalist
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Song of the Dreamer
Carries a strong pull into television through after-hours and power.
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Primitive Passions
Carries a strong pull into books through migration and East Asia.
Essays
Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance
Carries a strong pull into television through after-hours and East Asia.
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Television · Strong bridge
At the Threshold of an Era
1990s
TVB's millennium-threshold corporate saga — Hong Kong television holding the city through institution, ambition, and generational weight.
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Books · Strong bridge
My City
1970s
Xi Xi's experimental Hong Kong novel — the city as sentence, memory, and slightly off-kilter civic humour.
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Music · Strong bridge
Restless
1990s
Faye Wong's Cantopop-art-rock crossover — the record that sits inside Wong Kar-wai's Hong Kong as well as outside it.
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Essays · Strong bridge
Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance
1990s
The founding cultural-studies text for reading Hong Kong cinema, architecture, and writing through the logic of disappearance.
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Television 1980s
The Bund
The TVB drama that set the Cantopop / crime-saga template — 1930s Shanghai read through 1980 Hong Kong serial television.
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Books 1990s
Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City
A handover-era Hong Kong written as an imaginary cartography — the city read as a set of speculative maps on the eve of transition.
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Music 1980s
Song of the Dreamer
Anita Mui at the height of Cantopop authority — the cabaret-influenced, theatrically held listening line of '80s Hong Kong.
Film 2000s
30 Days
A Lagos woman is told her husband has thirty days to live. Okwo's Nollywood drama — one of the first to cross over to international festivals.
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Essays 1990s
Primitive Passions
Rey Chow's reading of ethnic cinema and translation — the conceptual frame behind a generation of Hong Kong film studies.
Television 2010s
Bliss
Bliss is a 2018 television series from United Kingdom, shaped by David Cross. It helps the serial catalog read as a real field of seasons, institutions, and recurring pressure. Rooted in United Kingdom. Engages with nature, surveillance. In the index for the quality of its sustained storytelling.