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Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance
14 curated works.
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Routes through Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance
14 works selected across all media.
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Albums for Hong Kong
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Music
Restless
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Music
Song of the Dreamer
Carries a strong pull into television through after-hours and power.
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Essays
Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and East Asia.
Essays
Primitive Passions
Carries a strong pull into books through migration and East Asia.
Cultural geography
Regional constellations
Film
Made in Hong Kong
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
Film
As Tears Go By
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Television · Strong bridge
The Bund
1980s
The TVB drama that set the Cantopop / crime-saga template — 1930s Shanghai read through 1980 Hong Kong serial television.
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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.
Film · Strong bridge
Made in Hong Kong
1990s
Youth drift, street abrasion, and emotional damage unfold at the edge of handover-era Hong Kong.
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Books 1940s
Love in a Fallen City
Eileen Chang's Hong Kong novella reads the city as historical weather — wartime occupation as romantic structure rather than backdrop.
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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 1980s
As Tears Go By
Gang loyalty, bruised romance, and city-night momentum collide in an early Wong Kar-wai feature.
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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.
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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
Salute
Leslie Cheung's covers record reading as a Cantopop argument — his repertoire rebuilt with a singer's historical voice.