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Medea
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Books
My City
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and memory.

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Love in a Fallen City
Carries a strong pull into film through longing and urban isolation.
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Song of the Dreamer
Carries a strong pull into television through after-hours and power.
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Restless
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance
Carries a strong pull into anime through modernity and identity.

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Primitive Passions
Carries a strong pull into anime through modernity and identity.
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Television · Strong bridge
Succession
2010s
A media dynasty's children compete for their father's empire. Power, family, and self-destruction.
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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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Anime · Strong bridge
Perfect Blue
1990s
A pop idol turned actress loses her grip on reality. Identity, fandom, and psychological horror.
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Essays 1990s
Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance
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 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 1990s
Great Wall
Beyond's Cantonese rock argument — civic feeling put through guitars, refusing to treat politics as separate from melody.
Film 2010s
Room in Rome
Room in Rome is a 2010 film from Spain, associated with Julio Médem. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
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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.