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Hong Kong : Anthropological Essays on a Chinese Metropolis - Grant Evans

Hong Kong

Anthropological Essays on a Chinese Metropolis

By: Grant Evans, Maria Tam

Hardcover | 25 June 1997 | Edition Number 1

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Hong Kong has become a by-word for all that is modern and sparkling in Asia today.
Yet tourist brochures still play with the old cliche of Hong Kong as a place where ''East meets West''. Images of so-called ''traditional'' China, junks sailing Victoria Harbour or old women praying to gods in smoky temples, mingle with those portraying Hong Kong as a consumer and business paradise.
This collection of essays attempts to transcend the old polarities. It looks at modern Hong Kong in all its splendour and diversity in the run-up to its re-absorption into Greater China in mid-97, through the mediums of film, food, architecture, rumours and slang.
It explores the question of a distinct, modern Chinese identity in Hong Kong, and even when it explores the traditional stamping ground of the older anthropology in the New Territories it finds a dramatically changed context, in particular for women.
This collection presents an intriguing insight into the process of transition from ''tradition'' to ''modernity'' in this Modern Chinese Metropolis.

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