Chinese Face/Off : the transnational popular culture of Hong Kong
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Chinese Face/Off : the transnational popular culture of Hong Kong
（Popular culture and politics in Asia Pacific）
University of Illinois Press , Hong Kong University Press, 2005
- : us
- : us, pbk
- : cc, pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-273) and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction: the Chineseness of Hong Kong's transnational culture in today's world
- I. From voice to words and back in Chinese identification
- 1. Much ado about the ordinary in newspaper-column and book culture
- 2. Leftovers of the film and television subtitles in a transnational context
- II. Image is everything
- 3. Hong Kong muscles and the sublime Chinese subjectivity
- 4. Transnationalization of the local in a circular structure
- 5. Charlie Chan reborn as Jackie Chan in Hollywood-Hong Kong representations
- 6. Racial passing and face swapping in the wild, wild west
- 7. Tigers crouch and dragons hide in new trans-Chinese cinema
- III. A show boat to China
- 8. Giant panda, Mickey Mouse and other transnational objects of fantasy in theme park Hong Kong
