Cultural conflict in Hong Kong : angles on a coherent imaginary /: angles on a coherent imaginary. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jason S. Polley, Vinton W.K. Poon, Lian-Hee Wee, editors.
• Editors: Polley, Jason S; Poon, Vinton W. K; Wee, Lian-Hee
• Contents: Introduction: Made Into Hong Kong.- Part I: Surveillance.- Turning English into Cantonese: The Semantic Change of English Loanwords.- Beehives and Wet Markets: Expat Metaphors of Hong Kong.- Hong Kong Paradox: Appearance and Disappearance in Western Cinema.- Hong Kong Diversity in Anglophone Children's Fiction.- Ann Hui's Allegorical Cinema.- Part II: Sousveillance.- Approaching Linguistic Norms: The Case of/for Hong Kong English on the Internet.- Hong Kong's Edward Snowden/Edward Snowden's Hong Kong.- The Lazy Element: LMF and the Localization of Hip Hop Authenticity.- Worlding Hong Kong Literature: Dung Kai-cheung's Atlas.- Writing Hong Kong's Ethos.- Part III: Equiveillance.- Chiaroscuro of the Uncanny: An Unknown Side of Old Master Q.- 'I didn't think we'd be like them'; or, Wong Kar Wai, Hongkonger.- Becoming Hong Kong-like: The Role of Hong Kong English in the Acquisition of English Phonology by Hong Kong Students.- Struggling to become non-Hong-Kong-like: The Necessity and Effectiveness of Training Hong Kong Youngsters' Perception and Production of General American English Vowel.- Glocalizing Hong Kong Anglophone Literature: Locating Xu Xi's Writing Across the Decades.
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (335 pages)
• Subjects: 951.25; Social sciences; Ethnology -- Asia; Imperialism; Literature; Cultural studies; Ethnology; Imperialism; Literature; Manners and customs; Social sciences; Social Sciences; Cultural Studies; Asian Culture; Imperialism and Colonialism; Postcolonial/World Literature; Hong Kong (China) -- Social life and customs; Asia; China -- Hong Kong; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9811077665; 9789811077661
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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