{"product_id":"hong-kong-popular-culture-klavier-j-wang-9789811388163","title":"Hong Kong Popular Culture: Worlding Film, Television, and Pop Music","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book traces the evolution of the Hong Kong's popular culture, namely film, television and popular music (also known as Cantopop), which is knotted with the city's geo-political, economic and social transformations. Under various historical contingencies and due to the city's special geo-politics, these three major popular cultural forms have experienced various worlding processes and have generated border-crossing impact culturally and socially. The worlding processes are greatly associated the city's nature as a reception and departure port to Sinophone migrants and populations of multiethnic and multicultural. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaching beyond the \"golden age\" (1980s) of Hong Kong popular culture and afar from a film-centric cultural narration, this book, delineating from the dawn of the 20th century and following a chronological order, untangles how the nowadays popular \"Hong Kong film\", \"Hong Kong TV\" and \"Cantopop\" are derived from early-age Sinophone cultural heritage, re-shaped through cross-cultural hybridization and influenced by multiple political forces. Review of archives, existing literatures and corporation documents are supplemented with policy analysis and in-depth interviews to explore the centennial development of Hong Kong popular culture, which is by no means demise but at the juncture of critical transition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Klavier J. Wang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9811388164\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789811388163\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/30\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 523\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 1.19d","brand":"Klavier J. Wang","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43941388976383,"sku":"9789811388163","price":119.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_eb29085a-14c7-437a-b2d8-d07b18a942c1.jpg?v=1681452640","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hong-kong-popular-culture-klavier-j-wang-9789811388163","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}