Hong Kong Culture and Society in the New Millennium

Yiu-Wai Chu is a Professor and Director of the Hong Kong Studies Programme, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, the University of Hong Kong. His research interests focus on Hong Kong’s culture, globalization and postcolonial discourse. An elected Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities, he has published academic essays in, among others, Social Analysis, boundary 2, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Visual Anthropology, Popular Music, the Journal of Chinese Cinemas and the International Journal of Cultural Studies.  His most recent monograph is Lost in Transition: Hong Kong Culture in the Age of China (Albany: SUNY Press, 2013).

Introduction.- 1. Framing Hong Kong (as Method).- 1.1 “Hong Kong Liminal: Everyday Situations as Method”.- 1.2 “Sex and Freedom in the Chatroom: The Hong Kong Golden Forum as Method”.- 1.3 “Hong Kong as Feminist Method: Gender, Sexuality, and Democracy in Two Documentaries by Tammy Cheung”.- 2. The Local, the Global and the National.- 2.1 “New Orleans, New Territories”.- 2.2 “Hong Kong as a Port City”.- 2.3 “Censorship at Work: Cold War Paranoia and Purgation of Chinese Ghost Stories”.- 2.4 “The “National” Question and the Stories of Hong Kong”.- 3. Hybridity, Marginality and Resistance.- 3.1 “‘Vibrant Objects,’ Shifting Perspectives: Understanding Hong Kong Poetry as Method”.- 3.2 “Return, Come Out: Queer Lives in Postcolonial Hong Kong”.- 3.3 “Derrida’s Hospitality and Serres’ Parasitism: The Case of Hong Kong”.- 3.4 “Model of and Model for Ethnic Minorities: Individualization of the Model Minority Stereotype in Hong Kong”.- Postscript: Hong Kong and Beyond.