Title: Filming Diaspora and Identity: Hong Kong and 1997
Abstract:As a century and a half of British colonial rule ended in Hong Kong and the island returned to Chinese control on July 1, 1997, the media in the Chinese speaking world was all geared up to celebrate, ...As a century and a half of British colonial rule ended in Hong Kong and the island returned to Chinese control on July 1, 1997, the media in the Chinese speaking world was all geared up to celebrate, relish, and comment on the event. There was no lack of visual, televisual, filmic, and artistic representations of the history, past, and present of Hong Kong. Outside Hong Kong, the return to China was most conspicuously glorified in the motherland itself. In the realm of cultural production and consumption, the Hong Kong issue became the main theme in the summer of 1997. TV programming was monopolized by the Hong Kong story, and a flood of soap operas were aired on TV channels across the nation or were under hurried production. The provinces and major cities were required to mark this historic occasion by producing and staging performances, concerts, TV programs, art exhibitions, and plays.Read More
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-06-26
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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