Undercurrents Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong

Undercurrents engages the critical rubric of queer to examine Hong Kong's screen and media culture during the transitional and immediate postcolonial period. Helen Hok-Sze Leung draws on theoretical insights from a range of disciplines to reveal parallels between the crisis and uncertainty of t...

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Main Author Leung, Helen Hok-Sze
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Vancouver University of British Columbia Press 2009
UBC Press
Edition1
SeriesSexuality Studies
Subjects
Asian
China
DRAMA
Gay Studies
Gays in popular culture
History
Homosexuality
Homosexuality and art
Homosexuality and motion pictures
Hong Kong
Hong Kong (China)
Social aspects
SOCIAL SCIENCE
SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies / Gay Studies
Transfer of Sovereignty from Great Britain, 1997
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Summary:Undercurrents engages the critical rubric of queer to examine Hong Kong's screen and media culture during the transitional and immediate postcolonial period. Helen Hok-Sze Leung draws on theoretical insights from a range of disciplines to reveal parallels between the crisis and uncertainty of the territory's postcolonial transition and the queer aspects of its cultural productions. She explores Hong Kong cultural productions � cinema, fiction, popular music, and subcultural projects � and argues that while there is no overt consolidation of gay and lesbian identities in Hong Kong culture, undercurrents of diverse and complex expressions of gender and sexual variance are widely in evidence. Undercurrents uncovers a queer media culture that has been largely overlooked by critics in the West and demonstrates the cultural vitality of Hong Kong amidst political transition.
ISBN:9780774814690
0774814691
DOI:10.59962/9780774856119