Download or read book Hong Kong Rock written by Francis Haden and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hong Kong Rock written by Francis Haden and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hong Kong Landscapes written by Bernie Owen and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains, with the aid of many photographs and specially drawn diagrams and maps, how the geological, biological and agricultural processes slowly produced the natural landscape; and how the rapid expansion of the population had a swift impact and major effect on how the land of Hong Kong looks today.
Download or read book A Guide to Rock Climbing in Hong Kong written by Brian J. Heard and published by . This book was released on 1995* with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fractured Scenes written by Damien Charrieras and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fractured Scenes is the first extensive academic account of music and sound art practices that fall outside of the scope of ‘mainstream music’ in Hong Kong. It combines academic essays with original interviews conducted with prominent Hong Kong underground/independent musicians and sound artists as well as first hand-accounts by key local scene actors in order to survey genres such as experimental/noise music, deconstructed electronic music, indie-pop, punk, garage rock, sound art and DIY ‘computer’ music (among others). It examines these Hong Kong underground music practices in relief with specific case studies in Mainland China and Japan to begin re-defining the notion of a ‘musical underground’ in the context of contemporary Hong Kong.
Download or read book Hong Kong Cantopop written by Yiu-Wai Chu and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cantopop was once the leading pop genre of pan-Chinese popular music around the world. In this pioneering study of Cantopop in English, Yiu-Wai Chu shows how the rise of Cantopop is related to the emergence of a Hong Kong identity and consciousness. Chu charts the fortune of this important genre of twentieth-century Chinese music from its humble, lower-class origins in the 1950s to its rise to a multimillion-dollar business in the mid-1990s. As the voice of Hong Kong, Cantopop has given generations of people born in the city a sense of belonging. It was only in the late 1990s, when transformations in the music industry, and more importantly, changes in the geopolitical situation of Hong Kong, that Cantopop showed signs of decline. As such, Hong Kong Cantopop: A Concise History is not only a brief history of Cantonese pop songs, but also of Hong Kong culture. The book concludes with a chapter on the eclipse of Cantopop by Mandapop (Mandarin popular music), and an analysis of the relevance of Cantopop to Hong Kong people in the age of a dominant China. Drawing extensively from Chinese-language sources, this work is a most informative introduction to Hong Kong popular music studies. “Few scholars I know of have as thorough a knowledge of Cantopop as Yiu-Wai Chu. The account he provides here—of pop music as a nexus of creative talent, commoditized culture, and geopolitical change—is not only a story about postwar Hong Kong; it is also a resource for understanding the term ‘localism’ in the era of globalization.” —Rey Chow, Duke University “Yiu-Wai Chu’s book presents a remarkable accomplishment: it is not only the first history of Cantopop published in English; it also manages to interweave the sound of Cantopop with the geopolitical changes taking place in East Asia. Combining a lucid theoretical approach with rich empirical insights, this book will be a milestone in the study of East Asian popular cultures.” —Jeroen de Kloet, University of Amsterdam
Download or read book Beyond Lion Rock written by Nancy Kwan and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "About Nancy’s personal journey and the historical events that affected her and the people around her in Hong Kong between the 1960s and the early 2000s, along with the interesting photos"--Publisher information.
Download or read book The Rock Maiden written by Natasha Yim and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her husband goes missing, a new mother pleads with Tin Hau, the patron goddess of fisherman, for help.
Download or read book The Hangover After the Handover written by Helena Y. W. Wu and published by Postcolonialism Across the Dis. This book was released on 2020 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a former British colony (1842-1997) and then a Special Administrative Region (from 1997 onwards) practicing the One Country Two Systems policy with the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong has witnessed at all times how relations are formed, dissolved and refashioned amidst changing powers, identities and narratives, given that the decisions that had moved the city in the past were not made upon the consensus of the local population. In its post-handover, post-hangover years, the 2014 Umbrella Movement and the 2019 Anti-Extradition Bill Protests among other events have revealed the multiple appearances and connotations of Hong Kong's local. At the intersections between real-life events, cultural production and consumption, the book is an interdisciplinary study that extracts and examineslocal relations through the lens of the things and places that stand or that have once stood for Hong Kong's local. With cultural icons as an agency, the book offers lessons to learn from the city by opening up manifold postcolonial perspectives to confront and interrogate the volatile experiences in the new millennia - unprecedented since the Cold War era - shared by Hong Kong and other regions. After all, what does it mean, or take, to live in the contemporary world when the local, global and national are constantly given new meanings?
Download or read book The Taking of Hong Kong written by Susanna Hoe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relations between Britain and China have, for over 150 years, been inextricably bound up with the taking of Hong Kong Island on 26 January 1841. The man responsible, Britain's plenipotentiary Captain Charles Elliot, was recalled by his government in disgrace and has been vilified ever since by China. This book describes the taking of Hong Kong from Elliot's point of view for the first time '- through the personal letters of himself and his wife Clara '- and shows a man of intelligence, conscience and humanitarian instincts. The book gives new insights into Sino-British relations of the period. Because these are now being re-assessed both historically and for the future, revelations about Elliot's role, intentions and analysis are significant and could make an important difference to our understanding of the dynamics of these relations. On a different level, the book explores how Charles the private man, with his wife by his side, experienced events, rather than how Elliot the public figure reported them to the British government. The work is therefore of great historiographical interest.
Download or read book Hong Kong China written by Ralph Arnote and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lacy Locke, a Wall Street investment banker, comes to Hong Kong to check investment opportunities in the light of China's takeover. She becomes romantically involved with a Dutchman whose garment factories are coveted by a deadly Chinese general.
Download or read book Rock Music as Cultural Translation written by Yan-Ling Yiu and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Rock Music as Cultural Translation: a Case Study of Hong Kong Rock Music Video" by Yan-ling, Yiu, 饒欣凌, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Rock music is conceived as having a variety of political positions, power and effects in opposition to both the mainstream music scene and culture. Unfortunately, when it is assimilated into a consumer objects, we can never defy that its provocative remark has been subjugated to tame the rock fans into a contradictory manner as it reflects in the local music circuit. IV. Conclusion Throughout the essay, I propose that we need to consider the effects of cultural translation in the study of rock music in Hong Kong. Their generic relationships can be manifested with the textual analysis of local rock music video. Using Candy Lo as a case in point, I have illustrated how the process of exoticization and naturalization condition the cultural translation of rock music. Even neither her music style nor lyrical content involves particular conjuncture with rock politics, Lo's constituted star texts, namely, "musicianship" and "authenticity" are still recognized as fulfilling the lack of mainstream Canto pop. We conform to the dominant western presentation of rock music as namely, "subversive," "rebellious" and "refreshing," and grant the local translation with such innate notions. If not rock music is a cultural translation, hardly will us presuppose and stabilize the superiority on Lo doubtlessly. When rock music is rendered into our language, we exoticize the western rock culture. Problematically, we presume rock meanings as stabilized even when it is translated into different cultures. In this respect, it is a commonplace to regard rock, music as successfully translated into Hong Kong culture, for they both exhibit superficial similarities in their values and functions to the mainstream music industry. We valorize the transparency of cultural translation. We regard the political power of rock music in western cultures also inscribe in its local productions. Nevertheless, as I have illustrated in the previous section, such characteristics of rock music are indeed exploded conceptions.Here, the articulation of rock music is not precisely actualized by its relation with a broader terrain of popular culture, its socio-political functions nor the mutual empowerment with the rock fans. Indeed, it is merely a cultural translation of the air of rock music. They reflect themselves as signs that constitute the appearance use values. The recording business takes up this simple sensuous production and skillfully renovate rock music as distinctive and subversive. Consequently, the two processes not only successfully motivate the local audience to consume, but the apparent subversive power entailed in the music genre also conceal the manipulation of the late capitalism. Seemingly, we are offered a site of cultural struggle, but indeed, its effects have no influence in changing the dominant ideology. We are made believe rock music empowers its audience and remoulds us into autonomous subjects. Apparently, we can unleash the constraints and hardships on everyday life with its consumption. The music speaks in its own voice, rather than conveying hegemonic codes. It presents itself as one of the most prominent site of struggle and resistance in the contemporary society. However, in the local music circuit, we can never defy that rock music appropriates the dominant ideologies so far. As I have illustrated in the previous section by employing Baudrillard's conceptions on consumer society, rock music indeed produc
Download or read book A Guide to Rock Climbing in Hong Kong written by D. C. Reeve and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The 25 Best Day Walks in Hong Kong written by Martin Williams and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovering Hong Kong's greener side, these 25 walks guide you through rugged hills, forested valleys, reservoirs and waterfalls, temples and ageing villages, long abandoned forts and lonely islands. The length of each walk is listed at the beginning and an introduction describes its character. Details on accessing the walk are given, and the author's commentary accompanied by his atmospheric photographs bring each one vividly to life. Detailed maps illustrate the route. The 25 Best Day Walks in Hong Kong by Dr Martin Williams is one of those seminal hiking books that I've been waiting for. - SK Shum, Founder and Organiser, Hong Kong Hiking Meetup Hong Kong's hyper-dense urban area is matched by areas of great wilderness, villages, mountains and long coastlines. Martin's book allows you to discover the best Hong Kong has to offer at a moment's notice, and return to urban life with renewed vigour and inspiration. With his photographer's eye for details and decades of wandering the trails, The 25 Best Day Walks in Hong Kong is a must-bring guide to your next hike. - Paul Zimmerman, District Councillor and co-founder of Designing Hong Kong
Download or read book Above the Barren Rock written by Simon Winchester and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Made in Hong Kong written by Anthony Fung and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-19 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made in Hong Kong: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of twentieth- and twenty-first century popular music in Hong Kong. The volume consists of essays by leading scholars in the field, and it covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of popular music in Hong Kong. Each essay provides adequate context to allow readers to understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance. The book is organized into four thematic sections: Cantopop, History and Legacy; Genres, Format, and Identity; Significant Artists; and Contemporary Cantopop.
