Genre and Censorship: The Crime Film in Late Colonial Hong Kong

2020 ◽  
pp. 191-216
Author(s):  
Kristof Van den Troost
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Crime Film

scholarly journals Masculine Performance in Hong Kong Crime Films from Post-Bruce to the 2000s

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-82
Author(s):  
Gabriel F. Y. Tsang
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Action Films ◽  
Crime Films ◽  
Crime Film ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Bruce Lee ◽  
Chinese Masculinity ◽  
Artistic Images

Masculinity, in Lacan’s sense, is an imagination. To specifically theorise Chinese masculinity, Kam Louie examined the elements of wen (cultural attainment) and wu (martial valour) rendered through historical or artistic images, and Song Geng and Derek Hird guide the discussions about Chinese manhood represented in everyday life. With a Marxist perspective, Lo Kwai Cheung illustrated the dissolvability of Chinese masculinity under international capitalism. With reference to Aristotle, it is supposed that Chinese masculinity, similar to ‘tragicity’ in nature, can be represented through imitating actions and hence be perceived. Based on Aristotle’s understanding, we can regard actions as ‘iterable’ media (like Derrida’s understanding of written texts) which engender performances according to the genealogy of quantitative mimesis. Integrating theoretical discussions with a chronological approach, my full paper will go through following points in order to summarise the changes in Hong Kong crime films from the post-Bruce Lee era to the 2000s: (1) Hong Kong crime film inherited the martial side of masculinity from action films and became a popular genre since A Better Tomorrow was well received in the mid-1980s. (2) Many directors diversified the interpretation of crime in the late 1980s and the 1990s, but remained a focus on the strength, nimbleness and boldness of men. (3) After the decline of Hong Kong film industry for several years, Infernal Affairs’s success renewed the representation of manhood. (4) From the 2000s to now, male characters in crime films are preferably intelligent and wisely-romantic, like the fragile scholar in ancient China. (5) While globalisation seems to be eliminating the Chineseness of Chinese masculinity, I argue that geographical specificity and different speed of cultural development lead to the impossibility of synchronic masculine similarity. (6) Through a brief discussion concerning Hollywood’s adaptation of Hong Kong films, I argue that local masculinity is not transformable.  

Verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli infection: The Hong Kong experience

1998 ◽  
Vol 13 (11-s4) ◽  
pp. S289-S293 ◽  
Author(s):  
SSY WONG ◽  
WC YAM ◽  
PHM LEUNG ◽  
PCY WOO ◽  
KY YUEN
Keyword(s):  
Escherichia Coli ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Escherichia Coli Infection

Abstracts of the 6th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Hong Kong Neurosurgical Society 4 December 1999

2000 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. A12-A12
Author(s):  
K.H. Pang ◽  
X.L. Zhu ◽  
Y.C. Po ◽  
T.H. Aung
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Scientific Meeting ◽  
Annual Scientific ◽  
Annual Scientific Meeting ◽  
Neurosurgical Society

Abstracts of the 6th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Hong Kong Neurosurgical Society 4 December 1999

2000 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. A12-A12
Author(s):  
W.C. Li ◽  
H. Wan ◽  
Teresa Lui ◽  
Y.W. Fan
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Scientific Meeting ◽  
Annual Scientific ◽  
Annual Scientific Meeting ◽  
Neurosurgical Society

Abstracts of the Annual Scientific Meeting of the College of Surgeons of Hong Kong 20-21 May 2000

2000 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. A5-A5
Author(s):  
P.B.S. Lai ◽  
W.Y. Lau ◽  
S.S.M. Ng ◽  
P.T. Chui ◽  
K.L. Leung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Scientific Meeting ◽  
Annual Scientific ◽  
Annual Scientific Meeting
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