11. A Ghost Story: Electoral Reform and Hong Kong Popular Theater

2020 ◽  
pp. 272-289
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Electoral Reform ◽  
Ghost Story ◽  
Popular Theater

A Ghost Story

2019 ◽  
pp. 272-289
Author(s):  
Marco Wan
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Electoral Reform ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Theatrical Production ◽  
Ghost Story ◽  
Occupy Central

This chapter examines the cultural dimension of Hong Kong’s Occupy Central movement by analyzing a theatrical production from the period in light of Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology. It argues that despite its purported focus on legal issues surrounding electoral reform, Occupy Central addresses more fundamental tensions about “Britishness” and “Chineseness” that structure Hong Kong identity. It posits that such tensions are creatively registered in Marcus Woo’s Find Ghost Do the CE and that Derrida’s Specters of Marx provides a framework for bringing them to light. It concludes by asking what it might mean to do justice to the complexity of Hong Kong identity in a time of constitutional uncertainty.

Democracy retreats in Hong Kong with electoral reform

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Electoral Reform ◽  
Content Type

Headline HONG KONG: Democracy retreats with electoral reform

Hong Kong vote will not quell electoral reform unrest

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Electoral Reform ◽  
Content Type

Headline HONG KONG: Vote will not quell electoral reform unrest

Performing (Comic) Abjection in the Hong Kong Ghost Story

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felicia Chan
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Horror Films ◽  
The Self ◽  
Wave Period ◽  
Rigor Mortis ◽  
Ghost Story ◽  
Special Effects ◽  
Hong Kong Cinema ◽  
Run Up ◽  
Second Wave

Horror films in Hong Kong cinema have eschewed terror in favour of comedy, where supernatural beings take the form of hopping vampires, wandering spirits and underworld demons rendered in latex masks and movie slime. This chapter explores the comic presentation of these subjects in Hong Kong horror, where the self-reflexive exposure of the cinematic machinery of costume and special effects appear to put it at odds with the spectral affectivity of the Hong Kong ghost story. This chapter returns to two classic films from the mid-1980s, A Chinese Ghost Story (Tsui Hark 1987) and Rouge (Stanley Kwan 1988), films from the ‘second wave’ period long noted to carry ‘Hong Kong’ as a subject of concern in the run up to the British handover of 1997, and revisits their historical positioning in the light of more recent post-1997 incarnations such as Visible Secret (Ann Hui 2001), My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (Johnnie To 2002), and Rigor Mortis (Juno Mak 2013).

The Politics of Electoral Reform in Hong Kong

2001 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Shiu-Hing ◽  
Y. Wing-Yat
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Electoral Reform

Hong Kong legislature could derail electoral reform

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Electoral Reform ◽  
Content Type

Headline HONG KONG: Legislature could derail electoral reform

Hong Kong Horror Cinema

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Rigor Mortis ◽  
Ghost Story ◽  
Hong Kong Cinema ◽  
The World ◽  
Over Time

Dumplings stuffed with diabolical fillings. Sword-wielding zombies. Hopping cadavers. Big-head babies. For decades, Hong Kong cinema has served up images of horror quite unlike those found in other parts of the world. In seminal films such as A Chinese Ghost Story, Rouge, The Eye, Dumplings, and Rigor Mortis, the region’s filmmakers have pushed the boundaries of genre, cinematic style, and bad taste. But what makes Hong Kong horror cinema so utterly unique? How has this cult tradition developed over time? Why does it hold such fascination for “serious” cinephiles and cult fans alike? And how have Hong Kong horror movies shaped the genre internationally? This book provides answers to such questions, celebrating the classics of the genre while introducing readers to lesser known films. Hong Kong Horror Cinema is the first book about this delirious and captivating cinematic tradition.

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