Market Forces : James Bond, Women of Color, and the Eastern Bazaar

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorrie Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Hybrid Identity ◽  
James Bond ◽  
A Site ◽  
East West

This chapter examines the chase sequences in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in Skyfall (2012) in order to argue that 007’s varying relationships with women of color may be seen through the Otherness evoked by the Eastern bazaar: a site of visuality and mobility as well as a social space where both hybrid identity and cultural tourism are made visible. The earlier film (with Pierce Brosnan and Hong Kong action star, Michelle Yeoh) reflects what Mikhail Bakhtin casts as carnival, where inverted roles challenge social and cultural norms. In contrast, the later Bond (with Daniel Craig and a new Moneypenny, Naomie Harris), regresses to the Orientalist expression of an East-West relationship predicated on the colonial exercise of power based on exclusion and domination.

Loyalist, Dissenter and Cosmopolite: The Sociocultural Origins of a Counter-public Sphere in Colonial Hong Kong

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Edmund W. Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Hybrid Identity ◽  
Post War ◽  
City State ◽  
The City ◽  
And Diffusion

Abstract This paper surveys the process of discursive contestation by intellectual agents in Hong Kong that fostered a counter-public sphere in China's offshore. In the post-war era, Chinese exiled intellectuals leveraged the colony's geopolitical ambiguity and created a displaced community of loyalists/dissenters that supported independent publishing venues and engaged in the cultural front. By the 1970s, homegrown and left-wing intellectuals had constructed a hybrid identity to articulate their physical proximity to, yet social distance from, the Chinese nation-state, as well as to appropriate their sense of belonging to the city-state, through confronting social injustice. In examining periodicals and interviewing public intellectuals, I propose that this counter-public sphere was defined first by its alternative voice, which contested various official discourses, second by its multifaceted inclusiveness, which accommodated diverse worldviews and subjectivities, and third by its critical platform, which nurtured social activism in undemocratic Chinese societies. I differentiate the permissive conditions that loosened constraints on intellectual agencies from the productive conditions that account for their penetration and diffusion. Habermas's idealized public sphere framework is revisited by bringing in ideational contestation, social configuration and cultural identity.

Directional topographic site response at Tarzana observed in aftershocks of the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake: Implications for mainshock motions

1996 ◽  
Vol 86 (1B) ◽  
pp. S193-S208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Spudich ◽  
Margaret Hellweg ◽  
W. H. K. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Site Response ◽  
Aftershock Sequence ◽  
Northridge Earthquake ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Soil Response ◽  
Amplification Ratio ◽  
East End ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Hill ◽  
East West

Abstract The Northridge earthquake caused 1.78 g acceleration in the east-west direction at a site in Tarzana, California, located about 6 km south of the mainshock epicenter. The accelerograph was located atop a hill about 15-m high, 500-m long, and 130-m wide, striking about N78°E. During the aftershock sequence, a temporary array of 21 three-component geophones was deployed in six radial lines centered on the accelerograph, with an average sensor spacing of 35 m. Station C00 was located about 2 m from the accelerograph. We inverted aftershock spectra to obtain average relative site response at each station as a function of direction of ground motion. We identified a 3.2-Hz resonance that is a transverse oscillation of the hill (a directional topographic effect). The top/base amplification ratio at 3.2 Hz is about 4.5 for horizontal ground motions oriented approximately perpendicular to the long axis of the hill and about 2 for motions parallel to the hill. This resonance is seen most strongly within 50 m of C00. Other resonant frequencies were also observed. A strong lateral variation in attenuation, probably associated with a fault, caused substantially lower motion at frequencies above 6 Hz at the east end of the hill. There may be some additional scattered waves associated with the fault zone and seen at both the base and top of the hill, causing particle motions (not spectral ratios) at the top of the hill to be rotated about 20° away from the direction transverse to the hill. The resonant frequency, but not the amplitude, of our observed topographic resonance agrees well with theory, even for such a low hill. Comparisons of our observations with theoretical results indicate that the 3D shape of the hill and its internal structure are important factors affecting its response. The strong transverse resonance of the hill does not account for the large east-west mainshock motions. Assuming linear soil response, mainshock east-west motions at the Tarzana accelerograph were amplified by a factor of about 2 or less compared with sites at the base of the hill. Probable variations in surficial shear-wave velocity do not account for the observed differences among mainshock acceleration observed at Tarzana and at two different sites within 2 km of Tarzana.

Body Semiotics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Man-Fung Yip
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Martial Arts ◽  
The Body ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
Modern Industrial Society ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
A Site ◽  
Martial Arts Cinema

This chapter considers how the (male) action bodies in martial arts cinema of the late 1960s and 1970s, posed between mastery and vulnerability, served as a site/sight through which the aspirations and anxieties of Hong Kong people living in the flux of a rapidly modernizing society were articulated and made visible. Specifically, it identifies three types of action body—the narcissistic body, the sacrificial body, and the ascetic body—and discusses how each crystallized out of the changing social and ideological dynamics of Hong Kong during the period. As socially symbolic signs, these diverse but interrelated representations of the body are extremely rich in meanings, inscribing within themselves not only fantasies of nationalist pride and liberated labor but also the historical experience of violence, in the form of both colonization and unbridled growth, that lay beneath the transformation of Hong Kong into a modern industrial society.

scholarly journals Pengembangan Interpretasi Wisata Budaya Guna Mendukung Program Pelestarian Tapak Arkeologi

1970 ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
LURY SEVITA YUSIANA ◽  
NI NYOMAN ARI MAYADEWI
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Synthesis Methods ◽  
Economic Opportunities ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
A Site ◽  
Development Analysis ◽  
Archaeological Objects

ABSTRACT Cultural Tourism Interpretation Development For Supporting Archeological Site In Preservation Program The development of the archaeological site into a tourist site resulting in the reduction or even loss of the values of the cultural heritage of archaeological objects and the archaeological site. However, the use for tourism can provide economic opportunities to the society and archaeological site preservation. Consequently, there are need some plan that can provide a variety of benefits and economic opportunities and remain to preserve their cultural values. The research aims were to study a variety of solutions and stages for the development of the site for tourism and archaeological interpretation. By looking at the physical, social, cultural, and visual conditions of the site were able to present the potential for tourism development. Analysis and synthesis methods were done to address the various challenges in developing the site. The results of the study was a site plan and a set of development program of the site with interpretation of education-based tourism as a solution for the preservation for the archaeological site. Keywords : archeology site, cultural tourism, interpretation base on education, preservation program

Amami park and island tourism: Sea, land and islandness at a site of simulation

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-99
Author(s):  
Henry Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Theme Park ◽  
Cultural Meaning ◽  
Tourist Industry ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Domestic Tourism ◽  
Amami Islands ◽  
A Site

Amami Park is a nature and culture centre located in the Amami islands in the southwest of Japan. Objects are displayed on one site and marketed for tourists, whether on-island, in the Amami islands or more distant. This article discusses Amami Park in terms of the themes of sea, land and islandness, which emerged as topics for discussion during the research process with regard to how Amami Park represents itself, and the cultural meaning of such presentation and its relevance in the tourist industry. Amami Park offers a range of media through which to showcase the history, nature and culture of the Amami islands, and it offers numerous objects, audiovisual displays and other types of media with much description, representation and celebration of local and archipelagic identity. In this island setting, the article discusses the objects and their presentation, focussing on theme park analysis, cultural tourism and self-representation. Drawing on theoretical ideas pertaining to the notion of “simulation”, as applied to the recontextualization of disparate items in one location, the article shows how this particular nature and culture centre can be viewed as a microcosm of broader social and touristic themes in Japan, particularly with regard to the process of traveling to “other” locations within the domestic tourism industry. The article divides into three main parts that describe, analyze and discuss Amami Park, respectively through an ethnographic and critical lens.

Lucilla You Min and Her Embodiment of a Cosmopolitan Fantasy

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-140
Author(s):  
Erica Ka-yan Poon
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
The Body ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Hong Kong Cinema ◽  
Star Studies ◽  
Cultural Competition ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Cold War

Lucilla You Min, who acted in Japanese and Hong Kong coproduced films in the early 1960s, is a valuable case study for postwar East Asian border-crossing star studies. This article conceptualizes the body of the star as a site of constructed meaning, and argues that You Min's embodiment of cosmopolitan fantasy as constructed by the studios she worked for was fraught with corporate and cultural competition in the Cold War era. The first part examines how Japanese cinema's discourses of publicity constructed You Min's embodiment of the imaginary of tōyō—an expression of Japan's desire for a leadership role in mediating between Asia and the West. The second part analyzes how Hong Kong cinema constructed the imaginary of the cosmopolitan, embodied by You Min's seemingly natural adaptability in world travel.

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